Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 6712 Shocking Discovery

Qu Yingying jumped in shock. Although she hadn’t known Long Chen for long, she understood him well enough to realize that his refusal to leave meant only one thing—he intended to attempt something even more dangerous.

Qu Yingying was curious by nature and fond of excitement, but she didn’t have the guts for such recklessness.

More importantly, she was the backbone of the Starry River Legion. She carried responsibility for the entire force, so she ultimately chose to withdraw with the Starry River warriors.

When they first entered this world, Long Chen had told Qu Yingying to place a marker where they had arrived, so she could accurately bring everyone back.

Long Chen left his own marker there as well with the formation discs from Xia Chen. Although he didn’t have the ability to move the entire Starry River Legion, he was more than capable of moving himself.

Once Qu Yingying and the others left, Long Chen silently vanished. He went along the Black Wall and then retrieved the violet crystal heavenly eye to look beyond the wall again.

This time, chaos reigned within.

After all, their junior elites had been wiped out in an instant. Countless figures were rushing around, probably mobilizing experts. They seemed to have realized the gravity of this situation.

Long Chen ignored them and looked deeper.

Passing countless bizarre structures, his vision finally reached the very heart of the enclosed world. He knew it was the center because there was a giant crack in the sky right above it.

Countless law chains sealed the crack. But even so, black liquid continued to seep through the world. The black liquid carried the unmistakable aura of the world beyond the heavens.

There was a black altar underneath the crack, with a pool filled with the black liquid.

Strange statues surrounded the pool, and the altar exuded a ghostly, sinister presence.

Behind the altar, there was an enormous entity. However, it was so big that Long Chen had to slowly adjust his point of view, pulling back until he could finally see its true form.

“The Dark Master!”

Long Chen’s heart shook violently. He was once again facing the divine statue of the Dark Master.

As his vision widened further, he noticed a structure beneath the statue—a massive construction resembling a beehive.

Peering through one of its holes, Long Chen saw the interior. At its center was a heart-shaped construct suspended in midair.

This heart-shaped construct was covered in hexagonal holes, and each hole contained a black cocoon. There had to be millions of those cocoons.

Black runes covered the black cocoons. Unfortunately, the violet crystal heavenly eye could only see them, but not sense their aura.

Long Chen focused the violet crystal heavenly eye on a single cocoon. However, a strange power resisted its probing.

Long Chen then poured his violet blood energy into the violet crystal heavenly eye. Gradually, the cocoon turned transparent.

Golden light flared, and a pair of golden wings emerged in his sight.

Long Chen’s heart shook.

“Golden Wing Heaven Devils!”

At this point, Long Chen realized that they had been tricked. They thought that the outsider devils were in charge, but they were actually slaves raised by the Golden Wing Heaven Devils.

In other words, this battlefield was under the command of the Golden Wing Heaven Devils. Those low-tier outsider devils were nothing more than bait to draw people’s attention.

“This is bad. These Golden Wing Heaven Devils are absorbing energy from beyond the heavens. Once they emerge, they will bring disaster to the nine heavens and ten lands,” Long Chen muttered, struggling to keep his composure.

These Heaven Devils were utterly different from the ones he had encountered before. Their bodies were black as ink, yet their wings gleamed like pure gold.

Although he couldn’t sense their auras, the strange runes etched into their skin were undoubtedly condensed laws from beyond the heavens.

Since they had been nourished in secret for countless years within this mysterious nest, their power had to be extraordinary.

After all, even the ordinary devils they raised were already formidable. The Heaven Devils could only be stronger.

Most terrifying of all were their numbers. There were millions of Golden Wing Heaven Devils, and all of them looked almost identical to humans other than their skin and wings.

That meant their bloodline was exceptionally pure. They were the emperor race among winged devils. After all, the purer the bloodline, the more humanlike the appearance.

Ying Wudao, for example, could easily pass for human unless he summoned his manifestation or unfurled his rainbow wings.

Suddenly, a chill ran down Long Chen’s spine.

A profound sense of danger surged toward him.

Without hesitation, Long Chen retracted the Violet Crystal Heavenly Eye. Astral energy erupted as he teleported a mile away.

BOOM!

An explosion tore through the space, right at where Long Chen had observed them.

An arrow had destroyed the surrounding space, causing fragments of spacetime to fly about. Had the arrow struck Long Chen, even he would have met a terrible end.

“Are you the one who killed my race’s elites?”

An elder with golden wings appeared, a golden bow in hand. His gaze locked onto Long Chen as overwhelming Sovereign pressure flooded the area like a raging tsunami.

“An acquired Divine Sovereign,” Long Chen muttered, narrowing his eyes.

No wonder this elder had managed to sneak up on him without being noticed.

Long Chen shook his head calmly. “The ones who killed your elites have already left. I’m just passing through.”

“What nonsense. You’re clearly on the same side. If you refuse to tell me the truth, I’ll have to capture you and torture it out of your soul.”

Golden light flashed, and the elder vanished.

BOOM!

Long Chen waved his hand and summoned an astral shield behind him. Just as it formed, that elder’s hand blew it to pieces.

Long Chen had never intended for the shield to block an acquired Divine Sovereign. It was only meant to buy time. He retreated instantly, covering several miles in a blink.

Then, Long Chen crushed a talisman in his hand. Space twisted around him.

“Do you think you can leave?! You’re dreaming!” the elder roared.

The moment the elder drew his bow, the space around Long Chen collapsed.

What he didn’t expect was that Long Chen had been waiting for him to do such a thing. He actually charged right at the elder and swung his hand.

Pow!

A crisp slap echoed through the void.

Long Chen’s palm struck the elder squarely in the face, sending him stumbling back. The frozen space shattered instantly.

“If Boss San wants to leave, no one can stop him!”

As the spatial lock dissolved, a formation disc ignited in his hand, and Long Chen vanished. This disc had always been his true escape method. The talisman was nothing more than a decoy, used to mislead the golden-winged elder.

“You damned brat!”

The elder roared in fury. Divine light erupted from his wings, annihilating the surrounding space with terrifying Sovereign might.

But Long Chen was already gone.

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“Still too green,” Long Chen muttered with a chuckle.

His escape from an acquired Divine Sovereign had been effortless. He couldn’t help but feel refreshed.

Fortunately, that elder had not grasped Long Chen’s true strength. Had Long Chen gone all out from the start, escape would not have been so simple.

Afterward, Long Chen activated another transportation disc, returning to their entry point.

However, when Long Chen appeared, he saw Qu Yingying and the others in chains and listless. Killing intent exploded out of him.

At this moment, Li Wanci’s hateful voice rang out.

“Long Chen, I’ve been waiting for you!”