Nine Star Hegemon Body Art

Long Chen’s slap landed squarely on Xue Yingfeng’s face, sending him tumbling back. Xue Yingfeng had underestimated him, fully believing he could subdue Long Chen in an instant.

Arrogance had always been Xue Yingfeng’s downfall. Thinking himself clever, he had mocked Hou Tianwu while silently circulating his power, creating a domain to lock down the space beside Long Chen. With that setup, he had planned to teleport and launch a sneak attack.

Unfortunately for him, Long Chen had seen through his ploy long before he acted. Against a cunning foe like Xue Yingfeng, a killing blow was impractical—he would immediately sense the danger and retreat. Instead, Long Chen chose to humiliate him, hurting his soul.

However, as satisfying as the blow was, Long Chen’s hand was left bloody. Striking Xue Yingfeng’s face felt like slapping an iron wall. His crystalline energy was so formidable that it cracked only slightly, resembling a shattered mask.

The sight left Long Chen both surprised and excited. He marveled at the sheer toughness of Xue Yingfeng’s crystal energy and relished the idea of claiming his Heavenly Dao Fruit. If he succeeded in killing him, that power could be passed to Li Qi or Song Mingyuan. After that, they would be the ones in possession of this heaven-defying power.

After sending Xue Yingfeng tumbling back, Long Chen swung Evilmoon with his left hand.

A sickening crack echoed as Xue Yingfeng’s head was nearly cleaved in two. Yet, shock rippled through the crowd as he seemed unfazed. He roared ferociously and countered with a double punch aimed at Long Chen’s chest.

Startled, Long Chen realized that Xue Yingfeng’s head wasn’t a weakness. Seven qi currents flowed within Xue Yingfeng’s crystalline hand. This attack contained power so immense that Long Chen didn’t dare to block it barehanded.

He immediately recalled Evilmoon and held it before him like a shield.

The impact sent tremors through Long Chen’s arms, causing him to spit out blood from his mouth. Xue Yingfeng had unleashed the full power of his seven core veins, showcasing the stark difference between their realms.

With five core veins, Long Chen was at the mid stage. But Xue Yingfeng’s seven veins elevated him to the late stage, where both the quantity and quality of power surged to a whole new level. This superiority was why Xue Yingfeng dared to confront the Heavenly Demon Golden Monkey race alone—his realm placed him above his peers.

As Long Chen staggered back, Xue Yingfeng’s cracked face healed instantly, as if the injury had never occurred. His humiliation from the slap, however, couldn’t be so easily erased. He had spent a lifetime dominating all his opponents, and no one had ever been able to match or humiliate him like this. Hence, the fact that so many experts saw this made him almost go insane.

“Die!”

With a furious roar, Xue Yingfeng ignited his seven core veins, unleashing a fiery energy that filled the heavens. Transforming into a crystalline fiend, he charged at Long Chen like a raging bull.

“Let’s see who dies first!” exclaimed Long Chen, his anger flaring.

Realm superiority? So what?

As Long Chen gripped Evilmoon tightly and raised it high, his starry sea condensed into a starry river flowing into Evilmoon.

“Evilmoon, kill him!” Long Chen shouted.

“What?!”

The surrounding experts watched in shock as a wave of suffocating death energy engulfed them. Even Hou Tianwu, who had previously mocked Long Chen, was left speechless.

“Waning Moon Heaven Shaking Slash!”

With a deafening roar, Long Chen brought Evilmoon down in a monumental slash. He was gambling everything in this slash.

Xue Yingfeng’s crazed demeanor evaporated the moment Evilmoon’s destructive will locked onto him. His heart sank as escape was impossible. In desperation, he wrapped his arms and legs around his head, curling into a crystal sphere adorned with seven flowing dragon marks and countless shimmering crystals. It was his ultimate defensive form.

BOOM!

Evilmoon’s slash descended like the wrath of the heavens, shattering the crystal sphere into countless shards. Crystals exploded outward, tearing through the void like deadly projectiles.

A mangled figure was sent flying, spewing blood. Xue Yingfeng’s domineering aura was gone, replaced by a pathetic look. Half of his body was missing, and he barely clung to life as he fled.

“He didn’t die?!” Long Chen’s disbelief quickly turned to fury. He had burned his full astral energy and unleashed Evilmoon’s mightiest attack, yet Xue Yingfeng still survived.

“Scarlet Dragon Battle Armor!”

Long Chen roared, his dragon blood erupting. With his astral energy exhausted, he had to switch to his dragon blood, which surged like molten lava.

“He still has energy?” asked one of the onlookers.

All the demon race’s experts were shocked. Long Chen had dealt critical wounds to Hou Tianwu, the Golden Great Peng, and the expert from the Divine Tortoise race. Now, he even forced Xue Yingfeng to flee, and he still had energy left?

At this moment, a majestic dragon cry rang out, and Long Chen’s dragon blood was like lava roiling through his veins. It had become extremely violent.

He couldn’t tell if it was due to the Emperor reverse scale’s presence, but the power felt far more volatile than usual.

In any case, he couldn’t be bothered. He had to eliminate Xue Yingfeng here and now.

“Die!”

A giant dragon claw extended out of Long Chen’s divine ring. Horror filled Xue Yingfeng’s eyes as he realized there was no escape. He had not recovered from Long Chen’s previous attack, so there was no way he could block this one.

“Human, don’t be so arrogant!”

Suddenly, the Divine Tortoise race expert intervened, his massive tortoise shell shield appearing to block Long Chen’s attack.

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