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âWhat are you thinking? Donât tell me youâre going to jump off a cliff?â
Long Chen stood on the precipice of a cliff, a bottomless pit below him. He was looking down absent-mindedly. Evilmoon finally spoke.
Long Chen had been brought here by Evilmoon to escape their encirclement. It had been over two hours, and Long Chen had simply been standing there like a stone statue. Even Evilmoon became curious.
âEvilmoon, if Iâm surrounded by powerful enemies again, donât save me.â Looking at the pit below him, Long Chen made his resolve.
âAre you crazy? If I didnât bring you away, youâd have definitely died,â said Evilmoon. It didnât know if Long Chen had gone crazy to say such a brainless thing.
Long Chen shook his head. âYou donât understand. Right now, Iâm growing too dependent on your power. I am losing confidence in myself, and that will affect my Dao-heart. I want to become an expert, a true expert. I canât depend on others. I can only rely on myself. With you present, my sense of danger will become slow, and fleeing as soon as I encounter experts will be a blow to my confidence.â
âIs that a joke? Those people were two major realms above you and had divine items. Without me, what are you going to use to fight them?â demanded Evilmoon.
âYou wouldnât understand. To sum it up, I am fated to be courting death all the time. If I donât court death now, death will creep up on even faster in the future. Ever since I started cultivating the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, my fate was practically set in stone. Right now, I am a caterpillar, and if I want to become a butterfly, I have to endure the pain of the cocoon. During this time, no one can help, and if anyone does, it would just be harming me. If a caterpillar does not go through the struggle of the cocoon, it will never become a butterfly. If someone cuts the cocoon and lets the caterpillar out of it, without having gone through that struggle, it wonât know how to fly. In the end, the caterpillar will simply die, never able to spread its wings. I am the same, so starting today, I definitely wonât run. Even if I am in desperate straits, donât save me,â said Long Chen.
âIt seems like thereâs a bit of logic in your words, but if you die, youâll lose everything. How will you become a butterfly then?â asked Evilmoon.
âItâs because my goals are very big. If I am unable to even handle the danger before me, how will I face the even greater dangers in the future? After having fled these times, I can clearly sense the power of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art dropping. Itâs also forming a kind of rejection to me,â said Long Chen with a grave expression. He truly sensed the Nine Star Hegemon Body Artâs power weakening.
Furthermore, he himself was growing indecisive. He no longer had his absolute confidence to face the whole world. He had to find that confidence again, and the first step was to cut off all paths of retreat and give up his dependence on Evilmoon.
Of course, he wouldnât be so foolish as to not use its divine power. It was simply that he wouldnât choose to run. Either he fought to the death or killed his opponent. He had to maintain that sharpness to press forward regardless.
âFine, I suppose we can count as having fought shoulder to shoulder. I will respect your dignity,â said Evilmoon.
âThank you. Speaking of which, have you really not heard of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art?â asked Long Chen.
âNo, Iâve never heard of it⊠butâŠâ Evilmoon seemed to be thinking.
âBut what?â asked Long Chen hastily.
âBut⊠fuck, it seems Iâm missing a few of my memories. Iâve remembered something, but also canât remember it. It was definitely done by that bastard Yun Shang!â cursed Evilmoon. It broke into curses for Sovereign Yun Shang once more.
After cursing for a while, its anger was vented a bit, and it said, âYour cultivation technique is very unorthodox. Such a cultivation technique is unique. It doesnât seem like the cultivation technique of the human race, nor of the Magical Beast race, Xuan Beast race, Blood race, Barbarian race, Ghost race, Devil race, Spirit race⊠Fuck, my head hurts. Damnit, there are even more memories missing than I thought! That bastard Yun Shang!â
Evilmoon once more broke into curses after listing hundreds of different races.
âEvilmoon, you actually know this many races? Can you explain them to me-â
âDonât ask me about those! Iâm missing a portion of my memories, and what youâre asking me is in that missing piece. If I try to forcibly recall them, it hurts,â shouted Evilmoon painfully.
Long Chen could only shut his mouth when it came to this. After a while, Evilmoonâs pain faded, but Long Chen didnât bring it up again.
However, for Evilmoon to list so many races shocked Long Chen. He hadnât expected there to be so many races in this world.
Even in the Martial Heaven Continent, what he had seen was just the tiniest corner of it. This world was truly enormous.
Although Long Chen didnât know whether Evilmoon even had a head or brain, it seemed mentioning this would give it a headache regardless, so he didnât bring it up.
Long Chen sank into thought. Pill Valley was after him. Last time, after he had tried to soulsearch that disciple of Heavenly Fate Island, he had exchanged blows with a mysterious elder. That made him feel like there was even more danger than he thought.
The curious thing was, on his way back to the Central Plains, on his path to the Grand Han, everything had gone smoothly. He hadnât fallen into any traps.
After considering this from multiple angles, he concluded that it was very likely due to Evilmoon, and that Heavenly Fate Island was unable to directly calculate anything about him. They had to read other peopleâs fate lines to determine the general possibility of where he would be.
As for his trip to the Grand Xia, it was only after he had revealed his face and fought against Lu Qingfeng that Pill Valleyâs experts had come. Furthermore, there had been no one from Heavenly Fate Island. That meant that they hadnât known he would be there.
That was because he hadnât brought any direct blessing or disaster to the Grand Xia upon going there, so Heavenly Fate Island hadnât been able to find that he would go there.
In other words, as long as his goal wasnât very obvious, it would be very difficult for Heavenly Fate Island to calculate where he would be based on the flow of fate of his possible targets.
âIt seems Iâll have to calm down a bit. Iâll first raise my cultivation base. I donât know when Iâll finally be able to reach Soul Transformation,â sighed Long Chen as he tossed a pill in his mouth.
Although he had won in his fight against Lu Qingfeng, that didnât make him excited. Instead, he was solemn.
Once Empyreans reached Soul Transformation and fully condensed their Yuan Spirits, their Yuan Spirit would help them fight, allowing them to unleash magical arts while the main body fought. That was the most frightening aspect of Soul Transformation Empyreans. In that fight, he had felt like he was fighting two people at once.
Although on the surface it looked like Lu Qingfeng was weak as he had almost been killed, that was because he hadnât had a divine item to protect himself.
If he had, he would have been able to block Long Chenâs full-strength attack, or even if he was injured, his Yuan Spirit would take the place of his main body to form hand seals and fight back. To defeat him would have been much more difficult.
Most importantly, although he was an Empyrean, Lu Qingfeng did not possess as frightening a background as Sha Guangyan, Peng Wansheng, or Ye Qingkuang.
After such a long time, the three of them should have already solidified their cultivation bases and condensed their Yuan Spirits. Their power level would have completely transformed from the last time Long Chen fought them.
His own cultivation base was rising too slowly, and he could only rely on medicinal pills. Although he had plenty of them, he digested them too slowly. He ended up crushing the few in his hands just to vent.
âLong Chen, are you not worried about your foundation growing unsteady if you eat medicinal pills like this?â asked Evilmoon.
âThatâs not something I have to worry about. Even if I ate a giant vat of pills a day, I would be fine. It just takes me too long to digest them,â sighed Long Chen. This was the most irritating point of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art.
After reaching the tenth Heavenstage, the amount of energy required to advance again was ridiculous. He was eating medicinal pills every day and was still not seeing much progress. He was as slow as a snail, but there was no way around it.
âLong Chen, I have a divine ability in my memories called Swallow the Heavens, Devour the Earth. Itâs a secret art of my dark evil dragon race. Do you want to learn it?â asked Evilmoon.
âA divine ability called Swallow the Heavens, Devour the Earth? Youâll teach it to me?â Long Chen was surprised.
âYes. I feel like you arenât bad. After considering it, Iâve decided I wonât mind teaching it to you. My dark evil dragon race relies on devouring other beasts to advance, and weâll even devour members of our own race. Thatâs why we need a powerful devouring ability to digest the energy of our opponents. If you learned it, it would be greatly beneficial to your digestion of medicinal pills. However, this divine ability is unique to the dark evil dragon race. I canât guarantee that youâre capable of using it,â said Evilmoon.
âThatâs fine. If I really can learn it, I will owe you a favor,â promised Long Chen.
âDonât need it. What am I supposed to do with a favor from you? With your ability to court death, no lives would be enough. Iâm teaching you it for myself. On the off chance that you manage to live, my seal will be undone and Iâll regain my freedom,â said Evilmoon.
âOn the off chance? You have this little confidence in me?â Long Chen was speechless.
âIâm only confident in your ability to court death. As for your ability to stay alive, I have no confidence in that,â said Evilmoon.
âFine, up to you. Hurry and teach me this Swallow the Heavens, Devour the Earth divine ability,â said Long Chen expectantly.
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