Nine Star Hegemon Body Art - Chapter 5370: Comprehending the Star Crystal

Long Chen was taken aback by Feng Xinyue. She was an enigma, and it was like there was nothing in this world that she did not know. Her knowledge of both the Brahma and Yan Xu lines was startling.

From the way she spoke, it was clear that Long Chen’s work for the Wind God Sea Pavilion had not been in vain. The rewards were bound to be beyond imagination.

If anyone else had said this, Long Chen might have been skeptical, thinking they were trying to deceive him. But Feng Xinyue was different. Long Chen had absolute faith in her words. She even knew about the Radiant World Star Crystal.

After Tang Wan-er woke up, she and Long Chen returned to Hidden Dragon Island. Upon returning, they were greeted by a somber scene. The Hidden Dragon warriors stood silently in the plaza, their eyes red as they stared at the corpses covered in white cloth. The pain of their loss was still raw.

All of them felt like the fallen didn’t deserve this. They had bitterly endured and were about to rise above their oppressors, only to die before they could savor it. Tang Wan-er’s eyes filled with tears again as she saw the bodies of her fallen comrades. Long Chen gently patted her shoulder, then turned to address everyone.

“Say your goodbyes to your sisters. Complaining or dwelling on it won’t change anything. Some people give their all on the path of cultivation but can only walk with you for a short time. Now, it’s up to you to live for them as well. You must see the world and its wonders for their sake. After all, you are carrying their dreams and hopes for the future. To honor that trust, you must become stronger and go further. The name of the Hidden Dragon Legion must resound across the world. Let them feel proud that they were part of this legion too.”

Long Chen’s words helped lift the spirits of the Hidden Dragon warriors. With renewed determination, they carefully placed the bodies of their fallen comrades in crystal coffins. But even though they felt better, it would take time for their hearts to fully heal. Long Chen didn’t push them to resume training right away. Instead, he instructed them to meditate quietly, to slowly come to terms with their loss.

This meditation also served another purpose—to relive their experience on the battlefield. At that time, they had displayed a hint of the Dragonblood Legion’s fighting spirit. Long Chen wanted them to remember that feeling and build upon it.

Afterward, Long Chen found a quiet place and entered seclusion, his mind sinking into the primal chaos space.

“Fuck!” he cursed.

All the precious medicinal plants in the primal chaos space had withered away. Even the Fusang and Moon Trees appeared wilted and lifeless. Alarmed, Long Chen quickly checked on the mysterious vine. It was teeming with life, and some parts had begun to bulge, showing signs of new shoots.

The mysterious vine devoured all the energy of the primal chaos space for itself, severely affecting the other vegetation. However, after looking through the primal chaos space, Long Chen found that the Seven Treasure Colored Glass Tree and the Heavenly Dao Tree were unaffected.

“This won’t do. I need more corpses, or I won’t even be able to refine pills. What is this thing? It’s wreaking havoc in the primal chaos space,” Long Chen muttered, frustrated by the vine’s rampant growth.

Long Chen couldn’t help sighing as he witnessed the withered up state of the primal chaos space. Unable to resolve the issue at the moment, Long Chen turned his attention to a fist-sized crystal floating in the sky—the Radiant World Star Crystal. Its brilliance was subdued by a layer of bronze light.

This was done by the Earth Cauldron. According to the Earth Cauldron, if it hadn’t suppressed the crystal’s power, the primal chaos space would have absorbed its energy uncontrollably, so it placed this seal around the crystal.

Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength gradually seeped into the crystal, and he felt his soul being drawn into a vast river of stars. As he sat within this endless, flowing current, he was overwhelmed by its boundless energy. The river’s vastness was awe-inspiring, even frightening.

He felt like a tiny speck of dust, adrift in the cosmic flow of the Heavenly Daos, utterly powerless to influence it.

“Don’t just sit there staring,” said the Earth Cauldron. “Try to comprehend the profound laws of this chaotic river of stars. Compared to it, your starry sea is a pool of dead water. Although your starry sea also has a circulation, it’s completely random. Now you have this river of stars as a reference. Carefully figure out how to make your astral energy undergo countless transformations.”

The Earth Cauldron continued, “Back when you fought the nine star disciple, you stole quite a few techniques. Why couldn’t you fully replicate them afterward? Why did they seem incomplete? It’s because your starry sea is lifeless. But once you bring it to life, with your intelligence, you’ll easily wield the divine abilities of the nine star lineage. You might even surpass that nine star disciple’s power.”

Excitement surged through Long Chen. He had exchanged blows with a nine star disciple during the nine star trial and was profoundly shaken by the nine star disciple’s terrifying techniques.

Long Chen had memorized those moves and studied them afterward. But aside from the footwork technique, he hadn’t been able to replicate the other abilities.

Later, he learned the God Slaying Cross. Although this was a powerful technique, it was a move designed for a single, decisive strike. It wasn’t suited for long-term combat. Thus, Long Chen thirsted for the techniques of that nine star heir.

With the Earth Cauldron’s guidance, Long Chen realized that if he could comprehend the orbit of the starry river, he would be able to use those moves. Of course he would be excited.

Hence, he started to focus on the starry river’s chaotic circulation. Most people would have been overwhelmed by its complexity, but Long Chen had encountered countless cultivation techniques in his life. This challenge wasn’t beyond his abilities. The starry river looked lawless, but it actually operated according to a set rhythm. Having previously studied his own starry sea, grasping this rhythm was nothing difficult for him.

Once he understood the rhythm, his Dantian’s starry sea began to resonate with it. The two forces started to interact, forming a strange resonance.

“No, what’s the point of copying its orbit? If they are able to mutually attract each other, I just need to form a bridge. I can just let them interact, no?”

Long Chen suddenly thought of a much simpler method. The method that the Earth Cauldron had told him was not wrong, but after all, it had never cultivated the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. Its methods were all extremely inflexible. On the other hand, Long Chen always innovated stuff.

Once Long Chen let his starry sea interact with the starry river through space, his whole body started to glow with radiant starlight. The Earth Cauldron was shocked.

“That’s fast! Is he a monster?”