Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 179 Heaven Earth Faction

chapter 179 heaven earth faction

translator: borntobe

the both of them were completely silent for a while, the atmosphere between them captivating as well as tense. tang wan-er’s heart pounded. how come this scoundrel was so talkative normally but was silent now?

“you... why aren’t you talking?” tang wan-er finally found the courage to break the silence. but she didn’t have the courage to turn back to face him.

“i’m still thinking,” said long chen. but as soon as he said it, he regretted it, wishing to give himself a slap on the face.

“you...” tang wan-er glared at him, her tears slowly flowing. she thought long chen was mocking her.

“no, i have no intention of laughing at you. everyone has some bitterness suppressed in their hearts. but at the very least you had a complete childhood,” quietly said long chen.

she saw that when he said that, there was a bit of sadness within his eyes, as well as a feeling of being lost. that caused her heart to shake.

this kind of emotion rarely ever surfaced on long chen’s face. tang wan-er wiped away her tears and asked, “long chen, can i hear about your past?”

“nope.” long chen shook his head.

“tch, petty. i told you about me, so you have to tell me!” demanded tang wan-er.

long chen rolled his eyes. “it’s not like i asked you to tell me.”

“even so! since you heard it, you must tell me about yourself too!” she stood in front of long chen, her posture saying that she wouldn’t let him leave before telling her.

long chen smiled slightly and his heart warmed inside. “thank you.”

tang wan-er’s heart pounded faster when she saw long chen looking at her so gently. not daring to meet his gaze, she asked, “why are you thanking me?”

“thank you for treating me as a friend. you’re asking this to understand me more. fine. i also had a couple friends by my side. however i had to abandon them.”

long chen’s quiet voice was heavy. shi feng, fatty yu, shi hou, and all the other’s images surfaced in his mind. perhaps he would never be able to have another chance at another great feast and drunkfest like what they had had before he had left.

“why did you have to abandon them?” curiously asked tang wan-er.

“let’s chat while walking.”

long chen and tang wan-er slowly strolled as he quietly told her about his youth. “you had a complete childhood, but i only had half a childhood...”

he told her about everything from his childhood. perhaps he had repressed his emotions for too long and finally needed to release them, but he told her all about how he had been constantly bullied, how he had narrowly escaped from death several times, telling her everything, only keeping the pill god memories secret.

tang wan-er had never imagined long chen had experienced so much misery and pain. no wonder she always felt his intelligence was far greater than others.

that had been forced. if long chen hadn’t gained that intelligence that surpassed others, he would have already died under someone else’s schemes.

compared to long chen, she had had an absolutely delightful youth. as long chen told her about his own misfortune, she couldn’t help feeling ashamed.

it was as if an emperor was complaining to beggar about how his meat didn’t taste good and wasn’t refined enough for him.

“long chen, don’t you feel wronged to have to experience so much?” asked tang wan-er.

long chen sighed bitterly. he also wanted to cultivate a bit faster, but as his cultivation base rose and his physical body grew stronger, the speed at which he advanced became increasingly slow.

it had already been a month, but his blood essence had yet to completely reach saturation. he had no way to undergo the next blood purification and enter the seventh heavenstage.

he recalled how difficult it had been for him to break through within the qi condensation realm. now as soon as he reached the mid blood condensation realm, his speed had slowed down greatly.

long chen had a premonition that the difficulty in breaking through to tendon transformation wouldn’t be any less than when he had broken through to blood condensation.

but he was also helpless about that. the technique known as the nine star hegemon body art was incredibly profound. he had only seen the tip of the iceberg. he had no idea how to increase his cultivation speed.

according to long chen’s estimations, if he could condense the second star, the alioth star, then with both stars’ superposition, it would be possible to increase his cultivation speed.

but to condense the alioth star required him to refine the alioth pill. he had yet to gather many of the alioth pill’s required ingredients. he could only take it one step at a time.

but long chen wasn’t particularly worried about that yet. that was because he still had a trump card. that would be the flame salamander’s neidan he had found on the way here.

as long as he absorbed the flame salamander’s neidan, he would be able to use the existence that was ranked ninety-seventh on the beast flame rankings. if long chen could control that beast flame, then with his powerful spiritual strength, his combat strength would once more reach a new level.

for now, he would have to put aside the matter of seeing chu yao. it was more urgent for him to quickly increase his strength. in long chen’s mind, there were two things he needed to do.

first was to gather the ingredients to absorb the neidan. that was a bit more simple. he was fully confident those ingredients could be gathered within the monastery.

but the other thing he needed to do was gather the medicinal ingredients required for the alioth pill. that was more difficult, but it was also absolutely necessary. he would have to gather as much as he could.

the main problem with that which caused long chen some panic was that to condense the alioth star, he would require a huge number of alioth pills.

one or two pills was absolutely nothing, completely unable to completely condense it. thinking back to how he had used up over a thousand fengfu pills for the first fengfu star, he knew he would require an accordingly terrifying number of alioth pills.

“you don’t need to be too worried. with me and sister zhiqiu here, there won’t be any problems for a short time. so you also don’t need to feel that much pressure,” consoled tang wan-er when she saw long chen just pondering and muttering to himself.

at the same time, she also felt a bit embarrassed. she was the head of their faction, but she had placed the pressure onto him. she couldn’t shift the responsibility and duty like that.

originally that pressure should have been hers, but she had a trust and dependance on long chen that even she didn’t completely understand. and so she hoped long chen could help her.

“right, what name should we call our faction?” tang wan-er purposely changed the subject.

“peak tang gate?”

“no, that name’s too unbridled. and tang gate sounds like its my family’s. something else.” tang wan-er shook her head, clearly not liking that flamboyant name.

“black dragon group?” long chen gave another suggestion.

“no, that makes us sounds like a gang of hooligans. it’s not elegant enough.”

“then let’s just call it the peak tang black dragon group.”

“ugh, this is not a joke! be a bit more serious.” why had tang wan-er even worried about him feeling too much pressure? this scoundrel fundamentally didn’t even know what it meant to feel pressure.

the two of them discussed it for a while, finally coming up with a both domineering and resounding name just before the sun set: heaven earth faction. thus tang wan-er became the heaven earth faction’s leader.

no one yet knew that from that day on, the heaven earth faction would become a name forever remembered in the history of the xuantian monastery.