Chapter 7053: Third Heavenstage Sovereign Lord |
Endless starlight poured into Long Chen’s body, merging with the Jiuli Divine Realm’s karmic luck and law power and the Jiuli Tower’s core energy. Four kinds of energy formed a current gushing into Long Chen’s Dantian’s starry sea.
His starry sea was surging with power. Raging flames burst out of it, pouring towards Long Chen’s limbs before concentrating back at his Supreme Bone.
The Supreme Bone’s star diagrams lit up. At some point, the three thousand Jiuli divine runes and the violet blood’s three thousand divine runes had been carved onto it as well, and they all ignited at once. The Supreme Bone blazed with light which contracted and expanded over and over again. After being compressed, his astral energy spread back through his body.
Thanks to this nourishment, every bone in Long Chen’s body was strengthened, slowly gaining the aura of his Supreme Bone. At the same time, every bone in his body was carved with star diagrams. Even his meridians and skin had star diagrams on them. As those countless star diagrams lit up, Long Chen’s entire body turned almost transparent, as if he were made of stars.
“That damn brat is ruining the Jiuli Divine Realm’s karmic luck and the Jiuli Tower’s core energy! He’s fucking ruining everything!”
Jiang Li’s heart was bleeding. His face was twisted savagely like a fiend.
“Realm Lord, we have to stop him!”
“It’s useless. Long Chen passed the trials, and has the Jiuli Tower’s protection now. The Jiuli Tower’s core energy is his reward. As the Realm Lord does not have complete control over the Jiuli Tower, there’s no way to change this rule!” Ye Boran sighed helplessly.
“Then can we really only watch as he plunders the Jiuli Divine Realm’s resources?!” roared Long Yan resentfully.
BOOM!
A heaven-shaking explosion rang out, along with a ripple of starlight. Starlight covered the entire Jiuli Divine Realm, like the umbrella of a giant firework. It was incredibly beautiful, but none of the Jiuli race’s experts felt any joy or awe. All their expressions were ugly, and they were gnashing their teeth
“The second Heavenstage! He advanced!”
“In half an incense stick’s worth of time, he absorbed enough karmic luck for a hundred thousand heavenly geniuses to reach the second Heavenstage! That bastard!”
Jiang Li clenched his fists so hard that his nails dug into his palms and drew blood. Long Chen was not just exhausting the Jiuli race’s karmic luck, he was also absorbing the precious core energy of the Jiuli Tower. Jiang Li felt like he was going crazy. In this half an incense stick’s time, he had already sent word to the Zither Sect and the Brahma line to hurry up three times. He truly couldn’t wait any longer.
“It really does feel the best when you’re spending other people’s money!”
Long Chen sensed the expansion of his starry sea. After entering the second Heavenstage, his power had entirely transformed.
When he made his breakthrough to the first Heavenstage, Long Chen could instantly tell how difficult his advancements would be. The energy consumption was bound to be ridiculous. Thus, Long Chen had not bothered advancing in the divine capital or the Violet Abyss. However, he felt no such restraint when it came to the Jiuli Divine Realm.
At the same time, Long Chen also knew that he was only advancing so quickly because of the Jiuli Tower’s core energy. Had it not been for this energy, not only would his advancement take longer, then the amount of karmic luck he would need would multiply.
Upon reaching the second Heavenstage, Long Chen’s aura continued to surge. Starlight surged through the world, continuously crashing against heaven and earth, and terrifying Sovereign might made the heavens shudder. But Long Chen’s cultivation did not stabilize. Instead, he continued to absorb as much energy as possible.
“The fucking brat is going to advance again! Fuck, fuck, fuck!!!” Jiang Li couldn’t help cursing. He was practically running insane. Just advancing to the second Heavenstage had exhausted an astronomical amount of karmic luck and energy from the Jiuli Tower. Just how much would he use up going to the third Heavenstage?
However, no matter how Jiang Li and the others cursed, there was nothing they could do.
“The karmic luck is one thing. As long as he doesn’t leave the Jiuli Divine Realm, we can reclaim seventy percent of the karmic luck he’s absorbed. But the Jiuli Tower’s core energy…” Ye Boran clenched his teeth. Even if they killed Long Chen, the Jiuli Tower’s core energy would mostly be lost. More than half would be absorbed by heaven and earth.
That was because the Jiuli Tower was one of the ten primal chaos divine items. Its core energy could be said to be the core energy of heaven and earth. Once exposed to the greater world, it would automatically be reclaimed. Their power would support each other, and the greater the Jiuli Tower’s energy was, the more power the world would reclaim.
Naturally, there was no way that the Jiuli Divine Realm’s formations could stop it, no matter how grand they were. Just relying on Jiang Li’s control, reclaiming even forty percent of the Jiuli Tower’s core energy would be incredibly fortunate.
Long Chen continued to absorb the energy of the Jiuli Tower, astral energy, law power, and karmic luck. His aura was still climbing.
Two hours passed. These two hours felt longer than a year to everyone; in these two hours, the Jiuli Tower’s core energy went from a raging flood to a tiny trickle.
Based on the rules, passing one gate’s trial would bring a fraction of the Jiuli Tower’s core energy as a reward. But even that fraction was usually too much energy to absorb. A person would only be able to absorb ten to twenty percent before their body would explode.
This time, the amount rewarded was also limited, but for a different reason entirely. The Jiuli Tower was providing less and less energy, but it was not because Long Chen was hitting his limit.
“You absolute bastard, you’ve used up all the energy of the ten gates!”
Jiang Li’s heart sank. At first, he was still holding on hope that Long Chen would quickly reach his limit and be unable to keep absorbing the Jiuli Tower’s energy. However, it seemed that Long Chen was planning on not leaving even a drop.
Finally, another hour later, the ten gates went dark, indicating that Long Chen could no longer absorb any of the Jiuli Tower’s core energy. However, even then, Long Chen did not stop. He continued absorbing astral energy, law power, and karmic luck.
BOOM!
Without the support of the Jiuli Tower’s core energy, his advancement speed slowed down. But one day later, Long Chen’s aura once more surged. The astral ripple reappeared; vast Sovereign might and law power once more raged throughout the Jiuli Divine Realm.
He had managed to successively break through and reach the third Heavenstage of the Sovereign Lord realm! His aura was now on a completely different level compared to when he had first arrived in the Jiuli Divine Realm.
When Long Chen opened his eyes, he raised his hand and looked at his palm. Dense star diagrams flashed on his skin. He smiled with gratification.
BOOM!
Just then, the ten gates around him blew apart, and Long Chen’s figure appeared on top of the Jiuli Tower. Along with Long Chen were Jiang Yue’e and Feng Fei. The Jiuli race’s experts cried out in shock—the two of them had already reached the sixth Heavenstage!
Just then, Jiang Li let out a furious roar. “LONG CHEN, YOU BASTARD!”
He and the Jiuli race’s top experts instantly surrounded Long Chen.