Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 6554 Divine Clans, Shaken!

A wretched figure burst out of a spatial gate and crashed into a plaza surrounded by numerous people.

“Clan leader, not good! W-we—!”

He collapsed before he could finish.

This plaza was the gateway to the heaven region’s battlefield, and all the senior experts of the four divine clans were waiting here. Only those with status and renown were qualified to stand here. Average clan members were not even permitted to observe from afar.

Ever since their disciples went to the heaven region’s battlefield, these senior experts had been feeling tense. This time, the four divine clans had truly unleashed their full power.

Every disciple had been strengthened to the utmost limit. Some of the weaker ones had even been forcibly elevated using forbidden arts—methods never meant to be used lightly.

However, there was no way around it. The heaven region’s battlefield was filled with unique opportunities and legacies. They had to send in as many powerful disciples as possible to test their luck.

According to ancient records, the battlefield shouldn’t have reopened for several more months.

Yet, a moment ago, the gateway had abruptly manifested, and the law power that erupted from it instantly annihilated the guards standing watch.

The phenomenon sent shockwaves through the clans. The higher-ups directly came out in full force.

Now, less than an hour later, spatial energy twisted again. A passageway took shape far faster than the elders had anticipated. Throughout history, the gateway required ten to fifteen days to fully stabilize. But this time, it activated in half an incense stick’s worth of time.

At this sight, the divine clans couldn’t help but feel nervous.

The instant the gateway formed, a bloody figure came tumbling out of it. Another figure followed—a woman wrapped head to toe in Jiuli divine runes.

“Biluo!”

The plaza erupted.

Long Biluo was drenched in blood, her body riddled with cracks. Only the Jiuli divine runes encasing her kept her from falling apart entirely. One of her arms was missing, and black runes flashed along the wound, devouring her flesh as if alive.

Seeing this, one of the Long clan’s patriarchs lunged toward her.

“Careful—!”

This elder was a peak Sovereign Lord, and he wanted to remove the black runes on Long Biluo’s wound. However, the moment his fingers brushed them, the runes flared. Black flames engulfed him entirely.

“AH!”

His scream echoed for only a heartbeat before he disintegrated into ash.

After devouring him, those black flames returned to Long Biluo’s body to invade her wound.

“Damn, what is this?!”

The four divine clans were all shocked.

Long Biluo was their greatest heavenly genius, one who could control one of the Jiuli Tower’s core runes. According to their prediction, once she had condensed her essence rune, she would be able to use the Jiuli Tower’s power and sweep through the battlefield.

However, the reality was brutal. Long Biluo had not merely lost—she had been utterly crushed. A strange curse still clung to her like a shadow.

The first disciple to emerge, the youth who had stuttered earlier, was also from the Long clan. Exhausted beyond reason, he had managed to drag Long Biluo out with him before fainting. Thanks to his loyalty, he had also saved himself.

He had survived Long Chen’s clash with the Heaven Earth Cauldron by sheer luck. While Long Biluo had been helpless before the white-robed Long Chen, the Jiuli Tower’s core rune had activated on its own and shielded her. Thanks to this protection, this disciple had also survived.

All other Long clan disciples, including Long Zaiye, had perished when Long Chen and the Heaven Earth Cauldron destroyed the world.

When the spatial gate activated, the lucky disciple dragged the half-dead Long Biluo back with him. However, he had collapsed before the higher-ups could question him.

“What happened?! Why are only two people back?!”

Their question was answered immediately.

More bodies burst out of the gate, falling from the sky and slamming into the plaza like dead frogs. A terrible force was tearing at their bodies.

“Jiang Zitao, Ye Huang, Zhao Ziwang, Jiang Zihao...”

Their faces were mangled beyond recognition, but their spiritual fluctuations confirmed their identities. Sensing their aura, the elders felt their blood run cold.

These were some of the strongest disciples of the four divine clans.

But now, they were all unconscious and lay half-dead like slugs. Some of them missed parts of their bodies; some had their butts on their heads. In particular, one person had a leg sticking through their chest.

Seeing their glorious heavenly geniuses reduced to this state, the four divine clans’ elders almost went crazy.

“What happened in the heaven region’s battlefield?! Who targeted our divine clans?! We must make them pay!” roared one patriarch.

Their rage trembled the air. Who could bear watching their heavenly geniuses reduced to this state?

Long Zitao—the one with his rear on his head—managed to force out a few hoarse syllables before fainting again.

“It... it was... Long Chen...”

Hearing this, the experts of the four divine clans felt like they had been struck by a lightning bolt out of nowhere.

“Long Chen...”

Before the heaven region’s battlefield opened, the higher-ups had debated fiercely about what to do with Long Chen.

One faction argued that Long Chen was someone they shouldn’t provoke. Even if they failed to recruit him, they should at least avoid becoming enemies.

However, the other faction felt like Long Chen had humiliated the four divine clans repeatedly. They thought that his hostility was already set in stone. Leaving him alive would only lead to greater calamities.

In the end, the clans abandoned all attempts to win Long Chen over. But they also ordered their disciples to avoid provoking him unless they were certain they could kill him.

However, those orders had only been passed to the disciples of three divine clans. Jiang Yue’e and Feng Fei—who were inclined to protect Long Chen—were kept in the dark.

Thus, when Jiang Zitao and Jiang Zihao thought they saw an opening, they acted without restraint.

The Jiang clan’s higher-ups were shocked to hear that Long Chen had caused this disaster. Then, they looked toward one particular elder, formerly the clan’s acting head. He had stood by Feng Fei’s side the entire time.

Ever since the clan chose its stance on Long Chen and sidelined him, his expression had been permanently cold and indifferent, as though he had long since cut his heart away from clan affairs.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh...

Just then, figures flew out from the spatial passage. When Feng Fei, Jiang Yue'e, and the other Jiang clan experts emerged from the passage unharmed, the Jiang family erupted in cheers.