Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 6042 Imperial Dragon Master Ba Ta

Facing Xue Tu, Long Chen didn’t bother using any other divine abilities of the dragon race. Xue Tu was simply too powerful.

As a peak heavenly genius of the Heaven Dragon Law Domain, Xue Tu had definitely exchanged pointers with experts from every dragon race. He was likely familiar with all the major techniques, leaving Long Chen with no tactical advantage.

Moreover, Long Chen was still in the process of converting his violet blood energy into dragon blood energy, which was not perfectly efficient. He couldn’t afford to waste energy on moves that wouldn’t count.

So Long Chen made a bold choice: to use power against power. He would just use his strongest dragon race’s technique—the Sovereign Blood Seal.

With his dragon blood ignited, the Sovereign Blood Seal instantly devoured all the desolate energy in the surroundings. The moment he activated it, a crushing pressure exploded outward, shaking even Di Mengyao and the others.

“Hahaha!”

Xue Tu looked insane, his eyes turning scarlet. It didn’t even seem like he could understand Long Chen’s words.

Blood Qi surged from his body like a boundless sea, and ten thousand dragons emerged from it, coiling around his wrist as he launched a punch directly at Long Chen’s palm.

BOOM!

It was like two stars collided. The entire martial stage shook violently as explosive power swept in every direction.

The surrounding dragon race experts gritted their teeth and withstood the shockwaves. This was one of the martial stage’s benefits—it allowed them to face this kind of power directly. Other than raw force, they had to resist the power of wills and souls as well. This was a true tempering.

Even so, over half of them were directly sent flying, coughing blood. The rest barely held on, their manifestations roaring as they resisted. Blood oozed from their seven orifices—they had reached their limits.

“What power… Long Chen can definitely rank among the top ten in the Heaven Dragon Law Domain,” Hai Mingkong exclaimed in awe. Long Chen’s current display of strength had clearly surpassed his own.

Long Chen and Xue Tu were both blasted back. Every step they took caused the martial stage to tremble as if a divine hammer struck it—striking not just the stage, but the hearts of everyone watching.

“Heavens, Long Chen managed to block Xue Tu in his frenzied state!”

Those familiar with Xue Tu were shaken. Once Xue Tu unleashed his forbidden arts, even Di Mengyao wouldn’t challenge him head-on. Yet Long Chen had managed to endure it.

“Again!” Long Chen shouted.

The God Slaying Cross reappeared on his palm as his eight-color divine ring spun madly. From within it, a massive dragon claw stretched out.

A cross mark emerged on the dragon claw as well. Long Chen clenched his fist, shattering the cross on his hand. In that instant, the dragon claw erupted with blinding light. The divine ring poured power into it, and eight-colored runes condensed into a new cross.

As the divine ring’s power poured into the dragon claw, an aura of annihilation spread.

This was Long Chen’s first time merging the power of his divine ring with the God Slaying Cross. While the move was dragon-blood based, it was reinforced by divine ring energy. Long Chen had made countless calculations about this technique, but it was his first time using it.

It was so potent that Long Chen didn’t dare unleash it with his own body. Instead, he had the dragon in his manifestation execute the technique.

As the dragon claw locked onto Xue Tu, his bones groaned under pressure. He had been instantly immobilized.

It was a simple locking technique, yet Xue Tu was frozen in place. The pressure stunned the crowd.

“Only a double-body Sovereign Lord could lock down Xue Tu like that, right?”

Just seeing the dragon claw sent chills down everyone’s spines. Who exactly was this human, to wield such terrifying power?

“Hahaha!”

Xue Tu laughed even harder, looking crazier than before. Blood flames danced in his eyes as his aura twisted into something vile and ancient. A murderous intent flooded from him.

Suddenly, five spectral chains emerged from his body—each representing his qi, blood, tendons, bones, and soul. As they merged, the martial stage beneath him started to crack.

“What?!”

Everyone was stunned. This stage was built to withstand the full might of double-body Sovereign Lords, yet Xue Tu’s power alone was breaking it apart.

“Come, come! A full-power fight, a fight to the death, hahaha!” Xue Tu sounded insane now. His voice had turned dark and sinister, as if he was possessed.

“This is bad. He’s lost control,” Di Mengyao said, her expression pale. “If this continues, it really will be a fight to the death.”

Because they were all part of the same race, Xue Tu would never go this far. But the moment he faced a strong human like Long Chen, he finally let go of all restraint.

“Ah… I see now. There’s another soul inside him,” Long Chen suddenly muttered, realization flashing in his eyes.

Long Chen suddenly thought of his own heart-devil, the terrifying white-robed Long Chen. But this was different. The soul within Xue Tu gave off an ancient aura, so drenched in murderous intent that even Long Chen was momentarily shocked.

Through the martial stage, Qing Yi shouted, “Long Chen, quickly admit defeat! That’s not Xue Tu anymore! He’s been taken over by the evil soul of Imperial Dragon Master Ba Ta!

“Ba Ta was the strongest of all Imperial Dragon Masters during the primal chaos era. He once dominated countless experts of our sovereign dragon race. Although the Imperial Dragon Masters were eventually destroyed by the subordinates of the Primal Chaos Dragon Sovereign, their soul essences refused to die.

“Now, when a dragon race expert becomes strong enough, those ancient souls will appear within our dragon soul world. They wish to reincarnate using our bodies, while we try to subdue them to gain their power.

“Over the years, all the Imperial Dragon Masters have been subdued—except Ba Ta. He remains defiant. Xue Tu has been fighting him for years, but now… Ba Ta’s will has clearly suppressed him. You have to retreat! You can’t beat Ba Ta!”

The Imperial Dragon Masters were so ancient that they had faded into legend, remembered only by those on Di Mengyao’s level and above.

Seeing Xue Tu’s condition, they all panicked.

“Admit defeat? No. I’ve never admitted defeat in my life!” Long Chen exclaimed, shaking his head.

Long Chen’s gaze locked with the crazed Xue Tu, whose bloodshot eyes were gradually turning calm, cold, and razor-sharp.

In response, Long Chen’s battle intent blazed higher than ever.

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