Nine Star Hegemon Body Art - Chapter 5853

The vine pierced cleanly through the elder’s chest. Coiled in black lightning, the slender vine resembled a demonic python, radiating a savage and ferocious aura.

A body that even divine weapons couldn’t harm was instantly skewered by such a small vine. The crowd was stunned into silence.

The black lightning from the vine instantly spread throughout the elder’s whole body, binding him tightly. His powerful bloodline power was rapidly flowing into it.

This ancient vine was like an ancient beast that had been starving for countless years and finally smelled fresh blood. It crazily devoured the elder’s energy, causing him to rapidly wither away.

Even Liu Xihua was stunned, her attack momentarily halted. She hadn’t expected Long Chen’s sneak attack to succeed, even with the help of Liu Ruyan and Chu Yao.

Liu Ruyan had launched the initial strike, piercing the elder’s domain and drawing his attention. At that exact moment, Chu Yao sent Long Chen into the domain while the elder was distracted. Using the Heaven Flipping Seal, Long Chen suddenly appeared beside him.

Like his signature face-slapping technique, Long Chen’s palm strike carried no killing intent, making it impossible to sense.

The moment his palm landed, the vine erupted into action—and by then, it was already too late.

The vine couldn’t speak, nor did it emit clear spiritual fluctuations. However, with its spirit connected to Long Chen, he could tell what it wanted, and he also knew how to cooperate with it.

But the vine didn’t disappoint. Though frail and small, it drilled straight through the elder and locked him down.

Seeing Long Chen’s surprise attack succeed, Chu Yao cheered. Liu Ruyan, on the other hand, trembled. She seemed to sense something terrifying about that vine.

“Die!” the elder roared, his power exploding like a volcano.

His voice alone rang out like a thunderclap, strong enough to make late-stage Demon Emperors feel like their heads were shattering.

Long Chen was struck head-on. Blood spurted from his mouth as his bones cracked. The black lightning wrapped around the elder also burst apart.

Long Chen reeled in shock. Even after the vine had absorbed nearly half of the elder’s lifeforce, this monster still possessed such terrifying strength?

The vine was forced out of the elder’s body, inch by inch. Seeing that the elder was about to break free of his bindings, Long Chen was alarmed.

If the vine’s seal was completely broken, this elder could kill Long Chen with a puff of wind. Now, Long Chen was trapped.

There was nothing he could do to resist the elder, and he would only be able to last another breath’s time before his body burst apart.

Liu Ruyan and Chu Yao tried to rush to his aid, but the elder had gone berserk. A blast of Sovereign qi exploded out of him, blowing them away like leaves in a storm.

Just as Long Chen thought he was done for, a hand silently pressed against the elder’s head. In an instant, that wild Sovereign qi was suppressed.

Liu Xihua had stepped in at this critical moment.

Long Chen’s eyes lit up. With Liu Xihua’s suppression, the elder let out a terrified scream and struggled with all his might to break free.

But it was too late.

The mysterious vine flared with power again, and the elder’s body started to wither at an astonishing rate. In just a few breaths, he was nothing but dried firewood.

BOOM!

The elder’s body exploded into dust, vanishing into the wind.

Just like that, this terrifying existence was erased, and the experts of the Daluo Azure Lotus race screamed in horror.

That elder had been their final hope. With his death, their morale completely crumbled. Their weapons dropped from their hands as they stood frozen, awaiting death.

The Undying race’s warriors paused as well. Their pride wouldn’t allow them to kill enemies who no longer resisted.

By now, less than one-tenth of the Daluo Azure Lotus race remained. Their top experts were all dead, leaving only some young disciples behind.

The Devil Eye Water Lily race’s heavenly geniuses had been eliminated first by Liu Ruyan. After all, they had been the instigators.

“Long Chen, are you alright?” asked Chu Yao.

Liu Ruyan and Chu Yao immediately rushed over to Long Chen. He was covered in blood and looked like he might collapse at any moment. Both women were panicking.

“I… I’m fine.”

Long Chen forced out the words with difficulty before falling silent, completely spent.

Now, he truly understood the terror of an expert at that level. He had been standing at the edge of life and death. His violet blood, seven-color Supreme Blood, and even his astral energy had been completely drained just to preserve his little life.

The elder had only struck him once. But in that instant, all of Long Chen’s power had instinctively surged out to protect him from death. The cost was his near-total exhaustion.

Against Aguta, he had only used dragon blood and two moves to win. That victory had inflated his confidence.

He thought he could hold his own against this elder. But unexpectedly, he had underestimated his opponent and overestimated himself.

After all, Liu Ruyan had warned him that their Sovereign qis were on different levels, but the gap was even wider than what she had said. Compared to this elder, Long Chen was even lesser than an ant.

At the very least, someone would have to step on an ant to kill it. But this elder didn’t even need to step on Long Chen to kill him.

Thinking of that, Long Chen shivered inside. In the future, he shouldn’t mess around like this.

However, when he checked on the vine in the primal chaos space, he grew excited. It was surrounded by Sovereign qi, and black lightning surged around it like a waterfall. Its aura was countless times stronger than before.

Haha, as expected, a person can only gain as much as they are willing to risk!

Just like that, Long Chen had forgotten his fear of the elder’s final attack.

The vine was devouring the elder’s essence and transforming rapidly. Its aura was becoming so powerful that even Long Chen felt uneasy.

“This risk… was worth it,” Long Chen muttered as he grinned in satisfaction.

At this moment, Chu Yao placed her hand on Long Chen’s back, flooding him with pure life energy. His battered body slowly started to recover.

Meanwhile, Liu Xihua looked at the survivors of the Daluo Azure Lotus race.

“You may leave,” she said.

In an instant, those young disciples let out sighs of relief and fled like stray dogs.

Seeing this, Liu Ruyan frowned slightly but said nothing.

Liu Xihua turned to look at Liu Ruyan with a gentle smile. She asked, “What, do you feel like your mother was wrong?”

Long Chen’s jaw dropped.

“M-mother?"