After Long Chen and the others left, a thunderous piece of news quickly spread throughout the entire Purple Flame Heaven.
Jiuyou Island, essentially the second headquarters of the Nine Nether Hall, was actually destroyed. The wonders of the Sea of Mist disappeared, and along with it vanished the assassins of the Archipelago and all the Nine Nether Halls.
At first, people only heard loud noises but dared not approach, since that was Jiuyou Island's territory and no one wanted to suffer misfortune.
But human curiosity is boundless; some people still come closer to see what is really happening.
As people drew closer, they realized everything here had vanished. Terrifying energy fluctuations lingered between heaven and earth, the sea was boiling, and the power of lightning still moved through space, making it hard for anyone to approach.
After observing for a long time and seeing no people from the Nine Nether Hall driving them out, they bravely approached the core area.
They discovered that a terrifying battle had taken place here, and various forces still lingered on the battlefield, especially the vast power of faith. Even the residual power felt suffocating.
In the end, people reached a shocking conclusion: Jiuyou Island had disappeared, the second headquarters of Jiuyou Hall had been destroyed, and judging from the lingering deathly resentment in the space, it seemed that no one on Jiuyou Island would be spared.
But no one knew who was behind it. The Nine Nether Hall was an assassin organization and never revealed any information to outsiders. For a time, all kinds of speculation spread rapidly. The news of Nine Nether Island's destruction stirred up a huge wave in the cultivation world, lingering for a long time.
The three guys who had personally destroyed Jiuyou Island were now riding flying boats, leisurely traveling freely across the land of Ziyan Heaven.
With Xia Chen, the genius formation master, around, no one could track them. Whenever Xia Chen and Guo Ran, these two like-minded people, had free time, they would start researching all sorts of strange and unusual things.
Guo Ran's Demon Dragon Battle Armor had already finalized about thirty percent of the runes, and the remaining seventy percent had been planned overall. However, many things were still in the planning stage. In Xia Chen's words, he had to forge a world-shaking divine armor.
These two guys went so far as to trick Lei Ling'er and Huo Ling'er into controlling the flying boat, while he went to the back to study various things.
Lei Ling'er and Huo Ling'er were obedient and obedient, obediently steering the flying boat toward the chaotic star sea.
Long Chen had no choice. He had to keep refining and eating pills, and eat them like crazy—not only the Purple Que Pill, but also the Divine Lord Pill to improve his cultivation. After more than ten days, his Purple Gate Star had entered the second transformation of the Star Transformation Star, and his cultivation had finally reached the tenth heaven.
It can be said that since entering the Divine Lord realm, Long Chen's cultivation progress had clearly slowed down, because he needed to cooperate with the Purple Que Star to enhance his strength. Before the Purple Que Star was formed, his cultivation speed was shockingly slow.
But after the Purple Que Star condensed, his cultivation shot upward. Only now did he realize that all the pills he had desperately consumed before had been wasted. His cultivation was tied to the Purple Que Star. Without the Purple Que Star, no matter how many pills he ate, it would be in vain.
Moreover, Long Chen clearly noticed that after his cultivation surged, he should have brought powerful energy, but instead, he found that all his energy had been absorbed by the Purple Que Star.
At this moment, Long Chen finally understood: for the Purple Que Star to fully form, it not only needed to devour the power of pills, purple energy, and the power of 108,000 stars, but also the power of his cultivation.
Previously, his cultivation had increased so slowly because Zique Star was waiting to devour him. Now, everything he had was to support Zique Star.
Moreover, despite continuous advancements, Long Chen's aura did not change significantly, because all his energy had been devoured by the Purple Que Star.
In other words, all of Long Chen's power was now pressed on Zique Star. Even with continuous advancements, he didn't feel any increase in strength.
However, Long Chen didn't mind. He knew that the rewards from the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique would be beyond imagination.
Divine essence no longer meant much to him. He now had two sources of power: divine essence and purple energy. Divine essence was sufficient for ordinary combat, but purple energy was needed against powerful enemies.
Moreover, besides divine essence and purple energy, he also had the power of vital energy, stars, flames, thunder, and other powers—so he had plenty of trump cards.
Although this time he was utterly defeated by Liao Bencang, Long Chen was not discouraged but became even more confident.
As long as the divine ring is fully developed and the seven-colored divine light is unleashed, he will not fear the suppression of his faith domain. He has absolute confidence in the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique.
Moreover, Long Chen had a premonition that his Purple Palace Star would likely advance to the Immortal King realm before completing the Nine Star Transformation Transformations and reaching perfection.
This Seven-Star Battle Body would grant him unimaginable power. If he didn't advance to Immortal King, this power would burst him apart.
Back then, that mysterious voice said that unless he condensed the seventh star, he couldn't draw upon the power of the stars. But by his own method, he did so, boldly taking a step forward.
Moreover, the mysterious voice said that if he activated the power of the stars, it would trigger the enemy's lock-on. Long Chen now understood that the locking mentioned by the voice must refer to the Star-Viewing Sky Mirror.
But in fact, even when he activated the power of the stars, the Star-Peering Heavenly Mirror did not detect him. This proves that because he altered the cultivation path of the Nine Star Overlord Body Technique, even the Star-Peering Heavenly Mirror could not detect him, the successor of the Nine Stars.
Although he was a successor of the Nine Stars, his cultivation path had already shifted. Even the Star-Viewing Sky Mirror couldn't detect him, which said it all.
Originally, at the normal cultivation speed of those Nine-Star successors, his seventh star should have awakened at the Divine Lord Realm, but given his current condition, that was impossible.
Now, after Zique Star had only undergone its second transformation into a star, Long Chen had already sensed the terrifying power it contained. With his physical body, he could never control the Seven-Star Battle Body at the Divine Lord Realm.
He had now given up on the idea of summoning a Seven-Star Battle Body at the Divine Lord realm, but since he couldn't summon it, summoning the Seven-Colored Divine Ring should be no problem.
He had already summoned the Seven-Colored Divine Ring once. Although it was crushed by Liao Bencang's Faith Domain, the ring had only just formed and was still very fragile and immature. Now, having entered the second transformation of the Star Transformation, the aura of the purple divine ring had grown several times stronger.
Long Chen himself didn't know what kind of changes the seven-colored divine ring would bring after the Nine Transformations of Star Transformation.
In short, this battle did not discourage Long Chen; instead, he was full of confidence. He saw the limitless potential of the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique.
Several days later, after many twists and turns, Long Chen's flying boat once again arrived at the Chaotic Star Sea.
"Wow, Longteng Trading Company's treasury has been rebuilt?" Guys, let's rob again and harvest the leeks! Guo
Ran and Xia Chen's eyes immediately lit up, and they charged toward Longteng Trading Company like bandits.