"Rumble rumble ..."
When Long Chen stacked the two triangles and the Purple Que Star was at the center of the hexagram, he felt his vital energy and blood completely out of control, as if pulled by some force, and entered a self-destruct state.
"Detonate the Seven-Star Pattern." The dragon clan expert cried out in alarm.
Wouldn't detonating the Seven Stars pattern still mean death? But Long Chen didn't have time to think further. He formed hand seals, and the seven stars behind him exploded with a roar.
"Boom!"
The moment the Seven Stars shattered, the entire Linglong World was instantly covered in cracks, which rapidly extended all the way to the end of the world.
Long Chen was gasping heavily, his face pale and a trace of fear in his eyes—it was Linglong World that had saved him.
Linglong World absorbed the power of the Seven Stars' explosion and drew it into heaven and earth; otherwise, if the Seven Stars shattered, he would still be blown to pieces.
Long Chen failed once again, and the reason for his failure was nowhere to be found. If it weren't for the help of Linglong World, he would have already died.
"How could this be?" Long Chen was both shocked and furious. This shouldn't be right.
"Calm down, I think I understand." said the dragon clan expert.
"Understand what?"
After suffering repeated blows, Long Chen was now exhausted, collapsing to the ground, his head dizzy.
"The Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique tempers the body with the power of the stars, strengthening the body from the outside within. But your body is now too strong, and you're starting to reject the power of the stars. Maybe ..." The dragon clan expert suddenly stopped at this point.
"Maybe we have to choose one or the other, huh? Either give up the Dragon Blood Body Refining Technique, or give up the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique? Long Chen said calmly.
The dragon clan expert remained silent for a long time before sighing, "Long Chen, I'm truly sorry this time. I ...."
"You're using me for experiments, hoping to see if your Dragon God Body Refining Technique can surpass the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique, right?" Long Chen curled his lips and said.
"Indeed, the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique is said to be the strongest technique in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. The Dragon God Body Refining Technique I created myself has never faced any rivals, so I want to see who is truly stronger.
But for now, it seems the Nine Star Overlord Body Technique is superior. The Dragon God Body Refining Technique can't change the will of the Nine Stars, so it wants to erase everything related to me within you.
I'm really sorry for wasting so much time, and in the end, I still failed. The dragon clan expert sighed.
A dragon clan expert created the Dragon God Body Refining Technique himself, which even his descendants could not inherit. Seeing Long Chen's intelligence, he selfishly wanted Long Chen to pass on his Dragon God Body Refining Technique.
At the same time, he had his own pride. He believed his Dragon God Body Refining Technique was no less than the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique, but in reality, the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique was even stronger, and the Dragon God Body Refining Technique could never replace it, let alone shake its status.
Now, Long Chen must either choose the Dragon God Body Refining Technique or the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique. Whichever he chooses, he must give up the other.
However, if he gave up the Dragon God Body Refining Technique, Long Chen would have to force out the dragon blood from his body, because there was already a repulsion between the two. As the saying goes, 'two tigers cannot share one mountain'—this is the principle.
"No, there was no failure. I feel like I still have hope." Long Chen said.
"Impossible, don't do anything reckless, or you'll really lose your life." The dragon clan expert was shocked. This rascal's stubborn temper flared up again?
"What I haven't got, I really want to get. Once I have, I will never let go." Long Chen gritted his teeth and said.
If he hadn't witnessed the terror of the Dragon Blood Body Refining Technique, it would be one thing, but if Long Chen were to give it up now, that was absolutely impossible.
The Dragon God Body Refining Technique was just the beginning, yet it had already brought earth-shaking changes. He absolutely would not give up.
"Buzz!"
Long Chen summoned the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Tree. Injured and restless, he couldn't calm down and think, so he summoned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Tree to calm his soul and study the path of fusion.
Originally, the dragon clan powerhouse wanted to persuade Long Chen, but after thinking it over, he decided against it. With Long Chen's stubborn temperament, once he made a decision, no one could change it.
It even felt a bit regretful. It shouldn't have taught Long Chen the Dragon God Body Refining Technique for its own selfish reasons. That could have ruined Long Chen, but since things had come to this, there was nothing it could do.
Long Chen sat under the Seven Treasures Glazed Tree for three whole days. In his mind, countless stars swirled, forming various shapes, while the dragon blood runes kept changing. He was deducting all sorts of possibilities.
"Whoosh."
After a long while, Long Chen slowly exhaled and opened his eyes. He formed hand seals, and a divine ring appeared behind him. The divine light of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple trembled with seven colors.
Immediately after, seven stars appeared: the Wind Mansion, Jade Balance, Siming Palace, Gong Qi, Shen Guan, Mingmen, and Purple Palace Seven Stars.
Unlike before, now each of the seven stars had its own unique color.
"Blood, Qi, Bone, Spirit, Soul, Will, Will..."
As Long Chen uttered the truth, the strange dragon talismans he condensed while cultivating the Dragon God Body Refining Technique appeared and surged toward the seven stars.
"Buzz"—
As endless runes surged toward the stars, the stars trembled, repelling them, though clearly less intense than before.
Seeing this, the dragon clan powerhouse couldn't help but be overjoyed; it immediately understood what route Long Chen was going to take.
"Buzz"
At that moment, an endless star map appeared behind Long Chen. It was a microcosm of Long Chen's dantian and sea of stars. Endless purple energy surged within the chart, enveloping seven stars.
As the endless purple energy merged into the seven stars, Long Chen's dragon talismans slowly surged into the stars along with the purple energy.
Seeing this, even Long Chen, with his composure, almost jumped up to cheer—he had finally succeeded.
However, Long Chen dared not move. He continued to circulate the purple energy within the star sea, bringing the Dragon Talisman to merge with the stars. Feeling the talisman enter the stars and be gradually absorbed by them, Long Chen couldn't help but sigh:
"It seems that, just as the dragon clan elders said, the Dragon God Body Refining Technique is indeed inferior to the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique. Otherwise, after the Dragon Talisman entered, it would have tried to control the stars, Instead of being absorbed by the stars.
The Dragon God Body Refining Technique was so terrifying, and the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique was even more terrifying. This filled Long Chen with confidence in the future. With such an invincible technique, who else could he fear?
As time passed, more and more dragon talismans were absorbed by Xingchen. However, once fifty percent of the runes were absorbed, no matter how hard Long Chen tried, Xingchen stopped absorbing any dragon talismans, as if saturated was already complete.
Long Chen was stunned. He took a deep breath and unleashed the Star River Firmament Technique. The stars above trembled. Long Chen wanted to use the power of the firmament to continue, but found it completely useless. Even with a rune, the stars refused to absorb any more.
"Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three. The Dragon God Body Refining Technique is one, the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique is one. To fully fuse the two, one more crucial thing is needed. What is that?" Long Chen muttered to himself.
No one knew how much time had passed before Long Chen and the dragon clan expert exclaimed simultaneously:
"Long Aotian!"