Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 2425 Second Heavenstage of Netherpassage

chapter 2425 second heavenstage of netherpassage

translator: borntobe

it was as if millions of wild lions were running rampant within long chen’s body. the medicinal energy was erupting like a volcano, wanting to explode long chen’s body.

“a demonic pill really is demonic. they’re both powerful and vicious. not just anyone would be able to endure this energy.” long chen was shaken inside.

last time, he had refined a giant pill and learned of the terrifying medicinal effect of demonic pills. however, this time, it wasn’t a giant pill, but its effect was still more ferocious than he had expected.

most likely, this was the result of ling-er’s trip to the netherworld. she had gotten stronger, resulting in stronger demonic pills.

demonic pills earned their namesake due to the violent demonic energy within them. they possessed a berserk will that had an immense burden on not just the physical body, but also the soul and mind.

orthodox alchemists viewed demonic pills as evil entities due to their strong side effects. occasionally, eating one or two might not be a problem, but if consumed over the long term, they would create a dependence that a person wouldn’t be able to extricate themselves from. the mind would become twisted. that was why demonic pills were not recognized according to the normal alchemy world.

however, long chen disagreed. everything existed for a reason. there was nothing meaningless within the heavenly daos.

a sword had two edges. whether it was used to kill enemies or cut one’s own neck was based on the user, not the sword itself.

those so-called side effects were because the ones consuming the pills didn’t have strong enough bodies or firm enough wills, resulting in the demonic pills invading them. the dependence on the pills was due to seeking greater medicinal effects while ignoring the burden to their body.

however, it was true that a demonic pill was really not something an ordinary person could consume. long chen wasn’t planning on giving even the dragonblood warriors this kind of pill.

long chen consumed three demonic pills, and an endless torrent of medicinal energy was raging throughout his body.

his originally messy spiritual yuan gradually began to clear up. black and white specks appeared as the medicinal energy violently crashed through his meridians.

the messy spiritual yuan represented an initial entry into the netherpassage realm. it could not even be fully considered the first step. only when life and death energy started to manifest would it be considered the first step.

when the spiritual yuan was turbid, it represented that the life and death energy had yet to separate and was still unusable. now long chen was starting to separate them.

with the assistance of the yin yang merger dao pill, his life and death energy began to differentiate.

for others, they required heavenly dao energy as a reference and to corroborate this process. normally this was very slow, but due to the current era, everyone’s cultivation speed had increased.

the dragonblood legion in particular had the aid of liu ruyan. she had absorbed the comprehension of the yin yang immortal grass. her life and death domain had become a perfect place for everyone’s cultivation. adding on the blessing of the heavenly daos, the martial heaven alliance’s experts had reached an unimaginable speed in terms of their cultivation.

however, even that speed could not compare to long chen. he had no need to comprehend life and death. he didn’t need the heavenly daos. he didn’t need a reference or someone to corroborate his understanding. the nine star hegemon body art’s cultivation method was to simply eat more and more pills.

long chen sighed inside. this world was full of things that he didn’t know. the pill sovereign’s memories contained the refinement techniques for demonic pills, but there were many principles involved that he didn’t understand. he just had the knowledge without the why.

the pill dao, the martial dao, and every other dao were boundless. it was possible to spend a lifetime studying one without learning even a tenth of its profundities. it truly made a person sigh.

long chen discarded those distracting thoughts and focused on absorbing the medicinal energy.

as he absorbed the energy of the tiger bone life spirit pill, his originally equal life and death energy changed. his life energy gradually began to suppress his death energy.

when the life and death energy separated, it marked the first step. when the life energy suppressed the death energy, it marked the second step.

the death energy grew smaller and smaller. it gradually approached a sixty-forty proportion.

long chen found that even when the life energy occupied sixty percent and his death energy was clearly compressed, there was still a kind of balance between the two sides.

“the death energy becomes more condensed as it is pressured, strengthening it. so that’s how it goes,” realized long chen.

he continued consuming pills. other people needed to borrow the world’s life energy to suppress their death energy, but long chen had no need to do so. he had a feeling that the heavens might even strike him down if he tried to absorb its life energy.

when his life and death energy reached a seventy-thirty proportion, his body shuddered, and his astral spaces grew once more.

“is this the first heavenstage of netherpassage?”

long chen smiled. based on the martial heaven continent’s cultivation rules, only upon reaching the first step did one’s cultivation truly start. the third heavenstage was considered the second step, the life realm. the sixth heavenstage was considered the third step, the death realm. the ninth heavenstage was considered the fourth step, the samsara realm.

long chen suddenly felt something was off. the nine star hegemon body art had more heavenstages than others. was there a fifth step?

his confidence flagged. he was still a blind man groping around when it came to the nine star hegemon body art.

“whatever. there has to be a path. if there’s not, i’ll create one.” long chen clenched his teeth and decided not to think so far in advance. he continued consuming pills.

ling-er was truly amazing. one furnace of pills after another entered long chen’s mouth.

these top grade demonic pills that would cause others to explode were eaten like candy. he never stopped, and his life energy rapidly grew.

boom!

another explosion came from within long chen’s body. he entered the second heavenstage of netherpassage.