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Nine Star Hegemon Body Art (Web Novel) - Chapter 6692 Oppressed Everywhere
Chapter 6692 Oppressed Everywhere
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The young maiden was forming hand seals. A flame glittering with starlight enveloped her pill furnace, sparkling like fireworks.
She appeared no more than sixteen or seventeen. Yet, beneath her youthful appearance, there was a firm stubbornness in her eyes.
Sweat soaked her clothes. Her face was pale, but she gritted her teeth and endured.
Long Chen looked at her table. Other than the pill formula, each participant was given three sets of medicinal ingredients. In other words, there was room for two failures.
However, this young maiden’s table was empty. That meant that she had failed twice, and this was her final attempt.
Her pill furnace started to shake uneasily. After two failures, her Pill Flame had weakened, and her mental state was fraying.
Seeing the furnace shaking like a feral beast straining against its cage, she couldn’t help but cry.
Just as despair swallowed her, a calm voice sounded in her mind.
“If your Pill Flame is insufficient, borrow from the heavens. Open the gate of your heart and let the starlight envelop you. The stars are the heavens; the furnace is the earth. You are the will that binds them. With these three pillars, seize Yin and Yang, balance....”
Hearing this, the young maiden seized it like her last hope. She didn’t even consider where this voice was coming from and directly followed its instructions.
A star diagram appeared on her forehead, startling everyone.
“Is she crazy? Drawing astral energy from the heavens will multiply the difficulty severalfold! She’s already out of energy and can’t control it. This will cause a furnace explosion!”
The nine star line’s alchemy was not quite the same as the normal one. It required not only an innate Pill Flame, but also astral energy of matching resonance.
They fused their Pill Flame with astral energy into Astral Pill Flame that could refine the unique medicinal pills of the nine star line.
Most of the nine star line’s alchemists relied solely on their internal astral energy. Drawing from the outside world was too dangerous.
While the outside world’s astral energy was limitless, it was too hard to control.
After all, alchemy required skillful technique, not brute force. The more power, the harder it was to control, and the easier it was to fail.
For this young maiden to suddenly do this angered the examiners. A furnace explosion would affect everyone in the trial.
Yet—
The Astral Pill Flame in her hands stabilized, and the pill furnace stopped shaking.
“What…?”
Shock spread across the plaza.
This young maiden was controlling the borrowed astral energy flawlessly, without the slightest hint of chaos.
Their gazes turned toward Long Chen, who was standing beside her. He was silently staring at the pill furnace without making a sound.
BOOM!
Then, a muffled sound erupted elsewhere. The plaza trembled faintly.
“Hahaha, success!” a man shouted.
The laughter died instantly under the examiners’ sharp gazes. He bowed hastily and withdrew.
Someone immediately brought the man’s pill furnace to the examiners. This signified that the refinement was over, and the pill’s result was sealed.
They did not let the man take out the medicinal pill himself for fairness.
Just then, more and more people finished.
But unlike the first man, no one dared to celebrate loudly. They simply finished and let their furnaces be taken. There was not a single failure.
At this moment, they realized a stranger among them. He simply stood beside the young maiden’s side, watching her refine pills.
That maiden herself had forgotten everything, even the flow of time. Her entire world was the pill furnace before her.
Just then, the pill furnace quivered slightly, and the entire plaza trembled with it.
The refinement was reaching its final stage—the most critical moment.
But time was running out.
Long Chen’s voice rang out in her mind once more. “The heavens can be a furnace. The earth can be a furnace. Even your body can be a furnace. Merge the three, and forge your own universe.”
Without hesitation, she formed hand seals, and her Astral Pill Flame erupted like a volcano.
A pillar of flames tore into the heavens, eliciting cries of shock.
Then, the earth trembled.
Many felt as if their chests had been struck, blood rising to their throats.
“I… I… I succeeded!” the young maiden cried out excitedly.
A light sound followed, and it came from a giant hourglass.
The time was up. She had barely managed to complete her refinement in time.
“Don’t celebrate yet,” a woman sneered coldly. “Even if you succeeded, the pill’s quality is what matters, you country bumpkin.”
The hostility in her eyes was clear.
“Oh, sorry!” the young maiden apologized.
Only then did she realize someone stood beside her.
When she saw Long Chen, her hands flew to her mouth. Shock and disbelief flooded her eyes.
“Not bad,” Long Chen said with a gentle smile. “Are you the only alchemist from the nine heavens in the Starry River Palace?”
“Lord Long Chen…”
The young maiden almost burst into tears. Just as Long Chen said, she was the only alchemist from the nine heavens in this place.
Her days in the pill hall had been painful. She was constantly bullied, and no one was on her side.
However, she swallowed it all and endured, clinging only to her studies.
The trial this time determined whether an outer disciple could enter the inner palace. This young maiden’s luck wasn’t good though. She ended up pulling the hardest pill to refine—the Sovereign Dao Foundation Breaking Pill.
Although she was talented at alchemy, a medicinal pill on this level was not something she could refine. She could only thicken her face and try.
Just as despair descended upon her, a master appeared out of nowhere and gave her guidance.
To her shock, this master was someone who had risked his life again and again to protect her and the other nine star heirs from the nine heavens.
It felt as though she had finally found her family after endless torment. She almost collapsed.
Long Chen gently wiped away her tears and smiled warmly.
He said, “Don’t worry. With me here, everything will get better!”
She obediently nodded and stood by Long Chen.
At this moment, the examiners pulled open the pill furnaces one by one. When her furnace opened, a majestic aura erupted. Dense pill fragrance flooded the plaza.
“A top-grade treasure pill?!”
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Everyone else had refined spirit pills, and the best among them was a top-grade spirit pill.
However, this young maiden had managed to refine a treasure pill—and a top-grade one at that.
At this sight, the examiners were flabbergasted.
“Damn slut, how could she have refined a treasure pill?!” shouted the woman who had berated the young maiden.
Unable to accept her loss, she pointed and cursed at Long Chen.
“That person helped her cheat! Capture that bast—”
Before she could finish her insult, Long Chen raised his hand toward her.
The angry woman immediately cried out in shock as she was pulled over to him.
Long Chen’s hand closed around her throat like an iron vice. He lifted her off the ground as if she were just a chicken, causing everyone to shout in shock.
