Emperor Yunshang made his move, blocking Long Chen in front of him. He struck the torrent with his palm, and a mirror-shaped pattern appeared in his palm.
"Bang!"
The torrent shattered. Emperor Yunshang staggered back several steps, crashing into Long Chen, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood and be sent flying.
Long Chen felt his body crack, almost bursting apart. He was stunned, still not understanding what was happening.
With a single palm strike, billions of divine lights shot out, radiating across the heavens and earth, piercing through the surrounding space.
"Boom boom boom boom... Wherever
the divine light passed, any star swept by it turned to dust. The once vast and beautiful starry sky burst into bloom like fireworks, erupting with endless roars.
Long Chen was stunned. The divine light shattered the stars, and the once boundless starry sky vanished, replaced by endless remnants of stars.
"Are you alright?"
The Sky-Covering Mirror returned to its original form, as if nothing had happened. Emperor Yunshang helped Long Chen up.
"Almost hung up, big brother, didn't you say ...?" Long Chen stopped halfway, asking like that sounded like a bit of a complaint against Yun Shang.
"I was careless. I didn't expect your cultivation technique to surpass the Sky-Covering Mirror's abilities.
On the other hand, your cultivation is too low, lacking the ability to glimpse part of the future. The karma flows backward, causing backlash.
Your cultivation technique is truly astonishing. If it weren't for the fusion of my past and future bodies, my strength would have long surpassed the limits of my clone—you'd already be dead. Yun Shang said gravely, clearly unexpected. For him, it was a very rare occurrence.
"Big brother, ..." Long Chen stood up and finally noticed that Yun Shang's face had grown dark, and even the color in his eyes had dimmed considerably.
"This karmic reverse flow power is too strong. I also used the power of Reverseing Heaven and Earth, translating that power outward, but still withstood a trace of power.
You don't need to worry. I was already dead. This is just a clone. Even if you hadn't come, as time passed, it would have faded away. "Emperor Yunshang smiled faintly, signaling Long Chen not to be sad."
Yun Shang glanced at the starry sky, which had become foul, then suddenly smiled and looked at Long Chen, saying, "I always thought you were the breakthrough of the Tianwu Continent, but now I understand." "
Understand what?" Long Chen hurriedly asked.
Yun Shang smiled without answering Long Chen.
Yun Shang pointed at the Sky-Covering Mirror and said, "Your attempt failed this time. The future evolution capacity of the Mirror has only been partially consumed. You can still try again, but this time, don't use your previous techniques. Right now, I no longer have the ability to endure it again." Long
Chen was filled with shock. What exactly is the origin of the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique? Even the Great Emperor holds it in awe.
The backlash caused by a failed deduction was so severe that even the Great Emperor could barely withstand it. With such a terrifying origin, why would he encounter it among the masses?
Long Chen was filled with confusion and a faint sense of unease. The origin of the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique was likely far beyond his imagination.
Looking at the Sky-Covering Mirror, Long Chen was silent for a long while, then walked over to it again. In one of his hands, a lotus flower slowly bloomed.
"Buzz!"
As the lotus in Long Chen's hand bloomed, a flaming lotus also appeared in the mirror opposite.
On the fire lotus flower, fireballs slowly appeared—one born two, two born three, then merged into one, and then fireballs were born one by one.
On each petal, the Starfall Sphere kept appearing, stacking on top of each other—five, six, seven.
The fiery orb in Long Chen's hand had vanished, but in the mirror opposite, the flame orb kept increasing. Back then, Long Chen's strongest strike—the Seven-Star World-Destroying Fire Lotus—was already his limit.
But the fire lotus on the opposite side continued to climb rapidly, and soon, an eighth Starfall Orb appeared on each petal.
"So that's how it is." Long Chen suddenly let out a startled cry.
Because he discovered that when the eighth fiery orb appeared, the original seven fiery orbs suddenly dimmed, then slowly regained their light.
"Weaken the other seven meteorites to gain buffer space, so we can easily condense an eighth star sphere." Long Chen immediately understood the key to condensing the eighth meteorite orb.
Long Chen knew that the eight-star World-Destroying Fire Lotus on the other side was probably an improvement he would gradually make in the future.
This method is very ingenious—a kind of skillful effort. It's like an ordinary person stepping up a zhang high—it's extremely difficult, but once you build a step, it becomes much easier.
The Eight-Star World-Destroying Fire Lotus essentially divided a process into two steps, using retreat as advance, providing a buffer so it could be completed effortlessly, unlike before when one had to push forward in one go.
Immediately after, the World-Destroying Fire Lotus trembled again, and on each petal, nine Starfall Orbs appeared—this was the complete Nine-Star World-Destroying Fire Lotus.
Eighty-one Starfall Orbs resembled a small fiery universe. At its core, a Taiji pattern formed, slowly rotating, resembling the core of a universe driving the entire lotus to turn.
"Boom!"
The World-Destroying Fire Lotus shattered. Long Chen's body trembled, and the Sky-Covering Mirror returned to its original form, as if nothing had happened.
"The power of future divination has disappeared. The current Sky-Covering Mirror only has one past divination. As long as there is a medium, it can be divined. What will you choose?" Emperor Yunshang said.
"Can you deduce anything?" Long Chen asked.
Emperor Yun Shang smiled: "Alright, I misspoke on the spot. If it were before, I would have told you that you could, but now, I can only tell you, theoretically, it can." "
I want to try again." Long Chen looked at Emperor Yun Shang and said.
Emperor Yun Shang nodded: "Then let's try. The power of the past isn't as terrifying as the power of the future. My strength might even withstand a blow." "
Thank you, big brother,"
Long Chen said, clasping his fists in gratitude.
Long Chen was endlessly curious about the Nine-Star Overbearing Body Technique. He was eager to know everything about it, because it concerned his fate.
Originally, Long Chen wanted to use the Sky-Covering Mirror to deduce his origins, but he was more clever—he decided to first deduce the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique. If he failed, it wouldn't be too late to deduce his origins later.
If you see some scattered fragments during the reverse calculation, that's also good, as this gives you two chances to deduct.
Long Chen stood before the Sky-Covering Mirror, once again unleashing his Five-Star Battle Body. Time flowed within the mirror, and Long Chen instinctively took a step back. If he sensed trouble, he would run immediately.
"Buzz!"
Within the Sky-Covering Mirror, a long-haired man appeared. The man's divine ring also unfolded on his back, and five stars swirled in his eyes.He stared coldly at Long Chen.
As soon as that man appeared, Emperor Yun Shang's pupils contracted behind Long Chen. His appearance was even more shocking than the backlash of space-time reversal.
Long Chen stared at the man in the mirror, stunned. What was going on? How could someone come out?
"Senior brother?" Junior brother? Long Chen looked at the cold-faced man and asked tentatively.
The man looked at Long Chen like a statue. After a long moment, his eyes flickered slightly as he said coldly, "
You have disgraced the Nine Star lineage. Your Five-Star Battle Body has been activated, yet you are so weak."
The long-haired man looked at Long Chen, five stars flickering in his eyes, and a vast and overwhelming pressure radiated out. The same aura, yet it was far superior to Long Chen's.
The man's long hair slowly floated, seemingly filled with endless anger. His voice grew louder and louder:
"As the successor of the Nine Stars, you must understand the true intent of the Overlord Body. Those who cultivate the Nine Stars dominate heaven and earth, sever gods and demons, ascend to heaven and earth, and reign supreme alone.
And the way you look now is a desecration of the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique. How can you have the face to live in this world? Do you realize that your appearance is a disgrace to the Nine Star lineage? The
man grew angrier as he spoke. By the end, every word exploded like thunder in the void. His invincible will surged into the sky, and the shattered dust formed an endless torrent, surging through the void—a scene utterly terrifying.
"What do you mean?" Long Chen was both shocked and furious. He didn't know who this person really was, but his words made him furious just as much.
"I want to cleanse the gates for the Nine Stars lineage."
The man roared in fury, suddenly throwing a punch at Long Chen. The blow shattered the heavens, thundering down and suppressing ten thousand paths.
The punch hadn't landed, but that terrifying force caused the space around Long Chen to freeze. There was nowhere left to dodge, so he could only block it head-on. This wasn't a lockdown, but a manifestation of power reaching its peak, suppressing all laws.
"Boom!"
Long Chen roared angrily, blocking with both fists. With a loud explosion, the void beneath Long Chen's feet shattered in vast fragments, and endless fierce winds swept across the heavens.
The long-haired man's power was endless, domineering and fierce, like raging waves on a raging sea, crashing into the world.
"Crack, crack, crack... Long
Chen blocked the long-haired man's punch with both fists, but it felt as if the entire universe was pressing down on his arm. His bones cracked as if they were about to be crushed.
Long Chen was both shocked and furious. Both had five-star battle bodies, the same divine ring, the same cultivation, the same aura—why was there such a huge gap?
"You're too disappointing. You can't even withstand half of my strength. What right do you have to inherit the Nine Star Will?" With your current state, can you still hope for you to save all living beings in the ten directions of the world? That
punch suppressed Long Chen. Seeing Long Chen struggling, the anger on his face grew stronger, his thick eyebrows arched, and as he roared, the force of his fist grew stronger.
"Boom boom boom... The
space beneath Long Chen's feet kept exploding, his knees bending. The strength of the long-haired man seemed capable of crushing an entire universe, and Long Chen was about to kneel under the pressure.
Long Chen gritted his teeth, a surge of anger rising in his heart. The fire blazed fiercely in his chest. This oppression made him feel humiliated. Long Chen felt as if his body was about to be crushed, but he still held on with all his strength. The stronger the long-haired man became, the more the anger in Long Chen's heart grew.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, Long Chen let out a furious roar. His eyes instantly turned completely black. He straightened up, and a violent aura swept across the heavens. The long-haired man was sent flying backward.