Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 6703 Hunt

“How is this happening?” Qin Yu asked, a trace of panic creeping into her voice. “I hid my aura the moment I extended it. How do they know where we are?!”

Endless devils poured out, completely surrounding them

This was Qin Yu’s first time commanding an army. She had been confident, but reality immediately gave her a harsh lesson.

Her bait and concealing arts had failed, and she didn’t even know where she had gone wrong.

“It’s not your fault,” Long Chen consoled. “We were schemed against by Li Wanci!”

“Li Wanci?” asked Qu Yingying.

“Li Tianbi was likely ordered to provoke me,” Long Chen replied. “Li Wanci had probably assumed I would strike him, so she planted something on his body. When I touched him, it seemed that a specific energy transferred through my hand. If I hadn’t examined it more closely just now, I wouldn’t have noticed.”

Flames burst onto Long Chen’s hand, turning a bit of transparent powder into ash.

This residue was what remained from when he killed Li Tianbi—a colorless, odorless powder that had escaped even his perception.

After Li Tianbi’s death, Li Yifeng attacked immediately, followed by Qu Liushang and Li Wanci’s appearance. Amid that chaos, even Long Chen had overlooked it.

“How ruthless,” Xue Ying said coldly. “She didn’t hesitate to sacrifice Li Tianbi just to mark you.”

Long Chen shook his head. “I doubt she expected me to kill Li Tianbi. After all, Li Yifeng’s fury wasn’t an act. That’s precisely why I was tricked. But it’s fine. On the battlefield, anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Unpredictable situations arise all the time. As the commander, you must be ready for them. You can’t panic just because something happens outside your expectations. That will bring down the entire legion’s morale.

He then turned to look at Qin Yu.

“Qin Yu, this is your first lesson from reality! Make sure to learn from it.”

“Yes!” Qin Yu replied, nodding.

She immediately calmed down and issued orders.

Using a three-pronged formation, they charged backward, attempting to break out before the encirclement fully tightened. Otherwise, they would be forced into a passive position.

Since they didn’t know the numbers and true power of their enemies, they had to be cautious. They could not simply charge forward.

Qu Yingying immediately got excited when she saw that the battle was about to start. But before she could form hand seals, Long Chen grabbed her hands.

“The battle hasn’t even started, and you’re already planning on revealing your trump card? Remember this, those who rush first are the ones who lose,” transmitted Long Chen.

After all, if Long Chen wanted Qu Yingying to lead the Starry River Legion, he couldn’t rebuke her in front of everyone. Still, her lack of judgment annoyed him.

This foolish big sister had such small guts, yet her confidence was overinflated. She seemed to believe they were the strongest force in existence, and it was a dangerous mindset for a leader to have.

“Don’t misunderstand!” Qu Yingying retorted. “I’m just warming up. The Seven Treasure Space was only drills. Now that it’s real, I have to be ready!”

“Mm. I believe you,” Long Chen replied, nodding without pressing the issue.

He spread his senses and was mildly surprised to detect even more outsider devils in the direction Qin Yu had chosen for retreat.

“Kill!”

Finally, the Starry River Legion clashed against the outsider devils. Bodies exploded into flesh and blood the moment they met.

When the Starry River Legion’s warriors sensed the devils’ auras, a deep hatred buried in their blood seemed to detonate. Their furious howls split the air.

These outsider devils were not large. Their bodies resembled humans, but their bald heads bore tail-like flesh horns. Their black skin rippled with scale-like patterns, and beneath it, their flesh writhed as if countless serpents were crawling within.

Their wild devil qi erupted like a volcano.

“No wonder you said they were elites,” Long Chen said, nodding. “Each devil is comparable to an outer palace disciple.”

It seemed that their information was accurate.

However, it didn’t matter. The Starry River Legion’s warriors were like tigers unleashed from cages, cutting down the so-called devil elites rapidly.

As soon as they started fighting, Long Chen frowned. But he didn’t say anything.

Soon, Qin Yu also sensed something amiss. As the devils fell, the stench of devil blood drove the warriors into a frenzy. Their formations started to deform.

Qin Yu shouted for them to remain calm and hold formation, but once disorder took root, restoring it was no easy task.

After all, they only identified their location based on the people around them. Now that things were chaotic, the people they were familiar with weren’t beside them anymore. Just like that, even more chaos descended.

Fortunately, Qin Yu was a talented commander. Since she remembered the central anchors of the three squads, she used them as pivots and started reorganizing outward.

In half an incense stick’s worth of time, the formation stabilized. Doing so was actually more taxing than killing these devils.

The Starry River warriors started to sweat when they realized this. Even after experiencing the Seven Treasure Space’s trial, they were still novices on a true battlefield.

They hadn’t even killed that many enemies and already ended up using a huge amount of energy to restore their formation. Their morale fluctuated as they felt a wave of shame wash over them.

Thinking of how they had embarrassed Long Chen, many wished they could bury themselves.

“Rushing Wind Arc Formation!” Qin Yu shouted.

Countless devils had surrounded them when they were confused. As a result, they had to temporarily switch to defense.

The three squads rotated inward like three coiling dragons, and their three “dragon tails” spun out like high-speed flying blades.

With their power combined, they massacred the devils.

At that moment, Long Chen had a thought and summoned the Dark Son, Cang Lu, behind him.

Immediately, Cang Lu’s eyes brightened. Long Chen felt an invisible energy surge toward him.

“It seems that my guess is right. These outsider devils share the same origin as the Dark lineage. Once they die, Cang Lu can absorb their energy,” Long Chen muttered.

Cang Lu’s potential was incredible. Recovering his power would grant Long Chen another powerful trump card.

“Head to the right! Follow the starlight! Long Dragon Twisting Slaughter Formation! Charge!” Qin Yu shouted decisively, using her own astral energy to guide everyone.

Following Qin Yu’s instructions, the three squads rapidly switched formations. Now, they looked like three angry dragons joining into a sharp drill that blasted forward.

Long Chen nodded.

Qin Yu had great talent as a commander. By reading the flow of the entire formation, she identified the weakest point in the enemy encirclement and chose the optimal spot to charge through. Her deduction was exactly the same as Long Chen’s.

The Starry River warriors charged forward, blasting through the devils like rotting wood. They finally broke free of their enclosure.

Once outside, Qin Yu ordered the Starry River Legion to rotate formations and cut the devils down. With the initiative back in her hands, the battle suddenly became easy.

Two hours later, it was the Starry River Legion’s turn to surround these outsider devils.

In a bit, the battle was over. All the outsider devils had been killed.

However, there was not a single corpse on the ground, not even blood. Zhi Zhi had absorbed it all and sent the leftovers into the primal chaos space.

Delighted by their victory, these warriors shouted excitedly for a brief moment before calming down.

Suddenly, they felt like there was nothing to celebrate. Slaughtering a group of devils this weak had still drained them heavily. Moreover, the exhaustion came not from the enemy, but from their own mistakes.

“Let us switch locations! If we don’t move, that idiot Li Yifeng will bring his people here,” said Long Chen to Qu Yingying.

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In the time it took for an incense stick to burn, a new group appeared on this empty battlefield.

“Damn, we’re too late!”

The person at the front was Li Yifeng, and he had come with a mass of powerful experts.

What was unbelievable was the two elders accompanying him. They were Divine Sovereigns, and one of them was the very old man whose face Long Chen had once slapped.