Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts - Chapter 6822 Sapphire Water Pool

Chapter 6822 Sapphire Water Pool

Long Chen’s palm moved with lightning speed, killing the woman before the sword even touched him. Suddenly, he clenched his hand, causing the swords held by the disciples to go out of control and slash their own throats.

Their heads shot into the air, as if the disciples had decided to end their own lives. Other than their leader, senior apprentice-brother Wenjing, the others were all dead.

Senior apprentice-brother Wenjing gazed at his sword, trembling with fear. He found himself unable to move. Despite being an elite disciple, he was still far from the status of divine sons like Xu Changchuan or Qingwu. To Long Chen, a minor figure like him was no more than an ant. It was even more absurd that they intended to kill him just to vent their anger.

Long Chen grabbed senior apprentice-brother Wenjing’s throat, lifting him like a chicken, then disappeared.

After all, Long Chen couldn’t just interrogate him openly. They were near the town, so someone would notice.

When they reappeared, they were far away from the town. Long Chen then threw Wenjing to the ground, and he immediately scrambled onto his knees.

“Senior, please spare my life! My dog eyes failed to recognize your strength! I deserve a thousand deaths, but I beg you to spare my worthless life!”

Senior apprentice-brother Wenjing kowtowed like a chicken bobbing for food. He actually thought that Long Chen was an acquired Divine Sovereign who was hiding his cultivation base.

“I have questions for you. Tell me the truth, or I’ll make sure you live a life worse than death!” Long Chen threatened.

“Senior, please ask! I swear to answer only with the truth!”

An hour later, his body hit the ground, his gaze still filled with resentment. He couldn’t understand why such a revered expert would still kill him after he had been so cooperative.

What he didn’t realize was that once they chose to pursue Long Chen, they had sealed their own fate.

Considering they would want to kill over such a trivial dispute, they were obviously worthless beings. Their characters were unchangeable.

Even if Long Chen chose not to kill him, he would only be temporarily “reformed” before returning to his previous ways. When dealing with someone like that, no matter how much they begged, Long Chen was unmoved. Choosing not to kill him would only harm innocent people.

After dealing with the body, Long Chen headed in the direction that senior apprentice-brother Wenjing had indicated. He said they had been ordered to head to the Sapphire Water Pool to collect the Ice Frost Blood Crystals.

Last time, the Zither Sect engaged in a fight with the Sapphire Water Ice Crystal Beast, leaving both sides injured. The battle left a scar at the bottom of the pool, which caused Ice Frost Blood Crystals to float to the surface. These disciples were responsible for collecting those crystals.

Those crystals contained terrifying ice energy. Once exposed on the surface, their ice energy would surge uncontrollably. Collecting them was rather challenging, as a single mistake could cause them injuries. Recently, the number of injuries had increased so much that more workers were recruited.

In truth, this work didn’t require any special skills. Thus, the subordinates of the Zither Sect were more than happy to send their disciples over to gather the crystals as a trial.

As a result, these arrogant fellows were sent over with no experience to speak of. They simply had to accomplish their mission. If they gathered more than the minimum number of crystals, they would be rewarded.

There were over thirty sects who had sent people here. All of them belonged to the Zither Sect. But each subordinate sect had sent only a few hundred people.

However, they didn’t know what these Ice Frost Blood Crystals were for. Clearly, these subordinates were just working for the Zither Sect and didn’t have any valuable information.

The only worthwhile thing Long Chen had learned was that the Zither Sect had dispatched at least one expert to oversee the work. But he didn’t know how many they had sent.

Long Chen soon arrived at the Sapphire Water Pool. This place was different from how senior apprentice-brother Wenjing had described it.

This was a giant basin surrounded by mountains, with a giant flame barrier covering it.

A flame barrier might as well not exist in front of Long Chen. With Huo Linger’s aid, he passed right through it.

Long Chen now saw the massive lake in the basin. From the sky, it was beautiful and calm. Despite being a lake, it was called a pool because it was incredibly deep. According to Old Fang, the Ice Frost Blood Crystals formed deep within it.

Beneath that was the Sapphire Water Ice Crystal Beast’s territory. Since it was injured, it had hidden deep in its lair. It wouldn’t show itself again in the next few thousand years.

Thus, this flame barrier was actually set up for the disciples as they gathered the crystals. He saw several people covered in frost using the barrier to drive away the cold.

Long Chen spread his senses and soon felt a powerful fluctuation.

“An acquired Divine Sovereign?”

Long Chen was slightly surprised. Wenjing had said there was an acquired Divine Sovereign here, which meant their goal was not simply to gather the Ice Frost Blood Crystals.

With Huo Linger’s protection, Long Chen moved along the barrier without anyone being the wiser. He then got close to that powerful fluctuation.

It wasn’t long before Long Chen saw three blurry figures in the sky.

One of them was an acquired Divine Sovereign, and the other two were half-step acquired Divine Sovereigns. They were all white-haired elders who had concealed their auras.

Long Chen immediately got close. After confirming that they hadn’t sensed him, he stayed still.

The disciples below were still hard at work. Occasionally, a scream would ring out, and someone would become an ice statue.

Someone would immediately bring the statue to the flame barrier to thaw it. As Long Chen watched, he shook his head. Did these disciples lack brains? The way they worked was incredibly clumsy.

This wasn’t even hard work. Yet, they repeatedly made the same mistakes instead of learning from them. In just a few hours, Long Chen saw three people make the identical mistake twice.

Finally, one of the half-step acquired Divine Sovereigns hidden in the void couldn’t help but speak up.

“What worthless fools. They should just kill themselves!”

Hearing this, Long Chen turned his attention toward them.

As expected, the other half-step acquired Divine Sovereign said, “Stupid people have their own uses. That fellow at the bottom won’t be able to endure for long if they keep gathering the Ice Frost Blood Crystals.”

At that time, the acquired Divine Sovereign coldly said, “Silence. Don’t disturb that crafty fellow. Patriarch Yiyang personally gave us this mission. If we fail, hmph, you understand!”

“Patriarch Yiyang?”

Hidden in the barrier, Long Chen was truly startled by this revelation.