NINE STAR HEGEMON BODY ARTS

"Who am I? I am Long Chen!"

"I look down on the heavens, the arrogant Nine Firmaments' peerless Pill Emperor- Long Chen? I am someone who is cheated by everyone, a spineless good-for-nothing incapable of cultivating- Long Chen?"

His mind was filled with confusion, and at the same time severe pains came from all over his body. Long Chen was unable to stop his mind's chaotic thoughts, and emitted a pained groan.

"Chen-er, you've finally awakened? Great, your mom was worried sick for you! If you want to brag about how good are then fine, but why did you have to go duel with those people?"

A kind and gentle voice sounded beside Long Chen's ear. The voice was full of happiness and comfort, but towards the end the voice seemed to become slightly choked with emotion.

Long Chen slowly opened his eyes and everything was just a blur. The blurred image gradually became clearer, and before his eyes appeared a woman's face.

The woman appeared to be around thirty, and her appearance was extremely beautiful. However in the corner of her eyes were some deep wrinkles that did not match up with her age.

Currently this woman was tearfully staring at Long Chen with eyes that were full of love and pampering, making Long Chen's heart feel a burst of warmth.

"Child, you scared your mom to death." As the woman spoke her eyes became even redder, and her tears streamed down.

"Mom?"

Long Chen looked at this familiar yet strange face, and doubtingly saying this word his face brought with it a trace of perplexion.

"Child, don't scare your mom, do you not even recognize your mom?" The woman's face immediately became panicked.

At this moment an elderly man appeared beside the woman, and examining Yao Chen he said, "Madam Long, Long Chen suffered a blow to the back of his head so it's possible he will need to rest a bit to recover his memories. Don't be too worried, just now I gave the young lord some medicine. The medicinal effects still haven't completely dissolved, so just let the young lord rest for a bit longer."

Madam Long looked worriedly at Long Chen. Reluctantly she nodded her head and she unwillingly followed the elderly man out of the room.

Long Chen heard the elderly man in the distance softly advising the woman, "Madam Long, the fact that young master Long managed to return with his life is already infinitely lucky, don't force it too much."

Madam Long tremblingly replied, "Respected Medicine Expert's meaning is that my son will…."

The elderly man who had been called Medicine Expert sighed, "The young lord's hindbrain received an acute shock. To tell the truth, being able to wake up is already extremely lucky, however the repercussions will definitely still be very severe. Losing his memory is quite possible in this situation…."

Long Chen gazed blankly at the ceiling above as he felt the severe pains throughout his body, especially in his hindbrain which was bursting with a swollen aching pain.

"Just what happened? I'm Long Chen, and so Madam Long is my flesh and blood mother. How could I feel such an unfamiliar feeling?

And all these confusing memories, where did they come from? It seems that I'm an arrogant exceedingly powerful person but at the same time I'm a commonly extorted bitter good-for-nothing?

Pill Emperor Long Chen? Useless person Long Chen? Which one is the real me? Am I the Pill Emperor's reincarnation, or am I a fusion of some trash with the Pill Emperor's spirit?"

Long Chen's mind was full of endless questions spinning about. Whatever, it doesn't matter. I am Long Chen. If I'm the Pill Emperor then whatever, the most important thing is that I'm still alive.

Even though I have two sets of memories that have mixed together, why do I have to go and try to fix this kind of insane problem; what I need to do now is let myself recover as quickly as possible.

Sensing his body's health from head to toe, he quickly located many fractures. Three broken ribs, one arm broken in two places, and most severe of all, his hindbrain was injured to the point where a large portion of his scalp had caved in. It was indeed a very fierce attack.

"Huh, although I have no way to condense Qi, but my spiritual strength appears to be extremely powerful. I can actually sense things within thirty meters of my body."

Long Chen was pleasantly surprised. According to his garbled memories, Spiritual Strength was extremely invaluable, especially for a Pill Master it was the most important thing.

Profit, profit! Whether he was the reincarnation of the Pill Emperor or just a mix containing the Pill Emperor, the present him he had definitely greatly profited.

The previous him had lived a whole lifetime, and now for the current him this allowed him to possess an exceptionally strong spirit, just what kind of awesomeness was this?

However when he carefully examined his body, his expression changed. "My Spiritual Root has been taken away. My stomach's Spirit Bone is also missing a piece that appears to be dug out. And my heart has a hole? Just who would be this ruthless and take my Spirit Root, Spirit Bone and Spirit Blood? No wonder I can't cultivate." Long Chen became incessantly furious.

The current him's Spiritual Strength was exceptionally strong, even to the point where just a quick glance allowed him to solve the mystery of why he had turned into a useless person.

The Spirit Root is located in the Dantian's Qi source; it was a cultivator's foundation. Without the Spirit Root there was no way to sense spiritual energy, let alone absorb it for cultivating.

Spirit Blood was something that people were born with, a trace of Xiantian blood[ii]. This was something that basically all people were born with, but the majority of cultivators didn't know about it is all.

The Spirit Bone was found in the pit of a person's stomach and slightly bulged out. Ordinary people wouldn't have a Spirit Bone, and even amongst cultivators, maybe only one in ten thousand might have it, which marked them as a genius.

However Long Chen's stomach's Spirit Bone's location was obviously missing a piece which had clear marks of being dug out by some person.

Long Chen's face became exceedingly unsightly. If his memories were not all mixed up how could he not remember just who would do this to his body?

Although these three things were precious, but once they left the person's body they wouldn't have any more use. If they wanted to harm why did they have to use such a severe method? Using this kind of method was practically causing him to live a life worse than death.

However anger only brought on more anger, and since he was already missing these three things, being angry did not have any use.

"You better not let me find out who did this, who dared."

Long Chen couldn't help but to gnash his teeth in anger. This was way too detrimental to him. With him possessing a Spirit Bone, even if he used his b.u.t.t to think he would still be an absolute genius.

But now some despicable b.a.s.t.a.r.d caused him to become a useless person who was incapable of cultivating, causing him to be humiliated and receive condescending looks.

Just when Long Chen was about to be unable to hold back his anger, the room's door was gently pushed open, and a thirteen or fourteen year old pretty maiden walked in. This was Long Chen's maid who was called Bao-er.

"Young lord, it's time to take some more medicine."

"Medicine? What medicine is in your hand?" Long Chen nose moved slightly as he asked.

"This is something the Madam paid an enormous price for before she could obtain it. It's a Tiger Bone Pill that can extremely rapidly heal the young lord's injuries." Bao-er replied.

After saying this she opened the elaborate small case in her hand, showing the medicinal pill inside. "It is said this medicinal pill came from Pill Master Yun Qi grandmaster. The medicinal strength is very strong. Young lord, let Bao-er help you."

Looking at the thing, Long Chen's face became a bit off. Even this kind plaything could be called a pill? Its shape was extremely uneven and seemed more like a meatball.

Even not talking about the shape, its color was completely black and there wasn't even a trace of l.u.s.tre. If it wasn't emitting a very faint medicinal aroma then Long Chen might even suspect it was a ball of sheep dung.

After staring at the thing in his hand for a quite a long time Long Chen finally sighed. Someone who had lost over eighty percent of the medicinal pill's properties could still be called a "grandmaster?" Long Chen bewilderedly wondered how somehow had actually created something that could enter such a soft and mushy state.

Pills could be divided into five grades: low grade, middle grade, high grade, top grade, and peerless grade. As for the pill in his hand it couldn't even count as one of the five grades. Long Chen suddenly understood that this was basically just a defective good. It was a trash pill. Normally Pill Masters would definitely not sell these kinds of medicinal pills since they couldn't afford to lose their customers. Normally they would be turned into medicinal liquids or just directly thrown out.

"Young lord, don't daydream. In order to obtain this precious pill the Madam already sold off her own precious jewellery. You should hurry and take it." Bao-er urged.

Long Chen couldn't help but to feel some pain in his heart. His impression was that his mother loved him very dearly to the point where it was like drowning in love and pampering. It reached the point where his mother would basically never refuse any of his requests.

For him, his mother had done everything. She had given birth to him while she was still young. She was born as a beautiful person, but now she was barely thirty something years and already had some wrinkles in the corner of her eyes. Seeing those deep wrinkles, Long Chen knew that for him she had already invested in too much.

Looking at the Yaowan[iii], although it was a defective good the medicinal ingredients were still not bad. Although over eighty percent of it was full of impurities, it wouldn't have any problems healing his injuries.

Taking the Yaowan Long Chen ordered Bao-er to not leak any news of him out, excluding his mother of course.

Although Bao-er didn't really understand, she still trusted Long Chen and obediently nodded.

After taking the medicine, although Long Chen had no way to use cultivation to absorb the medicinal strength, but by using his formidable Spiritual Strength he guided the medicinal strength to his wounds, and the speed of recovery was extremely fast.

The second day, Long Chen slowly opened his eyes and he had a smile plastered on his mouth as he exercised his muscles.

Excellent, although the Yaowan was pretty bad, the medicinal ingredients themselves were of a high quality. Other than my hindbrain, the majority of my injuries have already healed, and the amount of energy left is more than enough to heal the rest of my wounds.

He slowly walked towards the mirror, and saw a nothing out of the ordinary handsome youngster with eyebrows like swords and bright eyes. Long Chen took a deep breath, "From today onwards, I, Long Chen, will no longer be the previous Long Chen. I will rise above others."

Although his body was still slightly weak, walking was no longer a problem. Long Chen walked out of the room and saw that the sun had already rose up from the east.

After pondering deeply for an hour he called over Bao-er and gave her a list of medicinal ingredients for her to find.

However Bao-er's expression became a bit embarra.s.sed and Long Chen wondered what it was before momentarily realizing that the current Long family was extremely hard pressed for money, and Bao-er had no method to get a loan for money.

Otherwise his mother would not have had to sell off her own jewellery, as at the time it was part of her exceptionally precious dowry. The present Long family was already in an extremely dire strait.

Feeling around in his pocket, he found that he had around eighty silver coins. Although this wasn't a lot, but to buy these medicinal ingredients it was enough.

Bao-er worked diligently, and not even two hours later she had managed to buy the medicinal ingredients and return home. Long Chen immediately set about to dividing and measuring them into different portions before boiling them in a thick bowl.

Six hours later, a very thick medicinal liquid was releasing a medicinal aroma. When Long Chen saw the bowl with the cheap medicinal liquid, a smile appeared on his mouth.

"I, Long Chen, will rise above others, starting from this one bowl of medicinal liquid."

[i] 蛟龙 (Jiao Long) is the name of a legendary dragon with the ability to control rain and water.

[ii] Xiantian blood= Innate Heaven blood.