The attack that Wolf Cub used in a moment of desperation could only be regarded as a serious flesh wound to Emperor Yuan. This kind of injury might seem terrifying, but as long as there were enough elixirs to nourish him, he could easily recover from it. But Long Chen was different.
Emperor Yuan's last palm directly hit his abdomen, or rather, his dantian. This palm did not cause the slightest damage to Long Chen's body, but the sharp Milky Way True Qi contained in the palm was like a sword, directly piercing into Long Chen's dim heavenly core.
Emperor Yuan wanted to directly pierce through Long Chen's heavenly core, making Long Chen lose all his true qi, thus becoming a cripple. From this, one could see how ruthless he was. He had never thought of killing Long Chen at all.
Wouldn't the Ninth Prince value Long Chen's talent? When Long Chen became a cripple, he would still want him.
Seeing Long Chen's miserable state and Xiao Lang's helplessness, Emperor Yuan, who already had time to heal himself, laughed crazily. As the strongest person in Yuan Emperor City, he had a lot of spirit herbs and treasures in his hands. The spirit fruit he was eating at this time was probably an Earth-grade medicine. Only Earth-grade medicine could rapidly recover the injuries of a Heavenly River Tier powerhouse.
To be honest, Long Chen was really panicking. He could only watch helplessly as the Heavenly River Qi pierced into his Heavenly Elixir. He could only watch helplessly as the formed Heavenly Elixir began to crumble. The Qi that he had painstakingly cultivated began to dissipate towards his limbs and bones. If this continued, he would definitely become a cripple in less than a quarter of an hour.
Emperor Yuan's savage laughter aroused endless anger in him.
"Old Ghost, you're actually so ruthless. I underestimated you and others. Now that my heavenly core is broken, my cultivation will be crippled sooner or later. What should I do?"
Xiao Lang was next to him. Sensing his condition, he was also extremely anxious. If it weren't for Long Chen, he would have already killed the already injured Emperor Yuan. Otherwise, when Emperor Yuan recovered, it would be very difficult to deal with him.
At this critical moment, Long Chen's mind suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
"From the Divine Core realm to the Heavenly River realm, I have to go through a process; shattering my Core into a river, opening up a galaxy in my body, and widening my star veins. Although my Late Heavenly Core realm isn't strong enough to break through to the Heavenly River realm, my advantage is that I have enough Heavenly River Pills. Furthermore, right now, this is the only way for me to preserve my strength."
Thinking up to this point, Long Chen's eyes lit up. He struggled to his feet, gritted his teeth, and said softly, "I want to take this chance to break through to the Heavenly River Tier. You go and restrain him."
Xiao Lang's eyes lit up as well. He immediately realized that this was the only way to solve the problem. After hearing Long Chen's order, without saying a word, he charged towards Emperor Yuan, who was healing his injuries.
After some delay, Emperor Yuan's injuries had recovered a little. At this moment, when he saw the Sun Devouring Demonic Wolf crazily attacking him, he secretly laughed. 'Seeing that there's no hope for Long Chen, you've gone crazy and want to deal with me? But, a beast will always be a beast. This is Yuan Ling City, my territory. What makes you think you can fight me?'
Although he thought so in his heart, Emperor Yuan absolutely didn't dare to be careless when facing the wolf cub. Emperor Yuan absolutely believed that as long as he was hit by the flame that the wolf cub spat out just now, he would definitely die.
In the Sun Devouring Demonic Wolf's memory, it had honed many combat techniques that were inferior to combat techniques. At this time, with the threat of the Nine Nether Demonic Ancestral Flame, it was able to fight Emperor Yuan to a draw. Long Chen took this opportunity to sit on the ground and began manipulating the shattered True Qi to open up a galaxy in his body.
Seeing Long Chen's appearance, Emperor Yuan immediately laughed, "What a naive guy. Breaking through to the Heavenly River Realm is an extremely dangerous and difficult task, and it requires 18 Heavenly River Pills. You've just stepped into the Heavenly Core Realm, what qualifications do you have to break through to the Heavenly River Realm?"
If Long Chen directly shattered his Heavenly Core, his True Qi would only drain faster.
However, this was his only hope. At this critical juncture, Long Chen calmed himself down, gritted his teeth, and increased the speed at which his Heavenly Core Nucleus shattered. Under his control, the Heavenly Core Nucleus suddenly shattered, and a huge amount of blood-red True Qi immediately erupted, rushing towards his limbs and bones. It flowed through his completely connected dragon veins, as well as the countless small meridians in his eight extraordinary meridians.
However, the True Qi of a Heavenly Core warrior was too much for Long Chen's current body. Countless tiny airflows were leaking out from his skin, eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, turning his entire body into a blood red color. He was covered in a blood red mist.
Long Chen felt really uncomfortable. He realized that if it wasn't for his third level Thunderflame Combat Physique, he might have already been destroyed by the huge amount of True Qi, and the danger of his Heavenly Core shattering into a river was right here.
"Next, I need to guide all the True Qi and gather all the tiny meridians together, forming 18 Star Veins. These 18 Star Veins are the embryonic form of a galaxy. Then, I'll absorb the energy of the stars and fuse it with my Dragon Soul True Qi, turning it into liquid form, then break through the Star Veins and form a galaxy in the middle of the Star Veins. That is the first level of the Heavenly River Realm."
There were 18 Star Veins in his body, and they corresponded to 18 Heavenly Rivers. Among the 18 Heavenly Rivers, nine appeared during the day, and nine appeared during the night. Each Yang Heavenly River and Yin Heavenly River formed a pair of Yin and Yang Heavenly Rivers. Only when the Yin and Yang Heavenly Rivers were formed could the first level of the Heavenly River Realm be considered complete.
Right now, it was daytime. If Long Chen could form a Heavenly River, it would be a Yang Heavenly River.
Right now, the raging blood red True Qi was raging within his body. While controlling the True Qi, Long Chen was sensing the energy of the Heavenly River. Because it was daytime, the Heavenly River wasn't easy to notice. However, Long Chen had already memorized the location of the first Heavenly River.
Dubhe Galaxy.
The name of the first Heavenly River was Dubhe. It was divided into Yin and Yang Heavenly Rivers, which extended parallel to each other in the sky without intersecting. At this moment, Long Chen was going to absorb the energy of the Dubhe Galaxy after creating a galaxy in his body. He would then fuse it with his Dragon Soul True Qi and form a Yang Heavenly River in the parallel Star Veins in his body.
The method to open up a starry sky in one's body was called "Star Gathering Art". After Long Chen obtained the Milky Way Pill, he knew that one day, he would reach the Milky Way Tier, so he found an opportunity to look at the Star Gathering Art. This thing wasn't rare, but there weren't many people who really needed it. With the Star Gathering Art, Long Chen could use the True Qi in his body to open up a starry sky in his body. The Star Gathering Art was very common, but using it required a very important thing, and that was the Milky Way Pill.
The creation of a total of 18 Star Veins required 18 Heavenly River Pills, and this was the standard for ordinary people. Long Chen had even heard that some genius martial artists with special physiques would use up to 100 Heavenly River Pills when creating a galaxy in their body. The Heavenly River Pill wasn't cheap. Ordinary people at the first level of the Heavenly River Tier would only have less than 10 Heavenly River Pills. The reason why Long Chen had more than 2,000 Heavenly River Pills was purely because he was lucky enough to obtain the inheritance of the Burning Sky Demon Emperor.
At this moment, Long Chen was using the Star Gathering Technique. What surprised him was that everything was developing very well. The only problem was that his True Qi had enough quality, but it was still lacking in quantity. He couldn't care less about the creation of 18 Star Veins at the same time.
With the help of the Star Gathering Technique, Long Chen had already planted seeds in his body. A total of 18 Star Vein seeds ran through his whole body. The process was very smooth. Next, he needed to take the Heavenly River Pill to create Star Veins from the Star Vein seeds.
When planting the Star Vein seeds, Long Chen sensed something. He was currently in the Dragon Soul Transformation, and all the characteristics related to the Divine Dragon were displayed. His current body was already somewhat different from ordinary people. Long Chen had a vague premonition that it would be difficult to create a galaxy in this dragon's body. In fact, it might even be very difficult.
"However, in order not to become useless, I'll do it."
At this thought, a cold light burst out of Long Chen's eyes. In his eyes, there was already a vague power of the stars.
Without hesitation, he took out 18 Heavenly River Pills and placed them on his palm. The Star Gathering Technique was ready, and Long Chen's True Qi had been directed to the Dubhe Star Vein seeds. Right at this moment, Long Chen took one of the Heavenly River Pills.
The energy of the Heavenly River Pill was a gentle energy that had been refined. Therefore, after taking the pill, Long Chen didn't feel any discomfort. Instead, he felt a cool and invisible energy that was filled with energy. It was like a liquid that penetrated into his body and merged with Long Chen's Dragon Soul True Qi.
"Let the creation begin!"
Using the power of the Heavenly River Pill and his true energy, with the Heavenly River Pill as the lead and his true energy as the attack, Long Chen started looking in the direction he had set and started opening his Star Meridian. Although the Dragon Soul True Energy from the Late Heavenly Core realm wasn't much, it was of great quality. Long Chen was delighted to see that opening his Star Meridian wasn't a difficult task.
But soon, he suffered. During the process of creating a Star Vein, he didn't consume much of his True Qi, but the Heavenly River Pill seemed to have encountered a strong resistance, and it was being consumed very quickly. In just a short period of time, the energy of the Heavenly River Pill had been completely consumed.
Theoretically, the energy of a Heavenly River Pill was enough to create a Star Vein, but Long Chen hadn't even opened a tenth of a Star Vein yet. Left with no other choice, he quickly took another Heavenly River Pill. Luckily, he had enough Heavenly River Pills, or else he would be in deep trouble.
If he was interrupted during the process of creating a Star Vein, his body would explode and he would die.
"This is a good thing, it means I have great talent."
With the support of the Heavenly River Pills, Long Chen quickly opened his Star Vein. When he finally opened his first Star Vein, he counted the number of Heavenly River Pills he had consumed. He had used up more than ten Heavenly River Pills, and only a few of them were left.
Could it be that I need to consume almost two hundred Heavenly River Pills to open eighteen Heavenly River Meridians? "
Long Chen felt really depressed about this.