Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts-Chapter 5741 News of Luo Ningshuang

“You fool, who told you to do this?!”

Luo Zichuan sat up, looking like an angry lion. Though his expression was harsh, his eyes betrayed a deep emotion.

Long Chen had used his own essence blood to replace his grandfather’s. While Luo Zichuan was immensely moved, he was also furious. Even though Long Chen was his own grandson, he couldn’t accept such a sacrifice.

“It was my dad’s idea,” said Long Chen without hesitation.

To the side, Long Zhantian’s expression twitched.

Luo Zichuan stood up abruptly, towering over Long Zhantian. His gaze turned icy.

Despite his strength and status, Long Zhantian suddenly seemed like a child caught in a mistake. He lowered his head, not daring to meet Luo Zichuan’s piercing eyes.

Even a warrior as powerful as him felt uneasy before his father-in-law.

“You two chat. A child like me shouldn’t interfere in a conversation between adults,” Long Chen said.

With that, he turned and ran off.

Any lingering guilt Long Zhantian felt about making Long Chen undergo that hellish training instantly vanished. This little brat truly had no loyalty.

With Long Chen gone, the atmosphere turned unbearably awkward. If he had stayed, he could have mediated the conversation, smoothing things over for his father. Now that he had fled, Long Zhantian was left alone to face Luo Zichuan’s wrath.

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Long Chen left that tense room to breathe in the fresh air of the outside world. The fresh air felt particularly sweet, clearing his light-headedness.

Seventy percent of his violet blood energy was gone. Initially, Long Chen had planned to use over ninety percent of it to replace Luo Zichuan’s essence blood. Fortunately, he didn’t need to. If anyone else did that, they would probably be permanently crippled. However, Long Chen was different. He had precise control over his violet blood energy.

Long Chen had already sealed a portion of his violet blood runes—his core runes. As long as they remained intact, any lost bloodline energy would regenerate with time and resources. Moreover, the purity of his violet blood wouldn’t be affected.

As for Luo Zichuan’s drop of original blood, it also contained his core runes. Some were innate, while others were ones he had cultivated later, including his techniques, magical arts, and divine abilities. If Long Chen hadn’t returned those runes, Luo Zichuan would have been forced to retrain all his skills from scratch.

Finding a secluded mountain, Long Chen sat down cross-legged and consumed a medicinal pill before closing his eyes. Slowly, the surrounding heaven and earth energy started to gather around him.

His priority now was recovering his Spiritual Strength. His violet blood energy would replenish quickly with the right resources, but Spiritual Strength was harder to restore.

An hour later, two figures appeared on a nearby mountain peak—Luo Zichuan and Long Zhantian.

Luo Zichuan gazed at Long Chen, watching as waves of energy fluctuated around him. Occasionally, subtle spiritual ripples would spread from his body.

Seeing this, Luo Zichuan sighed, “Both of you are pitiful children.”

After Long Chen had run off, Luo Zichuan questioned Long Zhantian about what had happened.

Long Zhantian obediently told him the full story—how he met Luo Ningshuang, how they fell in love, how they had Long Chen, and how they were betrayed and forced apart. Long Zhantian told him everything.

Luo Zichuan had remained silent throughout the entire recounting. Once it was over, he simply walked out, and Long Zhantian followed quietly.

Now, hearing Luo Zichuan’s words, Long Zhantian finally relaxed. It was a sign that Luo Zichuan no longer hated him.

“We are all slaves to fate. We can only run with all our might under the harsh whip of the Heavenly Daos,” sighed Long Zhantian.

If the two of them were pitiful children, what did that make Luo Zichuan? Long Zhantian looked at the older man’s back, noticing the strands of grey in his hair. A pang of emotion welled up inside him.

Luo Zichuan had done everything for the Luo family, putting his life on the line countless times to open a passage between worlds, leading his branch to safety and reconnecting with the violet blood race. At first, he thought the mission from his ancestors was complete, only to realize upon arriving that it had just begun.

He wasn’t afraid of any dangers or enemies. But in this place, he felt powerless. The disciples of his branch were vastly inferior to the heavenly geniuses of this land.

Luo Zichuan couldn’t be the only strong expert in his branch. He had to carve out a place for his people, ensuring they could live with dignity. That was his responsibility.

While he wasn’t afraid of death, he feared that once he was gone, his people would be left defenseless, bullied, and trampled underfoot.

Thinking of this, he felt the weight of his years. Sometimes, he wondered if he still had the strength to carry on.

But then, his gaze returned to Long Chen, and a smile of gratification spread on his face. Long Chen was the only young man he had ever approved of in his life. Best of all, he was his grandson.

“Were those Lifehunter bastards killed by you?” Luo Zichuan finally asked, his gaze shifting from Long Chen to Long Zhantian.

Long Zhantian nodded.

“On that day, I sensed someone watching, so I intentionally stayed around by myself for a while. Why didn’t you show yourself then?” asked Luo Zichuan.

“Before I heard some news from Ningshuang, I didn’t dare to show myself. I needed leverage first,” Long Zhantian admitted with a bitter smile.

“So you used your own son as a bargaining chip to find your wife?” Luo Zichuan asked, shaking his head in disapproval.

“There was no other way. I had to sacrifice something,” replied Long Zhantian.

“Aren’t you afraid of him hearing this?”

“Did you see how fast he ran off? With a son like that, I don’t have to stand on courtesy,” Long Zhantian said, still annoyed by Long Chen’s betrayal. How did his son dare to ditch him like that?

Luo Zichuan couldn’t help but smile. This father-and-son pair was truly amusing. He then thought of his own children and sighed.

Luo Zichuan had always been strict, never allowing himself to be casual with them. As a result, they deeply respected him, but they lacked the closeness that Long Chen and Long Zhantian shared.

The two of them talked like they were equals, while Luo Zichuan never acted casually with his children, resulting in his sons being very inflexible as well.

Perhaps that was why his branch lacked adaptability. He had raised them to be rigid, just like himself.

After a long silence, Luo Zichuan finally spoke. “Back then, in her search for you two, Ningshuang shuttled through countless worlds with her meager strength. By chance, she ran into another branch of the violet blood race. In that branch, she dedicated herself to cultivation, pushing her limits until she could shatter the barriers between the immortal and mortal realms. She broke through the Wall of Worlds and traced your origins back to your birth world.

“She eventually became the leader of that branch. Using all their power, she managed to gaze into the Martial Heaven Continent. But when she looked... all she found was nothingness.”

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Long Zhantian’s breath hitched. His voice trembled as he asked, “You... you know where she is?”