Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

en.” The woman bowed expectantly.

“Alright, then I’ll give you an evaluation.
I will use two words to describe your music just now.” Long Chen raised two fingers.
“Absolute trash.”

Everyone’s expressions changed, especially that woman’s.
She turned ashen out of rage, and she glared at Long Chen.

“Hahaha.
I’ve bitterly trained in the zither for eighteen years.
It’s my first time hearing someone evaluate my music as absolute trash.
Interesting,” she sneered.

“Without a master to guide you, you’d still be trash after training a hundred and eighty years.
This has nothing to do with how long you train; a snail can train for eighteen thousand years and it still wouldn’t be fast.

“The reason no one has evaluated your music as trash is because those people were just fawning over you, or perhaps you don’t let many people listen to your music.
All it proves is your own lack of experience.
As a master of music, you use the Music Dao to peer into the Heavenly Daos.
The goal is to combine the body and the Dao, to have the heart reach a natural realm, to have no faults, to have no impurities.

“But what about you? We don’t even know each other, but you followed someone else’s orders and used your Music Dao to target me.
Ask yourself, do you really feel no guilt? As a person, you’re trash, so how could you possibly play a divine song? Do you think others are as brainless as you?” sneered Long Chen.

The expressions of all the Grand Han’s experts changed.
This time, Long Chen’s words were direct and clearly cursing them.

“You…!” The woman’s expression also changed and she pointed at Long Chen.

“What you? Even you are in the habit of pointing at others when speaking? As expected, you’re all from the same place.

“But in order to convince you, now that I’m done speaking about your personal character, I’ll speak on your work.
The zither song you played is called the Divine Sealing Soul Calming Song, while the song you sang was the Supreme Senses Chapter of the Great Wasteland Western Scripture.
It recorded the comprehension left behind by a supreme existence before they ascended.
However, the scripture is damaged and too difficult to understand.
Only a thousandth of the original remains, and both the beginning and ending have been lost, making it so no one has been able to comprehend it.
Let alone you with your Foundation Forging cultivation base, even a Life Star expert is unable to comprehend the profundities within it.
The reason you sang that song was purely to show off.”

Long Chen’s words caused the people’s hearts to shake.
It seemed his previous evaluation hadn’t been deliberately insulting.
He had the facts to back it up.

Amongst these people, only a few had heard of the Great Wasteland Western Scripture, let alone the Supreme Senses Chapter within it.
But looking at the zither-playing girl’s shocked expression, they could tell his words were spot on.

Xia Youluo also jumped in shock.
Long Chen had clearly said that he didn’t know anything about music.
But then how was he able to say so much?

In truth, Long Chen really had no understanding of musical theory.
But the song this woman had played was something he was very familiar with.
That was because someone had once sent him a section of the Divine Sealing Soul Calming Song.

That person was someone he had encountered by chance in the Eastern Wasteland, Zi Yan.
That song had been extremely beneficial to the Dragonblood Legion back then, which was why he remembered each beat within it.

As for the Supreme Senses Chapter of the Great Wasteland Western Scripture, that was something he had seen in the Xuantian Dao Sect.
It was not a cultivation technique, nor was it a secret art.
Instead, it was an ancient text.

Back then, he had been given the approval of the Xuan Master to go through the Hidden Scripture Pavilion’s ancient texts.
He had flipped through them all.

It wasn’t because Long Chen was so studious, but because he had been hoping to find records pertaining to the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art.
Regretfully, he hadn’t found anything.
But due to his memory, he hadn’t forgotten the texts he had read.

It was precisely because he had read so many of those ancient texts that he had been able to swindle the Wine God Palace’s disciples of their wine.
Within the ancient texts had been many profound principles that were all difficult to understand.
They sounded simple, yet each word had multiple meanings, and the principles contained within them were sources of great enlightenment.

So Long Chen was familiar with the zither music and singing of this woman, which had given him his confidence.
So despite knowing this had been a trap, he had still jumped into it to slap his opponent’s face.

“I heard the Divine Sealing Soul Calming Song years ago.
The playing of that person was true divine ability.
It was able to draw people into an artistic realm.
She was thousands of times better than you.
Then as for your singing, your Sound Dao[2]- cough, ah, I mean your vocal range isn’t wide enough.
This kind of high difficulty scripture is out of your league.
Your playing was average, your singing was average, and you were unable to form any resonance between them, nor were you able to bring people into that kind of artistic realm.
Tell me, don’t you think your performance was absolute trash?” demanded Long Chen.

“Hmph, don’t try to act so above and aloof.
Who doesn’t know how to nitpick? If you have any ability, put on your own performance for us to see!” raged the infuriated woman.

Long Chen smiled slightly.
He had known she would say such a thing.
Fortunately, he had the photographic jade Zi Yan had sent him.
He was just about to show off a bit more and play it.
Although it wouldn’t be a personal performance, he had slapped his opponent’s face enough already.

“Which esteemed guest is gracing my Grand Xia City with their presence?”

Just as Long Chen was about to take out the photographic jade, a majestic voice resounded throughout all of Grand Xia City.
What shocked Long Chen was that this voice belonged to the Grand Xia’s emperor.

[1] This is an expression that doesn’t really translate.
Basically, the expression is that he ‘doesn’t understand one aperture’, which means he doesn’t understand anything.
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[2] Sound Dao sounds like vagina.