Chapter 32 (2/2)

“Long Chen, the Phoenix Cry Lantern Festival is a week from now . You definitely have to come out,” expectantly said s.h.i.+ Feng .

The Phoenix Cry Lantern Festival was the largest celebration of the empire . The entire capital’s unmarried population would partic.i.p.ate . It was extremely lively, and it was the festival that all the young people looked forward to the most .

Especially those unmarried men; each of them would be like a bull, determinedly waiting for a chance of attracting a woman’s attention .

As for the women, they also wanted to see if they find an acceptable man .

It was a bit controversial for men and women to be together, but during the one day of the Phoenix Cry Lantern Festival, all those taboos were lifted and men and women could party wildly as much as they wanted to .

Thus, many of them made preparations beforehand for this festival .

And the most fun part of it was the fight over the number one warrior in their generation . There would always be a martial stage during the festival . As long as you were a cultivator and were under twenty years old, anyone could go up .

The first place battle was the highlight . As long as you got that t.i.tle, it would no longer even be possible for you to be low-key . Countless women would sent flowers after you, enough to bury you even . Just thinking about it set the men’s hearts on fire .

Even the calm s.h.i.+ Feng’s pa.s.sion was excited . And as expected, Fatty Yu and the others were all bursting with enthusiasm .

“Brother Long, you definitely have to come . If you don’t go then we won’t want to go either,” begged Fatty Yu .

“Then how about none of us go and we’ll find somewhere to get a drink instead,” laughed Long Chen .

“Nooo, master Long, we’ve been waiting for this for a year!!” Fatty Yu and the others immediately acted sullen . Some of them got on their knees and hugged Long Chen’s legs, not letting go until he agreed .

“Long Chen, if you don’t go then it will be too boring . In the capital, you are the most famous of our generation! You’re viewed as number one, and if you don’t go then it will cause countless people disappointment,” persuaded s.h.i.+ Feng .

“Hm? When did I get such a big name?” Long Chen was startled .

“You didn’t know? Even the little kids know about it . Dual martial pill cultivation that shakes heaven and earth, the Heroic a.s.sembly House’s angry G.o.d, the one who spread his wings and flew out of the Phoenix Cry Empire, the one who laughs arrogantly at the Nine Firmaments, Long Chen . ” s.h.i.+ Feng looked at Long Chen strangely .

“…”

What kind of situation is this? How did I not know? There are poems about me? Long Chen was struck foolishly silent .

“Okay, brother Long, all your brothers are hoping to enjoy the festivities with you . But whatever you say is what we’ll do . ”

s.h.i.+ Feng wasn’t the same as the others . He had considered Long Chen his brother from the start, so he didn’t need to have as many misgivings as the others .

“Ugh, I’ll go . ” Long Chen smiled bitterly; we had originally been planning on training for an extra day .

Fatty Yu and the others all cheered at that . It was as if they were seeing a scene of countless beautiful women before them .

After splitting ways with the others, Long Chen quickly rushed home . He didn’t even eat dinner; the time he was wasting was too great . He had to urgently increase his cultivation base .

The FengFu Star had already been perfectly condensed . He now had gained a Dantian, and he wanted to quickly condense more cyclones .

There were currently only three cyclones in his Dantian . He wanted to continue forming them, but there was no mention on how to do so within the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art in his memories . There was only how to condense the nine Stars .

Back when the FengFu Star had condensed, three of the cyclones had appeared all at once . Even Long Chen didn’t know how it had happened .

Now Long Chen found that when he circulated his Dantian, the three cyclones would also revolve with it . This method was only for continuously sending energy throughout him for battle, and wasn’t for cultivating .

Drawing some of the FengFu Star’s spiritual energy out to the cyclones, they immediately grew ten times the size and Long Chen’s breathing became rushed in antic.i.p.ation . But this was also for battle and not how to cultivate them .

Long Chen took a deep breath, and hesitating for a moment, he slowly circulated his qi to absorb the outside world’s spiritual qi .

But this time he didn’t send it throughout his body, but condensed them into his FengFu Star .

Following Long Chen’s absorption of heaven and earth’s spiritual qi, the FengFu Star started to quickly circulate .

“This is the way!”

Long Chen was elated; although he didn’t know exactly what was happening, this definitely seemed to be more for cultivating and less for battle .

Doing his best to continue absorbing, the FengFu star gradually became brighter under the continuous absorption . In the end it appeared like a blazing sun .

BOOM!

The FengFu Star shook, and it immediately became more dimmer . At the same time, another cyclone appeared within Long Chen’s Dantian .

“Haha, I’ve finally found the way to continue cultivating . ”

Along with the fourth cyclone’s formation, Long Chen found that the meridians within his body had also expanded a bit and his whole body’s energy was surging .

“Good, let’s continue . ”

Long Chen slowly closed his eyes and began to attack the fifth Heavenstage .

Footnotes:

I originally translated Hua Yun as n.o.ble Cloud, which is a somewhat accurate translation . However I think it's better to translate it simply as Hua Yun because 'n.o.ble Cloud' is not actually what the name 'means' . Hua Yun is merely a name with no meaning . So if you see me post a chapter that has n.o.ble Cloud in it, be aware that it should be Hua Yun and that it is an oversight on my part .

Just as a note, I missed a footnote in chapter 27 (because the footnotes don't copy and paste from google docs) .

“Enter LiYao, merge into HuiMing… rush into QuChi, join LaoGong?”

These are all acupuncture points . Some of them I weren't able to find, but the ones I could were acupuncture points found in the arm . These acupuncture points are not as important/well known as the FengFu point (back of neck) or the YongQuan point (bottom of foot) . I really didn't see a point in translating them into English since their names have no meaning .