“It’s Lord Long Chen!”

The despairing experts in the city had thought that they were all going to die. But Long Chen returned to save them for a second time.

Long Chen threw the attacker's corpse into the primal chaos space without a second thought. After his bout of Dao comprehension, he no longer had any qualms towards the human race’s corpses.

Perhaps, in his eyes, the common concept of race no longer held any meaning at all. As long as they were enemies, they were all treated with the same mercilessness.

“Thank you, Lord Long Chen, for saving our lives again!” 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

The city lord led the city’s experts in bowing to Long Chen.

“Not bad. So many of you were able to grasp astral energy in this short time.” Long Chen nodded. A surprising number of people had successfully mastered the Starry River of the Sky Art in this short time. Most importantly, these people were able to unite their hearts and link their astral energy into a grand formation. That was truly beyond Long Chen’s expectations.

“This is all thanks to your cultivation technique, Lord Long Chen. It gave us a chance to survive!” said the city lord.

When Long Chen first gave them the Starry River of the Sky Art, only a portion of them gave up their old cultivation technique to train in it. But as a result, they were shocked to find that their cultivation speed was a thousand times greater than before! It only took them half a month to completely replace their original cultivation technique and increase their power severalfold.

As a result, the others also abandoned their cultivation techniques and started practicing the Starry River of the Sky Art.

Of course, no matter how good it was, people still needed to be cautious. If everyone switched at the same time, then during the time that they were training, there would be no one to protect the city. Thus, only a portion of people were allowed to practice it, and once they reached some measure of proficiency and could control astral energy, a second batch could proceed.

Now, over seventy thousand people had successfully mastered the Starry River of the Sky Art, while another sixty thousand were in the midst of switching techniques. And they were still just a minority; over a million people had attempted it so far!

The Starry River of the Sky Art could not be cultivated by just anyone. Some people were simply unable to sense astral energy, or perhaps their body or soul wasn’t a good match for astral energy. In that case, there was nothing to be done.

The fact that over seventy thousand of them had managed to use the Starry River of the Sky Art was evidence that Long Chen’s belief was correct: All of them had righteous hearts. When an enemy came, they went all-out to protect the others and buy them time to train in it as well. When there were no enemies, they sincerely helped others train in it, passing down their own insights.

Although the world had changed, their hearts hadn’t. That made Long Chen feel like he should spread the Starry River of the Sky Art even more.

“Why would the likes of you be targeted by a Forerunner?” asked Long Chen curiously.

The city lord grimaced. “It was our own bad luck. We encountered a real idiot...”

The city had already been attacked by several experts, as well as mutated lifeforms. However, thanks to the experts with astral energy, and thanks to focusing on defense, they had managed to hold their own.

Those experts and mutated lifeforms only unleashed a few attacks before deciding that Dragon Praise City’s defenses were too high to waste their time on. They almost immediately left every time.

In fact, a few days ago, there was a Divine Sovereign Forerunner who passed by. Perhaps they were just bored, but they let out a random attack their way. After failing to break their defenses, and with everyone immediately gathering to boost their defenses, the next few attacks also failed to rattle them. After hesitating for a few moments, that person also left.

However, when this fellow came and failed to break their defenses, it seemed that he was embarrassed and began to unleash a furious assault on them.

Dragon Praise City was no major faction. In fact, it was barely on the map. They were only able to survive thanks to an alliance with several other cities. There was nothing that man or anybody else could possibly want in the city. But the man was set on destroying Dragon Praise City just because of his ridiculous embarrassment.

The city lord was truly right to say that they had been unlucky. But the attacker had also been unlucky, and ended up losing his life here.

These new Divine Sovereign Forerunners all had important missions to carry out. Thus, his appearance in Dragon Praise City was purely a coincidence; he was just passing by. Had it been a normal person in his stead, they wouldn’t have wasted any time on the city.

“Lord Long Chen, is there anything you would like us to do for you?” asked the city lord. He was the city lord because he was respected by the others for his wits. He understood that Long Chen had to have a reason for coming to such an unremarkable place.

“Last time, I transmitted the Starry River of the Sky Art and the basic divine techniques. But now that I've taken a good look at you, I feel confident giving you some higher-level divine techniques!” said Long Chen.

The truth was that Long Chen felt a bit guilty, as he had his own motives for transmitting to them the Starry River of the Sky Art.

He hadn't been able to tell whether or not the Starry River of the Sky Art could still pick and choose who could use it in this new era. If he had immediately given them all the divine techniques and they ended in the hands of someone with ill intentions, who then started a massacre, then that calamity would have been his fault. However, seeing that everyone had retained their noble hearts, Long Chen was at ease.

Meanwhile, the disciples who had mastered the Starry River of the Sky Art clenched their fists excitedly. They were now several times stronger than before. They couldn’t even imagine how strong they would be with greater divine techniques.

Long Chen smiled at the woman at the front. He hadn’t misjudged her. This Yu Ying was truly very talented. Furthermore, the others respected her. It was thanks to her gathering everyone’s power that they had managed to hold off that Divine Sovereign Forerunner. Whether it was in terms of power or leadership, she was exemplary. She could definitely lead this city’s experts.

Yu Ying immediately stepped forward and bowed to Long Chen. He nodded and pressed a finger on her forehead. Starlight flashed, and astral energy poured into her mind.

This time, the inheritance transmission took half an incense stick’s worth of time. When it was complete, she was rather pale.

The amount of information this time was truly enormous. It did not just include divine techniques of the Starry River of the Sky Art, but also divine techniques of the nine star line.

These had been modified by Long Chen to fit the aspects of the Starry River of the Sky Art. This way, people who were not nine star heirs could also use them. Of course their effect would definitely be somewhat reduced, but if they were able to master them and perhaps modify them themselves, they should reach a similar level.

“I am ashamed...” Yu Ying shook her head with disappointment.

She knew that Long Chen had not transmitted to her everything he had, but she had already reached her limit. If he kept going, her mind would shatter.

“It’s fine. Look after this leaf. It can help you comprehend things. In addition, you should go slowly this time. These divine techniques become more complicated the further you go. Don’t end up injuring yourself training them. Once you grasp one, pass it to others. Some of these divine techniques stem from my nine star line. I was only able to come up with a theoretical framework that should work for you. You should work together to see if you can improve upon them.”

Hearing that these were divine techniques of the nine star line, Yu Ying and the others were too moved to speak.

The nine star line was said to be composed of the greatest warriors of the nine heavens and ten lands. Long Chen was teaching them the secrets of the nine star line?

They immediately swore inside that they would never betray his expectations.

Suddenly, they were interrupted by a loud shout.

“Ants, face your death!”

A ray of divine light whistled towards Dragon Praise City.