“How dare you!”
Before Chen Luomeng could even react, Lin Yu was already seething with rage. A lightning-fast, transparent arc of stellar essence tore across the ground, hurtling toward Lu Xuan.
But, incredibly, the person sent flying was Chen Luomeng.
A pitch-black stellar essence shield had enveloped her, blocking Lin Yu’s furious strike.
As for Lu Xuan himself, he had already vanished without a trace.
Seeing her life-preserving force triggered by Lin Yu’s attack, Chen Luomeng’s face turned ashen.
That was the stellar essence power that Prince An himself had left within her body, and it had been set off by that old bastard Lin Yu, just like that! This damn old man didn’t care if I lived or died, just launching an attack like that!
Lin Yu, however, paid no attention to Chen Luomeng’s feelings. He extended his perception as an Exterior Grandmaster, trying to track down Lu Xuan’s whereabouts.
He disappeared?
That fast!
At the same time, a flicker of caution arose in Lin Yu’s heart—a wariness toward Lu Xuan.
This Lu Xuan, though he looked very young, had completely exceeded his expectations.
If he wasn’t dealt with soon, he would definitely become a grave threat to His Highness the Prince!
Suddenly, a massive purple hand formed from stellar essence appeared in the sky. With the force of a thunderbolt, it slammed down toward Lin Yu and the others.
“This aura!”
Before Lin Yu could even register his shock, he reached back and grabbed the bronze blade strapped to his back.
Panic-stricken, Lin Yu frantically poured his stellar essence into the bronze sword.
The blade, which had been dull and lifeless, suddenly erupted with a profound, azure light.
A heart-stopping arc of azure flame slashed through the void, soaring into the heavens as if it intended to split the boundless sky in two!
“Oh?”
From a distance, Lu Xuan’s eyes lit up with a flicker of excitement upon seeing that azure flame blade light.
No one could understand that azure flame blade light better than Lu Xuan.
The Source of Heaven and Earth!
That bronze blade was a sacrificial vessel!
BOOM!
In the sky, when that azure flame blade light collided with the massive purple stellar essence hand, even the void itself seemed to tremble.
In an instant, an unprecedented ripple of purple and azure flames erupted between them.
The dazzling light of the purple and azure flames illuminated the entire sky, as if the horizon had been set ablaze by a monstrous fire, radiating a terrifying, oppressive heat.
However, after just a moment, the light of the azure flame blade began to dim.
Meanwhile, the massive purple stellar essence hand remained as towering as a mountain. Within its palm, vast stellar essence swirled with immense power, as if it were about to suppress this very realm of heaven and earth.
With the speed of a lightning strike, the massive purple hand abruptly extinguished the azure flame blade light.
Without the slightest pause, the purple stellar essence hand roared toward Lin Yu and his group.
Lin Yu and the others felt the sky above them darken, as if the hand itself had blotted out the heavens.
“How is this possible!”
Lin Yu’s eyes were filled with terror. He simply couldn’t comprehend it.
This Lu Xuan’s strength was simply not on the same level as theirs.
After all, the Wind-Fire Blade he wielded was no ordinary weapon.
It was a Tier 2, Chen-grade Sacrificial Vessel!
Armed with a Tier 2, Chen-grade Sacrificial Vessel, he could exert power comparable to a master-level Exterior Grandmaster.
Yet, his full-force strike had been so pathetically weak against Lu Xuan.
Even His Highness, the Prince, had never made him feel such despair.
Perfect Exterior Grandmaster?
Or perhaps… a Divine Mansion… True Person?
As the massive purple stellar essence hand closed in on Lin Yu and the others, it radiated surging, scorching heat.
Then, without giving Lin Yu and his group any chance to react, the hand pressed down mercilessly.
“Damn it! Die, you bastard!”
Lin Yu’s eyes blazed with unwillingness. He poured every last drop of his stellar essence into the Wind-Fire Blade without reservation.
A blade light of azure flame, stronger than his previous strike, streaked through the void toward the massive purple hand.
The two clashed once more, creating a scene where purple and azure flames intertwined.
A powerful shockwave swept outward, and the guards beside Lin Yu were hit hard, their bodies flung far into the distance.
Lin Yu himself was also struck by the backlash of that immense force. His face turned deathly pale, a trickle of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and he was forced dozens of steps backward.
But before Lin Yu could steady himself and catch his breath—
A streak of purple stellar essence suddenly tore across the sky, dazzling like a bolt of lightning from the Ninth Heaven, aimed straight for Lin Yu’s face.
Amidst his terror, a flash of unwillingness crossed Lin Yu’s eyes. He really wanted to curse his luck!
Of course, Lin Yu never got the chance to utter those curses.
After all, the dead certainly can’t speak.
The purple stellar essence pierced directly through Lin Yu’s body.
Instantly, his physical form was consumed by the terrifying stellar essence.
Clang!
A crisp sound of bronze rang out.
The bronze blade in Lin Yu’s hand fell lightly to the ground.
Lu Xuan cast a cold glance at it, then reached out with his right hand, grasping the air.
The bronze blade moved without any wind, flying toward Lu Xuan at extreme speed.
Once he held the sacrificial vessel, Lu Xuan unhesitatingly channeled his stellar essence into it.
In moments, Lu Xuan had fully absorbed the information about the bronze blade.
“Excellent, it’s a Tier 2, Chen-grade Sacrificial Vessel!”
Host: Lu Xuan
Realm: Exterior Grandmaster (Perfection)
Cultivation Methods: Sky-Scorching Blade Technique 1/9, Flowing Light Footwork 7/9, Immortal and Indestructible 0/9
Points: 0
Detected the Source of Heaven and Earth. Extract?
“Is it a blade?”
Lu Xuan glanced at the sword. After a moment’s thought, he abandoned the idea of refining it into system points.
Because, Lu Xuan precisely lacked a good blade like this!
The Black Profound Blade from the Black Bird Guard could barely withstand Lu Xuan’s Sky-Scorching Blade Technique anymore.
This blade was a Tier 2, Chen-grade Sacrificial Vessel, perfect to serve as a replacement for the Black Profound Blade.
The power of a sacrificial vessel, combined with his own Sky-Scorching Blade Technique… the terrifying result might just rival that of a legendary Divine Mansion True Person.
“He’s dead?”
Chen Luomeng, who had been hiding far away, watched Lin Yu completely vanish from existence. Deep fear filled her heart.
Lin Yu, an early-stage Exterior Grandmaster, ranked among the top three strongest figures in Prince An’s residence.
But now, wielding the Wind-Fire Blade—a Tier 2, Chen-grade Sacrificial Vessel bestowed by the prince—Lin Yu had been utterly powerless to resist, dying like that at Lu Xuan’s hands.
“Lu Xuan, how dare you! You killed His Highness Prince An’s man. Are you trying to make an enemy of Prince An?”
With Lin Yu dead, Chen Luomeng could only rely on Prince An, Xia Mingqing’s, prestige to confront Lu Xuan.
“Hmph, I don’t care who you are, Envoy.”
“Anyone who dares to lay a hand on the Black Bird Guard will be executed without exception.”
“Oh, and pass a message to your Prince An. For all the losses the White Path Prefecture Black Bird Guard suffered today, he will answer to me!”
