“Hmm?”
Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow slightly, a flash of purple light gleaming in his eyes. It was clear he had also noticed something strange about the ground below.
But his expression remained as calm as still water, completely unruffled. In that instant, the Wind Fire Saber in his hand burst into blazing purple flames, rising fiercely.
The next moment, Lu Xuan stood silently in midair, not moving at all.
Yet his right arm had already lifted high, and then he gave a gentle wave toward the distant, ethereal projection of the elderly woman’s Primordial Spirit.
Wherever the Wind Fire Saber passed, space was set alight by the searing purple flames, sending waves of scorching heat rolling outward.
The purple flames on the blade seemed almost alive, roaring upward and lunging toward the old woman’s Primordial Spirit projection.
Seeing this, the old woman’s projection could only watch helplessly as the terrifying purple flames surged toward her. Finally, she let out an angry, unwilling cry.
“You brat, you’re asking for death!”
But this desperate, furious shout seemed weak and powerless against the overwhelming advance of the purple flames.
In the blink of an eye, the old woman’s Primordial Spirit projection was unable to resist any longer and was swallowed up by the rolling waves of purple fire.
After finishing all this, Lu Xuan had already made his way to the ground, standing right in front of the three White Lotus Nightmare Flowers.
The middle White Lotus Nightmare Flower, having devoured the old man’s flesh and blood, had quietly opened a small gap, like a deep, bottomless abyss.
Deep within the faintly visible stamens, a bloody, eerie light flickered, and space began to ripple with tiny disturbances, as if a mysterious void tunnel led to some unknown distance.
A wisp of wind, seemingly carrying something unknown, brushed gently across Lu Xuan’s cheek.
He wondered if these three White Lotus Nightmare Flowers, like the previous Sacred Seeds of Purifying White Lotus, could bring him a large number of system points.
If these three White Lotus Nightmare Flowers were allowed to absorb enough blood and flesh, would the system points gained be even greater?
No, how could I have such a terrible thought!
Suddenly!
Deep in Lu Xuan’s mind, a wisp of faint white mist appeared, racing toward the faint purple whirlpool at the very depths.
But the small purple figure, sitting cross-legged within his Divine Palace, suddenly opened its eyes.
Deep in its gaze swirled a bright, profound purple light, as if it were the purest existence between heaven and earth, capable of seeing through all illusions and falsehoods.
In that instant, two beams of purple light, condensed into solid form, shot out from the small purple figure’s eyes and instantly annihilated that unfamiliar wisp of white mist.
“Insolence!”
A voice, seemingly from beyond the heavens, profound and mysterious, suddenly thundered.
A majestic aura instantly spread out like surging waves, causing the very ground beneath Lu Xuan to tremble violently under that angry roar.
The voice seemed to carry the very authority of heaven and earth, each word like a great bell or an ancient drum, hurting one’s ears and making the soul itself tremble under this terrifying pressure.
And those two words came from Lu Xuan himself.
Under the influence of his divine sense within the Divine Palace, Lu Xuan suddenly snapped awake, his eyes shooting sharply to the left.
Under Lu Xuan’s purple-glowing eyes, a strange, eerie, transparent creature revealed itself.
This translucent, formless being was as clear as crystal all over, yet tinged with faint wisps of unreality. It had no trace of facial features at all.
Its smooth, flat face, outlined by Lu Xuan’s purple gaze, looked increasingly sinister and terrifying.
At that moment, it was clinging tightly to Lu Xuan’s shoulder, as if merged with his own body.
For a moment, even Lu Xuan, a Divine Palace Realm master, could hardly tell whether this ghostly thing was real or not.
A nightmare?
And there are several more!
Oh my!
In this world, there are even such ghostly things that can confuse a Divine Palace Realm master.
Even though it only confused Lu Xuan for less than a breath of time, that still proves just how eerily terrifying it was.
In an instant!
The air around Lu Xuan seemed to ignite, the temperature rising sharply.
Before Lu Xuan, a dazzling, raging purple flame burst forth, and in the blink of an eye, formed a massive purple flame barrier ten meters high.
This purple flame barrier looked like something from hell, with purple flames roaring and tumbling, their intense heat warping the surrounding space with a sizzling sound.
It seemed ready to incinerate anything that dared to approach, turning it to ashes.
Just now, several of those nightmare creatures had tried to break through this purple flame barrier, but in an instant, they were devoured by the terrifying flames and reduced to nothing.
These nightmares can actually潜入 into a person’s brain and draw out their most primitive desires!
No wonder those cult members of the Purifying White Lotus Sect have almost all come out in force to slaughter people here in Mingzhou.
Lu Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly. With a thought, his powerful divine sense surged out like a tidal wave.
The air around him seemed to tear under this immense mental force. Countless purple blades of light, gleaming with a cold, sharp chill, appeared out of thin air in the void.
Each purple blade seemed infused with Lu Xuan’s abundant divine sense, their sharpness fully exposed, flashing with a terrifying purple light.
Without any pause, the purple blades let out sharp whistles and shot like arrows from a bow toward the few remaining nightmares ahead.
Streaks of purple afterimages flashed through the void, space quaked, and those formless, intangible nightmares were completely erased, leaving not a single trace behind.
After casually cleaning up these nightmares, Lu Xuan felt another slight vibration in his mind.
He realized that the death of these nightmares, just like those strange demonic beasts and similar creatures, could also bring him system points.
However, Lu Xuan didn’t immediately check his system points. Instead, he looked at the White Lotus Nightmare Flower in the middle.
With just a small opening, eight nightmares had already escaped.
Inside this White Lotus Nightmare Flower, there must be a passage leading to some unknown void, and that place is exactly where these nightmare creatures exist.
A flash of light gleamed in Lu Xuan’s eyes. A wisp of purple energy flowed out from his body and shot straight toward the small opening in the White Lotus Nightmare Flower.
He wanted to see what that place, where those nightmare creatures existed, was actually like.
If he found a large number of nightmares, then this wisp of Lu Xuan’s divine sense would be enough to kill them.
As Lu Xuan’s divine sense slipped into the White Lotus Nightmare Flower, a slight ripple appeared in the space at the center of the stamen.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Xuan’s divine sense plunged in without any warning and then instantly disappeared.
The scenes in Lu Xuan’s mind changed rapidly. Before long, a vast, boundless, surging ocean suddenly burst into his awareness.
What is this?
Lu Xuan extended his divine sense into the distance and saw a man-made dock standing tall and majestic in the distance.
Lu Xuan’s divine sense pierced through the dock and probed deeper onto the land beyond.
Dimly, vaguely, a massive, imposing city emerged.
The city’s outline was faintly visible in the hazy mist. Its tall, continuous walls stretched like a winding, gigantic dragon.
At the very center of the city, pavilions and towers were arranged in good order. Their upturned eaves and bracketed arches shimmered with an ancient luster in the faint light, and occasional wisps of cooking smoke rose.
Then, like a thunderclap out of nowhere, a deafening, earth-shattering roar suddenly struck.
“How dare you!”
“Insolence!”
“Which fellow daoist is this!”
“How dare you release your divine sense within my Star Sea Sect!”
This roar carried a force like a tidal wave, instantly rushing forth like surging waters, completely dispersing and annihilating Lu Xuan’s external divine sense, leaving not a trace.
In that instant when Lu Xuan’s divine sense was destroyed, two figures suddenly appeared at the dock.
One of them wore a deep blue robe, his clothes fluttering fiercely in the wind. The blue color seemed like the deep, mysterious hue extracted from the abyss of the deep sea.
On the fabric of his blue satin robe, faint glimmers of light shimmered, as if embroidered with intricate and complex patterns, or perhaps attached with some kind of mysterious restriction.
The man stood tall and straight, his expression calm and imposing, with only the hard lines of his jaw visible.
The aura radiating from him was like the cold, sharp edge of ice in a bitter night, inspiring fear at first sight.
“How strange. Outside Thousand Seas City, why is there the divine sense of a fellow daoist at the Divine Palace Realm?”
The man murmured quietly to himself, seemingly speaking to the person beside him, but his eyes were fixed on the vast, boundless ocean in the distance.
“Could it be that sealed-off place?”
“Even that True Lord, with all his power, couldn’t do anything about that place.”
“What a pity.”
“Inside there is the grotto-heaven world left behind when a great power, suspected to be beyond the True Lord realm, fell.”
“If someone could refine that masterless grotto-heaven world, they might just be able to touch upon the mysteries beyond the True Lord realm.”
Thinking of this, the man’s eyes burned with fervor. Finally, he took one last deep look into the distance.
The “True Lord” the man mentioned was an unparalleled Void Refinement Realm cultivator, possessing vast, unfathomable, and terrifying power.
And this True Lord was also the lord of this massive city, a True Lord realm expert ruling over all lands within ten thousand miles.
A True Lord realm cultivator, even across the entire domain, stands at the very pinnacle of cultivation.
So, it goes without saying that this sealed place seems to involve power even beyond the Void Refinement Realm.
If this news ever got out, it would surely cause an uproar, with countless cultivators rushing to the Boundless Sea.
However, this earth-shattering secret was known only to the Divine Palace Realm cultivators within the city.
Of course, these Divine Palace Realm cultivators had all been warned by that True Lord city lord.
No matter who, if they dared to leak this news,
there would be only one consequence: death!
“What world is this?”
“An ocean?”
“And a city on land beside the ocean? Is this in another world?”
“Or is it somewhere outside the Great Xia Dynasty?”
“What tremendous power!”
Standing before the White Lotus Nightmare Flower, Lu Xuan’s eyes were full of deep surprise.
His divine sense had actually been shattered by a single roar from that person.
That must be another old monster at the Divine Palace Realm, a powerful being on the same level as that old woman’s remnant Primordial Spirit projection.
Oh well!
Since he couldn’t find those nightmares in time, Lu Xuan decided not to dwell on it. He needed to destroy these three White Lotus Nightmare Flowers as quickly as possible, to avoid any more unforeseen troubles.
As soon as this thought crossed his mind, Lu Xuan’s divine sense surged. A ball of blazing, brilliant purple flame ignited in the palm of his right hand out of thin air with a whoosh.
Then, Lu Xuan reached out his right hand, and the three blood-red White Lotus Nightmare Flowers were instantly devoured by the wave of purple flames.
Amid this raging purple fire, Lu Xuan even heard some strange sounds, like pleading shrieks, or the screams of human infants.
These White Lotus Nightmare Flowers were indeed quite creepy, actually capable of making sounds similar to a human’s.
Host: Lu Xuan
Realm: Divine Palace Realm (True Person)
Techniques: Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique 3/9, Instant Steps 0/9, Undying and Indestructible 2/9
Points: 72,960
Does the host confirm the consumption of 16,000 system points to deduce Undying and Indestructible?
Does the host confirm the consumption of 20,000 system points to deduce Instant Steps?
Does the host confirm the consumption of 60,000 system points to deduce the Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique?
??????
Lu Xuan’s expression suddenly froze when he saw his system points.
Am I seeing things?
System points increased by fifty thousand?
Those eight nightmares, plus these three White Lotus Nightmare Flowers, gave me fifty thousand system points!
Fifty thousand system points are already equivalent to one and a half top-grade heavenly and earthly treasures.
“Damn blood-eater!”
“He destroyed our holy sect’s Sacred Nightmare Flowers! Kill him!”
Just then, some people who had rushed out of the city saw this scene and, as if unafraid of death, drew their swords and sabers and charged toward Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan ignored them, letting them rush toward him until they all crashed into the surrounding purple flame barrier and were burned to ashes by the terrifying fire.
It’s not the right time to deduce the Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique yet. First, I need to deal with these cult members of the Purifying White Lotus Sect.
Besides, when Lu Xuan’s divine sense had swept across the entire Flying Crane Prefecture capital city earlier, he had discovered more than a dozen White Lotus Blood Infants and five White Lotus Blood Envoys, who were even stronger than the Blood Infants!
The purple light in Lu Xuan’s eyes flickered intensely, like mysterious stars twinkling in the deep night sky, containing the power to destroy heaven and earth.
In an instant, Lu Xuan’s eyes focused. The vast, boundless divine sense within his Divine Palace surged out like a furious tide in all directions.
In that moment, the sky above changed dramatically. Rolling clouds were stirred and torn by an invisible force.
Amid the churning sea of clouds, a giant purple face, dozens of feet wide, slowly condensed into form.
It was a face strikingly similar to Lu Xuan’s, like a deity descending upon the world. Its features were hard and deep, each wisp of purple energy seeming to engrave mysterious, profound celestial patterns.
The purple giant face’s eyes were like burning purple crystals, filled with a terrifying majesty and coldness, overlooking the earth.
It seemed as if it wanted to take in everything within Flying Crane Prefecture’s capital city at a single glance.
This earth-shattering phenomenon above the city naturally caught the attention of everyone inside.
Some of the city’s residents, who had been fleeing in panic, forgot to run at that moment, staring blankly at the sky above.
“What is that thing!”
“A god has descended upon the world?”
