Lu Xuan stood in the void, his gaze extremely cold and stern, silently watching that wisp of white light gradually disappear into the distance.
After a moment, a hint of gravity appeared on Lu Xuan’s face, but he did not choose to pursue.
“That woman’s face…”
“Who exactly is she?”
Lu Xuan murmured softly, the purple fire in his eyes flickering slightly as he pondered the woman’s origins.
However, since she had appeared to rescue these two demons of the Pure World White Lotus Cult, then, barring any surprises.
She was most likely one of the demons of the Pure World White Lotus Cult.
“What a terrifying power!”
Even with Lu Xuan’s current strength, he had to admit that the opponent’s power was unfathomable.
The opponent was able to retreat unscathed under his Fen Tian Blade Technique, and even carry away one of the Pure World White Lotus Cult’s demons.
“In this world, if there is anyone who can break through my Fen Tian Blade Technique, it would only be an supreme powerhouse at the Dong Xu True Lord realm.”
Lu Xuan thought to himself.
His Fen Tian Purple Flame, although capable of easily killing martial artists below the Dong Xu True Lord realm, still seemed insignificant before the true power of heaven-and-earth laws.
Only an supreme existence like a Dong Xu True Lord, who could manipulate the power of heaven-and-earth laws, could use that power to ignore his Fen Tian Purple Flame.
“It seems the Pure World White Lotus Cult’s strength is deeper than I imagined…”
Lu Xuan whispered softly to himself, a flicker of caution passing through his eyes.
He had always thought that the demons of the Pure World White Lotus Cult were nothing but a bunch of clowns, rats that couldn’t make it onto the stage.
Unexpectedly, within the Pure World White Lotus Cult, there existed a suspected Dong Xu realm supreme powerhouse!
Regarding a Dong Xu realm supreme existence, Lu Xuan did not rashly pursue, but chose to remain where he was.
After all, when facing an enemy who might be a Dong Xu True Lord, caution was the best policy.
Otherwise, he might end up capsizing in a ditch, and that would be a loss not worth suffering.
Lu Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly. He flicked his sleeve and rose, his right hand’s five fingers suddenly clawing toward the direction where the White Bone had perished, a wisp of purple light appearing in his palm.
“Whoosh—!”
In the distant void, a black afterimage was pulled by an invisible force, rapidly streaking across the sky, flying straight toward Lu Xuan.
The black afterimage was extremely fast, falling into Lu Xuan’s hand almost in the blink of an eye.
When the purple glow in Lu Xuan’s palm dispersed, the true form of that black afterimage was finally revealed—it was the ritual artifact carried by the White Bone Crone.
The Bone-Devouring Rod!
The Bone-Devouring Rod was entirely black, shaped like a ferocious bone spike, its surface covered in flawless heaven-and-earth patterns, faintly emitting a mysterious aura.
Holding it in his hand, Lu Xuan could faintly sense the vast heaven-and-earth origin power contained within. Clearly, this was an extremely extraordinary ritual artifact.
“What a pity. The other demon from the Pure World White Lotus Cult still got away.”
Lu Xuan whispered to himself, his tone carrying a hint of regret, and more so, heartache.
If he could have kept Bai Shen as well, he might have obtained another moon-grade ritual artifact.
Whether the person ran or not didn’t matter, but you should have left the ritual artifact behind—that’s my system points!
Of course, it would be best to remove the master-recognition brand from the ritual artifact.
Oh well!
If they ran, they ran.
Being able to obtain this Bone-Devouring Rod could be considered a worthwhile trip.
“The ritual artifacts in these two’s hands are definitely both moon-grade ritual artifacts.” Lu Xuan estimated inwardly.
These demons of the Pure World White Lotus Cult were all primordial spirit true persons at the divine palace realm’s great accomplishment.
But relying on the heaven-and-earth origin power of these two ritual artifacts, the power they unleashed was directly approaching the divine palace realm’s perfection!
“The Pure World White Lotus Cult… truly not to be underestimated.”
Lu Xuan’s gaze was deep, and his vigilance toward the Pure World White Lotus Cult deepened further.
Lu Xuan gripped the Bone-Devouring Rod tightly with his right hand, pouring his divine sense and primordial spirit power into it.
Host: Lu Xuan
Realm: Divine Palace True Person (????)
Techniques: Fen Tian Blade Technique 7/9, Close at Hand 3/9, Undying and Imperishable 6/9
Points: 14660
Heaven-and-earth origin power detected. Extract?
Very good!
It seemed that the master-recognition brand belonging to that demon within this ritual artifact had disappeared!
“So it’s a seven-patterned ritual artifact?”
As Lu Xuan’s divine sense and primordial spirit power poured into the ritual artifact, he learned its grade.
Now was not the time to refine the ritual artifact!
With a flash of dark light, the Bone-Devouring Rod in Lu Xuan’s hand vanished in an instant, clearly absorbed into the Void Floating Realm.
After casually scanning his surroundings, Lu Xuan’s aura slightly stirred, his robes fluttering loudly. He raised his foot once more and stepped forward fiercely.
Immediately, Lu Xuan seemed to merge into heaven and earth, instantly stepping into that boundless void, leaving behind only a fleeting flash of light and shadow.
At the same time, deep at the bottom of the Jin Lin River.
Zi Yao’s body passed through layer upon layer of river water, reaching ten thousand zhang above the Jin Lin River.
Her figure was extremely swift, as if the endless river water around her was nothing but empty air to her.
Only when she was merely a few thousand meters from the river bottom did Zi Yao’s body flicker with a gentle purple glow.
She forcefully opened up a vacuum zone several meters long, isolating the surging river water outside.
Her purple flowing-light long dress danced in the wind, like a water fairy, elegant and light.
No matter how the million-jun river water pressed in from all directions.
Yet this terrifying river water pressure could not shake her in the slightest.
Zi Yao’s gaze was calm, purple light flowing in her eyes, her line of sight cast toward the distant darkness.
The corners of her pale pink lips slightly upturned, a cold, merciless killing intent flashing through her beautiful eyes.
“Hmph!”
“A mere demon beast at the demon king perfection stage dares to sneak into the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty from the Western Region’s extreme lands. Truly reckless!”
These words were cold and majestic, exploding at the river bottom, as if carrying endless pressure.
Before the words finished, the purple light in Zi Yao’s eyes suddenly surged. Her jade-white hand lightly raised, fiercely slapping toward the direction of her gaze.
“BOOM—!”
A terrifying water column torrent appeared out of thin air!
Immediately, this enormous water column torrent transformed into a thousand-zhang water dragon.
This thousand-zhang water dragon, carrying an unstoppable momentum, boldly broke through the layers of river water binding it, flying straight into the distance.
The thousand-zhang water dragon was vividly lifelike, scales and claws distinct, as if a true divine dragon had descended into the world, awe-inspiring.
Several thousand meters away, the Green King, who had transformed into a human form, was hiding in the darkness.
Its pair of golden vertical pupils revealed traces of predatory ferocity, watching Zi Yao with predatory intent.
The Green King planned to secretly ambush this mysterious woman!
However, when it saw that thousand-zhang water dragon devouring toward it, its ugly, withered old face instantly tensed.
“What!”
“This damned human actually discovered me!”
The Green King was horrified beyond measure, wanting to dodge, but it found that its entire body was firmly locked in place by a mysterious force, unable to move.
It could only watch helplessly as that terrifying water dragon approached, the terrifying aura of death lingering in its heart.
Just at the critical moment, a calm voice suddenly rang out:
“Director!”
“Please wait!”
“Director!”
“There’s no need for you to personally deal with such a small demon beast. Just leave it to this subordinate.”
When Zi Yao heard this familiar voice, her beautiful eyes focused, crystalline purple glow flowing in the depths of her pupils.
Her jade hand, smooth as congealed cream, lightly brushed. Her purple flowing-light long sleeves danced in the wind.
A wisp of faint, brilliant purple glow floated out from the river water, like a light gauze, gently brushing over that thousand-zhang water dragon.
In an instant, the unstoppable power of the thousand-zhang water dragon suddenly halted, as if time had stopped.
Immediately after, that thousand-zhang water dragon disintegrated at extreme speed, gradually dissipating in the water.
The surging, turbulent water flow instantly turned back into ordinary river water, merging into the vast river, as if it had never appeared.
At the moment Zi Yao’s power dissipated, several hundred meters behind the Green King, ripples suddenly appeared in the river water.
A purple light flashed, and Lu Xuan’s figure suddenly appeared.
His expression was cold and stern, his gaze like lightning. Without the slightest delay, his right hand quickly reached forward.
“BOOM—!”
Lu Xuan’s divine sense and primordial spirit power swarmed in, instantly condensing into an enormous water-flow palm, like the hand of a deity, mercilessly enveloping the Green King.
That giant water-flow hand contained terrifying pressure, as if even heaven and earth were within its grasp.
Before the Green King could react, it was completely wrapped up by Lu Xuan’s controlled water-flow giant hand.
The water-flow giant hand suddenly clenched, producing a deafening roar.
“Burst—!”
A terrifying shockwave swept out centered on the Green King, instantly pushing aside the surrounding river water, forming an enormous vacuum zone.
The river water rolled back, air waves surged, as if even the intangible space was distorted by this strike.
The Green King’s figure struggled within that water-flow giant hand, but to no avail.
Its golden vertical pupils were full of terror and despair, a low hiss emitting from its mouth: “No—!”
However, Lu Xuan had no intention of showing mercy!
A demon beast is a demon beast!
When these demon beasts devoured humans, they would not feel the slightest guilt.
Lu Xuan’s gaze was icy. His right hand suddenly clenched, and the water-flow giant hand abruptly contracted, completely crushing the Green King!
“Rumble!”
In an instant, an extremely eerie cyan blood mist spread through the water.
At the same time, accompanied by a large amount of flesh and blood fragments, and scales flickering with eerie cyan light, floating in all directions under the powerful water flow.
The place where the thousand-zhang green snake’s corpse was located seemed to have been dyed entirely cyan, appearing especially sinister.
However, within this bloody, terrifying water flow, a faint cyan glow quietly projected out from between the flesh, blood, and scales.
That cyan light was cold and strange, like some kind of ice-cold ghostly thing.
Lu Xuan’s brow slightly raised, his gaze locking onto the source of that cyan light.
He saw a round cyan bead quietly suspended in the water.
The cyan bead was about the size of a palm, its surface flowing with peculiar cyan light patterns.
“This is… a demon king’s demon core?”
Lu Xuan whispered to himself, a flicker of a smile passing through his eyes.
Host: Lu Xuan
Realm: Divine Palace True Person (????)
Techniques: Fen Tian Blade Technique 7/9, Close at Hand 3/9, Undying and Imperishable 6/9
Points: 49660
An increase of 35,000 system points!
Killing a demon king perfection stage demon beast yielded more system points than a top-grade heaven-and-earth spirit treasure by 5,000 system points!
The reason he had just stopped the Director from acting was for the demon core within this demon king perfection stage green snake.
Otherwise, with the terrifying attack from the Director just now!
Never mind the green snake—even Lu Xuan had felt an unprecedented sense of danger.
Even Lu Xuan, whose physical body could be called undying and imperishable, had felt fear toward that strike.
Then this green snake demon beast, needless to say, would inevitably have been crushed into fine powder.
The kind of result where not even a hair would remain. As for the demon core, it would certainly have vanished along with it.
Although the green snake had no hair, it still proved the terrifying nature of Director Zi Yao’s strike.
What a woman who doesn’t understand worldly matters.
Lu Xuan thought inwardly. She didn’t even care about things like a demon king perfection stage demon core.
It seemed this Director was, like that Empress in the imperial palace, someone who didn’t lack money!
Lu Xuan reached out and grabbed. The Green King’s demon core quickly flew into his palm.
The Green King’s demon core was cold to the touch, yet faintly emitted a vast heaven-and-earth spiritual power.
“I didn’t expect this Green King to be able to condense such a pure demon core.”
“It seems the demon beasts of the Western Region’s extreme lands are truly extraordinary.”
While holding the Green King’s demon core, Lu Xuan also set his sights on the Western Region’s extreme lands.
It was said that the demon beasts there all hid within the Myriad Beast Mountain, and could be described as endless.
It was just a pity that there was a seal outside the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty, and Lu Xuan didn’t know if he could get out.
Just as Lu Xuan was scheming about the Western Region’s extreme lands, an undisguised gaze fell directly upon him.
Lu Xuan suddenly came back to his senses.
Mm, it seemed he had almost forgotten about this one!
He looked up and saw Zi Yao in the distance, quietly standing in the water.
Her purple flowing-light long dress danced elegantly, her gaze calm yet carrying a hint of scrutiny. She was watching him.
Lu Xuan unhurriedly clasped his hands together, acting as if nothing had happened, and lightly bowed toward Zi Yao’s direction.
“Director!”
“This demon beast has already been dealt with by this subordinate, so this subordinate will not disturb you any further.”
After saying this, without waiting for Zi Yao’s response, Lu Xuan’s figure flashed, transforming into a purple streak of light, instantly disappearing from the spot.
Lu Xuan’s movements were crisp and decisive, as if afraid to stay even a moment longer.
Of course, Lu Xuan hadn’t gone far—he stopped just five li away.
He was still thinking about that Netherworld Python!
Moreover, he was very curious to witness the battle between two suspected Dong Xu realm existences.
That’s right, Lu Xuan had already guessed it.
This Xuan Niao Guard Director Zi Yao in front of him, and the Netherworld Python at the river bottom, were supreme existences at the Dong Xu realm!
In the distance, Zi Yao watched the direction Lu Xuan had disappeared, her cherry lips slightly parting as she whispered to herself.
“This Lu Xuan is truly a monstrous talent!”
“The speed at which his strength improves is so fast that even I feel somewhat afraid!”
“It seems that before long, the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty will produce another Dong Xu realm True Lord supreme powerhouse.”
