Chapter 495 - 488: Son of Celestial Venerable (First Update, Please Subscribe)
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The Pure Yang True Flame blazed forth, the platinum flames sweeping in, the runes upon them growing clearer, refining the Nascent Soul of Divine Wind True Monarch.
Sizzle sizzle!
Divine Wind True Monarch’s Nascent Soul was engulfed in flames, emitting cries of agony.
Lu Xuanji urged on the Pure Yang True Flame, continuing the refining.
Divine Wind True Monarch sensed danger, immediately activating a spell, causing an Immortal Divine Ring to emerge around the Nascent Soul, resisting the burning of the Pure Yang True Flame.
Sizzle sizzle!
A loud noise ensued as the two forces counteracted each other.
Lu Xuanji intensified the blaze, continuing to burn, yet the platinum flames, though ongoing, made it difficult to achieve a larger breakthrough momentarily, leading to a stalemate.
"Troublesome, somewhat troublesome!"
Lu Xuanji frowned slightly.
When cultivators reach the Nascent Soul Realm, they condense a Nascent Soul within their body, which is the fundamental core.
The Nascent Soul contains [Immortal Qi], the higher the realm, the stronger the cultivation, the more copious the Immortal Qi.
The Nascent Soul is difficult to kill because it is protected by Nascent Soul Qi; before the Immortal Qi is exhausted, the Nascent Soul is immortal. Therefore, to annihilate a Nascent Soul Cultivator, one must continuously place it in the furnace, using true fire to burn and wear away its Immortal Qi.
The moment a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s Immortal Qi is depleted is the moment the cultivator falls.
But Divine Wind True Monarch is no ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivator; being of ninth-layer Nascent Soul cultivation, standing at the pinnacle of beings, he is already qualified to draw upon the Earth Soul and step into a half-step Divinity Transformation.
The Nascent Soul Qi within him is extraordinarily profound.
"Fellow daoist, you should release me!"
At this moment, Divine Wind True Monarch spoke, "You must understand, I am already at the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul; my Immortal Qi within is thick. Even if you employ the Pure Yang True Flame for refining, it would still take at least three days to exhaust my Immortal Qi and refine me to death!"
"But my friends are already on their way, needing at most an hour."
"Fellow daoist, I mistook you for a demon race cultivator just now and attacked wrongly. I am willing to apologize to you. Now that the demon race’s power is enormous, and our human race is in crisis, we humans must unite against the demon race; how can we have infighting?"
"Fellow daoist..."
Divine Wind True Monarch spoke, with softness mixed with firmness in his words.
Soft yet firm.
Lu Xuanji frowned slightly, a trace of killing intent flashing in his eyes.
As for mistaking the identity, not even ghosts would believe it.
Opening [Baidu Map], intending to investigate, yet found this place shrouded in obscurity.
Many areas cannot be surveyed even by Baidu Map.
To refine and kill Divine Wind True Monarch’s Nascent Soul, it would require at least three days.
In such a prolonged time, strong human forces would inevitably arrive to mediate.
Then, if forced to release him, it would leave a strong enemy for himself in the future, bringing an adversary to the Lu Family, for "letting bygones be bygones" is impossible;
However, if he stubbornly refuses to release, he would appear as someone ungrateful and lacking a big picture, and thus get isolated among the human race.
No matter the choice, it’s a disaster.
"Fellow daoist, indeed clever. But it’s useless!" Lu Xuanji directly withdrew the Pure Yang True Flame, sneering, "Do you think I can’t refine and kill you? Thirty-Three Celestial Anomalies, suppress!"
At this moment, a trace of ferocity flashed in Lu Xuanji’s eyes, and anomalies appeared in the void.
The Thirty-Three layered world was layered upon each other, like a pagoda.
In each world, a deity was suppressing, whose appearance resembled his own.
Each layer evolved into a calamity, transformed into terrifying waves, pressed down upon him.
"What is this?"
"Impossible!"
"Spare me!"
"No, no!"
The struggle continued, the wailing persisted, but nothing could change it.
With a fierce noise, the Thirty-Three Celestial Anomalies pressed down, and with just one hit, Divine Wind True Monarch’s Nascent Soul became sluggish, with three layers of Immortal Qi worn away.
Boom boom boom!
The Thirty-Three Celestial Anomalies exerted pressure again and again.
Due to the substantial energy consumption in activating the anomalies, after each attack, rest was required to regain peak state.
Yet even so, only four consecutive rounds of strikes were needed.
Divine Wind True Monarch’s Nascent Soul emitted a final cry, the Immortal Qi completely worn away, heading towards annihilation.
The dust returns to dust, the soil returns to soil, everything dissipates.
"From now on, our grievances are over!"
Lu Xuanji said calmly.
With a flash of his footsteps, he left the place.
...
Just moments after he left, a towering man appeared in the void.
His body was upright, appearing quite burly and strong, his palm akin to a palm-leaf fan, possessing a heavy and powerful aura, like a mountain.
His eyes were like copper bells, his slightly dark skin, his footsteps upon the ground causing a slight tremor.
If any cultivators were here, they could no doubt recognize his identity.
It was the Earth Celestial Venerable, one of Chu Country’s five great Divinity Transformation, also a veteran Divinity Transformation.
This Secret Realm, after the war, is no longer accessible to Divinity Transformation experts.
At this moment, entering the Secret Realm was merely a clone of the Earth Celestial Venerable.
This clone, with only ninth-layer Nascent Soul cultivation, met the requirements of the Secret Realm.
This clone was merely a few layers of Nascent Soul, relying on Divinity Transformation’s battle experience along with Divine Intent, and was nearly invincible below Divinity Transformation. Of course, such invincibility often has no meaning, mostly a case of bullying the weak.
"My son is dead, who was it, indeed?" A trace of killing intent flashed in the Earth Celestial Venerable’s eyes, "My son died thoroughly, not even a remnant soul remains, a rebirth is impossible! Who did this, in less than half an hour... I couldn’t arrive in time to save him!"
Killing intent boiling over, seemingly ready to annihilate everything.
His son had many flaws, greedy and short-sighted, arrogant and ignorant.
However, flaws aside, he was his own son.
That unbreakable tie of blood, woven in bone and sinew, could never be severed.
But now, his son was killed, even a rebirth was impossible.
Theoretically, for cultivators in the Nascent Soul Realm, as long as a trace of remnant soul exists, rebirth is possible.
But the premise of it all, is the existence of a remnant soul.
The perpetrator was so cruel that not even a trace of remnant soul remained.
How could rebirth occur?
"Feng’Er..." The Earth Celestial Venerable’s steps flashed, gathering the auras here.
The battle auras here were largely erased.
Yet all this appeared clumsy to a Divinity Transformation expert.
"Here is the aura of Pure Yang Celestial Fire!"
"Here is strong Divine Intent’s aura!"
"And some Fifth Grade Spirit Treasure’s aura!"
The Earth Celestial Venerable walked a circle, continually gathering aura, making careful calculations.
Quickly identifying the true perpetrator.
"True Monarch Xuanji, Lu Xuanji..." The Earth Celestial Venerable muttered, "But they had no enmity, why did he kill my son. Furthermore, Xuanji True Monarch is only of sixth-layer Nascent Soul, whereas Feng’Er is of ninth-layer Nascent Soul. The gap between them is massive, how could he possibly freeze to death!"
In his heart, a lack of understanding yet the target was certain.
At this moment, Earth Celestial Venerable also harbored suspicions.
Suspecting some to divert disaster eastward.
Suspecting some framed others, making Lu Xuanji a scapegoat, still need careful verification.
With a flicker of form, the Earth Celestial Venerable vanished.
