Chapter 767
I Can See Through Everything – Chapter 767
Chapter 767: Greed Awakens, Battle of the Nine Tribulations!
Whoosh!
Another streak of sword light swept past, piercing straight through the skull of a newly appeared Black-and-White Temple disciple.
The sword light passed through his body, erasing his Divine Soul as well, dragging away every last trace of vitality.
Bang!
His corpse crashed to the ground, his life aura slowly fading away.
And beside him, seven or eight other corpses—each wearing the same black-and-white Daoist robe—were already sprawled there.
The plaza was deathly silent.
The experts watched as Lu Qing killed yet another Black-and-White Temple disciple. Their faces were no longer shocked—only numb.
Even though the one who had just died was a late-stage Nascent Soul Realm powerhouse at peak seven-tribulation.
There was no helping it. After seeing it seven or eight times, no matter how strong the Black-and-White Temple disciple who came out was, they were always cut down by Lu Qing with a single sword strike. Anyone would go numb watching that.
By now, they understood: Lu Qing’s strength had reached a truly unfathomable level.
On the surface, the aura he gave off was still that of a five-tribulation Nascent Soul cultivator.
But everyone knew that below eight tribulations, no one could withstand a single sword from Lu Qing.
Once a Black-and-White Temple disciple appeared, there was no second ending—only death.
Unless Mo Tushan came out, and then maybe the outcome would be different.
But at this point, many people’s thoughts had started to change.
More and more were quietly wondering whether, even if Mo Tushan did appear, he would really be Lu Qing’s match.
Lu Qing’s displays of strength lately had been far too terrifying.
Whether six tribulations or seven, it was always a single strike—he never needed a second sword.
That kind of dreadful sword qi was something even an eight-tribulation sword cultivator might not be able to achieve.
Mo Tushan might be a peak eight-tribulation expert, and he seemed to hold many hidden cards.
But whether he truly could stand against that mysterious five-tribulation cultivator from before… quite a few Nascent Soul Realm experts no longer dared to be certain.
The time that followed was still Lu Qing’s slaughter.
Black-and-White Temple disciples were continuously teleported out from the various trial passages.
Yet without exception, the moment they appeared, Lu Qing killed them with a single sword.
So ruthless, so decisive—watching it, the surrounding experts grew more and more awed of Lu Qing.
This man’s cultivation was unfathomably deep, yet he had not the slightest bearing of a lofty master.
Even against cultivators far weaker than himself, he still used methods that were practically ambushes to cut them down.
Powerful beyond measure, yet shamelessly pragmatic, and decisive in slaughter.
A figure like that was always the kind you absolutely could not afford to provoke!
One day later, another Black-and-White Temple disciple emerged from a trial passage—only to be killed by Lu Qing in the blink of an eye.
But after that disciple, ten full days passed without a single Black-and-White Temple disciple coming out again.
Some experts couldn’t help discussing it in private. Could it be that, aside from Mo Tushan, the Black-and-White Temple disciples inside the passages had already been completely wiped out by Lu Qing?
Lu Qing was also pondering quietly.
Back then, most of his attention had been on Mo Tushan. He hadn’t paid attention to how many Black-and-White Temple disciples had entered the secret realm this time.
But thinking back now, the ones he had slain should be about the whole lot.
“Fine. I’ll wait a few more days. If no new Black-and-White Temple disciples come out, I’ll return to the Guixu Immortal Palace and ask Senior Old Canglong and the others. I’ll see if there are any stragglers.”
Old Canglong was a Dao-Integration realm expert who was proficient in the Dao of Space, and could be said to know the Gui Xu Secret Realm like the back of his hand.
If Lu Qing wanted to know whether any Black-and-White Temple disciples still remained in the secret realm, asking him was the most suitable choice.
Just as Lu Qing stood up, preparing to return to the Immortal Palace—
All at once, a wave of spatial fluctuation rippled ahead, and another person appeared.
At the same time, an incomparably domineering aura burst forth and swept across the entire plaza.
Feeling that presence, every expert on the plaza shuddered inwardly.
They all stared warily at the middle-aged figure in a purple dragon robe, raising their guard.
On the contrary, at the edge of the plaza, a group of people looked delighted.
“Clan Head!”
The middle-aged man in the purple dragon robe was not in a good mood.
He had entered the mana trial stage, thinking that with his Nascent Soul nine-tribulations cultivation, he could bulldoze his way through, clear the trials quickly, and then stroll into the Immortal Palace to seize opportunities with ease.
But what happened?
The first few stages went fairly smoothly, but the later ones grew harder and harder. Each step became arduous.
In the end, he was stopped at the seventh stage. He couldn’t even enter the eighth before being teleported out.
Thinking of how he had schemed and struggled—first seizing a precious pill, breaking through, and only then choosing the mana passage—
Yet he still ended up halted at the seventh stage. How could he not feel stifled?
These trials in the Immortal Palace were simply unreasonable!
If even a Nascent Soul nine-tribulations cultivator couldn’t pass and obtain opportunities, then why set a restriction that only those at the Nascent Soul Realm could enter the Gui Xu Secret Realm in the first place?
Wasn’t that completely pointless?
Could it be that only peak nine-tribulations Nascent Soul paragons were qualified to enter?
While he was still irritable and considering whether to try another passage, he habitually swept his gaze to either side.
Suddenly, his eyes fixed on the corpses not far away.
Especially the black-and-white Daoist robes on those bodies—they made his pupils constrict.
Those were Black-and-White Temple disciples. And so many were dead.
Someone actually dared to strike at the Black-and-White Temple’s people? While he was clearing stages, what in the world had happened outside?
“Clan Head!”
Just as the middle-aged man was full of suspicion, an elder of the Great Yuan Immortal Clan hurried to him.
Using Divine Soul transmission, he quickly explained everything that had happened during this period.
The purple-robed man’s expression gradually turned grave as he looked toward Lu Qing’s position.
“A nine-tribulations Nascent Soul… of the Great Yuan Immortal Clan?”
In Lu Qing’s vision, the tag-like information for the purple-robed middle-aged man had already appeared long ago.
A trace of surprise surfaced on Lu Qing’s face.
He hadn’t expected the other party to be a Nascent Soul nine-tribulations cultivator. He didn’t know whether the man had already been at that level, or whether he had broken through after obtaining an opportunity inside.
And the Great Yuan Immortal Clan—weren’t they once the rulers of the Great Yuan Immortal Domain? This time, they had entered the secret realm to explore as well.
Earlier, shortly after the Great Yuan Immortal Clan entered, they had been hiding in a remote side hall.
So Lu Qing had had no contact with them. He hadn’t expected their clan head to be a Nascent Soul nine-tribulations expert.
As for the other experts, they finally sensed his realm clearly from the purple-robed man’s undisguised aura. Their faces immediately filled with shock.
Nascent Soul nine tribulations!
This Great Yuan Immortal Clan’s clan head had actually broken through inside the secret realm and stepped into the Nascent Soul nine-tribulations realm!
Many experts were green with envy.
That was Nascent Soul nine tribulations!
Who knew what kind of outrageous luck this old fellow had stumbled into—what kind of opportunity he had obtained—to break through that crucial bottleneck and achieve the ninth tribulation.
Compared to that, even though they too had gained things inside the secret realm, it was laughably far behind.
Sensing the shocked looks around him, the purple-robed man finally showed a hint of satisfaction.
He knew that from this day onward, the Great Yuan Immortal Clan’s prestige would spread once more.
No longer would any faction dare to look down on them.
And when he someday stepped into the Dao-Integration realm, that would be the moment the Great Yuan Immortal Clan truly rose again!
Compared with everyone else’s astonishment, Lu Qing remained calm.
With his current strength, within the Nascent Soul Realm there was no one who could pose much of a threat to him.
Even a Nascent Soul nine-tribulations cultivator was the same.
So when the purple-robed man looked his way, Lu Qing merely nodded once, then turned as if to leave.
Seeing that Lu Qing actually ignored him, the purple-robed man narrowed his eyes.
Already in a bad mood, he instantly felt even more displeased.
“Boy, stop right there!” he said coldly. “I have something to ask you!”
Lu Qing halted, turned back, and said evenly, “What is it?”
“Those Black-and-White Temple disciples—were they all killed by you?”
“Correct. Why? Are you planning to stand up for them?” Lu Qing replied without any change in expression.
“Boy, you’re quite arrogant.” The purple-robed man raised a brow. “Your grudge with the Black-and-White Temple has nothing to do with me. But I heard you’re holding an exotic treasure that lets you erupt with extreme speed inside the secret realm.
Hand that exotic treasure over to me, and I’ll pretend I didn’t see any of this. How about it?”
“So you’ve set your sights on the exotic treasure in my hands.” Lu Qing smiled faintly. “And what if I refuse?”
He could tell. This Nascent Soul nine-tribulations cultivator was just using the situation as an excuse, trying to find a pretext to seize the treasure on him.
The other experts, seeing this, all grew excited and wore expressions of eager anticipation.
Lu Qing was mysterious, his cultivation unfathomable, his sword qi unmatched in sharpness—so much so that even a seven-tribulation Nascent Soul cultivator couldn’t last a single exchange against him.
But at the same time, this Great Yuan Immortal Clan’s clan head was a Nascent Soul nine-tribulations expert!
Once the Nascent Soul Realm reached nine tribulations, the laws one comprehended would become astonishingly profound.
One step further was to sense the Great Dao with one’s Divine Soul—to perceive where the Dao lay, merge one’s mind into it,
and with Divine Soul, pry loose a thread of Dao power to use for oneself.
That realm was the legendary Dao-Integration realm.
Why were powers like the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect and the Black-and-White Temple revered as holy lands, untouchable by all?
It was precisely because those top sects had Dao-Integration realm existences sitting in command.
In an era where Daoist of Transcendence had vanished without a trace, Dao-Integration realm was the strongest beneath the starry sky!
Only a sect with a Dao-Integration realm guardian could be called a holy land.
However, for various reasons, Dao-Integration realm true bodies would not easily leave their sects, nor could they casually enter many worlds. They rarely emerged into the world.
Instead, Nascent Soul nine-tribulations cultivators had no such restriction, and could roam the starry void at will.
It was just that the vast majority of nine-tribulations Nascent Souls were trying to take the final step and break into the Dao-Integration realm, so they usually secluded themselves in cultivation and rarely showed their faces.
That made them, like Dao-Integration realm experts, elusive—almost never seen by the world.
Now that the experts before them were seeing the Great Yuan Immortal Clan’s clan head not only step into Nascent Soul nine tribulations, but also seek to fight Lu Qing, how could they not be excited?
On one side was an apex Nascent Soul who had reached the summit of the realm.
On the other side was a sword cultivator so powerful and mysterious that no one had been able to see through him to this day.
Two powers clashing—who knew how spectacular it would be!
“If you won’t hand it over, then I’ll capture you. I think the Black-and-White Temple would be very interested in you—and willing to pay quite a lot of treasures to trade for you.”
As he spoke, the purple robe on the middle-aged man’s body suddenly billowed, moving without wind.
Then a dragon’s roar rang out. A purple lightning flood dragon was already driven forth by him, charging at Lu Qing at extreme speed.
“It’s really starting!”
Watching this, every expert widened their eyes, unwilling to miss even the tiniest detail.
Purple lightning crackled across the flood dragon’s body, and its speed was so fast it reached an extreme.
Even under the suppression of the secret realm, it still arrived before Lu Qing in the blink of an eye.
Yet just as the purple flood dragon’s claws swept across Lu Qing’s body—
In the next instant, Lu Qing’s figure vanished on the spot, turning into a wisp of green smoke.
“An afterimage? When?!”
Everyone was stunned, because no one could tell how Lu Qing had escaped.
The purple-robed man narrowed his eyes as well. Vast Divine Soul power surged out, blanketing the entire plaza as he searched for Lu Qing.
How terrifying was the pressure of a Nascent Soul nine-tribulations Divine Soul? The surrounding experts immediately felt as though a mountain had been set upon them—heavy beyond measure.
One by one, they turned pale with alarm, realizing deeply just how frightening Nascent Soul nine tribulations truly was.
“Nothing?”
But after sensing carefully, the purple-robed man’s expression changed slightly.
Because he still hadn’t found Lu Qing’s trace.
“Are you looking for me?”
At that moment, a calm voice drifted down from above everyone’s heads.
“He’s in the sky!”
“When did he get up there?”
“Why can he fly?!”
All the experts looked up, and then saw Lu Qing hovering high in the air, looking down at them from above.
The scene made everyone’s eyes go wide, their faces filled with disbelief.
They all knew that the space inside the Gui Xu Secret Realm was incomparably sluggish, and there was also a strange power of rules suppressing everything.
Even an eight-tribulations Nascent Soul could only move on the ground—there was no way to perform flight.
But now Lu Qing was standing in empty air right before their eyes. How could they not be shocked?
“Is it the power of a treasure again?”
The purple-robed man’s face also looked rather ugly.
As a Nascent Soul nine-tribulations expert, he still couldn’t fly inside the secret realm—yet the other party could.
If so, wouldn’t the other party be able to fight when he wished and leave when he wished, naturally standing in an invincible position?
What kind of treasure did this boy possess, that even the secret realm’s rules couldn’t restrain him?!
For a time, the purple-robed man’s jealousy surged violently. He wanted nothing more than to seize Lu Qing at once and snatch the treasure.
“Boy, what skill is hiding and sneaking around? If you have the guts, come down and fight me head-on!”
The purple-robed man shouted loudly.
But the moment he said this, the other experts all looked at him with strange expressions.
They hadn’t expected that a dignified Nascent Soul nine-tribulations expert would say something so close to outright petulance.
Yet what no one expected was that after hearing it, Lu Qing actually nodded.
“That’s reasonable. Then I’ll play with you a bit.”
“Just in time—at your realm, you’re qualified to witness this move of mine.”
As he spoke, a small world appeared in Lu Qing’s hand.
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