Chapter 174: If It's Fated, Must I Go?

“Bastard… Bastard!”

Inside the great formation, Elder Lin’s hands were trembling with anger. He never expected that he, an eight-hundred-year-old Dao Integration cultivator, would be deceived by a young man.

But amidst his anger, he was also full of incomprehension.

That was Rank One True Qi! As far as he knew, it was enough to make any Foundation Establishment Perfected One crazy. Why was Lu Yang not moved? Did he not want it?

The truth, of course, was not so.

Undeniably, regarding the so-called Supreme Rank One True Qi, Lu Yang was truly moved. After all, it concerned his future Dao path and whether he could go further.

Not to mention this was left by Perfected One Primordial.

He had Perfected One Primordial’s Myriad Spirits Banner in hand, and he also possessed the [Primordial Dao Scripture]. Undoubtedly, he had karma with him and was extremely likely to obtain the opportunity within.

But even if fated and moved, must I definitely go?

Lu Yang’s mind was incredibly clear; the lesson of Arhat Fu Long was still vivid in his mind!

Doing things requires focus. Cannot attend to trifles and neglect essentials, and even more so, cannot be too greedy. For Supreme Rank One True Qi, I can totally use a specific lifetime later to scheme for it.

As for now?

Better to kill this bunch of Immortal Alliance Dao Integration Great Cultivators first, then overthrow the Immortal Alliance’s rule, extract the Wu Earth Qi, and break through to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment before anything else!

Therefore, from the beginning, Lu Yang had no interest in Elder Lin’s words or even the secrets behind Perfected One Primordial. All his performances were just means to string them along, solely to delay time and set up the great formation, thereby trapping everyone in the formation and finally killing them cleanly in one fell swoop!

“Formation rise!”

Lu Yang formed hand seals to urge the formation. In an instant, countless formation lights rose, actually gathering the boundless seawater spiritual qi within a ten thousand li radius to form a vast ocean!

And beneath everyone’s feet, the sea dried up and rocks crumbled!

The seabed scenery once covered by seawater emerged one by one, exposed under the skylight, while towering giant waves reaching straight to the sky rolled up all around.

Looking up at the sky, the white sun and blue sky were no longer visible.

All that entered the eyes was a vast ocean of rivers flowing in the sky, reflecting the skylight, getting closer and closer, smashing down towards everyone’s heads with a boom!

In an instant, the entire sea surface seemed to be wailing. Because the water vapor transpiration was too intense, brilliant rainbow lights even rose above the vault of the universe.

“Heavens…” A Dao Integration Great Cultivator couldn’t help but wail in a low voice.

This was no longer something human power could do.

This was the might of heaven and earth!

Lu Yang borrowed the power of the great formation to roll up the ocean of ten thousand li, turning over billions of tons of seawater to smash down. Before this, so-called Dao Integration cultivators were no different from ants!

In the next second, the seawater smashed down.

Everyone hurriedly raised their precious lights, not to resist, but to urge their spiritual power to the extreme, communicating with the [Imperial Palace Golden Seal Script Tushita True Edict] located within the Immortal Alliance.

Human power couldn’t resist such might of nature. To contend with it, one could only elevate their own stature!

For a time, precious lights emerged one after another on the group of Dao Integration cultivators, enhancing them to the Foundation Establishment position. Clearly, they intended to use their stature to withstand Lu Yang’s ocean bombardment.

However, seeing this, Lu Yang revealed a smile.

Previously, he sat in withered meditation in the Saint Sect for decades. While wearing Arhat Fu Long to death, he was also studying formations and talismans. With the assistance of the [Investigating Heaven Sphere], his progress was rapid.

Now, he was already a Rank 6 Formation Master!

And the formation before his eyes was a Rank 6 formation meticulously deduced by him, equivalent to “Foundation Establishment” in the field of formations. How could it not deal with stature?

Thinking of this, Lu Yang immediately took out the [Avici Sword].

“Go!”

With a pinch of the spiritual seal, the [Avici Sword] instantly fell into the center of the formation. Under the infection of the sword light, the originally clear azure seawater instantly turned into a monstrous crimson!

[Heavenly Sea Massacre Sword Formation Diagram]!

This formation was further sublimated and deduced by Lu Yang based on the [Heavenly River Massacre Sword Formation Diagram] he made during Qi Refining!

At this moment, after receiving the enhancement of the [Avici Sword], the azure ocean turned completely into a sea of blood, actually possessing the stature of the Foundation Establishment level as well. With one heavy pressure, the Dao Integration Great Cultivator bearing the brunt was instantly crushed with broken tendons and fractured bones, his aura rapidly withering amidst a crackling sound.

Immediately followed by the second, the third…

In the end, only the oldest Elder Lin, with the highest cultivation and deepest foundation, was still struggling to support, but he was already an arrow at the end of its flight.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The sea of blood cycled repeatedly, attacking in waves. Elder Lin resisted desperately, yet a few bits of helplessness and grievance appeared on his face.

Strictly speaking, the quality of Lu Yang’s True Qi was actually inferior to his.

The “True Dragon Evil Qi” refined by the Nine Transformations Dragon Art was only Rank 3, while he, as a Dao Integration Great Cultivator, had a body of True Qi sufficient to rank as Rank 2 if placed inland.

But Lu Yang simply didn’t compare quality with him!

With the formation enhancement, ten thousand qing of seawater wrapping the spiritual qi of heaven and earth—even if the quality was inferior to him, that despairing quantity was enough to easily crush him completely!

“Pfft!”

In the end, Elder Lin could only let out a miserable howl, frozen in the boundless sea of blood like amber, just like the other Dao Integration Great Cultivators.

Outside the [Heavenly Sea Massacre Sword Formation Diagram], Lu Yang stood with hands behind his back, looking up at the sky.

“Still didn’t appear…”

To be honest, he thought that after suppressing so many of the Immortal Alliance’s Dao Integration Great Cultivators in one fell swoop, Daoist Hong Yun would definitely show up after sensing it.

This [Heavenly Sea Massacre Sword Formation Diagram] was also prepared for him.

However, the result was no abnormality at all.

“That’s right, Perfected One Chong Guang is probably staring at Daoist Hong Yun at all times. If he rashly appears and is discovered by Perfected One Chong Guang, that would truly be bad…”

With this thought, Lu Yang instantly felt very settled.

Since Daoist Hong Yun couldn’t come, there was nothing to be afraid of!

In the next second, he took down a small gourd from his waist and uncorked it. Immediately, a stream of colorless and odorless ethereal smoke drifted out from the gourd.

[Three-Nine Soul-Destroying Gourd]!

This item was a Spirit Treasure paired with the Avici Sword, hiding within it a stream of [Soul-Destroying Spirit-Scattering Mind-Seizing Smoke]. Even a Foundation Establishment Perfected One would be mesmerized if hit by it.

With a thought from Lu Yang, the smoke instantly fell into the formation.

He didn’t kill the group of Dao Integration Great Cultivators directly. Instead, he first used the sea of blood to suppress their true bodies, then used the [Soul-Destroying Spirit-Scattering Mind-Seizing Smoke] to suppress their souls.

“After all, I’m not a natural-born homicidal maniac.”

Moreover, the True Spirits of these people were not in their bodies but entrusted in the [Imperial Palace Golden Seal Script Tushita True Edict]. Killing them might instead let them escape.

“Almost forgot, there’s one more…”

Lu Yang turned his gaze, only to see Guang Ming, who was just far on the horizon, already crawling and rolling over. Without a word, he performed an aerial sliding kneel—

“Great Lord’s divine might is unfathomable; this small monk admires you!”

“This small monk is very familiar with the Immortal Alliance Headquarters. If Great Lord wants to go, this small monk is willing to lead the way! To tell the truth to Great Lord, I actually can’t stand these overseas natives either…”

Before Guang Ming could finish, Lu Yang waved his hand to interrupt him.

To be honest, regarding Guang Ming, Lu Yang didn’t care the first time they met, harbored thoughts of utilization the second time, but the third time, he generated a bit of dread.

Meeting once is coincidence, twice is accident.

Three times, that’s intentional. Not to mention the vastness of overseas; for the other party to bump into him exactly, one could know with their butt that there must be karmic traction.

It just so happened this person was still useful.

“…Forget it, follow me.”

Lu Yang put away distracting thoughts, used a Divine Ability to roll up Guang Ming, and also packed the formation along with the group of unconscious Dao Integration cultivators into the [Three-Nine Soul-Destroying Gourd].

Immediately afterward, he rode an escaping light, heading straight for the Immortal Alliance under Guang Ming’s lead.

At this moment, the Immortal Alliance was already in chaos.

After all, the soul lamps of eleven Dao Integration Great Cultivators had all dimmed and almost extinguished. For the middle and high-level cultivators of the Immortal Alliance, this could completely be called the sky collapsing.

Seeing this, Lu Yang landed above the Immortal Alliance Headquarters without a word.

His Divine Ability covered the entire island, sealing the void, prohibiting entry and exit inside and out.

The reason he rushed over urgently was to control the situation at the fastest speed. Otherwise, once someone escaped, it would be hard to control afterwards.

“Next, is extracting Qi.”

To extract Wu Earth, he must destroy the old order and establish a new order, removing the “big mountain” of the Immortal Alliance pressing on the Emerald Sun Cultivation World.

If it were other cultivators, they might be clueless at this step.

“Fortunately, I come from the Saint Sect.”

Regarding how to quickly destroy a force, render it harmless, and finally completely control it, the Saint Sect had a complete and effective set of methods.

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