Chapter 181: Flipping the Table, Killing Wu Cang!

For some reason, Wu Cang suddenly felt a chill.

It was as if a basin of cold water had suddenly been poured onto his heart, dispersing all his agitation and allowing his originally dust-covered spiritual platform to barely emit a ray of spiritual light:

“Eh? Why did I come here?”

At this moment, the spiritual perception of a Foundation Establishment Perfected One warned him frantically, making Wu Cang subconsciously look around. Could it be that my robbery under the cover of night has been discovered?

Until this moment, Wu Cang hadn’t realized Lu Yang’s threat, still thinking his whereabouts had been discovered by others. While this was certainly due to Lu Yang using [Embrace and Guard Mountain] to restrain his karmic aura and make it difficult to detect, was it not also because Wu Cang himself had his qi destiny influenced by someone?

Must take this as a warning…

Lu Yang took all this into his view, silently talking to himself in his heart. Being able to walk step by step to this day, knowing how to learn lessons was particularly crucial.

For example, he had long made up his mind to keep a respectful distance from Buddhist cultivators from now on.

The reason was simple— Buddhist cultivators were too shameless.

Every single one was a “Self” of the World Honored One. At the slightest disagreement, a Dao Lord would possess them. This was simply a max-level Great Demon King blocking the novice village to kill directly from the start!

Simply frantic and devoid of conscience.

If not for the stature of [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes] being high enough that even a Dao Lord could only vaguely perceive it but couldn’t truly influence it, he would have probably died ten thousand times already.

However, combining the experiences of previous lives, Lu Yang soon summarized a method to avoid the World Honored One’s line of sight— because the previous life wasn’t the first time he self-destructed and activated [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes] in front of a Buddhist cultivator. In the life before last, when he self-destructed the earth vein to harm Arhat Fu Long, he had also used [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes].

But why didn’t the life before last attract the World Honored One?

“…Because of Heavenly Punishment!”

Lu Yang thought over and over and felt this was the only possibility. Because under Heavenly Punishment, all merit and qi destiny on Arhat Fu Long were directly cleared to zero.

So the World Honored One didn’t descend, didn’t perceive.

From this, it could be seen that the weird possession method should be achieved through merit and qi destiny. This was the flaw in the World Honored One’s manipulation of Buddhist cultivators.

And where there is a flaw, there is a solution.

“If I can thoroughly figure out the secrets within and find a way to avoid the World Honored One’s influence on my consciousness, in the future, it might not be impossible to take a trip to the Pure Land…”

Pity that this was just a beautiful reverie for the future; currently, it was still far away.

Retracting his thoughts, Lu Yang looked at Wu Cang again.

Only to see that at this time, Wu Cang had already revealed a look of impatience. Although he vaguely sensed something wrong in his heart, his immediate thought wasn’t to run away.

But to fight quickly and decide quickly.

“Since Fellow Daoist doesn’t know what’s good for you, then don’t blame me!”

As his voice fell, a towering, intertwined, and gnarled large tree suddenly propped up above the vault of heaven. Impressively, it was Wu Cang’s Dao Foundation manifesting.

And within the tree crown, a vermilion fruit grew out instantly.

Seeing this, Wu Cang also revealed a confident smile on his face.

This “Fire in Wood” was the most powerful profundity in his Life-Bound Divine Ability. Combined with the Innate Divine Ability [Bu Nan Ben], burning true bodies was always successful.

However, in the next second, his eyes widened.

Facing the “Fire in Wood” he cast down, Lu Yang was unhurried. A black light rose behind him, brushing against his Dao Foundation.

Whoosh whoosh—!

In the next second, the raging fire Wu Cang just lit up was like a candle lamp under a violent wind. In just a blink of an eye, it was blown out with a boom, all Divine Abilities stopping abruptly!

[Embrace and Guard Mountain]!

Having the experience of fighting Wu Cang, how could Lu Yang give the opponent space to display skills again? immediately smashing the newly refined Innate Divine Ability over.

The effect was also extremely significant. Inside the Foundation Establishment Realm, Wu Cang’s [Coiled Dragon Divine Wood Dao Foundation] shook violently. Yet a towering mountain shadow appeared above his head—illusory and intangible, difficult to touch, but generating real suppression force, extinguishing his Fire in Wood alive!

“…Impossible!”

Wu Cang screamed instantly. He only felt Mount Tai pressing on his head. To break it open, he either relied on his own Divine Ability profundity or possessed supreme spiritual power.

But he had neither of these two.

In a flash of lightning, Wu Cang finally completely regained clarity. He immediately wanted to turn around and run, but saw a brilliance of Divine Ability enveloping the surroundings.

[Determine Intimacy and Distance]!

This divine wonder could move oneself and also move enemies. If Wu Cang’s “Fire in Wood” hadn’t been suppressed, he could still rely on the Divine Ability fire to break its influence. But now that “Fire in Wood” was suppressed, eighty percent of his means were gone instantly, actually having no way to deal with Lu Yang’s displacement!

At the same time, Lu Yang held a gourd in his hand.

[Three-Nine Soul-Destroying Gourd]!

Lu Yang uncorked the stopper, then used spiritual power to operate it, shaking the gourd gently. Instantly, a patch of hazy and chaotic smoke was shaken out from it.

[Soul-Destroying Spirit-Scattering Mind-Seizing Smoke]!

This smoke was certainly powerful, but extremely hard to hit with. Originally, it was a very difficult-to-use combat method, but now in Lu Yang’s hands, it had miraculous effects.

In the next second, Divine Ability brilliance flashed.

Wu Cang in the air found it hard to dodge, and could only watch helplessly as he disappeared from the spot. When he reappeared, he had already been thrown by Lu Yang into the hazy smoke…

“You…! Have the guts to fight me hard!”

Wu Cang’s resentful scream came from the smoke. Just because even at this step, Lu Yang actually still had no intention of fighting him head-on.

Starting move was crowd control, simply not giving him a chance to turn the tables.

However, soon, Wu Cang’s voice gradually became low. The [Soul-Destroying Spirit-Scattering Mind-Seizing Smoke] took effect, making his consciousness increasingly groggy.

But he also understood that once he truly fainted, he would probably never wake up again. Therefore, he became unusually decisive instead. A touch of crimson flashed in his eyes. Subsequently, three dazzling spiritual lights appeared in his hands—impressively, three Low-grade Spirit Treasures of good quality.

“…Explode!”

Coming from a rogue cultivator background, Wu Cang might not be crafty enough or cunning enough. However, being able to gain a firm foothold in the Saint Sect, at least there was one point he didn’t lack.

He was ruthless enough!

In an instant, three Spirit Treasures exploded in Wu Cang’s hands just like that. The shockwave of the explosion instantly broke open the Mind-Seizing Smoke, also blasting open a road of survival for him.

Rumble!

Riding the spiritual tide raised by the explosion, Wu Cang’s figure was like lightning, raising an escaping light to flee out of Heaven-Mending Peak, hereafter the sky high for birds to fly and the sea wide for fish to leap.

And the power of the Spirit Treasure explosion also tore open the formation cover of Heaven-Mending Peak. Under the riot of spiritual qi, many Perfected Ones within the Saint Sect had already cast their gazes over.

These were all Wu Cang’s protective talismans.

After all, no matter how ferocious this Lu Yang is, he can’t possibly kill me in front of so many people, right?

Little did he know that his series of actions were all seen by Lu Yang. The [Investigating Heaven Sphere] at the center of his brow operated, having long calculated that he would make such a reaction.

“Embracing the One and guarding the Center, able to Distinguish Same and Different.”

Suddenly, a Dao shout rang in Wu Cang’s ears, carrying a grimness that almost made his scalp explode. Subsequently, the churning spiritual tide actually condensed abruptly!

Turning his eyes again, where was the vast sky and ocean? Previously, he wholeheartedly wanted to flee outside Heaven-Mending Peak, and what entered his eyes was the blue sky and white sun. But in this blink of an eye, the original blue sky and white sun turned into a pitch-black mountain wall. Unfortunately, his escaping light had already risen, and for a time he simply couldn’t stop…

Bang!

Accompanied by a loud noise, Wu Cang crashed headfirst onto the tangible [Embrace and Guard Mountain] under everyone’s gaze just like that. In an instant, his body was crushed to pieces!

From the exploded true body, a soul drifted out.

“Bastard…”

Wu Cang was so angry his soul was trembling. Just as he wanted to speak, he was grabbed by Lu Yang.

“Senior Wu Cang, isn’t it just losing to me by a notch in combat? Why think so hard? Junior will protect your soul right now.”

Before his voice fell, Lu Yang stuffed him ruthlessly into the Myriad Spirits Banner.

After doing all this, Lu Yang looked at the crowd staring straight at him, either shocked or horrified, and smiled kindly—

“Everyone, do not misunderstand. You all saw it too; it was Senior Wu Cang who couldn’t think straight for a moment, sought his own end, and actively crashed to death on my Divine Ability.”

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