Chapter 197: When Perfected Lords Battle, Millions Lie Dead!

Perfected Lord Qingcheng Feixue’s voice thus rode the waves of the boundless Heavenly River and spread throughout the world. For a moment, it caused silence to fall upon all directions of Heaven and Earth.

Who wants to fight her?

In an instant, an unknown number of Perfected Lords sensed this. One by one, they opened their eyes and looked towards the overseas direction, their gazes filled with probing intent.

Is there really going to be a battle?

Some Perfected Lords who didn’t mind watching the drama even had a faint expectation. After all, the world had been at peace for a long time. The last millennium tribulation could be traced back to five thousand years ago!

Thinking back to those years, a great tribulation had even resulted in the deaths of more than one Perfected Lord. The last one to fall was Perfected Lord Tianyun Mingguang, who is now Daoist Hong Yun. The [Eternal Brilliance Precious-Light Grotto-Heaven] shattered with a boom, blood rained from the sky, and all living things mourned together. Such a scene hadn’t been seen for many years.

Today, could it be that they would see it again?

“Amitabha.”

With just a chant of the Buddha’s name, the Pure Land’s [Bodhisattva Precious Vase Water Moon] was the first to disperse her aura, paying no heed whatsoever to Perfected Lord Qingcheng Feixue’s provocation.

The other Perfected Lords were not surprised by this.

Everyone knew about the Bodhisattvas of the Pure Land. They could still act tough within the Pure Land, but once outside, they were somewhat weak. Choosing to back down was only natural.

Similarly, the Dao Court Emperor was the second to disperse his aura.

For a time, the gazes of the Perfected Lords fell on Jiangnan, on that young Perfected Lord with red lips and white teeth, pressing his sword across his knees on the Sword Pavilion’s Extreme Sky Cliff.

The young Perfected Lord remained silent.

He lowered his eyelids and looked at the long sword across his knees. This was his Life-Bound Flying Sword. He had once wielded it to kill his way all the way to the Perfection of Foundation Establishment.

However, ever since attaining the Golden Core, this sword had never been unsheathed again. Even when destroying the Shaman Ghost Dao, he had only released a streak of sword qi without truly drawing the sword. Now that a thousand years had passed, could this sword still be unsheathed? Was it still sharp? Did he still possess his former Sword Heart?

“…Heh.”

The young Perfected Lord suddenly raised his head, seeming to lock gazes with Perfected Lord Qingcheng Feixue far overseas. Then, he suddenly smiled: “Are you provoking my mind?”

“Xue Feihong, do you really want to fight me?”

To this, Perfected Lord Qingcheng Feixue’s response was simple and direct: “You really don’t look like a Sword Cultivator. You’re too indecisive. Do you want to follow in Hong Yun’s footsteps?”

“Come out and fight. Perhaps there is still a chance.”

As her voice fell, the young Perfected Lord fell into silence again. He turned back to look at the Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones behind him, then closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

At this moment, he thought of another person.

“Ting You (Nether Whisper)…”

He indeed didn’t look like a Sword Cultivator. If he were a true Sword Cultivator, he wouldn’t have snatched the Golden Core before Patriarch Nether Whisper in the past but would have fought a life-and-death battle directly with him.

“…Whatever. I must fight for the next life.”

The young Perfected Lord opened his eyes, having made up his mind.

In the next second, this [Perfected Lord Chengtian Zhengde] vanished from Extreme Sky Cliff, where he had sat in withered meditation for a hundred years. Above the dome of the sky, a heavenly star suddenly shone brightly!

Seeing this scene, Perfected Lord Qingcheng Feixue also laughed towards the sky.

“Welcome!”

As her voice fell, Perfected Lord Qingcheng Feixue also vanished. Now, both of them retracted their heaven-supporting and earth-spanning Dharma Aspects, leaving only their respective Dao Fruits to manifest.

In the next second, the sun hid, the moon sank, and all the stars dimmed. Only the two stars transformed from their Dao Fruits shone with magnificent heavenly light.

At the same time, anomalies arose in both Jiangbei and Jiangnan. Heavy snow fluttered in the air, floods were released from the mountains, and houses and fortresses everywhere were attacked.

Some houses were washed away, while others remained standing.

This was not a natural disaster, but a man-made calamity. Because two Perfected Lords were fighting, Heaven and Earth naturally resonated, resulting in such phenomena that defied common sense.

This was only limited to the mortal world. At this moment, all Dao Foundation cultivation methods related to [Wall-Top Earth] and [Ravine Stream Water] in the world also generated the same reaction. Cultivators practicing the corresponding methods felt intense disgust towards the other side in their hearts, as well as a certain strange appetite.

Kill him! Eat it!

Intuition told them that as long as they killed the cultivator on the opposite side, their own cultivation would immediately advance by leaps and bounds. This was the enhancement of the Dao Fruit, their own opportunity!

In an instant, blood stained the earth.

Except for the Saint Sect’s Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea, the Sword Pavilion’s Dao-Climbing Heavenly Abyss, and some major powers suppressed by Perfected Lords, the world was in chaos at this moment!

Cultivators cultivating [Ravine Stream Water] and cultivators cultivating [Wall-Top Earth] found it difficult to control the killing intent in their hearts. Even clansmen, close friends, and even husbands and wives turned against each other at this moment, killing each other regardless of life or death. Only Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones could barely maintain a few shreds of clarity.

When Perfected Lords battle, millions lie dead, and the world wears mourning white!

Overseas, Lu Yang looked up blankly.

If he could barely see the changes when Perfected Lord Qingcheng Feixue killed everyone in one breath, at this moment, he completely lost sight of them.

It wasn’t until a call came that he was awakened from his daze.

Lu Yang barely withdrew his gaze, only to see that at some point, Patriarch Nether Whisper was already standing beside him, a few traces of satisfied smiles on his face.

“Zheng De… that old thing from the Sword Pavilion has fallen into a disadvantage.”

Hearing this, Lu Yang asked curiously, “Patriarch, can you see their battle clearly?”

“I can’t see it clearly.”

Patriarch Nether Whisper shook his head. “It’s just that in my lifetime, I was a Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivator cultivating [Wall-Top Earth]. Even though I’m dead, I still retain a little bit of connection.”

“I can clearly feel that my strength has weakened… This has nothing to do with my state, but rather the master of [Wall-Top Earth] has fallen into a disadvantage. The Dao Fruit transfers the pressure it receives to the Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones below. Reflecting on us, it causes our Dao Foundations and Divine Abilities to become weak…”

“But it’s still early.”

Speaking to this point, Patriarch Nether Whisper shook his head. “These are just the aftershocks of the Perfected Lords’ battle of arts. To truly determine the victor, it will probably take some time.”

As his voice fell, he glanced at Lu Yang again and shook his head.

“A pity you don’t cultivate [Wall-Top Earth].”

“Otherwise, at this time, if you found a few Perfected Ones cultivating [Ravine Stream Water] and killed them, you would immediately be favored by the Dao Fruit. Breaking through your realm would be highly hopeful.”

“But in that case, [Wall-Top Earth] might reverse the decline and suppress [Ravine Stream Water] instead. Although for a Perfected Lord, this change in Dao Fruit only provides a tiny bit of improvement to themselves, in a life-and-death struggle, it might just become the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

“So that’s how it is…”

Hearing this, enlightenment instantly arose in Lu Yang’s heart. So Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones have such a function for Golden Core Perfected Lords! No wonder they nurture Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones!

This was also a question he had long held.

Since there were only thirty Dao Fruits in the world, why didn’t the ascending Golden Core Perfected Lords simply kill all the Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones related to their own Dao Fruits?

Wouldn’t that eliminate competitors?

Otherwise, like Hong Yun, being suppressed by Perfected One Chong Guang after falling from the Dao Fruit—who knows how suffocating that must be? It was simply the shame of a Golden Core Perfected Lord.

Looking at it now, there was indeed another reason.

No wonder it was said that one only counted as a “true human” after breaking through to Foundation Establishment, because Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones could, to a certain extent, influence the battle between Perfected Lords!

However, relying solely on this seemed insufficient.

“Although it can influence the Perfected Lords’ battle of arts, can’t they just not fight? There should be deeper reasons, important reasons concerning the Perfected Lords’ cultivation…”

Thinking of this, Lu Yang dared not delve deeper.

Compared to those things, the harvest from looting the corpses delighted Lu Yang more. The precious light filled a storage bag. With a sweep of his Divine Sense, he found four Superior Spirit Treasures!

“Indeed, murder and arson are the golden belt!”

How rare were Superior Spirit Treasures usually? With natural Divine Wonders, they almost gave a Foundation Establishment Perfected One an extra minor Innate Divine Ability, granting immense advantage in battles from then on.

Before today, he only had the [Investigating Heaven Instrument] and the [Avici Sword] which counted as superior.

After today, he had four more in his hands!

Among them, the wealthiest was Ye Xingfeng. Besides that Life-Bound Flying Sword, the [Star River Sword Pellet], he actually had two Superior Spirit Treasures on him.

Ying Tongshou was a bit worse off, but he also provided one Superior Spirit Treasure.

Of course, now they all benefited him. Not to mention the half True Treasure, the [Imperial Palace Golden Seal Script Tushita True Edict], left behind after the Primordial Dao Sins’s death!

This wave of corpse looting was simply a bumper harvest!

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