Chapter 276: Slash the Sea!

Kill to your heart’s content!

As Lu Yang finished speaking, Suo Huan looked over in surprise. “From what I know, Fellow Daoist, you aren’t the type to aggressively pick fights and excel in battle.”

Lu Yang shook his head. “It’s not that I can’t, I’m just unwilling.”

Saying this, he held [Tribulation Wave] behind his back and said calmly, “Besides, the Dao path is ahead, and there is no room to retreat. We might as well fight.”

“Good… then let’s fight!”

Suo Huan relaxed his brow and straightened his back. “I’ll leave everyone below the Great Perfected One level to you, Fellow Daoist. As for the Great Perfected Ones, you can rest assured and leave them to me.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Yang glanced at Suo Huan. As a Saint Sect Perfected One, he naturally harbored a degree of suspicion toward everyone. If they weren’t in the same boat right now, such a harmonious atmosphere would be impossible. But now, he revealed a rather genuine smile.

“Then I thank you, Fellow Daoist.”

“Hahaha!” Suo Huan laughed heartily.

There was one thing Lu Yang didn’t know. As an outer-heaven cultivator who had bitterly cultivated overseas for six hundred years, Suo Huan called everyone “Fellow Daoist,” but was never truly accepted by anyone.

He had called many people “Fellow Daoist,” but no one had ever addressed him as such in return.

Those with lower cultivation called him “Senior.” Those with the same cultivation called him “Outer-heaven rogue cultivator.” Those with higher cultivation simply called him “Unorthodox Path.”

Some even directly called him a “Parasite.”

So this was the first time.

The first time someone addressed him as “Fellow Daoist.” It gave this former heaven’s chosen, who had been adrift for over six hundred years, a rare sense of satisfaction.

More importantly, because they were now in the same boat, there was no need for intrigue or secret precautions. Instead, they could sincerely cooperate with peace of mind. For both Suo Huan and Lu Yang, this was a first in their lives.

Rumble!

Suo Huan voluntarily concealed his figure, leaving Lu Yang alone. Holding [Tribulation Wave] behind his back, the sea beneath his feet churned, instantly whipping up waves thousands of feet high.

Clang!

The [Tribulation Wave] in his hand trembled violently. Amidst the sword light, the faint figure of a young girl appeared. She resembled the sword spirit of the Avici Sword but was much older.

The Avici Sword was originally the most intelligent of Lu Yang’s many Spirit Treasures, taking human form. Thus, after all the treasures were refined into [Tribulation Wave], she naturally took the lead. Having absorbed so much spirituality, her appearance had changed drastically, becoming more mature.

Manifesting now, she immediately curtsied to Lu Yang.

Lu Yang smiled faintly at the sight and asked softly, “Are you willing to go with me?”

“I will fight for my master.”

As her voice fell, the sword spirit quickly merged back into [Tribulation Wave]. Lu Yang immediately channeled his spiritual power, drawing the surrounding spiritual tides to surge madly into the sword!

Almost simultaneously, at the Essence Magnetism Divine Mountain.

“…Hm?”

Dragon King [Sui Ling], who had been regulating her breath, sensed the change in the world’s spiritual Qi almost instantly. Her dragon eyes snapped open, looking toward Lu Yang’s direction.

She saw Lu Yang releasing his aura without any concealment. A cloud of Qi rose above his head, and his Dao Foundation manifested through it, propping up a golden auspicious cloud. It was vast and mighty; wherever it passed, the sea and mountains seemed inverted, and clear Qi rolled across the sky. His boundless spiritual power expanded like peals of thunder streaking across the firmament!

Such momentum was simply appalling!

This was Lu Yang’s first time unleashing his full power. He felt as if he had shed an invisible shackle, feeling utterly carefree and unrestrained.

“…It’s you!”

Almost simultaneously, [Sui Ling] recognized Lu Yang. She sensed the intense blood aura on him—the blood aura belonging to her brother [Sui Ying]!

“You’re the one who killed [Sui Ying]?”

“Demon Sect Yuan Tu?”

[Sui Ling] let out a long howl. In an instant, the 490,000 demon soldiers moved in unison. The rolling demonic clouds transformed into a vivid demon dragon, staring straight at Lu Yang.

But what answered her was a streak of sword light.

[Proclaim Might]!

The next second, Lu Yang deployed [Tribulation Wave] into mid-air. The spiritual power he had just poured into the sword transformed entirely into a brilliant, dazzling sword light.

Within the demon soldier formation, Hui Ku and the other Pure Land monks saw Lu Yang appear so blatantly. They rubbed their fists, eager to go up and fight. But upon seeing the sword light Lu Yang unleashed, they immediately tucked away their sleeves and retreated, even hiding their Buddhist light.

[Sui Ling] naturally saw this too.

However, as a noble of the Dragon Clan, even though she had heard of Yuan Tu’s fame, most of it was scandalous rumors. She thought of him merely as a lecher.

What was so formidable about him?

Sitting amidst a formation of 490,000 demon soldiers, confronting him with a united front—490,000 against one! He wasn’t a Great Perfected One. Could he really overturn the heavens?

“Roar—!”

With this thought, [Sui Ling] shook her body, revealing her true form—a slender, elegant True Dragon coiled in the center of the myriad demonic clouds.

490,000 demon soldiers formed the array with seven array eyes. The cultivator presiding over each eye was an Initial Stage Foundation Establishment mixed-blood dragon descendant—a Dragon Carp, Dragon Turtle, Dragon Soft-shell Turtle, or Dragon Horse. At this moment, they all released their auras, surrounding [Sui Ling] and forcefully activating the great formation beneath their feet.

[Heavenly Demon Sea-Ordering Grand Formation]!

Instantly, the billions of acres of seawater surrounding the [Overturning Sea] were lifted by an invisible force, transforming into a sky-obscuring curtain of water!

The Heavenly River crossing the sky, the Four Seas inverted!

Just the collapse of these billions of acres of seawater would be enough to shatter a continent. If added with the weight of position, it could even smash a Foundation Establishment cultivator to death.

Clearly, although [Sui Ling] was unconvinced in her heart, she wasn’t careless. She attacked with full force. Moreover, this was the open sea, the home turf of a True Dragon like her. It was the perfect place to utilize her water-controlling ability to the extreme. Billions of acres of seawater condensed into a single streak of water light, crashing down like a toppled golden mountain or jade pillar.

In response, Lu Yang unleashed only one sword strike.

This strike was like the boundary of the Great Void, flying fire and flowing lightning. It slashed upward against the brilliance condensed from billions of acres of seawater, trailing a dazzling sword light.

Boom!

With a deafening sound that shook the heavens, the world above and below, which had blended into one color under [Sui Ling]’s influence, was now split distinctly by Lu Yang!

On this side of the sword light, heaven and earth were in harmony.

On that side of the sword light, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

The [Heavenly Demon Sea-Ordering Grand Formation] that [Sui Ling] had placed high hopes on was slashed apart by Lu Yang the moment it was deployed. Sea and sky split simultaneously, shattering into ten thousand pieces with a loud boom!

Half of the 490,000 demon soldiers were instantly pulverized by the thunderous sound of the sword light’s impact. Of the remaining half, another half were swept by the sword light after the formation broke, turning into a field of severed limbs. The rest were hit by the shockwaves, coughing blood and falling into critical condition.

As for the seven Initial Stage Foundation Establishment cultivators anchoring the formation?

Four were shaken to death on the spot. Two of the remaining three were beheaded by the sword light. Only one scrambled away, bloody and battered, escaping with his life.

“Your Highness! Run…”

Just as that demon was about to speak, he seemed to deflate. Cracks suddenly appeared on his forehead. He subconsciously wiped it with his hand, only to see it covered in crimson.

“…Huh?”

Before his voice fell, the demon shattered into a sky full of bloody light.

Only then did [Sui Ling] finally react. The pungent smell of blood assaulted her nose, chilling the heart of this Dragon Clan noble to the extreme.

Impossible!

She never imagined that with 490,000 demon soldiers in formation, ordering the entire [Overturning Sea]’s waters, and boosting it with position, it would end like this.

How can one sword strike do this?

From her deploying the troops to ordering the sea, Lu Yang had unleashed only one sword strike. Yet this single strike was something the entire [Overturning Sea] couldn’t stop.

One sword, slashing the sea!

Looking out, [Sui Ling] subconsciously took a step back.

Under the setting sun, Lu Yang held his sword and walked slowly toward her. His pitch-black eyes reflected the mountain of corpses and sea of blood beneath his feet, revealing glimmers of red light.

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