Chapter 364: Mechanics and Stats Coexisting!

Lu Yang sped all the way into the Southern Frontier. His aura was fully displayed, transforming into a magnificent sword light that locked directly onto the Myriad Poison Cult’s mountain gate, flying towards the Myriad Gu Cave.

And the two Perfected Ones of the Myriad Poison Cult followed closely behind.

“This person… is truly seeking death!”

Perfected One Long Wu smiled coldly. “If he weren’t a Sword Pavilion disciple, and instead a loose cultivator being so ostentatious in my Southern Frontier, I would have refined him into a Human Gu long ago.”

Perfected One Hui Gu shook his head. “A disciple of a major sect, and having just reached Foundation Establishment, it’s normal to be arrogant. Rather, the more arrogant he is, the more beneficial it is for us. I was worried about how to lure him deep into the Southern Frontier, but now that he’s actively entering, it saves us the trouble.”

“Senior Brother is right.”

Perfected One Long Wu sneered and said, “After we trap this person, we must make him taste some suffering, so he understands the principle that there is always someone stronger!”

Not long after, Lu Yang had penetrated ten thousand li into the Southern Frontier.

Looking back, the Sword Pavilion’s location had disappeared beyond the horizon, leaving only layers of mountain forests in sight. Gloomy miasma also floated above the vault of the sky.

In the next second, a sharp cry suddenly rang out.

Screech!

As the sharp cry passed, a massive body stretching for several li, with a dragon head and centipede body, brazenly crawled out of the clouds, opening a pair of scarlet eyes to look at him.

Lu Yang pinched his fingers to calculate and immediately divined the opponent’s background: [Dragon Centipede Gu]. It requires the blood of a True Dragon to nourish and refine the Gu seed, then plant it into one’s own Dao Foundation for incubation. When the Gu worm breaks out of the cocoon, it can transform into a Life-Bound Gu worm, similar in nature to an ordinary Perfected One’s Life-Bound Divine Ability…

“Monster of the Myriad Poison Cult.”

As his voice fell, Lu Yang flicked his finger. Instantly, rumbling sword cries resounded all around, like muffled thunder rolling across the sky, exploding boomingly between heaven and earth.

Instantly, the beasts in the mountain forests below panicked.

“Where is the Myriad Poison Cult Leader?”

Lu Yang held a hand seal, a streak of sword light swirling at his fingertip, and said indifferently:

“I act on the orders of my Master, Perfected One Vanquishing-Demon, to investigate the disappearance of commoners in Jiangnan. Does the Myriad Poison Cult Leader not intend to come out and give me an explanation?”

Hearing this, Perfected One Long Wu laughed out of anger.

“Presumptuous!”

His Myriad Poison Cult dominated the Southern Frontier, and the Cult Leader was a Great Perfected One at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage. If anyone wanted the Cult Leader to pay respects personally, it should be Perfected One Vanquishing-Demon himself!

A mere junior?

Who do you think you are? A Great Sword Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage?

With this thought, Perfected One Long Wu couldn’t be bothered to talk nonsense. He suddenly opened his bloody mouth and spewed out a cloud of black qi, covering towards Lu Yang’s direction.

The Perfected Ones of the Myriad Poison Cult used Gu worms to devour Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends for refinement. Therefore, a Divine Ability was often a type of Gu. The black qi spewed by Perfected One Long Wu at this moment was one of them, named [Soul-Inverting Gu]. It looked like a cloud of black qi, but in reality, it was dense, tiny black Gu worms.

Once covered by the black qi, the Gu worms would swarm in immediately.

At that time, no matter if you had treasure light protecting your body or a Vajra Indestructible Body, these Gu worms could burrow into the body from various minute places, devouring flesh and blood, then dragging out the soul.

This was already Perfected One Long Wu’s strongest method.

It showed that although he spoke disdainfully, he was by no means careless or underestimating the enemy. He attacked with full force, intending to destroy Lu Yang’s physical body directly to subdue him.

However, seeing this, Lu Yang showed no fear at all and laughed instead:

“Good, good, good.”

“Facing my Sword Pavilion’s inquiry, the Myriad Poison Cult not only fails to explain but dares to fight back. It shows your demonic nature is deep; this is no longer an ordinary demonic cultivator…”

Before his voice fell, a sword cry rang out!

The sword light in Lu Yang’s hand differentiated instantly—one into a hundred, a hundred into a thousand, a thousand into ten thousand. In just an instant, it transformed into countless hair-thin strands of Sword Qi!

These Sword Qi strands were so minute that even divine sense could hardly detect them. They met the black qi formed by the [Soul-Inverting Gu] perfectly, killing the sky-filling Gu worms cleanly in an instant. Then they slashed towards Perfected One Long Wu, startling him into a strange cry as he twisted his body and escaped in a streak of black smoke.

“Foundation Establishment Middle Stage!?”

With Lu Yang’s attack, under the enhancement of two [Sword Divine Abilities], his realm could not be concealed at all and was immediately seen through by the two Myriad Poison Cult Perfected Ones.

“Damn it…”

Perfected One Hui Gu, who had been hiding in the dark, instantly cursed inwardly. Previously, they were full of confidence because they thought Lu Yang was at most at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage.

Two Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators dealing with an Early Stage one.

Bullying the small with the big, naturally, they couldn’t lose.

But now, both sides were clearly in the same realm. The situation was completely different. How could cultivators of the same realm be matches for a sword cultivator!

“The situation is unfavorable, retreat first…”

Perfected One Hui Gu arrived beside Perfected One Long Wu, simultaneously lifting the Gu worm in his palm.

This was his Life-Bound Gu, named [Hui Gu] (Summer Cicada).

As the saying goes: The morning mushroom knows not the waxing and waning moon; the summer cicada knows not the spring and autumn.

As the name suggested, this Gu worm could cut off divine sense perception, making it difficult for people to discover changes in the outside world.

At this moment, activated by Perfected One Hui Gu, it instantly turned heaven and earth into dimness. Only he, as the Gu owner, could see normally and was unaffected by the Gu worm.

“Now…”

Perfected One Hui Gu didn’t want to prolong the fight. He intended to take Perfected One Long Wu and leave first before making further plans.

However, just then.

“Trying to leave?”

A cold voice drifted over faintly. Perfected One Hui Gu looked towards the sound, only to see Lu Yang with eyes tightly closed, holding a spiritual sword reflecting colorful rosy clouds in his hand.

[Ming He Eternal Metal Sword]!

This sword was born from his Dao Foundation; it was both his spiritual sword and his Divine Ability!

“[Mind Snare]!”

In the next second, Perfected One Hui Gu discovered he was still standing beside Perfected One Long Wu.

The [Hui Gu] in his hand had not yet been activated.

Everything just now seemed to be merely an illusion, as if it had never happened.

What’s going on!?

Perfected One Hui Gu stood stunned on the spot. Responding to him was a light chuckle from Lu Yang.

This was the marvel of his Life-Bound Divine Ability’s [Mind Snare]. The moment Perfected One Hui Gu and Perfected One Long Wu showed themselves, they were trapped into the Divine Ability by him.

Everything that happened afterward… as long as it was unfavorable to him, it would instantly turn into a void illusion. Only what was favorable to him could become tangible reality!

That said, with my spiritual power, I probably can’t use [Mind Snare] too many times…

To test his own combat power, Lu Yang didn’t directly fake the position of a Great Perfected One to stomp them.

So compared to Perfected One Long Wu and Perfected One Hui Gu, although he held all the advantages, if the opponents were bent on escaping, stopping them would still take some effort.

Fortunately, he had other means.

[Divining Luck Drawing Lots]!

With a thought from Lu Yang, majestic luck instantly transformed into three lot fortunes before his eyes.

[Event: Slay the two Perfected Ones, Long Wu and Hui Gu]

[Great Auspice: Your strength holds an overwhelming advantage, easily killing both of them.]

[Small Auspice: Although the opponents are adept at escaping, you spent some effort and still slew them.]

[End Auspice: The opponents had good luck and knew how to escape. Unfortunately, your condition wasn’t good. Unable to win after a long battle, you flew into a rage out of humiliation, so you directly faked the position of a Great Perfected One and slapped them to death.]

The strength gap is too big; indeed hard to draw a bad lot…

With a thought, Lu Yang held the [Great Auspice] in his hand.

He had already obtained this result in advance!

Combined with [Mind Snare], he directly turned this guaranteed victory result into reality!

This sword… if not drawn, fine; once drawn, it must kill!

Boom!

In the next second, Lu Yang drew his sword. The blazing sword light, as if aided by heaven, flashed past Perfected One Hui Gu and Perfected One Long Wu beside him before he could activate his Gu worm.

Until this moment, Perfected One Hui Gu and Perfected One Long Wu hadn’t even come to their senses.

In the end, they reached out, wanting to touch their cheeks.

Is my head still there?

But this touch grasped nothing but air.

The heads were gone.

Because the sword light was too fast, their bodies and souls had perished long ago, but their consciousness hadn’t reacted yet.

Clang!

The sword edge returned to its sheath.

Then, with a loud bang, the two headless bodies exploded, transforming into a sky-filling spiritual tide!

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