Chapter 70: Battle of Arts!

Tianjing City. The instant Lu Yang appeared and spoke, the city turned black and white. An indescribable fluctuation expanded in all directions.

Wherever the fluctuation passed, all ten directions were annihilated.

Buildings vanished, pedestrians vanished. Everything seemed as if it had never existed. Whether you were a beggar on the street or a Martial Dao Celestial, everyone was treated equally!

“How could this be…”

Some Celestials roared in horror, unable to accept it.

However, regardless of their reaction—fleeing, confusion, or hysteria—they could only quietly dissipate within that fluctuation.

The only exception was ‘Sacred Heart Scholar’ Wang Boyuan. This peerless genius who created the Martial Dao Fourth Step was unexpectedly calm at this moment. He merely looked up at the sky, revealing a trace of relief: “Gazing at Fortune, Observing Heaven… Hehe, how can a frog at the bottom of a well talk of Gazing at Fortune or Observing Heaven?”

As early as when he broke through to the Celestial realm, Wang Boyuan discovered something was wrong.

Wang Boyuan created the “Three Talents Qi Gazing Technique,” calculating Heaven through Man. However, when he exhausted his life’s learning to peek at heaven and earth, a huge anomaly arose.

Because he gazed out that Heaven and Earth were flawed!

Although exquisite, it was inconsistent, like a meticulously shaped fake!

He once thought he calculated wrong, that the Qi Gazing Technique was imperfect. However, no matter how many times he recalculated, the result never changed.

Is Heaven and Earth truly flawed? Is the human world but a dream?

Since then, the once handsome and suave ‘Sacred Heart Scholar,’ holding a feather fan and wearing a silk scarf, turned into a sloppy man who drank all day and wasted his time.

Now, he saw the truth.

Only at this moment did Wang Boyuan finally recover some of the heroic spirit of the ‘Sacred Heart Scholar’ of the past. Looking at the sky, his relief carried regret.

“Pity… If I could see the true Heaven and Earth once, it would surely be a joyous thing…”

The next second, his figure vanished like an illusion.

The entire Tianjing City disappeared from the earth just like that. Everyone was gone without a trace, leaving only the courtyard where the Yun Family Ancestor was and Lu Yang in mid-air.

In just a blink of an eye, Lu Yang used his secret realm authority to erase the entire Tianjing City. All living beings were stored deep within the Refining Arts Secret Realm, waiting for the next disciple to reopen them. The secret realm space where Tianjing City was located was compressed by him around the Yun Family Ancestor.

In this way, the space was highly condensed, and the Yun Family Ancestor could no longer escape through the void.

“Lu Yang…”

The Yun Family Ancestor’s voice carried apprehension and frustration.

Apprehension, because Lu Yang’s current strength was no longer something he could underestimate. Frustration, because all of this was actually caused by himself!

Without him, even if Lu Yang mastered The Sage Steals, it couldn’t be this perfect!

How could he not feel frustrated?

However, the Yun Family Ancestor quickly suppressed all negative emotions and said in a deep voice: “Erasing Tianjing City, aren’t you afraid The Sage Steals will lose its Qi destiny support?”

“Senior worries too much.” Lu Yang smiled faintly upon hearing this: “Since The Sage Steals has reached Great Success, the Qi destiny of the world is no longer important to me. After all, since it is ‘stealing,’ how could I possibly return it? In comparison, Senior should care more about your own current situation.”

“…Are you threatening me?”

The Yun Family Ancestor’s face became increasingly gloomy. His originally restrained Qi signature gradually released, filled with chilling killing intent: “Relying on yourself alone, you dare to talk big to me?”

“Just a reincarnated Foundation Establishment, what’s so amazing?”

Lu Yang tit-for-tat, not yielding an inch: “I happen to lack a reincarnated Foundation Establishment soul to research a secret method. Senior arrived at the right time to help me cultivate.”

“Junior seeks death!”

Amidst his rage, the Yun Family Ancestor also clarified the current situation. He even felt somewhat fortunate that Lu Yang didn’t leave the secret realm but chose to fight him.

If Lu Yang left the secret realm to report him, he would undoubtedly die.

But now that Lu Yang came alone, perhaps there was still hope to turn the tide!

The Yun Family Ancestor urged his spiritual power wildly. A brilliant golden light instantly rose from the top of his head. The light blossomed in three colors—Gold, Silver, and Jade—shining together, instantly illuminating the horizon!

Great Unity Golden Flower!

Unlike Yun Miaozhen’s half-baked version, the Yun Family Ancestor’s Great Unity Golden Flower was the complete version successfully refined long ago, a Great Divine Ability in the true sense!

Instantly, the golden light was mighty and vast. Wherever it passed, heaven and earth followed. Wrapping the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, it whipped up monstrous waves, crashing directly toward Lu Yang.

Immediately after, Lu Yang felt his vision turn into a patch of golden brilliance, as if instantly isolated into another world. Subsequently, his essence began to drain, his body withered, his True Qi dried up, his spiritual power gradually weakened, his Spirit Intent scattered, his Spiritual Consciousness dulled—Essence, Qi, and Spirit were all being brushed away by the golden light!

However, the next second, Lu Yang stomped his foot.

Boom! Rumble!

Instantly, the entire secret realm seemed to tremble violently, like the shock inevitably caused when a person jumps from a high place to a low place.

Almost simultaneously, the Yun Family Ancestor’s spiritual consciousness shook violently.

The originally condensed Great Unity Golden Flower scattered and exploded the moment Lu Yang stomped down. The Essence, Qi, and Spirit previously brushed away also rapidly returned to Lu Yang’s body.

The next second, Lu Yang moved.

He gave a cold smile, then spread his wide sleeves. Countless wisps of smoke and fire flew up around him, spiraling and coiling. Finally, a loud explosion burst from within, causing severe pain in the Yun Family Ancestor’s ears and eyes. Looking up, he saw a magnificent Golden Body rising from the ground, shaped like a mountain, surrounded by the smoke and fire of the mortal world.

“Stealing the Qi destiny of the world, casting the Golden Body of a Sage!”

Only at this moment did Lu Yang finally bring out his true ability after the Great Success of The Sage Steals. The ‘Law’ borrowed Qi to take form, actually manifesting a ‘Sage Aspect’!

Seeing this, the Yun Family Ancestor hurriedly urged the Great Unity Golden Flower.

For a time, golden flowers filled the sky, splitting into the three lights of Essence, Qi, and Spirit. Assuming the positions of Sun, Moon, and Star, heavy as mountains, they smashed down toward Lu Yang with a boom.

But before the Great Unity Golden Flower could fall, the heaven-supporting ‘Sage Aspect’ extended a magnificent large hand. The palm was full and round, crystal clear like jade. It simply fell like a covering sky, closing its five fingers to capture the majestic Great Unity Golden Flower, along with the Yun Family Ancestor, in its palm!

“Such gall!”

The Yun Family Ancestor grunted. The Great Unity Golden Flower expanded continuously, becoming increasingly blazing, almost turning into a golden sun trying to pry open the palm of the ‘Sage Aspect.’

However, on the other side, Lu Yang also pinched a hand seal upon seeing this.

His main body gradually became illusory, while the ‘Sage Aspect’ behind him became increasingly real, solemn, and unmoved by external things.

When the Yun Family Ancestor’s explosive Great Unity Golden Flower landed on it, at most it brushed off a layer of skin and flesh. But the moment it was brushed off, Lu Yang regenerated it immediately. The result turned into a protracted war of attrition—one side consuming true Qi, the other consuming Qi and blood. The Ancestor gained no advantage at all.

“Delay leads to change… I must take this person down as soon as possible!”

The Yun Family Ancestor’s thoughts raced. He knew Lu Yang had obtained great fortune through his hands; The Sage Steals was near perfection, already comparable to a Great Divine Ability.

To take him down, he had to use more powerful means.

Thinking of this, the Yun Family Ancestor immediately took out a sphere-shaped spiritual treasure. It was shockingly the ‘Investigating Heaven Instrument’ bestowed by the Sect Master of the Sword Pavilion before his reincarnation.

The Yun Family Ancestor sacrificed this Spirit Treasure in the air, then bowed: “Please, Heaven Lord, take action.”

As his voice fell, the Investigating Heaven Instrument instantly began to rotate. It dragged the surrounding space along with it—Up, Down, Left, Right, Front, Back were all inverted in one go!

Within the range of the ‘Investigating Heaven Instrument,’ all positional changes were disordered. Forward was actually backward, left was actually up, up was actually forward… all determined by the will of the treasure holder. Sacrificed at this moment, the ‘Sage Aspect’ instantly lost its grip, and the Yun Family Ancestor took the opportunity to escape.

Immediately after, holding the ‘Investigating Heaven Instrument,’ he shrouded Lu Yang.

Instantly, Lu Yang felt his whole body shake violently. The ‘Sage Aspect’ seemed fixed by a vast spiritual power, unable to move, forced to stay in place.

It was shockingly the Yun Family Ancestor disordering the direction of all Lu Yang’s movements into ‘remaining stationary.’

After fixing the ‘Sage Aspect,’ the Yun Family Ancestor didn’t stop. The Great Unity Golden Flower brushed down continuously, clearly intending to use this method of death by a thousand cuts to break it open.

“So strong, too strong…”

Lu Yang smiled with admiration seeing this. The Yun Family Ancestor’s strength was unquestionable; after all, he was a reincarnated Foundation Establishment, holding a supreme treasure like the Investigating Heaven Instrument.

Based on strength alone, if they fought a hundred times, he would probably lose a hundred times.

However, a Battle of Arts is not decided by strength alone. Just as a chess player can defeat an opponent on the board, there are also ways to win outside the board.

Meanwhile, outside the Refining Arts Secret Realm, Lu Yang’s Primordial One Qi Avatar rushed without stopping, arriving directly in front of the gate of Perfected One Yin Shan’s secluded Cave Abode.

“Perfected One! I want to make a report!”

“Inside the secret realm, there are bad guys!”

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