Chapter 503: Immortal
Du Wu’s fighting spirit vanished, and he turned to flee. “Hmph!”
Lu Yao disappeared from her spot like a ghost, leaving behind a distorted space. The nails on her right hand transformed into black, sharp swords, and as she moved, they created visible spatial rifts.
At the same time, the surrounding light began to dim. The dark clouds overhead grew thicker, accompanied by dull thunder. Occasionally, purple light pierced through the clouds, a sign of an impending heavenly tribulation.
Lu Yao almost teleported behind Du Wu. The sword-like nails pierced into the back of Du Wu’s head, emerged from his mouth, and then flicked upwards.
In this way, Du Wu’s head was split precisely in half. His body stiffened and plummeted from the air. With such a severe head injury, he instantly lost consciousness, having no chance to use his clones to transfer the damage.
“So, attacking the head can instantly kill cultivators in the Shentong Realm or above!”
Qi Huang suddenly understood and committed it to memory.
With Du Wu’s death, his seven vital souls immediately dispersed, and his life soul fled desperately once more.
As a zombie, Lu Yao could see souls even without Cat’s Eye Tears, so she pursued relentlessly. The “sword” in her hand swung like cutting wheat, bisecting Du Wu at the waist. The sharp blade immediately cut another spatial rift.
However, this destructive sword strike had no effect. It passed through Du Wu’s life soul unimpeded.
“Haha, souls are immune to physical attacks. What good is your spatial rift? Wait for this old man to get his revenge slowly!”
Du Wu mocked, his words filled with unbridled confidence.
“Is that so?”
Lu Yao pursued without being moved. As Yin Energy entered her body, her strength increased, and the spatial rifts torn by her sword became more apparent. The thunder overhead began to shake the heavens, and a vast pressure descended.
Affected by the pressure, Du Wu’s speed began to slow. Fear gradually appeared on his face, and he shouted, “It’s a heavenly tribulation! Stop quickly, or none of us will survive!”
Lu Yao seemed not to hear him. The “long sword” in her hand swung faster and faster. Wherever it passed, the space cracked open, and the pressure from above intensified.
“You madwoman!”
Du Wu was so scared that his soul scattered and fled. He tried desperately to escape, but he couldn’t get away from Lu Yao. Moreover, as the heavenly might grew stronger, his speed slowed further, until he was finally crushed to the ground.
“Run! Why aren’t you running anymore?”
Lu Yao walked over step by step and asked. Due to the heavenly might, her figure became slightly stooped, as if she had aged several decades in an instant.
“Don’t come any closer!”
Du Wu shouted, his expression contorted.
“Didn’t you say physical attacks were useless against you? I wanted to see if that was true!”
Lu Yao calmly stepped forward and extended the sword-like nails towards Du Wu. Spatial rifts continually appeared on Du Wu’s body. His body began to distort and finally dissipated into a wisp of smoke in the air.
The sword entered Du Wu’s life soul.
As Yin Energy was absorbed, her posture gradually straightened.
“Save me!”
Du Wu wailed in terror.
But no matter how he struggled,
he could not escape the restraint of the heavenly might.
“Whoosh!”
A sound of breaking air echoed, accompanied by dazzling purple light.
The first lightning tribulation descended from the sky, striking Lu Yao directly.
Lu Yao stood as firm as a mountain, and the lightning flowed from her long fingernails towards Du Wu’s life soul.
“Ah!”
Du Wu let out a hysterical scream. His life soul was instantly scattered in the air by the heavenly tribulation.
“The heavenly tribulation in this world seems stronger than in my original world!”
Lu Yao, with a blank expression, killed the leader of the Immortal Alliance and then slightly raised her head, murmuring to herself.
Qi Huang also felt a stinging sensation in her body. If the heavenly tribulation in this world had the same strength as in Lu Yao’s original world,
it would absolutely not have caused such an effect, especially since Lu Yao’s strength was now incomparable to its past.
“But so what? No matter how strong the heavenly tribulation is, can it contend with the Yin Energy of several worlds?”
Lu Yao then calmly sat down cross-legged, her focus entirely on the drop of blood-like tear on her face. The vortex in her heart began to spin faster, doubling the rate of Yin Energy absorption.
At the same time, the Yin Energy of this world began to converge from all directions and enter Lu Yao’s body. Moreover, countless Yin Energy also emerged from the spatial rifts she had created, originating from another world.
Lu Yao’s strength began to surge again, far exceeding the rate at which the heavenly tribulation above was intensifying. Therefore, this so-called heavenly tribulation could not harm her at all; instead, it served as a tempering.
As time passed, even when Lu Yao sat still, she caused spatial fluctuations. This was a sign that her physical body was too strong and was about to crush this world.
“Listen clearly, the Immortal Alliance is dissolved starting today. With me here, no one is allowed to mend the sky!”
Lu Yao then spoke. Her voice was not loud, but it was extremely penetrating, reaching all the lonely souls and ghosts in the entire Imperial Capital.
As the ninth heavenly tribulation descended, Lu Yao’s body collapsed space, and she fell into it.
Lu Yao looked around and found herself in a brilliant starry sky. Before she could examine it further, a figure not far away captured her attention.
It was an old man with white hair and beard, a clean face, and an unstained white robe, giving him an ethereal appearance. However, his distorted facial features and bloodshot eyes ruined this aura.
“Who are you?”
Lu Yao asked warily.
“Did you just kill my descendant in the lower realm?”
The old man spat out a few words through clenched teeth.
“Your descendant? Do you mean that leader of the Immortal Alliance, Du Wu?”
Lu Yao probed.
“That’s right. I am Du Jie, the immortal ancestor of the Du family.”
Du Jie said, panting heavily.
“Immortal?”
Qi Huang was shocked to hear this. She had already experienced the power of Immortal Might and the Immortal Tablet. How terrifying must an immortal itself be?
“Since you’ve seen it, do you think he didn’t deserve to die? He disregarded public opinion, acted perversely, and harmed ordinary people.”
Lu Yao retorted.
“According to the Heavenly Dao’s Will, you, as an evil fruit, deserved to die from the start. Heaven’s will is greater than public opinion. Coupled with the crime of killing my descendant, your offense is doubled. Therefore, I, his ancestor, will complete what my grandson couldn’t finish!”
Du Jie said, unmoved.
Qi Huang was slightly stunned. Don’t cultivators strive to defy heaven? Why did this old fellow, after becoming an immortal, keep mentioning heaven’s will? It seemed somewhat unreasonable.
“Heh heh, what a ‘Heaven’s will is greater than public opinion.’ I’d like to know where this ‘heaven’ you speak of is.”
Lu Yao laughed in anger.
“If you have the ability to break through the barrier of the Immortal Realm, you will naturally have the chance to see the true heaven. However, having encountered me, you no longer have that chance.”
Du Jie sneered repeatedly.
“Heh heh, so there really is a heaven in this world! If so, then I will definitely slay heaven! Regardless of who stands in my way, I will use their corpse to pave my path, whether you are human or immortal!”
Lu Yao laughed from the bottom of her heart, as she finally had hope of avenging her family.
“Very well! Then let me see if you are qualified to say such things.”
Du Jie’s eyes sharpened. His divine sense, at the immortal realm, rolled up a small planet tens of kilometers in diameter not far away and hurled it towards Lu Yao.
…
Qi Huang suddenly jolted awake and sat on the bed, unable to recover for a long time. Everything she had seen in her dream was too impactful.
After a long while, Qi Huang’s emotions calmed down a bit. Recalling the dream, she realized that everything she had seen was not only shocking but also immensely beneficial. For example, how to quickly kill a cultivator in the Shentong Realm or above, the attack methods of the Immortal Tablet, and information about the Immortal Realm and heaven. These would be of great help to her future cultivation path.
Of course, this was assuming it was all true!
Once Qi Huang and the others calmed down a little, she immediately entered her Sea of Consciousness, as she didn’t know how long she had slept.
As soon as she entered her Sea of Consciousness, Qi Huang froze because the genderless spirit soul had abandoned its human soul brother and was mingling with five female souls.
“Brother, the spirit soul has betrayed us again!”
The human soul, curled up in a corner, secretly complained, fearing to be attacked by the group of female souls.
“Get over here! Don’t you even know if you’re male or female?”
Qi Huang angrily reprimanded the spirit soul.
