Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Lu Chen continued wielding golden sword light, rapidly cutting down the remaining monsters.
To him, how could these Divine Kings compare to those monsters?
He had no grudge against the many Divine Kings, nor did he wish to start a massacre without cause!
But these monsters were different!
They belonged to a different race. Either he killed them, or they killed him.
[... Merit Points +500,000!] [... +500,000!] [... +500,000!]
Lines of text rapidly emerged.
Before long, the monsters before him had nearly all been slaughtered.
Merit Points: 86.55 million!
Merit required for next breakthrough: 110 million points.
Soon. I'll soon be able to break through to the second level of Divine Emperor!
He thought to himself.
But at that moment, he noticed Venerable Chiyan and Li Wangxu in the distance, their expressions shifting uncertainly. Frowning, he quickly approached them.
"Lu... Daoist Lu!"
Venerable Chiyan said stiffly.
"Why aren't you killing those monsters?"
Lu Chen asked.
"Did you notice those rules?"
Venerable Chiyan asked.
"I did."
Lu Chen nodded.
"Points can be seized from one another, and the tokens can sense each other. Don't you want to kill us?"
Venerable Chiyan could not help asking.
He was a straightforward man. Unless certain matters were made clear, he simply would not want to flee.
Besides, if Lu Chen wanted to kill them, it would be useless even if they fled to the ends of the earth.
Since the tokens could sense one another, their deaths would be impossible to escape.
Lu Chen lightly shook his head. "I will not lay hands on my friends!"
If he wanted points, he could obtain them just by killing some monsters.
The two men before him immediately breathed sighs of relief.
They truly had not misjudged him.
Lu Chen was not that sort of person.
"Right, why haven't I seen Brother Shi Yue?"
Lu Chen frowned.
"He has fallen!"
Li Wangxu said in a complicated tone, "During the earlier melee, he was surrounded by two elite blade-men and hacked into a pile of flesh!"
In the end, his Immovable as a Mountain had failed to withstand their attacks.
"That is truly tragic!"
Lu Chen said.
"Daoist Lu, what should we do next?"
Venerable Chiyan could not help asking.
"Of course, continue searching for monsters!"
Lu Chen replied calmly. "Brother Li, please use your calculation art and continue divining."
"I wouldn't dare!"
Li Wangxu was immediately flattered beyond measure.
"It is nothing. Hurry and deduce their location. I'll kill the monsters, and the points we gain will be split equally among the three of us!"
Lu Chen replied.
Points had never been his goal.
His goal had always been Merit Points.
"Split equally among three?"
Venerable Chiyan's face went blank.
"That's right!"
Lu Chen nodded.
"Th-this isn't appropriate, is it? After all... after all, we haven't contributed much..."
Venerable Chiyan said hurriedly without thinking.
"Extra points are of no use to me. I only need to enter the top fifteen."
Lu Chen replied.
"Th-then... all right!"
Venerable Chiyan and Li Wangxu exchanged glances, then nodded lightly.
Li Wangxu immediately employed the Art of Heavenly Cycle Star Divination and began calculating again. As runes emerged one after another, his expression suddenly changed drastically. "Not good, danger! Hurry, leave!"
He hurriedly called to Lu Chen, and Venerable Chiyan was about to retreat from the area.
"Danger? What danger?"
Venerable Chiyan frowned.
Lu Chen had just broken through to the Divine Emperor realm. What danger could he possibly need to fear?
Even Lu Chen frowned, but he soon sensed something. His eyes sharpened, and he abruptly turned around. "They're here!"
Boom!
An overwhelmingly powerful aura swept in from that direction, vast and terrifying. Accompanied by Imperial Dao pressure, it was soul-stirring and made all things tremble.
A sea of blood light emerged, and within it appeared a figure. He wore a wicked smile and a dark crimson robe. He looked a little over thirty, with demonic eyes.
"Xue Wuya! He's Xue Wuya!"
Venerable Chiyan's pupils shrank as he cried out in horror.
The ranking list in the sky showed that Xue Wuya had also broken through to the Divine Emperor realm, ranking sixth!
He was even above Lu Chen!
Rumble!
Soon after, another terrifying aura descended, likewise accompanied by extreme Imperial Dao pressure. The surrounding void twisted and hissed, suffused with great swathes of golden light.
Within that golden light stood a man in a golden robe, his face cold. An aura of rejecting all things and looking down upon all things permeated his body.
"He is Venerable Hundred Eyes!"
Venerable Chiyan looked alarmed.
He was another expert on the ranking list!
Ranked eighth!
Only one position below Lu Chen, he had likewise broken through to the Divine Emperor realm not long ago.
These two had actually joined forces!
"Brother Wuya, you and I truly have excellent luck!"
Venerable Hundred Eyes stared coldly at Lu Chen's group, emanating an aura that seemed eternal and impossible to dissolve.
"Of course. I already said that as long as you and I joined forces, we would have much to accomplish in this region. Not only would those monsters be unable to stop us, even those Divine Emperors would become our prey."
Xue Wuya gave a faint sneer. "See? Our luck has come so quickly. This Lu Chen has reached 432 points. We'll take half each. Once we devour his points, you and I can rise several more ranks!"
"Not bad!"
Venerable Hundred Eyes nodded slowly, his voice indifferent.
"So, the two of you intend to make a move against me?"
Lu Chen asked.
"What do you think?"
Xue Wuya sneered. The space around him turned scarlet, as though it had transformed into an invisible sea of blood. Terrifying bloody baleful energy filled his entire body.
Legend had it that his true form was a crow born from a sea of blood. Savage by nature, he killed as easily as hemp, loved eating human hearts, and drank divine blood alive. No one knew how many had died beneath his hands.
"I have never tasted the heart of a Divine Emperor!"
A cold smile appeared on Xue Wuya's face as his tongue licked his scarlet lips.
"Daoist Lu, be careful..."
Venerable Chiyan warned anxiously.
"Watch out for Venerable Hundred Eyes. His formation has already secretly sealed off the surroundings..."
Li Wangxu immediately transmitted his voice cautiously as well.
Yet Lu Chen remained unmoved. He stepped forward, his robes fluttering, his gaze as deep as a starry sky as he walked between the two men. Though he emitted no aura at all, he gave off a strange illusion.
As though a cosmic divine sword were moving...
The laws of heaven and earth and the currents of the void around him twisted along with his body.
Even the soundless formation spreading around him was forced back by the bearing radiating from his body...
Venerable Hundred Eyes immediately narrowed his eyes, sensing Lu Chen's power.
"Brother Wuya, do not hesitate. Attack with everything you have!"
Rumble!
He stepped forward. The clothes on his upper body exploded, revealing hundreds of densely packed eyes across his body. At the same instant, those eyes all shot out divine light.
The radiant glow was dazzling—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet...
All kinds of light blanketed the sky... transforming into countless grand formations that swept toward Lu Chen like an enormous net in an instant.
At the same time!
A chill flashed through Xue Wuya's eyes, turning them scarlet. He revealed a strange smile and shook his body. Behind him emerged a blood sea stretching ten thousand zhang, within which appeared countless blood-colored divine crows. Like meteors, they charged rapidly toward Lu Chen.
As two Divine Emperors attacked, the scene instantly seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth.
The terrifying pressure alone filled Li Wangxu and Venerable Chiyan with fear, making their bodies tremble.
But!
Lu Chen narrowed his eyes and remained unmoved.
Only when the countless formations and dense flock of blood crows rushed before him did his body suddenly shudder.
With a boom, golden light erupted.
Tenfold Combat Power!
In an instant, his strength rose from the first level of Divine Emperor to the fifth level of Divine Emperor.
Then his hand gripped the sword hilt at his waist, and countless profound sword dao principles fused into one in an instant.
Whoosh!
Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art!
This was unlike his previous Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art. It was a slash born after he had integrated his present Martial Dao wisdom and Martial Dao knowledge. In other words, this sword had fused with his Scar of Heaven.
It was an ultimate variation of the Scar of Heaven!
Rumble!
The golden Sword Qi swept out, and the entire space before him seemed to turn into jade. Countless cracks appeared at once before it suddenly shattered apart.
Whether the intricate grand formations or the densely packed blood crows, all of them instantly collapsed and exploded beneath that golden Sword Qi.
The terrifying golden Sword Qi swept forward, crushing everything in its path like rotten wood and dry weeds, directly sweeping rapidly toward Venerable Hundred Eyes and Xue Wuya.
Venerable Hundred Eyes and Xue Wuya both changed expression drastically, scarcely daring to believe it.
Beneath Lu Chen's peerless Sword Qi, their bodies actually trembled slightly beyond their control, as though they were facing a supreme ruler.
How was this possible?
What had they encountered?
The two immediately let out long howls and, without holding anything back, threw out all their Forbidden Treasures.
On Venerable Hundred Eyes's side, the eyes all over his body shot wildly in every direction...
Yet none of it was of any use.
Before that peerless Sword Qi, countless obstructions all exploded apart.
The Sword Qi was unstoppable, like divine light from beyond the heavens, swiftly shrouding the two men's bodies.
Rumble!
Aah!
Miserable screams rang out. The entire ground shook violently, and no one knew how many miles the explosion spanned.
Half of Xue Wuya's body was blown apart on the spot...
Every eyeball on Venerable Hundred Eyes's body exploded, and his body looked as though it had been washed in blood...
The two were terrified beyond measure. Without a second thought, they desperately used Blood Escape and fled into the distance.
Lu Chen's gaze was icy. With one slash of his sword, he immediately stepped forward, seeming to traverse the void as he rapidly pursued the two men.
This scene once more left Li Wangxu and Venerable Chiyan dumbstruck.
Their entire bodies trembled and their minds roared. They nearly began to doubt their lives.
This Daoist Lu...
Just how terrifying was it?!
"Daoist Lu, spare my life! I'm willing to give you all my points!"
"Me too! I'll give you all my points as well! Daoist Lu, give me another chance. I know I was wrong!"
The two newly advanced Divine Emperors were terrified beyond measure.
Not a shred of a Divine Emperor's majesty remained.
All that was left was the bedraggled misery of dogs without a home!
They wailed desperately, wanting only to flee this place at all costs.
Too terrifying!
Too horrifying!
The gap between them and Lu Chen had reached an unimaginable extent!
Clang!
Without a word, Lu Chen drew the Golden Divine Sword once more. A clear, ear-splitting ring burst from the scabbard, like a soul-chasing, life-stealing devil's tune echoing between heaven and earth.
It was still the Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art!
This strike seemed to lock onto their bodies, souls, consciousness, divine power, and endless vitality...
Leaving them with nowhere to retreat, nowhere to evade...
They felt as though their bodies had become targets, about to be struck down and perish on the spot!
"I refuse to accept this! I refuse! I could have made it out alive!"
Xue Wuya let out a shrill scream.
"Daoist Lu, give me a chance! Spare this old life of mine!"
Venerable Hundred Eyes also wailed miserably.
Under such terrifying pressure, the two dignified Divine Emperors could no longer muster even the courage to resist.
Whoosh!
Golden Sword Qi flashed past, tearing through the void in an instant and viciously slashing into their bodies.
Even though they used spatial scrolls and every means at their disposal, it was all useless.
The Golden Sword Qi struck straight at their origins.
Puff! Puff!
Blood sprayed through the air as the two Divine Emperor bodies crashed down from the sky. All life had drained from them, their eyes dimmed, and they died miserably on the spot.
[You killed two Divine Emperors with malicious intent. Merit Points +10,000,000!]
A line of text surfaced.
The strange gleam in those blood-red eyes high above grew even stronger.
They turned once more toward Lu Chen.
As though they regarded him as some beloved toy.
Lu Chen remained expressionless. Pretending not to notice those eyes, he stepped forward. After a few flickers, he swiftly appeared before Venerable Hundred Eyes and Xue Wuya, searching their bodies.
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