Chapter 3040
Meng Qi's journey to the Middle Ages had originally been meant to face obstacles arranged by Maitreya, who wanted to influence the Azure Emperor.
But by now, the Azure Emperor had publicly taken that crucial step. What remained could no longer be influenced by external forces, so no further arrangements were made.
After all, Amitabha, Maitreya's backer, possessed more than enough information.
Even though, for reasons of his own, he would not interfere excessively until a critical moment, he could still employ minor tricks much like Little Glutton.
After learning from Xu Yue that Recoome and the others were deceiving the Overlord into heading for the Pure Yangzi Mausoleum, Meng Qi hurried in that direction as well.
Although Chong He, Lu Da, and Su Wuming were also in the Middle Ages and would likely go stop him,
their realms were, after all, still only at the Earth Immortal level.
Even with the Zhu Xian Sword Array, they likely could not withstand the Overlord's edge!
Just as Meng Qi could use the Heaven Opening Seal to break the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation,
before a fierce figure like the Overlord, whose attacks had reached the extreme and even surpassed his current realm,
the incomplete Zhu Xian Sword Array, capable only of dealing with those below the Legendary Realm, could probably do no more than delay him briefly.
Su Daji had once evaluated the Overlord's attacks during his Heavenly Immortal period. Even Yuan Hong had lacked the embryonic form of that terrifying move that pierced through past and present.
Had the Overlord not died, he would have achieved at least Perfection of Creation.
Thus, aside from Xu Yue, even Meng Qi still had an obvious gap compared to the Overlord.
When Meng Qi, Xu Yue, and the Primordial Fairy arrived,