"Lu Yuan, are you really determined to wipe us out?"
Standing before a sheer cliff, Zhao Wuji, utterly exhausted, said with a gloomy expression.
At first, Zhao Wuji had been thrilled when he encountered Lu Yuan.
He had never expected that the first person he met after entering the Divine Martial Heavenly Ruins would be Lu Yuan, the person he most wanted to kill.
At the same time, he had been brimming with confidence. Not long ago, through a Peerless Treasure, his strength had successfully broken through the limits and become unparalleled throughout the ages, surpassing even a Prodigy Supreme.
He had believed that he now possessed the strength to crush Lu Yuan.
Yet he had never imagined that Lu Yuan's strength would be so terrifying.
Lu Yuan had actually suppressed him in battle.
Lu Yuan was dressed in white as pure as snow. His eyes held no unnecessary emotion, only a cold killing intent that ebbed and flowed.
"Zhao Wuji, do you think there's still room for compromise between us?"
"How could there not be?"
Zhao Wuji hurriedly said, "Even if the family is gone, it can be rebuilt. But if you kill me, the Dark Immortal Hall definitely won't let you off."
Zhao Wuji was genuinely afraid now. Lu Yuan had completely shattered his courage.
Looking at Zhao Wuji in this state, Lu Yuan shook his head, disappointment flashing in his eyes. Then he swung his sword.
Zhao Wuji's excellent head shot into the sky, spraying blood, before falling to the ground. A trace of hope still lingered in his eyes.
Looking at the head on the ground, its eyes already devoid of light, Lu Yuan remained silent for a long while.
He had not expected to encounter Zhao Wuji so quickly either.
But since they had met, Zhao Wuji had to die.
The fact that Zhao Wuji had managed to flee thousands, even tens of thousands, of miles from him showed that Break Limit Fourth Layer was not completely useless.
As Zhao Wuji's body and head were gradually covered by ants and other insects, Lu Yuan waved his hand and took his storage treasure, then turned and left.
As for the Dark Immortal Hall's retaliation, Lu Yuan did not care in the slightest.
He and the Dark Immortal Hall had already been locked in a life-or-death struggle.
Not long after Lu Yuan left.
Only then did Pei Xingzhi dare to breathe heavily and walk out. Looking at the corpse on the ground, which had already been gnawed into a skeleton by countless ants and insects, he felt terrified.
That had been Zhao Wuji—not some nameless nobody.
He had been one of the Young Masters of the Five Supreme Powers of the Dark Continent!
Yet today, he had died here without a sound.
For a moment, Pei Xingzhi was filled with mixed emotions.
At the same time, he became more vigilant. He absolutely could not be discovered by anyone, especially not by Lu Yuan.
After arriving beside a stream, Lu Yuan crouched down, scooped up some clear water, and washed his face and hands. Then he simply sat where he was and began checking the system.
The moment he entered the Divine Martial Heavenly Ruins.
The check-in quest had already been completed.
Now it was time to claim the check-in reward.
With a trace of excitement, Lu Yuan moved his mind. The next second, an Ancient Abyss Divine Sword, one and a half meters long and a palm's breadth wide, appeared in his hand.
The divine sword was dark gold throughout, its blade covered in densely packed Law Imprints.
From top to bottom, it radiated a sharp, mysterious, and powerful aura.
With such a divine weapon, even an ordinary mortal with no cultivation could slay kings and emperors.
Lu Yuan stroked the blade inch by inch, unable to bear putting it down.
He raised the sword and could not help swinging it toward the front. He had not used any spiritual power, relying solely on physical strength.
Yet in the next second, a dark-golden sword aura tore through the air. Carrying an unstoppable momentum, it cleaved apart a mountain range in the distance.
"Hiss~"
Lu Yuan's pupils contracted slightly. What terrifying power.
He could not imagine how terrifying the power of such a divine weapon would be in the hands of an Immortal or even a Dominator.
Could it cleave apart a Middle World with one strike?
"Before I become an Immortal, I absolutely cannot reveal this sword carelessly."
Lu Yuan warned himself inwardly.
An ordinary man was innocent, but possessing a treasure made him guilty.
The Ancient Abyss Divine Sword was something that would make even Dominators covet it.
After putting away the sword, Lu Yuan could not help looking forward to the upcoming check-in quest.
He settled his mind.
Lu Yuan's consciousness entered a Virtual Realm.
There was no one inside the Virtual Realm.
It seemed they were all still hurrying over.
Lu Yuan sensed the surroundings and discovered that two people from Qingling Star Travel had already arrived within ten thousand miles of him.
He continued waiting. Before long, Lu Yuan saw the two people approaching.
Qing Wuji was not among them.
Lu Yuan was somewhat disappointed. Aside from Qing Wuji, everyone else was deadweight to him.
But since he had already agreed to Qingling Star Travel, Lu Yuan would not break his word. He was still a man of his word.
"Captain Lu."
The two people who arrived were a man and a woman. Both were at Heavenly Saint Perfection, but neither had achieved Break Limit.
When they saw Lu Yuan, the two quietly sighed in relief.
Lu Yuan gave them an unparalleled sense of security.
Lu Yuan nodded at them and asked, "Did you encounter any danger on the way?"
The two shook their heads.
"No. We were quite lucky."
At that, the two could not help feeling a little smug. After all, luck was also a part of strength.
"Then wait here for now. Once everyone else arrives, we'll move together," Lu Yuan said.
"Okay."
Neither of them had any objections to Lu Yuan's words.
Sitting on the ground without moving, Lu Yuan began to think.
The Divine Martial Heavenly Ruins had once been a battlefield in the distant past. The weakest participants had all been Heavenly Venerables or above.
By now, the Divine Martial Heavenly Ruins had become a treasure vault.
The best-known treasures were the Law Crystals.
Besides those, there were also the inheritances left behind by the fallen experts.
Still, as the saying went, all things in the world balanced yin and yang.
The Divine Martial Heavenly Ruins were not without danger.
Countless experts had fallen here, giving rise to a special type of life known as Ghosts.
Ghosts could be strong or weak. They had no self-awareness and would automatically attack any living creature they saw.
And the Law Crystals came from the Ghosts.
That was because the source of the Ghosts' power was the Law Crystals.
The three of them did not wait long before one prodigy after another from Qingling Star Travel arrived.
Qing Wuji had arrived as well.
He glanced at Lu Yuan, then at the others, and said, "There's no need to wait for the rest. They're all dead."
"Dead!"
The crowd became somewhat restless, because three people had yet to arrive.
Lu Yuan stood up and patted the hem of his clothes. Indifferently, he said, "Only three people have fallen. That counts as good news."
"Where is the nearest ancient city?" Lu Yuan asked Qing Wuji.
Most Ghosts gathered inside ancient cities. The Divine Martial Heavenly Ruins had not been opened for the first time, and the locations of every ancient city had been recorded.
As the Young Master of Qingling Star Travel, Qing Wuji naturally possessed such top-secret information.
Hearing Lu Yuan's question, Qing Wuji took out an ancient beast-skin map. After glancing at it, he wore a slightly strange expression and said, "The nearest ancient city is Crimson Flame Ancient City, roughly a hundred and fifty thousand miles to the northeast."
"Then let's go. Don't waste time."
As he spoke, Lu Yuan had already flown toward the northeast.
Qing Wuji opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but held back at the last moment.
Afterward, everyone followed closely in Lu Yuan's footsteps.
At the same time.
Roughly a hundred thousand miles northwest of Crimson Flame Ancient City.
The team from the Bright Continent was also heading toward Crimson Flame Ancient City.
In the endless depths of space.
"Hehe, this is rather interesting. I heard that Lu Yuan of the Dark Continent's mother came from the Nangong Family. If that's true, Lu Yuan and Nangong Muyue are cousins. I'm really looking forward to seeing what will happen between them. Will they join forces, or will they fight fiercely?"
An expert spoke.
The old woman from the Bright Continent said coldly, "Joining forces is absolutely impossible. Although they are cousins, they have never met even once from birth until now. After Lu Yuan's mother married Lu An, she never returned to the Nangong Family. Their relationship was severed long ago."
On the Dark Continent's side, the Sky-Pacifying Master laughed and said, "I also think it's impossible, because Lu Yuan will kill everyone from the Bright Continent. Of course, perhaps for the sake of their blood relation, he might spare that little girl Nangong Muyue."
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