A Trial by Combat
"May you two be good people in your next life!" Lu Yan'an murmured, gazing at the scene hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, which resembled a star exploding.
He stopped thinking about it and focused on collecting the spoils of war. Such terrifying energy fluctuations meant it was best to leave as soon as possible; otherwise, attracting a large number of "powerful individuals" would drive him crazy!
Three seconds later, a look of satisfaction appeared in Lu Yan'an's eyes.
"Indeed, murder and arson bring wealth; the ancients were right. Hahaha, I never imagined two ordinary military-level immortals could be so rich. They must have robbed me through fishing, right?"
"Hmm? Those two actually have an F7-class spaceship, their wealth is truly immeasurable! But that's to be expected, after all, they are two high-ranking military commanders, and they're in the business of robbery, so making money is quick for them."
"What a pity, that coyote destroyed his Space Ring along with it when it self-destructed. Otherwise, I would have had even more loot!"
"What a pity!"
"Hmm?" Lu Yan'an quickly turned around, and a wave of World Energy suddenly surged around him.
The next instant, a figure silently appeared in front of Lu Yan'an. He looked closely and then realized that it was the World Lord Level bait that he hadn't paid much attention to before. "What, is something wrong?"
The young World Lord's eyes flashed with astonishment the moment he saw Lu Yan'an. He had considered that the two previous explosions might have been caused by two immortals ambushing someone, but he never imagined that the cause of this outcome would be a Peak World Lord like himself.
Of course, as a World Lord had spent many years navigating the Outer Region Battlefield, he naturally understood the gap between an immortal and World Lord. But at this moment, even with his resolute will, he couldn't help but sigh, "Is this what the core geniuses of major powers are like?"
After calming himself down, he crossed his left arm across his chest, extended his left hand with his palm down, and bowed slightly. In a cool, clear voice, he said, "Thank you for rescuing me, sir. I have been imprisoned by them for over ten thousand years."
Lu Yan'an said coldly, "Heh, ten thousand years! Considering you're just a low-level player in this Yuanming Continent and won't cause any trouble, get lost! Leave before I change my mind!"
A flicker of struggle crossed the World Lord's eyes. As an ordinary World Lord, surviving on the Mingguang Continent, a land teeming with powerful figures, was an incredibly difficult task. But seeing Lu Yan'an's attitude towards him, he wisely refrained from saying anything more. He maintained his previous posture, bent over again, then swiftly turned and flew into the sky, disappearing without a trace!
Lu Yan'an chuckled. He was also out here to gain experience, not some saint. With his experience, he could naturally tell that this World Lord probably needed his help with something. But what human rights did a prisoner have? Why should Lu Yan'an help him? Did he think he had too few requests?
Lu Yan'an was flying in the sky above the outer layer of the Yuanming Continent in a spaceship. His swift and decisive killing of two military lord-level immortals had given him a new understanding of Lu Yan'an strength beyond the Time Fusion Law.
"I'll hone myself, hone myself properly. I'll start by honing my skills from the outside in on the outer layer of the Yuanming Continent, testing the level of Feng Wang here." Lu Yan'an made his decision. Having roughly determined the strength of his own Time Fusion Law, he no longer even cared about becoming Marquis Immortal!
"My Lord Shen, let's stop at that mountain range ahead for a while."
Whoosh!
Lu Yan'an stored the spaceship and then quietly swooped into the mountain range alone. The interior of the mountain range was dotted with caves of all sizes, and there was even a super-large cave in the center. However, just by looking at the walls of the various caves covered with some unknown plants, it was clear that no life had lived in this mountain range for a long time.
"From today onwards, this is my lair." Lu Yan'an stretched out his hand, "My Lord Shen, scan the energy reaction of the entire mountain range, just in case anything goes wrong!"
"Understood!" A moment later, the Lord Shen's voice rang in his ears. "Alright, the energy scan of the entire mountain range is complete! No energy reaction was found."
The detection instrument can monitor a range of tens of millions of kilometers, and can also conduct "high-intensity" detection over a range of 100,000 kilometers. Scanning a mountain range is naturally a piece of cake. Even though the area of the Yuanming Continent is much larger than the area of Yuan Planet, scanning a mountain range is still no problem at all!
Hearing the Lord Shen's feedback, Lu Yan'an nodded. Then, he flew towards a small cave nearby. As for the enormous cave in the middle, would someone as cautious as Lu Yan'an place himself in such an obvious location?
Aside from the equipment, coupled with my own caution and the World Projection, there shouldn't be any major safety issues here!
"At least during my cultivation, the arrangements I make will ensure that my cultivation is not disturbed! After all, detection instruments are just instruments, and they will always make mistakes, but Heart Power will not." Lu Yan'an then began to arrange the hall, which would soon become his temporary small base.
The grueling journey began. Based on survival experiences from Outer Region Battlefield found on the Virtual Universe Network and his own personal experiences, Lu Yan'an's life-and-death trials on the Outer Region Battlefield also revealed certain patterns.
After a hunting and battle, the time it takes to reflect, comprehend, and cultivate oneself can range from ten days to half a month, or even three to five months.
It's important to know that most people who venture into the Yuanming Continent travel in small teams. Lu Yan'an, however, will have to fight alone!
It was indeed very difficult for him to enter and exit a group of immortals who had been granted titles of Feng Wang and Marquis Immortal seven times, even with his power of the Time Fusion Law. Sometimes he was even surrounded and defeated, so he had to use the World Projection of his heart to impose certain restrictions.
Lu Yan'an's comprehension of the laws was already at the level of the 20th level of the Tongtian Bridge. Furthermore, the 200-fold increase in his Life Gene Level compensated for his foundational strength World Lord, making his overall strength barely qualify as High King. His main weakness was his Spiritual Force World Energy, which was at the "Peak World Lord level," making his foundation too weak. Moreover, Lu Yan'an, despite being a "High King," lacked Undying Body and couldn't even burn Immortal Divine Power; to be precise, he was only slightly stronger than a normal peak Immortal Peak Marquis.
Using War Blade in close combat, the attack power can reach the High King. However, because it cannot burn Immortal Divine Power, it is completely unable to truly harm King-level Immortal who has already condensed Undying Body.
How difficult is it to eliminate a powerful being with an Undying Body? For ordinary powerful beings, the only way is to forcibly annihilate them.
Forcibly annihilating them is very difficult!
It relies on overwhelming power to destroy the opponent's Immortal Divine Power, utterly annihilating them! As long as the opponent's Immortal Divine Power is completely annihilated... the opponent will naturally die.
There are two ways to force annihilation.
The first reason is that the gap is too large. Beings like the City Lord of Chaos, or those like the Universe Venerable, can annihilate Marquis Immortal with a flick of their wrist, without needing to pay any price. When the difference in levels is too great, it is very easy to annihilate Undying Body.
The second scenario involves a smaller gap. A "Initial King" level cultivator might be able to repeatedly annihilate a "High-level Marquis" level cultivator, but the latter can simply regenerate. In this case, killing the latter requires a price. "Burning one's own Immortal Divine Power!" Once burned, this means a permanent loss of that divine power, along with the very small amount of soul it contains—a permanent loss!
Once Immortal Divine Power is burned, the instantaneous attack power generated is terrifying. Of course, for the corresponding immortal, this loss is also terrifying! Annihilating the divine power burned by a High-level Marquis would take even Initial King a hundred or a thousand years to recover.
Certainly--
If a "High King" killer were to kill a "High-level Marquis" killer, even without burning Immortal Divine Power, a normal attack would be enough to damage the killer's essence. A slight burning of Immortal Divine Power would easily annihilate the killer, who would then recover in a few years.
Lu Yan'an, who used the Supreme Treasure "Six-Phase Sealing Bead" to conceal his World Lord, was extremely frustrated in the battle against the Alien Race immortal squad! He was unable to burn his divine power to inflict real damage on these Feng Hou and King Level powerhouses, and his Supreme Treasure was not like the Shiwu Wings, which could directly annihilate Immortal Divine Body Supreme Treasure physical means. Therefore, he was helpless in many ways during the battle.
He was reluctant to use the Six-Phase Sealing Method, a secret technique he considered his trump card, but the biggest problem now was that he had no other way to annihilate Divine Body above the Marquis-level Immortal.
His current opponents are only enemies at the Feng Hou level, whom he can directly kill using the Six-Phase Sealing Method without relying on the Six-Phase Sealing Bead. However, once he enters the inner layers of the Yuanming Continent to compete, information about the Six-Phase Sealing Method will be leaked, and at that time, his trump card will no longer be a trump card!
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