Lu Changsheng let out a long breath, and his tense back finally relaxed.
"Master is mighty! Master is invincible under heaven!"
Lu Ping'an came scrambling out from behind a pillar, his eyes sparkling with admiration, his voice filled with undisguised reverence.
"Your disciple saw it all clearly just now! That Demon Saint at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal level couldn't even scratch your formation, and then you called down heavenly lightning and blasted him to ashes!"
"What do you mean, I called down heavenly lightning? Don't talk nonsense."
Lu Changsheng glared at him, then casually straightened his Daoist robe, which had been ruffled by the surging magical power.
"The Heavenly Dao is impartial. I merely followed its will and used Great Dao Merit to protect myself."
"He brought this upon himself. His heart was crooked, he was tangled in karmic sin, and he still dared to attack my merit incarnation with a divine ability steeped in evil. That's what they call bringing ruin upon yourself—you can't live after doing such things."
Though he spoke with righteous indignation, the slight upward curl of Lu Changsheng's lips betrayed his excellent mood.
Using merit as a defense had worked astonishingly well.
If anyone dared to attack the formation again, he wouldn't even need to summon his flying sword. He could just smear golden merit light across the walls. One attacker would die; two would die.
"Then, Master, should we go out and loot—cough, cough, I mean, clean up the battlefield?"
Lu Ping'an rubbed his two front paws together, his eyes burning as he stared at the storage ring lying on the ground in the water mirror.
The possessions of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal! They might not compare to the vast stores in the Qilin Cliff Secret Treasury, but they were still a