Chapter 20

He pierced into the enemy ranks like a sharp blade. As his spirit blade danced, an enemy Golden Immortal's head flew into the air!

Even without any way to replenish his spiritual power, he held nothing back and unleashed every last bit of Immortal Power within him.

Holding back strength was the privilege of the strong.

Trapped in desperate circumstances, they could only fight to the death!

They would rather exhaust their Immortal Power and die in battle than leave their strength unused and perish in humiliation!

The Asura Race warriors' wealth of combat experience was fully displayed.

More than eighty Golden Immortal companions were equally resolute!

Throwing knives, Flying Swords, secret arts, Dao techniques—all their trump cards were unleashed, sworn to carve a bloody path through!

However...

It was futile!

Lu Tian made his judgment inwardly.

Such a tragic and heroic scene was certainly worthy of praise. A desperate counterattack by the weak against the strong would always have its courage remembered, becoming a fine tale even in failure.

But that was all.

Although the eighty-odd people had joined forces to instantly kill more than thirty enemy Golden Immortals,

they had already alerted the vast Golden Immortal army.

The enemy immediately dispatched three hundred Golden Immortals to bombard this breakout force together!

Three hundred attacks swept down like a storm.

Spread out!

The old captain gave the order calmly.

The breakout force instantly scattered, flexibly shifting formations to evade the combined strike.

But once separated, they immediately fell into even greater danger.

Enemies several times their number surrounded the scattered squads.

Each person faced three opponents of comparable strength.

Everyone's heart sank to the bottom.

Before an absolute disparity in strength, every tactic seemed powerless.

The eternal truth of the Primordial World was—

Strength ruled all!

More precisely, only sufficiently powerful individual strength could determine victory or defeat!

The Moon Washing Blade in Lu Tian's hand flashed with cold light.

His figure abruptly vanished from where he stood.

Blade light flashed.

A silver moon hung in the sky.

The three Golden Immortals surrounding him died in an instant!

That bright, perfect moon left every onlooker's heart trembling.

There was actually such breathtaking blade work in this world.

It could be called a miracle.

The crowd came back to its senses and erupted into terrified cries—

"Moon Washing! He's Moon Washing!"

The cries spread wantonly across the battlefield. No one stopped them, nor did anyone dare to.

Some even eagerly added embellishments.

In an instant, thousands upon thousands of shouts rose and fell.

"Moon Washing has appeared!"

"Moon Washing truly is here!"

"Watch out for Moon Washing's blade!"

The atmosphere on the battlefield changed abruptly. The grim killing intent was transformed into a roaring uproar.

Countless people shouted that name.

Some even paused in a daze and looked toward the blade-wielding figure.

Even the old captain, who was usually so composed, sent him a shocked glance with his Divine Sense.

How had that junior who had buried himself in blade practice a thousand years ago become the renowned "Moon Washing" of the entire universe?

The mystery left him utterly baffled.

Lu Tian had no time for words.

He merely raised his wrist and swung his blade. Wherever its edge pointed, all directions turned cold.

Chilling blade radiance tore through the heavens.

Overwhelming might swept across the land.

The crescent moon was like a sickle.

Six thousand Immortal Souls were severed at once.

Lu Tian suddenly struck.

This attack had long been planned. Before anyone could react, he had to slaughter every Golden Immortal across the battlefield.

Swift as the wind, fierce as fire.

He launched a surprise attack, severed their life force, and sent the immortals together into the Netherworld!

The results were quite good.

Six thousand immortal heads fell to the ground!

The blade force from all eight directions sealed heaven and earth, while deadly traps were laid within the River of Time and Space.

Only when every avenue of escape had been cut off could such a shocking achievement be attained!

Once the eight strikes were unleashed, even the four Taiyi combatants in the midst of battle were stunned.

How could the Allied Forces' Taiyi miss such an opportunity?

He immediately burned his blood essence and fled deep into the void while his enemies were stunned.

In the blink of an eye, his figure vanished beyond layers upon layers of spatial barriers.

Lu Tian watched coldly.

The abilities of a Taiyi Golden Immortal truly were no trivial matter.

Though that Taiyi from the Allied Forces was not among the strongest, his mastery of the Space-Time Law had reached an extraordinary height. In an instant, he could traverse countless spaces.

Lu Tian's Spiritual Sense had previously locked onto his trail. He watched the man break through more than four hundred small-world barriers in succession, only to completely lose his presence in the end, with no idea where he had fled.

Though the prey had escaped,

the Taiyi of the Three Great Tribes showed not the slightest disappointment. Instead, they stared at Lu Tian with burning eyes, as though they had discovered a rare treasure!

The reason was obvious—

The fleeing Taiyi was merely an evenly matched opponent to them. Even in a one-on-one fight, the outcome would be hard to determine.

But if Lu Tian broke through to the Taiyi Realm, they would have no choice but to await slaughter!

This god of killing's achievements in the Golden Immortal Realm were simply horrifying—

Upon first entering the Golden Immortal Realm, he had slain three thousand peers with his blade, shaking the entire Crimson Continent;

In four hundred years, he had reached the peak of the Golden Immortal Realm and harvested six thousand Golden Immortal heads in a single battle!

The terror of his advancement speed sent chills down the spines of all three Taiyi Golden Immortals.

Though they were prodigies of the Asura Race, they could never have accomplished such feats in the Golden Immortal Realm.

Join forces and kill this bastard!

He is merely a Golden Immortal. Deal with him first!

How could he emerge unscathed after eight consecutive strikes? He must be at the end of his rope now!

Three strands of Divine Sense intertwined in the void. Though their wording differed, they reached the same conclusion—

Lu Tian had to die!

The battlefield immediately presented a strange scene:

The surviving Golden Immortals fled for their lives, as though death-seeking demons were chasing them from behind;

Meanwhile, the three Taiyi burned with battle intent. They looked at Lu Tian like hunters who had found a gravely wounded primordial beast, and three earth-shattering killing moves erupted at once!

The fish-like Flying Sword had only just appeared in the void when it stabbed toward Lu Tian's brow. Its target was not his flesh, but the Purple Mansion secret realm where his True Spirit was concealed!

Lu Tian swept his blade in an arc, and bright moonlight condensed into a full-moon barrier.

Amid the clanging of metal, the Flying Sword actually turned into an insubstantial phantom.

Like a wandering soul that had lost its shell, it was left with only a wisp of ethereal consciousness.

The longsword abruptly assumed an incorporeal form, passing through the Moon Washing Blade and stabbing straight into the depths of his Purple Mansion!

At the same time, the other two Taiyi experts of the Asura Race did not stand idly by.

One raised a seven-story pagoda above Lu Tian's head. Green light poured down like a waterfall. Bathed in that green radiance, Lu Tian immediately felt as if his limbs had been filled with lead, while his Spiritual Sense moved as sluggishly as though trapped in a mire.

The other Taiyi, skilled in close combat, was even more decisive and murderous!

As blade light flashed, he had already closed in before Lu Tian. His cold blade, carrying bone-piercing frost, came crashing down upon him.

Each of these Taiyi Golden Immortals had their own strengths. All had cultivated their respective Dao paths to perfection. As their Five Elements Bodies circulated, Immortal Power flowed endlessly, and every gesture could unleash heaven-shaking might.

Only now did Lu Tian truly understand why the Taiyi Realm was called the watershed of the immortal path. Even his feat of annihilating six thousand immortals with Moon Like a Hook would not be difficult in the eyes of a Taiyi.

Within the Purple Mansion, the phantom formed by Lu Tian's True Spirit suddenly surged with demonic qi, taking on the form of a Nine Nether Evil Ghost. Before the spirit sword could react, it was seized tightly by demonic claws, its blade releasing a shrill tremble.

The Asura Taiyi sensed something was wrong and hurriedly tried to recall his Natal Spirit Sword—this sword had accompanied him through a million years of battle and was his greatest reliance against those of the same realm.

Unfortunately, it was already too late.

The demonic True Spirit bared its fangs and viciously bit down on the spirit sword. Had they not been spiritual bodies fighting one another, those sharp teeth would likely have shattered on the spot.

The battle outside did not pause either. The Moon Washing Blade in Lu Tian's hand traced a clear, cold arc.

Clang!

The moment the two blades collided, the Asura Taiyi used the force to retreat far away, his movement as swift as a startled swan.

In that flash of lightning, the hovering pagoda crashed down and completely trapped Lu Tian within it.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The pagoda shook violently, as though it had trapped a primordial beast. Yet the Asura Taiyi who had tempered the tower with his life's work wore a mocking expression. "A Demon Suppressing Pagoda forged through three million years of labor—how could the likes of you break it?"

His pagoda was quite famous among Taiyi Golden Immortals. It had once imprisoned an expert of the same realm for thirty thousand years, driving him mad before refining him alive!

But before he could recover from his shock—

Boom!

The pagoda upon which he had placed such high hopes suddenly shattered!

Competing in magical treasures?

How could Lu Tian possibly lose here?

The Moon Washing Blade shone with chilling light as Lu Tian burst from the tower. With a flash, he stood suspended in the air!

Clear moonlight spilled down!

Another full moon appeared.

Blood splashed, staining the cold moon red.

Yet Lu Tian frowned slightly.

This strike had actually failed to kill his opponent?

The man had been cleaved in two, yet the halves of his body rapidly fused like flowing water before fleeing into the distance.

Lu Tian raised an eyebrow, recognizing the technique—

A Five Elements Body, specializing in the Water Element; the body had been refined until it was as formless as water.

Cut water with a blade, and it only flowed on!

Without a special method, it would be difficult to kill him completely.

The thought flashed through his mind.

He swung his blade backward, precisely blocking the spirit blade striking from behind.

Taiyi Golden Immortals truly were far more troublesome than Golden Immortals.

However...

It was not as though there was no solution.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The Moon Washing Blade danced like a flower in Lu Tian's hand, blocking every strike from his opponent.

The blade-wielding Taiyi Golden Immortal felt stifled—

Lu Tian's Blade Technique was actually far superior to his own, sealing off every route of attack!

But he had accumulated experience in the Taiyi Realm for several million years. How long had Lu Tian cultivated? How could his Blade Technique be so monstrously powerful?

What he did not know was—

Lu Tian was multitasking!

Within the Purple Mansion, his True Spirit was still entangled with that spirit sword.

Though the teeth of his True Spirit had nearly shattered, a row of bite marks had been left on the spirit sword!

Realizing that Lu Tian's True Spirit was extraordinary, the Taiyi hurriedly cast a spell to recall the spirit sword.

With the previous lesson in mind, he absolutely did not want to lose another magical treasure.

Yet things did not go as he wished.

Lu Tian's True Spirit clamped down on the spirit sword, and with a thought, dragged it into the Zero World.

This was Lu Tian's realm of illusion!

The spirit sword entered the realm—

The Taiyi suddenly froze. He had completely lost his connection to the spirit sword, as though it had fled into another layer of heaven and earth.

How could this be?

His eyes widened in disbelief.

Even across realms, the spirit sword should have sensed something. Yet now, it was like a stone sinking into the sea!

Pfft!

He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

The connection between the spirit sword and Lu Tian abruptly vanished. That spirit sword had actually been completely destroyed!

Seizing this opportunity.

Lu Tian swiftly deployed multiple defensive secret arts, forcibly withstood the saber-wielding Taiyi's attack, then countered with a Moon Like a Hook slash at the Taiyi who was coughing blood.

The opponent's body instantly disintegrated into ash, leaving only a few severed limbs struggling to reassemble.

Lu Tian's offensive did not let up.

Layers of protection enveloped him as he once again took the saber-wielding Taiyi's slash head-on. Another crescent-shaped flash of cold light swept past!

This time, the enemy could no longer turn things around. His remaining body completely collapsed, and he ultimately perished in silence.

At the sight, the saber-wielding Taiyi's pupils shrank sharply. Without hesitation, he turned and fled!

On the distant other side of the Crimson Continent.

Inside Styx's palace, the three supreme experts of the Primordial World were likewise struck speechless with shock!

As a Golden Immortal, he had fought three Taiyis alone. Not only had he slain one of them, but he had even frightened off the other two!

It was simply unimaginable!

Even Styx could not help doubting his own eyes.

This was an utterly impossible feat, yet Lu Tian had accomplished it!

Unprecedented and never to be repeated?

No, this was the first time since the creation of heaven and earth!

Since ancient times in the Primordial World, no one had ever challenged three stronger opponents across realms!

Though fighting above one's level was not entirely unheard of—through special magical treasures, formations, or secret arts, the weak could indeed defeat the strong.

But for someone like Lu Tian to confront them head-on and powerfully slay one amid the siege of three Taiyis was truly a wonder unheard of throughout the ages!