"Sparring"

Lu Ren smiled warmly as he looked at the Dao Fruit revolving behind the Jade Emperor, forming **. He was also dressed in an imperial robe, his body covered in Dao artifacts—the Son of Heaven Sword hung at his waist, Wind Cloud Boots beneath his feet, and the Divine Might Crown upon his head. His equipment practically armed him to the teeth.

Tathagata beside him was much the same. He wore the Buddha Kasaya, the Thousand Buddha Beads wrapped around his hand, and sat upon the floating Thirty-Six Petal Golden Lotus. Behind his head, the Buddha Dao Fruit shone with radiant Buddhist light. His appearance was solemn and majestic, his divine might like a prison.

Seeing this, Essence Qi of the Great Earth surged through Lu Ren's body. He drew boundless essence from the void and formed it into divine armor, while a Sky-Supporting Greatsword appeared in his hand with impressive realism.

The Celestial Immortal aura Lu Ren displayed had completely exceeded the Jade Emperor and Tathagata's expectations. After breaking through to the Celestial Immortal Realm, the first thing they had done was discuss joining forces to come here. They wanted to prevent Lu Ren from making a desperate last stand and producing some hidden trump card capable of crossing an entire major realm to injure them, so they could kill him first.

Afterward, they would compete for the opportunity to attain the Dao based on their own strength.

Yet this scene before them plunged both men into silence. They appeared exceedingly calm, but inwardly, each of them was screaming wildly.

This was fucking poisonous. The witchcraft path had originally ended at the Earthly Immortal Realm, yet he had actually broken through the Shackles within the framework of the witchcraft path and reached the Celestial Immortal level.

This operation had