Lu Xuan's Agreement with the Asura God

"To be honest, Medical Saint, if the heavenly punishment you mentioned means being struck by lightning, then I happened to have experienced heavenly punishment once."

Lu Xuan's words were astonishing.

Ye Linchi looked visibly moved.

They also sparked heated discussion outside the Sky Screen.

"If he's a Supreme Douluo, then isn't suffering heavenly punishment perfectly normal?"

"The most badass part isn't that he suffered heavenly punishment. Does Supreme Douluo look like he took any damage?"

"I'm really curious how Supreme Douluo survived heavenly punishment."

Lu Xuan summoned the Godslayer Sword and gently ran a finger along its blade as he reminisced.

"After I consumed immortal herbs, the Seven-Kill Soul-Devouring Sword had already undergone a transformation. Later, in Slaughter City, I cultivated the path of slaughter to its limit. The Godslayer Domain and the Seven-Kill Soul-Devouring Sword mutated. The Seven-Kill Soul-Devouring Sword transformed into the Godslayer Sword, and the Godslayer Domain evolved into the Godslaying Domain. That was when I suffered heavenly punishment."

"That time, bloody lightning chased me through half of Slaughter City. I suspected a god was screwing with me behind the scenes; there was clearly something extra mixed into that heavenly lightning. Logically speaking, I should have just shattered it with a single strike. Simple enough. Yet a Divine Trial was hidden within it. Once I survived the heavenly punishment, the Divine Trial would bind itself to me."

As Lu Xuan recalled the past, his voice gradually turned cold.

"Later, I discovered that it really was the Asura God plotting against me!"

"He had coveted me for a long time!"

"He wanted me to inherit his Divine Trial? Not a chance!"

"We both walk the path of slaughter, so why should I, Lu Xuan, follow behind his ass? I have my own path!"

I doubt the Asura God understands the path of slaughter better than I do!

Outside the Sky Screen.

The audience was thoroughly exhilarated.

That felt amazing!

"He even scorned a Divine Trial! This is what it means to be a Supreme Douluo!"

"I have my own path! That line is so badass! I'm writing it down to use later!"

"And then? How did Supreme Douluo refuse the Divine Trial?"

Slaughter City.

Tang Chen, parasitized by the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, sat upon a blood-red throne with a glass of Bloody Mary in hand. A mocking smile appeared in his scarlet eyes.

"Keep bragging! No one in this world can resist the allure of a Divine Trial. Besides, the Asura God's Trial already has an owner. How could it possibly chase after you?"

Sea God Island.

The High Priestess Bo Saixi stood barefoot upon the beach, yet her feet remained flawlessly clean, untouched by even a speck of sand. Gazing at the Sky Screen, she murmured.

"Is there really someone in this world who believes he does not need to inherit a Divine Trial, that he can become a god through his own efforts?"

"Could Supreme Douluo's talent truly compare to that of the majestic Sea God?"

"If that is true, then since he visited Sea God Island, why did the Sea God's Nine Trials not choose him? Could it be that even the Sea God failed to catch his eye?"

Sky Screen timeline—

Ye Linchi was deeply shocked by Lu Xuan's account.

Yet Ye Qingshui, who had remained silent before her father like a statue, maintaining a quiet and demure posture, became excited almost instantly and impatiently pressed him for an answer.

"And then?"

"Did you compromise, Supreme Douluo?"

Lu Xuan spat.

"Compromise my ass!"

"The Asura God tried to force himself on me, so I ran and killed through Slaughter City until I had slaughtered half the place clean. Only then was he finally willing to talk to me."

"Afterward, we reached an agreement."

At this point, Lu Xuan still looked indignant, as though he had suffered a tremendous injustice.

"What agreement?"

Ye Qingshui was nearly frantic. She actually ran out from behind her father and shook Lu Xuan by the arm.

"The agreement was that I must create my own godhood within a hundred years, and it could not be below the level of a first-class god. Otherwise, I would obediently return to Slaughter City and inherit the Asura God's Trial!"

"The Asura God originally gave me three hundred years. Who was he looking down on? I made him change it to one hundred years!"

Lu Xuan did not care.

It was just empty talk. He would agree first and worry about it later.

Now that he had Red Bean Bun.

He even thought a hundred years was too long!

Yet outside the Sky Screen, the audience collectively fell silent.

Become a god within a hundred years!

Was that possible?

Even Pope Bibi Dong began to doubt.

"Teacher was still too impulsive. The Asura God... seems to be an exceptionally powerful deity in the Divine Realm. Inheriting the Asura God's Trial would actually be quite good."

"Still, Teacher was young and hot-blooded. That is normal."

But if one was not hot-blooded,

could one still be called young?

Sky Screen timeline—

Ye Qingshui's pretty face flushed red, filled with excitement and admiration.

"Supreme Douluo, you're so cool!"

"Other than Slaughter City, where else have you been? I'm so jealous of you. I want to travel the continent like you too, throwing my weight around everywhere..."

Overcome by emotion, Ye Qingshui actually blurted out what was in her heart.

Causing her old father, Ye Linchi, to cough behind her.

If he did not stop her soon!

This girl would run off with him herself!

Lu Xuan corrected her as well.

"I never throw my weight around. I am a reasonable man."

His Godslayer Sword was also known as the Moral Sword.

It was also called the Reasoning Sword!

Outside the Sky Screen.

Ye Lingling poked Ye Qingshui's arm and asked in surprise.

"Mom, so your dream was to travel the continent?"

"Then why are you such a homebody now?"

Ye Qingshui was silent for a moment before she spoke.

"Traveling the continent is not that easy..."

The relatives around her had all died while traveling the continent or hunting soul beasts. What did little Lingling know of the cruelty of the soul master world?

Within the Sky Screen.

Ye Linchi asked.

"Then, Your Supreme Eminence, how did you survive heavenly punishment?"

Lu Xuan gave an "oh."

"Wasn't that thing shattered with one sword strike?"

"Still, I cannot guarantee that Ye Qingshui will emerge unscathed. Who knows whether the heavenly punishment I encountered was simply too weak?"

Ye Linchi pondered for a moment before speaking.

"Your Supreme Eminence, if you wish to take my daughter as your disciple, that is her honor."

"I am old. Let my daughter make her own decision. No matter the consequences, she will ultimately have to bear responsibility herself."

Ye Qingshui raised her hand.

"I'm willing!"

She was tired of Heaven Dou City's unchanging life, and tired of spending every day dealing only with medical books. She only wanted to see this magnificent and tumultuous world for herself.

Even if it was fraught with danger.

Beneath the Sky Screen, Ye Qingshui, now the head of the Ye Family and the current Nine-Hearted Medical Saint, looked at her younger self, and her eyes inexplicably grew moist.

Go see it! Go venture forth!

Go do the things I wanted to do in my youth but never could!

Sensing the change in her mother's emotions, Ye Lingling burrowed into her embrace and suddenly said.

"Mom, it would be great if Supreme Douluo could come to our time and space..."

"You'd still be so beautiful..."

Thanks to her little padded jacket's understanding.

Ye Qingshui's sorrow was swept away completely!

Ye Lingling's wail rang out through the courtyard.

Sky Screen timeline—

Lu Xuan gave the Nine-Grade Purple Lingzhi to Ye Linchi.

He also asked about the extent to which the Nine-Hearted Begonia could repair injuries.

"It can even restore severed limbs over a small area..."

Lu Xuan pondered for a moment, took out a ten-thousand-year spirit herb, and used the Godslayer Sword to cut off part of it. He then said to Ye Linchi.

"Medical Saint, please try and see whether you can restore this spirit herb."

Ye Linchi: "..."

He still followed Lu Xuan's request and gave it a try.

The result that appeared.

Deeply shocked Ye Linchi.

It also left the entire continent in another time and space.

As if they had seen a ghost!