For four years, the Energy Points he gained each day had been counted in the hundreds of millions!
And the instant he acquired those Energy Points, Lu Qingyun poured them into either his cultivation or his techniques!
Eye techniques, illusion arts, movement techniques, divine abilities!
Lu Qingyun had mastered every high-grade technique stored within the Lu Family and thoroughly integrated them all!
The Heavenly Eye he had used earlier was the result of more than a hundred eye techniques being cultivated to profound realms and condensed together!
Its uses were inexhaustible, and its potential boundless!
Naturally, the greatest change was in his cultivation. Lu Qingyun's current realm was three hundred and seventy million layers of the Blood Moving Secret Treasury!
Each time he broke through a new magnitude, his strength surged by a tremendous margin!
After surpassing one hundred million, he had even awakened special innate divine abilities.
Yet over these years, he had never fought anyone.
He had no precise understanding of his own strength.
He only knew that whether it was a Mountain Sea Beast King or a Dharma Form Great Demon, they were far, far too weak before him!
So could this peak Nirvana Poison Dragon before him let him see exactly what level he had reached?
His seemingly endless qi and blood shot into the heavens, connecting sky and earth and piercing through the clouds!
A towering figure formed from pure qi and blood stood behind Lu Qingyun like a god!
Its gaze seemed capable of seeing through all things, suppressing every living being with absolute pressure!
"What... what the hell is that!?"
Old Poison Dragon's eyes widened like bronze bells, its voice trembling slightly.
For some reason, it actually sensed an extreme threat from this little child!
"Impossible! Even if you truly have three hundred million layers of the Blood Moving Secret Treasury, so what? There are a full four major realms between us! The gap between realms is like a heavenly chasm. Even true Peerless Prodigies, when catching their enemies off guard, are few and far between in being able to kill across realms!"
"Much less crossing four whole major realms! You're just putting on a show!"
Old Poison Dragon roared sharply.
Though it did not understand what a Blood Moving Secret Treasury measured in hundreds of millions even meant, in its thousand-plus years of life, the most gifted figure it had ever seen was merely a descendant of the True Dragon Clan, with a Blood Moving Secret Treasury of one million layers.
But three hundred million against one million was only a difference of three hundred times!
And the gap between Nirvana and Blood Moving was far more than three hundred times! Even thirty thousand times would not be an exaggeration!
Three hundred against thirty thousand—the advantage is mine!
Old Poison Dragon comforted itself this way in its heart, but the only response it received was Lu Qingyun's full-force strike!
Faced with an enemy whose depths he could not fathom, Lu Qingyun did not dare hold back!
He had been gathering momentum from the very beginning!
"Void Devouring Heaven Skill, activate!"
"Creation Seizing Heaven Method, begin!"
"Cosmic Chaos Art, activate!"
"..."
Layer upon layer of buffs stacked onto him. The qi-and-blood phantom behind Lu Qingyun grew increasingly solid, then became covered in a seven-colored radiance, making it look somewhat mismatched.
That was the combined effect of more than a hundred techniques and divine abilities!
Though it was hardly pleasing to the eye, the boost it granted was absolutely real!
Every enhancement caused Lu Qingyun's aura to surge another level!
At last, Lu Qingyun remained in his strongest first-stage state. His aura was as deep as an abyss, his eyes indifferent.
Behind him, the Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat and Blue Scale Eagle were so excited they nearly suffocated. Though not a trace of that aura was directed at them, merely standing behind Lu Qingyun left them almost unable to breathe.
Even so, they did not care in the slightest, their gazes feverish!
Across from Lu Qingyun, Old Poison Dragon could no longer convince itself otherwise.
What three hundred against thirty thousand? That was all fucking bullshit!
Looking at this display, it only felt as though it were facing a true god!
No! Even the True Dragon at the True God realm that it had once glimpsed from afar within the Dragon's Nest had not given it such overwhelming pressure!
Thus, it decisively parted the lake water and drew out all the poisonous miasma it had accumulated over countless years!
If it died, all that poisonous miasma would spiral out of control and spread everywhere!
When that happened, even if a True God descended, the result would still be a scene of utter devastation!
"I think we can talk."
"Talk my ass!"
Lu Qingyun did not care in the slightest about Old Poison Dragon's threat as he smashed down with a punch!
Like a meteor crashing down, his surging blood and qi swept over heaven and earth like a raging tide, instantly swallowing Old Poison Dragon in violent power!
He could not hold on for even an instant before Old Poison Dragon perished beneath this blow!
Even at the moment of his death, Old Poison Dragon could not understand why the Blood Moving Secret Treasury could unleash such terrifying power!
No, rather—
How had the Blood Moving Secret Treasury reached three hundred million layers?!
Wasn't the limit supposed to be five million layers?
Even the Peerless Prodigies of those legendary great clans, within the True Dragon's Nest, only reached a few million layers at most.
Some could not even reach five million layers!
What exactly was this monster before him?!
And he had killed him without the slightest hesitation—did he not care at all that the poison would run rampant and exterminate every living thing across a hundred thousand miles of the Great Wilderness?
The answer was certain: yes.
What did the Great Wilderness spanning a hundred thousand miles have to do with Lu Qingyun?
A few years ago, with a single word, he had slaughtered a True God clan of tens of millions.
The living beings in this Great Wilderness—even most of them—were not even human.
So what if they died!
How could that affect his testing of his strength?!
After all, all they had lost were their insignificant lives, while what he would lose was an opportunity to fight someone at the peak of Nirvana!
"One strike... and I can instantly kill someone at the peak of Nirvana?"
"It didn't feel like there was any obstacle. At this rate, my combat power has already reached the True God realm."
Lu Qingyun was quite satisfied with this result.
After all, that had only been his first-stage combat power.
He had divided his combat power into three gears in total. First Gear was what he had just used: cultivation technique enhancement, with his blood and qi fully unleashed!
Second Gear built upon First Gear, adding the Heavenly Eye, divine abilities, and secret arts for short-term explosive bursts!
Third Gear was for staking his life on the line—his Blood Burning talent erupted, and on top of everything before, his realm doubled once more!
First Gear could be kept active at any time. Second Gear consumed somewhat more and was meant for quickly finishing off opponents.
As for the final gear, unless it was a critical moment, it was best used sparingly.
His First Gear could now instantly kill a peak Nirvana cultivator, pressing close to the True God realm.
With Second Gear, he would count as one of the stronger figures even among True Gods.
Originally, Lu Qingyun had still been somewhat uncertain about his previous plan.
But now that his combat power had been verified, he could begin putting it into action.
For now, though, he should collect the spoils of battle first!
Lu Qingyun withdrew his pressure, ignored the surging corrosive poison gas, and descended into the center of the lake.
That jade-like green lotus was desperately releasing its essence to fend off the poison gas's corrosion.
Sacred medicine possessed spirit. Sensing Lu Qingyun's arrival, it hurriedly swayed its stalk, pleading for his help.
Lu Qingyun stretched out his hand toward its seedpod.
Yet it was blocked by a streak of green light.
Lu Qingyun raised a brow, somewhat surprised.
At the same time, an intent came from the green lotus.
Its general meaning was that the sacred medicine had yet to mature and could not be picked.
It asked Lu Qingyun to transplant it elsewhere, to let it take root in a place rich in spiritual energy.
Once the sacred medicine matured, it could give Lu Qingyun five of its more than ten lotus seeds.
It specifically emphasized that Old Poison Dragon had previously only been allowed to take three seeds. The extra two were thanks for the transplanting.
Lu Qingyun nodded at the Green Lotus Sacred Medicine's request.
He could understand it. Sacred medicine could, after all, also be viewed as a living being. If all the essence of its cultivation were taken away, the damage to it would be immense, and the time needed for the sacred medicine to mature next time would undoubtedly be even longer.
Thus, this arrangement was extremely reasonable!
The next moment, Lu Qingyun's blood and qi churned in his hand. With a crack, he directly punched through the barrier!
He grabbed the seedpod on the Green Lotus Sacred Medicine and forcibly tore it off!
Reasonable, yes... but he was not reasonable.
Why would he give up so much sacred medicine right before his eyes for the sake of some long-term development!
Forget waiting for the sacred medicine to mature next time.
In another dozen years or so, if Lu Qingyun still regarded a Sacred Medicine of this grade as anything special, he could only be called utterly useless.
In just four short years, he had already stood shoulder to shoulder with True Gods!
Give him another dozen years, and it was still uncertain who would have the final say in this Great Wilderness!
Such a brutal act left the Green Lotus Sacred Medicine in agony beyond endurance!
The lotus pod was where its essence lay. Whenever Old Poison Dragon had taken Sacred Medicine before, it had always slowly separated it on its own. When had it ever suffered such pain?
What Lu Qingyun had done was no different from tearing out its heart!
Fury—utter, extreme fury!
The Green Lotus Sacred Medicine decided that even if Lu Qingyun returned the lotus pod completely intact and transplanted it somewhere with an environment far superior to this place, it would not hand over even half a Sacred Medicine lotus seed during its next—no, its next three maturations!
This was the price Lu Qingyun ought to pay!
Yet its rage was not soothed.
Because after Lu Qingyun obtained the lotus pod, he stripped out the lotus seeds in a few quick motions and casually tossed the rest aside.
After stuffing the lotus seeds into his spatial ring, he turned and left...
The Green Lotus Sacred Medicine was dumbfounded. Green sap was still seeping from its roots, yet it could no longer spare attention for that.
Because the surrounding poisonous gas had already passed through the shattered protective barrier, clinging to its body as it corrupted and devoured it!
Pitch-blackness gradually crept upward.
In its final struggle, the Green Lotus Sacred Medicine flickered with faint azure light from time to time, as though begging for a response.
Had Lu Qingyun still been there, he would have heard it crying out again and again.
"Come back, come back!"
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