Third Level Destruction Sword Intent, Invincible Below Saints! Leaping Across Ten Thousand Heavenly Steps!

[Destruction Sword Intent (Level 1, 0/300)]

A wisp of incomparably pure sword intent was born within Lu Qingyun's body, brimming with an aura of destruction and ruin.

Like an out-of-control Immortal Sword, it wreaked havoc within his body without restraint!

This was not even its full power, merely some of its inherent negative effects—the manifestation of destruction taken to its utmost extreme!

"A first-level Destruction Sword Intent is more than several hundred times stronger than that girl's in Sword Forging Valley. And sword intent of this level has no effect whatsoever on the damage to my body. It can be raised further!"

Lu Qingyun did not even furrow his brow as he tapped twice in succession!

In an instant, that wisp of Destruction Sword Intent grew wildly, splitting into countless strands and filling every inch of Lu Qingyun's flesh and blood in the blink of an eye!

[Destruction Sword Intent (Level 3, 0/1000)]

The surging Destruction Sword Intent ravaged Lu Qingyun's body with near-mad violence, extinguishing vitality and carving out an environment best suited to its survival.

Lu Qingyun casually gripped a Spirit Sword, poured the terrifying Destruction Sword Intent into it, and struck forward.

In an instant, a storm of Destruction Sword Intent swept forth!

Like the descent of a monarch, it caused countless varieties of sword intent, blade intent, and the like to follow in its wake.

They formed an unprecedented colossal storm, turning the entire Cave of Weapon Spirits into a true land of utter despair!

"Retreat! Retreat at once—get out of here!"

"How could the Cave of Weapon Spirits suffer such a disaster? Could Quasi-Supreme weapon spirits be fighting?"

"All I wanted was a suitable True God spear! I spent months with nothing to show for it, and now I might even die here!"

Throughout the Cave of Weapon Spirits, faced with this sudden storm capable of tearing apart the body of any True God—

everyone's expressions changed drastically as they fled outside like madmen.

At the entrance, Lu Qingyun watched the panicked people rushing out one after another, silently lowered his head, and quickly left.

He had not expected that merely testing the power of the third-level Destruction Sword Intent would throw the entire Cave of Weapon Spirits into turmoil.

Still, this Destruction Sword Intent truly was extraordinary.

Lu Qingyun was confident that with the third-level Destruction Sword Intent, even if he faced a peak Venerable Lord expert at the level of an elder, he would be able to defeat them!

The strongest offensive power was no empty boast.

Invincible beneath Saints; above Saints... the Blood Qi Furnace had it covered!

What delighted Lu Qingyun most was not the powerful combat strength brought by the Destruction Sword Intent, but its side effects.

The Destruction Sword Body was known as a short-lived constitution precisely because the body was constantly eroded by Destruction Sword Intent, causing its bearer to die young.

But for Lu Qingyun, not only had he deeply cultivated the Blood Moving Secret Treasury, making his blood qi and physical body far stronger than those of others—

he also possessed the Mend Heaven divine ability, enough to keep him at his absolute peak at all times.

And this Destruction Sword Intent could completely replace the effects of the Sea of Death Forbidden Zone, helping him temper his physical body every moment of every day!

"These nearly thousand Fortune Points were quite well spent."

Lu Qingyun did not wait for the storm to pass before venturing deeper into the Cave of Weapon Spirits again.

His objective had already been achieved. There was no great point in going back.

Cultivating inside could indeed slightly improve the efficiency with which he gained Fortune Points, but the increase was far too small.

He would also be disturbed from time to time by the weapon-intent storms within. It was not a good place.

Now that the Destruction Sword Intent could achieve the effects of the Sea of Death, there was no need to go there either.

Thus, Lu Qingyun had only one place left to visit: the Hundred Thousand Heavenly Steps.

This was also the Forbidden Zone in which he placed the greatest hopes.

After arriving at the location of the Hundred Thousand Heavenly Steps, Lu Qingyun looked up, his eyes filled with shock!

Compared to the Cave of Weapon Spirits' plainness, the Hundred Thousand Heavenly Steps delivered the most intense visual impact imaginable!

Every level of the Heavenly Steps was like a colossal city.

No, it was not like a colossal city—it was... truly a colossal city!

It was densely populated, with shops standing in rows.

Lu Qingyun could even hear the unceasing cries of hawkers selling their wares from a marketplace somewhere within.

It was completely different from what Lu Qingyun had imagined. These were not steps one could climb in one or two strides.

Each level required one to cross a height of several hundred meters, as though traversing the Heavenly Steps!

With only a cursory glance, Lu Qingyun could see figures like fleas, leaping between the colossal cities.

Hundred Thousand Heavenly Steps, a hundred thousand colossal cities.

Layer upon layer, they stretched upward, presenting an overwhelmingly majestic sight!

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However, though every level had a massive city, the higher one went, the fewer people there were in those cities.

And so, city after city grew ever more desolate.

The moment Lu Qingyun stepped inside, someone immediately recognized him.

As the Lu Family Thirteenth Sequence, he had entered the Great Wilderness not long ago and slaughtered his way until the major powers trembled in fear, only to be forcibly driven back.

One could say he was extremely famous within the Lu Family. It was just that he rarely left the Ling Jue Hall, so he paid little attention to such things.

"It's the Thirteenth Sequence! He actually left Ling Jue Hall and came to the Hundred Thousand Heavenly Steps. Does he want to challenge the ten-thousandth step?"

"Ten thousand? How could that be possible! Only powerhouses at the Venerable Lord level can reach that. The Thirteenth Sequence may be strong, but his record is merely killing a Nirvana Holy Spirit. In terms of pure strength, he is at most at the True God level. Give him a few more years, and I absolutely believe he could do it. But now... it's far too early."

"Exactly. Forget ten thousand—I'd say five thousand is about right. Aren't the Seventh and Tenth Sequences challenging the Heavenly Steps too? Even now, they've only reached around six thousand. You have to know, they aren't even of the same generation as the Thirteenth Sequence. To approach them at his age is already utterly terrifying!"

"Oh no, I'm getting fired up. Just thinking about how powerful our Lu Family Sequences are makes me feel like I could climb another ten levels overnight!"

"Give it a rest. A few days ago, you got crushed until you spat blood after climbing five levels and had to come down here to recuperate. You should wash up and sleep—then climb all one hundred thousand levels in your dreams overnight. Wouldn't that be nice?"

Voices rose all around him, but Lu Qingyun ignored them and did not pause.

Under everyone's gaze, he bent his knees slightly, then exploded upward with a fierce burst of strength!

Like a cannonball, he shot through the air and charged into the next level of the Heavenly Steps!

In an instant, the pressure surged!

It was enough to crush the most ordinary Cave Heaven Secret Treasury cultivator flat against the ground!

The kind who had broken through at the tenth level of Blood Moving, that was.

Lu Qingyun ignored it completely. His speed did not slow in the slightest as he broke through level after level of the Heavenly Steps!

In the blink of an eye, he had crossed a hundred levels!

Then came one thousand... three thousand... five thousand!

By the time he reached the five-thousandth level, nearly everyone across the Hundred Thousand Heavenly Steps had turned their eyes toward him.

No one had imagined that Lu Qingyun, on his very first challenge of these hundred thousand Heavenly Steps, could reach the five-thousandth level in one go!

And his speed had not slowed at all. He continued breaking upward!

Their previous estimates now seemed like nothing more than a joke!

"From the look of this, could he be planning to surpass both the Seventh and Tenth Sequences in one stroke!? But it took them a full year of constant rest and adjustment to reach where they are now!"

Someone cried out, not even daring to blink as they stared fixedly at the meteor-like figure above.

The Seventh and Tenth Sequences, who were positioned around the six-thousandth level, had noticed Lu Qingyun the moment he entered. Yet neither of them had taken him seriously.

They were not even from the same generation. How could they lower themselves to compete with a junior?

In their eyes, there was no way Lu Qingyun could surpass them now, so there was naturally no need to pay attention to him.

As for later... if he surpassed them, then so be it. It was not as though they could not accept it. At worst, they could head to another Forbidden Zone after some time.

As long as he did not surpass them face-to-face, then they had not lost!

But what the hell was this!?

Where was the pressure? Where was the Heavenly Steps' lofty dignity?

Crush him already!!

If not for the pressure pressing down on them like a Divine Mountain, forcing them to resist with all their might at every moment, they might have thought something had gone wrong with these hundred thousand Heavenly Steps, allowing someone to simply hop upward.

The two Sequences were separated by several levels. They exchanged a glance through the air, each seeing the shock in the other's eyes.

Yet before that shock could fade, a figure shot straight up through the point where their gazes met!

They abruptly raised their heads, only to see that Lu Qingyun had already entered the range of the seven-thousandth level!

And he was still climbing!!

At this sight, the two exchanged another glance, both able to see a trace of desolation in the other's eyes.

They were both Sequences, yet they had been surpassed by a junior.

The blow was simply too great.

But when they saw Lu Qingyun continuing to rise, that trace of desolation instantly vanished!

When the gap became astonishingly vast, one could not even summon the desire to compare!

Because the level Lu Qingyun ultimately reached was the eleven-thousand-three-hundredth level!

In a single leap, he crossed over ten thousand Heavenly Steps!