Returning to the Original?

"Young Master Zheng Yue!"

"Princess Tai Yan!"

Lu Xiaoyu was startled.

In the Wuji Dynasty, Zheng Yue of the Zheng Family and Princess Tai Yan were no less renowned than Xiao Changfeng, who had just been called the Young God.

Amid Lu Peng and Lu Xiaoyu's tension, the convoy approached.

Watching the Wuji Dynasty guards and Zheng Family experts approach, Lu Peng and Lu Xiaoyu held their breaths, lowered their heads, and did not dare even breathe loudly.

Not to mention them—even if the Asura Gate Master were still here, he would not dare show the slightest disrespect toward existences like the Wuji Dynasty and the Zheng Family.

Princess Tai Yan and Zheng Yue rode their beasts side by side, chatting and laughing. As they passed the ox cart, Princess Tai Yan froze.

Seeing someone use gold to forge a war chariot, and even use a golden ox to pull it, she was surprised as well.

But when she saw those pair of horns, her eyes filled with doubt.

Noticing Princess Tai Yan's expression, Zheng Yue smiled. "Does Your Highness like this golden ox? If you do, I'll have someone buy it."

Princess Tai Yan shook her head with a smile. "How could I possibly like such a war chariot? I merely find this golden ox rather strange. And those horns look somewhat like dragon horns."

Zheng Yue smiled. "There are many strange beasts in the world. Those horns do indeed resemble dragon horns, but they only resemble them." Then he glanced at Lu Yiping and laughed. "I wonder which small family they belong to, to actually use gold to cast an ox cart!"

Princess Tai Yan covered her mouth and smiled.

Great families normally used spirit stones, thousand-year refined iron, and such materials to forge their items. Only certain small families would use gold.

The convoy finally departed.

Lu Peng and the experts from the surrounding families all breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Yiping suddenly spoke. "Who rules the Divine Martial Continent now?"

Lu Peng was taken aback, then said with fervent admiration, "It is Lord Wan Wudi!"

Wan Wudi? Lu Yiping was startled. From the Wan Family? He recalled a little girl who had entered the Sacred Forest before Yang Dong. That little girl had also been surnamed Wan.

"Do you know Wan Beibei?" Lu Yiping asked casually.

Lu Peng was puzzled. Then, thinking Lu Yiping might be referring to that supreme existence, his expression changed. But just as he was about to speak, two people suddenly stepped out from the crowd nearby.

When Lu Peng saw them, hatred flashed in his eyes. "Sun Li!"

Sun Li, a Thousand Demon Sect Elder!

Back then, quite a few Asura Gate disciples had died at Sun Li's hands.

Sun Li gave a sinister laugh. "Lu Peng, I never expected you to still be alive! Your life is quite long." Then he looked at Lu Xiaoyu. "Is this your son? Not bad. At such a young age, he's already at the Tenth Layer Foundation Building." After saying that, he and another Thousand Demon Sect Elder walked toward Lu Yiping's group, releasing their auras without restraint.

Layers upon layers of golden light surged around Sun Li.

"Fourth Layer Golden Core!" an expert nearby cried out.

The cultivation realms of the Hengyuan Plane, from low to high, were Foundation Establishment, Innate Realm, Divine Ability Realm, Golden Core, and Violet Palace Realm.

The Fourth Layer Golden Core Realm was absolutely considered an expert among certain small families.

Lu Peng's expression changed in shock. "You broke through to the Fourth Layer Golden Core!"

Three years ago, Sun Li had only been at the Second Layer Golden Core. Now, he had actually broken through to the Fourth Layer Golden Core!

Meanwhile, Lu Peng's realm had remained stuck at the First Layer Golden Core for the past three years.

Sensing Sun Li's Fourth Layer Golden Core aura behind them, Zheng Yue and Princess Tai Yan, who had already gone some distance away, found it strange and turned back to look.

Sun Li gave a sinister laugh. "That's right. I broke through to the Fourth Layer Golden Core two months ago! Today, you will die!" He leaped into the air and slashed out with the greatsword in his hand. Blade radiance burst forth as streams of astonishing black cold energy howled out.

"It's the Profound Nether Cold Force!"

"The Thousand Demon Sect's great divine ability!"

Lu Peng was horrified. Back then, he had fought Sun Li and knew all too well the terror of the Profound Nether Cold Palm.

And now that Sun Li had reached the Fourth Layer Golden Core, his Profound Nether Cold Force was undoubtedly even more terrifying than before.

Just as Lu Peng was about to act, he and everyone else suddenly heard an earth-shaking ox bellow.

The bellow resounded through heaven and earth.

Everyone felt their ears ring as if they were about to go deaf.

Accompanied by the bellow, a terrifying golden shockwave swept out, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.

Sun Li was terrified and was instantly engulfed by the golden shockwave.

In that instant, he felt as though he had been struck by a horrifying force.

The greatsword in his hand turned to powder.

He himself flew backward like a kite with its string cut, crashing into the Taiji Dynasty convoy that had already gone some distance away.

The ground boomed, and the convoy fell into chaos.

Sun Li rolled beneath the beasts ridden by Zheng Yue and Princess Tai Yan. His robes burst apart all over his body, and he lay sprawled there, completely motionless.

The events had happened too suddenly. Lu Peng, Zheng Yue, Princess Tai Yan, and the disciples of the surrounding families all stared at Sun Li's corpse, dumbfounded.

Everyone stared at the Dragon Horn Golden Ox in terror.

That ox bellow just now had come from the Dragon Horn Golden Ox.

A single ox bellow had directly shaken a Fourth Layer Golden Core expert to death!

The other Thousand Demon Sect Elder who had come with Sun Li turned pale with fright upon seeing Sun Li's corpse.

He abruptly turned around and tried to flee.

But just as the Thousand Demon Sect Elder was about to escape, he suddenly felt heaven and earth brighten.

He turned back in alarm and saw a terrifying golden shockwave instantly blast toward him from behind.

Then he lost consciousness.

That Thousand Demon Sect Elder was directly blasted apart by the golden shockwave, his blood and flesh splattering across the surrounding ground.

Heaven and earth fell silent.

No one had seen clearly how the Dragon Horn Golden Ox had acted just now.

"Let's go," Lu Yiping said calmly, without even looking at Sun Li's and the other man's corpses.

The Dragon Horn Golden Ox raised its hooves and slowly moved onward.

Everyone watched the war chariot depart with complicated expressions.

Princess Tai Yan looked at the departing war chariot, her heart unable to calm, and asked one of her Fourth Layer Violet Palace Realm subordinates, "Could you tell what breed this ox is?"

That dynasty expert was a skilled beast tamer. Looking at the departing Dragon Horn Golden Ox, he said in astonishment, "When this ox acted just now, there were fluctuations of dragon power. It should possess dragon bloodline!"

But a cow possessing dragon bloodline?

He had never heard of such a thing before.

Princess Tai Yan nodded.

Zheng Yu, a Violet Palace Realm expert of the Zheng Family, said, "Could this blue-robed youth have come to Luoxue City to take part in the Thunder Pavilion Sword Sect's disciple examination as well?"

But the Fourth Layer Violet Palace Realm expert of the dynasty wore a puzzled expression. "This young man has neither True Essence nor inner force in his body. It is truly strange."

Princess Tai Yan gazed in the direction Lu Yiping had departed, her face filled with deep thought.