Chapter 801: Chapter 525: Da Xia’s Number One (Seeking Monthly Tickets and Subscriptions)
"Aurora Hall still has such a method?"
"Yes, this treasure is set with the [Celestial Aurora Sword Array], also an Eighth Rank Array. Although its methods aren’t as varied as the [Eight Trigrams Profound Heaven Demon Suppression Array], its destructive power surpasses it. But Aurora Hall only has enough energy to activate it once, so we must coordinate perfectly."
"What do we need to do?"
"Here’s the plan..."
Lu Chenzhou revealed the plan to Bai Feng.
...
Time passed.
The energy expenditure of the array was too great. The high grade Primordial Stones everyone carried had already been used up by several pieces, and even the energy stored in the Eighth Rank Spiritual Weapons would soon be depleted. As the weakest point of the array’s defense, Bai Feng had once more been targeted by the Demon Saint.
"Ants are always just ants!" The Demon Saint tore open the Thunder Sea with both arms, black flames condensing into nine gigantic serpents, devouring toward Bai Feng.
The Ice Phoenix’s wings spun, slashing apart the black flame.
As the radiance faded.
Wufeng’s Cry fell silent.
Now, it was just an ordinary winged spiritual weapon. Though Bai Feng could still barely wield it, without power to invoke its divine qualities, resisting a Demon Saint was mere fantasy.
"Die!"
The Black Mountain Demon Saint finally seized its chance, its aura blazing, shards of black scales erupting, demon blood burning in a fierce blaze.
Seeing the Black Mountain Demon Saint about to kill Bai Feng, they all manipulated the array to unleash one killing move after another to intercept it.
But the Black Mountain Demon Saint was unmoved. Clusters of black lotuses sprouted from its skin, condensing into black flame armor. Its bulging muscles supported its arms as it coughed up a mouthful of essence demon blood, ripped out a section of rib, smelted it in black flames, tempered it with the Destruction Law, forging a bizarre black bone blade.
The Demon Saint said in a low voice: "Since my emergence, this saint has destroyed eighty-nine worlds, slain over a dozen Heavenly Realm powerhouses. I must admit, you of Da Xia have true skill, making me use the [Black Prison Demon Blade] against you. So today, I’ll give you a resplendent funeral!"
This move, save for life and death peril, the Demon Saint had never used; it was a desperate killing technique, harming the enemy a thousand, injuring itself eight hundred.
This was no ordinary divine skill.
It was a Divine Art.
The Demon Saint lifted the blade and struck down.
Demon Blade erupted with destructive light.
Kan Water · Xuanming Ice Prison, broken!
Li Fire · Burning Sky and Boiling Sea, broken!
Gen Mountain · Unmoving Like a Mountain, broken!
Move after killing move was shredded by the Demon Blade. With an arrogant bearing, the Black Mountain Demon Saint tore through the array, breaking through seven great attacks, charging headlong into the eighth.
Kun Earth · Earth Vein Binding Dragon!
The other Absolute Peak experts were uneasy at heart.
They too were running out of power.
Every assault had been to drain the Demon Saint’s trump cards and qi power, trying to keep it confined within the Binding Dragon Array.
They looked toward Bai Feng.
If that move Bai Feng spoke of works—
Then they could rally and annihilate the Demon Saint in one surge.
"Break!"
Demon Blade and Earth Dragon clashed with an ear-piercing grind. The Earth Vein Binding Dragon Array looked moments from being torn apart.
Bai Feng looked to the distant horizon.
Lu Chenzhou gazed back from afar.
"Heavenly Escape Mysterious Light!"
In an instant—
Bai Feng vanished. The disappearance of the array’s host—this meant the array would soon cease as well.
He appeared a thousand miles away as if by teleportation, seized Lu Chenzhou, then transformed into golden light, and returned to the array in a flash.
Coming and going, it didn’t even take one breath.
Bai Feng, too fast!
Heavenly Escape Mysterious Light was a divine skill akin to teleportation. In theory, if Bai Feng could use it without pause, even the Demon Saint’s tunneling speed would be effortlessly surpassed.
The Earth Vein Binding Dragon Array was about to shatter. Lu Chenzhou, cradling the now miniaturized Aurora Hall, appeared inside the great array. Normally, once the array was activated, it isolated in and out—no one could enter or exit save those guided by the array’s host.
Earth Dragon was torn apart.
The Black Mountain Demon Saint broke out.
It stared at the suddenly appeared Lu Chenzhou.
Secretly, it felt a sense of crisis.
Aurora Hall erupted in brilliant light.
Directly closing upon the Demon Saint’s face.
First, boundless aurora fell like chains, wrapping around it, then bursting into a sky-full of colored radiance, sealing it within a prison.
Then, countless auroras condensed into sword forms, crisscrossing like Beidou star-trails, lancing through and filling the prison with sword light.
Hundreds of millions of hair-thin strands of Aurora Sword Qi all detonated in the cramped space, dazzling light pillars shot to the heavens, piercing the Ancient Origin Realm and firing into the Void beyond.
The Black Mountain Demon Saint howled in agony, every cell in its body penetrated by a streak of Aurora Sword Qi. On a microscopic level, its flesh was utterly pulverized. Even with an Undying Body, it faced extinction.
It was in its weakest state after unleashing the Demon Blade, powerless to resist this sudden deadly strike.
All the Absolute Peak experts felt a chill.
"What a terrifying sword array."
"If this old man was caught inside, I would be doomed."
Lu Chenzhou explained:
"This is no ordinary sword array. It encompasses the Aurora Empress’s Aurora Sword Intent; a dreadful killing move fusing the Dao of Sword and the Dao of Aurora. Once trapped inside, one’s body will be torn to dust by the Aurora Sword Qi. Even an Eighth Realm Middle Stage expert would be gravely wounded if dragged in."
Bai Feng panted heavily.
"Phew, looks like it’s over. Among the Three Thousand Worlds, no one should be able to withstand this strike. The treasure left by the Aurora Empress is truly exceptional."
Yang Jue laughed: "With Lu Chenzhou’s sword array, dealing with future Demon Saint foes will be far easier for us."
Lu Chenzhou smiled helplessly: "Once used, this sword array drains eighty percent of Aurora Hall’s energy. The amount of energy consumed by such a palace treasure is vast. Without a large number of high grade Primordial Stones, it’s impossible to replenish."
Yaochi Immortal laughed: "Chenzhou really took a loss. Before you all leave, each of you should give him a high grade Primordial Stone as compensation."
Lu Chenzhou said: "That’s not necessary. To be able to slay a Demon Saint is more than I could ever ask for... however, I do have a request. I hope all the seniors will seal the Demon Saint’s soul and give it to me. I need it to further my cultivation."
The Absolute Peaks all watched Lu Chenzhou silently.
And knew some of his secret matters.
So they weren’t surprised by this.
As they conversed, the [Celestial Aurora Sword Array], which had lasted a full ten breaths, finally ended. Blood mist filled the sky, no flesh or bones remaining.
The Demon Saint was utterly crushed.
In the void, only a shattered, chaotic spatial sphere remained, packed with swirling debris from fragmented space.
The Aurora Sword Qi’s power was too immense. This space was completely shredded. It might take decades to recover.
Sensing the Demon Saint’s aura dissipate—
Everyone hurried to use their techniques, reaching for the Demon Saint’s soul—when suddenly, a change occurred.
They saw the spectral Demon Saint’s soul stir the world, manifesting a colossal, sky-covering crimson Evil Dragon phantom.
The dragon’s gaze shone like fixed stars.
Its scales sparkled with divine light.
Unrivaled divine might poured out.
All the Absolute Peaks faced it as if before their mortal enemy.
"It’s the Flame Saint King!"
"As expected—a centipede dies hard. Even with its body destroyed, only a soul left, this Demon Saint can still act." The Absolute Peaks felt a hint of disappointment.
Too difficult to kill.
At this point, the array could no longer hold.
The three Eighth Rank Spiritual Weapons were drained of energy.
"Divine Skill · Supernova Explosion!"
The crimson Evil Dragon spat out a great sun.
The sun collapsed, becoming solid.
At the critical point, it detonated as a supernova, the ultimate radiance followed by darkness that devoured light. All felt as though falling into a black hole’s event horizon.
Lu Chenzhou hid behind Aurora Hall.
"This is the Devouring Dao."
The upper form of the Destruction Dao is Devouring.
It seems the Flame Saint King had also mastered it.
Such a terrifying Evil God, yet there are four such devout subordinate Witch followers, willing to become subordinate gods.
Even the Eighth Rank Arrays were shredded.
The array disks in everyone’s hands cracked.
The formation had reached its limit.
Without the array’s protection, everyone’s bodies were drawn toward the black hole, about to be swallowed up.
Their faces were helpless.
Sighs filled the air.
Yet strangely, none seemed greatly panicked.
Lu Chenzhou’s expression shifted.
A radiant, blinding blade light seemed to pierce the black hole’s domain from a distant time and space. The saber intent was focused as one, the blade force unwavering as rock, the blade soul indomitable.
No matter how the black hole tore, the blade light stood immutable. It could not devour what was not its own. Where the blade passed, heaven and earth were remade. The black hole shattered, Destruction Principle reversed—the universe flourished, and time froze in that instant.
In the end, the blade cleaved through the crimson Evil Dragon.
The Evil Dragon slowly dissipated.
"Eternal Immortal, you actually reached Breakthrough Eighth so silently—or did you achieve it long before?"
High above the sky.
A white-robed, middle-aged figure stood with blade in hand.
His face was knife-chiseled, his sharpness carrying deep weariness.
He was neither arrogant nor servile, deadly calm beneath.
Eternal Immortal!
The first to achieve Breakthrough Seven in Da Xia.
And the first Breakthrough Eighth.
He once again stood upon the Absolute Peak.
From now on, Absolute Peak would be synonymous with the Eighth Realm—the Seventh Realm’s peak had become a thing of the past.
He was Da Xia’s undisputed number one.
Eternal Immortal captured the Black Mountain Demon Saint’s soul, using blade intent as chains, blade qi as pen, sketching a prison cage.
The soul was trapped within it.
He flicked his finger.
The Demon Saint’s soul was sent before Lu Chenzhou.
Lu Chenzhou felt the ultimate blade intent.
"Many thanks, President Wan!"
Aurora Hall blazed with light, temporarily suppressing the Demon Saint’s soul inside the Black Coffin, to prevent its machinations. With Lu Chenzhou’s Sixth Realm cultivation, he dared not absorb the Demon Saint’s soul.
At the very least, he would have to reach the Seventh Realm first.
The Ancient Origin Realm’s tremors ceased.
The Absolute Peaks put away the array.
From behind Eternal Immortal, another stepped forth. Radiating the aura of the Sixth Realm, wreathed in lightning, a towering figure nearly two meters tall, his gaze fell upon Lu Chenzhou.
"Long time no see... I really never expected, you actually broke through the Sixth Realm before me," Lufang said with feeling.
"Senior Lu?"
Lu Chenzhou’s eyes widened.
He knew Lufang had not died.
But he never imagined they’d meet so soon.
"Still calling me senior? In realm and strength, now I can’t compare to you..." Lufang couldn’t help but laugh too.
"Hahaha."
The other Absolute Peaks also broke out laughing.
Xuanwu Daoist laughed: "Can’t blame him—Lu little friend grew too fast. In his mind, you’re still the one who taught him Ghost Tiger Domineering Body, right?"
Lu Chenzhou smiled slightly.
"Daoist Lu is under a hundred years old, yet stepped into the Sixth Realm. Such progress—in the Three Thousand Realms—is top level."
Lufang spread his hands.
A radiance of treasures and heavenly omens filled the sky.
He shrugged helplessly, "If you’d had my miraculous experiences, eating heavenly materials and earth treasures like meals, you’d already be at the Absolute Peak."