Chapter 174

Chapter 174: Building Momentum (First Update)

“So terrifying.”

“The Dark Star Army of the Void Dynasty can kill any Heavenly God Realm once surrounded by various confining formations. Yet now, they’ve been slaughtered without mercy!”

“What’s his aura like now? Has it weakened?”

“No, it seems to have grown stronger…”

“What?!”

“We can’t let him recover his True Essence; he must be bluffing. A person’s True Essence can’t be limitless. Keep surrounding and attacking!”

Another group of cultivators arrived.

The hills and valleys, both above and below.

Lu Ye swung his sword and charged in; at that moment, the technique he’d always deemed useless suddenly took effect.

This technique is called “Origin Devouring True Scripture”!

A massive amount of weapons turned to dust, their essence consumed, transformed into True Essence.

Another technique called “Refining Infant Demonic Scripture” shattered numerous Nascent Souls.

Then came the technique “Blood and Flesh Returning to Origin,” as a sky of blood mist gathered towards Lu Ye.

There’s a divine move named “Killer Qi Demon Sea”!

There’s the Great Dao of Killing!

And there’s the Invincible Dao!

Death became the main theme of the Second Heaven.

Reports of battles fell like snowflakes, reaching every corner of the Second Heaven.

“Bloody battle on the Touch Sky Plateau, three Heavenly Gods fell, forty-seven Earth Immortals, and two hundred nineteen True Qi realm cultivators dead…”

“The Defiant Sword Pavilion deployed the Supreme Nine Heavens Sword Formation to besiege the demon Lu Ye, swords shattered and men perished. The Defiant Sword Pavilion faced heavy losses!”

“In the battle by the Blackwood River, the Divine Wilderness Sect set up a deadly formation, but when it broke, men died, turning the blackwood river red with blood.”

“This demon, a true demon! He even has the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. Great Sage of the Nine Heavens, the demonic cultivators you eradicated are rising again!”

“Exterminate demons! Exterminate demons! Exterminate demons!”

Such is the world.

Clearly, everyone came to kill you first, but your retaliation was too fierce, making you out to be the demon.

A multitude can distort the truth.

Even if you aren’t a demon, you’ll become one.

Thankfully, in this life, it’s not about guarding the Great Dao; if it were, Lu Ye would surely feel uneasy.

In this cannibalistic cultivation world, one could say that guarding the Great Dao is utterly pitiful.

Now, how great it is?

The Dao of Seeking!

These people are merely obstacles on his quest for the Dao. Crushing obstacles? Lu Ye feels no psychological burden.

The further it goes, the stronger the opponents become.

The weak, who previously didn’t know life from death, finally felt terror and dared not charge in anymore.

No matter how many rewards the Jiang Family and Eternal Order Sect offered, you still need to be alive to claim them.

At first, they thought to just exhaust Lu Ye until he was out of energy, thinking perhaps they could collect a trophy.

Isn’t cultivating just about competition?

Thus, those who had thoughts of picking up heads became heads themselves.

Someone was counting the total number of kills Lu Ye had made.

Unbeknownst to him, the number had already reached six digits.

Another army arrived.

This time, it was the strongest army of the Void Empire, deploying a Spirit Driving Grand Formation, turning this corner of the world into a vacuum, devoid of any Spiritual Energy.

Without Spiritual Energy, how can one recover?

Lu Ye arrived, his robes clean and neat, the bloodstains merely adorned his outfit like plum blossoms, giving off a fresh vibe.

If not for his blood-red eyes and the overwhelming aura radiating from him, with the Emperor’s Banner behind him billowing black smoke, countless souls unleashed unheard screams…

Perhaps, Lu Ye looked more like a leisurely young master strolling through the mountains.

He sensed the disappearance of Spiritual Energy around him.

Then he heard their mockery.

The specific content of their taunts didn’t matter; who would bother with the dead…

Well, sure, Lu Ye would still take offense at the remarks made by the dead.

One step forward.

Who told you that I need Spiritual Energy to recover my strength? With you all around, I don’t need even a speck!

Kill!

A route stretching a total of eighty-three thousand kilometers.

Lu Ye had already traversed twenty thousand kilometers at a rapid pace.

Staying here, another wave of strong cultivators, like blood-sucking leeches, flocked in.

Among them were mostly old geezers nearing death.

They’d reached the end of their cultivation and life, hoping to prolong their existence through the blessings of the Jiang Family and Eternal Order Sect.

But even the most seasoned elders, despite their vast experiences, felt their scalps tingle with fear looking at the endless slaughter below, a deep chill rushing into their souls.

It had been ages since a demon appeared in the Nine Heavens.

Most of them practiced and practiced, only having witnessed the most brutal slaughters between cultivators, which were merely individual battles.

But now, all the slaughter was coming from a single person.

Under that one sword, heads rolled.

From that one fist, blood mist surged.

Within the Emperor’s Banner, countless souls were rapidly hunting for souls.

Black mist intertwined with blood mist, everywhere was a frenzy of flesh and limbs.

Finally, even among the weakest soldiers in the Great Formation, all at the Transcending Tribulation Realm, fear seeped in.

The terror of death gripped them like a big hand squeezing their throats.

They fled!

After two-thirds had fallen, panic finally set in.

“It’s our turn!”

A burst of Heavenly God Realm auras exploded; the decaying energy was replaced by blazing lifeblood as each elder burned the last of their lives, achieving ultimate transcendence back to their strongest moments.

This battle would end with either Lu Ye’s death or theirs!

Lu Ye, however, had no time for small talk. He felt some pressure; facing such powerful Heavenly God Realm cultivators, some being at their peak, was indeed formidable.

To this, Lu Ye showed respect!

Heavenly Silkworm Nine Transformations!

In an instant, a terrifying aura surged straight up to the heavens, akin to a lotus blooming at that moment.

Earth Immortal Nine Layers!

“Boom!”

Unreal speeds, too fast to even catch a glimpse of his figure.

All they saw were elongated trails of light, and countless corpses kept falling from the sky, smashing into the earth and creating one deep pit after another.

Most managed to leave no whole corpse behind.

Another batch slaughtered.

Lu Ye pushed ahead.

His momentum continued to build, like floodwaters behind a dam.

The water level kept rising.

Until the stone shattered the heavens, annihilating everything.

News spread, shocking the world once more.

Another wave of strong cultivators had fallen!

Some of those strong individuals once shone in glory on the Second Heaven, but now, in their old age, they came out only to be beaten to death.

More and more people awoke.

They etched Lu Ye’s name in their hearts.

Do not provoke; he’s too terrifying.

“Latest news, Tuoba Yu is going to kill Lu Ye with the world-suppressing Heavenly Suppression Spear!”

“Finally, finally, a true powerhouse is stepping in, too bad we can’t witness it ourselves.”

“Ranked fourteenth in the Heavenly God Ranking, Tuoba Yu, inherited from a Gun Dao Emperor; even as a loose cultivator, he became the fourteenth in the world, truly astounding!”

“The Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion’s latest news is that they plan to use the Heavenly Mechanism Divine Mirror to project Lu Ye’s movements. For those who wish to watch, please head to the Heavenly Mechanism Platform; each person only needs one hundred top-grade Spirit Stones for a viewing qualification!”

“One hundred top-grade Spirit Stones? So expensive?”

“If you won’t go, I will! It’s a chance to witness a battle between top-tier Heavenly God Realm cultivators – so rare! Don’t mention one hundred top-grade Spirit Stones, even a thousand or ten thousand, I have to see it!”

“I suspect you’re just a shill, but there’s no evidence…”