Chapter 407: Taking Me for Lu Ye?
Shen Xitang was crazily chasing after the Heavenly Dao.
The clashing sounds of their battle were relentless, so much so that even the “ding” and “drip” sounds were drowned out, indicating just how fierce the fight was.
The little Heavenly Dao’s cries were heartbreaking.
Lu Ye couldn’t help but smirk.
Go ahead and hit him!
At this rate, the little Heavenly Dao should be done floating around.
He had to go clean up the mess anyway; the demon army still had a ton of souls waiting for him to harvest.
Meanwhile, on the other side…
An Li had fled to the outer realm.
Her expression was somewhat twisted as she glanced back at the Nine Heavens.
Lu Ye, if you’re capable, come chase me down!
Aren’t you hot stuff? Why don’t you come and take me on?
But after waiting a while, there was still no sign of Lu Ye.
“An Li, what should we do next?” the Darkness Origin inquired.
An Li calmed herself down.
“The demon tide in the Fifth Heaven has been quelled. Besides the tide, there’s nothing left in the Fifth Heaven that can threaten Lu Ye. We can only dig pits in the Sixth Heaven from here on,” An Li stated.
“Is there truly no way left to annihilate Lu Ye in the Fifth Heaven?” Darkness Origin asked.
“Of course not, how could I possibly not know?” An Li replied, somewhat irritated.
“Don’t be mad; I’m just double-checking. Are you sure there’s nothing?” Darkness Origin’s voice was very gentle.
“Sure there isn’t!”
“So Lu Ye’s current strength is only at the Universe Realm. He still has a long way to go before ascending to the Sixth Heaven, right?”
An Li nodded.
“With Lu Ye’s current cultivation speed, he needs at least two hundred more years to ascend!”
“So what do you want to do in those two hundred years?” Darkness Origin asked.
An Li pondered.
Suddenly, she sensed something off.
“Why do you ask?” An Li questioned.
“I have a great place you can check out,” replied Darkness Origin.
“Where?” A sense of unease surged within An Li.
And Darkness Origin provided her with a precise answer.
“The Six Paths of Reincarnation!”
A giant hand suddenly grasped An Li.
An Li’s expression changed dramatically.
“What do you mean?”
Darkness Origin’s voice was eerily calm, “An Li, didn’t you notice that before you went through the Six Paths of Reincarnation, you couldn’t cause Lu Ye any harm at all? Yet after just one round of reincarnation, you wiped out three of his lives in one go!”
“What does that mean?”
“It means the Six Paths of Reincarnation can help you grow stronger!”
“Since there’s no opportunity left to harm Lu Ye now, why not go through the Six Paths of Reincarnation again? When you return from it, you might completely annihilate Lu Ye next time. Don’t you think I have a point?”
“Not a point! If you dare to send me into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, I swear I won’t help you deal with Lu Ye anymore! You will just have to watch Lu Ye rise, just like in the last life!”
“No, you were actually lucky in the last life, because Lu Ye had us eight holding him back. This time, without us eight, you will face the most powerful version of Lu Ye. When Lu Ye becomes a Saint, no, the moment Lu Ye returns as a Celestial Lord – that will be your end!”
An Li’s expression grew calm at that moment.
However, her hurried words betrayed her inward turmoil.
“An Li, you’ve misunderstood me. I’m sending you to the Six Paths of Reincarnation for cultivation, not as a punishment. I think if you go one more time, you might realize my good intentions!”
“So, off you go!”
“When you come out again, maybe you won’t say things like, ‘I won’t help you’ anymore, because we are one and the same. Helping me is actually helping yourself!”
As Darkness Origin’s words fell, the giant hand squeezed tightly.
A dense, dark light erupted from within the hand.
In an instant, An Li felt unimaginable pain – a pain that was a thousand, ten thousand times worse than when Darkness Origin had forced her into true spirit status!
“Don’t worry; you’ll help me!”
The black light didn’t obliterate An Li’s body and soul all at once but instead destroyed them inch by inch in the most agonizing way imaginable.
An Li’s screams echoed endlessly, her throat seeming to shatter from the effort.
“Darkness Origin, how dare you! How dare you!”
“I’ll remember this. I swear I won’t help you again!”
“I want you, a worthless piece of nothing, to die! A worthless piece of nothing like you still wants to replace the Heavenly Dao? If you can’t even tahan my words, how could you ever hope to become the Heavenly Dao?”
“You will definitely perish!”
“Without me, you will surely face doom!”
Darkness Origin listened to An Li’s hysterical screams, his mental state exceptionally stable.
But then the black light intensified, silencing An Li’s words till she could only emit beast-like moans.
He wasn’t Lu Ye.
He certainly wasn’t the Lu Ye who had the Great Dao to protect him!
He couldn’t even comprehend where An Li got the confidence to speak to him like that.
An Li’s words made him feel suffocated.
If he didn’t properly ground An Li, hadn’t he then stepped into the footsteps of Lu Ye?
Did she really think she was Lu Ye?
Lu Ye endured because he loved her.
But I sure as heck don’t love you!
What level are you? What even are you? How dare you talk to him like that?
Get ground into true spirit, and go through reincarnation!
One round isn’t enough? Try two!
Two not enough? Then ten, twenty, a hundred, a thousand!
Darkness Origin didn’t believe he couldn’t deal with a single An Li.
If he couldn’t handle Lu Ye, he could at least handle you!
An Li was crushed in endless pain, her body and soul obliterated, while her true spirit was sent into the Six Paths of Reincarnation by the Great Emperor of Covering Heaven.
An Li’s expression became numb.
Good, very good!
Darkness Origin, you’re asking me to do your bidding and still dare to treat me like this?
We shall see!
…
Lu Ye returned to the battlefield against the Demon Clan.
The battle was still raging – or rather, it would be better called a pursuit, as the allied forces of the Human Clan frantically hunted the Demon Clan.
The demons had already begun a rout.
In this star domain, so many demons had perished.
Lu Ye had no clue how many had died – just a lot.
Thus, the Emperor’s Banner flew.
A massive amount of souls emerged from the void, completely losing control as they surged toward the Emperor’s Banner.
The Emperor’s Banner didn’t say a word.
It simply lacked the strength to speak anymore.
This time, it had truly reached its limit, and the Emperor’s Banner understood a profound truth about the world.
Turns out, in this world, there really is no “most supported,” only “more supported!”
The souls absorbed this time, the Emperor’s Banner had no idea when it would refine them.
But thankfully, the Stone Sword should be no better off than itself.
