Chapter 121: Heaven-Reaching Giant Hand!

Lu Chen's divine sense trembled violently in the deduction space.

He saw the azure heavens seem like shattered glazed tiles peeling off the sky, revealing the endless void beyond.

A huge hand that blotted out the sky suddenly appeared, its terrifying aura instantly enveloping both the righteous and demonic sides that had launched the great war.

In just a moment, the leading cultivators who had comprehended the Dao were shaken by that aura's pressure and suffered severe injuries.

The others also sustained injuries of varying severity.

The next moment, the scene shifted again and the Empress's figure appeared……

Soul power erupted, and a terrifying force of rules swept forth.

The huge hand trembled slightly, affected by the Empress's power, and actually retreated a bit.

Consciousness returned to reality, but the shock in Lu Chen's eyes lingered.

"Is this why the Empress previously refrained from acting?"

Now he understands why the Empress once said she would not act under any circumstances.

Had she used her soul power back then, this subsequent change would have prevented her from exerting her full strength, and she would not have been able to stop the descent of that huge hand.

"But how did she know?"

Lu Chen did not understand.

But surely, given the Empress's nature, she would not tell him why.

"All riddle-speakers deserve to die."

He shook his head.

Although he still had doubts, at least he now had a clue.

As the light of the deduction gradually faded, the several women outside also knew that Lu Chen's deduction had ended.

Led by Huang Jingxuan, several people returned to the room and curiously looked at Lu Chen.

"What's wrong?"

Lu Chen looked at them with a puzzled expression.

"Lu Chen, what did you just see?"

Lin Qingxi spoke first.

"Nothing much, just some matters concerning the righteous-demonic war."

Telling them would be of no benefit and would only needlessly increase their worries.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen suddenly somewhat understood why the Empress had previously not told him.

Probably she also didn't want him to worry needlessly.

"Oh." Lin Qingxi let out a soft oh, feeling a bit disappointed as she stepped back.

At that moment, Gu Xiangxiang repeated to Lu Chen and the several women the question she had just asked herself.

Instantly, Lin Qingxi's face flushed red.

After hearing it, Huang Jingxuan and the others also exchanged glances and smiled at each other.

All that can be said is that Qingxi, accustomed to being a princess, indeed lacks much understanding of external dangers.

That is why she came to have such a thought.

Lin Yunxue, standing nearby, also gave a faint smile.

She knows her daughter's innocence, but she never imagined it could reach this extent.

"Who knows whether such innocence is good or bad?"

After a brief chat with several people, Lu Chen left the room and went to the alchemy chamber on the other side.

Chu Lian, ever since she just came out, has nonstop begun refining medicine.

She knows Lu Chen greatly needs this batch of pills, so these days she has basically had no time to sleep.

"How is the situation? Is it still going smoothly?"

Lu Chen came before her and spoke lightly.

"It's... still okay."

Chu Lian's voice sounded somewhat hoarse.

"Your throat still not better?" Lu Chen asked.

"Tch! It's all your doing! You'd better figure out how to cure me!"

Chu Lian spoke with a complaining tone and punched Lu Chen's chest twice with her hand.

Immediately afterward, Lu Chen took out a pill from his storage bag.

"Munch, eat it and you'll be fine."

Seeing the pill in Lu Chen's hand, Chu Lian was quite surprised.

This lump of wood actually knows how to hurt people?

Feeling quite surprised, she hurriedly took the pill intending to try it.

After taking it, she indeed quickly felt a special power arise in her throat.

"Where did this pill come from?"

Chu Lian asked curiously.

"I got it by asking a sect next door that specializes in alchemy."

"It's quite expensive; I spent a dozen or so middle-grade spirit stones on it."

Lu Chen made a teasing remark.

"Tch, if you're not even willing to spend these few spirit stones, I might as well just return to the Spirit Defile Valley."

Chu Lian knew Lu Chen was teasing her.

The two chatted intermittently.

During this period, Chu Lian's alchemy skills also grew tremendously.

Now, refining eighth-grade pills has become quite stable.

Even ninth-grade pills, she can try refining them.

"Are you done?" Lu Chen asked again.

"Why the rush? The ingredients were only gathered yesterday. Are you really about to breakthrough?"

Chu Lian regretted it as soon as she said it.

Because she realized Lu Chen was actually about to breakthrough.

Clearly, yesterday he was still some distance from the bottleneck.

"Lately I heard Elder Sister Huang say that outside this world there are other worlds—could you be from one of those outside worlds?"

"Otherwise, how could you have so many unbelievable things on you?"

"Maybe." Lu Chen did not deny.

Although he knows that the world he once inhabited is absolutely not the same as the outside world here.

Speaking of the outside world, these days Lu Chen has indeed heard some things from Huang Jingxuan and Empress Qi Luo.

What the Empress said basically concerns the Nether Clan.

Simply put, among the myriad worlds, there are countless realms.

They are currently situated in the Mo Realm of the Taigu New Realm.

While the Night Clan and the Nether Clan are located in the Night-Nether Ancient Realm.

Each realm has its own heavenly dao will guarding it; unless one has achieved great cultivation, one cannot break through the realm to go to another world.

What Huang Jingxuan said, however, is merely about matters within the Taigu New Realm.

There are two realms adjacent to the Mo Realm: one called the Qian Realm, the other called the Yu Realm.

In the Qian Realm, most cultivators are ghost cultivators, and ghost qi fills the heavens and earth.

As they chatted, Chu Lian suddenly broke free from Lu Chen's embrace.

"The pills are about to be done; help me get an empty pill bottle."

"Huh." Lu Chen responded, quickly taking out an empty pill bottle from his storage bag.

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, the lid of the alchemy furnace was flung open by the aura of the completed pills, and two pills shot out.

"Catch them quickly!"

Lu Chen, quick-eyed and quick-handed, flashed his body and stuffed the pills into the bottle.

Walking over to Chu Lian's side, he looked at the Nine Abyss Reverse Fate Pill in his hand.

"Top-grade quality, how about that? My alchemy skills aren't bad, right!"

Chu Lian looked at the pill's appearance, instantly delighted, then waited for praise.

Who would have thought Lu Chen's face fell:

"Not bad, too bad it's not a waste pill."

Upon hearing that, Chu Lian's face instantly flushed with shame and anger: "I spent so much time refining pills for you, and you didn't give a single compliment? Then from now on you should find someone else to refine pills for you!"

"Wrong, wrong, I was just joking."

Lu Chen immediately admitted defeat.

Chu Lian is still relatively easy to appease.

After he coaxed her with a few words, her anger subsided.

Carrying the pills, he left the alchemy room, then turned back and returned to the room where Huang Jingxuan and the others were.

"Jingxuan, Qinyan, guard me; I am about to breakthrough my realm!"