Chapter 146: Demon Flames Roaring! Seventy Percent True Intent!

Lu Zhangsheng seemed to feel, within his own body, that primordial barrier.

If he wishes, he can easily break through the primordial realm.

However, his killing true intent has never been complete; after the breakthrough he is not in a perfect state, which may affect his future martial path. He has traveled this way with skin, flesh, sinews, bones and blood all perfectly broken through, so this time he naturally will not be reckless.

Those FuduDianZhu are undoubtedly not polishing their own true intent, seeking to become strong even within the primordial realm.

At this moment, only a few demonic soldiers remain on the field, all staring at Lu Zhangsheng with faces full of terror.

These people hid behind the six city lords, their bodies beginning to tremble, and Lu Zhangsheng's slaughter directly frightened them to the bone.

Fang Yanbin and several other city lords had eyes blazing with fury, murderous aura surging skyward.

If a glance could kill, they would have already torn Lu Zhangsheng to pieces.

The six of them attacked together, not even catching a glimpse of the opponent, while losing most of their own men, which the few found hard to accept.

"Form the formation immediately, subdue this person."

Fang Yanbin's tone was ice‑cold to the extreme, murderous intent flashing in his eyes.

As he spoke, the six sprang into action, their breaths linking together, then they swallowed a blood‑colored pill.

Their breaths suddenly surged by a notch.

Endless blood‑killing aura swirled in the void, forming a massive ring that instantly enveloped the entire battlefield.

"Whoosh—"

The six figures flashed, directly encircling Lu Zhangsheng at the center, murderous aura like an ocean pressing down on him.

From the six's desperate start to sealing the battlefield and surrounding Lu Zhangsheng, it all happened in an instant.

Lu Zhangsheng, seeing this, kept a face as calm as water.

After his own killing true intent broke through again, he has not yet unleashed his full power.

His heart already leapt to test, and the long sword in his hand seemed to sense his thoughts, humming softly.

"Kill."

Lu Zhangsheng thrust his blade forward with full force.

Brilliant blade light flickered in the void, as if to cut through everything, its aura terrifyingly extreme.

This slash formed a curved arc, simultaneously cutting toward the six city lords.

With seventy percent killing true intent and a transcendent sword technique, its attack power had reached its limit.

At the same time, the protective body's mysterious steel aura suddenly erupted.

"Sizzle—"

A transparent steel‑aura shield instantly spread over his whole body, surrounded by a glowing halo, rather uncanny.

With his full burst, his entire body floated, lifted by the dense aura, exuding the bearing of a primordial strongman.

"This demon is ferocious; strike with full force!"

Fang Yanbin and the others wore shocked faces; the opponent's bearing was already extremely close to that of a primordial strongman.

As he spoke, he fully unleashed the blood‑killing aura within, slashing toward Lu Zhangsheng.

The remaining few dared not delay, wielding their weapons at full strength, killing toward Lu Zhangsheng.

"Boom— Boom— Boom—"

In an instant, the two sides collided.

A massive booming roar rang through the clouds, surrounding vigor spraying wildly, raising layers of smoke.

Even the living soldiers nearby were blown sideways by this gust of aura.

Their eyes were full of panic.

With a single strike.

Lu Zhangsheng stood steadily on the sand, not a ripple in his surrounding aura.

Like a towering, lofty mountain, impossible to be moved even a hair.

Fang Yanbin and the other city lords also remained rooted, their eyes full of horror.

The six had long entered the stage of complete transcendence; over decades their martial true intent had generally reached around seventy percent.

Even with their combined effort, they still could not suppress the opponent.

This raised towering waves of dread in their hearts.

Everyone around wore faces of terror.

"This demon's strength is only second to the master who caused that cataclysmic demonic calamity..."

Years ago, an invincible demon lord descended, leaving fresh memories in countless people.

Unexpectedly, within just a few years, another peerless demon lord appeared.

Lu Zhangsheng did not linger, raising his blade again and charging forward.

Fang Yanbin and the other six city lords likewise refused to be outdone, surrounding Lu Zhangsheng for a slaughter.

"Boom— Boom— Boom—"

Both sides fought a relentless blood battle on the sand, fierce vigor sweeping all directions.

The battlefield's dust rose dozens of meters high, the motion terrifyingly extreme.

Relying on his own dense protective aura, Lu Zhangsheng faced six opponents without a hint of disadvantage.

As the blade light flickered, his assault grew ever more astonishing, like an invincible war god, inspiring dread.

Fang Yanbin and Liu Moxue and a few others, relying on the battle formation, barely held back Lu Zhangsheng's attack.

As time passed, after more than half an hour.

Liu Moxue and the others' faces grew increasingly grim.

Their hearts were filled with boundless terror.

Six people went all out to surround and kill him, yet this demon showed no sign of weakening, simply terrifying to the extreme.

Under prolonged essence-blood eruption, even they felt a hint of fatigue.

In the moment of attack, they no longer had their previous might.

Just as several people began to retreat, an anomaly suddenly arose.

"Whoosh—"

Only saw a blade-light of incomparable brilliance tear through the void, slashing toward Liu Moxue.

Even the air transmitted successive sonic booms, momentum fierce and unmatched.

"Not good."

Liu Moxue's face full of fear, she could not block this strike.

Never expected the opponent could unleash a strike surpassing peak.

"Xue'er, be careful."

Even Fang Yanbing and several others wore looks of panic, having no time to rescue, could only watch helplessly as the blade-light slashed toward Liu Moxue.

This strike, naturally, was Lu Zhangsheng unleashing his inner essence-blood to slash out.

Its might had preliminarily reached the level of an innate expert; only Heavenly Pride could block it.

Before Liu Moxue could react, the blade-light instantly sliced her snow-white neck.

"Fang brother, I… I'm sorry, I can't walk on with you…"

Before death, Liu Moxue uttered her final farewell.

Her delicate body collapsed to the ground, her head rolled aside, copious blood gushed out.

The light in her eyes also gradually dimmed.

A peak strike, this expert who had roamed for decades was directly killed, body and spirit destroyed.

"Ah… return my Xue'er, I will surely kill you!"

Fang Yanbing roared with a face of despair.

He and Liu Moxue rose from obscurity, having slain strong foes all the way to this point; they had already secretly developed affection.

A few days prior, they had jointly sworn to break free of this prison and together venture to the upper realms.

Never expected, now they are separated by heaven and man.

Fang Yanbing's heart had long been consumed by hatred, directly going berserk.

"Kill."

He burned his inner "holy blood" to the limit, launching a suicidal charge at Lu Zhangsheng.

Rolling waves of blood-slaughter qi surged straight to the heavens.

This commotion was simply earth-shaking.

Seeing this, several city lords including Zhou Yitao turned and fled backward.

They were somewhat afraid; this demon before them was clearly not something they could handle.

Even if Fang Yanbing burned his life, he likely could not slay this wretch.

Merely the opponent's surrounding protective gangqi could not be broken by those below the innate level.

Seeing Fang Yanbing charge at the opponent, they directly chose to flee.

Several people turned into streams of light, after a few flickers vanished from the battlefield.

All this happened in just a moment.

All around, numerous demons and evil beings' faces filled with terror, their legs trembling from fright.

Afterward, they all followed the several city lords and fled backward.

Lu Zhangsheng also paid no heed to that fleeing crowd, directly charging at Fang Yanbing to kill.

"Boom—boom—boom—"

The two fought to the death on the sand, fierce gangqi shattering nearby sand and stones.

The ground seemed as if plowed, everywhere blade marks and gullies.

Fang Yanbing, by burning his life and essence-blood, for a time did not fall behind.

As time passed.

Both sides continued their bloody battle without cease.

In the distance, some demon servants watching were all shocked.

This level of combat had already approached that of the rumored innate experts.

No one had expected that the demon's strength in this descent would be so terrifying.

After the two had fought for an hour.

Fang Yanbing's aura suddenly weakened considerably.

Obviously, his essence-blood was nearly exhausted.

Lu Zhangsheng seized the opportunity, a blade swiftly slashing forward.

That brilliant blade-light seemed to make the fierce sun in the high sky lose its color.

"Rumble—"

Before he could react, the blade-light instantly pierced his waist, cleaving his body in two; blood and organs sprayed everywhere, the surroundings a mess.

Such a wound made survival impossible.

Lu Zhangsheng sheathed his long sword, hands behind his back, standing upright.

"Xue'er, I have come…"

Fang Yanbing dug desperately at the sand with both hands, slowly crawling toward Liu Moxue's corpse, his eyes full of reluctance.

Soon.

He then came before the headless corpse of Liu Moxue and embraced it tightly.

The light in his eyes gradually dimmed, and soon there was no movement at all.

For this demon servant who fought with his life, Lu Zhangsheng also felt a hint of respect in his heart.

Those who battle for their own dreams are truly heroic.

If it weren't for their opposing positions, they could have become friends.

But as an opponent, he could not possibly have any mercy.

If the external human race were to be defeated, the outcome would likely be even worse.

Afterward, Lu Zhangsheng gathered his thoughts and walked forward.

Rolling yellow sand was swept up by the wind to a height of thousands of feet, gradually burying Lu Zhangsheng within it.

……

In the following days.

Regarding the incident of the extradimensional 'Xue Mo' slaying two city lords, the news spread instantly across the entire world.

Countless people were shocked, and huge waves surged in their hearts.

Tens of thousands of troops launched a siege, and with the six false Heavenly City Lords taking action, they actually suffered defeat and sank into the sand.

This was something no one expected.

You should know, these city lords all fought their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and their martial true intent is at sixty percent.

Their strength is top-notch in the entire world.

One can imagine how terrifying that Xue Mo is.

When Lu Zhangsheng heard his own nickname of Xue Mo, he smiled wryly.

This nickname really isn't great.

Of course, this nickname is also related to his hunting of demon servants across the world.

Countless martial artists were mercilessly slain by him, stirring up a bloody storm across the world.

This caused many demon servants to tremble at the news, which is how he earned this nickname.

At the same time, his resources were rapidly increasing.

Three days later.

In the evening, the setting sun was like blood.

To the southeast of the world, before a huge city.

A white-clad man walked forward with his hands behind his back, resembling an unparalleled noble youth, his demeanor extremely unrestrained.

"Is this one of the main cities?"

Lu Zhangsheng looked at the majestic city ahead, his expression slightly shifting.

According to the map's guidance, after entering the main city, one can teleport back.

At this moment, some of the demonic soldiers on the city wall who had not yet fled saw the approaching person and were filled with fear.

"It's Xue Mo coming, he really has come……"

A group of people were so frightened they were at a loss, bumping around like headless flies on the city wall.

Lu Zhangsheng raised his long blade and rushed quickly toward the city wall.

In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the city wall and leapt up.

"Whoosh……"

The blade's light darted through the crowd, accompanied by trails of afterimages, as many demonic soldiers were cut into pieces, blood staining the entire city wall red, the scene extremely bloody.

Lu Zhangsheng pressed forward, strolling through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Each strike could easily take more than ten lives, like a merciless god of death descending upon the world.

"Source Energy Points +1."

"Source Energy Points +1."

Accompanying his slaughter, he also gathered crystal cores with all his might.

Soon, he reached the front of a great hall, with no living demonic beings left around.

The Source Energy Points in his hand surged again.

He opened the panel.

A blue light curtain appeared in the void before him.

Source Energy Points: twenty-two thousand.

After his bloody slaughter, he finally gathered the resources again.

The plus sign behind the Slaughter True Intent lit up again.

Lu Zhangsheng hesitated no longer and immediately clicked it.

"Hum……"

A vague surge instantly descended into the depths of his mind, as if a supreme expert were training day and night.

This made Lu Zhangsheng's understanding of slaughter ever more profound.

【After years of bitter cultivation, you have finally raised the Slaughter True Intent to seventy percent.】

With a clear Prompt Sound, this upgrade officially ended.

"Crack……"

Lu Zhangsheng felt as if he had broken through some kind of magical barrier.

He swung his blade forward.

It seems like a mortal chopping and cutting, giving a sense of returning to simplicity and truth.

Not even the air carried any fluctuation.

Meanwhile, his mastery over his own power had already reached its peak.

"Is this the strength of a Heavenly Pride?"

Light gleamed in Lu Zhangsheng's eyes.

Seven-tenths true intent and six-tenths are two different worlds.

At this moment, even if the three clones inside the Heaven-Reaching Tower joined forces, they could not match him after his breakthrough.

This is the intimidation of a Heavenly Pride.

Invincible among peers, it can sweep away all ordinary geniuses; even a siege or a wheel battle is ineffective.

"No wonder that Ye Wudi could suppress the younger generation of the entire Qingning Prefecture for decades, with no one daring to challenge him."

At this moment, he also understood the gap.

Lu Zhangsheng slowly closed his eyes.

Killing intent spread out as he carefully sensed his surroundings.

Even the sound of nearby air flow and the crawling of insects under his feet, he could clearly distinguish.

This perceptive ability is also a terrifying enhancement brought by the breakthrough of martial true intent.

It is said that raising true intent to perfection, when breaking through to the innate, will bring about an astonishing Metamorphosis.

Those top Heavenly Prides are all honing their martial true intent.

Afterwards, Lu Zhangsheng gathered his thoughts and took out his credentials.

Activated with qi and blood.

Hum—

From within the hall ahead came waves of fluctuation.

After confirming his direction, Lu Zhangsheng found a pouch in a city residence, placed the remaining over a thousand crystal cores inside, and headed toward the hall.

He intended to exchange these crystal cores for the DemonSubduingOffice.

As for the spent crystal cores after absorption, they were naturally disposed of cleanly.

Soon after.

Lu Zhangsheng arrived before the hall and stepped inside.

He saw crystal stone pillars standing on all four sides, with one side also having a small recess.

It happened to match the shape of his token.

He immediately placed his token into the recess and gently activated it with qi and blood.

Hum—

The surrounding space began to undulate gradually, and in the blink of an eye, the scene before him changed dramatically.

This was precisely the trial hall of the DemonSubduingOffice.

After returning the token to the old man, Lu Zhangsheng headed out of the hall.

Leaving the hall, he proceeded all the way toward the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

Amid the bewildered gazes of the surrounding martial artists, he arrived at the square before the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

Lu Zhangsheng ignored the crowd and stepped directly into the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

At the same time.

News of Lu Zhangsheng's second challenge of the Heaven-Reaching Tower spread instantly throughout the prefecture city.

Countless martial artists were astonished.

In less than half a month, he actually challenged again.

This made many martial artists not optimistic.

If the Heavenly Pride gate were so easy to break, then not just that Ye Hall Master would have broken through in the entire prefecture city.

"This Hall Master Lu is too eager for quick success; if he cultivated for a few more years, there might be some hope."

"Not bad, challenging again in a short time is utterly useless."

A group of people began discussing in the square.

Even Qin Ruobing and a few others, upon receiving the news, felt doubtful.

In their eyes, Lu Zhangsheng was certainly not a reckless rash person.

(End of chapter)