Chapter 35: With Your Life, In Exchange for the Method to Control the Time Law

The entrance to the Luoyun Mijing has already closed.

The participants, who should have left long ago, were in a strange atmosphere; they stared at one another with wary, predatory eyes, yet not a single person left, all of them fixated on a spot not far from the open ground in front of the Secret Realm.

There, the features of a Qiongqi entering its adult stage were fully manifested: a tiger's head, an ox's body, a wolf's tail, dragon legs, and eagle wings; the two black, upward-curving horns on its head were sharp and cold, its two feet trod upon fire, and the bright yellow flames at the tip of its tail scattered sparks as it lashed about.

It looked at Ming Zhen playfully, its pupils reflecting Ming Zhen's alert and tense torso, while it huffed, emitting waves of foul wind.

Ming Zhen was not afraid of the Qiongqi.

What he feared was Lu Ren and the Qiongqi joining forces—one with time, one with space; if they truly teamed up to fight for their lives, even he would find it hard to resist! He weighed in his heart how to maximize his benefits and save his bloodline.

However, he underestimated Lu Ren's ruthlessness.

Receiving a signal from Lu Ren's eyes, the Qiongqi's throat rolled with a rumble; he lowered his waist and spat out an old man who was barely holding up a defensive Spirit Treasure.

Ming Cheng's talent could not be considered very good.

Although he was Ming Zhen's son, Ming Zhen still looked like a middle-aged man, while Ming Cheng was already doddering with age.

When he was spat out, he had not yet reacted, dizzy and confused.

Ming Zhen, however, breathed a sigh of relief.

"Consider yourself sensible, kid!"

He said disdainfully, and just as he was about to call Ming Cheng over, he saw that Lu Ren had already taken a step forward.

A bad premonition welled up.

But Ming Zhen could no longer stop it.

Fire.

Overwhelming fire burned fiercely, red and earthy yellow mixed together, forming a crackling picture.

"Lotus Karma Fire!!!"

"It's Lu Ren's Lotus Karma Fire, damn it, this madman, retreat, protect your spiritual platform!"

"Lu Ren! Are you crazy? You actually dare to commit arson and murder in my Qingyun Sect!!"

Whether it was the other onlookers or the people from the Qingyun Sect, everyone was extremely furious and scrambled to dodge.

Ming Zhen was even more enraged, his face gloomy: "Do you really think you can sit back and relax just because you have a strand of Lotus Karma Fire?"

"My Profound Ice is exactly what counters your fire!"

He opened his mouth and exhaled, streams of icy blue airflow pouring out; wherever they went, the Strange Fire was instantly extinguished, only managing a weak struggle.

Ming Zhen sneered: "Ignorant child! The Lotus Karma Fire is indeed terrifying, but the difference in cultivation realm between you and me is like heaven and earth; to think you would actually dream of escaping using a Strange Fire..."

As he spoke, he suddenly choked, his entire body stiffening in an instant; he could not utter a single word, his lips and teeth trembled violently, and his eye sockets turned red! At this moment, the Strange Fire dissipated, and Lu Ren curled his lips faintly.

In his hand was a round, earthy-yellow bead, spinning nimbly; its thick aura made one gasp at the richness of its earth energy the moment they saw it.

This was definitely a rare Spirit Treasure, perhaps even an Innate Spiritual Treasure! But this guess only flashed through everyone's minds for a moment.

On the scene, one could hear a pin drop.

It was almost terrifyingly quiet.

Not for any other reason, but because that round bead had, at some point, become stained with a smear of blood; it spun in Lu Ren's hand as if acting spoiled, yet the smell of blood on it could not be wiped away.

And just a short distance from Lu Ren, Ming Cheng, who had previously been oblivious to the passage of time, had his eyes bulging out and had fallen to the ground in an extremely strange posture! A round hole had been opened in his head, and red and white matter flowed out from within, pooling on the ground.

Ming Cheng was dead!

Dead as could be! The Strange Fire from just a moment ago was merely a cover; using the Strange Fire, Lu Ren had actually killed his only bloodline right under Ming Zhen's nose!!

No one had expected that Lu Ren would be bold to this extent! Ming Zhen fell silent.

His aura trembled, for with the death of his only offspring, his last line of kinship on the Tianxuan Continent was severed! "Lu Ren! You deserve to die!!!"

Ming Zhen's suddenly erupting aura climbed in a straight line, his eyes red like a fierce god, and he gritted his teeth in hatred: "Since you dared to kill my son, today, I will surely take your arrogant dog life to sacrifice to my son!" He could not control the anger and hatred in his heart at all, wishing he could skin Lu Ren alive, but just as he was about to succeed, just as his long blade was about to sever Lu Ren's head, he saw the old man who had been acting invisible suddenly move.

His dead, silent eyes opened, like withered wood meeting spring, and he said softly: "Freeze!"

A deep blue light burst forth from the tip of his tongue, as if sweeping across the world, freezing everything in place; everyone could not move even a fraction, and even their thoughts were frozen!

The only two who could still move freely, besides him...

Were Lu Ren!

No one knew that this gatekeeping old man, who never showed his true colors, was actually an Enlightenment practitioner who had mastered the Time Law! And, terrifyingly strong! Lu Ren chuckled, seemingly not surprised by this result; only the old man let out a heavy breath, his dark, heavy eyes lifting wearily to land on Lu Ren.

He spoke slowly: "You... when did you discover it?"

"Discover what?"

Lu Ren calmly pushed aside the blade not far from him, pacing as if chatting, speaking as he walked.

"Discovering that you were suppressing your strength and unwilling to advance, or discovering that you and I are both comprehenders of the Time Law?"

The old man was silent.

He sighed leisurely, "Hearing a hundred times is not as good as seeing once; Lu Family Head, I have long wanted to meet you, and today, I have finally had my wish fulfilled."

He stood up slowly, his cracked skin becoming even more ghastly, but the old man did not care, instead curling the muscles on his face to reveal a smile of red tissue where the skin was missing.

"I am Qingyizi!"

"Lu Family Head, I have only one question: how did you master the Time Law?"

"You are not a comprehender of the Time Law; you are its controller!"

"As you can see, I am about to die; before I die, I, too, wish to comprehend its mysteries..."

He spoke word by word, unable to form complete sentences, and every time he spoke another word, the pressure grew heavier.

By the end, his face was even twisted, his eyeballs bulging, like a distorted tree monster, staring fixedly at the only living person, extremely evil and ferocious.

Lu Ren looked at him calmly.

He had discovered this old man when he entered the Qingyun Sect and had kept him in mind from that moment.

Qingyizi was right; he was a controller, not a comprehender, which was why he could discover the problems existing in Qingyizi across realms.

He had also been guarding against the other party suddenly attacking; at this moment, all of the old man's reactions were still within Lu Ren's expectations.

Ming Zhen was fundamentally not an opponent that Lu Ren needed to guard against.

The Lu Family's intelligence gathering methods were heaven-reaching; Lu Ren had long known that Ming Cheng was Ming Zhen's son, and he had deliberately captured Ming Cheng in the Secret Realm to lure Ming Zhen into making a move against him.

In the end, this Qingyizi truly could not keep his composure, not daring to watch Lu Ren die, and erupted with the Time Law!

Everything was within Lu Ren's calculations.

Qingyizi stood up and looked straight into Lu Ren's eyes; his eyes had long since turned completely black.

At this moment, he even spat out extremely evil, delirious murmurs.

"Lu Family Head, this old man wants to make a deal with you."

"Use your life to exchange for the method to control the Time Law!"

"Will you make this deal, or will you not!!"

Sentence by sentence, sound by sound, until the end, it turned into a wild roar, and the entire world echoed with only one extremely wild and evil angry sound.

"Do it! Or do not!!!"

(End of this chapter)