Chapter 207: Heaven and Earth are Like a Cage, You and I are Also Travelers, Entering the Heavenly Human Realm!

Deep in the dense forest, in a dead silence.

Li Taiping leaned helplessly against the tree trunk, blood constantly overflowing from the corners of his mouth, his entire body stained red with blood.

Beside him, the three Taiping Sect Corpse Puppets he was proud of had now been beaten to pieces.

What was even more shocking was that Li Taiping's left leg was gone, most of the bones in his body had been smashed, his cultivation was gone, leaving only a large, shocking pool of blood on the ground.

Li Taiping gasped, his eyes full of disbelief and despair.

How could the Heavenly Human Realm be so strong!

Looking at the white-clothed young man walking slowly, he asked with a trembling voice:

"How did you do it?"

"Martial Dao True Meaning is impossible to cultivate in this era."

Lu Yu walked step by step, his Daoist robe looking a bit messy, and half of his sleeve had been knocked off in the battle.

He fiddled with his lapels casually, feeling that the two sides were asymmetrical, so he simply tore off the other side and looked left and right.

Lu Yu nodded with satisfaction, feeling that it was much more symmetrical.

Li Taiping struggled to swallow a mouthful of blood surging to his throat, asking weakly:

"Who exactly are you?"

However, his words carried doubt; deep in his heart, he had already begun to doubt the reality before him.

He shook his head to deny this fact.

"Even if you are his reincarnation, you cannot cross the limit of heaven and earth. No one can do it!"

Li Taiping spat out a mouthful of surging blood and asked regardless:

"Who exactly are you?"

Lu Yu looked down at Li Taiping, a brilliant smile blooming on his face:

"I am Lu Yu!"

The words fell.

He turned and left, seemingly preparing to depart.

Li Taiping was stunned for a moment, looking at Lu Yu's departing back, surprise and confusion on his face.

A flash of astonishment!

"You are not killing me?"

His voice carried a tremor, clearly surprised by Lu Yu's move.

Lu Yu did not look back.

Seeing this, an indescribable emotion surged in Li Taiping's heart; he supported his body and shouted with his last breath:

"Lu Yu, if you don't kill me, you will regret it." His voice carried a tremor, a bit of unwillingness, "I will come back, kill you, and then kill..."

However!

Li Taiping's words were not finished, and Lu Yu slowly turned his head, his eyes flashing with heart-palpitating light.

Li Taiping stopped immediately, not daring to say the words behind; he understood in his heart that Lu Yu's reverse scale was his elder brother.

At this moment, Li Taiping made a choice.

Between being able to live and dying immediately, he naturally knew how to choose.

The longer one lives, the more one cherishes the hard-won life.

Li Taiping remained silent.

Watching Lu Yu disappear.

His heart was filled with both loss and relief.

Loss, abandoning the head of a great Taiping Sect Leader.

Relief, having survived.

Li Taiping still could not get up; now his cultivation could not be maintained at the Grandmaster Realm.

He looked at the broken bone fragments on the ground that were no longer human-shaped.

No bones left!

Li Taiping did not feel sad for his disciples; his heart only felt pity!

He had to cultivate disciples again.

He began to crawl slowly, dragging one leg.

Not being able to ascend is the curse of this world; Li Taiping cannot do it, but there are other existences who will.

Just wait and see, Lu Yu!

His "Forbidden" talisman also forbade this area; otherwise, whoever came here now would only have a dead end.

He secretly rejoiced in his heart that at least in this place, he was safe.

……

……

The sky darkened.

On the horizon, thunder first appeared, exploding in the clouds.

"Boom—"

The strong wind shook, sweeping through the forest.

From the infinite heights, heavy rain descended.

Fortunately, deep in the dense forest, the branches and leaves were sparse, like a natural barrier, rejecting the torrential rain, leaving only a trace of coolness and moisture, quietly permeating.

Strong wind and heavy rain, it was cool!

In the forest!

Xie Mu simply took off his straw raincoat, his eyes a bit strange, looking at the strange scene before him.

Huang Dao stood with one hand behind his back, and a middle-aged man stood side by side.

One was a supreme Grandmaster of the Demon Dao, and the other was the Lord of Yan territory.

According to common sense, it was impossible for the two to have any interaction!

They seemed to be talking.

Xie Mu held his breath, trying to capture the strands of sound, but apart from the noise of the wind and rain, he could hear nothing.

He understood in his heart that this was the spiritual energy transmission that only Grandmasters had, capable of transmitting sound silently; Huang Dao had once transmitted sound to him using this method.

Xie Mu thought it wouldn't hurt to let him listen.

After all!

Those Jianghu people regarded him as a disciple of the Demon Dao and even more as an accomplice of Huang Dao "acting as a tiger for a tiger."

In the Jianghu, apart from Huang Dao, he had no other friends.

Who could he tell!

Looking back at the past, more than ten years of time passed in a hurry; he was originally a young master in the capital.

In his spare time, he would linger in the markets and gambling dens, or stroll through the brothels, chatting about national ideals with the dust-covered women, but he never took advantage of others, let alone bullied anyone.

He never lacked silver, and his actions could be considered bright and upright.

Xie Mu once thought about walking the Jianghu, with heavy grace from beauties, deep brotherhood, and quick revenge.

Who would have thought he would be "shouted at by everyone."

Xie Mu sighed, not knowing when the Jianghu became so unfree.

Just as he was immersed in his thoughts, the famous Prince of Yan looked back at this moment, looking at him with a gentle smile.

This sudden attention made Xie Mu feel a trace of tension and anxiety.

The name Shaobao had been thunderous since he was a child, and he was full of deep respect and admiration for this legendary figure.

At this moment!

Lu Chen slowly buckled his bamboo hat onto his head.

"See you again!"

Xie Mu hurriedly lowered his head and bowed.

He noticed from the corner of his eye that there seemed to be a black flag in the Prince of Yan's left hand, emitting an unusual luster.

The two brushed past each other.

A voice came from under the bamboo hat.

Carrying a trace of imperceptible laughter, as if speaking to Huang Dao, or to Xie Mu, or perhaps talking to himself.

"Heaven and earth are like a cage, you and I are also travelers!"

Xie Mu was stunned, a bit confused.

Huang Dao also turned around, his gaze deeply staring at the departing back, repeating in his mouth:

"Heaven and earth are like a cage..."

Huang Dao originally came for Martial Dao True Meaning, but now he was not in a hurry.

Lu Chen's back disappeared into the dense forest, and the rain outside slowly stopped, gathering into streams on the ground.

Xie Mu asked suspiciously: "Not moving forward?"

Just now Huang Dao was in a hurry to rush.

Could it be that the battle ahead was already over?

He was very curious about who won between Lu Yu and Xuan Son of Heaven.

This battle would reveal who was the true strongest of the Five Absolutes.

Seeing the Prince of Yan leave without any worry about his younger brother, it seemed he had long expected the result.

Huang Dao did not come back to his senses for a long time, and finally sighed:

"There are too many strong people in this world; I underestimated the heroes of the world."

Huang Dao looked at Xie Mu and said:

"Let's go, I already know who won!"

"Let's go see first; there might be an unexpected harvest."

……

……

Lu Chen looked down at his palm, where there should have been a black chess piece, but now it was quietly gone.

He walked on the official road outside the dense forest, his pace neither fast nor slow, stepping deep and shallow on the damp ground, his trouser legs already stained with mud, and his lapels soaked.

And he seemed not to care about all this.

On the road!

The sound of hooves was constant, fast horses flying; some knights, when approaching this pedestrian wearing a bamboo hat, would involuntarily slow down and gently make way.

Others were more urgent, the sound of hooves thundering, and the splashed mud fell mercilessly on Lu Chen.

He just smiled indifferently and continued forward.

Don't know when.

The originally dense and endless rain suddenly stagnated when approaching Lu Chen, as if drawn by an invisible force, diverted around him, and then fell lightly.

It was just for a moment!

Then, the rain fell on him again.

The heavy rain slowly receded.

Lu Chen looked up into the distance, at the intersection to the Yuetang River, where a group of figures was waiting quietly.

The Seven Sons of Zhongnan, each with anxiety and expectation on their faces, finally breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing Lu Chen and hurriedly greeted him.

Su Ziyin on the horse, seeing Lu Chen's figure, finally relaxed her tense expression, a relieved smile appearing on her lips unintentionally.

Even more eye-catching were the two Jianghu Grandmasters standing on the side—Li Lanjiang and Ye Shengnan.

Their gazes were locked on Lu Chen, and as Lu Chen gradually approached, their faces changed subtly, filled with shock and disbelief.

"Heavenly Human Realm!"

Li Lanjiang and Ye Shengnan whispered almost at the same time, their voices full of shock.

They knew that the two words "Heavenly Human" represented the supreme realm in martial arts, another leap after the third level of the Innate Realm, where the inner and outer heaven and earth are combined, returning to simplicity, reaching a level close to "Heaven and Earth are One with Me."

It was the realm where the Five Absolutes of the Jianghu were.

At this moment, Lu Chen's wet clothes were slowly becoming dry to the naked eye.

The two looked at each other, seeing the same shock in each other's eyes.

In just a few hours of departure, this Prince of Yan had actually broken through from the Innate Realm to the Heavenly Human Realm.

Becoming another Five Absolute in the Jianghu.

In next year's Awakening List, this Prince of Yan would be on the list.

There was a bitter smile on their faces; the realm they had sought for half a lifetime had been reached by someone so easily.

Lu Chen walked slowly into the team.

Su Ziyin suddenly opened the white chess piece she had been holding tightly in her hand, panic on her face.

It was gone!

She dared not be the slightest bit negligent; how could the one the Prince of Yan just handed her be gone?

Su Ziyin looked on with tears in her eyes.

Lu Chen smiled when he saw this.

"It doesn't matter!"

They were already close to the Yuetang River, and there should be no twists and turns on this road.

It seemed nothing had changed.

……

……

Yu Ke looked at the dark blue text on the cauldron and continued to simulate and deduce.

【Your group arrived at the bank of the Yuetang River!】

【The river was surging, the waves sparkling, and there were already many commoners and people boarding the ship.】

【Not long after, a figure in white Daoist robes landed lightly on the bank, like a flying bird.】

【It immediately caused a burst of exclamation around.】

【Li Lanjiang and Ye Shengnan were also surprised, looking Lu Yu up and down.】

【The Seven Sons of Zhongnan were overjoyed when they saw this, and they shouted in unison: "Master!"】

【Lu Yu did not pay attention, walking straight up and standing beside you.】

【You glanced at him, and Lu Yu's sleeves on both sides of his Daoist robe seemed to be missing, smiling:】

【"Quite neat!"】

【Lu Yu had a look of self-satisfaction on his face.】

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 208 =====