Chapter 158: Collapsing Dragon Tower, Five

His face changed rapidly, even appearing somewhat abrupt. It seemed his earlier panicked move was merely teasing the opponent; just as his words fell, the True Dragon Imperial Seal smashed onto the True Dragon Spirit Treasure. The imagined shock of a stone breaking the sky never appeared, and there wasn't even a hint of momentum. Apart from the True Dragon phantom vanishing, there were no other abnormalities.

How is this possible? With such a profound treasure colliding, how could there be no trace of power?

Wan Li's face changed drastically, finding it hard to believe what he saw. He naturally hadn't prepared for a single blow to smash and cause these two treasures to explode, shaking the entire Dragon Tower.

However, by common sense, when such profound treasures collide together, their power should be overwhelming. Especially the True Dragon Spirit Treasure, as the core of the formation, even a slight external probe should erupt with might and thus suppress.

In fact, his strike was merely meant to test the power of these two treasures. Deep down he still had a hint of wanting to toy with and frighten Lu Fan; as the Wan Ling Hall's Wan Ling Prince, if he were to self-destruct beforehand, not being able to see the enemy's fearful, panicked look would truly be boring.

Lu Fan smiled faintly, pointing from afar; a flash of instrument resonance appeared on the True Dragon Imperial Seal. Radiance flowed, and one after another seal sigils unfurled, linking together, and indeed they swept toward the True Dragon Secret Treasure.

In an instant, the lustrous jade ball continually emitting Dragon Element Purple Qi was wrapped in the seal's radiance. Those strands of Dragon Element Purple Qi vanished into nothingness as the seal's light flickered.

You indeed tampered!

Upon seeing this, Wan Li's face grew deep as the sea, his anger surging to the heavens; his whole body was engulfed in surging ghostly qi, phosphorescent fire blazing, threatening to spread through the void and burn the space to oblivion.

"Hmph!" Lu Fan snorted coldly, utterly disdainful: "With just you, it's not worth my going to such lengths!"

He did not deny Wan Li's words; obviously that kind of tampering was aimed at another "person".

"Who is it?" Wan Li blinked slightly, as if coming to his senses, he exclaimed in astonishment: "That dragon ape! Where is it? Why hasn't it come out yet?"

Wan Li's cold gaze swept around, but the surroundings were empty; aside from Lu Fan and himself, there wasn't a single living creature.

Lu Fan didn't reply, merely gave a cold laugh, then shifted his gaze downward to look down.

The crowd below stared dumbfounded, unable to make out the situation between Lu Fan and Wan Li. However, Wang Wu's earlier startled warning was heard clearly by everyone.

The Wan Ling Body-Dissolving Great Method is the Wan Ling Hall's most vicious, infamous evil art, extraordinarily potent. Now Wan Li is using this method, clearly intending to detonate the Dragon Tower's formation space; most of the people here likely face mortal danger.

"This demoness is Wan Li's junior sister; the Wan surname holder delays self-destruction, hiding and staying silent, likely to buy time for this demoness to find a way out of the Dragon Tower!"

A fierce shout rang out from the crowd below; Yang Sheng Hu glared fiercely, head held high, chest puffed, charging toward Xiulan.

"What? So that's how it is!"

"Not good! Wan Li wants us to die with him; even if we die, we absolutely cannot let this demoness escape this place!"

"Seize her!"

At this moment the crowd finally came to their senses, each emitting a cold glare, all following Yang Sheng as they surrounded Xiulan.

Xiulan's face changed; she instantly panicked: "What do you want? Yang Sheng is sowing discord. Don't you remember? This guy is allied with Lu Fan; just now, when Lu Fan drove the Kun Python to sweep up everyone's Dragon Element Purple Qi, this person happened to be the one who slipped through the net..."

She spoke rapid-fire, but the people present paid no heed. Although Lu Fan is hateful, Yang Sheng before them is indeed likely allied with Lu Fan. However, compared to the threat to everyone's lives posed by the Wan Ling Body-Dissolving Great Method, these amount to nothing.

"Hehe! Demoness, you needn't waste your breath. Speak honestly—how exactly do you leave here?" Yang Sheng gave a self-satisfied smile; although what the other side said was not wrong at all, in this situation it had no effect.

"You..."

Xiulan's face turned pallid; at this moment twenty or thirty people had gathered around. In such a confined space, there was no way to fly away even with wings.

"Hehe! Little girl, it looks like you've run into trouble!"

A strange laugh rang out, and immediately light and shadow flickered; the Dragon Ape's formidable figure appeared beside Xiulan.

"How are you here? The True Dragon Spirit Treasure is right above; with your heavenly-gifted bloodline, aren't you interested?"

Xiulan hesitated slightly, her retreating steps stopping involuntarily.

"Hehe! Even if the True Dragon Spirit Treasure is wonderful, what good is it if you can't leave here? Everything would be futile. Let's make a deal: you tell me how to leave this place, and I'll help you hold off these people—how about that?"

The Dragon Ape laughed loudly to the heavens, thumped its chest with a "bang bang," and let out a roar.

Upon seeing this, Yang Sheng and the others' originally fierce encircling momentum collapsed instantly; each involuntarily halted their steps, staring at one another, unsure what to do.

In the void, Lu Fan witnessed this scene, yet he laughed heartily and said to the Wan Li now turned into a mass of ghostly qi:

"There! It's over there. This fellow is quite clever, actually having no interest at all in the True Dragon Spirit Treasure; he might yet become a formidable beast of a region!"

Within the ghostly qi wrapped in phosphorescent fire, a howl sounded: "Hmph! This is better. With no one to get in the way, I'll just send you to the western heavens!"

As the words fell, the ghostly qi roiled, pushing the phosphorescent fire forward to scorch Lu Fan.

"Is that so? Then take a look at whether my Nalan Qiusha is someone who gets in the way."

At that moment, Nalan Qiusha silently crept forward, gave a clear shout, and stood before Lu Fan. The Celestial Armillary Sphere swayed; as its wheels turned, streaks of starlight shot forth.

"Ah——" Amid the gloomy ghostly ghostly qi, Wan Li's painful howl rang out: "Why? Why? As the Young Master, I have treated you with courtesy, yet you insist on opposing me!"

Na had no time for idle talk with the opponent; with a bare hand she pointed and shot, stirring the Celestial Armillary qi, Wan Li's painful howl rang out: "Why? Why? As the Young Master, I have treated you with courtesy, yet you insist on opposing me!"

【42】 Na had no time for idle talk with the opponent; with a bare hand she pointed and shot, stirring the Celestial Armillary Sphere's wheels unknowingly, scattering starlight, and a profound mystery instantly took shape.

"Star Mantra Technique, Soul-Calming Song!"

The heavens' starlight rolled up, turning into streams of clear flow; in an instant it enveloped the phosphorescent ghostly qi. As if isolating space, the fierce, brutal phosphorescent ghostly qi seemed to remain distant from here, gradually weakening.

"Pop-pop!"

Lu Fan took a few steps forward, walked beside Nalan Qiusha, and clapped with satisfaction: "It seems that the idea of joining forces with Miss Nalan that day can be considered the greatest gain of my secret realm expedition!"

"You know well enough! Wan Li has already been taken down by me; those two treasures, I will first pick one!"

Nalan Qiusha merely gave a cold snort, speaking with a displeased expression.

"Oh? Is it already over? I have no objections, I just fear those few down there might not agree!"

Lu Fan gave a light smile, then pointed downward; several figures came flying in. Wang Wu, Zhang Heng, and even Nie Xing, who had never shown his face, were among them, four in total.

"Hmph! A petty clown, I would not..."

Nalan Qiusha snorted disdainfully, but before she could finish her sentence, her face changed drastically as she stared incredulously at Lu Fan: "What are you doing?"

Only saw Lu Fan with an inscrutable smile, gazing upward at not-far-off True Dragon Imperial Seal and True Dragon Spirit Treasure, forming a seal with one hand and releasing it.

On the True Dragon Imperial Seal, radiance flashed; a seal sigil arose spontaneously. The Dragon Element Purple Qi it had swallowed was expelled all at once, condensing directly into a seal imprint that pressed down from the air.

"Bang!"

The restrictive radiance emitted by the Celestial Armillary Sphere was directly blown apart; the phosphorescent ghostly qi, freed from restraint, surged forth once again.

"Lu Fan, Nalan Qiusha. Today you two have insulted me thus; I demand you both die with me!"

A heaven-shaking angry roar sounded; the ghostly qi flowed, faintly revealing Wan Li's face, his rage extreme, his fury maddening, directly transforming into a gust of yin wind that struck the True Dragon Spirit Treasure overhead.

"Wan Ling Body-Dissolving Great Method, explode!"

Having delayed for so long, it appears Wan Li has suffered a considerable loss, but perhaps this is precisely how he has been accumulating his strength.

Yin wind wrapped around the True Dragon Spirit Treasure, directly gave rise to a wave of qi, then with a Boom— it shook and pierced the void, and streams of spatial turbulence surged forth.

"The faith of a death warrior lies only in this instant's burst. As long as you give them a chance, even if you hand them a butcher's knife, they will not hesitate and will bravely go to their death. As for what schemes you have, they won't care about it at all, nor can they!"

Lu Fan stood with his hands behind his back, smiling arrogantly. Under these words, Nalan Qiusha was stunned, her face full of doubt, and she asked in astonishment:

"What exactly are you doing? Wan Li is already under my suppression; why take such a risk? Let him fully unleash the Myriad Spirit Disintegration Great Method—this space probably won't hold!"

"You ask what I'm doing? You yourself already said it—do you really need me to repeat it?"

Lu Fan gave a faint smile, gazing upward at the spatial turbulence bursting in the void above, a mysterious hint playing at the corner of his mouth.

"You want to destroy the Dragon Pagoda—why?"

Nalan Qiusha was completely dumbfounded; even if she racked her brains, she couldn't figure out why Lu Fan would do this.

At this moment, Wang Wu and the six others had also flown here, each with a solemn stare, blankly gazing at the chaotic space above, unable to speak.

Nalan Qiusha's doubt—others also couldn't figure it out.

"Sigh!" Lu Fan lightly sighed, shook his head, and said: "This is why the Dragon Pagoda has been opened dozens of times, yet no one has taken the true treasure hidden here. The True Dragon Spirit Treasure has long fused with this space; if we don't destroy this Dragon Pagoda, how can I, Lu Fan, take this treasure?"

"What? How is that possible?"

Upon hearing this, everyone shuddered in unison, crying out in shock; they were greatly astonished by Lu Fan's words.

"Not only that!" Lu Fan gave a light smile, waved a hand upward, and the True Dragon Seal flew forth, which he grasped in one hand: "The Dragon Bone Seal is also closely tied to this space; if we don't destroy this place, we cannot possibly carry off this mystical treasure!"

"True Dragon Seal"—as soon as these four words were spoken, Zhang Heng snapped to attention, his true qi surging, and he shouted coldly: "Everyone, it seems the Dragon Pagoda expedition is ending; our dragon essence purple qi has been seized, and if we leave now, who would be willing? The gains are right before us—let's cooperate!"

"Heh heh heh!"

Nie Xing and the four others flickered, scattering outward, slashing the void, and directly enveloped Lu Fan's form!

Nalan Qiusha glanced at it, then gritted her teeth, silently lifting the Celestial Armillary Sphere, coldly fixing her gaze on Lu Fan, gathering power.

Only Wang Wu here, her face slightly wavering. Although she deeply resented Lu Fan, even having previously taken the initiative to strike, yet when the moment truly arrived, she could not make up her mind.

In her heart, Lu Fan was naturally a hateful person of the highest degree. Yet her relationship with him was not shallow, there being a certain ambiguous 'senior–junior sibling' bond between them. To have her join forces with Nie Xing and the others was naturally utterly impossible.

Without changing expression, Wang Wu stepped back two steps, clearly not intending to intervene in the others' joint effort.

"Ah!" Lu Fan again lightly sighed, and said slowly: "This is why I'm unwilling to lightly strike a killing blow—each time I eliminate an enemy, more enemies pop up, annoying beyond endurance. If it weren't for Wan Li himself seeking death, I would have had to spare his life anyway."