Chapter 54: Such Lineage Has Truly Reached the Heavens!

If not counting Gu Qingwan, this was absolutely the highest danger level Lu Yuan had encountered in the year since his transmigration and this was after he had advanced to Celestial Master!

If it were his previous self, Lu Yuan didn't doubt that this thing's star level would probably break through twenty stars!

No wonder!

His heart sank.

He had been wondering why the "Malevolent Slaughter Register" had been causing such a huge commotion throughout Fengtian City for so long.

It couldn't possibly end with just these seven creatures with only a two-star danger level.

So the big one was still coming!!

These Seven Malevolences before were just to delay time.

Crack!!!

Four heavenly thunderbolts tore through the night curtain, electric light like dragons, striking straight down from the firmament!

The Destruction, Mutilation, and Decline malevolences charging from three directions.

Along with the Extinction malevolence that had been lurking motionless, brewing some unknown conspiracy, were instantly pierced by the thunderbolts!

In the exploding thunder light, the four malevolences couldn't even emit a wail before being completely evaporated, not leaving even a wisp of black qi.

Lu Yuan got serious.

He must interrupt the ritual!

Absolutely cannot let this super-fierce entity complete its condensation!

Otherwise, a twelve-star monster could probably completely crush the three of them into powder in just one exchange!!

Seeing Lu Yuan instantly erase all remaining four malevolences in a moment, the hunchbacked old man and old woman's forms both stiffened.

"Tssss..."

The hunchbacked old man sucked in a breath of cold air, his turbid eyes full of shock.

"Originally thought an eighteen or nineteen-year-old half-step Celestial Master was already the peak, but still misjudged..."

"An eighteen or nineteen-year-old Celestial Master... this old man has traveled far and wide for decades, never heard of such a thing."

He shook his head, his voice hoarse.

"Such lineage has truly reached the heavens."

"Looks like after finishing this job, we'll have to wash our hands in the golden basin and retire from the martial world..."

But Lu Yuan paid no attention to the old man's ramblings at all.

His form flickered, transforming into an afterimage, shooting straight toward that suspended, flipping "Malevolent Slaughter Register"!

So fast that in Xu Erxiao and Wang Cheng'an's vision, only a blurry blue light remained.

"In your dreams!"

The hunchbacked old man had anticipated this. With a dry laugh, he fiercely jabbed the twisted locust wood staff in his hand into the ground.

His hands rapidly changed before his chest, forming seven bizarre hand seals. With each seal formed, a stream of black qi overflowed from his seven orifices, pouring into the wooden staff.

"Earth Malevolence Spirit Binding, Yin Locks Yang Pass—Trap!"

Where the wooden staff entered the ground, the surface instantly became pitch black as ink.

Seven bowl-thick black chains burst from the earth, shooting along the ground!

Those chains weren't metal or iron, but condensed from pure earth malevolence mixed with the old man's life essence blood.

Their surfaces attached with viscous venomous resentment qi, specializing in binding life force and dragging souls.

The seven yin malevolence chains didn't attack Lu Yuan's upper body, but precisely wrapped toward his feet and surrounding earth vein nodes!

The old man's purpose was very clear—not Lu Yuan's life, just to hold him for three breaths!

Lu Yuan's forward momentum suddenly stalled.

The yin malevolence chains brought not just physical pulling, but also a "sinking feeling" acting directly on the soul.

As if his feet had fallen into an ice-cold quagmire ten thousand zhang deep. At the same time, the chains frantically extracted his body-protecting pure yang qi.

"Erxiao, Cheng'an, Gen position, Zhen position! Break his foundation!"

Lu Yuan's voice remained calm, but his speech was fast as rapid-fire.

His Celestial Master internal qi frantically circulated within, resisting yin malevolence erosion. At the same time, his hands had already begun forming an even more complex and ancient hand seal.

His ten fingers bloomed like lotus flowers. With each change, a wisp of pure yang thunder was drawn from the surrounding thunder domain, compressed and refined at his fingertips.

"Understood!"

Xu Erxiao and Wang Cheng'an responded in unison.

Although the two weren't highly cultivated, having just entered the sect for only a year, they had laid an extremely solid foundation in daily practice, never slacking in cultivation.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have been chosen by Lu Yuan to personally accompany him on jobs.

Hearing Lu Yuan's command, the two instantly understood his intent.

Gen is mountain, governs suppression.

Zhen is thunder, governs movement.

Xu Erxiao treading the bagua steps quickly rushed to the "Gen" position at Lu Yuan's left front.

The peachwood sword in his hand didn't stab directly, but with the sword tip pointing down, he slapped the ground with the sword body while rapidly reciting the "Earth God Pacification Incantation":

"Primordial stability and pacification, universal announcement to all spirits... each secure your position, guard the altar court!"

The incantation activated meager magical power, temporarily pacifying this area's earth veins, weakening the channel through which the yin malevolence chains drew power from the earth.

The peachwood sword body emitted a weak yellow glow—that was the sparse earth element spiritual qi in the earth veins being briefly activated.

Wang Cheng'an rushed to the "Zhen" position at the right front.

He didn't recite incantations, but took a deep breath, pouring all his spirit and strength into the peachwood sword in his hand.

He didn't know profound thunder techniques, but Lu Yuan had taught him the simplest "Guiding Yang into Sword" method.

Visualize oneself as a furnace, blood and qi as firewood, ignite a point of pure yang fire in the heart, guide it into the sword.

The youth's face turned bright red from holding his breath, veins bulging on his forehead.

A wisp of weak but extremely pure flame actually rose from the peachwood sword tip!

With a fierce shout, instead of slashing the chains, he fiercely stabbed this sword into the "Zhen" position ground beneath his feet!

Zhen is thunder, also movement.

This sword carried his entire body's "momentum" and that point of pure yang fire, like a wedge nailed into a node of the earth malevolence meridians.

Like smashing a boulder into a calm lake surface, the entire earth malevolence array's operation experienced a momentary stagnation!

Though the two's coordination was immature and the effect limited, they truly interfered with the Life-Severing Wang Family's array.

Buying Lu Yuan a critically important half-breath of loosening!

In this half-breath, the hand seal in Lu Yuan's hands was complete.

Between his ten fingers suspended seven longan-sized thunder pearls.

Purple-white electric light flowed within them, dazzlingly bright, containing violent thunder force sufficient to split mountains and crack stones.

"Big Dipper Marks Death, Heavenly Stems Break Malevolence—Go!"

Lu Yuan's hands raised.

The seven thunder pearls traced seven mysterious trajectories, not shooting at the old man, but precisely bombarding the roots where the seven yin malevolence chains connected to the ground!

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!

Seven explosive sounds merged into one.

Supremely yang thunder force and supremely yin earth malevolence violently clashed, thunder light and black qi frantically annihilating each other.

The seven chains trembled violently, breaking inch by inch, finally transforming into black smoke and dispersing.

"Puh!"

The hunchbacked old man as if struck heavily, suddenly spat out a mouthful of reversed blood. The array forcibly broken, the backlash made his aura instantly wither.

The binding feeling on Lu Yuan's body completely disappeared. However, the mountain-collapsing, sea-overturning oppressive feeling overhead had already descended!

That super malevolent ghost's giant mouth had already opened, the sharp teeth inside rotating like a meat grinder, emitting the humming of ten thousand ghosts wailing in unison.

Its body's solidity had reached ninety percent!

[Time until complete form condensation: 00:00:57]

Time—less than one minute!

Lu Yuan gritted his teeth, about to charge toward that "Malevolent Slaughter Register" again but the old woman who had been silent from beginning to end quietly stepped forward.

She opened her mouth wide, revealing a sinister smile.

"Hehehe..."

"Too late."

The hunchbacked old man wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his face showing a sickly sinister smile.

"My old woman is much more formidable than me..."

Lu Yuan's heart instantly sank to the bottom.

The aura emanating from that old woman was cold, deathly silent, many times more powerful than that old man.

He absolutely couldn't possibly bypass this old woman and destroy the "Malevolent Slaughter Register" within one minute.

Dead end.

Just at this suffocating moment of despair.

A black shadow shot out from the nearby shadows without warning!

Extremely fast, like lightning!

The black shadow leaped in the air, grabbed the frantically flipping "Malevolent Slaughter Register" in mid-air, landed, emitting a crisp sound.

"Riiip—!"

Under everyone's shocked gazes.

This bizarre figure not even as tall as an eight-year-old child actually exerted force with both hands and directly tore that incomparably tough "Malevolent Slaughter Register" in half!

Then it turned around.

A pair of bean-sized eyes flashing with cunning, proudly placing hands on hips, looking at the frozen-expressioned Lu Yuan, asking in a shrill voice, "Kid, do I look like a god or a person!"