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Chapter 1169 Gathering the Spirit Seeds
Upon hearing this, Lu Li drew his sword to dismiss Zhenwu Emperor, then grinned and said, "Didn't I just say? I am the Pioneer of the End, the Demon Prisoner."

The True Martial Emperor had never heard of this name before. He just felt that Lu Li was abnormal. He had never heard of any True Self Realm Peak cultivator who was not afraid of conceptual attacks.

Are you from the same realm as me?

Zhenwu Emperor asked again, wondering if this was some kind of taboo from the End Space playing tricks on him.

"Same realm? If you were truly in the same realm, do you think you'd still be standing here talking to me?"

Lu Li scoffed, "You would have perished the moment I struck with my first blow."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Zhenwu was furious, yet also deeply alarmed. While unleashing forbidden killing techniques at Lu Li, he said, "I don't believe it! How can someone who isn't forbidden be able to fight me?!"

Lu Li gracefully dodged to the side, while simultaneously transforming the force of his sword into a softer force, drawing back the True Martial Emperor's fist and returning the attack to him.

On the surface, his attributes are only 340+, which is not as good as Zhenwu Emperor. But in reality, he has too many hidden attribute bonuses. In terms of the thickness of life source and the richness of soul source, Zhenwu Emperor may not be stronger than him.

In addition, he now has an absolute damage reduction of up to 95%, so as long as he uses a skillful method of deflecting force during the battle, the power brought by the True Martial Emperor's attribute that suppresses him is not enough to cause him significant injury.

Even though he suffered minor injuries from the shock to his body, he recovered almost instantly as his blood and qi circulated.

"Don't believe me? You're just a frog in a well."

Lu Li sneered, "There are plenty of people who can kill you if you're not forbidden."

He thought of the Martial God Mountain Master. According to Lu Jiaojiao, Lu Shuiliu was not a forbidden expert, but she could fight against forbidden experts and had even killed many forbidden experts in history.

This historical event further confirms some of Lu Li's conjectures, namely that all those fancy concepts are useless; once you reach the top, it's still all about fists and swords.

He felt that as long as he wasn't afraid of the other party's conceptual attacks, he didn't need to create any concepts himself.

As he spoke, he began to take the initiative to attack. With the help of Scarlett's excellent lubrication, he drew his sword at lightning speed and struck. Lu Li's sharp sword intent burst forth, and in just an instant, the True Martial Emperor's arm, which had not yet adapted to Lu Li's change of rhythm, was stained with blood.

At the same moment, when Zhenwu Emperor was injured, the Soul Eater was triggered, followed by Lu Li's Blood Drinking and the effect of converting excess Life Source recovery value into damage. After a cycle, the Soul Eater was triggered many times in an instant.

The True Martial Emperor did not cry out in pain, but he was so shocked that he retreated repeatedly. He had indeed suffered a great deal of damage in that instant, which made him very alarmed.

He never expected that he would get injured while fighting a mere child at the peak of the True Self Realm.

But something even more terrifying happened next. Lu Li put his hand to his face and said, "I thought this was a bit unsportsmanlike, but you really didn't excite me. Let's end this battle quickly."

As he spoke, he pulled his hand down, and immediately, Zhenwu Emperor saw a scarlet, ferocious mask appear on Lu Li's face.

Ah... what a mask it is! Just looking at it makes you feel like you are facing the ultimate fear, your heart and soul trembling.

True Martial Emperor was, after all, a forbidden existence. He instantly regained his senses and used his own concepts to cleanse himself. He was horrified to realize that the mask was incredibly eerie, and there might be a being of the same realm as him residing on it!
He had no time to wonder how Lu Li, a peak True Self Realm cultivator, could gain the forbidden followers, because Lu Li's charm had reversed at this moment. After the Evil God Mask was activated, his charm attribute instantly plummeted to an absolute low.

The Crimson King's charm clashed with Lu Li's charm attribute, causing Lu Li's charm attribute to drop to -260 points, making him seem like an indescribable demon in the eyes of the True Martial Emperor.

At the same time, Lu Li also gained a 2660% damage increase through the Evil God Mask. His sword energy crisscrossed the void, and at just the edge, it had already cut through the Taoist robe of the True Martial Emperor, which was made of the best materials, causing the skin under the clothes to bleed.

Not only that, Lu Li also lowered his body and sheathed the Demon-Capturing Blade. The next moment, he activated Scarlett's Blade Moment, entering a state of clarity. Any attack using swordsmanship would gain an independent 100% damage bonus, and the sword intent would be amplified by 200%!

To be honest, Lu Li himself had to admit that he wasn't very talented in cultivating the path of soul intent. This had nothing to do with his learning ability, but rather it was a matter of the upper limit of his aptitude.

At this level, his soul intent was not very strong, and there was still a big gap compared to the Lord of Martial God Mountain. However, with the enhancement of the Moment of the Blade, his blade intent expanded and roamed the Boundary Sea!
In an instant, Zhenwu Emperor felt his scalp tingle and didn't even want to think about whether Lu Li was a true peak self. He simply wanted to turn around and run away.

Because the moment Lu Li unleashed his killing intent, He truly sensed the scent of death.

However, Lu Li did not give Zhenwu Emperor a chance to retreat. Since the other party had no intention of negotiating, he was prepared to seize the spirit seed in the traditional way, so as to use the forbidden blood to cleanse his own spirit seed.

In the next instant, Lu Li suddenly lunged forward, the power of time from the Great World rushing towards him. He drew his Demon Slayer sword, his fastest draw slash to date, accompanied by a domineering sword intent, and slashed towards this forbidden figure.

The True Martial Emperor had no choice but to resort to forbidden techniques to fight back. He pushed out a ring in his hand, seemingly implying the smooth turning of things and the cycle of birth and death of all things. However, at the moment Lu Li's attack arrived, in the face of absolute violence, softness could not overcome hardness.

The True Martial Emperor's magic ring shattered instantly, followed by Lu Li's flashing blade. His magnificent purple-gold Daoist robe was ripped open, and blood splattered across the sky. He was actually cut in half at the waist by this one strike!
Feeling the deadly damage erupting within his body, and with the aura of death so close, Emperor Zhenwu disregarded his pride and turned to flee.

"Your title doesn't even deserve the word 'martial'!?"

Seeing this, Lu Li gave chase, coldly mocking, "Your fighting strength doesn't even deserve to be called an emperor!?"

The True Martial Emperor was furious at what he was being said, but he dared not turn back and fled for his life.

As it turns out, when someone is shameless and only thinking about running away, it's really hard to catch them.

Lu Li chased Zhenwu Emperor across half of the World Sea before he managed to severely injure him and slow him down. Seeing that Lu Li was determined to fight to the death, Zhenwu Emperor stopped running and decided to fight Lu Li to the death.

He made a hand seal, and golden light rose from behind him, transforming into a sacred halo. A huge plant appeared between heaven and earth, with a central main trunk standing tall, but only one main branch running horizontally through the top, looking like a huge cross from a distance.

Zhenwu Emperor stood at the center of the cross, his eyes bloodshot. "You brat of the end, you forced me to this!"

As he spoke, it was as if a power was being transmitted from within the Sea of ​​World without any time difference, all of which was applied to his body, causing his aura to surge and his injuries to be completely healed.

Lu Li realized that the True Martial Emperor had begun to burn his true spirit and even his concepts as a forbidden act. Moreover, the entity behind him, seemingly a seed of divinity, was providing him with immense power, causing the True Martial Emperor's stats to surge, reaching 342 points in overall attributes by spatial standards. Lu Li was not afraid; instead, he became somewhat intrigued and launched a preemptive attack. His blade moved like a dragon, and even before it arrived, the world behind the Boundary Sea began to shift to either side.

boom--

The void was almost annihilated by the attacks of Lu Li and Zhenwu Emperor. A huge shockwave erupted in the area of ​​the Sea of ​​Worlds. Fortunately, they had already fought their way to the desolate and barren shore of the Sea of ​​Worlds. Otherwise, who knows how many more worlds would have been destroyed.

Lu Li had intentionally driven the True Martial Emperor to flee in this direction; otherwise, if the other party fought him to the death in the center of the World Sea, many innocent worlds would perish during the counterattack.

The two sides clashed instantly. Lu Li's blade was like a vicious wolf biting its prey's throat. To Zhenwu Emperor's horror, he found that even though he was fighting desperately, he was still constantly being injured.

The forbidden vitality is linked to concepts and cannot be judged by common sense. Even so, every time Lu Li strikes, Zhenwu Emperor feels that he is moving toward death.

But his desperate stance didn't make things easy for Lu Li either. After fighting for a while, Lu Li also bled for the first time. In his desperate struggle, Zhenwu Emperor broke through Lu Li's defenses and sent one of Lu Li's arms flying.

However, Lu Li's magnificent blood and energy, which stirred up the world's ocean, continued to surge. The next moment, his arm regenerated and returned to its original position, and he punched the true spirit source of the True Martial Emperor.

The two sides fought fiercely in the Sea of ​​Worlds for three days and three nights, and the battle lasted for tens of thousands of rounds. Finally, Lu Li seized the opportunity and beheaded Zhenwu Emperor with a single strike. As Zhenwu Emperor was exhausted, a huge martial arts furnace appeared in the Sea of ​​Worlds.

The furnace stood tall and imposing, suppressing the true spirit of the True Martial Emperor within it. Lu Li stood on the furnace and thrust his sword into it. Instantly, endless sword energy circulated within, each strike filled with killing intent.

In an instant, the True Martial Emperor, who was trying to resist, was once again shredded, while Lu Li suppressed the furnace and began to refine it.

The voice of the True Martial Emperor within the Sea of ​​the World began as cursing, then as wailing, and finally as begging for mercy, continuing for three hundred years before finally ceasing completely.

Lu Li's martial arts furnace was shut down from then on. There was no longer any figure of the True Martial Emperor in the furnace. Only a seed that was glowing with white holy light remained. It was the divine seed that he had been seeking.

Lu Li sacrificed himself to the True Martial Emperor using the Martial Furnace, and all of his essence was poured into the Primordial Spirit Seed.

This seed had lost its vitality in its early years. After being nurtured and comprehended by Lu Li for thousands of years, the seed was no longer withered. With the irrigation of a forbidden life, it suddenly grew in the world sea.

The towering ginseng fruit tree stretched across the boundary sea, seemingly capable of sheltering an entire area. Judging by its size, it was no smaller than the original Hongmeng body that Lu Li had seen when he went to the Hongmeng Space.

After being nourished by forbidden life, his spiritual seed not only regained its life but also leaped to its ultimate form, where life force flowed endlessly and seemed to be nurtured by the supreme Dao.

Lu Li was overjoyed upon seeing this. He absorbed the ultimate form of the Primordial Spirit Seed into his own inner world and immediately felt his vitality expand more than tenfold. He even felt that he could stand still and let the forbidden figures beat him at will without his true body being destroyed.

In his joy, Lu Li did not forget the purpose of his trip. He picked up the Seed of God and established a connection with it.

This seed seemed to possess sentience. Seeing that Lu Li already had eight spiritual seeds within his body, it automatically flew in and found its place in the world within Lu Li's body.

Thus, the nine spiritual seeds were arranged in a circle, circulating and rotating autonomously within Lu Li's body, their Daoist essence naturally formed.

This spirit seed was not rejected by other spirit seeds. On the contrary, through the cycle of regeneration, those spirit seeds that were originally depleted began to recover because of the life force shared by the ultimate primordial spirit seed, and the seed of the god also received blessings.

The Origin Spirit Seed, Chaos Spirit Seed, End Spirit Seed, and Immortal Spirit Seed have all become plump and have sprouted new buds. It is believed that as long as Lu Li irrigates them, they will be able to recover to their peak in just a few years.

The Divine Seed, having been well-fed by the True Martial Emperor, retained its internal energy after being refined by Lu Li. Now, as it circulated through the other eight spiritual seeds, the power contained within it gradually converged towards Lu Li, saving him the trouble of returning it to its original form and re-irrigating it.

The seed of the divine rapidly grew within Lu Li's body, transforming into a divine tree resembling the cross Lu Li had previously seen, with holy light flowing continuously upon it.

In an instant, Lu Li understood. Without needing to look at the details in the Spirit Seed section of the space, he understood the effects of the Divine Seed.

The nine spirit seeds include the Origin Spirit Seed, which can transform active abilities into passive ones and is related to skills and moves.

The Primordial Spirit Seed can grant immortality and endless vitality; it is a spirit seed related to the origin of life.

The Seed of Immortal Spirit absorbs all spiritual energy to nourish the True Spirit, and is a spiritual seed related to the origin of the True Spirit.

The Heavenly Spirit Seed represents the favor of Heaven; obtaining it brings boundless fortune, as it is a spirit seed related to destiny and luck.

Ancient Spirit Seeds represent the desolation after destruction, possessing the power to destroy everything, and are spirit seeds related to true damage attack power.

The Chaos Seed represents the origin of all spirits, which arises from chaos, and all origins return to chaos. It is a spirit seed related to the power of life and bloodline.

Arcane Seeds represent the pinnacle of magic. Obtaining one allows one to comprehend all laws and perceive their fundamental mysteries. They are spiritual seeds related to exploration and knowledge, enhancing one's learning and comprehension abilities. For Lu Li, they are the icing on the cake.

The Seed of Gods represents the thoughts of all living beings. It is a spiritual seed related to titles. When cultivated to its fullest potential, all titles can be disregarded in terms of their grade and will take effect on all ranks and statuses.

The End Seed can amplify the soul's intent; it is a seed related to the expression of one's heart and mind.

Lu Li has now collected all nine spirit seeds and has gained some insights. The final spirit seed that returned to its rightful place will indeed be of great help to him.

Because many of his once powerful titles are no longer effective, but with the Seed of God, those outdated effects can still work on him, even if his realm improves in the future.

The nine spiritual seeds circulated within his body, seemingly resonating faintly. Lu Li sensed this and dared not delay.

Instead of returning to the End Space, he sat in the void of the Sea of ​​Worlds and began to meditate.

(End of this chapter)