Is the cultivation world now only populated by demonesses?

Chapter 96, Section 95: The Roaring River (2.5 combined, meow)

The wind blew into my ears.

Black swamps kept forming behind us.

Lu Changyuan and Mei Zhaozhao shot out from the darkness.

"How confident are you? I'm still young and don't want to die."

The two were already on their way to the west of the city.

Lu Changyuan's voice carried on the wind: "Are you asking whether you want to defeat Xiao Qingfeng or find the Underworld Lord?"

Mei Zhaozhao's hope was rekindled: "Can you beat Xiao Qingfeng? I knew you were amazing."

“It’s impossible to win. He already has the Yao Guang technique, the real Yao Guang, which is no longer on the same level as Kai Yang.”

"Then what did you say? What about finding the King of the Underworld?"

"Less than 10%."

Mei Zhaozhao didn't find Qiu Yuehan's joke funny, so she gritted her teeth and asked, "Can the little grandmaster of Cihang Palace withstand it?"

Lu Changyuan shook his head again, but what he was holding in his hand was Su Youwan's birdcage: "I don't know, so we need to hurry."

Su Youwan established a close relationship with Lu Changyuan, and the girl even placed her feelings into Lu Changyuan's hands, in order to exchange Lu Changyuan's life for hers.

This can only last for one hour.

Otherwise, once Lu Changyuan leaves the courtyard, Xiao Qingfeng will discover him, and the fight will be impossible to continue.

“It seems I can communicate with these spirits; I asked them to help her.”

Mei Zhaozhao said as she hurried along.

Inside Lu Changyuan's small house, she finally figured out the privileges that Hades had temporarily granted her.

Because she possesses a spiritual body and has received permission from the King of the Underworld, she can now command his spirit to a certain extent.

Lu Changyuan nodded.

He suddenly stopped.

A huge fissure opened up in the ground in front of them, and creatures that did not resemble humans crawled out of the fissure.

It was a huge lizard, carrying rocks on its back, with a scarlet tongue flicking out of its mouth.

Mei Zhaozhao couldn't help but exclaim, "What is that?"

Lu Changyuan squinted: "I don't recognize it either. It's probably a monster created by Xiao Qingfeng using the Transformation Technique."

The earth of the underworld was trodden with deep marks by this giant lizard, and each of its movements seemed to be accompanied by the tremors of breaking rocks.

"coming!"

Despite its enormous size, the monitor lizard charged toward Lu Changyuan at an astonishing speed, then exhaled a foul odor.

Mei Zhaozhao waved her hand, and several spiritual entities emerged, but before they could take shape, they were brutally devoured by the giant lizard.

"careful!"

Lu Changyuan shot out like an arrow, weaving through the rubble and leaving behind trails of afterimages.

The giant lizard roared, raising its forelimbs, powerful enough to crush city walls, and slammed them down with a whistling sound. Just as its claws were about to touch Lu Changyuan's head, Lu Changyuan slid to the side, flipped his wrist, and slashed out with a cold light. But the sword only left sparks on the giant lizard's rock-like body.

Clang!
The sound of metal clashing against stone was deafening.

so hard.

The recoil from the sword tip made Lu Changyuan's arm go numb.

Lu Changyuan has now finally entered the Fifth Realm, and the Severing Thoughts technique is not very effective against this kind of physical monster.

Therefore, the road is long and the sword is poised to strike.

White Zang!

The autumn sword pierced precisely into the giant lizard's eye.

The sword hummed, black blood mingling with Duan Nian, before Lu Changyuan pulled it out.

The giant lizard let out a roar that was a mixture of pain and rage, which made the surrounding air tremble. Its huge tail, covered with jagged stone spikes, swept down like a gray hurricane.

Not only that, a shadow suddenly loomed over Lu Changyuan's head, and a piercing shriek tore through the air.

A strange bird with three huge fleshy wings on its back swooped down, its ugly fleshy wings flapping wildly, violently shaking off the sticky scarlet blood beads hanging on them, and then a rain of blood fell down.

Lu Changyuan's pupils contracted sharply, and his body staggered backward. Even so, the gale brought up by the giant lizard's tail still tore through his robes, leaving a shallow bloodstain on his waist and abdomen.

Blood rain also dripped from the sky onto his left hand, quickly corroding a piece of flesh.

"I'll summon a few more spirits!"

Mei Zhaozhao was just about to make a move when her mind was suddenly disturbed, and she had no choice but to leave the spot as well.

That is, the very next second after leaving.

Boom!

A massive fist, capable of shattering everything, was already upon them.

"what!?"

Mei Zhaozhao screamed and turned around, only to see a headless humanoid figure that looked like a dead object appear in the darkness.

It simply raised its thick, pillar-like arm again, its movements stiff yet incredibly fast, accompanied by a dull, suffocating whistling sound as it threw a punch! No technique, no variation, only the purest, most savage, absolute power!
"Young Master Lu, please think of a solution quickly."

"What else can we do?" Lu Changyuan said resolutely, "We can't let these strange things get in the way. They are reincarnations of Xiao Qingfeng. Even if we kill them, they will come back to life."

Just like Wang Lian and Xiao Hai, whom they killed before.

However, these monsters completely surrounded Lu Changyuan and Mei Zhaozhao, making it very difficult for them to get through.

Lu Changyuan stomped his foot and, like an arrow released from a bow, grabbed Mei Zhaozhao and then charged forward fiercely.

There is still some distance between the two cities.

We can't be dragged along here.

As fate would have it, a cold wind swept in from the side, and a huge python, which had been hiding in the shadows of the ground, suddenly rolled over as Lu Changyuan passed by, its foul-smelling mouth and sharp teeth clearly visible.

"I'm going to die! I'm going to die! I'm going to die!"

"Be quiet." Lu Changyuan raised the Broken Thought, and then Mei Zhaozhao's body forcefully leaped into the air, kicking the snake's head to the side, and the Broken Thought broke off from the top of the snake.

stab.

The flesh pierced through the skin, pinning the snake's head to the ground.

It was during this delay that the giant lizard with its tough hide and the headless humanoid figure reappeared in front of Lu Changyuan and Mei Zhaozhao.

Lu Changyuan frowned.

This transformation technique is extremely disgusting, especially in a place like the Underworld Kingdom where life and death hang in the balance, which makes it even more advantageous for Xiao Qingfeng to use it.

You are about to die

Can you stop talking nonsense?

Lu Changyuan took a deep breath and raised his sword horizontally.

A sword coming from the west!
Their target was not the headless giant and the rock lizard in front of them, but the strange bird flying in the sky.

The strange bird clearly hadn't noticed that Lu Changyuan's target was it; it let out a fierce cry and fell from the sky.

Lu Changyuan, however, did not breathe a sigh of relief.

The most difficult to deal with are the rock lizard and the headless giant, because these two are indeed thick-skinned and difficult to penetrate.

"Where's your Hehuan Sect's Red Desire Technique? Use it."

Mei Zhaozhao belatedly realized that her Hehuan Sect was not a master of close combat, but rather an expert in manipulating the mind.

Soon, a huge mark formed in Mei Zhaozhao's hand and shot straight into the lizard's body.

The lizard indeed stopped moving. It seemed to have lost its sense of direction and was unaware of Lu Changyuan and Mei Zhaozhao's exact location.

But in just a short while, the three-winged bird and the giant python showed signs of resurrection.

"Young Master Lu, it's no use! That headless giant won't accept my seal!"

What kind of species is this?

What kind of era was the ancient times that could produce such thick-skinned monsters immune to mental attacks?

The enormous fist slammed down in front of Lu Changyuan in an instant. Lu Changyuan, holding Mei Zhaozhao, stepped on the giant's arm and climbed upwards, gathering his strength into a single point. With the tip of the Broken Thought Sword pointing downwards, carrying an unstoppable sword aura, it pierced the giant's severed head like a falling meteor.

Boom!

A deafening roar, like a thunderclap, erupted! A violent burst of sword energy emanated from the tip of the sword. Lu Changyuan used his back foot to push off, dodging the giant's punch.

Lu Changyuan gritted his teeth: "What kind of monster is this?"

Their physical strength is comparable to that of certain cultivators at the sixth realm.

If they continue to be held back by the giant, things will get really complicated when Xiao Qingfeng gets a chance to act.

"Luo?"

Lu Changyuan looked towards the street corner, where a phantom spirit appeared—it was Luo from the prison of sins.

Luo roared.

Mei Zhaozhao strangely understood: "Luo said he wanted to help Lu Langjun."

"How can you help me?"

You are just a phantom, imprisoned in a prison for who knows how many years. When I released you, you were so weak that you were about to disappear. How can you help me?

Soon, Lu Changyuan found out.

Suddenly, Luo's spirit rose up, like a wisp of green smoke disappearing into the giant's towering body.

Lu Changyuan stood frozen in place, watching as the giant, who had been raging and rampaging just moments before, suddenly froze, as if transformed into an ancient stone statue.

A moment later, the giant raised its arm again. Lu Changyuan instinctively gripped the hilt of his sword, only to see the mountain-like fist suddenly change direction and smash into the giant python that was lurking nearby with earth-shattering force!

Just one punch.

Its scales shattered, and blood mist filled the air. The giant python, which had been so ferocious just moments before, was smashed into a bloody pulp.

Lu Changyuan exclaimed in disbelief, "This is your body?!"

The giant had no head, so it couldn't nod or speak; it just kept punching the giant python.

The reason is actually not hard to guess.

Xiao Qingfeng's Transformation Dao transformed the giant's bones into its original appearance, but only the physical body was transformed; there was no spirit within it. It was merely a puppet, following Xiao Qingfeng's commands.

What if the giant's soul returned in this situation?

Naturally, it means that the body has been taken away.

Luo is a spirit of the underworld, whose age is unknown. Lu Changyuan fought with it many times in the past and knew that it was extraordinary in its previous life, but he did not know that it was extraordinary to this extent.

Xiao Qingfeng happened to provide it with a physical body that could temporarily accommodate its last wisp of thought, so the situation was reversed at this moment.

The headless giant waved its enormous hand toward Lu Changyuan.

The meaning is very clear.

Go do what you're supposed to do.

Lu Changyuan picked up the birdcage again, nodded to Mei Zhaozhao, and then transformed into a beam of light and left once more.

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"Changed positions again?" Xiao Qingfeng snorted coldly.

He had already realized that Yu had broken up with another woman.

This time he will not be deceived again.

Anger rose from the depths of his heart; it was a fierce flame ignited by being mocked and further wounded.

So he accelerated again, and the sundial in his hand shone brightly once more, making the blurry fate clearer.

I can attain enlightenment.

I will attain enlightenment!

Anyone who stands in my way to enlightenment, I will kill!
"Your avatar has been taken away?"

Xiao Qingfeng sensed it the instant the headless giant's body was taken over, but he didn't care. It was just an avatar; it couldn't cause much trouble.

Xiao Qingfeng abandoned both observing Mei Zhaozhao and reclaiming his avatar, choosing instead to descend directly.

The long road is not far away.

At the junction of the East and West districts, there is nothing but a stone monument as a landmark.

Xiao Qingfeng still didn't know what Lu Changyuan was planning to do.

This time, he did not act rashly.

He was frightened by the sixteen moon-shaped needles at Cihang Palace.

The woman had a needle in her hand; could the man also have a sword in his body?

If he were to strike again, he would be seriously injured. He had not yet fully ascended to the Yao Guang realm, and if he were to injure his origin at this moment, he would likely suffer a lifelong Dao injury.

Moreover, he had long suspected that the true strength of Yu was not limited to the sixth realm.

The reappearance of the Sun and Moon Palace's techniques suggests that the remnants of the Sun and Moon Palace may be trying to reclaim the Sun and Moon Sundial. In that case, Yu might be a member of the Sun and Moon Palace, just like his master Chen An.

Xiao Qingfeng recalled a saying that circulated in the cultivation world when he first began cultivating. It was said by the Taoist of Chang'an.

"Some old fogies like to pretend to be weak in order to deceive people."

Be careful.

Be careful to make a thousand-year ship.

But Lu Changyuan actually stopped moving at the junction of the east and west cities, and even sat down directly under the stone tablet.

He was looking at himself?

Xiao Qingfeng was startled.

Lu Changyuan was indeed looking at the place where he was.

"Come out."

Xiao Qingfeng pondered the matter again and again, but still couldn't see through the long road ahead. Even when he used a sundial to calculate it, he gained nothing.

Then he emerged from the darkness.

"Yu, I think we can talk."

Lu Changyuan scoffed, "What are you talking about? You don't want to kill me anymore?"

He only seemed to be at the edge of the fifth realm, and shouldn't have lasted more than a round against me.

That's too nonchalant.

What does he have to rely on?
Xiao Qingfeng couldn't help but think this, and his expression grew even more solemn. He asked, "Why have you come to the Underworld?"

Lu Changyuan said calmly, "We'll search for the sundial and also take a look at the River Styx."

"Just that?"

"Yes."

Xiao Qingfeng breathed a sigh of relief, then continued to ask, "Are you from the Sun and Moon Palace? If you weren't from the Sun and Moon Palace, you wouldn't know that the sundial is in the Underworld."

Lu Changyuan waved his hand: "I have been a defector from the Sun and Moon Palace for many years."

Xiao Qingfeng breathed a sigh of relief again. He took out the sundial and said, "If you came for the sundial, I will give it to you."

He has already used the sundial to deceive the heavens and reversed the tide of life and death, so the sundial is no longer of much use to him.

Lu Changyuan maintained his smile: "And then?"

"As long as you give up the title of Yu."

He relinquished the title of Yu, sending Xiao Qingfeng to fully enter Yao Guang and devour the entire Underworld Kingdom.

Lu Changyuan achieved his goal of entering the Underworld.

This looks like a good deal.

But Lu Changyuan just leaned against the stone tablet and said, "You want me to voluntarily give up my position and send you to Yaoguang, and then kill me after you're in Yaoguang, is that right?"

There are now only three living people left in the Underworld, three living people who are not his subjects.

Xiao Qingfeng narrowed his eyes, and the sundial in his hand floated to Lu Changyuan's front: "I don't have much of a grudge against you. You and your two women can leave the Underworld. To show my sincerity, I can even give you the sundial first."

He's willing to spend that much.

Looking at the familiar magical artifact before him, Lu Changyuan thought of the Lord of the Sun and Moon Palace.

Then he said softly, "If you don't kill the three of us, your ascension to Yaoguang will ultimately be incomplete. Are you really that willing to do it?"

Xiao Qingfeng said matter-of-factly, "I dare not kill her. Anyway, she is already imperfect, so it doesn't matter if she gets any more. I will find a way to make up for it later."

She was naturally referring to Su Youwan.

If we kill the young master of Cihang Palace, who knows what Cihang Palace will do?

That sounds reasonable.

But don't forget.

The Xiao Qingfeng before me was not some merchant who made deals. He was a man who had schemed for hundreds of years, who could remain rational even after transforming into a spirit in the Underworld, and who defied fate to ascend to the Yao Guang realm.

Would such a person truly be content with this? And would they truly be afraid of Cihang Palace?
Once he ascends to Yao Guang, what can the Lord of the Sun and Moon Palace do to him even if he were alive?

Those who ascend to Yao Guang must possess the right mindset, the right opportunity, and the right talent; none of these can be lacking.

Su Wuxiang only saw the Yao Guang scenery once, and Han Ze Zhenren didn't even see that scenery, but Xiao Qingfeng truly possessed the Yao Guang technique.

Will someone like that believe in the long run if they say they accept imperfection?
of course not.

Right from the start.

It's bound to be a life-or-death situation between Lu Changyuan and Xiao Qingfeng.

"That sounds very tempting."

Xiao Qingfeng saw Lu Changyuan stand up, dust himself off, and say in a calm voice, "But I have a bad habit: I love to say no to self-righteous people."

Lu Changyuan had barely finished speaking.

The sound of air being torn apart arrived in an instant.

It wasn't Lu Changyuan who made the move, but Xiao Qingfeng who directly attacked Lu Changyuan with the Sun and Moon Dial.

Lu Changyuan was decisive, and Xiao Qingfeng did not hesitate either. Seeing that he could not talk to Lu Changyuan, he said no more.

This is also a test.

Before Lu Changyuan revealed his true intentions, Xiao Qingfeng did not plan to get too close to him.

But it was far beyond his expectations.

This attack blasted Lu Changyuan away, blood spilling from his mouth, his back pressed tightly against the stone tablet.

With a loud crash, Lu Changyuan and the stone tablet collapsed to the ground together.

Xiao Qingfeng stared at Lu Changyuan in astonishment.

How could it be so weak?

It really is the Fifth Realm.

Is this Yu? The Yu who spent a hundred years in the Underworld and cultivated to the Kaiyang realm?
Xiao Qingfeng sneered: "So you were just bluffing?"

Lu Changyuan, supporting himself on the broken stone tablet, slowly stood up and swallowed the bitter blood in his mouth.

You are about to die

"Xiao Qingfeng, you've been in the Underworld for over three hundred years, yet you have absolutely no feelings for this place?"

Xiao Qingfeng was stunned for only a moment, then suddenly waved his hand, and the stone tablet exploded completely. Lu Changyuan's body was slowly lifted up, and Duan Nian fell to the ground with a thud.

Lu Changyuan's figure floated through the air until Xiao Qingfeng grabbed him by the neck.

"Feelings? This place has tormented me for three hundred years, how could I have feelings for it?" Xiao Qingfeng said disdainfully, "Feelings are not something that cultivators should care about. You should understand this principle."

Xiao Qingfeng sneered: "I was too cautious. I really thought you had some trump cards up your sleeve. Your bluffing act was quite good."

Speech closed.

He was about to snap Lu Changyuan's neck and crush him completely.

But he didn't see a trace of fear or apprehension on Lu Changyuan's face.

This person isn't afraid of death? This gave Xiao Qingfeng a very bad feeling.

Lu Changyuan is indeed Yu.

correct.

Where is the other person?
Using his half of his authority, Xiao Qingfeng sensed that the person was in the royal palace.

What are you doing in the palace?
Xiao Qingfeng slammed Lu Changyuan to the ground, leaving a huge crater overflowing with scarlet blood: "What exactly are you plotting? Do you want to bring back the Underworld King?"

At least seven bones were broken.

Lu Changyuan thought so.

He smiled.

Blood flowed into the trachea, causing choking and discomfort.

Lu Changyuan's face was pale. He said, "The Underworld Lord will not return, and I have never thought of letting him return. To be honest, I really have nothing to do with the Underworld Lord, and I don't know why he gave me the title."

Xiao Qingfeng suddenly looked up and heard a sound that made his heart tremble.

clang!
A clear, crisp sound, as if from ancient times, rang out.

The earth began to tremble, as if it had a pulse.

Boom!
That's the sound of drums!

Xiao Qingfeng saw that Lu Changyuan was laughing even harder.

His pupils contracted sharply as he heard Lu Changyuan say in a light tone, "I accept the name Yu."

The wind stopped.

Then came a rushing sound so intense it felt like it was tearing your eardrums.

A rift that stretched across the sky suddenly tore open, like the opening of a giant, dark eye in the night. The next moment, the Styx River, which had been blocked by Xiao Qingfeng's magic, finally broke free from all its restraints.

It was as if the weight of the entire underworld was concentrated in this place, and the dark river water, with its resolute determination to destroy everything, roared with a sound that shook the heavens and the earth.

Falling down brazenly!

(End of this chapter)