Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 930: The Barbarian Tribe’s Ancestor With the Highest Combat Prowess
Logically speaking, such an underhanded move did seem like something the Taciturn Daoist Priest would teach, but Meng Jingzhou couldn’t shake the feeling that Lu Yang wasn’t being entirely truthful.
“Did the sect leader really say that?” Meng Jingzhou eyed Lu Yang suspiciously.
Lu Yang took umbrage at Meng Jingzhou’s suspicion. I have spoken nothing but the truth. “If I’m lying to you, may I be hit by a couple more lightning strikes during my heavenly tribulation. Is that enough?”
Since he had already weathered the Qian-Heaven Heavenly Tribulation—the number one heavenly tribulation at the Divine Transfiguration level—at the Nascent Soul Stage, Lu Yang figured that when he eventually had to undergo his tribulation to break through to the next realm, it would surely be a walk in the park.
Meng Jingzhou rolled his eyes and was about to retort when Lu Yang suddenly vanished before his eyes, frightening him.
“Where did he go? Did retribution really come for him?”
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Somewhere in the wild mountains of Great Xia, three figures darted and clashed in fierce combat. Mountains shifted, and heaven and earth were turned upside down.
Boom!
The two weaker figures were sent flying, piercing through a mountain and embedding themselves in the cliff face of the next.
“Senior Sister Lan Ting, are you alright?” Man Gu crawled out of the cliff wall and asked in concern as he winced. With my thick and coarse skin, suffering such a blow is no big matter, but it might not be the case for Senior Sister Lan Ting.
Lan Ting was wrapped in her waistband as she crawled out from an adjacent cliff wall. The waistband had cushioned most of the attack’s impact, sparing her from serious injury.
“Two juniors, did you truly believe that reaching the Basic Divine Transfiguration Stage would allow you to challenge someone of a higher level?” Their opponent gazed at them coldly, emanating the aura of a Basic Fusion cultivator.
Both Man Gu and Lan Ting were engaging a Fusion cultivator in formal combat for the first time. Based on their battle prowess, they indeed had the qualifications to challenge a Basic Fusion cultivator, provided that the other party didn’t employ [Rules].
Initially, their combined efforts had given them the upper hand, but once their opponent activated [Rules], the tide of battle reversed completely, leaving the pair battered and disheveled.
“It seems we can’t win. What do we do?”
After advancing to the Divine Transfiguration Stage, Man Gu had gone to the Great Mission Hall to accept his first mission, which concerned leads on the Heartless Creed. Upon arriving at the designated location, he bumped into Lan Ting, who had also come to investigate.
Joining forces, they managed to follow the faint traces to uncover clues about the Heartless Creed, thus encountering this Heartless Creed elder before them.
The only problem was that it seemed they couldn’t defeat him.
With the Heartless Creed elder right before their eyes, if they fled now, finding him again in the future would be exceedingly difficult.
“Fight!” Lan Ting declared through gritted teeth.
Man Gu was also decisive. Fight we shall! He transmitted an auditory message to Lan Ting. “Senior Lan Ting, please hold off the Heartless Creed elder. I have a way to summon the bygone power of a Barbarian Tribe ancestor to descend upon my primordial soul. Perhaps it can turn the tide.”
“Got it!” Lan Ting chose to trust Man Gu and charged forward.
“Reckless juniors courting death.” The Heartless Creed elder wielded a bone saber whose hilt was composed of numerous tiny skulls. When swung, it emitted a chilling sound, like ghosts wailing.
Lan Ting dared not meet the Heartless Creed elder head-on. Her cyan waistband fluttered, overcoming hardness with softness. They coiled around the Heartless Creed elder’s arm, altering the trajectory of his saber. Her movements were light and ethereal, like an immortal fairy dancing in the Moon Palace, leaving the Heartless Creed unable to bring out his full strength.
“I hereby establish Rule: The bone saber cuts through all things!”
A layer of mysterious force adhered to the bone saber’s surface. With a single slash, it sliced Lan Ting’s waistband into tatters. Freed from the annoying interference of the waistband, the Heartless Creed elder swung his blade directly at Lan Ting.
Man Gu summoned his primordial soul and rubbed his hands vigorously as he murmured incantations. His advancement to the Divine Transfiguration Stage had resolved the unpredictability that came with summoning his ancestors’ power at the Nascent Soul Stage.
“By the blessings of immortals, Man Gu humbly welcomes the Barbarian Tribe’s ancestor with the strongest combat prowess!”
Man Gu’s primordial soul transformed. A dazzling milky-white radiance flashed, and a surge of immense power descended from the heavens, pouring into his primordial soul.
The Barbarian Tribe ancestor abruptly lifted his head. In an instant, he teleported and materialized before the Heartless Creed elder.
Clang!
Sword in hand, the Barbarian Tribe ancestor blocked the bone saber that was supposed to cut through all things.
Lan Ting stared in disbelief at the Barbarian Tribe ancestor who had saved her, her mouth agape. “Senior Brother Lu Yang, when did you become the Barbarian Tribe’s ancestor?”
Man Gu was equally astonished. Why has my primordial soul transformed into Senior Brother Lu Yang?
“Ah?” Lu Yang was just as bewildered, completely unable to make heads or tails of the situation. I was bamboozling Meng Jingzhou a moment ago. How did I end up here in the blink of an eye?
The instant he arrived, he saw Lan Ting in peril, so he had no choice but to strike first and talk later.
“Never mind all that for now. Who’s this in front of us?” Lu Yang asked, sensing the murderous intent from their opponent. This is no friendly spar.
“An elder of the Heartless Creed!”
“Then let’s deal with him first and worry about everything else after!”
Under the enhancement of the [Rule], the bone saber was extremely sharp, cleaving apart anything it touched—except for the Qingfeng Sword.
The Qingfeng Sword was an immortal sword, not something a mere Fusion cultivator employing rules could damage.
“Die!” Killing intent kindled in Lu Yang’s eyes as well. Against the Heartless Creed, there is no need to hold back. It’s fine as long as the soul remains.
“Taste my sword!”
The Heartless Creed elder cast a disdainful glance at Lu Yang’s sword strike. It’s so ordinary, yet you wish to injure me?
Crack. Squelch.
This strike cleanly severed the bone saber, and the sword’s power, which was hardly diminished, rended the Heartless Creed elder! A gash ran from the elder’s left shoulder down to his right flank, blood pouring forth in torrents.
Lu Yang was also taken aback. The force behind this sword strike had exceeded even his own expectations.
Ever since arriving here, he had sensed an additional power within him that didn’t belong to him, making him several times stronger than at his peak.
The Heartless Creed elder was completely caught off guard by this turn of events. He tried to create distance and employ [Rules] to heal his wounds, but Lu Yang had witnessed countless battles among high-level cultivators and immortals. He understood all too well what the elder intended. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
How could he possibly give him that chance?!
Lu Yang closed the distance with lightning speed and delivered another identical sword strike, startling the Heartless Creed elder so much that he had no time to invoke rules and hastily activated his power to block.
Yet this sword strike was unexpectedly ordinary.
Just as he thought it was over, Lu Yang spat forth Three Flavor True Fire directly into his face.
“Ah!” The Three Flavor True Fire seared the elder’s face relentlessly, the agony ripping a scream from his throat. He was forced to divert power to suppress the true fire.
Lu Yang struck repeatedly, concealing Ten Thousand Swords Return to One within his deceptively plain sword moves, catching the Heartless Creed elder off guard at every turn.
“Blood Sea Vengeful Sky!” the Heartless Creed intoned in a low voice. Behind him, a vast sea of blood surged into existence, within which countless ghosts and living beings thrashed and wailed in supplication. They extended innumerable arms, wanting to drag Lu Yang into that crimson sea!
Lu Yang pointed his sword at the Heartless Creed elder and yelled sternly, “Kneel!”
The Heartless Creed elder found himself utterly unable to resist, dropping to his knees with a thud. His technique was interrupted, and the surging sea of blood behind him disappeared.
An incredibly swift sword light flashed, and an exceedingly fine line of blood appeared on the elder’s neck.
Blood sprayed forth, and his head tumbled through the air. Upon landing on the ground, it rolled until it stopped at Lu Yang’s feet.
Lu Yang sheathed his sword and gazed at Man Gu and Lan Ting. “So, can someone explain to me just what in the world happened?”
