Chapter 449: Kill Lü Yang!

“Boom!”

For Lü Yang, it all happened in an instant. By the time he reacted, the scene around him was already being pulled away at tremendous speed.

【Rising of Palaces and Halls】.

【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】’s final strike no longer cared for anything, using his collapsing Cave Heaven to draw forth the strongest manifestation from the 【Wall Earth】.

In that instant, everything centered around Lü Yang seemed to begin disintegrating, collapsing, and falling apart—this was an overwhelming concept, as though a person were being stripped from the world itself, their existence erased at the conceptual level, like wiping away the ink traces left on a sheet of paper.

Thunderous roars, ten thousandfold, seemed to explode beside Lü Yang’s ears.

This was the desperate strike of 【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】. At that moment, his essence, qi, and spirit reached their peak, overflowing with a ferocious killing intent toward Lü Yang.

Even a rabbit, when cornered, would bite.

This concerned the Dao Path—how could he harbor any illusions of luck? His killing intent was utterly determined. Even the 【Obstruction of Knowledge and View】 could not erase such murderous will from existence!

Radiance flooded Lü Yang’s vision; he could not even comprehend what was happening. Not only him—even the outsiders looking on could not see clearly, for this was the nature of the 【Wall Earth】: sealing qi within, isolating inside and out, leaving Lü Yang not the slightest sliver of life.

“Bang!”

Light surged and raged, billowing for several breaths before slowly dimming again, revealing the figure of 【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】.

He staggered, his face written full of disbelief.

“How is that possible?”

Before him, Lü Yang’s body had already fallen from the air like a heavenly star descending, crashing with a thunderous roar into the 【Buddha Kingdom on Earth】 below.

It was miserable.

It was desolate.

But the problem was—he was not dead!

‘How can he still be alive!?’

【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】 could not comprehend it at all. A false Golden Core, at best comparable to an external True Lord—his divine art just now should have been enough to kill!

And the price he had paid was enormous. His Cave Heaven had utterly collapsed; the once-intimate 【Wall Earth】 was receding at a speed visible to the naked eye. His strained essence, qi, and spirit were plummeting rapidly. In less than a breath, his black hair was dyed with frosty white.

But Lü Yang still lived.

Thinking of this, 【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】 nearly ground his steel teeth to dust. After all his effort, why was that man still alive?

It made no sense!

The opponent was different—he could not possibly use the core mysteries of the 【Overturning Lamp Fire】. How then had he survived?

Meanwhile, Lü Yang exhaled a deep, turbid breath.

The answer was simple.

Purple Talent · Some Skills!

As long as the attack was theoretically within the limits he could endure, he could absolutely withstand it!

【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】’s desperate strike had thus been endured!

Even Lü Yang himself found the process unbelievable.

At the most critical instant, he had dismantled the 【Yama Palace】, using part of the Banner Spirits to replace himself, taking on the strike from 【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】.

After all, Banner Spirits cost nothing.

A batch dies—he could just make new ones, then empower them again with incense.

At the time he had done it with flowing precision, utterly practiced; now, recalling it, it seemed like reading heavenly script—he could no longer comprehend how he had managed it.

In the end, he could only attribute it to a momentary “inspiration.” 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

“Cough, cough.”

Lü Yang spat blood. His Dharma Body was riddled with fine cracks, resplendent colors seeping out from within, threatening to widen them further.

But he knew—compared to his own wounds, it was 【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】 who was truly doomed. The man’s brow had already split open; the Cave Heaven behind him was shattering apart, dissolving into countless falling sparks. In such a state, not even a Golden Core True Lord could be saved.

“Boom!”

With a deafening roar, 【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】 let out a miserable laugh but could not utter a word before his Dharma Body exploded into countless motes of streaming light.

“Clang, clang!”

Below, within the Pure Land of Jiangxi, sword cries surged skyward as though cheering for the victor of this battle. A sword light faintly manifested between heaven and earth.

【Sword Dao Fruitional Rank】!

That Fruition Rank had yet to fully form, only because of the existence of the 【Bodhisattva of Vase and Water Moon】—she was attempting to uproot it from the Pure Land.

And 【Ang Xiao】 was preventing her.

After all, the 【Sword Dao Fruitional Rank】 concerned whether the unified will of the Pure Land’s Buddhist cultivators could continue to be maintained. Once the 【Bodhisattva of Vase and Water Moon】 pulled it out, their unity would be restored; the Pure Land could immediately reclaim the 【City Head Earth】, thus regaining control over the 【Buddha Kingdom on Earth】, and completely suppress 【Ang Xiao】.

In this situation—

“Boom!”

The next moment, just after sending 【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】 to his death and before he could catch his breath, Lü Yang’s vision was drowned in radiant clouds.

【Bodhisattva of Vase and Water Moon】!

In such circumstances, there were never eternal friends. Both Lü Yang and 【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】 sought the Sword Dao Fruitional Rank—they were both enemies of the Pure Land!

Before, 【Bodhisattva of Vase and Water Moon】 had helped Lü Yang entangle 【Ang Xiao】, so that Lü Yang could restrain 【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】. But now that the latter was dead, Lü Yang had lost his use. Naturally—strike while the enemy is weak, kill while wounded, remove him once and for all!

As for 【Ang Xiao】—

Though he had cursed Lü Yang countless times in his heart, at this moment he still acted decisively, trying to rescue Lü Yang from the Bodhisattva’s hands.

But it was already too late.

【Bodhisattva of Vase and Water Moon】 had seized the perfect moment—right when Lü Yang had just slain his great foe and his essence, qi, and spirit were at their most relaxed!

“Rustle!”

A breeze brushed across Lü Yang’s cheek; from the radiance engulfing his sight, he saw only a slender willow branch, graceful and light, gently sweeping toward him.

It lifted upward with a flick.

That single simple motion instantly tore Lü Yang’s Dharma Body apart—the cracking sounds of shattering burst from within him in succession!

‘【Willow Wood】!’

Stars swam before Lü Yang’s eyes, his mind muddled, yet he barely recognized the opponent’s Fruitional Power, instinctively circulating his mana.

【Has Some Tricks】!

The first use dealt with 【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】; the second, with 【Bodhisattva of Vase and Water Moon】!

In an instant, Lü Yang recovered from the heavy blow, clarity flashing in his eyes—yet the next second, he closed them without hesitation.

‘Can’t expose it.’

If 【Bodhisattva of Vase and Water Moon】 realized her strike had failed, she would surely come to finish him off—and his 【Has Some Tricks】 uses were spent.

One more attack, and he would truly die!

‘…This is crisis—but also opportunity.’

‘The duration of 【Golden Nature of Great Fortune】 is almost up; it won’t last until I seize the 【Sword Dao Fruitional Rank】. The urgent matter is endurance.’

Yet his perfected Foundation-Building golden natures numbered fewer than nine.

Thus, he had to obtain a complete True Lord’s Golden Nature.

‘…Zheng De!’

Though 【True Lord Cheng Tian Zheng De】 had fallen, his soul and Golden Nature remained intact, merely entered into the 【Netherworld】 for reincarnation.

If he could seize that Golden Nature, he could continue his false holding of the Golden Rank!

In a flash of lightning thought, Lü Yang understood everything. Without another word, instead of stabilizing his Dharma Body, he detonated it outright!

“Boom!”

A thunderous explosion—Lü Yang’s figure disintegrated on the spot, his body shattering to dust, scarlet blood light staining half the heavens in an instant!