The Demon Emperor lifted his gaze, a finger brushing through the void, and instantly, tens of thousands of Chains of Laws appeared out of thin air, binding the black light and continuously obliterating it.
The black light was completely obliterated before the Demon Emperor, and the Chains of Laws dancing in the sky slowly faded away.
The Immortal Demon Lord let out a laugh, a boundless black river faintly appearing behind him. The world trembled as if two worlds were colliding, threatening to fracture the heavens and earth.
The Demon Emperor extended his hand, pressing down, and the quaking heavens immediately stabilized. The black river became clearer, almost as if it appeared right before everyone's eyes.
Lu Yu could even hear the sound of turbulent waves from that black river.
The black river gave Lu Yu a sense of dΓ©jΓ vu, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
After a long time, or perhaps just a moment, the sound of waves disappeared along with the black river, and the figure of the Immortal Demon Lord vanished, leaving only the indistinct form of the Demon Emperor.
What Lu Yu didn't know was that as the Immortal Demon Lord departed, both the Demon Emperor and the Immortal Demon Lord cast their eyes upon him.
Both had unfathomable meanings in their eyes. Surprisingly, there was a hint of anticipation in the eyes of the Immortal Demon Lord, while the Demon Emperor's gaze was obscured by the infinite light of the laws, making it impossible to discern.
Upon realizing the Immortal Demon Lord had left, Lu Yu immediately distanced himself from the sea tribe, as the sea tribe, free from the Immortal Demon Lord's constraint, might cause him trouble at any moment. He didn't want to get involved in the mess.
In fact, after the Immortal Demon Lord's departure, the Demon Emperor promptly ordered the people of the sea tribe to proceed to the World Wall Battlefield. With a casual move, he replicated an identical demon tribe version of the battle space next to the battle space.
He allowed the demon tribe of the Divine Martial World to enter the battle space to confront the monsters and demons, and to enhance the strength of the demon tribe.
After that, the figure of the Demon Emperor disappeared, leaving no trace of where he went.
Lu Yu returned to the battle space with a heavy heart and, upon entering, saw a group of Martial Cultivators fleeing in distress.
He caught up with a Martial Cultivator and asked, "What are you running from?"
The Martial Cultivator glanced at Lu Yu, seeing his youthful appearance and assuming his strength was not great, thinking he was a Martial Cultivator from this battle area, casually explained, "A mad warrior has appeared in that battle zone over there, killing both monsters and humans alike."
"A mad warrior? What do they look like?" Lu Yu was also curious. Could it be a Martial Cultivator who's lost his mind from killing too many monsters, letting the bloodlust invade his sanity?
"No," the person shook his head and said, "If I had seen them, I'd probably be dead there already. You better escape quickly, get away from this area."
"Don't get close to that place, I've heard that everyone who got near there died."
After saying that, the person hastily quickened his pace, leaving Lu Yu behind and hurriedly following the main group away from this area.
Lu Yu stopped in his tracks, curiously turning to look in the direction where everyone was fleeing, and instinctively flew in that direction.
What kind of danger could there be for him in the battle space?
As Lu Yu approached the golden light curtain, he perceived through it and saw the scene on the other side. The next moment he disappeared from the original spot, in a flash crossing a thousand miles of space, and reappearing in another battle zone.
Thinking about the scene he had just witnessed, Lu Yu fell into silence.
How did the Immortal Demon Lord enter the battle space?
Indeed, it was the Immortal Demon Lord who made all the Martial Cultivators flee hurriedly.
However, the vast majority of people didn't even see the steed the Immortal Demon Lord was riding, as his aura alone scared them off.
Most who ran away did so after hearing what others had to say, avoiding that region.
Not long after Lu Yu left, he sensed a change in the time-space within the battle space, with its source being the Immortal Demon Lord. The power of the battle space consciously converged toward that direction.
The battlefield where the Immortal Demon Lord was located continued to expand and grow, with the golden canopy enveloping the battlefield becoming more and more formidable, making it difficult for even a Vientiane Realm being to break through.
Whoosh~ Several Vientiane Realm demons appeared in the battle space, the Immortal Demon Lord slightly raised his gaze and glanced at the sky, paying no attention to the three Vientiane Realm demon lords looming before him.
The Vientiane Realm demons, seeing the colossal figure before them, immediately locked onto the Immortal Demon Lord, and closed in on him, launching attacks from hundreds of miles away.
The steed beneath the Immortal Demon Lord raised its body, stretched out its head, opened its big mouth, and spewed out a black water column, obliterating the attacks of the three Vientiane demons, forcing them to hastily dodge the black water.
Thump thump thump~ The Immortal Demon Lord's steed moved forward, crushing large swathes of demons with each step, advancing towards the Vientiane demons.
From start to finish, the Immortal Demon Lord did not take any action, it was only the steed under him that was moving.
An ancient divine tortoise, dead for countless tens of thousands of years, erupted with Vientiane Realm power due to the Immortal Demon Lord's strength, directly suppressing the three Vientiane demons.
The area where the Immortal Demon Lord was located became completely sealed, the time-space locked, preventing any movement.
People inside could not leave, and those outside could not enter; it was an independent time-space, an independent battlefield.
The Martial Cultivators in the battle space suddenly felt the pressure ease a bit, and the number of Tongsheng Realm monsters seemed to decrease.
Lu Yu felt this more acutely; the time-space fluctuations created by the teleportation of monsters into the battle space, which were originally evenly distributed throughout, now concentrated almost entirely in the direction where the Immortal Demon Lord was.
In other words, all the monsters entering the battle space had concentrated in that direction.
The battle space seemed to have a consciousness, recognizing the might of the Immortal Demon Lord, deliberately manufacturing such a scenario.
Knowing that the battle space was created by the founding saintly ancestor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it made sense he might be observing and causing the current changes.
Lu Yu took one last look in the direction of the Immortal Demon Lord, and turned to disappear from the battle space.
Sitting in the self-created independent time-space bubble, Lu Yu took out those three drops of saint blood, a terrifying pressure emanating from the saint blood.
Having faced the pressure brought by the Demon Emperor, Lu Yu felt the pressure from the saint blood had weakened significantly.
In reality, it was just an illusion of his.
Compared to the tangible pressure from the saint blood, the indescribable sensation from facing the Demon Emperor was more despair inducing.
The power of time-space erupted, extinguishing the remaining power in the saint blood, with countless fine Chains of Laws drifting out, being absorbed by Lu Yu's body.
The number of stars within Lu Yu rapidly increased, with new stars lighting up at the edge of the star river, his aura visibly rising.
The Vientiane Realm was right before him, needing only one step to enter.
Yet at this moment, Lu Yu did not choose to step upward, instead expanding the width of the staircase beneath his feet, making his path of cultivation broader and wider.
No one knows how much time passed before the saint blood in Lu Yu's palm finally disappeared completely, one drop of blood having added over 8000 stars for him.
This was from his feeling, the saint blood that emitted the weakest pressure.
The remaining two drops of saint blood would only bring even greater enhancements.
With a slight sense, Lu Yu knew he currently had over 70,000 stars in his body, still some distance from 100,000 stars.
After absorbing the remaining two drops of saint blood, perhaps he would have the hope of reaching 100,000 stars.
Lu Yu continued absorbing the powers of the remaining two drops of saint blood, this time simultaneously absorbing the power from them both.
With the experience from before, he already had a certain understanding of the power within these two drops of saint blood and was confident he could absorb both simultaneously.
Power began to flow, the saint blood clashing with Lu Yu's energy, erupting with immense brilliance, as fine Chains of Laws drifted out during the power's collision.
Lu Yu's body quickly absorbed the Chains of Laws drifting from the saint blood, forming new stellar cells...
The time-space bubble shattered, and Lu Yu appeared in the battle space, his aura long, ethereal, imperceptible, giving a vastness akin to facing the starry sky.
The number of stellar cells inside him reached over 90,000, nearing 100,000.
What Lu Yu lacked now was not power, but rather understanding of the Heaven and Earth Law.
The deeper his understanding of the Heaven and Earth Law, the more he realized the gap between himself and the mighty beings of the Vientiane Realm.
In a sense, to recognize the gap between himself and Martial Cultivators of higher realms meant he already touched upon the threshold of a higher realm.
The fear is in being unable to comprehend the gap between realms.
