In the starry courtyard, there were several auras of human Ancestral Saints they were familiar with; that much couldn't be wrong.
But there was one problem: those auras were all abnormally weak.
They didn't know if it was because they were isolated in another world.
Every time Ji Wudi tried to step through that door, a faint sense of warning rose in his heart—what lay within was extremely dangerous.
Yet those stable, peaceful auras didn't feel like they were in any danger at all.
But Ji Wudi couldn't be sure whether those auras were something Lu Yu had merely simulated.
Just as he was struggling to decide, it was as if heaven and earth flipped off the lights and everything fell into utter darkness.
Right after, light flared from the four of them, illuminating the space around.
The light from Ji Wudi's body was the brightest, stabbing more than ten zhang through the dark, lighting up all the space around them.
Lu Yu's expression sank as he took the initiative to close the door leading to his microcosmic universe.
Because he had sensed that power within the darkness probing the power of his microcosm.
He didn't want to startle the snake in the grass, so he chose to retreat on his own.
"Who is it? Stop playing ghosts—get out here!" Ji Wudi bellowed, light bursting from his body and tearing apart the darkness shrouding the world.
A green-haired, eerie-looking man appeared before their eyes, a presence radiating from him that was in no way weaker than Ji Wudi's.
Feeling the other's aura, Ji Wudi was secretly shocked. Where had another powerhouse like this popped out from?
"No, that's a demon!"
Very quickly, Ji Wudi noticed the Demonic Qi on the other's body and confirmed the green-haired man's identity.
Lu Yu explained on his own: "He's a primordial god-demon that's been demonized. His strength is extremely terrifying. Be careful."
When Hong heard Lu Yu's words, his mind stirred. He stared into Lu Yu's eyes and asked, "You've met Tianyan?"
For Lu Yu to recognize his identity at a glance, it was very likely he had had contact with them before. Before now, none of them had descended.
The only possibility was that Lu Yu had met Tianyan.
However, Lu Yu had met Tianyan and hadn't been killed by him.
Hong was extremely curious—just what had happened?
Although Tianyan was at odds with them, he hadn't reached the point where he would spare an ordinary human.
In the eyes of them primordial god-demons, humans and most postnatal beings were ants, their lives something they could trample at will.
The existence of postnatal beings like humans only brought trouble to this world.
Hearing this, Lu Yu's heart moved. In an instant, he understood who the "Tianyan" in Hong's mouth referred to—most likely that primordial god-demon he had killed earlier.
Lu Yu didn't answer him, but Hong had already obtained his answer.
He raised his hand, glanced at his absurdly long, slender fingers, and with his index finger and thumb in the air pinched toward Lu Yu, as though squeezing Lu Yu's head. With a light pinch, his long fingernails clicked together.
A crisp clack rang out, followed by a resounding boom.
Bang~ Lu Yu's head exploded, shattered into countless motes of spiritual light that scattered through heaven and earth.
Ji Wudi, Chu Yuxian, and Wuya Zi were all startled. They hurriedly backed together and fixed their eyes tightly on the green-haired man, Hong.
When Hong had launched his attack just now, they had not sensed the slightest ripple of power.
Only when Lu Yu's head blew apart did they realize that Hong had already struck.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh~ The scattered motes of spiritual light rapidly flew backward, reassembling into Lu Yu's head.
He felt something off with his neck and reached out with both hands to straighten it a bit.
At the instant he was hit just now, Lu Yu had sensed a trace of danger, but that sense of danger was too faint, so he didn't react in time.
Or rather, he had deliberately let Hong hit him, wanting to test Hong's power.
"You're not the true body. You're an avatar," Hong said.
After crushing Lu Yu's head, he realized that the Lu Yu before him was not the true body.
Back then, the first moment Tianyan saw Lu Yu, he had discovered that Lu Yu was an avatar and locked onto the microcosmic universe behind that avatar.
This was tied to the abilities of the two primordial god-demons.
Tianyan grasped the "one that flees" between heaven and earth, and was born with an extremely formidable perception. He could see through the essence of anything at a glance.
But Hong was different; he didn't have Tianyan's monstrous perception.
His ability was rather special, hard to describe in words. In short, anything he "wanted" to do, he could do.
For example, just now, he stretched his hand toward Lu Yu across the air, imagined in his heart his two fingers pinching Lu Yu's head, then pinching hard and crushing Lu Yu's skull.
And then Lu Yu's head exploded.
If he wanted to pluck a star from the sky, he would only need to reach out and make the motion of plucking a star, and as long as he thought about taking that star, he could do it.
Hong's ability was that domineering.
It couldn't be simply described as "whatever he thinks comes true," because he still had to make a physical move for what he envisioned to manifest.
Every primordial god-demon possessed a unique and powerful force, a symbol of some aspect of the world's rules pushed to their extreme.
Lu Yu didn't know that Hong's ability was to realize his will through gestures.
But he had noticed Hong's little motions. It was only after Hong made that two-fingers-touching gesture that the sense of danger arose in his heart.
In other words, before he completed his movement, the green-haired man couldn't complete his attack.
Lu Yu strode forward in a blur, one step crossing time and space, appearing in front of the green-haired man.
Seeing Lu Yu suddenly appear before him, Hong narrowed his eyes slightly and blinked. Lu Yu's figure seemed to be chopped in half by a gigantic guillotine, and the power within his body was severed as well.
The bisected body turned into countless motes of spiritual light, vanishing between heaven and earth.
