Chapter 595: Chapter 570: The Ultimate Divine Charm
"Look, Chen Xuanhuang has entered the eighteenth level."
Suddenly, someone exclaimed.
Because the number after Chen Xuanhuang’s name changed from seventeen to eighteen.
"Look, Zhang Wei has also entered the eighteenth level."
Many were shocked and hurriedly looked over, indeed finding that the number after Zhang Wei’s name had also changed to eighteen.
As for Gu Hanyang and Lin Qiong, the numbers behind their names were still at seventeen, clearly still in recovery.
From this, one could infer that although Gu Hanyang and Lin Qiong had passed the seventeenth level, they had a much more difficult time than Chen Xuanhuang and Zhang Wei, likely sustaining serious injuries and requiring more time to heal.
"The eighteenth level, is it another figure? I wonder if it’s the Fourth Element Initial Body."
Lu Yan looked ahead at the figure.
This was a young man, very handsome, with hands clasped behind his back, exuding an extraordinary aura.
This young man was also curiously sizing up Lu Yan.
"You actually managed to break through to the eighteenth level, truly impressive, make your move."
The young man spoke.
"You actually have spiritual intelligence?"
Lu Yan was surprised.
"I am modeled after a certain supreme being in the Sky Fantasy Tower. That supreme being is still alive, and his direct influence has allowed me to have a part of his divine charm, giving birth to spiritual intelligence,"
the youth said.
"Modeled after a certain supreme being, possessing part of the supreme being’s divine charm."
Lu Yan’s pupils shrank, before he burst out with strong fighting spirit.
"Senior, be careful."
As the words of Lu Yan fell, he charged out, with the Five Elements Field spreading and enveloping towards the opponent.
The youth didn’t dodge or evade, letting the field envelop him.
After the Five Elements Field enveloped the youth, it transformed into a tsunami-like surge of energy, pressing against him with the capability of stripping away vitality, attempting to strip the youth of his life force.
The youth’s body trembled slightly as he staggered back three steps.
"Not an Initial Body, and yet he managed to cultivate a field, moreover integrating the Five Elements Rules, interesting, but... not enough."
After the youth finished speaking, he pointed his finger like a sword and cut forward.
This slash seemed ordinary, without any extraordinary signs, but under this slash, the Five Elements Field violently trembled, actually being directly cleaved with a sword scar.
And the sword scar continued to spread, pervading the entire Five Elements Field.
With a ’pu’ sound, the Five Elements Field was penetrated, and a sword qi, condensed to the extreme, slashed towards Lu Yan’s face.
Lu Yan was greatly startled and quickly retreated while seven rules were merged, gathered atop his palm, striking out at full force with a blade.
Clang!
The blade light and sword qi collided, erupting with infinite sword qi that spread in all directions.
This vast world now bore countless sword and blade scars that stretched for millions of miles, like a spider web.
Whoosh!
Lu Yan’s body, like a cannonball, retreated backwards for tens of thousands of miles before he heavily landed on the ground, dragging a long trench behind him.
He felt a piercing pain in his palm and upon a glance, saw that a sword wound had appeared, from which blood kept seeping out.
"Such a terrifying attack..."
Lu Yan was astonished.
Only he himself knew just how hard his palm was, any Doctrine Soldiers placed before him could be crushed with a slap.
Stacking the Saint Soldier’s Formula and the Five Elements True Body, along with the fusion of seven rules, moreover, there were three true patterns within his palm. With so many factors stacked, his palm had reached extreme hardness.
Yet even so, it was still wounded by a single sword strike from the opponent.
And the cultivation level displayed by the opponent, wasn’t too strong, it was only at the Tao Seventh Layer Peak.
"The power of rules, the power of rules condensed to the ultimate, the rules could actually be used in such a way."
Lu Yan wasn’t alarmed but delighted, excitement shone in his eyes, as if the battle genes in his body were activated.
"Let’s go again."
Lu Yan stepped out, transforming into lightning as he once again charged at the youth.
This time, his Five Elements Field didn’t spread out but rather clung to his entire body, enhancing his power.
His body emitted a sonorous sound, bursting with dazzling light, resembling a Divine Weapon.
"Man perishes, Earth Withering, Earth Annihilation..."
Lu Yan used three techniques in succession, filling the entire heaven and earth with blade light, making the world suffused with death and silence, as though it were hell.
But the youth still stood in place, his gaze calm, waiting for Lu Yan’s attack to draw near. He pointed his finger like a sword and slashed out at will.
Every single sword stroke seemed casual, every single sword stroke seemed ordinary.
But the power was extremely strong, having reached a certain realm of returning to the primordial state.
All of Lu Yan’s ferocious attacks were blocked.
After blocking Lu Yan’s attack, the youth immediately counterattacked; his finger sword thrust forward, as Lu Yan swiftly retreated, a sword hole appearing in his chest, from which blood flowed freely.
Lu Yan operated the Nine Deaths Skill, his wound rapidly squirming as it healed.
Swoosh!
This time, the youth initiated an attack, instantly appearing near Lu Yan and aimed his finger sword at Lu Yan’s throat.
"Soul Stab..."
Lu Yan uttered lowly, with immense soul strength erupting and successively condensing twelve soul stabs, in a line stabbing towards the youth.
However, when the Soul Stabs hit the surface of the youth’s body, they were stopped by a powerful force.
Clang!
A sword cry rang out as a sword light rushed out from the youth’s forehead, shattering all of Lu Yan’s Soul Stabs.
"Containing the divine charm of a supreme being, attacks on the soul are even less feasible."
Lu Yan felt a chill in his heart.
At that moment, his only option was to cease targeting the opponent’s soul and defend with all his might.
A loud boom later, Lu Yan was sent reeling once again, a hole appearing in his palm.
"The Zhou Tian Huan Yu Map..."
Lu Yan’s thoughts shifted.
Beneath his feet, a vast pattern materialized instantly—it was the Zhou Tian Huan Yu Map.
On the Zhou Tian Huan Yu Map, various mystical abilities took shape and charged out in different forms.
At the same time, on the surface of his body, the Zhou Tian Huan Yu Map emerged, the interlacing patterns bursting with brilliant light, with a multitude of techniques flying out as well.
In an instant, at least hundreds of techniques were directed at the young man.
Attack-type, sealing-type, entangling-type...
And Lu Yan himself, blending among the various techniques, launched an assault on the young man, making it impossible to discern which one was his true body.
The young man’s sword fingers kept slashing, each strike capable of shattering one technique.
In a flash, he unleashed a hundred strikes, crushing a hundred techniques.
Suddenly, Lu Yan closed in on him.
"Earth Withering!"
Lu Yan exerted his full strength and delivered his most powerful blow.
In this strike, Lu Yan unleashed a hundred percent of his power.
The youth’s eyes narrowed, and he lifted his left hand to strike out with his palm, clashing with Lu Yan’s attack.
However, this strike was still somewhat hasty for him, and the youth’s power clearly hadn’t erupted in full, causing him to stagger backward from Lu Yan’s blow.
Lu Yan waved his hand, and over a hundred techniques surged toward the youth like a tide.
The youth took to the air and hastily retreated, attempting to dodge.
But in the end, he was still slashed across the chest by a blade of sword light, leaving behind a sword wound.
"Injured, after all, it’s not the strongest who’s come in person, but merely someone who has a hint of the strongest one’s divine presence—not so defiant of the heavens," Lu Yan’s spirit lifted.
"Not bad, not bad. To be able to injure me with the cultivation of the Tao Realm, there are not many in the world who can do this. I must use my full strength now. If you can’t withstand it, quickly admit defeat," the young man said with a nod of surprise before his whole body began to exude two colors of light.
Two phantoms of the Magic Long River circled around his body.
"Dual Primebody."
A thought crossed Lu Yan’s mind.
This supreme being turned out to be just a Dual Primebody.
But this revelation stunned Lu Yan even more.
Because up until now, the youth had not used the mysteries of the Dual Primebody; he had been relying on just one rule.
Now, he was truly getting serious.
Swish!
The youth took a step forward, closing in on Lu Yan rapidly. He pointed his sword and thrust toward the sky, countless sword lights stabbing towards Lu Yan.
Lu Yan fully activated the Zhou Tian Huan Yu Map, transforming into hundreds of techniques to strike out.
But these techniques couldn’t block the sword lights; they collided with the sword lights and were only able to hold out for two breaths before dissipating one after another.
Countless sword lights poured down on Lu Yan like rain.
Lu Yan could only fend them off with his palms.
But each sword light was incredibly powerful, and with each one that Lu Yan blocked, his body retreated further back.
After blocking a dozen sword lights in succession, Lu Yan had been forced to retreat tens of thousands of miles.
"No good, my cultivation level is insufficient; the gap is too wide. Had my cultivation reached the Pinnacle of the Great Tao, I might have stood a chance. Now, I can’t compete."
Thoughts raced through Lu Yan’s mind.
Even though it was the same Dual Primebody, other Dual Primebodies were probably unable to withstand even a single move from this youth.
This is the power of a supreme being at the True One State.
Even containing just a hint of that True One’s divine presence was overwhelmingly powerful, completely beyond what cultivators of the same level could contend with.
Whoosh!
The young man, sword and body as one, lunged at Lu Yan.
"I admit defeat," Lu Yan shouted hurriedly.
As soon as the words were spoken, the sword qi attacking him vanished without a trace.
The youth’s offense also ceased, and he landed in the distance, silently observing Lu Yan.
A powerful force enveloped Lu Yan, and in the next moment, his body left the Sky Fantasy Tower and appeared outside it.
"What rank am I?"
Lu Yan looked toward the Sky Fantasy Tower.
He saw that Chen Xuanhuang was still inside the eighteenth floor, obviously still in battle.
But Gu Hanyang and Lin Qiong were still on the seventeenth floor, evidently in recovery and not yet having entered the eighteenth.
At this moment, the specific ranks could not be determined.
"Not bad at all, to be able to hold on for so long on the eighteenth floor, your strength is truly remarkable. It’s a pity that your cultivation is weaker. If your cultivation had reached the Tao Seventh Layer Peak, you might have stood a chance," the voice of the Emperor Desolate Heaven echoed in Lu Yan’s ears.
It was conveyed through sound transmission.
Lu Yan had the formation given by Lu Ming to conceal him; others didn’t know his true cultivation level and thought he was at the Pinnacle of the Great Tao, but certainly not the True One State beings.
Moreover, most of these True Ones probably knew Lu Yan’s true identity.
"The junior will surely strive for continuous improvement," Lu Yan responded with a fist salute, then returned to his seat in the Taiyi Palace.
The people of the Taiyi Palace were naturally overjoyed, looking at Lu Yan with a hint of awe in their eyes.
Including Shang Yixing, Linghu Changri, and others.
Especially Shang Yixing and Linghu Changri, who had previously sparred with Lu Yan, only now truly understood the gap between them and Lu Yan.
In their bouts, Lu Yan had not been serious at all. Had he been serious, they wouldn’t have lasted half a move.
Lu Yan smiled at everyone and then sat down cross-legged, closing his eyes to recuperate.
In his mind, the battle from the eighteenth floor with the youth reemerged.
Although the fight had not lasted long, Lu Yan had gained much from it.
