Chapter 602: Chapter 577: Initially Gaining Five Points
In this place, where directions were indistinct, Lu Yan landed on the ground, randomly picked a direction, restrained his aura, and darted off like a bolt of lightning.
As he traveled, if he found a suitable location, Lu Yan would leave a ’strategic marker’ to indicate his position. If a genius from the boundless starry sky were to see it, they could follow the markers to find him.
At the same time, Lu Yan was also looking for the markers of other Tianjiaos in the starry sky.
However, after two days, Lu Yan had not seen any markers.
"This True Meteor Realm is exceedingly vast. In two days, I’ve traveled an extremely long distance, and yet I haven’t seen a single marker, nor have I encountered a single soul," Lu Yan muttered to himself.
Just then, he suddenly felt a cold breath approaching rapidly from the side.
The next moment, a mass of black fog rolled in.
Lu Yan saw that within the fog loomed a tall figure about five meters in height, wielding a gigantic war saber, charging towards Lu Yan.
"Fight!"
A surge of killing intent soared, and his fighting spirit was high. The pitch-black saber light, with the dense black fog, swept towards Lu Yan.
In Lu Yan’s hands appeared a top-grade Doctrine Soldier, a fiery-red war saber.
Lu Yan swung the saber, clashing with the incoming saber light.
With a loud boom, the figure was forced to rapidly retreat.
"Fight!"
"Fight!" "Fight!"
From within the black fog, voices filled with intense fighting spirit rose one after another, as several towering figures appeared in succession.
There were seven in total.
They looked identical to the first one.
Lu Yan activated his Tao Soul Pupil, peered through the black fog, and saw the true faces of these shadows.
These towering figures appeared to be formed from pieces of black armor.
Inside the armor was black fog.
War Spirits!
Lu Yan realized that he had not encountered a Tianjiao from the Origin Continent, but rather War Spirits.
These were beings formed from the undispersed fighting spirit and murderous intent within the True Meteor Realm.
The black fog spread out as the seven War Spirits simultaneously swung their war sabers, attacking Lu Yan.
Lu Yan straightforwardly put away the Doctrine Soldier, his hands glowing, transforming into two unparalleled war sabers, which he slashed out.
Boom, boom, boom...
The seven War Spirits were blasted back by his attacks, and then, Lu Yan rapidly closed in, his palms striking continuously. In an instant, he delivered seven palm strikes to the chests of the seven War Spirits, shattering them into pieces that scattered all around.
As the War Spirits burst apart, the dense black fog gradually dissipated and vanished.
"These War Spirits are only so-so in strength," Lu Yan thought to himself.
Just now, he had only activated the Saint Soldier’s Formula, along with the fusion of two principles, and easily crushed the seven War Spirits.
Lu Yan looked around and was about to step away when his eyes suddenly sharpened.
He sensed a crisis coming from beneath his feet.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, from right under his feet, a long spear shot out, aiming to stab at Lu Yan’s vital points.
The spear was neither gold nor silver, but seemed to be formed from some kind of crystal, incredibly sharp and powerful.
In the critical moment, Lu Yan’s legs clamped down, firmly trapping the spear, and then with a forceful exertion of his legs, the crystalline spear shattered with a snap, fragmenting into pieces resembling diamonds, flying in all directions.
However, the ground flowed like water, abruptly transforming into a huge crystalline hand, reaching out to grab Lu Yan.
"Sneaking around in the shadows, attacking from underground, come out!" Lu Yan barked, his right foot stomping down, shattering the crystalline hand. He then took another step forward, a step imbued with both the Earth Doctrine and the Ice Principle.
The ground shook violently, and at the same time, the terrifying Ice Principle surged at an astonishing speed towards the depths of the earth, intent on freezing the entire area.
The next moment, Lu Yan felt a faint breath rapidly moving away deep underground.
"Trying to escape."
Lu Yan’s eyes turned cold as he leaped high into the air, then plummeted like a meteor towards the depths below.
Boom!
The land within hundreds of miles started undulating like ocean waves.
Huge stones exploded, the ground cracked, and a terrifying force penetrated deep into the earth.
Spurt!
Deep within the earth, a figure was violently struck, trembling and coughing up blood.
Lu Yan’s Spiritual Sense had already locked onto this person.
This was a young man with golden-yellow skin and a towering height of eight meters.
"Earth Clan," Lu Yan had a thought.
On the Origin Continent, there are many peculiar and powerful races.
Such as the Divine Clan, Immortal Clan, Demon Clan, Light Clan...
The Earth Clan was one of them. With True One State powerhouses at its helm, they possessed extraordinary talents and naturally fused with the earth, giving them a unique advantage in the Earth Doctrine.
Therefore, among them, it was quite easy for those with the Innate Magic Body of the Earth Doctrine or an Initial Body to be born.
This young man who ambushed Lu Yan was a powerful Initial Body, almost reaching the prowess of a Dual Primebody within the earth.
The Earth Clan young man, heavily injured by Lu Yan’s strike, showed a look of shock, and with a low roar, he turned into a clump of mud, merging with the earth and escaping rapidly into the distance, much faster than before.
"Strong defense."
Honestly, Lu Yan was somewhat surprised that his attack hadn’t killed his opponent.
The force he had just used was not weak, strong enough that even a Dual Primebody would likely be smashed to death.
Yet the opponent had endured.
The Earth Clan truly had its distinctions. Hiding within the depths of the earth, they could utilize the earth’s power for their defense, which was alarmingly strong.
"Domain."
Lu Yan whispered, reaching out with his right palm into the void. The Five Elements Field emanated out, spreading with even more astonishing speed, covering the area deep underground.
A few breaths later, he had caught up with the Earth Clan’s Tianjiao and enveloped him within his domain.
"Suppress!"
Lu Yan uttered in a low voice as his right palm violently clenched.
The Five Elements Field suddenly contracted, and the mud and rocks within the domain also rapidly shrank and coalesced, pressing towards the Earth Clan’s Tianjiao.
The young man from the Earth Clan’s face drastically changed as he also expanded his domain in defense.
But his domain, facing Lu Yan’s Five Elements Field, was no match at all and burst apart like a balloon, with endless rocks and dirt pressing down on him.
"Break for me!"
The Earth Clan’s Tianjiao roared in anger, attempting to use his control over the earth to manipulate the oppressing rocks and dirt and counterattack the Five Elements Field.
But his expression soon drastically changed.
The earth-controlling technique he took pride in had completely failed. The surrounding rocks solidified, relentlessly densifying, the density rapidly increasing, becoming even harder than metal, and while continuing to solidify, they turned into some kind of crystal.
The Earth Clan’s Tianjiao kept screaming, desperately striking out to break free, but it was all in vain. The pressure around him grew more and more intense, his body began to deform, with blood ceaselessly seeping out.
He revealed a look of fear and let out an indignant roar.
Splat!
In the end, the young man from the Earth Clan was literally crushed to death by the crystalized rocks.
Lu Yan reached out his palm, and a Sumi Mustard Seed Bag wrapped in the Five Elements Field flew out, landing in Lu Yan’s hand.
Lu Yan opened the Sumi Mustard Seed Bag and started searching inside.
Ignoring all other miscellaneous items, Lu Yan focused solely on finding his target.
His goal was the scoring token.
Soon, a token fell into his hand, with the character ’five’ written on it.
"Five points in hand."
Lu Yan revealed a smile.
With a thought, he stored the scoring token, placing it with his own.
Then, with a flash of his figure, he left the place.
Two days later.
"Eh, what’s this..."
Lu Yan suddenly perked up.
On a hidden rock, he spotted a complex mark.
This mark was unique to the boundless starry skies.
Lu Yan carefully deciphered it.
The mark was somewhat like Morse code, only understandable to those who grasped its pattern.
After carefully recognizing it, Lu Yan discerned the direction pointed out by the mark.
He quickly followed the direction indicated by the mark.
But after flying some distance, Lu Yan stopped.
He felt that there were eyes in the dark, watching him.
His spiritual sense spread out, scanning in all directions, including the deep underground, but he found nothing.
"Could it be an illusion?"
Lu Yan mumbled to himself but then shook his head, dismissing the possibility. It couldn’t be an illusion.
Given his cultivation level, how could he experience illusions? If it truly were an illusion, that would be far more serious.
He trusted his instincts; someone was indeed watching him from the shadows.
Whoosh!
Using his movement technique, Lu Yan proceeded into the distance, flying at high speed, but no matter how he flew, that feeling persistently lingered.
"Secretly watching me, yet not attacking, and able to hide so well—who could it be?"
Lu Yan pondered.
Suddenly, an idea struck him.
He thought of a particular race.
The Light Clan.
A powerful race, stronger overall than the Earth Clan.
It was said that the Light Clan members could transform into light and hide within the rays, becoming invisible and intangible.
They were natural assassins, often capable of killing those stronger than themselves, extremely dangerous.
They were one of the most dangerous races on the Origin Continent.
"This person is cautious, watching me and not attacking; could they be waiting for other Tianjiaos from the Origin Continent to join forces?"
The more Lu Yan thought about it, the less he was in a hurry to force the other party out.
Instead of painstakingly searching for the opponent, it was better to wait for them to come to him and solve it all at once.
This is the boldness of someone proficient in their art.
With Lu Yan’s current power, he had enough confidence.
Apart from Yuan Tiandao, he could suppress anyone of the same level.
Even against Yuan Tiandao, he wanted to give it a try.
Although Lu Ming had said that without fusing the nine doctrines, he might not be a match for Yuan Tiandao.
But now, he was much stronger than when he had last seen Lu Ming.
With the Saint Soldier’s Foemula and Five Elements True Body comparable to the Pinnacle of the Great Tao, cultivation at the peak of the Great Tao, eight doctrines merged, having even created the Sky Annihilation technique.
Furthermore, within his limbs, he had fused twelve true lines.
With so many factors in his favor, even Lu Ming would not have expected it.
He felt he possessed the power to destroy heaven and earth, extremely formidable.
Perhaps, he was now ready to battle Yuan Tiandao.
With such confidence, what was there to fear?
He pretended to be unaware and moved on, soon spotting another secretive mark belonging to the starry skies.
Lu Yan continued to follow the marks.
Shortly after Lu Yan left, a certain place in the void suddenly became thick with light; these rays of light condensed, faintly revealing a figure.
