Chapter 2134: Chapter 2132: Farewell, Fong Rumo
Just as Lu Ye was busy wiping out the enemy, he suddenly felt someone barge in from outside into his Blood Sea, and along with this person, an extremely sharp aura also intruded. Within that aura, there were actually traces of Dao force!
Lu Ye hurriedly cast his heart and mind toward that direction.
In this stellar space, being able to sense traces of Dao force was rather strange.
At a glance, Lu Ye immediately recognized the figure that had broken into his Blood Sea.
It was actually Fong Rumo!
Back then, when Lu Ye had just entered the Constellation Realm and left the Nine Provinces for the first time to explore stellar space, he happened upon this man. After receiving his guidance, he then went to investigate the Ghost Ship and thus obtained some benefits.
Jiu Yan had once told Lu Ye that in the entire stellar space, counting Ma Bin, there were no more than three people who had forged a Dao foundation, and this Fong Rumo was very likely one of them.
As Lu Ye’s strength continually increased, he had in fact kept an eye out for news of Fong Rumo, but he had never gained anything.
He hadn’t expected to run into him again here today.
This was no coincidence, because Fong Rumo had actively thrown himself into his Blood Sea. It was obvious he had sensed the disturbance here and wanted to borrow its power.
Because he had always been hunted down by the Sword Qi of the Tianxuan Sword.
The extremely sharp aura Lu Ye sensed entering the Blood Sea together with Fong Rumo was precisely the Sword Qi of the Tianxuan Sword!
At their chance encounter back then, Lu Ye had just stepped into the Constellation Realm, and Fong Rumo had seemed unfathomably deep. Seeing him again today, although in terms of cultivation Lu Ye was still not as high as the other, the difference in their actual strength had already reversed.
Fong Rumo did not know what had happened here. He should have only been passing by, sensed the vast commotion of the Blood Sea, and charged into this place, wanting to borrow the power of this Blood Sea to hinder the Tianxuan Sword Qi for a moment.
That had been his plan, but the moment he entered this Blood Sea, he felt that something was wrong.
He had seen a fair bit of the world and dealt with powerful Blood Race experts, yet he had never imagined that there could be any Blood Race whose Blood Sea was so vast and mighty.
Now he was in trouble; Fong Rumo’s heart sank. In just this short time, he had already lost his sense of direction in the Blood Sea and had no idea how to escape.
Instead, the killing intent behind him could not be shaken off at all, making his back turn cold.
"Fellow Daoist Fong, it has been a long time."
Just as his thoughts were racing as he searched for a way to live, a voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
"You are..." Fong Rumo asked as he fled through the Blood Sea. He faintly felt this voice was somewhat familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before. But after so many years of fleeing, he had met many people; how could he possibly remember Lu Ye, with whom he had only had a brief encounter?
He had never thought that in just a few dozen years, Lu Ye could have grown to this level.
As his words fell, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him. Fong Rumo’s heart jolted, and he immediately realized that this was the master of the Blood Sea!
But when he looked up, he saw no Blood Race features on the other party at all. On the contrary, he looked human, and far too young; his face was somewhat familiar...
He immediately remembered where he had seen this person before.
"Get out of the way, the Tianxuan Sword Qi is indestructible, you must not try to block it!" Fong Rumo shouted in urgency, his figure turning as he darted off to the side.
He had entered the Blood Sea only to borrow its power to delay things and see if he could get a breather. As for whether he might get any Blood Race inside killed because of it, he felt no guilt. But the one standing before him now was not Blood Race, so he naturally could not act the same.
However, in the next instant, a sword’s humming suddenly sounded from behind, followed by a crisp crack. The sense of crisis that had hung over his heart at every moment actually vanished without a trace.
Fong Rumo was stunned and hastily turned his head, just in time to see Lu Ye’s posture as he drew his hand back from a slash. Before him, a cloud of shattered sword light was slowly dissipating.
Judging from that, it seemed Lu Ye had casually cut apart the Tianxuan Sword Qi...
Fong Rumo was somewhat dumbfounded, almost unable to believe his eyes, yet the sense of crisis that had accompanied him for so many years had indeed disappeared without a trace in that instant.
"Fellow Daoist, what did you just say?" Lu Ye tilted his head to look at him.
For a moment, Fong Rumo did not know how to speak. What he had just experienced was simply terrifying beyond belief, something he would not even dare to imagine.
With no time to think further, he hurriedly said, "Many thanks, Fellow Daoist, for your help, but I have already been locked onto by the will of the Tianxuan Sword Intent. More Tianxuan Sword Qi will come to hunt me down. Please allow me to leave, so as not to implicate you."
In his many years of fleeing, the Tianxuan Sword Qi that hunted him had not never been shattered. He had once found a friend with an affiliated treasure and used that treasure to break apart the Tianxuan Sword Qi, but it was completely useless. Once one strand of Sword Qi was broken, a new one would appear. No matter where he was, he could only keep running.
As he finished speaking, Lu Ye suddenly raised his hand and grabbed in his direction.
Fong Rumo never even saw how Lu Ye moved. By the time he came back to his senses, there was already a violently trembling sword light in Lu Ye’s hand.
It was clearly the newly arrived Tianxuan Sword Qi, captured the instant it appeared by Lu Ye’s Insight.
At such close range, Fong Rumo only felt his skin ache, and his very psyche seemed to be on the verge of being torn apart. He couldn’t help but step back several paces before he felt a bit better.
His heart was filled with shock. He understood the power of the Tianxuan Sword Qi better than anyone; after all, he had matched wits and courage with this thing for over a thousand years. He had never imagined that there was someone in this world who could grasp it bare-handed.
"Crack..." Under Lu Ye’s force, the vibrating Tianxuan Sword Qi shattered once again, scattering into fluorescent motes.
Gulp... Fong Rumo couldn’t help but swallow.
He hadn’t seen how Lu Ye shattered the Tianxuan Sword Qi just now, but this time he saw it with his own eyes.
"It’s coming again!" Fong Rumo suddenly let out a low cry. This time he no longer thought about fleeing, but instead proactively moved closer to Lu Ye.
Because he realized that the problem that had plagued him for a thousand years was nothing in front of this young man.
Sure enough, Lu Ye keenly sensed a trace of sharp aura appearing out of thin air at Fong Rumo’s original position.
Just like before, he reached out and grabbed, seizing the suddenly appearing Tianxuan Sword Qi in his hand, but this time he didn’t rush to crush it.
He vaguely felt that the root of the problem lay with Fong Rumo.
His Mental Consciousness surged, and after a round of probing, he asked, "Fellow Daoist, have you come into contact with the Tianxuan Sword before?"
Fong Rumo gave an awkward laugh. "Does grabbing it once count as contact?"
Lu Ye nodded, and with his other hand he reached out to grab Fong Rumo’s wrist. With the Talent Tree’s power stirred, invisible roots probed into Fong Rumo’s body.
Fong Rumo didn’t know what he was doing, but he knew that if Lu Ye wanted to kill him, he absolutely could not resist. So he simply calmed his mind and let Lu Ye act as he pleased.
Under the gentle burning of the Talent Tree’s power, Fong Rumo couldn’t help revealing a strange expression, because he discovered that some impurities in his body were actually disappearing into thin air, making his whole person feel much lighter.
"Found it." Lu Ye suddenly spoke.
Inside Fong Rumo’s body there was an extremely well‑hidden mark. This mark seemed to be something even Fong Rumo himself had never noticed, but under the Talent Tree’s incineration, it had nowhere to hide.
Time slowly passed. Only after more than two hours did Lu Ye release Fong Rumo. His other large hand, which was holding the Tianxuan Sword Qi, clenched, and the sword light shattered.
"It should be fine now. When Fellow Daoist previously came into contact with the Tianxuan Sword, this supreme treasure left a mark on you, so it could pursue and kill you across space."
Fong Rumo half‑believed, half‑doubted, but after waiting for quite a while without seeing any new Tianxuan Sword Qi appear, he let out a long breath. A thousand years of flight had finally come to an end today, and he suddenly felt as if he had been reborn.
All around, the Blood Sea contracted, like swallows returning to their nest, converging into Lu Ye’s body.
Fong Rumo gave a solemn bow. "Many thanks, Fellow Daoist. This kindness is no less than a second creation. I, Fong, will remember it in my heart. If you have need in the future, I will definitely not utter a word of refusal."
When he raised his head, he couldn’t help being stunned.
Without the cover of the Blood Sea, the current scene within the Insect Emperor World entered his eyes. Calling it Asura Purgatory was no exaggeration. What met his gaze were densely packed corpses, both from the Insect Race and the Blood Race, men and women, old and young. The entire domain was deathly silent, without a single living soul.
A world‑slaughter!
From today onward, within this entire stellar space, there would be no more Insect Race, and no more Insect Emperor World!
Fong Rumo’s heart sank straight down. Just what kind of person was this who had saved him?
He vaguely remembered that when he had seen him decades ago, the other party had only been a small Constellation cultivator.
"Fellow Daoist, there’s no need to worry too much." Lu Ye saw what was on his mind. "I came here on the orders of the Reincarnation Tree’s Tree Elder. The grand trend is about to descend, and the Star Abyss is about to invade. The Insect and Blood Races would only breed calamity, so they had to be exterminated first to prevent them from affecting the stability of the stellar space in the future."
"The Tree Elder’s orders!" Fong Rumo understood. If it was the Tree Elder’s command, then there was no problem.
The Tree Elder’s guiding principle had always been to teach without discrimination. Take the Insect Emperor World as an example: back then when the Insect Race went to the Reincarnation Tree to request a doppelganger, the Tree Elder had agreed. Now that even the Tree Elder could no longer tolerate the Insect and Blood Races, they deserved to be annihilated.
"Fellow Daoist, what is this grand trend descending, and what’s the Star Abyss invasion about?" Fong Rumo asked again.
All these years he had been fleeing and basically had no chance to interact much with anyone, so he truly didn’t know the current situation of the stellar space. Yet he could indeed feel that the entire stellar space was somewhat different from before, as if forces everywhere were sharpening their blades and secretly preparing for something.
"This matter is a long story. I can only tell Fellow Daoist that it concerns the fate of all living beings in the entire stellar space, especially figures like Fellow Daoist."
"Me?"
"Fellow Daoist should already have forged a Dao foundation, correct?"
"Dao foundation... I’m not sure, but during these thousand years of being hunted, I did gain some insight into that Tianxuan Sword Qi, and I also refined some of the power that leaked from it. That power is very special, and very strong!"
"That is Dao force!" Lu Ye explained. "Only those who have forged a Dao foundation can cultivate Dao force. So even in this Insect Emperor World, Fellow Daoist’s strength was not affected by the origin magnetic field. However, Fellow Daoist’s Dao force... is very thin."
From Lu Ye’s perspective, Fong Rumo wasn’t even at the level of a single Dao. He was similar to Ma Bin’s state back then, with only a very thin remnant of Dao force in his body.
"And after the Star Abyss invades, Fellow Daoist will be able to cultivate and accumulate Dao force much more rapidly, and truly become a Dao Realm cultivator!"
Fong Rumo’s eyes lit up at these words.
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