Begin the path of immortality from mortals

Xuanwu City.

As the only movable large city of the human race, it is located on the back of a spirit beast. It is built entirely of some kind of golden-black rock. It is as majestic as a mountain and has a powerful aura.

In the center of Xuanwu City, the Overlord Palace is golden in color, magnificent and splendid, revealing a sense of nobility and grandeur. It stands high above, like a proud king, overlooking this solemn ancient city.

In a magnificent hall, a man with a bushy beard, about two meters tall, wearing a black robe with dark patterns and an imposing aura, with black light flowing around him, slowly put down the visiting card in his hand.

"Lu Tiandu? So this means that this human genius, who I have heard of many times, came to my Xuanwu City with the cultivators from Yaochi Palace?"

"It seems that the rumors about his close relationship with Yaochi Palace are true! But I have never had any interaction with this Lu Tiandu, what is his purpose in coming this time?"

The Overlord couldn't help but feel confused at this moment.

"Don't worry, Overlord. I'm sure this Daoist Fellow Lu has something to ask of you! Moreover, I've already studied this Daoist Fellow Lu. Judging from his behavior, he is a principled person. As long as he has no grudges against someone, he will never cause trouble!"

Inside the hall, an old man with white hair and a similarly tall stature smiled among several other combined cultivators.

In fact, after receiving the news that Lu Tiandu, a human genius who had made such a great name in the past few hundred years, was coming to visit the Overlord Palace, not only was Overlord somewhat confused, but they were also startled.

They had just participated in the ceremony of the new Holy Emperor's succession to the throne thirty years ago. Everyone knew that the previous Holy Emperor died at the hands of Lu Tiandu.

According to what countless cultivators saw with their own eyes at the scene and the news from a certain fusion cultivator in the Saint Emperor Palace, Lu Tian released a beam of emerald green sword light and, at the same time, imprisoned all the other fusion cultivators in the field, and killed the Saint Emperor, a veteran fusion cultivator in the late stage, with one strike!
Later, countless cultivators speculated that Lu Tiandu must have used some kind of disposable high-powered forbidden weapon at that time, which allowed him to kill a cultivator in the late stage of fusion with one blow.

Obviously, this method cannot be a regular method and is unlikely to be reused.

Even so, no veteran late-stage fusion cultivator wanted to try it out personally.

But apart from that, Lu Tiandu's glorious military exploits on the battlefield of Shigu City were real, and this could be verified from the confirmation of many combined cultivators who participated in the battle. Moreover, the Bahuang Palace also sent combined cultivators to participate in the battle.

Back then, when Lu Tiandu was in the late stage of the Refinement Realm, he had amazing strength that was enough to fight against a cultivator in the middle stage of the Fusion Realm. Now, more than a hundred years have passed, and with the amazing speed of cultivation demonstrated by Lu Tiandu, no one is sure about his current strength.

"In that case, let's summon this fellow Daoist Lu!"

After a moment's hesitation, Overlord spoke.

After receiving the news of the audience with the Overlord, Lu Tiandu arrived in front of the Overlord Palace in a flash.

This was the first time he had appeared publicly in front of human cultivators since the Tianyuan City Grand Auction ninety years ago.

Following a team of palace guards, Lu Tiandu passed through numerous restrictions in just a few moments and arrived in front of an ancient palace.

Along the way, the Bahuang Palace did not excite him too much. Although the layers of palaces were carved with jade and extremely exquisite, they were mostly common buildings of the human race. Only the basalt statues that he saw occasionally seemed to contain strange restrictions, which made him look at them a few more times.

"Lu has met the Overlord!"

In the Xuanwu Palace, Lu Tian casually glanced at the cultivators in the hall. He did not see anything unusual about the curiosity in these cultivators' eyes. He looked at the Overlord sitting on the throne and bowed slightly.

With his current spiritual awareness, he only needed to take a glance to see the true appearance of the Overlord hidden in the black glow. He had a square face with a resolute expression and a full beard, and looked extremely rough. His pair of tiger eyes were gleaming with a bit of inquiry and surprise.

"I didn't expect that in less than a hundred years, Fellow Daoist Lu has already advanced to the Fusion Stage. Your cultivation speed is so fast that you are the best in our human race. You are worthy of the title of our human race's genius!"

After the Overlord invited Lu Tiandu to sit down, his strong and rough voice was full of sighs.

Although he had discussed with the elders of the Overlord Palace before that Lu Tiandu was very likely to have advanced to the fusion stage, he could not help but be secretly shocked when he actually noticed from the fluctuations of spiritual energy around Lu Tiandu that Lu Tiandu had advanced, and it seemed that he had not just advanced.

These people were able to stand out step by step from hundreds of millions of cultivators and eventually advance to the fusion stage. They are all chosen ones by heaven, but compared with Lu Tiandu's rapid cultivation speed, they are really not worth mentioning.

It has been less than four hundred years since Lu Tiandu ascended to the spiritual world. From the late stage of Spirit Transformation to the early stage of Fusion, his progress is so fast that no one from the human and demon races can match him in a hundred thousand years.

"This person really lives up to his reputation as a genius. If he had not died in the future, he would probably be the next Mahayana cultivator of the human race!"

This thought flashed through the Overlord's mind.

Moreover, while greeting each other, he used his secret technique to observe Lu Tiandu again, only to find that his physical body was just as powerful, far surpassing that of the former Holy Emperor whose basic knowledge he had known.

"We are both practicing Dharma and body! Your physical strength is even more terrifying than Brother Bi Luo's. It is truly unbelievable!"

"I originally thought that among the three emperors, Fellow Daoist Luo had the best chance of advancing to the Mahayana stage with his foundation of cultivating both Dharma and body, but I didn't expect him to fall into the hands of this person. What a pity..."

Thinking of the inexplicable death of the former Holy Emperor due to a trivial matter, Overlord felt a complicated feeling in his heart.

After all, there have been many exchanges between the Three Emperors over the past 30,000 years, and they have a close relationship. Now the Spiritual Emperor, like him, is preparing for the upcoming great catastrophe.

The Holy Emperor, who was the most likely one among the Three Emperors to advance to the Mahayana stage in the future, had already died ahead of time. When he saw Lu Tiandu, who was now rising like the unstoppable sun, the Overlord could not help but sigh.

“Talented people emerge in every generation, and the waves behind push the waves ahead.”

Soon, the Overlord suppressed his emotions and asked again:
"Could it be that Fellow Daoist Lu is also a fellow practitioner of the Dharma Body?"

"The Overlord's eyes are as sharp as a torch. Lu is indeed on the path of practicing both the Dharma and the body!"

Lu Tiandu smiled faintly and did not hide anything.

Of course, at his level and strength, he doesn’t need to worry about others having bad thoughts because of revealing some of his own secrets.

Now he has the strength to suppress a group of cultivators!
"Hiss... Another cultivator of the human race who has reached the top level of Dharma-body cultivation?"

Hearing this, the other four combined cultivators present in the Overlord Palace secretly took a deep breath.

But they knew that the former Saint Emperor made no further progress after reaching a level of body refining comparable to the early stage of fusion, and the focus of his practice since then had been on Dharma cultivation.

Looking at Lu Tiandu's indifferent expression, he is obviously extremely confident in his own path of cultivation.

"He is a man of both power and body, and is invincible at the same level. This explains why he is so powerful!"

For a moment, this thought flashed through everyone's mind at the same time.

"I wonder why Brother Lu is visiting me this time?"

After the Overlord sighed, he got to the point.

"I heard that the Overlord has a Qilin arm bone, so I came here to trade it. If the Overlord has Qilin blood, I would also like to trade a piece..."

Lu Tiandu did not delay and directly stated the purpose of his trip. He also talked about the items he could use for trading, such as lightning-attracting beads, lightning-resistant beads, Xuanwu's true blood, and thousand-year-old elixirs.

The Lightning Attracting and Thunder Repelling Beads are natural spiritual objects in the body of the Thunder Turtle, containing some power of origin. He once used the origin of the world to create several of them, and this is one of them. "I do have a Qilin arm bone in my hand, and it is a genuine spiritual object. As for Qilin's true blood, I only have a small half bottle left..."

The Overlord pondered for a moment, and did not ask Lu Tiandu why he knew about these top-level spiritual objects in his hands, and continued:

"Obviously, Fellow Daoist Lu has also inquired about it and knows what I need. Since I have no use for these Qilin items, I don't mind trading them with you... But I have one condition!"

"Please say!"

"After the transaction is completed, I would like to have a discussion with Fellow Daoist Lu. What do you think?"

As the Overlord spoke, his tiger eyes stared at Lu Tiandu with full of fighting spirit.

"This is easy. Lu agreed."

After completing the transaction, the two came to a performance field surrounded by layers of forbidden light curtains.

As for the other combined cultivators of the Overlord Palace, they did not follow along.

This was a private exchange, and Overlord did not want the matter to become a hot topic.

"please!"

The tall figure of the Overlord stood in the void, the spiritual pressure of the peak of the fusion swept out, his black robe with mysterious patterns rustled, and the fighting spirit was boiling.

"The Overlord comes first!"

Lu Tiandu shook his head slightly, "I'm afraid that after I take action, you will have no chance!"

Hearing this, Overlord's expression froze, and his heart was suddenly startled.

For people of their level, it is naturally impossible for them to talk nonsense or empty words. Since Lu Tiandu dared to speak like this, it was obvious that he was extremely confident in his own strength.

The next moment, the Overlord made hand seals, and a dark aura filled the area dozens of feet around him. With a low roar, amid the sound of rolling waves, the sky above the Overlord's head became empty, the dark aura condensed, and a giant black tortoise, a full thirty feet in length, stepped out from the waves.

Its snake head is ferocious and covered with sharp horns, its shell is shiny black, ancient and unsophisticated, with mysterious inscriptions appearing on it. Above the waves, its limbs are thick, covered with scales, and glowing with faint light. Its snake tail is coiled high up like a giant whip, as if it is ready to strike in the air at any time.

"The Xuanwu Dharma Image? Very good!"

Lu Tiandu's expression remained unchanged. He nodded, raised his hand and grabbed in the air. For a moment, the sounds of wind and thunder were loud. Amid the roars, a huge purple-gold fist suddenly condensed.

On the giant fist that was dozens of feet in size, golden and purple light flowed, and mysterious runes of different colors emerged, giving people an inexplicable feeling of fear.

"What a magical power!"

When his spiritual sense swept across the several magical runes on the giant purple-gold fist condensed by Lu Tiandu, the Overlord was secretly startled.

The next moment, with a point of his finger, the Xuanwu Dharmakāya swung its limbs and attacked towards Lu Tiandu.

The giant purple-gold fist also flashed and rushed forward to meet the attack.

The deafening sound of the explosion had not yet ended, and the vortex of explosion caused by the clash of magical powers in the sky swept across the sky, and the Overlord's face changed drastically.

Lu Tiandu was not at all surprised by this. With the power he had now gained after combining six true spirit-level magical powers, it was reasonable for him to smash the Xuanwu Dharma image condensed by the Overlord with one punch.

After the competition of magical powers, Overlord admitted defeat. In the following duel of magic weapons, although Overlord had the Overlord Shield, one of the three inherited treasures of the human race with amazing defensive power, after Lu Tiandu used the Sky-Splitting Claw, Overlord once again decisively admitted defeat.

Afterwards, hearing that the Overlord wanted to see his body refining skills, when Lu Tiandu used the Law of Heaven and Earth to reveal a giant body of three hundred and sixty feet tall, the Overlord's face turned pale.

The result of the fight between the two was not reported outside the Overlord Palace, but when other combined elders asked about it, Overlord was silent for a long time, saying "I am not as good as him, this person is invincible at the same level" and then he said nothing...

Half a day later, after the auction ended, Lu Tiandu and the ladies of Yao Chi Palace disappeared again.

Not long after leaving Yao Chi Palace, a menacing black-robed figure crossed several demon domains and appeared near Bahuang City.

"It's too late! Damn it! Let this couple live a little longer!"

The deep black eyes of the Tiankui Wolf King were filled with murderous intent and were extremely cold.

Ever since one of his incarnations accidentally discovered Lu Tiandu and Linglong traveling together in Xuanwu Realm, Tian Kui, who received the news, instantly understood all of Linglong's actions after she returned from the human world.

"Bitch, you were so proud of yourself back then, thinking you were from a royal family. You looked down on me and refused to practice with me, and you were even more unwilling to help me break through to the middle stage of the fusion. How hateful are you?"

"Because I am afraid of the majesty of the old dog Ao Xiao, I can only swallow my anger. I was originally going to use that accident as an excuse to let you die in the human world. I didn't expect that after 30,000 years, your two souls would merge into one and return again!"

"Now that I have reached the peak of the middle stage of the fusion, if you can help me advance to the late stage of the fusion, after that old dog Ao Xiao dies in the great calamity, I can also let you, the Silver Moon Wolf Clan, go..."

"How despicable you are, you slut! You even ignored my proposal to put aside our past grudges again. You deserve to die! You deserve to be killed!"

"Do you think you can ignore me just because you have awakened the Seven Star Moon Body? Do you think I can keep the secret of your Seven Star Moon Body secret from you?"

"Very good, now that you, my slave, have reached the Perfection of Void Refining, your wolf blood and Yuan Yin power are enough to help me break through..."

"As for Lu Tiandu, you dare to dream of getting your hands on my woman. Aren't you known as the number one genius of the human race? I will kill you in public and refine you into my incarnation!"

Tian Kui's heart was burning with anger and resentment, and he had a grim smile on his face. Evil thoughts about plotting against Linglong and Lu Tiandu kept emerging in his mind.

Ever since he learned that Ao Xiao, the ancestor of the demon clan, was injured in the last great calamity, he knew that his chance had come.

With his six incarnations cultivated over tens of thousands of years and his main body at the peak of the middle stage of fusion, plus a magical treasure passed down by the wolf clan and the Wanxi Demon Tower he refined, as long as Ao Xiao died, who in the wolf clan could be his opponent?
However, Linglong's return and awakening of the Seven-Star Moon Body, as well as her protection by Ao Xiao, made him alert as the outside world could hardly see her.

He had already guessed that Ao Xiao would definitely wait for Linglong to advance to the fusion stage before demoting him and taking back the position of Wolf King of the Silver Moon royal family.

"I have dominated the demon tribe for many years. How can you, an old dog, bring me down with just one word? You old dog, how much have I paid for the wolf tribe? Over the past tens of thousands of years, have you ever taken the initiative to help me break through? Old dog, you are really hateful! Damn it!"

Thinking of Ao Xiao's indifference to him, the wolf king from the black wolf clan, over the years, Tian Kui's resentment grew more and more intense.

"Linglong, since you are in love with this human boy, I will kill him in front of you, a lowly slave!"

"Ao Xiao, you old dog, you want to support Linglong, right? I will take away this slave's essence and destroy her physique before she advances to the fusion stage. Let's see what you can do to me."

"Thousands of years later, when I return with my late stage fusion cultivation, won't I still have the final say over the wolf tribe?"

Thinking of this, Tian Kui's eyes were dim and he smiled grimly. (End of this chapter)