The Old Gods

Chapter 816 The Terrifying Sculpture Garden

All three Heavenly Realm Souls were taken into the Sculpture Garden by Lu Ran, and also captured by the Great Nightmare.

According to calculations, one Heavenly Realm Soul is roughly equivalent to 100 strands of Holy Spirit Qi.

Based on this calculation, Lu Ran only needs to kill a thousand Heavenly Realm demon minions and Faceless Jade Venerable to gather 100,000 Holy Spirit Qi to cultivate Deng Yuxiang and advance her level.

one thousand?
No, in practice, the number of enemies Lu Ran needs to kill is definitely far less than that.

Because the Faceless Jade Venerable is also devouring the souls of the dead!

The sheer strength of this race is astonishing.

At present, Lu Ran seems to have only absorbed the soul of a Faceless Jade Venerable, but little do people know that she may be carrying the lives of ten or even a hundred people!

These ten or one hundred lives must have also collected the energy of the Holy Spirit before they were devoured by the Faceless Jade Venerable.

It's like a nesting doll~
Therefore, Lu Ran was certain that it wouldn't be long before the Great Nightmare was able to stay by his side again.
"Little Lu is so awesome!"

As Lu Ran fell onto the stone peak, Bai Rao pressed herself against him.

She hooked her arm around his leg, her voice alluring and seductive: "Such a swift knife, such a swift person. Tsk~ It's truly delightful."

Lu Ran: "."

Just praise the knife for being fast.

There's no need to include me.
Yan Chou also came through, praising, "Young Master, you have quite the same style as your mother back then!"

"Stop trying to coax me." Lu Ran shook his head. With his mother's terrifying strength, she could probably shatter and kill the Faceless Jade Venerable with a single sword strike.

Yan Chou hurriedly said, "Young Master, this humble servant would never dare to deceive you."

"Alright." Lu Ran raised his hand to stop him, looking at the tall man and recalling his performance in the battle.

Highly experienced and adept at seizing opportunities.

Furthermore, orders must be strictly enforced!

Lu Ran was quite satisfied with the generals his mother had left him.

However, in terms of damage output, Yan Chou was still lacking, and it was obviously difficult for him to break through the defense of the Faceless Jade Venerable.

It is said that only by unleashing their ultimate move and wielding a magnificent spear can disciples of the Spear Emperor (or Evil Spear Emperor) truly inflict damage on their enemies.

Hmm, this is indeed quite troublesome.

Lu Ran pondered silently.

Since the damage output is insufficient, let's make up for it with divine weapons!
His gaze fell on the spear in Yan Chou's hand, and he said, "It's time to find you a suitable weapon, preferably one with a strong divine weapon domain."

I don't know how Chou Nu ended up like this.

When they first met in the mountain realm, Yan Chou only had two treasures, one of which was his mother's Cloud Sea Sword.

He himself only possessed one first-tier magic artifact: the Black Cloud Pattern Gourd.

This magical artifact has a rather peculiar effect; it can absorb the energy between heaven and earth and brew a special kind of "divine wine" on its own.

People can certainly replenish their body's energy by drinking it, but the side effects are also obvious: drinking too much can easily lead to intoxication.

It's so amazing~
"Hmm," Yan Chou said with some shame. The intensity of the Heavenly Realm battlefield was extremely high, and his divine weapons, spear and sword, had already perished in battle after battle.

The culprit is none other than the Faceless Jade Venerable!

This race is simply the bane of divine weapons.

Once divine weapons and magical artifacts are touched by the Faceless Jade Venerable, their texture will immediately change. Such an attack is undoubtedly devastating to divine weapons and magical artifacts.

Once the vessel is damaged, the spirit within it will have no foundation to exist and will naturally vanish into nothingness.

“There’s plenty of room to find then,” Bai Rao interjected, offering a fair assessment. “Ordinary divine weapons can’t break those hard jade carvings.”

“Indeed.” Lu Ran nodded slightly.

If divine weapons were so effective, the human believers wouldn't have been suppressed so terribly by foreign enemies.

That said, this battle allowed Lu Ran to witness firsthand the immense threat that the Star Official/Flash Star Demon techniques posed to the Faceless Jade Venerable!
In this light, the sculptures of star deities and demons in the sculpture park need to carefully select their successors.

"By the way," Lu Ran looked into the distance and asked, "Among Yun Hai's old followers, are there any Star Officials or Flashing Star Demons?"

Yan Chou immediately nodded: "Yes, but..."

"what?"

A bitter look appeared in Yan Chou's eyes: "After your mother was forcibly removed from the Heavenly Realm, her old subordinates were also forcibly separated by the gods and demons and stationed on various sacred mountains."

Of those former disciples of the Star Officials and followers of the Flash Star Demon, who knows how many are still alive?

Lu Ran remained silent.

Whenever this matter is mentioned, he feels both angry and heartbroken.

Yan Chou noticed the young man's low spirits, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "There is a brother and sister in the Yunhai Sect named Leng Tianxing and Leng Tianyue. Their combat strength is quite remarkable!"
Brother Tianxing is bold and meticulous, and Sister Tianyue is even more thoughtful; they should be able to survive the catastrophe.

catastrophe?

Lu Ran looked at Yan Chou. Did he compare his mother's departure to a catastrophe?

Indeed, for these soldiers who harbored endless hope and followed their leader to conquer the world, Qiao Wanjun's departure was nothing short of a cataclysmic event.

The gods and demons are really ruthless in this move! Lu Ran was silent for a while, then said, "You told me before that you have been stationed on a sacred mountain and once received a disciple of Dongting, a former subordinate of Yunhai."

The conclusion that less than one-tenth of the Yunhai Sect survived is also evidenced by his testimony.

"Yes, in the years after the Yunhai Sect was destroyed, Huangfu took advantage of his own strengths to travel around the Heavenly Realm and collect the Qi of the Holy Spirit, which can be considered as visiting all the sacred mountains."

Do you know where he is?

“Young Master, Huangfu came and went in a hurry back then, as he had to carry out a mission for the Evil God and didn’t have much time to rest. Our old subordinates from Yunhai were also under close surveillance, so he didn’t have much time to talk to Ugly Slave.”

Yan Chou's voice grew softer and softer until he finally knelt down and bowed his head.

"Alright, let's go." Lu Ran sighed inwardly.

Most of the information Yan Chou knew came from snippets of conversation or deductions from the Dongting disciple.

He was stationed on the sacred mountain and could not leave that area. In that sacred mountain, apart from Yan Chou, there was no other former subordinate of Yun Hai.

"Oh, by the way," Lu Ran said suddenly, having just taken a step out, "What's his name? Huangfu?"

"Ugly Slave does not know his name. In the past, Sect Leader Qiao only called him by his surname, Huangfu."

"Oh." Lu Ran nodded.

I wonder if this senior Huangfu is still alive.

In any case, let's reserve the Dongting Divine Sculpture in the sculpture park for him for now.

In fact, Lu Ran once had a beautiful fantasy: to drag Li Rouyin's older brother, a follower of the Forgotten Spring, into the Ran Sect and inherit a stone statue.

In this way, Li Rouyin, this extremely special disciple of the god, can be firmly bound to his war chariot.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned.

Lu Ran fought battles in the Holy Spirit Mountain, but never managed to find Li Rouyin's brother.

Ugh.
I really don't know how I'll explain this to her next time I see her.

"Let's go!" Lu Ran roused himself and leaped down from the rock peak. "The Nightmare had a great time eating, let's continue! Get her out of here as soon as possible!"

"Yes!" Yan Chou shouted in a deep voice.

Bai Rao disappeared into the thick sea of ​​fog again, closely following at Lu Ran's feet.

As it turns out, Lu Ran's prediction was correct!

On this celestial battlefield, the abundant resources he seized allowed the Great Nightmare to grow at an almost terrifying rate!

First, there is the holy spirit descending from heaven.

Lu Ran often concealed himself and frantically stole resources, reaping wave after wave of rewards.
The demonic minions were naturally Lu Ran's primary targets.

The most succulent one has to be the Faceless Jade Vase!
The quality of their souls is outrageously high!

Lu Ran and the others also have an unparalleled advantage, which is based on the temperament of the Faceless Jade Venerable.

The word arrogance

It has destroyed countless high-class jade carvings.

The Faceless Jade Venerable suffered one setback after another.
This tribe's excessively powerful fighting force and arrogant nature have made them accustomed to acting alone.

Lu Ran and his group took advantage of this to continuously kill the Faceless Jade Venerable one-on-one, ensuring that every soul was trapped in the sculpture garden and unable to return to report.

For more than twenty days, the true form of the Faceless Jade Venerable remained completely unaware of Lu Ran and the others' existence.

They had no idea just how powerful Lu Ran and his group were!
Because every faceless jade deity the trio encountered did not change the slightest in their gaze towards them.

It was as if they were looking at a stranger.

They are still looking at insignificant ants!
Lu Ran did his best to maintain the status quo.

Every minute and every second, he was on high alert, relying on his powerful senses and ability to see through the fog, Lu Ran always chose his own battlefield.

Automatically match opponents.

Occasionally, when the battlefield is chaotic and there are many demonic minions and faceless jade deities, Lu Ran will only see them from afar before quickly leading his team to flee.

What is a face?
do not know!
I never fight a battle I'm not confident of winning.
Lu Ran wasn't sure how long he could keep it a secret, after all, the faceless Jade Venerable who died under his blade was a real person!
He didn't know if the loss of one or two hundred people could be categorized as a normal fluctuation. He was even less certain whether the loss of the demonic minions would be noticed by the demonic being itself.

In short, under Lu Ran's nine-word principle of "killing recklessly and escaping quietly," his brain began to buzz and vibrate one day in late October!
Nightmare Stone Sculpture is about to advance to the second level of the Heavenly Realm!

All in all, it took less than a month.

What is this concept?
It took the Great Nightmare half a year to advance from the fourth stage of the Sea Realm to the peak of the Sea Realm.
However, the time it took her to advance from the first level of the Heavenly Realm to the second level was significantly reduced.

Lu Ran was mentally prepared for this.

But it wasn't until the Nightmare Stone Sculpture truly trembled that Lu Ran realized even more deeply just how terrifying the Immortal Sheep was!
This sculpture garden
Horror!
Under the protection of the Immortal Sheep, Lu Ran's painstakingly cultivated camellia has bloomed once again!

Yes. Just like his heart.

Without hesitation, Lu Ran led his team back to Holy Spirit Mountain immediately.

In the next few days, his mind will not be very clear, so he naturally cannot force himself to fight.

After fighting continuously in the Heavenly Realm for so long, he and his two heavenly generals really needed a rest.

To Lu Ran's surprise, as he stepped into the edge of the sky, a tall and imposing figure stood before him.
(End of this chapter)