Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 526 Heaven Weeps and Earth Mourns as a Star Falls and Dies; The Taoist Immortal Transformation is Miraculous (Seeking Rewards and Subscriptions!)

Within the desolate realm of the heavens, a torrent of stars raged and raged.

That area was completely submerged, large sections of space were broken and distorted, groaning under the weight of the storm, and forming gaping holes and voids.

The blinding light and destructive energy fluctuations, like the raging tide of a star's destruction, crashed against the protective light screens around the viewing platform, creating violent ripples.

"it's over!"

"As expected of Shangqing Yunya! First, he laid out a solid and far-reaching plan, and then, with the momentum in hand, he turned defense into offense. The Nine Luminaries Star Rope knocked down the Xuanhuang Pagoda. This 'Myriad Stars Guiding' move is a killing move for the Void Returning Realm. Most Void Returning Realm cultivators probably wouldn't dare to take it head-on."

"The Xuanhuang Pagoda was knocked down, and even with his extraordinary abilities, Daoist Lu Cheng could not withstand the blow with his bare body..."

At that very moment, at the core of that world-destroying stellar storm.

Endless tearing, crushing, and star-fierce power assaulted in turn, enough to instantly grind the physical body of an ordinary late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator into dust.

The Xuanhuang Pagoda's connection was blocked by the Nine Luminaries Star Chains, leaving only a faint trace.

But at this critical moment of life and death, the Xuan Tian Divine Skill within Lu Cheng's body was activated to its limit at a speed exceeding all limits.

The refinement and enhancement by the Samadhi True Fire, along with the Taoist immortality cultivated through the Mysterious Heaven Divine Art, unleashed its full power at this moment.

Amidst the radiant glow of falling stars, Lu Cheng Daoist's physical body transformed at times into a purple-scaled demonic dragon, at others into a red-eyed lion, at still others into a blue-winged thunder roc, at still others into a white-armored divine elephant, and finally burst forth as a black jade unicorn.

"Roar—!" A suppressed, painful roar, seemingly from the primordial era, pierced through the roar of the star torrent and faintly reached the outside world.

"what sound?"

"Why is there still movement inside?!" A commotion broke out on the surrounding viewing platforms.

At this moment, Daoist Yunya also sensed something was wrong. His expression changed drastically, and without hesitation, he formed hand seals. The Star Chessboard shone brightly as he attempted to place another piece to settle the score.

"An opportunity!" At this moment, Lu Cheng's mind was clear.

In his Jade Qilin form, he unleashed the technique of becoming one with the sword, the giant Qilin plunging into it, refining the sword into threads, and leaping out.

The moment the Taoist priest emerged from the sword light, even the elders and great cultivators of various sects in the surrounding palaces couldn't help but turn their heads in surprise.

"He actually managed to escape! This person has indeed cultivated the Xuanmen Dan Ding Refining Secret Manual to an extremely profound level, achieving the immortal body of a Daoist!?"

The Xuanmen Danding Refining Body Secret Manual is an all-encompassing body-refining and self-cultivation technique. It contains profound Taoist theories and countless extraordinary skills and techniques. However, the most exquisite aspect after reaching an extremely high level is the "immortal body".

Buddhism has the indestructible golden body, and Taoism has the immortal body. However, the indestructible golden body of Buddhism is common, while the immortal body of Taoism is rare even in the Earthly Immortal Realm, where very few people can truly achieve it after tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years.

"Hahahahaha, okay, okay!"

The Daoist Yunya clapped his hands and laughed, his clear, resonant voice like the striking of jade chimes, echoing across the altar where the turmoil caused by the "Ten Thousand Stars Guidance" had not subsided. His voice carried no trace of defeat, only heartfelt admiration for his opponent's Daoist magic.
"What an immortal body of a Taoist! I never thought that over the long years, the Taiqing Xuanmai would produce such an extraordinary being!"
Yunya wishes his junior brother the best of luck in achieving immortality in the future, adding another brilliant chapter to our Daoist sect.

However, despite his admiration, Daoist Yunya's heart remained clear, and his eyes burned with even greater fervor than before.

Although the opponent evaded his fatal blow, the Xuanhuang Pagoda, hanging high above the remaining star stream, hummed and shimmered with light, attempting to break through the blockade of the Nine Luminaries Star Rope, but ultimately failed to truly escape.

This is the key to my victory in this battle: before the pagoda returns, completely crush Lu City, which has lost its strongest defensive magic weapon!

Without further hesitation, Daoist Yunya swiftly moved his hands like butterflies flitting among flowers, his fingertips instantly striking the three fundamental acupoints on his chest: Tanzhong, Zigong, and Yutang.

Each click was accompanied by a subtle tremor in his flesh and blood and a clanging sound from deep within his bones. "Pfft!" He opened his mouth and spat out a stream of deep red blood.

This is the Shangqing Secret Mantra, which forcibly extracts and squeezes out divine consciousness and magical power far exceeding one's own limits at the cost of damaging one's own Dao foundation and shortening one's lifespan.

Although the Shangqing lineage is the orthodox school of Taoism, it does not adhere to the distinction between orthodox and unorthodox practices. It places great emphasis on empirical evidence and has a deep understanding and study of not only orthodox methods but also all kinds of unorthodox and demonic practices.

Although Daoist Yunya suffered considerable self-inflicted damage from this secret incantation, he was confident that he could make amends in the future. This was fundamentally different from the reckless and desperate actions of the demonic path, which involved taking desperate measures and drinking poison to quench thirst.

At least within the Sacred Realm of Nuwa, the demonic art of burning essence and blood is forbidden, but the Shangqing Returning to Origin Secret Incantation is permitted.

In an instant, Daoist Yunya's aura suddenly surged to a heart-palpitating level. The surrounding shattered star fragments, the remaining star-fierce power, and even the entire massive altar emitted a muffled groan due to his overwhelming pressure.

His hair was slightly disheveled, with a few strands of silver hair fluttering in the wind. His spiritual power and magical strength returned to their peak in a short time, and his face was flushed with an unusual red. However, his eyes were as bright as cold stars and frozen lightning, piercing through the void.

"With the ko move made, the fate of the world is sealed! Heaven weeps! Earth grieves! Stars fall! Three calamities arise in succession!" Daoist Yunya roared, his voice piercing through the chaotic currents of the star field, carrying a terrifying majesty. He pressed his hands towards the star chessboard that enveloped the universe:

The first piece falls, and the heavens weep!
Deep within the chessboard, a dark red star suddenly shone, instantly breaking free from the chessboard's gravity and transforming into a crimson streak that tore through the void, hurtling straight towards Lu City. This was not fire, but a celestial tribulation power that evoked the lamentations of heaven and earth and eroded the primordial spirit and seven emotions.

Wherever it passed, visible ripples spread through the void. Many cultivators on the viewing platform with slightly lower levels of Dao Heart cultivation couldn't help but feel great sorrow, their eyes stinging, as if witnessing the grief of birth and death in the cycle of reincarnation.

The second piece fell, and "Earthquake" struck!
Below the chessboard, a massive, earth-yellow star crashed down. It wasn't a fall, but rather like the detonation of a nuclear reactor deep within the Earth's core.

The entire Doutian Platform trembled violently, as if a giant beast roared and overturned. On the surface of the platform, the incomparably hard star debris ore crumbled inch by inch like a crisp biscuit, and countless bottomless fissures spewing out chaotic yellow gas spread out, like a giant maw ready to devour, crush, and bury Lu City in the depths of the ancient, decadent earth veins.

The third piece falls, and the star falls!
This time, on the chessboard, the thirty-six ominous stars representing destruction simultaneously separated, not gathering together, but scattering around the core area of ​​the Heavenly Weeping Star and the Earthly Mourning Power, forming a vast, boundless, and impenetrable three-dimensional net.

Each ominous star burns with a different color of destructive flame, releasing thirty-six distinct yet layered curses of the laws of stars, such as attraction, stagnation, tearing, burning, freezing, and decay!
This is no longer a simple attack, but rather an evolution of a "destruction star field" targeting a single objective, using the heavens and earth as a furnace!
The three sons appeared together, the heavens wept and the gods cried, the earth grieved and they perished, stars fell and chains severed all laws!
At this moment, the core of the Dharma Platform is no longer a place for cultivators to fight, but a small-scale forbidden zone of annihilation created by a great supernatural being!

Its power far surpassed that of the previous Daoist technique, Myriad Stars Guiding.

Around the viewing platform, the protective barrier light screen flickered wildly, the Dao patterns flashing and emitting bursts of ear-piercing explosions.

The elders of the Nuwa Sacred Realm were all visibly shaken upon seeing this, and immediately stepped forward to cast spells to protect and bless the area. The cultivators of the Nine Sects and the elders of the Thirty-Six Schools held their breath and focused their minds, while the eyes of the powerful rogue cultivators from beyond the realm also gleamed with excitement.

“Yunya’s Dao heart is firm, but this method has cost him a thousand years of hard work… the price is too high!” Outside the Doutian Dharma Platform, on a floating celestial palace platform shrouded in clouds, a middle-aged cultivator wearing a Daoist robe with nine-colored cloud patterns sighed.

Several young disciples stood beside him, each possessing an extraordinary aura. At this moment, they were all shaken by the scene of destruction at the center of the altar.

Lu Cheng was deeply trapped in the core of this terrifying triple killing formation. The Xuanhuang Pagoda's connection to him became negligible, and Yun Ya's spiritual storm, triggered by the Returning Origin Secret Technique, relentlessly suppressed his sensory connections.

The power of "Heavenly Cry" surged through his mind like a tidal wave, and countless tragic and desperate images flashed through his mind, trying to erode his fighting spirit.
The chaotic yellow gas spewed from the gaping maw of "Earthquake" carried terrifying gravitational and crushing forces, frantically tearing at Lu Cheng's Dharma body.
The thirty-six kinds of star curses released by the "Starfall" net are all-pervasive, eroding his magic power, hindering his actions, and weakening his defenses.

"Come, come, if you cannot overcome calamities, how can you possess the Taoist guardian divine power and immortality! By breaking your Taoist magic, my power will advance even further!"

Lu Cheng gathered his strength, ready to leap, when an overwhelming force of "sinking" enveloped him, a force that was both earth-shattering and star-falling curse, pulling at his body, mind, and soul.

"Hmph!" Lu Cheng's eyes blazed with crimson-gold fire, and his thunderous voice shattered the illusion in his mind. Without moving his feet, a flowing and spreading five-colored radiance appeared out of thin air beneath his feet.

Metal, wood, water, fire, earth... mysterious trajectories intertwine and flow, creating an opportunity to escape in the distorted void around them!
Using his body as the axis, he executed the most exquisite Xuanmen Five Elements Escape Technique within a small space. Each strike landed on a node of the Star Annihilation Forbidden Domain. His escape technique was faster than lightning, like an autumn leaf swirling in a storm without falling, almost unbelievable.

"What an exquisite Reversal of the Five Elements Steps! Junior Brother Lu's mastery of this technique is so profound, yet he has never revealed it before?" On the seat of the Jade Purity Dao Sect, the Purple Mansion Divine Lord who was proficient in the Great Evolution Divine Calculation could not help but applaud.

What he didn't know was that Lu Cheng's cultivation years were too short. Although he had been studying the Five Elements Escape Technique, his progress was not fast enough to surpass the Man-Sword Unity Escape Technique.

Today, however, he was also pushed to his limit. The burden on his body, which was now one with the sword, was already at its limit. Coupled with the enormous pressure, Lu Cheng's mind was clear and his progress was rapid. He managed to exert his full strength.

However, although this method is exquisite, it is a forceful resistance against the crushing influence of the surrounding laws by relying on mental and spiritual power.

Lu Cheng's Five Elements Escape Light moved across the collapsed chessboard, each few steps bringing forth a burst of blood mist that was instantly evaporated by the surrounding tribulation power. This was the hidden injury to his Dao body caused by forcibly activating his divine sense and magic power to resist the "three tribulation tribulation power".

Lu Cheng's muscles, bones, and skin pores were trembling slightly, like a solitary peak about to be crushed by heaven and earth, yet still stubbornly standing tall.

Lu Cheng is a combative man who fights against heaven, earth, and man. The more he fights, the more focused he becomes and the more his potential is unleashed.

Yunya Daoist's hair and beard flew wildly, like an angry reef in a raging storm. His chest heaved rapidly, and the price of forcibly stimulating his potential was gradually becoming apparent. However, his eyes burned with intensity as he locked onto Lu Cheng, a flickering candle in the wind. Blood-red light gathered at his fingertips, and he resolutely pointed at the final calamity eye on the Star Chessboard.

As the finger fell, it seemed to bear the weight of the starry sea, tearing open the skin at the fingertip and staining it with a dark red blood.

"Om-!"

On the star map chessboard, the many precious light chess pieces that had been placed for defense, capture, and elimination all started to burn at the same time, like sacrificial offerings. Countless visible rays of light were forcibly drawn, gathered, and condensed in the sky!

A star-like illusion, its core dark and desolate like an ancient tomb, yet its surface burning with eerie dark blue flames, instantly coalesced above the chessboard, triggering a triple ko.

It was no ordinary flying fire or meteor, but rather a "star of death" that devoured all life, carrying the will of annihilation, locking onto that one point of the Five Elements Escape Light that was struggling to hold on, and falling with the resolute posture of a world's demise!
He sacrificed all his treasures for that desperate, all-or-nothing strike.

If this were in the mortal realm, Daoist Yunya's attack would have been enough to annihilate a continent and severely damage an entire realm.

This is also why the Heavenly Dao in the mortal realm is particularly resistant to the descent of Earthly Immortals; these high-level cultivators are all potential threats to the Heavenly Dao in the mortal realm.

At this moment, time seemed to stretch out infinitely.

The trajectory of the falling star of death tore a black wound in the void that would never heal.

Before the intense, dark blue flames, powerful enough to incinerate the very essence of the primordial spirit, even reached his body, the pure intent of "destruction" and "end" had already forcefully invaded Lu Cheng's sea of ​​consciousness, disrupting everything.

The Xuanhuang Pagoda was tightly bound and locked by the Nine Luminaries Star Chains not far away. The shackles formed by the nine starlight rays were deeply imprinted on the Xuanhuang aura hanging from the pagoda and were being burned away, emitting a mournful cry of unbearable burden, and the pagoda trembled violently. But it was clear that it would be difficult for it to break free before the Starfall Killing Scheme arrived.

Lu Cheng looked up at the enormous shadow that was swallowing the light, his eyes suddenly becoming calm as still water.

The remaining Samadhi True Fire in his body suddenly rose and spread to an unprecedented limit in the Niwan Palace, emanating from the inside out. Five colors of light, purple, blue, red, white, and yellow, flowed around his body, as if to form a cocoon of light.

He did not choose the most ingenious evasion, and even abandoned all the mysterious escape techniques.

Instead, his body straightened upwards, like a divine sword returning to its sheath. The five elements sword intent, thunderous power, and samadhi fire accumulated within his body were all reversed and returned to a single point in his dantian in a mysterious and profound trajectory.

That was not an eruption, but a collapse, a condensation, a perilous struggle to reverse the tide of life before death!

"The Profound Sword!"

The Death Star Shadow crashed solidly into the upright figure, and at the same time, Lu Cheng pointed out with his sword.

An external avatar cannot perfectly execute the Profound Sword Technique because it is divided into two parts: the inner sword and the outer sword. The outer sword cultivates the spirit, while the inner sword cultivates the qi. The outer sword part is fine, but the inner sword part focuses on circulating one's own qi.
With the same magical power, the faster the qi is circulated and the longer the qi channels are, the greater the power will be. In an instant, the sword qi can travel 30,000 miles, which is enough to reverse the flow of a Nascent Soul cultivator and cut through a Void Realm cultivator.

However, if one's meridians are already damaged and one is seriously injured, forcibly wielding the internal sword can easily lead to self-destruction and death.

This body is now an external avatar, so Lu Cheng can't use most of his Samadhi True Fire on him. He can only use a small amount to reach a relatively high level.

At this moment, relying on the Tongxuan Sword is a last resort; one cannot simply offer up one's neck for execution.

Rumble rumble rumble...

Dark blue flames swept across everything like a tsunami from the depths of hell, smashing a huge crater, hundreds of feet in diameter and bottomless, into the indestructible Dou Tian Platform.

Lu Cheng's figure completely "disappeared" the instant of impact, not by teleportation, but by being crushed, torn apart, and vaporized by the absolute destructive power!
The terrifying shockwave, mixed with the deathly aura of stars and the lingering dark flames, formed a visible gray ring that swept outwards.

Most of the cultivators on the viewing platform involuntarily closed their eyes, feeling a chilling, desolate tremor deep within their primordial spirits.

ended?
The crimson on Yunya Daoist's face, which had been flushed from the burning of his Dao foundation, had not yet faded, but after this all-out attack, it turned as pale as gold paper.

The long hair that once enveloped her was rapidly turning white, and wrinkles were creeping onto her skin outside the Taoist robe.

He stared intently at the area covered by thick death energy and energy storms, his fingers still forming a hand seal, trembling slightly, like a solidified jade statue, the blood spilling from the corner of his mouth due to the burning of his Dao foundation particularly glaring.

There was a deathly silence; even breathing was barely audible.

“Dead…Lu Shenjun…” Some cultivators of lower cultivation levels around them murmured to themselves, filled with disbelief, shock, and loss.

At the Shangqing Sect seats, several elders leaned forward slightly, their eyes filled with complex emotions.

From the direction of the Taiqing Sect, Jin Shayu and An Xiaoyue leaned forward, their hands gripping the jade railing tightly, their fingertips almost embedded in the fine gold railing.

But only a few moments had passed!

Right in the center of that deathly storm, a point of pure, vibrant, blazing white light, refined to the extreme, of the Five Elements Thunder Essence shone forth.

Countless materialized lightning energy channels spread out from the void, replacing the proper meridians of the limbs, and transmitting powerful magic power to the limbs and bones of a physical body. Then, Daoist Lu Cheng walked out from among them.

The ultimate secret of the Mysterious Heavenly Divine Skill: Substituting one's own flesh for another's, dying in place of another in the face of calamity.

At this moment, Lu Cheng's Xuan Tian Divine Art Five Elements Thunder had been broken by one level, causing the five elements within his body to become unbalanced and greatly diminishing the power of the Thunder Sword.

However, that was enough.

With a hum, the Xuanhuang Pagoda finally broke free from the suppression of the Nine Luminaries Star Rope and flew back to the top of Lu Cheng Daoist's head, where it once again released ten thousand streams of Xuanhuang Qi.

All eyes eventually turned to Daoist Yunya.

At this moment, Daoist Yunya was in a far more wretched state than Lu Cheng, and his plight was even more heartbreaking.

He stood there, his white hair flying everywhere. His once upright figure, as straight as a pine tree, was now hunched over like a candle flickering in the wind. His face, covered with deep wrinkles, was filled with weariness, confusion, and a belated, indescribable emptiness and defeat.

The backlash from the Shangqing Secret Mantra has already begun. He had staked a thousand years of arduous cultivation and his lifespan, only to see his opponent rise from the brink of death. Naturally, Daoist Yunya felt powerless at this moment.

All his divine sense was "looking" at the Xuanhuang Pagoda, which was suspended above Lu Cheng's head and had a perfect and harmonious aura.

Watching the primordial energy flowing around the tower completely erase the remnants of the Nine Luminaries Star Chain that he had painstakingly arranged and was so proud of, he watched as the tower's primordial energy flowed around it.

Watching the mysterious yellow energy cascading from the pagoda soothe Lu Cheng's depleted magical power like a sweet spring, his aura was slowly but steadily recovering.

And what about yourself?

His spiritual power was exhausted, his meridians were damaged everywhere, and the burning of his lifespan and the damage to his Dao foundation had caused a severe loss of his origin. At this moment, even lifting a finger had become extremely difficult.

Finally, the backlash from the "Three Tribulations and Killing" and the sacrifice of all the essence within the magic treasures was like countless poisonous ants gnawing at one's primordial spirit.

He was now so weak that he could barely maintain his position in the void, let alone activate the Star Chessboard again.

Should the battle of wits continue?
The light in Yunya Daoren's eyes gradually dimmed, until only a sense of understanding and bitterness remained.

He didn't even have the strength to sigh anymore. He simply raised his withered arm, covered in wrinkles and age spots, very slowly and heavily, toward his opponent who stood in the center of the Dou Tian Dharma Platform, his breath weak but tenacious.

Then, his arm fell limply to the ground, and in a hoarse, almost unrecognizable tone, yet clearly conveying every corner of the altar, he uttered two words, dry and utterly exhausted:
"I... am in debt."

Those two words, heavy as stars, struck the hearts of every cultivator watching the battle.

What do these two words mean?
This means that Yunya Daoist, the peerless genius whom the Shangqing Sect had nurtured with countless efforts and placed high hopes on, was still defeated and admitted defeat in the final battle of the Immortal Pool Sword Fighting, the pinnacle of human race, after unleashing an incredibly terrifying desperate attack!
This means that the most intense, unpredictable, and incredible battle since the Immortal Pool Sword Duel began has come to an end!

After a brief silence, the audience erupted in a deafening roar of cheers!

Countless cultivators stood up excitedly, regardless of whether they had any prior connection with the Taiqing Sect, they all cheered for this spectacular battle and for this miraculous resurrection!
"Lord Lu! Daoist Lu! May your Dao flourish!"

"Taiqing, the leader!"

Cheers swept through every corner like a tsunami.

Amidst the deafening roar, in a secluded corner, a young cultivator looked up at the figure on the altar bathed in the primordial energy and the holy glow, and, unable to contain his excitement, tugged at the sleeve of the white-haired, elderly cultivator beside him.
"Master, has this Lord Lu of the Taiqing Sect already achieved the immortal body of Taoism?" The voice was filled with admiration and longing.

The old man's gaze was deep, also fixed on the figure in the center of the altar. He slowly stroked his beard and answered in a deep voice:

"It's not that easy. At most, he has only just begun to understand it. However, this young man is indeed the cultivator with the greatest potential to master this great divine power in the past tens of thousands of years in the Earthly Immortal Realm."

The Floating Cloud Platform, where the Taiqing Sect disciples were located, instantly erupted in excitement, with countless people dancing and gesturing wildly.

Jin Shayu finally couldn't help but raise his arms and roar, while An Xiaoyue's lips curled up slightly, revealing a relieved smile.

On the highest viewing platform of the Nuwa Sacred Realm, a seven-colored ray of light quietly descended, enveloping the entire Doutian Dharma Platform.

The gentle and vast laws of the sacred realm descended, beginning to soothe the wounds in the Dharma Platform space and gently separating the two who were confronting each other.

Under the dual blessing of the Xuanhuang Pagoda and the laws of the Saint Realm, the violent Five Elements Thunder Essence within Lu Cheng's body began to slowly subside.

Amidst the radiant glow of the sacred realm, the figure of a messenger of Nuwa, clad in a cloud-patterned robe embroidered with stars and moon, exuding a powerful and profound aura, with his face hidden behind the holy light, slowly materialized.

Her gaze seemed to pierce through eternity, first lingering for a moment on the Xuanhuang Pagoda, her eyes containing scrutiny and admiration.

Finally, that majestic gaze fell upon Lu Cheng, and its voice, like a decree from heaven and earth, resounded clearly throughout the entire Immortal Pool Sacred Realm:

"The final battle of the Immortal Pool Sword Duel has concluded, and the victor is—Lu Cheng, a true disciple of the Taiqing Sect!"

"From this day forward, Lu City belongs to our human race—the present-day Dao Child!"

boom!
As soon as the decree was issued, auspicious clouds gathered in the heavens, thousands of auspicious wisps descended, and ethereal celestial music drifted from an unknown source.

The spiritual energy of the entire Immortal Pool Sacred Realm seemed to come alive, consciously converging towards the blood-stained Daoist figure in the center of the Fighting Heaven Platform!

That was the favor and coronation of the human race's destiny. The Xuanhuang Pagoda vibrated and hummed joyfully, and the Xuanhuang Pearl at the top of the pagoda shone brightly, greedily absorbing this boundless and vast power of destiny. The pagoda's body shimmered with light, and its inner wonders seemed to have improved again.

Lu Cheng felt an indescribable warm current flowing into his body from all directions, which slightly reduced his physical and mental fatigue.

The true Taoist transformation and ascension techniques, which cultivate seventy-three lives, should be independent of each other and cannot be killed in a single blow.

Lu Cheng's Xuan Tian Gong also had this effect, but the characteristics of the Daoist method ultimately depended on the specific difference in cultivation levels between the two parties. Lu Cheng's cultivation level was inferior to that of Daoist Yunya's Shangqing Daoist method, so under the Three Tribulations, losing one life was not enough, and even his second life was affected to some extent, resulting in physical and mental injuries and a significant loss of magical power.

Without the Xuanhuang Pagoda, if the two sides had continued fighting, the outcome and even death would have remained uncertain, but it was highly likely that Lu Cheng would have been defeated and fled, and Daoist Yunya would have perished.

(End of this chapter)