Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 555 Demon Descends Upon the Nine Heavens, Pressing Down on the Universe; Three Flowers Burn Out, Escaping the Calamity Waves (Seeking Rewards and Subscriptions!)

Dead!

The chilling aura emanating from the Taoist priest seemed to solidify, freezing the desolate wasteland into a crystal-clear graveyard.

The laws governing this region are like silk soaked in venom, twisted and radiating a nauseating, sinister aura.

The Nightmare Demon Ancestor, this giant of the ancient demon realm, is a desecration of the rules of this world in his very existence. He stood there, his gray hair piled high, his Taoist robe old yet spotless, his face ancient and even slightly compassionate, yet deep within his pupils was an emptiness purer than a bottomless black hole—no fluctuations of life, no ripples of emotion, only a suffocating, eternally frozen silence.

This silence is the power of the Mahayana demon!

Lu Cheng felt as if each heartbeat in his chest was like a bronze drum about to burst, heavily pounding against his chest cavity.

It's not fear, but the suffocating sense of oppression that living beings feel when facing a destructive existence in a higher dimension, stemming from their very life instincts!
The passage of time seemed to lose its meaning before the Nightmare Demon Ancestor; his existence seemed to have become a part of the laws of this distorted space.

Lu Cheng understood that if this silence continued, his Dao heart would be eroded by the invisible demonic intent, and he would collapse before the battle even began.

Lu Cheng Daoist opened his mouth and spat out, clang!
It seemed as if there was nothing there, yet a clear and melodious sword cry echoed from the void.

When masters clash, one's own momentum diminishes as time goes on in front of the opponent.

The Great Ascension Demon Ancestor before him was two major realms higher than him. If he didn't make the first move, he might not have a chance to make a move at all if the time went on.

"What a flying sword! What excellent swordsmanship!!"

Upon merely seeing the Five Elements Heavenly Escape Flying Sword, the Nightmare Demon Ancestor exclaimed in praise.

The sword enters the five elements, leaving no shadow in heaven and earth; the celestial sword flies and spins, its killing intent is paramount!

With his level of understanding, he could naturally see the mystery within, and thus praised it. However, when he spoke, it distorted the entire world. Lu Cheng's Five Elements Flying Sword was faster than lightning, and it was now stabbing towards him, while the Nightmare Demon Ancestor stood there slowly praising him.

The contrast between the fast and slow speeds is extreme, creating a distorted and fragmented effect.

However, it was a higher-dimensional demonic law that was suppressing Lu Cheng's sword intent, sword momentum, sword speed, and sword power.

If I were to define all the physical laws governing this world, who could defeat me?

The Great Dao of Heaven and Earth is objective; righteous cultivators study, understand, comprehend, and integrate it into their own cultivation system.

Demonic cultivators defy and tamper with the will of Heaven, substituting their own will for the will of Heaven, and their own hearts for the will of Heaven, thus corrupting the world with their demonic influence.

It's not a matter of which side is superior; it simply depends on the individual's level of cultivation.

"Roar--!"

The sound did not originate from the throat, but from the depths of the void, and it exploded fiercely!

In an instant, countless rays of light burst forth in the void! The profound sword intent of the "Male and Female Dragon Tiger Demon Refining Sword Scripture" was completely ignited under the pressure of reaching its limit!

Life and death are the keys to unlocking the treasures of Taoism, and also the best teachers for sword cultivators!

Man and sword become one!
Two natal flying swords, one crimson like a dragon, roaring with the majesty of an ancient fiery dragon; the other platinum like a tiger, howling with the killing aura of Geng metal!
They are no longer just flying swords and magical artifacts, but rather an extension of Lu Cheng's swordsmanship and will.

The sword light surged, transforming into two intertwined and fused, incomparably blazing suns that completely engulfed Lu Cheng's figure.

At this moment, he was the sword, and the sword was the man. The entire void seemed to be thrown into a furnace, and the unparalleled demon-refining sword intent condensed into a substantial aura, surging and surging, forming a huge, seemingly slow but actually rapidly rotating vortex of sword energy around it.

In that instant, even the Demon Ancestor of Nightmare could not instantly determine the true location of Daoist Lu Cheng.

At the same time, the clash between the dragon and the tiger, this incongruous and primal-like severe repulsion, caused the sword energies of the red dragon and white tiger to unleash unimaginable killing power the moment they met!
The two sword intents and sword energies, originating from the extreme realm, did not annihilate each other. Instead, they drew upon each other's strengths to generate, accumulate, and infinitely amplify each other in the intense interaction!

In an instant, the sword light bursting out from the void became extremely dazzling, its brilliance so intense that it made the thunder in the sky pale in comparison, and even the blazing sun seemed to dim!

The clash and turmoil of the two extreme forces violently triggered the most primordial Yin and Yang energies, stirring up a primordial Qi storm in the void, like the beginning of chaos!

The sword energy surged layer by layer, easily surpassing the limit of returning to the void in an instant, and reaching a power level close to the late stage of the fusion realm at an extremely fast speed!
Using techniques to express the Dao, the power of his sword energy is more than ten or even dozens of times greater than Lu Cheng's own magical power. It is like reaching the highest heavens, and with the passage of time, it continues to climb towards an even more terrifying and unpredictable realm!
"Good swordsmanship!"

The Nightmare Demon Ancestor praised again, "Since you can't tell the difference, then don't try to. What can you do if you use your accumulated cultivation over ten thousand years to hurt someone?"

He doesn't use any magical artifacts, or rather, his physical body is already at its limit when he descends to this world, so it's impossible for him to bring his natal magical artifact with him.

Instead, he changed his hand gestures and unleashed a magical spell.

Just like before, the two sides seemed to be in two different worlds. On Lu Cheng's side, the sword energy of his twin swords thundered, and the sword light was so fast that it was almost burning. On the other hand, the Nightmare Demon Ancestor was unhurried and made to handle things with ease.

However, deep within the void, a glimmer of annihilation, beyond mortal comprehension, suddenly bloomed! The cloud-like inscriptions crumbled, the spiritual veins wept, and the ocean boiled and churned!

A terrifying shockwave, originating from the collapse of the laws of heaven and earth, swept out. Its power far exceeded the scope of what ordinary people could perceive. Only the primordial spirit could sense its vastness—it was the structure of heaven and earth being forcibly torn apart!

But that tiny, insignificant glimmer of light instantly devoured everything and surged rapidly!
In an instant, it transformed into an immeasurable sphere of light, hundreds of feet long and as blazing as a sun falling into dust! Within the sphere of light, yin and yang were reversed, and purity and turbidity were indistinguishable. It contained a destructive aura capable of incinerating stars and a demonic intent capable of annihilating all laws, and then it burst open with a deafening roar!

The raging true flames, mixed with the dark and malevolent energy and the scarlet blood light, condensed into a filthy demonic lotus that stretched from the sky to the earth. Its petals twisted and stretched, reaching straight into the heavens! Its appearance was ferocious and its intent was filthy. It actually smashed through the barrier of the sky, creating a huge hole that stretched for thousands of miles!
In an instant, the combined sword strike of Lu Cheng Dao Ren's Dragon and Tiger Swords was burned through, evaporated, and completely dissipated!
Since there's no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation, then let's split the man and the sword!
Just as the dazzling, unified light was about to burn through the void, the light and shadow suddenly split in two!
Two figures, identical in appearance, exuding an aura as deep as the abyss! The figure on the left was enveloped in crimson dragon sword energy, like a god descending to earth, wielding the destructive flames; the figure on the right was covered in platinum sword aura, its fierce energy tearing through the sky like a demon breaking through an array!
This is not a clone illusion, but a manifestation of the "Male and Female Dragon and Tiger Demon Refining Sword Scripture" cultivated to an extremely high level. Using one's own Dao foundation as a furnace and the true energy of the dragon and tiger as a guide, two sword-shaped avatars with 90% of the original body's combat power were temporarily forged!
Furthermore, Lu Cheng, through the profound transformation between man and sword merging and man and sword separating, avoided the strongest edge of the Nightmare Demon Ancestor's demonic attack.

Two figures, each wielding a sword, pointed their blades at the unfathomable emptiness emanating from the Nightmare Demon Ancestor.

Faced with Lu Cheng Dao Ren unleashing his full potential and displaying "Man and Sword Divided," two sword forms containing ninety percent of his original combat power, accompanied by the dragon-tiger platinum sword energy that tore through the void, fiercely attacked from both sides. Yet, the Heart Nightmare Demon Ancestor's unfathomable, empty eyes remained completely undisturbed.

"Tao is the foundation, dragon and tiger are the guide... use techniques to perform Tao, and Dharma forms are divided?" The Nightmare Demon Ancestor's voice was deep and calm, as if he had seen through and understood all of Lu Cheng's counterattacks and sword intents, as if he could see through everything.

"Though the furnace fire burns fiercely, it cannot forge true gold; though the Dao's form is wondrous, it cannot withstand its profound depths..."

As the Nightmare Demon Ancestor uttered these words, which sounded like a great maxim, his pale, fleshless hand seemed to casually brush against the blazing fire figure on his left, which was entwined with the crimson dragon sword energy.

This flick was extremely gentle, like brushing away non-existent dust from a Taoist robe.

However, the instant his fingertips brushed across the surface, "Buzz—!!" An indescribable sense of "negation" originating from a higher-dimensional law descended!
The void on the left, which had been scorched and distorted by the Crimson Dragon Sword Qi, suddenly lost all its color and energy!

The crimson dragon sword energy, which roared and burned everything just a moment ago, vanished silently like a mirage the next instant.

The violent true energy, the undying sword intent, and even the Dharma body formed by Lu Cheng's Dao foundation that constituted that crimson sword image... were as if thrown into an abyss of absolute annihilation, disintegrating inch by inch, melting away like ice and snow!
The entire process was silent, without any earth-shattering collisions or dazzling explosions. It was as if that space, along with everything within it, had been forcibly "erased" from the mortal world by some kind of law!

As the crimson sword vanished, the very collapse of its existence triggered an illogical chain reaction!

The fierce sword image on the right, covered in platinum sword energy and whistling through the air, suddenly froze its momentum!
It was not blocked by external forces, but rather like ink marks eager to emerge on a canvas, whose very existence was negated by the writer's single stroke!
The sharp edge of the Platinum Sword's strike was silently affected by the "law ripples" generated by the annihilation on the left, and instantly... it became ethereal!
The platinum sword figure maintained its sword-wielding and slashing posture, its fierce and malevolent aura growing even stronger. However, its "connection" with this real world seemed to have been forcibly "severed" by some invisible force!

It was as if it had been nailed into a piece of solidified amber, and no matter how its sword light flashed or how its sword energy roared, it could no longer shake the three-foot area around it. The space had become an absolutely smooth, deadly barrier that it could not use to gain any leverage!
"Yin and Yang are two polarities, and when separated, they are easily broken..." As soon as he finished speaking, the Heart Nightmare Demon Ancestor's fingertips, which had been brushing across his left side, pressed down almost imperceptibly.

Click——!
A crisp, clear sound, like the shattering of a glass mirror, did not resonate in the physical world, but was directly imprinted on the very fabric of the laws of heaven and earth.

The platinum sword image, which was imprisoned within the invisible barrier of laws, along with all the fierce Geng metal sword energy and the sword aura that cut through illusions that it unleashed, shattered in an instant!

Likewise, silently, they transformed into billions of pale specks of light that quickly dimmed and were eventually utterly annihilated in absolute stillness.

Lu Cheng Daoist's figure appeared out of thin air, his body trembled violently, and a mouthful of blood and essence gushed out uncontrollably from his throat!

Two natal flying swords appeared simultaneously on his left and right, emitting a piercing wail, and fine, spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the sword blades.

The realm of "Man and Sword Separation" was brutally broken, not only was the sword image annihilated, but the flying sword it carried also suffered a backlash that nearly collapsed!
The Nightmare Demon Ancestor slowly withdrew his palm, and his unfathomable, empty gaze returned to Lu Cheng's true form, devoid of sorrow or joy, only indifference.

"Alright, you've made enough trouble, it's time for you to die!"

"Stop pretending! If you could really kill me with a flick of your wrist, why would you be wasting your breath talking to me like this!"

The flying sword severely injured Lu Cheng, so he formed a sword with his five fingers. Even when facing the Great Ascension Demon Ancestor, who was two realms above him and had cultivated for countless more years, his sword heart and sword intent remained undefeated and invincible.

The Sword Heart Courage Technique: No matter who I face, I will use the sword in my hand and the energy in my heart to cut through everything and prove my eternal freedom!
Faced with this seemingly invincible enemy, Lu Cheng Dao Ren finally revealed his most basic and deepest nature.

He channeled his sword intent and sword energy to its fullest extent, causing a dazzling light to emanate from his body!

On either side of Daoist Lu Cheng, the two heavily damaged flying swords also began to radiate brilliant light from their core, spreading across their blades.

Take the righteous path directly, while inner demons are ever-present.

Righteous cultivators constantly refine their essence, energy, and spirit, causing them to gather, disperse, change, and merge into one, growing stronger with each practice, until finally achieving a qualitative transformation and ascending to the heavens.

Demonic cultivators cleverly use various techniques to create countless illusions. If a cultivator gets caught up in them, they will find them extremely dangerous, but if they see through them, their power will be greatly reduced.

Human Sword God!
On the left and right, the two earth-shaking sword images overlapped in a way that transcended the laws of space as they solidified again!

Light and shadow intertwined, reality and illusion shifted. In a daze, it was not two figures, nor three Lu Cheng, but only one "god" existing between the tangible and the intangible, spirit and matter, seemingly condensed from billions of pure sword intents!
This "Sword God" is not a physical entity, but rather the ultimate form of swordsmanship that Lu Cheng Dao Ren can wield at this moment—he transcends the constraints of "humanity," abandons the vessel of "sword," and transforms into a wisp of sword essence that embodies the supreme will to refine demons and destroy evil!

Ride the sword with the wind to eliminate demons between heaven and earth!
The world lost its color, except for a beam of eternal sword light that seemed to illuminate the darkness of ages past!

"The Profound Sword, vanquishing demons!"

Three realms united, a single sword sweeps across the sky!
At this moment, it was as if the heavens and earth, time and space, had been severed by this ultimate sword strike!
Lu Cheng had no confidence at all whether he could defeat his opponent with this Tongxuan Sword strike, because the outer sword was not yet finished calculating. But if he did not strike now, he would never have another chance.

The sword light didn't just fall in one direction, but spread across the sky, forming its own domain!
The crimson dragon roared, the white tiger devoured souls, and the True Qi of Demon Refining transformed into chains of law that entwined it. Every inch of space was crushed and reshaped by the incomparably domineering sword intent! Before the sword even arrived, the void around the Nightmare Demon Ancestor had already collapsed inch by inch, groaning under unbearable pressure: You have distorted the laws of this world, so I will destroy you and then reshape you, refining earth, water, fire, and wind, restoring the world to its pure state.

The Profound Sword, vanquishing demons!

This sword strike embodies Lu Cheng's lifelong sword cultivation, representing his unprecedented peak performance and ultimate burst, enough to kill an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator, and threatening a Mahayana cultivator with a single strike!
It was a desperate counterattack he launched while under the aura of the Nightmare Demon Ancestor, squeezing out all the potential of his body and mind!

In the Nightmare Demon Ancestor's empty eyes, which were like an ancient, dark pool, a barely perceptible ripple finally appeared.

"Three realms united... Sword God enters the void? At your level, that's rather... unique." His voice was deep and calm, each word like a stream of air squeezed out from a coffin that had decayed for billions of years. Carrying the heavy dust of time and the weight of laws, it easily pierced through the roars of dragons and tigers and the sound of sword energy tearing through the air.

Faced with that ultimate sword strike that could cleave stars and incinerate all demons, the Nightmare Demon Ancestor finally took a serious look and raised his pale, bloodless right hand.

His fingers were long and slender, his nails were neatly trimmed, and what flowed beneath his skin was not the undulation of flesh and tendons, but a solidified abyss that was almost liquid, viscous as ink!

Om-!
With a single palm strike, the void in front of his palm, which was on the verge of collapse due to the pressure of Lu Cheng's ultimate sword domain, suddenly turned into a gelatinous swamp!
Time, space, light, and even the raging Dragon-Tiger Sword Qi and the condensed Demon-Refining True Intent were all frozen by an incomprehensible force under his palm's imaginary press!
It wasn't that it was blocked, but rather that it was "prohibited" by a higher-dimensional law!
Those countless dazzling and sharp sword lights, capable of incinerating everything, stopped almost at a standstill just three feet from the palm of the Nightmare Demon Ancestor, like shooting stars stuck in a swamp.

One moment the energy storm was devastating and tearing apart the laws of nature, the next it had become a strangely solidified sculpture. The less than two-inch distance between the sword tip and the demonic hand seemed to have become an insurmountable, eternal chasm!

"God has form, but the mind is hard to empty. Your God... is too restless."

The Nightmare Demon Ancestor's lips moved, and with this whisper, his right palm, which was pressed against the solidified barrier of the void, gently clenched!
Click!

A clear sound of shattering echoed throughout the world!

That wasn't the sound of matter shattering, but rather the entire Sword God Domain and countless sword intents solidified before the Nightmare Demon Ancestor's palm... shattered in response! Like a glass mirror being struck by a giant hammer, it cracked inch by inch, instantly becoming covered with spiderweb-like black fissures!
"puff--!"

Lu Cheng, who had completely merged with the essence of swordsmanship, was struck as if by a massive hammer blow! His entire body trembled violently! His "Sword God" form, which had been condensed with essence, energy, and spirit, instantly disintegrated!
The two natal flying swords, Crimson Dragon and White Tiger, shot back with mournful cries, their sword light dimmed like a candle flickering in the wind, and their blades were covered with extremely deep cracks.

Lu Cheng immediately withdrew his twin swords, using his own physical body to absorb the damage. His physical body became even more uncontrollable, staggering and falling, his face as pale as paper.

Just... just one palm strike!
Even though he knew it was a demonic illusion, he couldn't see through it at all. His understanding and mastery of the laws of heaven and earth at the Mahayana realm was something he couldn't compare to at his current level.

The Nightmare Demon Ancestor's gaze swept over the staggering and disheveled Lu Cheng, remaining calm and unmoved: "His sword intent is acceptable, his foundation is acceptable. It's a pity... his path is not pure."

"Mysterious Heavenly Transformation, Golden Roc Soars Through the Sky!"

Lu Cheng remained steadfast in his principles, completely ignoring any nonsense the other party might spout. Against a demonic cultivator of the other party's level, pondering even a single word from him could be dangerous.

Therefore, he forcibly suppressed the churning meridians and boiling magical power within his body, and instantly activated the thirty-six transformations of the Mysterious Heaven Divine Art to their limit!
The Taoist priest burst forth with golden light, his body suddenly rising taller, and an extremely domineering and time-tearing sharp aura originating from the ancient Golden-Winged Roc erupted!

"Wow—!"

A cry that could pierce through gold and split rocks tore through the solidified space. The golden-winged roc, with its unparalleled speed, traversed the world. With a single flap of its wings, it covered ninety thousand miles!

Moreover, the li (里) in ancient Taoist classics is not the same unit of measurement as the li in modern times.

Lu Cheng's figure, which combined the essence of divine skills with the true meaning of the Golden-Winged Roc, seemed to have truly transformed into a golden divine bird that traversed the chaos!

Two wings flap across the sky!
Boom!

The void was forcibly cleaved open like solid glass! Wherever the golden light passed, a bottomless, pitch-black ravine was plowed into space, which could not be healed for a long time!
Faced with this earth-shattering attack that was close to exceeding the limits of perception and condensed all of Lu Cheng's Dao Heart Techniques, the Nightmare Demon Ancestor's empty eyes finally changed and fixed on the golden light that tore through the sky and was unstoppable.

"Extreme speed? The Golden-Winged Roc's transformation..."

"...Unfortunately, it only has the form, but can never capture the spirit."

This time, he didn't even raise his hand. The Nightmare Demon Ancestor's feet, shrouded in his Daoist robe, gently stepped forward!
Just one step!
Boom!
This step did not land on the physical ground, but rather on a certain node in the operation of this void.

The entire world seemed to have been stomped hard by an invisible giant foot.

Lu Cheng's Golden Roc form, with its domineering and void-tearing charge, suddenly froze. Its extreme speed was instantly stripped away. He felt as if he had crashed head-on into an invisible wall woven from countless laws. A tremendous force of recoil surged forth, and the divine light on the Golden Roc's body crumbled inch by inch! His bones and muscles exploded! The divine and demonic bone patterns dimmed!
"Pfft—!" Another mouthful of even darker red, thick blood spurted out!

The Golden Roc Dharma Image, like a golden kite with a broken string, was directly thrown away by an overwhelming force and crashed into the middle of a broken mountain, stirring up clouds of dust and rubble.

After struggling for a long time, he barely managed to stop himself. His Dharma form dissipated, revealing Lu Cheng's blood-stained and tattered Taoist robe body once again.

The Nightmare Demon Ancestor seemed to have lost interest in continuing to observe, and raised his hand to press down with a palm.

Lu Cheng's body, along with the space he was in, was silently swallowed, covered, and decomposed by a desolate darkness!
"Bang!" It wasn't a loud noise, but a dull, almost annihilating sound.

On the cliff face of the rift valley, only a huge, deep pit with a human-shaped outline remained, its edges smooth as a mirror, as if a small piece had been erased by the brush of heaven and earth. There was nothing left inside the pit.

No flesh or blood, no remnant soul, not even a trace of lingering aura; it was so clean it was despairing.

Absolute silence reigned over this rift valley.

The Nightmare Demon Ancestor stood with his hands behind his back in the void, his robes fluttering, like an immortal who had just brushed away a speck of dust, his gaze sweeping indifferently over the human-shaped pit.

Having reached the state of returning to emptiness, it is only natural that if one were to directly withstand his palm strike of annihilation, both body and soul would be destroyed.

However, in that instant when absolute silence lasted for less than ten breaths—

At the bottom edge of the deep pit, in the shadow of a seemingly ordinary but extremely special rock, a strange fluctuation, so faint as to be almost imperceptible, quietly emerged.

Immediately afterwards, specks of light, like countless tiny sparks, gathered in the deep pit! This wasn't a reshaping of flesh and blood, but a reconstruction of the Dao body from the level of laws, from the very root of the divine and demonic imprint.
Starlight intertwines, veins reappear, and the physical body begins to take shape!

For example, when Lu Cheng cultivated the Five Elements Qi, he absorbed the bloodline of the Sun-Devouring Divine Ape. The Sun-Devouring Divine Ape was an Earth-element True Spirit, so even though Lu Cheng was killed and had no blood left, he could still reshape his physical body through the surrounding earth's elemental energy.

If one is killed in the air, one's physical body can be reshaped by the radiance of the stars and moon and the fire of heaven and earth. If this cannot be achieved, the Taoist Transformation and Ascension Technique would not be the number one protective divine skill of the Taoist sect!

With a flash of five-colored light, Lu Cheng Daoist, whose physical body was completely intact, suddenly appeared in the deep pit!

His face was as pale as paper, but his eyes were incredibly bright. His breath rose from nothing to something, then rapidly increased from weakness, and soon he returned to his peak, his life force burning fiercely!

"Huh?" The Nightmare Demon Ancestor, who was about to leave, paused, his brows furrowing for the first time. He slowly turned around, a hint of seriousness and an even stronger desire for investigation appearing on his handsome face.

"A method to reverse the cycle of life and death? A Taoist art of immortality? That's interesting. No wonder you dared to make a move. You, young man, certainly have quite a few secrets."

"Become my disciple. With your talent, you will inherit my legacy. When I ascend to the upper realm, you will become the ancestor of my Six Extremes Demonic Sect. What do you say?"

Lu Cheng focused on regulating his internal energy, completely ignoring what the other person was saying.

He merely wanted me to hand over the secrets of Taoist immortality cultivation. My senior uncle Xuanzhenzi also had this intention, but reputable sects still value their reputation. My senior uncle Xuanzhenzi only wanted me to accept a true disciple in the sect and pass on this lineage. His thoughts were for the sake of the sect's lineage.

Righteous cultivators are self-disciplined and self-controlled, especially those who have cultivated to the level of Xuanzhenzi, who possess even stronger self-control. They focus on cultivating their own Daoist arts and do not covet the powerful inheritances of other schools to distract themselves.

Unlike the demon in front of him, who appeared calm, Lu Cheng could almost see the uncontrollable drooling beneath that calm facade.

"Mahayana demonic cultivator?! Let's see how much of your life force I can burn by sacrificing my three flowers on the top of my head!" After slightly adjusting his magical power, Daoist Lu Cheng let out a long roar that shook the sky and conveyed a tragic aura of certain death!

At the same time, a dazzling light suddenly shone from the void above his head!
A "Flower of Essence" condensing the five elements' rotation, celestial mists and illusions, breaking through restrictions as if nothing exists (solidified Five Elements Bewitching Immortal Steps)! A "Flower of Qi" flowing with brilliant golden flames, transforming into rainbows for thousands of miles, touching fragments of time (solidified Golden Crow Rainbow Transformation Technique)! A "Flower of God" adorned with the shadow of a golden-winged roc, possessing unparalleled sharpness, tearing through the universe at incredible speed (solidified Golden-Winged Roc Escape Technique)!
The three dazzling Dao flowers were the manifestation of his supreme innate divine power, which he had painstakingly cultivated and refined over 1,600 years in the Void Returning Realm!
And at that moment, "Explode!"

Blood welled up in Lu Cheng's eyes, and he slammed his hands together in a gesture of near self-destruction!
"Buzzing—Booming!"

The three Dao flowers burst forth with unprecedentedly dazzling brilliance, instantly disintegrating. Endless streams of light and fragments of Dao principles were forcibly blended and ignited by an even more terrifying force!
He frantically forced out all the seeds of Samadhi True Fire, using them as the most violent catalyst, and threw them into the torrent of the forcibly fused Three Flowers Dao Foundation!

In an instant, an indescribable storm of magical power, intertwined with gold, red, and blue, exploded violently from Lu City as its center!

Such a display of power caused even the seemingly incredibly powerful Demon Ancestor of the Silent Abyss to pause and become slightly wary.

The opponent was clearly fighting for their lives; the ferocity of their attack was unprecedented, even compared to what had just occurred.

However, this was not actually an attack, but rather the ultimate escape technique of Lu Cheng Dao Ren, which forcibly broke through the law seal at the cost of burning his Three Flowers Foundation!
This storm of fire feathers contains the true meaning of the supreme escape technique, which combines the interaction of the five elements, the fragments of time, and extreme speed and sharpness. It is also ignited by the Samadhi True Fire, and the speed and power it bursts out in an instant are infinitely close to "one"!
What is "One"? It is the escape from one! The Great Dao is fifty, the Heavenly Dao is forty-nine, and man escapes to one! This is the only chance to transcend predetermined fate!
The speed and power of this insane escape technique, which burned away the foundation of one's cultivation and destroyed one's own Great Wall, far exceeded the expectations of the Nightmare Demon Ancestor!
His impending unleashed annihilation finger force was instantly disrupted by the terrifying shockwave and law distortion created by the sudden explosion of the firestorm!
At the center of the firestorm, Lu Cheng's figure became blurred in the extreme light, as if he had transformed into a twisted stream of light that merged the phantoms of the Golden Crow, the Peacock, and the Roc, while burning with chaotic fire that could incinerate everything!

This stream of light ignored the multiple blockades of the space ahead. The invisible wall of Dao principles formed by the power of annihilation, under the supreme impact of the burning of the source by the "Four-Nine Escape Technique", was like glass melted by extreme heat, silently cracking open a gap that only allowed a "point" to pass through!
"Shh-!"

That stream of light, carrying Lu Cheng's life essence and all his hopes, narrowly escaped through the fleeting gap in the law, emerging at an incredible speed that transcended the understanding of time and space—or rather, it temporarily broke free from the constraints of the current space—transforming into a rainbow!

All that remained was a terrifying energy vortex, a distorted and burned void imprint, and specks of light that drifted like embers and golden feathers.

A hint of surprise finally flashed in the eyes of the Nightmare Demon Ancestor, which then turned into a cold rage of being offended by an ant!
He flicked his finger, and a dark light condensed from the source of annihilation arrived first, surpassing the speed limit of ordinary escape light, and chased after Lu Cheng's faint spatial trajectory when he fled!

However, this magical power, which instantly traversed millions of miles, ultimately failed to catch up.

The Four-Nine Escape Technique not only allows for incredibly fast escape, almost traversing two major realms to escape, but it also temporarily eliminates the ability to perform calculations, thus cutting off the possibility of the Nightmare Demon Ancestor tracking it.

In this battle, a spatial rift appeared in the Eastern Heavenly Ruins Secret Realm, connecting to the Ancient Demon Plane, which attracted a horde of demons to the east. Lu Cheng Daoist, a true disciple of the Taiqing Sect, and Huo Ling Fairy, a true disciple of the Yuqing Sect, joined forces to rescue Master Ziyang.

While being pursued by the Nightmare Demon Ancestor, Lu Cheng merged his three flowers and three great escape techniques, unleashing the Four-Nine Escape Technique, a life-saving trump card that surpassed even the Thirty-Six Transformations. He instantly fled, escaping the pursuit and successfully returning to the Taiqing Sect. However, he also had his three flowers on top of his head severed, and his cultivation level was greatly reduced, making it difficult to recover to its former state for several hundred years.

The three religions of Taiqing, Yuqing, and Shangqing jointly issued a message to the Immortal Realm, and another calamity broke out between heaven and earth.

(End of this chapter)