The True Lord has arrived

Chapter 229 'Appointment' with Chi You

Inside the underground palace, the golden patterns on the bronze array lit up in layers. The drop of Chi You's precious blood had been specially tempered, making its power purer. It contained no true Chi You's will, only pure anger, hatred, and power.

The "Destroying All Businesses and Devouring Heaven Technique" is operating at full power.

This drop of Chi You's essence blood emitted a powerful and terrifying energy fluctuation, activating the entire formation. Zhou Yan's palm was as if it were stuck to the ethereal light emanating from the formation, unable to move at all.

"What's this?!!"

The "Destroying All Businesses and Devouring Heaven Technique" progressed rapidly, and the first level was almost immediately advanced from the initial stage of cultivation to the proficient level. And this was only after just touching the blood light emanating from this drop of essence blood.

Its purity is astonishing!
No wonder An Lushan was willing to fake his death to refine this treasure.

However, the bronze array that An Lushan set up was to help him use this drop of the Lord of War's essence blood. Now that this drop of essence blood has been absorbed by Zhou Yan, the surrounding heaven and earth energy has surged into the array like water bursting its banks, and the crimson glow has risen steadily, with the strange phenomenon of wind and clouds turning upside down.

"Oh no, kid!"

Emperor Kaiming's expression changed slightly: "You absorbed the essence of the Lord of War too quickly. The difference between this bronze array and the previous one is even greater than expected. That fat man is probably about to find out and come back."

"What's wrong with your method?!"

Too fast.

This is because Zhou Yan's method of enlightenment was aided by the "Warlord's World-Suppressing Diagram," which was personally tailored for him by Nuwa.

Zhou Yan said, "Shut up."

"okay."

Enlightened people should shut up.

Zhou Yan spread his five fingers, and wisps of scarlet blood energy wrapped around his palms and fingers. This represented Chi You's achievements in his life of conquest and subjugation, as well as the blood energy accumulated by Chi You when he swept across the land, eliminated many ferocious beasts, and protected the people.

This bronze array was formed from the blood debts and sins that An Lushan had drawn upon by stirring up endless war and igniting the An Lushan Rebellion. The two forces clashed with each other and were then completely drawn into the body of Zhou Yan's avatar.

Zhou Yan sensed that the blood demons wanted to modify his physical body.

However, this physical body was essentially an incarnation of a single thought, so the blood demon was merely contained within it. Zhou Yan looked at the array that shimmered with golden light, fine beads of cold sweat appearing on his forehead, and only one thought echoed repeatedly in his mind:
"Faster, faster..."

Meanwhile, on the mountain battlefield, An Lushan let out a roar like a wild boar, abandoned the Golden Heavenly King, and flew directly towards his underground palace.

How could the Golden Heavenly King let him escape? He followed up with his spear, each move aimed at killing. Behind him, a golden spear, like a mountain, was about to pin An Lushan down. But then he noticed that An Lushan's eyes were bloodshot, clearly indicating that he had gone mad.

"Go!"

boom! ! !
The Gengjin Dharma Form unfolded to its fullest extent, with both hands gripping a massive spear that resembled a convergence of starlight. It fiercely pierced through the soaring An Lushan, driving it deep into the earth and creating waves of energy.

A huge chasm was torn open in the earth.

The earth is shaking and the mountains are shaking.

With a sweep of his sleeve, the Golden Heavenly King brushed away the smoke and dust, covered his mouth and nose, and saw that An Lushan had already transformed into countless insects and scattered away. It turned out that the insect molting technique was originally meant to conceal his true form, so he could no longer care about it.

The Golden King picked up a dead insect and looked at the cicada-like creature on it.

"...The Reclining Buddha Temple, the Golden Cicada's Molt, the Weaver Girl."

He crushed the worm, thinking, "An Lushan is so crazy, it's obvious that his treasure was hidden in his cave and has been snatched up by someone else. Rather than staying here and fighting with this fat pig, only to benefit someone else, I might as well let this fat man go back first."

"He made a mistake in his haste, and I followed behind him."

"Humph."

"Whoever it is, dares to use me as a pawn, intending to take me all?"

"I will remember this debt!"

The Golden Heavenly King snorted coldly, his Dharma form dispersed, transforming into pure Geng Metal Primordial Qi, which flew into his body. Seeing the surrounding mountains and rivers in ruins, he didn't care and chased after An Lushan.

…………

An Lushan chased after the crimson glow and arrived at the cave. He transformed into his true form and flew toward the entrance to his underground palace. But as soon as he arrived, he saw a stream of light change, the formation opened, and the sound of swords being drawn was chilling.

"Stop!"

The battle-formed demon soldiers, aided by the power of the formation, unleashed attacks imbued with a dense aura of death, reaching the fourth rank. Even An Lushan could not ignore them, dodging them instantly and transforming into his true form, roaring:

Are you all blind?! It's me!

"Activate the formation immediately!" The deputy general, Zhan Binggui, said indifferently, "...The military governor ordered that no one is allowed to activate the formation when he breaks through, not even himself."

An Lushan exclaimed, "What!?"

An arrow came straight for his face, but An Lushan shattered it with his inner energy. Seeing his deputy lower his bow, An Lushan felt no anger, but rather a sense of absurdity.

The lieutenant-level soldier Gui Dao shouted, "Form ranks!"

"Slay this monster who dares to impersonate the military governor!"

His loyalty was commendable, but this commendable loyalty caused An Lushan's chest to heave violently, and he was almost so angry that he vomited blood on the spot. Just then, accompanied by the flowing light of Geng metal primordial energy, the Golden Heavenly King also appeared here.

Raising his eyebrows, King Jin seemed puzzled.

The lieutenant had already seen him and said, "As expected, it's you!"

The lieutenant pointed his weapon at An Lushan and said coldly, "I was wondering why there was a second military governor. This Great Emperor of the Western Mountain is here. I'm afraid it wasn't something you two planned together!"

"I plan to pretend that one of them is the Great Emperor of the Western Mountain and the other is the Military Governor."

"Fight a battle, then deliberately infiltrate the area and seize the governor's treasure!"

"Such a crude plan cannot possibly fool us!"

"idiot!"

An Lushan almost vomited blood. He finally couldn't hold back any longer and suddenly attacked. His spear transformed into a blood-red axe, which slammed heavily into the lieutenant. This sudden, brutal attack severed the lieutenant's head.

"roll!!!"

The deputy-general-level warrior ghost was killed, but the other warrior ghosts showed no fear. They gripped their weapons, took a half-step forward, and spoke in low, chilling voices:

"【Yeluo River】will never betray the Jiedushi."

"Formation!"

The warrior ghosts, their eyes glowing with green flames, formed an array to intercept him. An Lushan was furious, but he was too cautious. When this array was fully activated, even a fourth-rank cultivator could be blocked for a period of time.

He had no idea that there was another version of himself.
Who turned into me? But all transformation techniques in this world have weaknesses. This formation can reveal one's true form, so how could there be a transformation technique? Even the mirror magic treasure, which is specifically designed to counter transformation techniques, was useless!

Jin Tianwang sneered, and when An Lushan charged into the formation, he transformed into a golden light and bypassed him from the side, intending to break through the formation and enter directly himself. An Lushan was furious, and the long spear in his hand, carrying an extremely rich blood color, attacked him.

Having suffered from the bloodthirsty evil before, the Golden Heavenly King dared not be careless and raised his hand to defend.

This actually confirmed the 'guess' of the demon general who had just fought. The protective formation directly targeted both figures, enveloping them and suppressing them with all its might. For a moment, An Lushan, Yeluhe's battle formation, and Jin Tianwang were locked in a fierce battle.

The ground shook violently, and vegetation was torn apart. An Lushan raised his hand, grabbed the head of a war ghost soldier, and lifted him up. His spear, Blood Fiend, clashed with Golden Heavenly King's, but at that moment, a dense ripple suddenly appeared.

The crimson glow of the sky grew even more intense.

Then a meal.

Then, like a whale sucking in water, it rapidly collapsed and merged inwards!
An Lushan opened his eyes wide and let out a bloodcurdling scream:

"no no!!!"

"My treasure, my treasure!"

Just one step away, yet seemingly an insurmountable distance, that unknown person was practically right under An Lushan's nose, under his watchful gaze.

He calmly absorbed and refined the precious blood of Chi You.

An Lushan could only howl, but he was powerless to do anything about it.

The pain made him almost want to smash his head against a wall and die.

Meanwhile, deep within the underground palace, Zhou Yan witnessed a change in his surroundings the instant the precious blood completely merged into his body. He saw and felt everything.

It was no longer an underground palace, there was no enlightenment, no bronze divine tree, and no great sun golden crow.

On a blood-soaked battlefield, weapons and spears lay scattered about. On a high platform piled high with corpses, a man covered in blood stood, gripping a battle axe in both hands. Strands of his hair hung down over his naked upper body, dripping blood.

In an instant, Zhou Yan knew who the other person was.

The Lord of War, Chi You!

(End of this chapter)