Chapter 2385 - 2353: Ancient Ancestor Red Moon

Chapter 2385: Chapter 2353: Ancient Ancestor Red Moon

Li Chen is a person who speaks of fate.

Or rather, at his level, his perspective on many things is entirely different from others.

Different insights mean different perceptions.

For example, the so-called gods and ghosts in the eyes of ordinary people are merely another form of life to these powerful cultivators.

And fate, in a sense, is also a form of cause and effect.

While cause and effect is a special law power that is ubiquitous.

Every cosmos has its own unique law of cause and effect.

These laws of cause and effect, though they usually don’t affect cultivators at all, the threads of cause and effect are tied to a being from the moment of its birth and never let go.

This powerful force of the thread of cause and effect cannot be severed, even if one leaves the universe and enters the vast nihility that isolates all power.

This is cause and effect.

Li Chen encountered Qu Qiu, and in a way, he accepted Qu Qiu’s help, thus he owed Qu Qiu a debt of cause and effect.

Initially, Li Chen planned to repay this debt through this lecture. However, the sudden appearance of that sound was evidently intent on disrupting his plan.

To be honest, Li Chen did not wish to be too entangled with civilizations outside the starry universe, so ever since he awakened, he has been striving to avoid deep contact with the beings native to the Jianmu Universe.

Yin Shuishui and Chen Shouchuan’s Black and White Empire, as well as Yang Qingling of Desolation City, and Qu Qiu now, were all such cases.

Because deep cause and effect would inevitably involve matters Li Chen did not wish to see.

He vaguely remembers the scene he divined using the law of cause and effect when he left the starry universe.

Life pattern returns to its proper place.

And what was his life pattern?

In the past, Suan Tian had already calculated it.

Li Chen’s life pattern, to put it in the simplest terms understandable to ordinary people, was... Lonesome Star of Heavenly Slaughter.

"Red Moon."

Li Chen did not stop his lecture, but used soul sound to call out to Red Moon.

The Red Moon, understanding Li Chen’s intentions through their shared thoughts, transformed instantaneously into a stream of light and disappeared from the venue.

In the next moment, Red Moon appeared high above Zhuoyan Academy.

Looking down, he saw several cultivators with provocative expressions scanning the interior of Zhuoyan Academy as if appraising prey.

Unfortunately, at that moment, apart from those in closed-door cultivation, most people from Zhuoyan Academy had gone to listen to the lecture, so the intruders saw no one.

"Hmm?"

At that moment, they finally noticed Red Moon’s presence, pointed towards him, and arrogantly said, "Hey, young guy, are you a student of Zhuoyan Academy? Come down quickly, I have something to ask you, and there’s a reward if you answer correctly, but if not... heh heh."

Speaking was a young man with a malignant qi, his cultivation was quite strong, at the Seventh Soul Realm.

Around him were four or five others, all of them strong Soul Realm experts, with one even at the Ninth Order Soul Realm.

Such a lineup would undoubtedly be daunting for Zhuoyan Academy to handle.

Let alone Zhuoyan Academy, even the entire Naval Empire would need to treat such formidable presence seriously.

But Red Moon simply spoke calmly, "My master is inside giving a lecture, please leave for now. Once my master has finished this segment of cause and effect, you are free to do what you wish, no one will stop you."

Red Moon did not want to disturb Li Chen; he was well aware of Li Chen’s thoughts.

Li Chen did not wish to make too many connections with the people here, or even with this world and universe.

Although Li Chen never expressed it, Red Moon clearly sensed that deep within Li Chen’s heart there was an unspoken... fear.

It seemed almost absurd that Li Chen would have fear.

But Red Moon could sense that this seemed to be real.

This emotion of Li Chen’s could only be felt by Red Moon, who had accompanied Li Chen for countless ages and knew him even better than Li Chen knew himself.

Though he did not know what Li Chen feared, Red Moon understood.

No matter what Li Chen feared, if he could just eliminate what frightened Li Chen, then all would be well.

"If I can remove the obstacles that make the master afraid, everything will be fine." Red Moon’s heart was very calm.

"Pfft!"

Below came a sneer, as the young man with malignant qi coldly laughed at Red Moon, "Little punk, what kind of thing are you, and what kind of thing is your master? Get out here while I’m patient, I’ll only cripple your cultivation. If you make me lose my patience, I’ll slaughter all of you later!"

"Is that so?"

Upon hearing the young man’s words, Red Moon’s pupils, originally no different from normal humans, constricted slightly, and then as if piercing through something, a hint of blood color emerged.

Red Moon’s pupils turned blood red.

This was a sign that appeared when Li Chen used the special ability of Red Moon.

And this ability, as the original body of Red Moon, how could he not possess it?

"It seems the battle needs to be resolved quickly." Red Moon glanced back: "It’s too close. Using the power of the universe might affect the master’s lecture. So... let’s do this."

"Are you really decided?" Red Moon’s tone was exceedingly calm, unaffected by the young man’s words.

As an artifact spirit, Red Moon’s inherent emotional fluctuations were actually very small, but Red Moon was indeed considered an anomaly.

Because although he was born as an artifact spirit, now he had transcended the category of ’artifact.’

Now Red Moon was Ancient Ancestor Red Moon!

"Decided? This can be considered a deci—"

"Be careful!!"

Just as the young man wore a look of disdain, the Ninth Order Soul Realm expert behind him suddenly changed complexion and flashed to intercept in front of the young man, simultaneously rousing all his cultivation power.

However...

"Swish—"

A streak of blood light flashed by.

This Ninth Layer Heaven Soul Realm expert’s gesture of intercepting was still frozen, but his entire head had disappeared.

Not only the head, but even the divine soul within the skull was gone.

A single strike, divine soul obliterated.

Only at this moment did the slightly childish and calm voice of Red Moon slowly echo.

"Unsheathed."

The speed of the blade’s unsheathing was unknowably faster than the sound.

This Ninth Layer Heaven Soul Realm expert could react in time to intercept before the young man only because Red Moon allowed him this time to react.

If not, he wouldn’t even be able to respond, and the one to die would be the young man.

All of this was intentional by Red Moon.

"With one Ninth Layer Heaven Soul Realm expert dead, the commotion should quiet down quite a bit." Red Moon mused within, paying no heed to the few Soul Realm experts whose faces had turned ashen.