Chapter 569 - 340: Human Emperor Tripod, Sea of Immeasurable Merit, The Great War Ends

Dragon Slaying Nineteen Forms.

The twelfth form can slay Celestial Humans, Saints and Sages, and True Monarchs. The eighteenth form can slay Bodhisattvas and Saints. The nineteenth form fears neither the Three Ancestors of the Three Religions, Throne Great Demons, nor the Great Nether Divine Venerable.

And now, Lu Mingyuan was unleashing this very nineteenth form.

Even the Three Ancestors of the Three Religions would have to retreat in the face of it.

Violent fluctuations of Holy Qi erupted from the void, forming ripples like water and causing the very world to tremble.

From a distance, Qi Xingyan stared intently at the Dragon-slaying Platform that had suddenly appeared.

Amidst the mists of Holy Qi, a young man walked through the air. Clad in gold with two sabers at his waist, his face was as handsome as jade, his presence divinely magnificent.

A Martial Saint, a being unseen for hundreds of years, had made his move, erupting with heaven-shattering might.

Even when facing an Evil God, he showed no fear.

’It is a blessing for all the people of the world that Your Majesty has grown to be so powerful.’

Qi Xingyan smiled in gratification, then sat cross-legged in the void. He placed his hands flat in the air, and boundless Vast Righteous Qi coalesced into a Chang Qin.

’An Emperor of a nation, fearing neither death nor divine might, standing shoulder to shoulder with Divine Beings in a mortal body... I ask you, which king in all the world could ever achieve such a feat?’

Qi Xingyan strummed the strings of the qin.

In an instant, it was as if ice and snow were melting in the void, as if rivers were crisscrossing the land.

The sound was gentle yet powerful, clear and resonant. It seemed to carry wisps of cosmic phenomena, and even coalesce into a Star Palace.

Within that Star Palace, clear springs flowed freely, and scholars and poets drank and made merry.

Amidst the clear springs and flowing water, the scene was like a great chasm greeting autumn, like the cold river reflecting the moon.

All these phenomena transformed into Divine Techniques, spreading across the most distant mountains.

RUMBLE!

In that instant, wind and clouds raged between heaven and earth.

The music of the qin filled the void.

The notes pierced the stone of a nearby mountain.

The massive rock immediately shattered into fragments, which then dissolved into dust.

The dust filled the void, carrying the scent of ink and illuminating the distant emptiness.

The tips of the Eternal Emperor’s hair stood on end, blown by the heaven-soaring gale before him.

Meanwhile, the Confucian Saint’s power suppressed the heavens and the earth.

Lu Mingyuan, high in the clouds, gripped the Divine Blade Zhu Xie and fixed his gaze forward.

He spotted Qi Xingyan near the exit of the Ascension Land, helping him.

Lu Mingyuan’s confidence grew, and he let out a great shout:

"Slay!"

A brilliant light shone down from the heavens.

The light broke through the clouds, carrying within it the reflection of a Dragon-slaying Platform.

Hundreds of miles away, countless experts turned their gazes toward Lu Mingyuan.

They seemed to sense the rushing vital energy of a Martial Saint emanating from him—as blazing as a wildfire, as thick as molten magma.

A layer of Demonic Light surged from the Eternal Emperor’s body. Instantly, all the injuries from his battle with the Yuqing Ancestor Master vanished. He no longer looked so wretched, and his elegant demeanor as a peak expert was restored.

Divine Techniques, vital energy, the cry of the saber, and the music of the qin spread out, pressing down on the Eternal Emperor.

Mysterious and unfathomable Primordial Qi filled the sky.

The magnificent vital energy was practically world-shaking.

The Eternal Emperor was not the least bit flustered. He extended a hand toward Lu Mingyuan, and countless black threads appeared, weaving together into a giant Demon God’s hand that descended to envelop him.

CLANG!

In an instant, the saber’s light annihilated the Demonic Qi, carving one gash after another into the vortex of demonic clouds that filled the sky.

The Demonic Qi began to crumble, collapse, and shatter!

Within that single slash, that single form, there seemed to be ten thousand transformations. It carried the radiance of the great eastern sun and the majesty of thunder, finally converging into a single point of cold light.

The Heaven-Covering Palm Seal was directly annihilated by Lu Mingyuan’s slash.

In a single exchange, the Eternal Emperor was forced back several miles by the saber’s light!

His robes were shredded by the gale of Saber Qi, but the phantom of the Dragon-slaying Platform seemed to have locked onto him. It was like a guillotine that would not stop until it had taken his head.

Even Qi Xingyan’s heart trembled slightly. He vaguely sensed countless gazes from within the clouds above, all fixed on this place!

As the Eternal Emperor retreated, Lu Mingyuan seized the opportunity to close the distance, intending to drive the Jade Blood Night Pearl into the Emperor’s body.

However, in the next instant, the Eternal Emperor took out a nine-inch-tall Evil Eye Heaven-Reaching Tower and held it in the palm of his right hand.

The grade of this Evil Eye Heaven-Reaching Tower had likely reached the level of a Primordial Demon Artifact. It appeared small, delicate, and exquisitely crafted.

A Primordial Demon Artifact was two major grades higher than an Innate Treasure. Even an Innate Immortal Artifact was far inferior. It could be compared to a Venerable Immortal Artifact—a top-tier magical treasure that an Immortal God of a generation could only refine by spending their entire life. It was far beyond what an ordinary Ancient Relic Treasure could ever match.

As inscriptions continuously surfaced on it, the power fluctuating from the Evil Eye Heaven-Reaching Tower grew more and more tyrannical.

BOOM.

A single sliver of Supreme Divine Power contained within the black halo blasted Lu Mingyuan away. From his brightly glowing Acupoints, crimson Holy Blood flowed out. He was clearly heavily injured.

The moment the Divine Power erupted, all living creatures still fleeing within a radius of hundreds of miles of the Evil Eye Heaven-Reaching Tower were instantly blasted into a bloody mist.

But a wisp of azure light transformed into a gentle breeze that caught Lu Mingyuan’s body.

PFFT.

Lu Mingyuan came to a stop on a mountain peak. He spat out a mouthful of blood, his body went limp, and he fell to one knee.

It wasn’t that the nineteenth form was not strong enough. Rather, after unleashing that one strike, his remaining Saber Momentum was simply insufficient to block the next attack. The gap between Lu Mingyuan’s Cultivation and that of this Demon Emperor from a bygone era was simply too vast; naturally, he had failed to block the Evil Eye Heaven-Reaching Tower.

The Eternal Emperor raised the Demon Tower high, and another stream of Demonic Light shot forth.

"One Qi Transformed into the Three Pristine Ones."

The Yuqing Ancestor Master appeared in the sky northeast of Lu Mingyuan. He raised his hands, and behind him, three colossal divine figures, each tens of thousands of feet tall, materialized.