Shattering the scale-filled clouds that filled the sky, startling heaven and earth, leaving behind a long blade scar, clearing the path along the way, creating ten thousand miles of blank space for the world.
Extreme sharpness pressed down on everything.
The threat of death enveloped Yuanzhen.
This wasn't just human instinct—it was animal instinct too, to stay away from anything sharp, because it could sever life and cut through flesh and blood!!!
But now, Yuanzhen—should he dodge? Or not?
If he dodged!
That would mean refusing to comply with the law.
Then this slash would only be the beginning, followed by slash after slash, technique after technique.
If he didn't dodge.
That would mean offering his neck for execution.Then this slash would be the end of his life.
No one had expected Lu Ding to come!!
Even less expected was how, after such a short time without news of him, he had actually become so powerful!!!
The decision in his heart took only an instant.
Life's priority was higher than everything else.
Yuanzhen raised his hand and stirred the air, summoning tens of thousands of meters of purple clouds to envelop heaven and earth, condensing into a massive sky-covering palm that reached out to grasp the incoming Way of the Jinche that Lu Ding had sent swirling toward him.
He dodged at the same time.
Watching as the purple clouds filling the sky were shredded inch by inch.
The sharp slash attack advanced relentlessly.
CRACK!!!!!
The sky-covering giant palm was sliced open by the blade.
Yuanzhen felt terror and great shock in his heart.
How was he so powerful without even reaching Heavenly Perception?
Today is finished!!!!
He instinctively turned his head to look, only to see that Wutian had already been sealed inside the Demon Suppression Cave.
Through the last gap, his eyes were visible, looking at Lu Ding.
No matter what happened afterward.
At least now, Wutian felt complete.
He got to see Lu Ding, to say goodbye with his own eyes.
Lu Ding's action now proved to Wutian that he hadn't made this friendship in vain.
Although Wutian was about to be sealed.
Today, Lu Ding's slash would be engraved in Wutian's heart, becoming alongside his teacher Master Kongshi the motivation for Wutian to survive in the Demon Suppression Cave.
He would absolutely not die!!!
BOOM!!!
The restriction closed.
Yuanzhen's face revealed a smile.
Now the outcome was decided, and he himself had no grudge with Lu Ding.
They just needed to talk it out!!
At most, he would have to pay some price.
Nothing in this world was absolute—everything had its price.
Purple Cloud Temple wasn't poor!!!
"Grand Duke Lu, this is all a misunderstanding!!!"
Yuanzhen turned his head and shouted.
Only to discover that Lu Ding had long since disappeared from his forward field of vision.
Suddenly, a life-and-death crisis rose in his heart.
He saw the hair on his exposed arm, which had been lying flat, stand on end in an instant.
Left side!!!!!
Darkness rushed in, envelopment imminent.
The rising momentum brought with it cognitive illusions.
The dragonized Lu Ding, his eyes with vertical pupils, emitted emotionless dark red light that was particularly dazzling in the darkness.
When he grinned.
Black energy billowed out.
Pulling [Black Devours Sun] in his hand, he pressed it toward Monk Yuanzhen.
The scene erupted with extreme tension, dark red light outlining a human form in the darkness, red light dotting human eyes, bringing an unparalleled visual impact.
"Misunderstanding your mother's ass!!!!"
The terror within the power pulled at Yuanzhen, making his physical body constantly twist on the world's layer while the stable state of his soul's human form continuously collapsed.
Flesh, blood, spiritual energy, soul.
Constantly being pulled into the black sun.
Here, the function of [Black Devours Sun] became clear.
This was hand-rubbing a black hole!!!
Jinglong from Golden Dragon Temple nearby stabilized his body with effort, avoiding being pulled in while secretly gritting his teeth!!!
He understood too.
Today, Lu Ding wouldn't let anyone off!
He and Yuanzhen were the leaders—two grasshoppers on the same rope.
If Yuanzhen died, would things be better for him?
Don't joke around!
They were all smart people.
If he didn't protect Yuanzhen now, soon he would be alone against the enemy, trapped in the same situation as Monk Kongshi earlier.
Thinking of this.
Jinglong raised his palm and circulated energy, golden dragons blotted out the sky, roaring across the heavens, bringing forth ten thousand rays of colored light, jagged Buddha light.
"Grand Duke Lu, show mercy!"
Lu Ding's hand holding Black Devours Sun suddenly clenched.
Producing a crisp sound that rang through heaven and earth.
Black Devours Sun and Purple Cloud Temple's Yuanzhen simultaneously shattered in his hand.
Splashing semi-transparent fragments like glass, each piece flashing with flesh that had already been pulled by Black Devours Sun until it was distorted beyond human recognition.
If Yuanzhen's existence between heaven and earth was a unique puzzle piece.
Then now.
The puzzle piece representing his existence had shattered.
Lu Ding turned his head, eyes glowing with red light staring straight at Jinglong: "You dare to command me?!"
Jinglong had thought his move to act would make Lu Ding cautious.
After all, he was a Heavenly Perception cultivator.
Who would have thought that the moment he showed this intention to act, Lu Ding directly shattered Yuanzhen, the kind that couldn't be pieced back together.
Perhaps if he hadn't made a move, Yuanzhen could have lived a bit longer.
But there were no "ifs" in this world.
The golden dragon danced on his hand as Jinglong momentarily didn't know what to do.
Strike out?
That would be disastrous—not only would he be finished, but Golden Dragon Temple might suffer along with him.
If Yuanzhen hadn't died yet, Jinglong might have been able to rely on impulse to strike.
But now that Yuanzhen was dead, he didn't have such deep feelings with Yuanzhen that he would, in broad daylight under everyone's watchful eyes, kill a 749 Bureau investigator to avenge Yuanzhen.
Moreover, this investigator was the Great Han's Corpse-Shattering Taishui, Lu Ding!!!
"Old bald dog, no guts?!"
Lu Ding stepped forward: "You got the balls?"
As he said this, he pointed at his own head: "Come on, hit right here, you dare?"
Seeing his silence and hesitation.
Lu Ding without warning threw a heavy uppercut, empowered with the tremendous force of [Mountain-Shaking, Peak-Quaking].
The speed was so fast, the power so great, the fist broke through the air bringing high temperature, vaporizing the moisture in the air, swirling downward to form white ribbon-like streams intertwining around his arm.
"I dare!!!!"
BAM!!!!
The uppercut delivered destruction, Jinglong's jaw instantly shattered, teeth broken, flesh and blood flying.
The punch started from the chin, shattering flesh and blood all the way upward, finally blasting away and breaking Jinglong's bald crown along with Lu Ding's heavy fist.
The old monk who suffered the heavy blow was dazed for a moment.
Lu Ding followed with [Moon Arc Kick].
Drawing a bloody crescent moon.
He didn't choose the downward chop of [Moon Arc Kick], but instead empowered [Moon Arc Kick] into a straight kick.
Blasting the old monk Jinglong away.
The brutal force shattered the kasaya representing the abbot of Golden Dragon Temple on his body.
Lu Ding pressed forward, arriving after the attack but reaching first, catching up to the flying monk, grabbing his head with one hand, pressing him dead against the ground, plowing a deep furrow.
Alternating fists hammered down.
BAM!!!
"Give you a chance and you can't use it!"
BAM!!!
"Give you a chance and you still can't use it!!!!"
The speed of the hammering fists accelerated, falling like rain.
The earth trembled, cracking open.
The bodycam on Lu Ding's chest recorded everything.
Including his own words.
"Purple Cloud Temple Abbot Yuanzhen violently resisted law enforcement and has been executed on the spot by me! Golden Dragon Temple Abbot Jinglong obstructed law enforcement and attempted to attack a 749 Bureau investigator, and has been subdued by me on the spot!!!"
Framing people!?
Who doesn't know how? Who the fuck doesn't know how to use this disgusting trick?!
Lu Ding had known how in his previous life—how dare they show off this kind of tactic in front of him?!