Chapter 391 - 208: Executing Lu Canghai, Blood Stains Luoyun Manor

Chapter 391: Chapter 208: Executing Lu Canghai, Blood Stains Luoyun Manor

With that, Chen Sheng knew he couldn’t give them an opening. His gaze immediately locked onto Lu Guangting, who was clashing with Vice General Zhang Wen of the Military Preparation Army.

At this moment, the Vice General was not faring well.

The next moment.

Chen Sheng attacked.

A clear cry of a blade rang out as its gleam materialized in the air. Imbued with a terrifying Mental Realm, it locked directly onto Lu Guangting’s aura.

As the blade descended, the very air seemed to shift in color.

Lu Guangting was instantly shaken to his core and shot back without a moment’s hesitation.

Lu Canghai, who was nearby, tried to intervene, but Sun Yuzhi gave him no such opportunity. Flashes from her spear erupted one after another, cutting off his every path of retreat.

"Master Xuanbei, if you don’t act now, it will be too late!"

Lu Canghai bellowed.

Although he had never personally faced Chen Sheng, the fact that the man had killed Zhou Kuohai, Alliance Leader of the Cyan Flood Dragon Alliance, was enough to prove his strength was at the mid-stage of Profound Mastery.

’The Second Elder can’t possibly stop him!’

’Once the Second Elder is dead, Luoyun Manor will truly be doomed.’

Monk Xuanbei’s expression hardened at his words. He said solemnly,

"Donor Liang, Donor Wu, are you still hesitating? If we delay any longer, it will be impossible for us to act, even if we want to. We might as well fight to the death.

When word gets back to Golden Spring Temple and Qingfeng Temple, and when your Master Qingxu and my Junior Master Kongjian arrive, there may still be a chance to turn this situation around!"

Monk Xuanbei didn’t even wait for Liang Jingxing and Wu Chengfeng to make up their minds. He was about to step forward and attack himself.

However, just as Monk Xuanbei, Xuanming, Xuan Ku, and the others formed this intention,

the watching Lu Qingsong and Wang Qingshan moved to block the path of the Golden Spring Temple monks.

"I’d advise you all not to make a rash move. Otherwise, I’m afraid I’ll have to test out your Buddhist Divine Techniques for myself!"

Lu Qingsong stood with his sword at the ready. The rusty iron blade in his hand suddenly began to tremble and hum with light.

It was none other than the signature treasure of the Iron Sword Sect, the Profound Iron Sword!

Though its name was unassuming, it was a relic left by the founder of the Iron Sword Sect—a top-tier Spiritual Soldier!

With his level of cultivation and this sword in hand, he was confident that he was a match for anyone beneath the late stage of Profound Mastery.

Wang Qingshan remained silent, but his imposing gaze fell upon Xuanbei and the others, making his stance perfectly clear.

’As long as they didn’t move, it would be fine.’

’But if they dared to make a move, they would definitely intervene!’

...

Meanwhile.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Sheng’s blade finally fell. The world seemed to dim, and Lu Guangting felt as if his entire vision was filled by a single blade’s gleam that blotted out the sky.

Shaken to his core, he scrambled to mount a defense.

But in the next instant...

...a dark gleam of the blade flashed by, and Lu Guangting’s Protective Gang Qi shattered instantly. As if he had taken a massive blow, he was sent flying backward, spitting out a mouthful of blood, his eyes wide with terror.

’Even though I’m old and my vitality is fading, I’m still an expert at the peak of the Primordial Sea realm! And yet... I couldn’t even block a single one of his strikes!’

Before Lu Guangting could even recover his wits,

Chen Sheng attacked again. He took a single step, his body flashing with light as he became a blur streaking across the sky. He raised his hand, forming a seal with his left palm.

A Dragon-shaped Profound Seal instantly materialized. Accompanied by a dragon’s roar that shook the heavens, it bore down on Lu Guangting.

BOOM!!!

Lu Guangting mobilized all the True Essence in his body, forming a shield of light around himself in a desperate attempt to resist.

But a moment later, the shield shattered with a deafening roar.

Lu Guangting coughed up another mouthful of blood. His aura plummeted as he began to fall from the sky.

"Second Elder!"

Lu Canghai, who was still locked in combat with Sun Yuzhi, cried out in alarm, his eyes filled with a mixture of shock and fury.

However, the moment the words left his mouth, a dark light flashed. Chen Sheng’s Dragon Roar Blade flew from his hand and, with a dragon’s cry, pierced straight through Lu Guangting’s chest.

The sheer force of the blow pinned Lu Guangting’s body to the ground below.

For a single, frozen moment, the battlefield fell silent.

All eyes snapped to Chen Sheng, filled with utter shock.

Golden Spring Temple and Qingfeng Temple had long heard rumors that Chen Sheng was formidable, but those were just rumors. Now, they had witnessed with their own eyes as he killed a veteran expert of the same realm in just three moves.

The shock they felt was beyond measure.

Lu Canghai’s eyes turned bloodshot, his fury reaching its zenith. Heedless of the consequences, he took a direct blow from Sun Yuzhi just to break away and charge at Chen Sheng.

With a wave of his hand, hundreds of sword gleams converged into a great river of Sword Qi that surged toward Chen Sheng.

...

"Sect Leader Lu, Clan Leader Wang! If you two step aside now, Qingfeng Temple and Golden Spring Temple can overlook your previous words. The alliance will remain. Otherwise, don’t blame us for settling this score later!"

Wu Chengfeng had finally lost his patience.

’If Luoyun Manor is destroyed, the impact on Qingfeng Temple will be too great!’

"Stand down!"

Xuanbei stepped forward, golden light radiating from his body. His voice, empowered by Buddhist True Words, boomed with world-shaking force.

Lu Qingsong sneered and was about to reply,

...when an imperious, cold voice echoed through the sky:

"Sect Leader Lu, stand aside. I’d like to see what they can possibly do!"

Nie Xuanfeng stepped forward, unleashing the astonishing, undisguised might of a late-stage Profound Mastery expert. His contemptuous gaze swept across the six Profound Mastery cultivators before him as he spoke, his voice sharp and resonant.

"Go on, I dare you. I’d like to see what kind of trouble you so-called masters of the Jianghu can possibly stir up!"

He had only meant to intimidate them before, but he hadn’t expected Golden Spring Temple and Qingfeng Temple to actually dare defy him. Such an attitude was a blatant disregard for the Government Office, and it stoked his anger.

The atmosphere grew tense once more.

The gazes of Xuanbei and his companions instantly fell upon Nie Xuanfeng. Staring into his cold, murderous eyes, the aggressive momentum they had just built completely vanished, and they fell silent.

"What’s wrong? Lost your nerve?"

Nie Xuanfeng’s expression was glacial, his eyes holding a chilling killing intent as his imperious gaze swept over them.

"If you don’t have the guts, then piss off. Get in my way again, and you can share a grave with Luoyun Manor!"

...

"Well met!"

Facing Lu Canghai’s desperate, all-or-nothing blow, Chen Sheng sneered. He shook his arms, and in the next instant, crisscrossing streams of Gang Qi coalesced into a blood-red true dragon, coiling in the sky above.

The true dragon let out a defiant roar as crimson Yin Fire filled the air.

This was a Divine Technique Chen Sheng had created himself, a fusion of the East Pole Cyan Dragon Seal from the Six Paths Primordial True Scripture, his own Mental Realm, and the Nine Nether Yin Fire.

ROAR!

The true dragon roared, and the surrounding Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi trembled.

Finally, at the very moment the river of cyan Sword Qi descended, the blood-red true dragon surged upstream and collided with it.

In an instant.

A deafening roar tore through the heavens.

A terrifying shockwave swept out in all directions. In its wake, within a radius of several hundred yards, every disciple of Luoyun Manor exploded into a fine mist of blood, clearing the immediate area.

The two attacks ultimately annihilated each other in the air, having been perfectly matched.

"What?!"

Seeing this, Lu Canghai was horrified. He couldn’t accept it.

’That was my ultimate attack! I burned my Essence Blood and True Essence and even used a Spirit Talisman! Not even an expert at the late stage of Profound Mastery could have easily broken it! I was going to kill Chen Sheng in a single blow to avenge the Second Elder.’

’And yet, Chen Sheng just blocked it?’

’How is this possible?!’

Chen Sheng, for his part, was not particularly satisfied with the exchange either.

’To think the technique I painstakingly created couldn’t even overwhelm Lu Canghai. What a disappointment.’

Still, his estimation of Lu Canghai’s strength rose significantly.

’As expected of a manor lord, an expert at the peak of mid-stage Profound Mastery. He’s actually even stronger than Zhou Kuohai, the Alliance Leader of the Cyan Flood Dragon Alliance.’

"Die!"

Just then, Sun Yuzhi’s attack arrived. Countless spear gleams filling the sky condensed into a single point aimed at Lu Canghai. With killing intent burning in her eyes and world-shaking momentum, she struck. Chen Sheng seized the opportunity to recall his Dragon Roar Blade.

With a flick of his wrist, blade gleams shot out, and he joined Sun Yuzhi in a pincer attack to finish Lu Canghai.

BOOM!!!

While Lu Canghai was undeniably powerful, he was no match for two opponents of their caliber. Facing the pincer attack from Chen Sheng and Sun Yuzhi, he was gravely wounded in an instant, sent flying backward as he spat out a mouthful of blood.

As he flew backward, Lu Canghai tried to halt his momentum and counterattack, a look of grim determination in his eyes. But why would Chen Sheng and Sun Yuzhi ever give him such a chance?

They would, of course, press their advantage and go for the kill!

In an instant, Chen Sheng and Sun Yuzhi attacked again with world-shaking force.

Sun Yuzhi’s spear struck like a dragon, bursting with cold light. Chen Sheng’s blade-work formed an inescapable net of crisscrossing gleams. In a flash, both of their supremely powerful attacks landed on Lu Canghai.

Lu Canghai’s Protective Gang Qi was obliterated. The spear’s light pierced his body as the blade’s gleams enveloped him. His flesh was covered in a web of bloody wounds. His expression froze, and he vomited a great mouthful of blood.

PTHH!!!

The next moment, Lu Canghai’s blood sprayed across the sky.

This formidable man, who had ruled Luoyun Manor for decades, suddenly went rigid. Then, like a kite with a severed string, he plummeted from the sky, puffs of blood mist erupting from his body as he fell.

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