Chapter 585 - 266: Threatened the Entire Righteous Dao, Truly Startled the World

"You all seem to have a lot of opinions?" Lu Wenwu raised an eyebrow.

The Five Elements Array Venerable laughed angrily: "For me to follow the orders of a demonic demon like you, you’re delusional! I’d rather die than..."

"Bang!"

Before the Five Elements Array Venerable could finish speaking, Lu Wenwu used a bit of physical means to suppress his words into his chest.

His brain and his intimate strategic partner—his heart, experienced their first close encounter.

Never had the two been so close before.

But the result of the collision wasn’t very pleasant; both shattered.

Now, it was a mix of pulp in the chest cavity, completely inseparable.

A strawman-like phantom automatically emerged from the Five Elements Array Venerable’s body, carrying his primordial spirit, as if it wanted to rip through this space and leave in an unfathomable way.

Lu Wenwu lightly exclaimed, lifted a fist, and directly smashed the strawman phantom to pieces.

"Substitute Death Grassman? Quite a magical thing, but this one’s not fully matured in its refining. As long as the basic laws are followed, it can be stopped."

He looked at the peculiar force dissipating and clicked his tongue in wonder, reminiscing about his joyful days working in the underworld.

In that place, he truly witnessed many different methods of substitute death and life extension.

The Substitute Death Grassman of the Five Elements Array Venerable was a rather common type of life-saving tool.

But the refining technique was inadequate, unable to achieve teleportation or direct substitution upon death.

Instead, it used a special method to transfer the primordial spirit to a pre-prepared place after the body died, and undergo rebirth.

This made it inferior, becoming an existence that could be intercepted.

At this moment, far away within the Five Elements Array Sect, several Divinity Transformation powerhouses were watching as the Substitute Death Grassman of the Five Elements Array Venerable exploded into a mass of gray-black, and the pre-prepared Rebirth Puppet’s flesh melted, losing vitality.

The Life Lamp extinguished, and the little disciple responsible for watching emitted a sharp burst, directly fainting from fright.

The Supreme Sect Leader of the Five Elements Array Sect, the Five Elements Array Venerable, had fallen!

"Dead!?"

The Beast Puppet Venerable couldn’t help but exclaim.

He could hardly believe his eyes.

This was the Five Elements Array Venerable!

A renowned Array Master on the continent!

His body covered with protective magical treasures and talismans, with a protective magical robe that was top-tier in the Cultivation Realm, how could he be so easily punched in the head into his chest?

Not even able to finish his last half sentence.

Even if he was indeed suppressed by the array, but wasn’t it all too terrifyingly fast?

"Otherwise? I’m quite kind-hearted. If he says he’d rather die, then naturally, I fulfill his wish." Lu Wenwu said offhandedly, while happily rifling through the corpse for the primordial spirit.

"You people, your bodies are really too fragile. I merely used the power of the grand array to temporarily seal his spiritual power for a moment, and without much effort, punched him to death."

The primordial spirit of the Five Elements Array Venerable was of average quality.

Probably because all his energy was invested in the arrays, his spiritual power purity was average, only providing Lu Wenwu with eighty-five points of [Body] attributes.

He was probably just barely stepping into the late-stage Divinity Transformation through borrowed external forces.

Without the cultivator’s own spiritual power support, many defensive magical treasures cannot self-activate.

Even if there were a few that could autonomously protect under a state of spiritual death, their power in the face of Lu Wenwu’s heavy fist was like a cup of water on a burning cart.

In such a situation, he had no power to fight back.

"The Nine Heavens Ten Earths Demon Slaying Array... can actually seal spiritual power!" Saint Venerable Heng Ru was momentarily breathless.

"Huh? You all didn’t know?" Lu Wenwu asked in surprise, "I mean, guys. You didn’t even know the strongest aspect of this array, and you dared to use it against me? That’s bold. I thought you all would be the type to be as cunning as an old Yinbi, thinking several steps ahead."

Celestial Talisman Venerable hesitantly said: "The Five Elements, he... uh... said that although this Ancient Killing Array is incomplete, it still has a great restraining effect on demonic cultivators, as recorded in the classics, it’s specifically used for slaying evil demons, having a strong restraining power over them."

"He said during private experiments, this fragmentary Ancient Killing Array, once activated, could generate a very strong killing force, which significantly weakened Blood Evil Qi and Killing Intent, effectively diminishing the power of demonic cultivators..."

"Ignorance, truly terrifying."

Lu Wenwu shook his head with lingering fear.

Fortunately, he had attended Old Dragon Emperor’s one-on-one tutoring, otherwise, he’d be the ignorant one now.

The Five Elements Array Venerable made a mistake.

In ancient times, the "evil demons" weren’t the same as today’s "demonic cultivators."

The modern demonic path was defined only after the establishment of the Immortal Dao Alliance, based on the conventions of public morality.

Cultivators who trained by challenging the moral bottom line of humanity were labeled as demonic cultivators.

Essentially, it was still a branch of the cultivation system, just a bit more ruthless at most.

But in the era when the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Demon Slaying Array emerged, human civilization was still in a relatively primitive slave era.

Blood sacrifices, human sacrifices, and live burials were not only commonplace in the cultivation realm but were even more ubiquitous in mortal dynasties.

By the Immortal Dao Alliance’s current definition, people back then could basically be considered demonic demons on average.

The so-called "evil demons" in that savage era were essentially—if I don’t like you, and my fist is bigger, you are an evil demon.

There weren’t so many tricks involved.

Because the array could unleash tremendous power and also momentarily seal the opponent’s spiritual power, wasn’t this not restraint?