Chapter 251.2: Lu Changsheng Single-Handedly Crushes Ten Earthly Saints and Three Deity Transformation Cultivators! (II)

Whoosh!

Lu Changsheng soon left Sacred Star City far behind. He deliberately kept his speed only slightly above that of an ordinary Earthly Saint, worried that the robbers trailing him might lose track of him.

However, he suddenly stopped after a few thousand li.

Buzz!

An invisible barrier instantly sealed off the surrounding space.

Lu Changsheng narrowed his eyes. A formation?

His pursuers had actually prepared a formation, and judging from its power, it was at the Deity Transformation level. That meant the group following him consisted of more than Earthly Saints. There were Deity Transformation cultivators among them as well.

Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice rang out. "Suppress!"

Figures emerged one after another, and the moment they revealed themselves, the ten Earthly Saints manifested their Earthly Saint Dao Bodies. Without wasting a second, the enormous Dao Bodies descended upon Lu Changsheng at full strength, giving him no opportunity to react or escape.

Lu Changsheng swept his senses across his surroundings. Huh, they're putting on quite the show! Ten Earthly Saints and three Deity Transformation cultivators... A lineup like this could take down any Earthly Saint.

The three Deity Transformation cultivators had not joined the direct assault. Instead, they remained at different positions around the formation and worked together to keep the surrounding space completely sealed.

The role of the Deity Transformation cultivators was clearly to prevent Lu Changsheng from escaping with something like a Great Teleportation Talisman, while the ten Earthly Saints were responsible for killing him. That arrangement made perfect sense. When it came to direct combat, Martial Saints were far better at it.

The ten enormous Earthly Saint Dao Bodies now filled the sky, their auras joining together until the pressure seemed to smother the entire space. Their coordination was so practiced that Lu Changsheng could tell at once they had done this many times before.

A cold smirk crept up on Lu Changsheng's face. Hah, what a well-disciplined band of robbers!

Even with ten Earthly Saint Dao Bodies coming at him together, he remained perfectly still, not afraid in the slightest. After all, he was the one who had lured these robbers out, and he was pleased that they had taken the bait. Seeing that the robbers had already launched their attack, he saw no reason to continue holding back.

Boom!

Lu Changsheng unleashed his Earthly Saint Dao Body. The colossal Saint Body towered tens of thousands of meters into the sky, surging with the power from thirteen Laws of heaven and earth. The instant it appeared, thunderous booms rolled through heaven and earth. The surrounding space twisted violently as a terrifying aura swept outward like a storm.

Then, more than a dozen enormous arms seemed to emerge from Lu Changsheng's Earthly Saint Dao Body, each carrying the power from a different Law of heaven and earth.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The arms shot out in every direction, reaching simultaneously for all ten Earthly Saints and the three Deity Transformation cultivators.

"What?!"

The thirteen robbers were stunned. Instead of attempting to flee, Lu Changsheng had manifested his Earthly Saint Dao Body and struck back against his ten attackers. More astonishingly, he still had enough strength to strike at the three Deity Transformation cultivators controlling the formation.

How could an ordinary Earthly Saint possibly possess such strength? Apart from a Heavenly Saint, who could stand against thirteen experts of this level at once?

What shocked them even more were the thirteen forces from the Laws of heaven and earth surging around Lu Changsheng. Every movement of his Dao Body carried all thirteen with it, which could only mean that he had most likely refined power from thirteen different origins of heaven and earth.

That completely defied their understanding of the Martial Dao. Simply drawing upon thirteen different origins of heaven and earth would already have been astonishing. Refining the power of all thirteen into one's own body seemed almost impossible. For a moment, they even wondered whether what they were seeing was some kind of illusion.

However, they did not have long to wonder. The enormous hands from Lu Changsheng's Earthly Saint Dao Body had collided with the attacks of their ten Earthly Saint Dao Bodies.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Both sides met each other with raw power in a direct, head-on clash.

The ten Earthly Saints had expected their combined strength to crush Lu Changsheng instantly. Moments ago, their enormous Dao Bodies had filled the sky as they struck together, their attacks converging upon him from every direction. But the moment they collided with his Dao Body, they became the ones under attack.

Lu Changsheng's arms tore through their combined attacks with overwhelming force, breaking them apart almost effortlessly. Without slowing in the slightest, the enormous hands of his Dao Body continued forward and descended upon the Earthly Saint Dao Bodies of the ten robbers.

Crack!

One of the robbers' Dao Bodies collapsed the instant Lu Changsheng's hand closed around it. From the outside, it simply looked like Lu Changsheng was cracking an egg.

The other robbers stared in horror.

"Impossible..."

"How can an Earthly Saint be this powerful?"

"All ten of us attacked together, yet we could not even withstand a single strike?"

The expressions of the ten Earthly Saints and three Deity Transformation cultivators changed completely. They came in a large group to ensure that nothing could go wrong, yet this random Earthly Saint had broken through their combined assault with a single attack. It made no sense to them that a single Earthly Saint had enough power to overwhelm all thirteen of them at once.

Lu Changsheng, however, found nothing surprising about this. He was not even surprised at the robbers' disbelief.

After all, these robbers only knew that he was an Earthly Saint. From their perspective, sending ten Earthly Saints and three Deity Transformation cultivators against one man had been more than sufficient preparation.

What they could have never anticipated was the foundation of his Earthly Saint Dao Body. It had been forged from immeasurable divine abilities and the Primordial Chaos Saint Body, then further transformed through the power from thirteen different origins of heaven and earth. Its strength had already surpassed what an ordinary Earthly Saint could comprehend.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Lu Changsheng shattered the remaining Dao Bodies of the robbers.

The three Deity Transformation cultivators fared no better. In fact, the formation they had erected to prevent Lu Changsheng from escaping had just become their death trap. Before they could dismantle it and flee themselves, Lu Changsheng's attacks were already upon them.

"Spare me!" one of them cried out.

Lu Changsheng ignored his plea. He tightened his grip and crushed him along with the others.

Within moments, the violent fluctuations filling the surroundings disappeared, and silence returned. At the same time, the ten Earthly Saints and three Deity Transformation cultivators were nowhere to be seen. All thirteen of them had died at Lu Changsheng's hands.

"I'll take these." Lu Changsheng swept up the spatial treasures the cultivator robbers had left behind. And once everything was safely in his possession, he immediately turned around and flew back toward Sacred Star City.

Lu Changsheng soon returned to his cave residence in Sacred Star City. Once inside, he began reflecting on everything that had happened during the ambush.

Mobilizing ten Earthly Saints and three Deity Transformation cultivators isn't easy the work of some ragtag group. There must be some kind of powerful faction behind them. For my own safety, I'd best stay put in Sacred Star City a while longer.

Although the thirteen cultivators were a large band, none of them had posed any real threat to Lu Changsheng. Not a single Earthly Saint among them had refined Martial Dao fragments into their Dao Body, which explained why their strength had fallen so far short of his own. If the people behind these robbers sent eight or ten Earthly Saints who had refined Martial Dao fragments, Lu Changsheng might actually be in trouble.

Of course, that did not mean he feared such individuals. It was more that there was no reason to take unnecessary risks.

Next, Lu Changsheng turned his attention to the thirteen spatial treasures he had brought back. Let's see what these robbers had on them.

He opened them one by one, searching primarily for deity fragments.

Hmm... Three deity fragments here. Five over here. This bunch has clearly killed a fair share of cultivators to accumulate wealth like this...

His anticipation only grew as he kept checking the spatial treasures. These cultivation robbers turned out to be wealthier than he had expected. Even the poorest among them carried three deity fragments, while most possessed around five. The wealthiest had more than a dozen, putting that person's fortune on par with his own before the ambush.

I guess it's only to be expected. These guys were Earthly Saints who made their living by robbing other cultivators.

As for why they did this, Lu Changsheng could only speculate that it was for the same reason he needed them: to acquire the coordinates of a secret world and eventually obtain Martial Dao fragments.

Unfortunately for them, everything they had accumulated now belonged to Lu Changsheng. They had tried to rob him and ended up being robbed instead. As for Lu Changsheng himself, he had no qualms about claiming the belongings of criminals for himself.

After counting everything carefully, Lu Changsheng found a total of seventy-eight deity fragments among the thirteen spatial treasures, an average of six per robber. And since he had already possessed fourteen of his own, it brought his total to ninety-two deity fragments.

A sharp gleam crossed his eyes. Ninety-two deity fragments should be more than enough to win an unclaimed secret world!

Lu Changsheng had gone from worrying that fourteen deity fragments would not be enough to possessing nearly a hundred overnight. He was extremely pleased with this amazing stroke of luck.

With so many deity fragments now at his disposal, he could afford to bid aggressively at the upcoming auction. If ninety-two fragments still was not enough, he would deal with that problem when the time came and find another way to obtain the coordinates. Of course, if the coordinates could be obtained simply with deity fragments, that would be the best outcome.

For the remaining days before the auction, Lu Changsheng stayed quietly in his cave residence and waited.