Chapter 930: The Most Capable Ancestor of the Barbarian Race

By all rights, such a wicked tactic did indeed seem like something the Daoist Buyu would teach, yet Meng Jingzhou always felt Lu Yang was not telling the whole truth.

"Did the Sect Master really say that?" Meng Jingzhou looked at Lu Yang suspiciously.

Lu Yang was highly dissatisfied with Meng Jingzhou’s doubt, given that he was completely telling the truth: "If I am lying to you, may I get struck by lightning a couple extra times during my Heavenly Tribulation, alright?"

Lu Yang felt that since he had already faced the Qiantian Heavenly Tribulation—the number one Tribulation of the Transformation Stage—while only at the Nascent Soul Stage, facing the Tribulation once he actually reached the Transformation Stage would be a breeze, devoid of any difficulty.

Meng Jingzhou rolled his eyes and was just about to say something when he saw Lu Yang suddenly vanish from before his eyes without any warning whatsoever, giving him quite a fright.

"Where is he? Did retribution actually find him?"

...

Somewhere in a barren mountain range within the Great Xia, three figures shifted and leaped in a fierce battle, shifting mountains and turning heaven and earth upside down.

Boom—

Two of the weaker figures were sent flying, piercing through a mountain and slamming against the cliff face of the peak behind it.

"Senior Sister Lanting, are you alright?" Mangu crawled out of the cliff face, grimacing as he asked with concern; with his thick skin and tough flesh, taking such a hit caused no major issue, but the same could not be said for Senior Sister Lanting.

Enwrapped by her sashes, Lanting crawled out from the adjacent cliff face, her sashes having neutralized most of the attack, ensuring her injuries were not too severe.

"Two juniors, did you truly think that by cultivating to the early Transformation Stage, you could challenge this venerable one across realms?" The opponent gazed at them coldly, radiating the aura of the early Body Integration Stage.

It was the first time both Mangu and Lanting had formally clashed with a Body Integration Stage cultivator; with their combat prowess, they were indeed qualified to challenge the early Body Integration Stage, but only on the condition that the opponent did not employ [Rules].

In the beginning, the two had joined forces to gain the upper hand, but once the opponent employed [Rules], the tide of battle was instantly overturned, leaving them in a wretched plight.

"It seems we can't beat him, what do we do?"

After Mangu advanced to the Transformation Stage, he went to the Mission Hall to take on his first mission, which concerned clues about the Heartless Sect. Upon arriving at the designated location, he happened to cross paths with Lanting, who had also come to investigate.

Joining forces, they actually managed to follow the breadcrumbs and find a clue to the Heartless Sect, encountering this very Heartless Sect Elder before them.

The only problem was that they apparently could not defeat him.

The Heartless Sect Elder was right before them; if they fled now, finding this elder again in the future would be a daunting task.

"Fight!" Lanting said, gritting her teeth.

Mangu was just as straightforward—then they would fight. He transmitted his voice to Lanting: "Please trouble yourself to stall the Heartless Sect Elder for a moment, Senior Sister Lanting. I possess a method that can cause the former strength of the Barbarian ancestors to descend upon my Primordial Spirit, which may perhaps turn the tide."

"Alright!" Choosing to trust Mangu, Lanting charged straight ahead.

"Ignorant juniors who court death." The Heartless Sect Elder held a bone saber, its hilt composed of countless miniature skulls; when swung, it emitted the wails of ghosts, appearing exceptionally terrifying.

Lanting did not dare to clash head-on with the Heartless Sect Elder. Her azure sashes fluttered wildly, using softness to overcome hardness as they wrapped around the elder's arm, altering the trajectory of the blade!

Lanting's movements were light and agile, like a fairy dancing gracefully in the Moon Palace, rendering the Heartless Sect Elder unable to exert his strength effectively.

"Hereby establish the [Rule: The Bone Saber Cleaves All Things]!"

A strange power adhered to the surface of the bone saber, instantly hacking Lanting's sashes into tatters. Deprived of the annoying interference of the sashes, the Heartless Sect Elder slashed his blade toward Lanting!

Mangu manifested his Primordial Spirit, rubbing his hands vigorously while chanting under his breath; following his advancement to the Transformation Stage, the uncertainty he faced when summoning ancestral power during the Nascent Soul Stage had been resolved.

"May the Immortals bless me, Mangu respectfully welcomes the ancestor with the greatest combat power of the Barbarian Race!"

Mangu's Primordial Spirit shifted, a dazzling milky-white light flashed, and a powerful force descended from the heavens, pouring into Mangu's Primordial Spirit!

The Barbarian ancestor abruptly raised his head, instantaneously moving right before the Heartless Sect Elder.

Clang—

Holding a sword, the Barbarian ancestor blocked the bone saber that was supposed to cleave all things!

Gazing at the Barbarian ancestor who had saved her, Lanting looked on in utter disbelief, dumbfounded: "Senior Brother Lu Yang, when did you become a Barbarian ancestor?"

Mangu was also full of astonishment; how had his Primordial Spirit directly turned into Senior Brother Lu Yang?

"Huh?" Lu Yang himself had not figured out what was going on, completely at a loss. He had just been hoodwinking Meng Jingzhou, so how had he ended up here in the blink of an eye?

The moment he arrived here, he saw Lanting trapped in a crisis, so he had no choice but to fight first and talk later.

"Never mind all that for now, who is that opposite us?" Lu Yang asked, sensing a stark intent to kill from the opponent, showing this was no mere sparring match.

"An Elder of the Heartless Sect!"

"Then let's deal with him first before discussing anything else!"

Under the enhancement of the [Rule], the bone saber was incomparably sharp; anything would be sliced apart by it.

Except for the Qingfeng Sword.

The Qingfeng Sword was an Immortal Sword, not something a mere Body Integration Stage cultivator could damage simply by using a rule.

"Kill!"

An intent to kill similarly surfaced in Lu Yang's eyes; there was no need to hold back when facing the Heartless Sect, as long as a single remnant soul was left at the end anyway.

"Take a sword strike from me!"

The Heartless Sect Elder looked at Lu Yang's strike with disdain; it was plain and ordinary, how could he expect to harm me with this kind of sword?

Crack—Pfft—

The bone saber was actually severed directly by this single strike, and the power of the strike did not diminish much, hacking right into the Heartless Sect Elder!

A sword scar ran from the left shoulder of the Heartless Sect Elder all the way to his right waist, dripping with fresh blood!

Lu Yang was also greatly surprised; the power of this single strike surpassed his expectations.

Ever since arriving here, he felt he possessed an extra portion of power that did not belong to him, making him several notches stronger than he was at his peak!

The Heartless Sect Elder was caught completely unprepared by this sudden turn of events. He wanted to pull away to employ a [Rule] for healing, but Lu Yang had witnessed so many battles between high-stage cultivators, having seen the battles of Immortals more than once, and knew perfectly well what the Heartless Sect Elder wanted to do.

How could he possibly grant him the opportunity!

Lu Yang rapidly closed the distance with the Heartless Sect Elder, delivering the exact same sword strike once more, startling the elder so much that he had no time to employ his rule, hurriedly gathering his strength to block it.

Yet this strike was unexpectedly ordinary.

Just when he thought it was over, Lu Yang spat out Samadhi True Fire, spitting it directly onto his face!

"Ah!" The Samadhi True Fire continuously scorched his face, causing him to cry out in agony, forced to divert his strength to suppress the true fire.

Lu Yang struck with his sword in succession, the plain and unadorned sword techniques concealing the Myriad Swords Returning to the Ancestor, leaving the Heartless Sect Elder entirely unable to defend effectively.

"Sea of Blood and Hatred!" The Heartless Sect Elder shouted in a low voice, a towering sea of blood appearing behind him, where countless ghosts and living beings writhed and begged within the bloody waters, stretching forth innumerable arms, intending to drag Lu Yang into the sea of blood!

Lu Yang pointed his sword at the Heartless Sect Elder, barking sharply: "Kneel down!"

The Heartless Sect Elder was actually unable to resist, thudding to his knees on the ground, interrupting his technique as the towering sea of blood behind him vanished along with it!

Chsh—

A flash of sword light passed by at the absolute limit of speed, a minuscule line of blood appearing on the neck of the Heartless Sect Elder.

Blood gushed forth, the head flying sideways to drop onto the ground, rolling over and over until it stopped by Lu Yang's foot.

Lu Yang sheathed his sword, gazing at Mangu and Lanting.

"So, can someone explain to me exactly what just happened?"