540: Chapter 541 Heading Towards the Holy Capital!

When Tie Qingtian crawled out of the ruins again, he was covered in blood, his robes tattered, yet his back remained straight.

Wiping the blood from his face, Tie Qingtian looked up at the figure standing with hands behind their back in the Void Realm, his voice somewhat hoarse.

"My skills are inferior; I have lost this time!"

He sighed inwardly, thinking he had been considered an elite within the Yuxu Realm, yet he never expected that when facing this person, he would be like a small child, shattering at a single touch!

But fortunately, the other party seemed to have held back in the end; otherwise, if that terrifying phantom of the strange beast had landed its foot, he feared he would have turned into a mist of blood on the spot.

Therefore, although he was defeated, he did not harbor much resentment towards Lu Ming.

So, after pondering for a moment, Tie Qingtian continued.

"However, according to the Great Qian Law, every Martial Artist of the Yuxu Realm must register in the city or prefecture where they reside. Your Excellency's strength is so formidable, yet you are unknown, so I assume you have not followed this rule.

If this were in the past, it might be fine, but Your Excellency is acting with such fanfare that you will inevitably attract attention.

If this spreads, I fear it will displease the one in the Sacred Capital!"

Listening to these words, Lu Ming raised an eyebrow; he really did not know about these matters.

But even if he knew, so what? A mere Martial Dao Imperial Dynasty is worthy of controlling him?

Anyway, sooner or later he would break in and overturn that Dragon throne; acting like this now could just be considered a warm-up.

Ignoring Tie Qingtian further, Lu Ming began to close his eyes and perceive.

He could feel that after defeating Tie Qingtian, another strand of Martial Dao Luck descended and merged into his true self along the mysterious connection.

Moreover, this time the Luck was thicker and purer than any of the previous ones, almost the sum total of all the Luck he had obtained since arriving in this domain.

With the Luck added to his body, Lu Ming felt completely comfortable.

Ignoring the people below, Lu Ming flicked his sleeves.

Then he turned around and walked away, stepping through the air step by step.

Tie Qingtian stood in the ruins, looking up at the gradually receding figure, remaining silent for a long time.

His fists clenched and unclenched, unclenched and clenched again.

But in the end, he said nothing and turned to walk deep into the ruins.

… Meanwhile, at the Yujing Dao Court.

The majestic Dao Court was situated above the Nine Heavens.

Palaces stretched on, pavilions were staggered, spiritual mist swirled, and dao rhyme flowed.

White jade served as steps, gold bricks paved the ground, eaves and brackets flew, and beams were carved and painted.

Seventy-two coiling Dragon pillars supported the dome of the main hall; on each pillar, a coiling Dragon looked lifelike, with fist-sized spirit pearls embedded in its Dragon eyes.

As light flowed, there were faint sounds of Dragon roars and Phoenix cries.

This was the Yujing Dao Court, one of the seven great grotto-heavens, the top power in the Profound Spirit Domain.

And the master of this Dao Court was currently sitting upright on the Dragon throne in the deepest part of the main hall.

True Monarch Yuji Sitian!

He wore a black Dragon robe and a flat-topped crown, his face imposing without anger.

His figure was as majestic as a mountain; sitting there, he possessed an air of ruling the world that made one dare not look directly at him.

It could be described as an imperial might so vast, like an abyss or a prison.

At this moment, his eyes were half-open and half-closed, with stars circulating and the sun and moon sinking and floating in the depths of his pupils, as if a complete Universe was hidden within his eyes.

Just at the moment Lu Ming defeated Tie Qingtian, True Monarch Yuji Sitian suddenly opened his eyes.

In those eyes, stars flickered and extinguished, like billions of stars being born and dying incessantly, as if something was collapsing and being reborn under this gaze.

"Hmm? Something unusual in Qianyuan?"

True Monarch Yuji Sitian whispered to himself, his brows slightly furrowed.

Just that instant, he sensed that the Restriction left in the Qianyuan Domain had been triggered.

That's right, the entire Qianyuan Domain being imprisoned was the handiwork of True Monarch Yuji Sitian.

Come to think of it, this was not the only domain he had sealed.

The Xuanxiao Great Boundary Heaven was very large, so large that even a Nascent Soul True Monarch would need to spend some time to traverse it.

Under such an environment, from the beginning of their birth, the creatures within would have the instinct to evolve their life levels.

Various diverse Cultivation Techniques emerged like bamboo shoots after rain from that barbaric era.

The Immortal Dao was merely one of them.

It was just that by chance, it broke through the encirclement and finally occupied the mainstream position steadily.

And this, in fact, had a great deal to do with the Human Race.

The Human Race was inherently an Innate Dao Body, that is, the form closest to the Heavenly Dao.

The complex structure of human Meridians and Acupoints was most suitable for running Cultivation Techniques and comprehending the Laws of Heaven and Earth.

Other creatures like Demon Cultivators or Ghost Cultivators, while maintaining their original forms, might be limited in their cultivation by animalistic Meridians or ethereal physical states.

Therefore, when crossing the Heavenly Tribulation, it would be far more dangerous than for the Human Race.

So, only after transforming into a human form would the speed and limit of absorbing Spiritual Qi be higher, and breaking through Bottlenecks would also be easier.

This led to the Human Race gradually becoming the mainstream of the Xuanxiao Boundary Heaven; they began to establish highly developed civilization systems such as cities, sects, and trading markets.

The Immortal Dao also grew stronger in this environment, becoming the mainstream Cultivation Technique system!

But examining its essence closely, it was actually just sharing the Luck of other cultivation lineages to fill itself.

Therefore, over the long years, many, many cultivation lineages just disappeared into the long river of history.

Of course, there were some exceptions.

After all, not everyone had the talent for cultivation; there would always be people who were extremely mediocre from birth.

They could not Cultivate and could only huddle in the mortal world, living their lives in mediocrity.

Perhaps some had already accepted their fate, but others never gave up.

Since the path of the Immortal Dao was impassable, why not open up a new cultivation system? A path that suited their own conditions and could even allow everyone to transform!

It was precisely because such people existed that other cultivation systems gradually emerged.

Martial Dao also emerged at this time.

At first, no one actually paid attention to these things, thinking they were just small-scale troubles, not worth worrying about!

But when one day, True Monarch Yuji Sitian suddenly noticed that the Immortal Dao Luck had fluctuated, he was suddenly alarmed.

Martial Dao, this seemingly inconspicuous new path, actually had such terrifying upper and lower limits.

Because it had no threshold and anyone could practice it, it allowed those mud-legged peasants who originally had no hope of cultivating immortality to regain the confidence to contend with cultivators.

If it were not controlled and allowed to develop, with the universality of Martial Dao having no threshold, it would inevitably seize most of the Immortal Dao Luck.

Therefore, the existence of Martial Dao had already seriously limited the development of the Immortal Dao and even posed a huge future hidden danger.

So, several True Monarchs discussed it together and felt it was necessary to restrict this matter.

But when it came to who would take action, they all played dumb, as no one wanted to get involved in such Karma.

In the end, after some interest exchanges and some harsh conditions, it was agreed that True Monarch Yuji Sitian of the Yujing Dao Court would personally take action to end it.

Of course, True Monarch Yuji Sitian did not destroy the entire Qianyuan Domain in one go, but chose to Seal it.

But he did not just leave it alone, allowing the Martial Dao within to grow wantonly.

Therefore, he also personally supported a Dynasty to manage and restrain the Martial Dao experts within.

Precisely because of this, for a long time, this order and rule operated without any problems.

And under this kind of restraint, the speed at which Martial Dao had been flourishing suddenly hit the pause button.

Coupled with the lack of fresh blood from the outside world, and with the conservation of Luck, Martial Dao had remained stagnant, and it had been a long time since any stunning Martial Dao Genius had appeared.

And all of this was within the calculations of True Monarch Yuji Sitian.

It could be said that as long as enough time was given, Martial Dao would eventually be worn away by the long river of time and would not stir up even half a splash.

But now, there was a problem!

To be precise, he sensed that the Martial Dao Luck there had appeared with fluctuations that shouldn't be there.

He immediately suspected if some variable had appeared over there.

That is, the so-called person of Qianyuan Martial Dao Destiny!

This was what caused the Luck to fluctuate.

But he felt it didn't seem like it; the Seal he left behind was not something an ordinary person could shake, unless a Nascent Soul True Monarch came in person.

But why would a Nascent Soul True Monarch run over there for no reason?

What was worth a Nascent Soul True Monarch worrying about in that broken place?

However, True Monarch Yuji Sitian's curiosity was piqued, and he decided to deduce it a little.

Actually, he could have cast his gaze directly over there.

But from the bottom of his heart, he did not want to waste his mental energy on such small matters.

After all, he had sealed and suppressed more than just this one domain that had bred a lineage like the Qianyuan Martial Dao.

If he had to spend mental energy to monitor them every day, would he still be able to Cultivate?

Moreover, being in the Yujing Dao Court, he didn't need to be that troublesome at all.

Therefore, without seeing him chant any incantations, he just opened his mouth, and it was like the Heavenly Constitutional Dao Sound fell.

"The affairs of Qianyuan, I shall know."

Eight words, the Dao sound like thunder, echoed throughout the entire main hall.

In an instant, the Dao Court Edict that permeated the entire Yujing Dao Court was instantly mobilized.

Then it turned into golden runes, constructing a picture in front of True Monarch Yuji Sitian.

Within it, mountains, rivers, cities, and crowds of people began to appear.

Soon, a blurry figure appeared, now traveling through the entire Qianyuan Domain at a very fast speed.

Obviously, under the Dao Court Edict, the Karma of the Qianyuan Domain gathered, and the culprit who had stirred up the changes in the situation recently was naturally revealed within it.

It was just that the face of that figure could not be seen clearly, and one couldn't even tell if it was a man or a woman.

This couldn't help but make True Monarch Yuji Sitian raise his eyebrows.

"Interesting, there really is a True Monarch making a move!"

Obviously, even he, a Late Stage Nascent Soul Great True Lord, without using his own power, could not see through this person just by his status; this was the biggest problem!

However, True Monarch Yuji Sitian just smiled and did not do so.

As for the reason...

True Monarch Yuji Sitian could feel that the Luck of that figure was growing at an incredible speed at this moment.

It was like harvesting, gathering the Luck of this domain into his pocket batch by batch.

"Interesting."

With the same sentence, True Monarch Yuji Sitian expressed a different meaning.

His mouth couldn't help but slightly raise.

When he discovered that domain in his early years, he actually had the thought of completely exterminating it.

But limited by the suppression of the Heavenly Dao, he could not take action personally.

Moreover, exterminating a lineage's Legacy would incur too heavy a Karma, which was not conducive to his own cultivation.

So he just suppressed and Sealed it, intending to wear the other party down over a long period of time and wait for the Martial Dao Luck to naturally wither away.

Now that someone had targeted that place and wanted to devour the Martial Dao Luck, it was actually a disguised way of solving the trouble for him.

If this person succeeded, the Martial Dao lineage would inevitably cease to exist, and he would also have one less threat.

It was a matter of killing two birds with one stone, so of course he was happy to see it happen.

Therefore, not only would he not interfere, but he would also open up permissions and let the other party act!

As for who this person was and which True Monarch instructed him from behind?

It didn't matter!

Even, he didn't want to know why the other party was doing this.

Anyway, as long as the other party devoured the Martial Dao Luck, its Karma would naturally fall upon the other party.

From beginning to end, it had nothing to do with him!

Thinking this through, True Monarch Yuji Sitian also lost the interest to continue observing.

He closed his eyes, withdrew his gaze, and the main hall fell back into silence.

… Qianyuan Domain.

After Lu Ming left the City Lord's Mansion, he did not stay and went straight out of the city.

His goal was very clear: to fight all the way through.

Starting from Iron Blood City, one city after another, one prefecture after another.

He wanted to overturn the entire Qianyuan Domain and finally fight his way to the Sacred Capital!

Consequently, a major event occurred in the Qianyuan Domain.

A Martial Artist of unknown origin set out from Iron Blood City and headed west.

Wherever he passed, no one was his match in a single exchange.

It was rumored that his fighting style was very domineering and clean, never dragging things out.

Every punch and kick had the power to split mountains and crack stones.

And his Qi and blood were as vast as the sea, far from what these Martial Artists of the same realm could compare to.

Whether it was the Baodan Realm, Huagang Realm, or even the Yuxu Realm, no one was his opponent, and no one could stop his footsteps.

Thus, this news spread like it had grown wings, spreading from Iron Blood City to the thirty-six prefectures, and then from the thirty-six prefectures to the Sacred Capital.

In the Great Qian Imperial Dynasty, in the imperial court.

On the Dragon throne, Emperor Xuanyuan Xiao's expression was gloomy.

He was about fifty years old, with a majestic face, a burly figure, and his Qi and blood surged like a tide around him.

And he was also a powerhouse of the Suikong Realm, the strongest in the entire Qianyuan Domain!

This was also the source of his confidence in becoming the co-lord of this world.

Therefore, when Xuanyuan Xiao heard this news, he was simply furious!

"Trash! A bunch of trash!"

Xuanyuan Xiao slapped the armrest of the Dragon throne, and the armrest shattered in response.

"A reckless man of unknown origin has fought through half of my empire, and you haven't even found out his origin?"

With Xuanyuan Xiao's roar, a surge of Qi and blood spread out.

In an instant, the civil and military officials in the court were silent as cicadas, and no one dared to respond.

The ministers knelt all over the hall; some were trembling, their foreheads touching the ground, sweat pouring down like rain.

After a bout of scolding, Xuanyuan Xiao took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and then said in a deep voice.

"Pass on my decree: mobilize the Imperial Guard's Three Divisions to capture this villain! Remember, I only want the result, dead or alive!"

His voice was not loud, but it was unquestionable.

The ministers in the hall finally breathed a sigh of relief, and someone immediately took the order loudly.

"Report!!!"

But just at this moment, a burst of hurried footsteps came from outside the hall.

A messenger soldier scrambled into the hall, knelt on the ground, his voice trembling.

"Report to Your Majesty, urgent news from the front line! That person has broken through the thirty-six prefectures and is heading towards the Sacred Capital!"

The hall immediately exploded into an uproar.

Some exclaimed, some cursed, but more people felt it was unbelievable!

Is this person crazy? Does he really think the one on the Dragon throne is just a decoration!

It would be one thing if you were arrogant outside on your own, but you actually dared to set your sights on the Sacred Capital; you are simply lawless!

And when Xuanyuan Xiao heard this news, he almost laughed out of anger.

"What audacity!"

Once these words were spoken, no one in the hall dared to respond.

But everyone could hear that the Emperor was not praising, but was in extreme anger.

However, very quickly, Xuanyuan Xiao regained his usual imperial majesty; he looked at the ministers in the hall, his gaze like a knife.

"Pass on my decree: the Sacred Capital is to enter a state of alert; all members of the Imperial Guard's Three Divisions are to be ready at all times."

He paused and then continued.

"I would like to meet this person myself and see where his confidence comes from."

Once these words were spoken, the hall exploded into an uproar again.

Xuanyuan Xiao sat on the Dragon throne, ignoring the ministers below who were trying to dissuade him.

His gaze was ethereal, as if it could penetrate the dome of the hall and look into the distance.

Faintly, he could feel an aura approaching the Sacred Capital.

Xuanyuan Xiao immediately narrowed his eyes, and the corners of his mouth slightly rose.