398: He's no longer human!

Xu Fu could not help but feel fear!

Back then, he toyed with the mortal world, claiming to be invincible under heaven, manipulating the rise and fall of mortal Dynasties as easily as reaching into a bag, only to be forcibly defeated by the absolute power of Invincible Martial, the ten great Martial Artists who had suddenly emerged at that time!

That battle shattered all his pride, causing him to lose his phoenix blood, turning him from immortal and ageless to merely immortal, having lost the "ageless" part.

It was only after news of him had completely vanished that he dared to appear again.

Invincible Martial was the only existence in his long life to have brought him the shadow of true death, making him feel bone-chilling helplessness and despair!

Years had passed, and he had assumed Invincible Martial had long since turned to dust, but he never expected... never expected this person to reappear in the world!

And judging by his aura, he was even more unfathomable than back then, having reached the supreme Realm of returning to the basics and unity of heaven and man!

This fear was a trembling originating from the depths of his Soul, a shadow carved into his very bones!

"I have been invincible in this world for far too long. Other than Xu Fu, no one in this world has ever been able to give me a satisfying battle." Invincible Martial looked at the Number One Tower Under Heaven.

"But here, I feel a threat. May I ask what Your Excellency is called?"

"Lu Jiuyuan!" Lu Jiuyuan's figure appeared at the top of the Number One Tower Under Heaven.

"Lu Jiuyuan! Junior, let me witness your strength. Use your strength to please me!"

"Please you?" Lu Jiuyuan laughed. It had been a very, very long time since anyone dared to speak to him like that.

Invincible Martial said no more. In pursuit of the ultimate Dao, having encountered a truly worthy opponent, his heart held only the purest excitement and Battle Intent!

"Ten Directions Invincible!"

Invincible Martial let out a long roar, his figure surging as he directly unleashed the supreme battle formation he had created by merging the ten great martial paths!

In an instant, it seemed as if ten Invincible Martials appeared simultaneously, wielding saber, spear, sword, halberd, staff, fist, palm, leg, finger, and claw!

Ten types of martial Concepts materialized like ten war gods, launching a net-like encirclement from all directions against Lu Jiuyuan, carrying the terrifying power to crush all things and destroy all laws!

The momentum of this strike made the entire World Society tremble; space twisted, light dimmed, as if the apocalypse had arrived!

However, facing this earth-shattering encirclement, Lu Jiuyuan only calmly spat out three words:

"Too slow."

Before the words had even faded.

No afterimages, no sound of wind, no spatial fluctuations.

Just at the moment when the ten Clones' attacks were about to close in, Lu Jiuyuan's figure seemed to have never moved, yet appeared simultaneously right in front of the ten Clones!

No, not a figure! It was a "Concept"! A Sword Intent condensed to the extreme!

"First move."

Following this calm declaration, that invisible "Sword Intent" seemed to pierce through all ten of Invincible Martial's Clones simultaneously!

"Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft—!!!"

Ten soft sounds rang out almost at the same instant!

Those ten Clones, containing vast martial Concepts and capable of destroying any expert in the world, were like phantoms sliced by an invisible blade; they instantly froze, then snapped in the middle, collapsing into the purest Origin Qi and dissipating between heaven and earth!

"What?" Invincible Martial's main body's pupils contracted violently, and for the first time, a look of horror appeared on his face!

He hadn't even seen how the opponent had struck!

That was no longer in the category of speed; it was a... strange phenomenon that seemed to transcend the Concepts of "motion" and "stillness"!

"No Heaven Sword Tiger Art!"

Invincible Martial was, after all, a martial arts prodigy rarely seen in a millennium. Amidst his shock, his battle instincts drove him to push his cultivation to an unprecedented Peak!

The three ultimate techniques of fist, sword, and claw merged again, and a torrent of Chaos that defied Yin and Yang and slaughtered gods and demons blasted toward where Lu Jiuyuan's true body stood!

With this strike, he had exhausted all his strength, and its power was even greater than before!

"Still too slow."

Lu Jiuyuan's voice seemed to ring directly in the depths of Invincible Martial's Soul.

Immediately after, Invincible Martial felt his vision blur, and the figure in green robes had, at some unknown point, pierced through his martial torrent capable of annihilating all things, appearing less than three feet in front of him!

Lu Jiuyuan joined his fingers like a sword; there was no radiance on his fingertips, yet they seemed to condense all the "sharpness" in the world!

"Second move."

His fingertips lightly tapped toward Invincible Martial's glabella.

Invincible Martial roared wildly, condensing his lifelong cultivation into his arms, crossing them in front of him, while the ten great martial Concepts laid out layers upon layers of impenetrable defense before him!

However, it was useless!

Lu Jiuyuan's finger-sword seemed not to exist in this dimension of time and space.

His defense, his Qi wall, his martial will, in front of those fingertips, were as if they did not exist.

The fingertips pierced through everything without obstruction, lightly tapping on his glabella.

"Hum—!"

Invincible Martial's whole body shook violently, feeling his Divine Soul, True Essence, and even the martial Concepts he had cultivated his whole life, all shaken violently by this one tap, almost ready to leave his body and dissipate!

He let out a muffled groan, blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth, his figure retreating a hundred feet, his eyes filled with unbelievable fear!

What kind of speed was this? What kind of attack was this? Completely incomprehensible! Impossible to capture! Impossible to defend against!

"Impossible! How could there be such speed in this world! Such swordsmanship!"

Invincible Martial steadied his figure, his voice hoarse, his Dao Heart already showing cracks.

Lu Jiuyuan still stood in the same place, as if he had never moved. He looked at Invincible Martial and shook his head slightly:

"You do not understand the Profound Yin Twelve Swords, you do not understand the Seven Nothings Ultimate Realm, and you do not understand what a cheat is!

Having studied the Profound Yin Twelve Swords, studied the Seven Nothings Ultimate Realm, studied Jian Er Shi San, and then with the amplification of the cheat, I myself no longer know how strong I am!"

After speaking, Lu Jiuyuan's entire aura suddenly changed.

He was no longer a "person," but had transformed into a "sword"!

"Body Transformation · Interstice."

No sound, no light or shadow.

In Invincible Martial's perception, the entire world seemed to lose all color and sound in an instant,

leaving only that trajectory of "slash" that was pure to the extreme, ignoring the distance of space, ignoring the passage of time, descending directly onto his body!

He wanted to resist, but found that he couldn't even turn a thought.

He wanted to dodge, but found that even moving was a luxury.

He could only watch helplessly, "seeing" that invisible sword mark slash across his body, across his Divine Soul, across his tempered martial will!

"Third move."

Lu Jiuyuan's voice rang out calmly; he had already returned to the appearance of a figure in green robes, standing in place with his hands behind his back.

And in the distance, Invincible Martial stood stiffly in mid-air, motionless.

A gentle breeze blew past.

A straight, thin golden line appeared in the middle of Invincible Martial's body.

Immediately after, his body, his Primordial Spirit, and everything about him, along that golden line, like paper thrown into a blazing fire, silently turned into specks of golden light particles and began to dissipate.

"To actually be this... strong..."

Invincible Martial's final voice slowly dissipated in the wind.

The ten great Martial Artists who had shaken the world were thus destroyed in both form and spirit, completely returning to heaven and earth.

Three moves.

First move, broke Ten Directions Invincible.

Second move, broke No Heaven Sword Tiger Art.

Third move, Body Transformation Interstice, severed existence.

The World Society's martial arts arena once again fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone looked up, staring blankly at the place where Invincible Martial had disappeared, their minds blank.

Especially Xu Fu, who opened his mouth wide, a strange "clucking" sound coming from his throat, his eyes bulging as if they were about to burst:

"Gone... gone... f*ck... just like that... gone... three moves... haha... three moves..."

"He is no longer human!"

"He is definitely no longer human!"