623: Chapter 613 Imperial Tutor (13)

Lu Xingzhou knelt on one knee, his broken sword thrust into the ground.

The blade was trembling.

His hand was trembling too.

But he did not let go of the sword.

His opponent stood on high, the Law of the Heavenly Emperor pressing down, as if to erase him entirely from this world.

"A mere Supreme level, yet you dare to block a Heavenly Emperor?"

Lu Xingzhou did not reply.

He raised his head, blood flowing down his forehead and into his eyes.

Everything before him was red.

His Supreme Body was collapsing.

The sword book was vibrating.

Even the book shadow that had just formed, belonging to him, was flickering under the pressure.

He knew the gap in strength.

He also knew that if he kept holding on, he would die.

But behind him lay the Seal of the Heavenly Abyss Green Lotus.

If he retreated one more step, the Law of the Heavenly Emperor would press down onto the Seal.

That would no longer be just a matter of his own life or death.

"I have not fallen yet."

As the words fell, a thick force of Origin slowly rose from the depths of the earth, first supporting his bones, then protecting his blood, and finally sinking into his chest.

Within Lu Xingzhou, the faint light of the Body Scripture suddenly flared.

His consciousness was pulled into a vast, boundless land.

Countless imprints of Physiques unfolded before his eyes.

The Desolate Ancient Sacred Body stood tall, supporting the heavens.

The Heavenly Tyrant Body crushed the myriad Dao.

The Taiyin and the Sun passed by in parallel.

The ancient phantom of the Supreme Body stood in the deepest part, watching him in silence.

A thought fell into the depths of Lu Xingzhou's heart.

A Physique is not a label born with one.

It is the way the Physical Body carries the Dao.

Lu Xingzhou suddenly understood.

Let the Physical Body carry the path, carry the sword, and carry those still breathing behind him.

"So that is how it is."

Lu Xingzhou opened his eyes.

The bloodstains cracking on his body did not disappear.

But that tottering body suddenly stabilized.

The light of the Supreme Body no longer radiated outward.

It sank into his bones and blood, into his internal organs, into every inch of his muscles.

supreme perfection.

Lu Xingzhou took a step forward.

The Law of the Heavenly Emperor pressed down once more.

This time, he did not kneel.

He raised his fist and struck back head-on.

Boom!

The Law was struck with cracks by a single punch.

Lu Xingzhou rushed into the cracks, the Body Scripture operating, his Physical Body like a furnace of the Dao, tearing apart the incoming force, crushing it, and then expelling it from his body.

The second punch landed.

The Void Realm exploded.

The figure of that Heavenly Emperor finally retreated half a step.

Lu Xingzhou did not stop.

The sword book resonated with the Supreme Body.

Sword Intent no longer came only from the sword, but erupted simultaneously from his flesh and blood, from every wound on his body, and from that heart of his that refused to retreat.

He slashed with his sword.

The control of the battlefield was torn open.

The Domain of that Heavenly Emperor's Law wavered.

Lu Xingzhou pressed forward, sword strike after sword strike.

He spoke no harsh words.

He did not laugh wildly.

He simply swung his sword in silence.

Finally, the figure on high completely lost patience.

He did not continue to suppress him head-on but raised his hand and waved it.

A spatial scene unfolded before Lu Xingzhou's eyes.

In the scene, there was an array platform.

Lu Xingzhou's former subordinates were locked in iron chains.

There were young Cultivators who had followed him during his time at the ruined temple.

There were close friends who had once blocked blades for him.

And there were those he had saved in the ruins of the Dark Turmoil who had followed him ever since.

They were kneeling on the array platform, with cracks at the edge of the Heavenly Abyss connected beneath their feet.

Black Qi crawled up from the cracks in wisps.

The hand with which Lu Xingzhou gripped his sword tightened abruptly.

In the scene, someone looked up.

"Xingzhou!"

The voice came across the space, hoarse and urgent.

"Don't worry about us!"

Lu Xingzhou did not speak.

The opponent was using these people to force him to stop.

This method was dirty.

But it was also effective.

Because Lu Xingzhou's sword was never drawn for the sake of victory.

It was for the people behind him.

"If you strike one more time."

The voice pressed down from above.

"They will be thrown into the Heavenly Abyss."

Lu Xingzhou looked at the array platform.

He looked at those who were still alive.

He watched the black Qi crawl bit by bit onto their clothes.

He suddenly sheathed his sword.

The faint light of the void book lit up in his palm.

Space folded layer by layer.

Lu Xingzhou locked onto the location of the array platform, took a step forward, and the sword edge sliced open the spatial Restriction.

Beneath the feet of the people on the array platform, silver-white light patterns suddenly appeared.

"Don't move."

Lu Xingzhou's voice traveled into the scene.

"I am taking you away."

Those people were stunned for a moment.

The Restrictions around the array platform began to fail.

The power of the void book bypassed the outer layer of Restrictions and landed directly on the hostages.

Just as they were about to be teleported away.

An ancient artifact fell from above.

It was not a weapon of attack.

It fell without any killing light.

There was only a circle of chaotic spatial ripples that crashed directly into the passage Lu Xingzhou had just built.

The spatial coordinates were deflected on the spot.

Lu Xingzhou's expression changed.

"Not good."

The people on the array platform disappeared.

But they did not come to his side.

Nor did they remain where they were.

They were flung to a more dangerous location.

Above the Heavenly Abyss.

Both sides paused for an instant.

The next moment, a low vibration came from the depths of the Heavenly Abyss.

The people who had been flung out landed on the edge of the Green Lotus Seal.

Beneath their feet was the cracked Heavenly Abyss.

Below, the black tide churned.

Wisps of black Qi like fine threads wound around their hands, feet, necks, and Divine Souls.

Someone drew a sword to slash.

The black Qi broke, then re-gathered.

Someone channeled spiritual power to protect themselves.

The moment the spiritual power arose, it was suppressed and lost control due to the pollution.

A young Cultivator knelt half-way beside the afterimage of the Green Lotus, gritting his teeth to hold up the array patterns.

"Xingzhou!"

Lu Xingzhou had already moved.

He did not look at the Heavenly Emperor behind him again.

He did not choose the victory that was within his reach.

He turned and rushed toward the Heavenly Abyss.

The sword was the path he chose after descending the mountain.

After descending the mountain, if he saw someone about to die, he should save them.

The void book opened again.

The Supreme Body withstood the pollution at the edge of the Heavenly Abyss.

The Body Scripture stabilized his Physical Body.

The sword book cleared the path.

Lu Xingzhou crashed into the outer edge of the black tide, slashing away the filth that was wrapping around the others with a single sword strike.

"Don't look back."

He landed in front of the crowd, his voice deep.

"Walk behind me."

The eyes of several former subordinates turned red.

No one shouted "don't worry about us" again.

Because they all knew that since Lu Xingzhou had come, he would not leave empty-handed.

He slashed sword after sword, splitting the black tide, cutting the black threads wrapped around everyone's Divine Souls.

But just as everyone was about to escape the edge of the Heavenly Abyss.

The Heavenly Emperor behind him made his move.

He did not attack head-on.

Instead, he activated that space-type Emperor Weapon, coordinating with the Law of the Heavenly Emperor, and struck directly at the escape route Lu Xingzhou had opened.

Crack.

The spatial passage shattered.

Lu Xingzhou and the others were halfway out when they were trapped on the edge of the Heavenly Abyss.

Outside was the blockade of the Heavenly Emperor.

Inside was the surging black tide.

Beneath their feet, the Green Lotus Seal was shaking violently.

Some people's spiritual power began to be suppressed.

Some people's faces turned black, their Divine Souls pulled by the filth.

The wound on Lu Xingzhou's chest split open again.

But he did not panic.

He raised his hand.

The power of the nine books left behind by Qin Yun within him was forcibly awakened by him.

The void book stabilized the shattered space.

The Body Scripture supported his Physical Body.

The book of life protected everyone's vitality.

The death book suppressed the pollution invading their Divine Souls.

The life book locked the life spans of the people that were about to break.

The Dao book smoothed out the chaotic Dao at the edge of the Heavenly Abyss.

The fortune book pulled out a glimmer of survival.

The treasure book awakened the remaining resonance of the nine treasures.

The time book briefly slowed the speed of the black tide's devouring.

Nine rays of residual light lit up behind Lu Xingzhou.

At that moment, his back looked exactly like someone who had once suppressed the world.

But that was not Qin Yun reappearing.

It was Lu Xingzhou using his own Dao to borrow that Foundation.

"Go!"

He slashed through the final layer of the black tide with his sword, pushing everyone toward the outside.

But the moment the power of the nine books fell, it also touched the deepest node of the Green Lotus Seal.

One Green Lotus after another went dark.

The Seal, which had been broken but still able to be maintained, suddenly developed a huge crack.

Deep within the Heavenly Abyss, the black tide surged violently.

It was as if something had finally found the coordinates of the outside world.

Lu Xingzhou rushed out of the edge of the Heavenly Abyss with the others.

They fell onto the broken mountain land, gasping for air.

They had survived.

But no one cheered.

Because behind them, the Heavenly Abyss was splitting open.

In the Changsheng Heavenly Continent, all trees fell.

In the Yuanhuang Heavenly Continent, Death Qi surged.

In the Shenxuan Heavenly Continent, spatial cracks spread in sheets.

In the Eastern Earth Heavenly Continent, the Taiyin tide lost its balance.

The Origin of the Nine Continents shook simultaneously.

Lu Xingzhou stood at the edge of the Heavenly Abyss, his rescued old friends behind him.

In front, the dark crack was constantly expanding.

The residual light of the nine books gradually extinguished behind him.

He gripped his sword tightly, the veins on the back of his hand bulging.

He had saved the people.

But he had also pried open an even greater disaster.

Beneath the Heavenly Abyss, the black tide rolled.

A huge crack had split open the Green Lotus Seal.

A Dark Turmoil of an era-defining level was raising its head from the crack.