Free Web NovelChapter 200.1: The Divine Technique Unleashed, Invincible and Unstoppable! Two Supreme Dao Lords Slain in an Instant, Shocking the Crowd!
Time kept passing, day by day. There were only ten days left until the secret realm closed off. Then nine, eight, seven, six, five...
In truth, there was no exact deadline for when the secret realm would close. It could very well stay open for longer than expected, and no one knew precisely when it would close.
Even so, many preferred to be safe and leave the secret realm early. One by one, Dao Foundation martial artists and Dao Lords departed with bountiful harvests, their hearts filled with anticipation as they prepared to return to their sects.
But the moment they stepped out of the secret realm, they found a young martial artist seated cross-legged not far from the entrance. And every one of them was greeted with the same phrase.
"Fellow Daoist, please wait."
And then the ordeal would begin.
Whether they were Dao Foundation experts or Dao Lords, those who refused to comply were cut down, and those who relented were subdued and forced, in humiliating fashion, to present the contents of their spatial treasures, allowing Lu Changsheng to sift through and claim whatever valuables he pleased.
However, Lu Changsheng did have his principles. As a man of his word, he made it clear that he only wanted Principle Divine Stones, and so that was what he took, along with, at most, a little Heavenly Demon Essence Blood quietly pocketed on the side. Beyond that, he showed no interest whatsoever in other rare natural treasures.
As more time passed, dozens of Dao Foundation martial artists and Dao Lords emerged from the entrance of the secret realm, each of them subjected to a search by Lu Changsheng.
Even so, Lu Changsheng had still not managed to collect enough divine stones—although he had gained quite a windfall in Heavenly Demon Essence Blood.
I only obtained one Principle Divine Stone, so I'm still short three. And I don't think there are many Dao Foundation martial artists or Dao Lords left inside the secret realm...
Lu Changsheng kept waiting quietly near the entrance.
A number of Dao Foundation martial artists and Dao Lords had yet to leave the scene, all of them wearing troubled expressions. The humiliation inflicted by Lu Changsheng still stung, and they had many other unfortunate souls suffer the same fate. The words "Fellow Daoist, please wait" still echoed in their ears, and perhaps they would keep hearing them even when they closed their eyes to sleep.
However, they chose to stick around. They wanted to see whether Lu Changsheng would eventually meet his match. After all, there were still some truly fearsome experts inside the secret realm who had not yet emerged.
They would wait along with Lu Changsheng!
According to the general estimate, there were five days left. Then four, then three, two...
With only two days left, the passage at the entrance of the secret realm began to ripple faintly. The space itself was quivering, though the passage had yet to collapse. From the looks of it, it could hold for a few more days.
Still, Lu Changsheng knew that within these two days, most of the supreme Dao Foundation martial artists and Dao Lords remaining inside would surely emerge. No one would risk pushing it to the very last moment. freeweɓnovel.cѳm
And sure enough, shadowy figures began flickering in the depths of the secret realm's exit, shooting out one after another in an instant. There were four figures in total: two Dao Lords and two Dao Foundation martial artists.
Many onlookers felt their hearts lurch, staring with wide eyes at the four individuals. Those were clearly not ordinary.
"Hey, that's Su Tianwen and Zhang Tianyi, supreme Dao Foundation experts, said to have each grasped five Principles. They're ridiculously strong. They stand at the very peak among martial artists of the third layer of the Ancient Region!"
"Those two have a ferocious track record. They've killed many supreme Dao Foundation martial artists, and even Dao Lords!"
"Hmm? The other two figures look like Dao Lords. They seem like Dao Lord Dongyang and Dao Lord Shou Xu."
"Dao Lord Dongyang and Dao Lord Shouxu are both supreme Dao Lords, even stronger than Dao Lord Qingxuan. Speaking of Dao Lord Qingxuan, didn't he leave the secret realm in a hurry a while back? I wonder what that was about."
"Now that these four have come out, will Lu Changsheng dare to ask them to stay as well?"
Every gaze turned toward Lu Changsheng. No one dared to underestimate him any longer—but no one dared to underestimate those four, either.
"Dao Lord Dongyang, Dao Lord Shou Xu, Principle Divine Stones are of no use to you. So why did you insist on competing with us for them?"
It was Su Tianwen who spoke up first, turning with a cold smile to the two supreme Dao Lords.
"Leave the Principle Divine Stones, and we will let you go without trouble. Otherwise..." Su Tianwen took a step forward, and he and Zhang Tianyi moved as one to block the two Dao Lords' path.
Clearly, they were not going to let them leave.
"Hmm?" Dao Lord Dongyang's expression darkened. "Su Tianwen, inside the secret realm, everything is settled by ability. What's this? You couldn't take the Principle Divine Stones from us there, so now you want to settle it out here? Fine. I shall oblige you!"
Dao Lord Shou Xu said nothing, but he had already summoned his enchanted treasure. In an instant, both sides stood at the edge of open conflict, the atmosphere between them so tense it seemed a single wrong word would ignite a battle.
The onlookers were stunned. Apparently Dao Lord Dongyang and Dao Lord Shou Xu had crossed Su Tianwen and Zhang Tianyi somewhere inside the secret realm, and the bad blood between them had yet to cool down.
But the confrontation never quite ignited, because Lu Changsheng had heard the key words.
Principle Divine Stones, huh?
"You four, you mentioned Principle Divine Stones just now. You two Dao Lords, how many Principle Divine Stones do you have on you?" Lu Changsheng asked.
The four supreme experts turned their gazes on Lu Changsheng simultaneously.
"Who are you? And how dare you intervene like that? What business is it of yours whether there are Principle Divine Stones, or how many there are?" Dao Lord Dongyang scoffed.
To his mind, one had to earn the right to speak to him. He acknowledged Su Tianwen and Zhang Tianyi, two supreme Dao Foundation experts, but other martial artists? He would not even spare them a glance—much less this random Dao Foundation martial artist standing before him now.
To Dao Lord Dongyang, if a Dao Foundation cultivator left no impression on him, then he had to be some unremarkable individual, someone not worth a second thought.
There was silence. The area around the entrance was eerily silent.
Dao Lord Dongyang had just noticed the many Dao Foundation martial artists and Dao Lords watching the situation from nearby, yet not a single one of them said a word. Every face wore the same peculiar expression.
"Hmm?" Dao Lord Dongyang sensed that something was off.
Perhaps this guy isn't some no-name after all?
Lu Changsheng still wore a smile, and it was a genuine one. He had finally gotten word of Principle Divine Stones, so how could he not be pleased? He felt genuine joy, coming straight from the heart.
He saw no reason to dance around the subject. "Fellow Daoists, please take out your spatial treasures. I will search them one by one. I only want the Principle Divine Stones. Cooperate, and you are free to leave the Heavenly Shackle Mountain Range without trouble. If you choose not to cooperate, then I will simply help myself."
The four of them were momentarily stunned, unsure whether they had misheard lu Changsheng. Had this unfamiliar Dao Foundation martial artist just threatened them? No one in their right mind would act so brazenly with two Dao Lords and two supreme Dao Foundation experts.
So he's trying to block the exit? Does he really think he can keep all four of us from leaving? Is he mad?
Zhang Tianyi, never one for patience, was not about to take this lightly. His expression darkened, and the temperature of the air around him seemed to plummet.
"Where did this arrogant Dao Foundation martial artist crawl out from? I'll give you one last chance to turn around and leave. Otherwise..."
With that, Zhang Tianyi swept his hand.
Boom!
It was as though an enormous mountain peak had come crashing down. That was Zhang Tianyi's Principle, displaying a terrifying might on par with a compound divine technique. There was no mistake about it: that Principle had been pushed to Perfection.
It was only natural that a supreme Dao Foundation expert would open with a Perfection-level Principle. Usually, whenever Zhang Tianyi unleashed this Principle, it shocked the heavens. Against other Dao Foundation experts in particular, he had almost always crushed them with overwhelming, unstoppable force.
However, despite this tremendous first move, the onlookers still wore those same strange expressions.
What's up with them? Do they not realize this is a Perfection-level Principle?
That was the only explanation that made sense to Zhang Tianyi. Perfection-level Principles were, after all, extraordinarily rare. Few had ever witnessed one, so the people here most likely had no idea just how powerful such a Principle really was.
When Zhang Tianyi's Perfection-level Principle came crashing down, however, Lu Changsheng's Mind Space also manifested with a deafening sound.
And within Lu Changsheng's Mind Space, a burst of radiance flared to life. Four beams of light blazed with blinding brilliance, radiating a terrifying aura as they rose above his head to intercept Zhang Tianyi's Principle. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
"Hmph. You think you can stop it? You're merely an ant trying to shake a tree!" Zhang Tianyi sneered, not yet sensing just how powerful those four rays of light truly were.
As the Perfection-level Principle manifested, the four beams above Lu Changsheng's head gradually revealed themselves in full. Steadily and firmly, they held Zhang Tianyi's Principle at bay.
"What the..." Zhang Tianyi's eyes widened, disbelief etched across his face.
His Perfection-level Principle had just been stopped. Those four rays of light were clearly four distinct Principles, but even that should not be enough to withstand a Principle pushed to Perfection.
However, Zhang Tianyi was finally starting to feel the aura radiating from each of those four Principles above Lu Chansheng's head, and his heart lurched.
"Are all those Principles at... Perfection? No way... They're actually at Perfection! How could anyone push four Principles to Perfection?!" Zhang Tianyi cried out in shock.
Four Perfection-level Principles was simply beyond comprehension. Even Zhang Tianyi and Su Tianwen, despite having mastered five Principles each, only possessed three at Perfection, and that alone had placed them at the very pinnacle among Dao Foundation martial artists of the Ancient Region!
That was precisely why they had been so desperate to obtain Principle Divine Stones. With just two more, they stood a very real chance of cultivating their remaining two Principles to Perfection as well. Once all five reached Perfection, they could attempt to condense a divine ability, for they had originally only condensed five Principle Seeds.
But no matter how they tried, they could not have imagined that anywhere in the third layer of the Ancient Region, someone had actually contemplated more Principles to Perfection than they had. That gap in power was enough to crush them outright!
"Who are you, exactly? I've never heard of anyone like you among the supreme Dao Foundation martial artists in the third layer. No one with four Principles at Perfection is ordinary!" Su Tianwen exclaimed, his expression grave.
The moment Lu Changsheng's four Principles appeared, Su Tianwen had felt an immense pressure bearing down on him.
"I am Lu Changsheng of the Ancient Region Heavenly Sect."
He made no attempt to conceal his identity. He could not have hidden it even if he wanted to, and there was no need. After all, who in the entire third layer of the Ancient Region could still pose a threat to him?
"You're that Lu Changsheng?" Zhang Tianyi gasped. "The one who, at the Divine Treasury Realm, crushed an entire generation of both the Immortal Dao and the Martial Dao?"
Indeed, that name carried considerable weight. Even so, Zhang Tianyi and Su Tianwen could never have imagined that so shortly after forging his Dao Foundation, he had already surpassed them both, having comprehended four Perfection-level Principles. It was utterly beyond belief.
