370: Chapter 91 The Most Precious Treasure of the Great Yue Kingdom_2 370: Chapter 91 The Most Precious Treasure of the Great Yue Kingdom_2 The True Dragon and Emperor Qi both responded to the battle with their dharma bodies formed from Tao Rules.
Qing Li exhibited his demon body, coiling across the entire sky, his length an unknown quantity.
Emperor Qi, on the other hand, gathered all the stray thoughts of the Great Yue Kingdom within his body; he burned everything, engaging the True Dragon in a fierce fight.
His dharma body reached heaven and penetrated the earth, its height unknown.
Such a towering battle.
When Lu Yuzhen joined with his dharma body, he seemed extremely insignificant.
The Pure White Saint soared into the clouds, several heads shorter than Emperor Qi’s dharma body, and with an arm severed, he appeared even more slender and pitiable.
“This doesn’t seem like your style…”
Xie Xuanyi furrowed his brow.
This battle at the zenith was a true clash among gods and immortals!
He had originally thought that all Lu Yuzhen needed to do was to constrain a part of Emperor Qi’s “Ruyi Dao Rules,” and his mission would have been accomplished.
But to his great surprise.
Was Lu Yuzhen’s ambition so great that he even wanted to partake in this deadly clash among gods?
“Just lending a hand for some excitement.”
Lu Yuzhen’s true self slowly walked back into the White Paper Cave Heaven.
He sat back down amidst the yellow sand to meditate and restore his Divine Thought.
At that moment, Lord Lu’s complexion visibly paled, his laughter becoming hoarse: “If my dharma body hadn’t reached the zenith, you would have seen nothing…”
“Enough already; you always say it’s for me.”
Xie Xuanyi sneered: “The heavens and the earth are vast, but preserving one’s life is of the utmost importance.
If you hadn’t been sure it was safe, how would you dare to enter the battle…
Besides, look inside your heart: who benefits more from such a high-level fight, me or you?”
Even after regaining his cultivation, Xie Xuanyi had only just reached the peak of Yin God.
The battle among Yang Gods.
Xie Xuanyi might gain some insights.
But the battle among celestial beings was too lofty, too distant, too ethereal.
Witnessing it was in vain.
On the contrary.
Lu Yuzhen would profit immensely.
“True to the Sword Cultivator’s reputation, such perceptive eyes.”
Lord Lu smiled, offering his praise before speaking softly: “But you’re wrong about one thing…
There are no free lunches in this world.”
As soon as he finished.
Boom!
Above the zenith, the Pure White Saint was sliced in half by a beam of light!
Emperor Qi’s true body turned the Ruyi Dao into a long sword, with a horizontal slash so wide it almost encompassed the entire zenith of the Great Yue Kingdom.
Qing Li, relying on his sturdy body, directly withstood the strike.
However, Lu Yuzhen, who had forcibly joined the battle, was not so “fortunate.” His dharma body was split at the waist, and the broken section spewed a large amount of white paper scraps.
“Wow,” a sound escaped.
Lord Lu, sitting on the ground, uncontrollably coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood.
He looked cold, raising his head to glare at Emperor Qi’s true body’s location, carelessly wiping his lips.
This scene plunged Xie Xuanyi into silence.
He then realized.
He really didn’t know Lu Yuzhen as well as he thought.
This guy, seemingly cynical, seemingly preferring stability…
in fact, had a reckless madness etched into his bones!
He was a ruthless character through and through!
“Rustle!”
After the Pure White Saint shattered.
The scattered paper scraps drifted towards various parts of the Great Yue Kingdom.
Xie Xuanyi sharply captured this scene.
Recalling the previous scene of capturing the Ruyi Dao, his Heart Lake suddenly skipped a beat.
Lu Yuzhen’s way was extremely peculiar; these falling white papers seemed able to condense into boundaries, and they seemed to even gather and attach special powers of the Tao Rules…
This man had already completed the task of tipping the scales, so why would he, for no reason, push the Pure White Saint to the edge of this celestial battle as an observer?
“You…”
Xie Xuanyi looked down at Lord Lu, starting in shock: “After this battle ends, do you intend to assimilate this Great Yue Kingdom?”
This millennium battle between Qing Li and Emperor Qi had lost its suspense with Lu Yuzhen’s intervention!
Qing Li, having survived the Reincarnation Tribulation with his dharma true body, gradually started to escape from Emperor Qi’s suppression…
The Ruyi Dao that once boiled over the zenith, now missing a piece, was becoming more strained, and it was evident that, in a short while, the Ruyi Dao would be shattered by the True Dragon.
By then.
The great battle would be over.
And the entire Great Yue Kingdom would become a Desolate Country.
But if Lu Yuzhen released the White Paper Cave Heaven and swallowed the entire Great Yue Kingdom into its “belly.”
This would then become a part of Lu Yuzhen’s Grotto Heaven world!
“…”
Lord Lu did not deny this.
He chuckled softly and spoke eerily, “What’s this about assimilation?
Lu simply took over this ‘Desolate Country.’ A nation cannot be without a ruler for a day; after Emperor Qi’s death, this realm certainly needs a master, don’t you think?”
“Wait…”
A terrifying thought suddenly rose in Xie Xuanyi’s heart.
Paperman Sect.
This decade, it emerged out of thin air and, with the power of a single sect, suppressed the Three Great Sects of the South Border.
The key was their unpredictable whereabouts and inscrutable methods.
In previous years, the Heavenly Puppet Sect, Hehuan Sect, and Yin Mountain had briefly united once, with all their experts emerging to scour the South Border in an attempt to organize a counterattack.
Alas, this grand extermination effort ended hastily—an iconic case of much ado about nothing in recent years.
It wasn’t because the people of the path of evil didn’t put in enough effort; the experts from the three sects nearly traversed the hundred thousand mountains of the South Border, even uncovering several ancient secret realms.
And yet, they still failed to locate the gate of the Paperman Sect…
To this day, no one knew where the gate of the Paperman Sect was hidden.
People only knew where Lord Lu was.
Wherever he was, the Paperman Sect was there too.
Now.
Xie Xuanyi vaguely guessed the truth.
The reason why the Paperman Sect’s gate couldn’t be found in the South Border was that, from the beginning, the Paperman Sect never settled in the South Border!
Lu Yuzhen’s “White Paper Cave Heaven” was the actual base of the Paperman Sect!
However.
For a cultivator, even though their lifebound cave heaven could take root and transform into a blessed land, it is still difficult to nurture living beings…
unless there is a special serendipity, or if the cultivator’s strength was incredibly formidable.
After a moment of silence, Xie Xuanyi slowly asked, “May I ask, Lord Lu, how many living people have the Paperman Sect cultivated over the years?”
Lu Yuzhen raised an eyebrow.
He hadn’t expected Xie Xuanyi to come up with such a sudden question.
However…
Lu Yuzhen just smiled faintly, responding calmly, “Not many, but not a few either.
Are you asking about the location of the Paperman Sect’s gate?”
…
Xie Xuanyi didn’t expect that Lu Yuzhen would be so unguarded.
“All these years, no matter how they searched in the South Border, they couldn’t find the gate…
because the real gate of the Paperman Sect has never been in the South Border.”
“The true location of the gate is very close to what you guessed.”
Lord Lu smiled slightly and calmly said, “Actually, Lu has never claimed that the Paperman Sect is a sect of the South Border.
It’s just that when Lu first started, I applied some disciplinary measures to the Three Great Sects, and those like White Ghost and Mo Taoist were scared out of their wits, thinking that Lu was another evil cultivator coming to seize territory in the South Border.”
Regarding Lu Yuzhen’s words…
Xie Xuanyi could only believe half of what he said.
He asked with a frown, “So…
you chose to bet on Qing Li simply for the convenience of taking over the Great Yue Kingdom after the death and dissipation of Emperor Qi?”
Lu Yuzhen looked into Xie Xuanyi’s eyes.
He spoke earnestly, “Guess, what is the most precious treasure in the Great Yue Kingdom?”
Xie Xuanyi fell into contemplation upon hearing this.
Ancient texts?
No, with Lu Yuzhen’s strength, he must have collected those the moment he entered the secret realm.
Ruyi Dao?
This was indeed a big temptation.
But Lu Yuzhen seemed uninterested in “Ruyi Dao.”
“It’s the people.”
Lu Yuzhen saw Xie Xuanyi deep in thought, chuckled lightly, and offered a reminder.
“People?”
Xie Xuanyi felt chills, thinking of the nine million souls imprisoned in the void.
Mountains of corpses and seas of blood before the Great Yue Palace.
For the sake of immortality, Emperor Qi sacrificed the nation’s citizens with a great formation, draining their flesh and blood as fodder for ascension.
In this world, the Heavenly Dao was shattered.
These people could not enter the six paths, hence their resentment remained unresolved.
Due to the infighting within the Ruyi Cave Heaven, the void was saturated, allowing the extremely fortunate among these resentful spirits to transmigrate into Lilim during these thousand years, gaining another brief “lifetime.”
These people.
They resented Emperor Qi, resented Great Yue, resented the True Dragon.
But notably, they would not resent Lu Yuzhen.