A mist of blood drifted across the vault of heaven.
Failing to dodge in time, the Three-Headed Ghost Clan's Void Saint had been struck dead-on. His body burst apart instantly, snuffing out all traces of life.
It had all unfolded too quickly and suddenly for anyone to react.
Lu Yuan stood proudly in midair, enveloped in golden blood qi, vast waves of his aura surging outward layer upon layer.
As for the Void Saint before him, he could not be any deader.
Under that crushing blow, he had lacked any power to resist. Even his formidable Saint Realm physique had failed to hold out for even half an instant.
Such devastating might surprised even Lu Yuan.
Not far away, Lei You and the Void Saint of the Origin Demon Clan stared at the Fantian Seal, which loomed like a miniature mountain, their faces filled with utter shock.
"Impossible! What in the world is that object? How could it possess such terrifying might?" Lei You spoke, struggling to believe his eyes. Only those who had attained the Saint Realm truly understood how fearsome that level was.
Even if they could not unleash their full peak power here, their physical bodies suffered no suppression whatsoever.
Destroying a Saint Realm physique normally required the ferocious onslaught of an equivalent being, combined with an arsenal of lethal methods.
Yet now?
It had been obliterated in a single strike.
He knew with absolute certainty that this feat was entirely due to that seal.
"That kid entered the dao arena of Immortal Guangchengzi earlier... Could that object be the legendary Fantian Seal?"
After a brief daze, a thought surfaced in the mind of the Origin Demon Clan's Void Saint as he guessed the seal's origin.
His words sent a violent tremor through Lei You. The look in Lei You's eyes as he stared at the Fantian Seal shifted from wary dread to burning desire and unbridled greed.
The Fantian Seal—a supreme treasure of myth and legend—was renowned throughout the extraterrestrial depths of deep space.
The records of the Celestial Clan even contained specific mentions of it.
It was said that Guangchengzi had once used the Fantian Seal to slaughter countless formidable foes, earning illustrious renown across the stars.
Later, with the decline of the Milky Way Star Sector, those accounts had gradually faded into mere legend.
Never had they imagined that today, they would actually encounter an imperial seal suspected to be the Fantian Seal itself. If they could obtain it...
Opposite them, Lu Yuan naturally saw through their thoughts.
He let out a soft chuckle and gave a slight flick of his intent.
The Fantian Seal immediately shrank and was stored away.
Yet his momentum did not halt in the slightest as he took a stride forward.
Boom!
A vast aura erupted from his body.
This great battle was far from over.
He had only killed one of them, after all.
*Not good!*
Sensing that burgeoning aura, Lei You was instantly jolted.
Yet he chose not to retreat. Instead, he said, "Chongye, this brat holds a tremendous fortune and may well have other hidden trump cards. If you and I continue holding back, we are very likely to fall here. We might as well pay a small price and suppress and slay him once and for all!
"That way, we can split the fortunes on his person equally between the two of us. What do you say?"
Mount Kongtong might not be Guangchengzi's sole dao arena, but it surely contained no lack of legacies and fortunes.
Earlier, they had found no opportunity to claim them.
Now that they had descended and seen their chance to seize them, neither of them would let it slip by.
"Very well!" the Origin Demon Clan's Void Saint agreed with a nod.
A legacy and fortune left behind by an immortal was something even a Saint Realm expert like him could not resist.
He also clearly understood that Lu Yuan's strength was truly terrifying. If they wished to slay him, they could not succeed without getting genuinely serious.
Without hesitation, Chongye spread his arms. The black mist enveloping him erupted once more, coalescing into a suit of armor around his body. The aura he radiated became far more dreadful than before, faintly carrying the true essence of the Saint Realm.
Lei You did the same. The power of thunder crackling across his frame grew ever richer until his entire form was engulfed in lightning.
At this moment, both had unsealed a fraction of their true Saint Realm power, intent on slaying Lu Yuan in a single strike.
Rumble!
Because of this very release, the sky trembled, and mysterious, profound talismans materialized one after another across the vault above.
It was the power of the Severance of Heaven and Earth. Detecting the aura of the Saint Realm, it was currently gathering strength to suppress the two.
After all, at this stage, Earth did not permit the presence of such figures.
However, gathering that suppressive power required a short period of time.
Lei You and Chongye were exploiting precisely this window.
Boom!
Unleashing far greater might, the two charged toward Lu Yuan without a second thought.
Lu Yuan had anticipated this and showed not the slightest retreat. Twenty-eight grotto-heavens manifested once more behind him.
Empowered by twenty-eight times his normal battle strength, the Great Sun Smelting Furnace inside him resonated.
As his internal organs vibrated in unison, Lu Yuan unleashed his strongest state and took a step forward into the void.
In the next instant, the two sides collided head-on.
Infinite radiance erupted, as if a second sun had suddenly risen in the sky.
All three poured out the greatest power they could presently muster. Lightning, black mist, and diverse techniques intertwined in chaotic fury.
The battlefield tumbled from the heavens down to the earth below. With every move traded among the three, everything in the vicinity was utterly obliterated. Under the scorching outburst of the Great Sun Smelting Furnace, a small lake was evaporated into dry steam.
"Thunder God Descent!"
Seizing an opening, Lei You once again executed the divine art of the Celestial Clan.
Yet unlike before, this strike carried the will of a Saint, rendering it vastly more formidable.
Beside him, the Origin Demon Void Saint concentrated the mist around his body into a black heavenly blade, slashing straight downward.
Both were confident that since they had risked drawing upon the power of the Saint Realm, a mere Sovereign King Realm cultivator could never hold out against them.
And indeed, Lu Yuan felt immense pressure bearing down upon him.
Yet he was well prepared in his heart.
Confronting their techniques, his expression grew stern.
*Lei You is the strongest of the three. Slaying him in an instant would be difficult. I must strike at the Origin Demon Void Saint first.*
Lu Yuan's thinking was simple: with each foe he eliminated, his own burden would lighten.
Tackling the easier target before the harder one was the only way to ensure the situation remained within his grasp.
Having made his decision, he considered what attack offered the greatest offensive lethality and the element of surprise...
The moment the answer crossed his mind, he hesitated no longer. Stepping forward as his internal organs roared, he activated the Ancestral Dragon Breathing Method and charged straight into the deluge of Lei You's divine art, cleaving through the lightning to bear down upon the Origin Demon Void Saint.
"Chongye, watch out for the Fantian Seal!" Lei You cried in alarm, shouting a warning.
"I am already prepared, do not worry!" the Origin Demon Void Saint sneered, retreating swiftly.
He knew that even his own physique could never withstand the Fantian Seal.
Yet as long as he withdrew beyond the seal's effective reach, he would remain completely safe.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Yet at that exact instant, the two Saints suddenly heard the ring of a sword.
Immediately following it was a sword intent vast to the absolute extreme, surging in from every direction.
When they finally looked over, they discovered that a black sword embryo had somehow appeared in Lu Yuan's hand. Facing the Origin Demon Void Saint, he swung it forward in a slow, deliberate arc.
The world in all directions seemed to heed its summons. The entire expanse churned violently with the boundless power of sword intent, leaving no way to dodge and nowhere to flee.
The supreme sword dao divine art of Sword Mountain: commanding heaven and earth, One Sword of Heaven and Earth!
Chapter 162