Three Heavenly Position Immortals had died right before his eyes.
Not long ago, they had been conversing pleasantly with him, moving together against the Heavenly Court in a display of overwhelming dominance.
Yet now, in what seemed like mere moments, they had all fallen.
Above all, seeing Lu Yuan slay a Heavenly Position Immortal with a single stroke of his sword had plunged this remaining expert of the Eternal Clan into profound terror. It was a dread he had never felt even toward other Heavenly Position Immortals, yet here it was.
He could no longer recall how long it had been since he last felt this way.
It was too horrific, too terrifying—especially now that he stood alone.
How much longer could he hold out? Would he perish in the very next instant?
At this moment, nearly everyone was watching the battlefield intently.
Lu Yuan did not move.
His expression remained calm as usual.
Of course, slaying three Heavenly Position Immortals had taken a toll on him. No matter how powerful he was, they still belonged to the same realm. Even so, cutting down one more would hardly pose a problem.
"You have thoroughly provoked two supreme powers now! The Domain Lords of my Eternal Clan and the Ji clan reached the realm of Supreme Immortals long ago, and backed by the favor of the Heaven Abandoning Clan, they will soon shatter the barriers of the Immortal Realm!"
"If you stop now, it is not too late for everything. But if you stubbornly persist in this folly, then I will gladly see this through to the end and stake my life against you in a desperate battle!"
Spoke the sole surviving Heavenly Position Immortal of the Eternal Clan.
The terror from earlier seemed to vanish at this moment, replaced by a sharp edge as he continued, "So you had better think carefully! If I fight with all my might, you will witness the true methods of a Heavenly Position Immortal!"
These words caused the onlookers watching from afar to exchange bewildered glances.
Lu Yuan had already slain three Heavenly Position Immortals, yet this man still dared to mouth threats.
Could he have some hidden trump card?
Then again, Heavenly Position Immortals truly were formidable to an inconceivable degree. Possessing all manner of potent arts, perhaps he genuinely could reverse the current situation.
"Oh?" When Lu Yuan heard this, a faint smile surfaced on his face.
He said nothing, simply holding the Daluo Sword Embryo as he slowly took a step forward.
Rumble!
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
Golden blood vitality surged as supreme sword intent galloped forth.
The two powers intertwined, exalting him like a true god.
Seeing this, everyone shuddered, sensing that another clash was about to erupt immediately.
And without the Buddha Kingdom in the Palm from before, would the aftermath spread to engulf them?
Consequently, several people backed away once more, thinking it was wiser not to remain close. In an unconstrained environment, no one knew just how devastating a clash between Heavenly Position Immortals could become.
Yet the moment that Eternal Clan Heavenly Position Immortal finished speaking and saw Lu Yuan step forward, the fear he had suppressed flared up once again in his eyes.
Without the slightest hesitation, he transformed into a streak of rainbow light and shot straight into the sky!
Simultaneously, the surrounding space began to fracture as a powerful aura surged outward.
This movement...
Seeing this, the spectators were dumbstruck, rendered completely speechless.
Nearly every single person could see that the Eternal Clan Heavenly Position Immortal had chosen to... flee.
Indeed, he was running.
Just moments ago, had he not put on an air of fighting to the death? Why now...
They had never expected an entity of his standing to choose flight at such a juncture.
Lu Yuan, however, had seen through the man's intentions long ago. Looking toward the shattered space and the fleeing Heavenly Position Immortal, a smile appeared on his face.
He brandished the Daluo Sword Embryo. Runes surfaced one after another, spreading across the firmament.
In the next instant, all the shattered space was mended and locked down.
Immediately after, Lu Yuan raised the sword embryo, inhaled deeply, faced that streak of light, and slowly unleashed a slash.
Clang, clang, clang!
Boundless sword intent converged into supreme radiance, and in the very next instant, it shot straight toward the Eternal Clan Heavenly Position Immortal.
At this moment, everyone present felt as though heaven and earth had been sundered.
Time stood still.
Space seemed to cease existing.
And in the sky, the streak of light representing the Eternal Clan Heavenly Position Immortal disintegrated the moment it met that supreme sword intent. The flame of his life was snuffed out, and his soul was thoroughly reduced to stillness.
In a daze, the same realization dawned on everyone present: it was all over.
In truth, exactly as they perceived, that Heavenly Position Immortal could hold out no longer beneath Lu Yuan's single strike and perished entirely.
It was, after all, his most powerful slash.
More importantly, the man had already withstood multiple onslaughts from Lu Yuan and was practically exhausted. Coupled with his dread and total loss of battle spirit, his combat strength had plummeted.
Had the Eternal Clan Heavenly Position Immortal been willing to stand his ground with his battle will intact, Lu Yuan would have had to expend some effort to slay him. Unfortunately, the man had been completely terrorized.
Having done all this, Lu Yuan fully withdrew the Daluo Sword Embryo.
His expression was as placid as ever as he stood quietly where he was.
As for the onlookers, their eyes all shifted toward the Eternal battlefield.
There, clansmen from the two supreme powers still remained, among them Grotto-Heaven Immortals and Creation Immortals.
Now that the four strongest had been completely wiped out, the time for reckoning had arrived.
"Y-You cannot slaughter us all!"
Sensing this, the experts of the Ji clan and Eternal Clan turned pale, barely able to speak. Yet they knew they had to speak up now; otherwise, Lu Yuan could easily exterminate them all.
But what could they rely on at this point? They could only invoke the factions behind them, but would that be of any use?
Hearing their cries, Lu Yuan did not reply immediately. He cast a glance over the members of the two factions and said slowly, "I will give you a chance. Those below the Grotto-Heaven Immortal Realm may leave the Eternal Warship. As for those at or above it, stay behind."
Naturally, he had no intention of slaughtering every last one of them, as there was no need. Not every member of the Ji clan and Eternal Clan was like the upper echelons, colluding with the extraterrestrial heavenly demons for the sake of power.
Of course, while the death penalty could be spared, punishment could not be avoided.
After today, he would employ methods to completely sever their cultivations and forbid them from ever cultivating again.
As for those in the Grotto-Heaven Immortal Realm and above, there was no question of letting them off.
Once Lu Yuan's words fell, the weaker members of the two factions all departed the Eternal Warship.
Yet without explicit orders, they dared not flee straight into the starry expanse.
After all, even that Eternal Clan Heavenly Position Immortal had just been cut down with a single sword strike. If they moved recklessly, might they not enrage him into a slaughter?
Meanwhile, the Grotto-Heaven Immortals and stronger clansmen of the two factions remained frozen where they stood, not daring to utter a word.
However, they were acutely aware that if things continued like this, they would surely die.
"We cannot just sit here waiting for death! Even if it is the end, we must fight for a chance!" roared a Creation Immortal of the Ji clan.
With a step forward, he charged outward, desperate to carve out a sliver of survival.
Yet in the next instant, Lu Yuan appeared directly before him and threw a simple, casual punch.
Rumble!
Splatter!
A thunderous boom echoed, and that Creation Immortal was instantly obliterated down to the last scrap, utterly powerless to resist.
Lu Yuan had been able to handle Heavenly Position Immortals with ease, let alone battling a lower realm from a higher one. For him, it posed no difficulty whatsoever—it was absolute suppression.
Immediately after, Lu Yuan wasted no more words and appeared directly aboard the Eternal Warship.
In a flash, an overwhelming killing intent swept through the area.
Every person present felt it.
They knew their end had come.
At such a moment, should they wait for death, or take one final gamble?
Lu Yuan gave them no time to deliberate.
As his golden fists punched out again and again, Creation Immortals and Grotto-Heaven Immortals—anyone belonging to the two factions—burst into blossoms of blood beneath his fists, their souls reduced to nothingness without meeting the slightest resistance along the way.
Accomplishing this was effortless for Lu Yuan. Within mere minutes, all those experts had perished, leaving nothing behind.
Only he remained standing aboard the Eternal Warship.
Then, Lu Yuan turned his gaze toward the other clansmen of the two factions.
They were all below the Grotto-Heaven Immortal Realm. He said nothing.
A powerful aura surged forth, and golden blood vitality enveloped everyone. Following a rumbling tremor across heaven and earth, the clansmen of the two factions collapsed to the ground one after another.
The realms they had cultivated painstakingly over so many years vanished in an instant.
Indeed, their cultivations had been severed directly. Now, they were mere ordinary mortals in the truest sense.
They could not even defeat someone slightly stronger physically. This was the punishment Lu Yuan meted out to them.
Although they had not directly allied with the extraterrestrial heavenly demons, as members of their clans, they had to bear the consequences. To share in prosperity meant sharing in ruin.
Had Lu Yuan not been so powerful and had he been slain by the two factions instead, would they have spared the people of the Heavenly Court? Clearly not. Thus, he showed no softness of heart, for such were the laws of the world.
And this marked the true end of it all.
"King Lu has triumphed! He has resolved our crisis once again!"
"This is too formidable! Four Heavenly Position Immortals and all those powerful figures, cut down just like that?"
"King Lu is truly King Lu—an invincible being in every sense! As long as he is here, the Heavenly Court will never fall!"
Within the ranks of the Heavenly Court, as well as among the Jiang clan, everyone came to their senses once the dust settled. Boundless exhilaration broke out across every face.
Not long before, they had been subjected to immense pressure and steeped in despair. Yet how much time had passed before the entire situation was completely reversed? All of it rested on King Lu's invincible combat might!
Without him, everyone knew there would have been only one outcome for them.
As for the beings of various races watching the battle, their thoughts were complicated to the extreme.
A single question weighed heavily on their minds: had they chosen to help the Heavenly Court back then, would they too have forged a karmic bond of goodwill with Lu Yuan?
Chapter 547