152: Mid-stage of the combined form, making rapid progress!

Every inch of Lu Yuan's skin glowed, and his purple-gold blood surged through his veins, roaring like a great river.

His Physical Body, already powerful to the extreme, began to undergo another transformation at this moment.

His muscle fibers became tighter, his bones shimmered with immortal divine radiance, and his internal organs were like cast divine iron, exuding an aura that suppressed heaven and earth.

"Crack!"

It was as if some shackles within his body had been shattered.

Lu Yuan's aura broke through the Bottleneck from the Body Integration Early Stage with unstoppable force, stepping directly into the Body Integration Middle Stage!

And this was only the beginning.

As those two Ninth Transformation law crystals were completely refined, the Law insights in Lu Yuan's Sea of Consciousness experienced an explosive growth.

The Law of Strength represented ultimate power and destruction.

Under the nourishment of Wang Yansheng's lifelong insights, Lu Yuan's Law of Strength, which was originally at the Seventh Molt, rapidly climbed and finally settled at the eighth molt Perfection level!

He was now only a single step away from the Ninth Transformation, which touched the Great Dao.

The Chaos Law, which encompassed all things, also rose steadily after swallowing the Law of Gold, firmly stepping into the eighth molt Realm.

Meanwhile, the Seventh Molt Withered Glory Law contributed by the Withered Wood Sword Saint became excellent nourishment for Lu Yuan's Law of Time.

Withered Glory was itself a manifestation of the passage of time.

After digesting the Withered Wood Sword Saint's insights into life and death, Lu Yuan's Law of Time also successfully broke through from the Fourth Transformation to the fifth transformation level!

Even the sword Dao attainments that the Withered Wood Sword Saint had immersed himself in for tens of thousands of years were absorbed without reservation by the Chaos Sword Body.

Sword Qi surged from Lu Yuan's fingertips, and the Law of the Sword hummed and vibrated, likewise stepping through the gates of the Seventh Molt.

At this moment, Lu Yuan stood proudly in the Void Realm, surrounded by multiple Law halos such as Chaos, Time, Space, Strength, Thunder, and Sword Dao. He was like a God King walking the earth, his pressure so intense that the surrounding Space could not bear it, cracking into fine, pitch-black fissures.

And in the void layer not far away.

The Holy Spirit Stone Embryo—Shi Zhongyu—who had originally intended to raid the house amidst the Chaos but was now scared out of his wits by this scene, was shivering like a frightened quail.

"Too... too brutal!"

Shi Zhongyu roared in his heart.

He had witnessed with his own eyes how Lu Yuan had crushed the Withered Wood Sword Saint like an ant and beaten Wang Yansheng, who possessed the Big Dipper Battle Body, to a pulp like a broken sandbag.

That was a Body Integration Peak!

And an Old Ancestor of a Longevity Family from the Central Region!

In front of this person, he couldn't even manage to escape?

"Run! I must run!"

Although Shi Zhongyu wasn't very bright, he knew that staying here only meant death.

As a Holy Spirit, he was naturally close to the Great Dao of Earth; as long as he could touch the ground, he was confident he could escape.

"Buzz!"

The thick stone skin on his body suddenly glowed with an earthy yellow light, and his whole being instantly turned into a streak of light, rushing toward the ground below.

However.

Just as he moved, an indifferent voice rang in his ear, like a sentence from the God of Death.

"Since you've come, why be in such a hurry to leave?"

"Seal."

Lu Yuan didn't even look at him, simply pointing a finger casually.

"Drawing a Prison on the Ground."

"Clang!"

The Void Realm for a hundred miles around instantly solidified.

The originally soft air became ten thousand times harder than divine iron at this moment.

Shi Zhongyu's vision blurred, and he felt as if he had slammed into an invisible wall, being forcefully bounced back.

He discovered in horror that the Space around him had been completely severed and locked, forming an independent cage.

No matter how he activated the Law of Earth, he could not sense a single trace of earth Qi from the outside world!

It was like a fish leaving the water, instantly losing all its reliance.

"It's over..."

Shi Zhongyu's face turned ashen.

The next moment.

Lu Yuan's figure appeared out of thin air outside the cage, looking down at the strange man covered in stone skin.

"Holy Spirit Stone Embryo?"

Lu Yuan looked at Shi Zhongyu with a playful gaze, sizing him up: "A rare thing indeed. I've heard that your race is born with unparalleled defense, making you the best meat shields."

"I'll give you two choices."

"One, submit to me and become the guardian Divine Beast of my Azure Cloud Sect."

"Two, be refined by me and become part of my Magic Treasure."

"I'll count to three."

"One."

"Thud!"

Before Lu Yuan could finish his sentence, Shi Zhongyu had already knelt in the Void Realm with extreme decisiveness. His head, covered in stone patterns, slammed heavily against the spatial barrier with a dull thud.

"Don't kill me! I'm willing to surrender! I'm willing to surrender!"

"Master's Divine Might is overwhelming, unrivaled in the world! Little Stone is willing to guard the house for Master, through thick and thin!"

This kneel was smooth and practiced, without a shred of the Holy Spirit race's pride.

What a joke.

Even Wang Yansheng had been refined; could his piece of broken stone be harder than the Big Dipper Battle Body?

Staying alive was the only thing that mattered!

To the side, the Azure Flood Dragon King, who had already taken human form and followed behind Lu Yuan, saw this scene, his eyelids twitching wildly as a strong sense of crisis suddenly rose in his heart.

"Damn it! This broken stone is also at the Body Integration Stage? And even the Middle Stage?"

"If he's allowed in, won't my position as the number one lackey... oh no, the chief guardian Divine Beast be in jeopardy?"

The Azure Flood Dragon King gnashed his teeth secretly, deciding he must definitely give this stone a hard time in the future to let him know who the veteran of the Azure Cloud Sect was.

"Very good."

Lu Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

A golden light flashed at his brow, and a complex and obscure soul seal flew out, completely ignoring Shi Zhongyu's defense and imprinting itself deep within his not-yet-fully-formed Primordial Spirit.

Thus, although the Body Integration celebration had been disrupted, the outcome was Lu Yuan slaying two great enemies and subduing a Body Integration Holy Spirit. His prestige, far from falling, had risen to its Peak... Azure Cloud Sect, Longevity Peak main hall.

Lu Yuan sat high in the main seat, with the newly subdued Shi Zhongyu standing below.

"Shi Zhongyu, you come from the Central Region and were born at the edge of the Primal Ancient Mine. You should be quite familiar with the situation in the Central Region."

Lu Yuan took a sip of enlightenment tea and asked calmly, "Tell me about the distribution of power in the Central Region."

"Yes, Master!"

Although Shi Zhongyu looked simple and foolish, he was after all an old fossil who had lived for tens of thousands of years, and he knew the situation of the Central Region like the back of his hand.

"Reporting to Master, the Central Region is vast and boundless, the head of the Three Thousand Dao Domains. Its power structure is mainly composed of One Pavilion, Three Evil Clans, Nine Great Immortal Clans, and Ten Holy Lands."

"The One Pavilion is, naturally, that mysterious and unpredictable Tianji Pavilion. Although it does not seek hegemony, its status is transcendent."

"The Ten Holy Lands are the Peak halls of Human Race cultivation. The top three are the Yaochi Holy Land, the Primordial Holy Land, and the Great Derivation Holy Land."

The foundations of these ten Holy Lands are unfathomably deep. Every Holy Land has at least one living Great Ascension Stage Supreme presiding over it, and there are even rumors that old monsters of the Void Immortal Realm lie dormant within the top three Holy Lands!"