374: Chapter 374 Arrival in the Vast Cold Region

“Bang!”

The Physical Body, which was already devoid of life, shattered completely under that single kick.

Lu Yuan reached out and grabbed the Primordial Spirit that was trying to dissipate, throwing it into the immortal execution platform as well.

From the moment Lu Yuan took that first step...

...to Daoist Leiyan being crushed, and then to Sword Immortal Guyue being slain from a distance.

The entire process was smooth and fluid, taking only a mere three breaths of time!

Fast!

Too fast!

So fast that one's mind couldn't even keep up!

The three thousand guards on the merchant ship, the Loose Cultivators and garrison hidden around Taixu Fortress waiting for a good show, and Offering Li Xingzhou, who had just caught his breath while lying on the deck...

Everyone stood with their mouths agape, staring blankly at the person in snow-white robes standing in the starry sky.

On the deck of the merchant ship, the dead silence was like frozen ice.

Everyone's gaze seemed to have taken root, fixed firmly on the man in snow-white robes standing with his hands behind his back.

The figure that had seemed somewhat slight in their eyes before now appeared as majestic as an insurmountable primordial divine mountain against the backdrop of the starlight.

In their eyes, the previous doubt and contempt were gone, replaced only by endless fear and a reverence stemming from the depths of their Souls.

Two Peak Profound Immortal experts who had terrorized Taixu Fortress and killed countless people couldn't even survive a single move from this young man! What kind of terrifying crushing power was that? What kind of overbearing dominance that treated life like grass?

Li Xingzhou lay in the deep pit he had smashed into, his entire body racking with pain as if his bones had fallen apart, yet he seemed unable to feel it.

Cold sweat poured frantically from his forehead and back like a waterfall, instantly soaking his green Daoist robe.

His face was deathly pale without a trace of blood, and his lips were trembling uncontrollably.

It wasn't until this moment that his rigid, even somewhat stagnant thinking finally shattered, and he thoroughly understood.

He finally understood why Shui Changdong Changdong, who was always haughty and deeply majestic, would be so polite—or even... reverent—to this young man who had just ascended from the Lower Realm and seemingly had no background!

Why the President would unhesitatingly hand over the command of the entire caravan, and even the fate of the Jiuding Chamber of Commerce on this route, to this man!

This wasn't some distinguished guest from the Lower Realm who needed protection and was out for a sightseeing trip.

This was clearly a living God of Slaughter who had walked out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, wearing human skin!

Recalling his previous cold mockery and sarcasm toward Lu Yuan, and how he had even arrogantly told him to "cause less trouble and follow orders," Li Xingzhou wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

He felt a chill on his neck, as if Lu Yuan's hand, which had just crushed Daoist Leiyan's throat, could be placed on his own neck at any moment.

“Gulp...”

Li Xingzhou with difficulty swallowed a mouthful of saliva mixed with blood.

“Offering Li, can we pass through now?”

Just as Li Xingzhou was having a frantic internal struggle, Lu Yuan slowly turned his head.

His gaze was as calm as water, without the slightest emotional ripple from having just instantly killed two experts of the same rank.

He looked at the wretched Li Xingzhou, a faint, half-smile playing on his lips as he asked in a flat tone, as if he had just casually brushed away two specks of dust.

“Yes... Yes! Of course you can!”

Hearing Lu Yuan's voice, Li Xingzhou felt as if he had been granted a massive amnesty.

Ignoring his severe injuries, he scrambled out of the pit, crawled to Lu Yuan's feet, and with his knees going weak, knelt directly on the ground and bowed deeply to Lu Yuan.

“Thank you... Thank you, Lord Lu, for saving my life! I was blind and offended you many times before. Please forgive me, Lord!”

Li Xingzhou's forehead was pressed tightly against the cold deck, his attitude respectful—one could even say humble to the extreme.

In the world of cultivation, the accomplished are masters and the strong are respected; this was an eternal and unchanging iron law.

The strength Lu Yuan displayed had completely won over this rigid Li Xingzhou.

“Get up and guard your ship.

I am someone who doesn't like trouble, but I am not afraid of it either.”

Lu Yuan said indifferently, then stopped looking at him and turned his gaze toward the nearby Taixu Fortress.

At this time, Taixu Fortress was already in a state of chaos.

The Taiyi Immortal Sect and Taixuan Immortal Sect garrison, who had originally been aggressive and ready to make a fortune following Daoist Leiyan and Sword Immortal Guyue, were now like cats whose tails had been stepped on, scared out of their wits and abandoning their equipment.

Even their two commanders, whom they revered as gods and invincible, had been killed instantly like chickens. Wouldn't small fries like them be going to their deaths if they went up?

“Run! A monster! This is a monster!”

“Quickly notify the Sect! A Golden Immortal powerhouse has disguised himself as a Profound Immortal to crash the party!”

Accompanied by bursts of terrified screams, hundreds of garrison soldiers scattered like birds and beasts, turning into streaks of light as they desperately fled into the defensive formation deep within the fortress, wishing their parents had given them two more legs.

Where was there even a single person who dared to come out and stop this merchant ship flying the flag of the Jiuding Chamber of Commerce?

“Set sail,” Lu Yuan calmly ordered.

“Yes! Full speed ahead!” Li Xingzhou snapped out of his daze and hurriedly directed the ship's Formation Masters to restart the grand formation.

The massive merchant ship let out a low roar and, under the gaze of countless eyes filled with reverence and fear, passed unimpeded and boldly through the Taixu Fortress asteroid belt that had once made countless caravans tremble with fear.

...

Half a month later, amidst the vast starry sky, the merchant ship finally arrived at its destination after experiencing several small stellar storms.

Guanghan Domain was a strange Star Domain located in the far north of Daluo Heaven.

Looking out, the entire Star Domain did not have a brilliant galaxy but was instead covered by a layer of never-dissipating ice and snow mist.

The temperature here was extremely low. Even True Immortal Cultivators would have their blood frozen by the biting cold if they did not circulate their magic power to resist it.

The Guanghan Domain branch of the Jiuding Chamber of Commerce was dominantly established on a giant ice crystal planet comparable in size to the Xuanhuang Realm.

“Buzz—”

The merchant ship passed through the thick ice clouds in the ice crystal planet's atmosphere and landed steadily in a magnificent spaceport carved from Ten-thousand-year-old Profound Ice.

With the arrival of the merchant ship, the Guanghan branch immediately began to bustle.

The branch manager, a fat old man with a three-strand beard who also had a Middle Stage Profound Immortal cultivation, personally came out to welcome them with a large group of high-level officials.

“Offering Li! We've been looking forward to your arrival! Was there another bottleneck at Taixu Fortress? Eh? These two are...”

The fat old man originally wanted to complain, but as his gaze swept over them, he keenly noticed the unusual atmosphere in the team.

Li Xingzhou, the chief Li Xingzhou who was always haughty, was actually following half a step behind a white-clad youth like a little lackey!

“This is Lord Lu Yuan, specially recruited by the President himself! If it weren't for Lord Lu's intervention this time to kill the two obstacles at Taixu Fortress, this batch of supplies might really not have made it.”