548: Chapter 548 The Arrival of the Immortal Lord of Myriad Calamities!

However, in the face of Immortal Monarch Taiyin's murder-intent-filled threat, Lu Yuan's expression did not change in the slightest.

There was no anger, no fear, not even a shred of grievance at being repaid with ingratitude.

To him, Immortal Monarch Taiyin's actions at this moment were simply childish and laughable.

He had long since seen through her weakness and panic cloaked beneath her icy exterior.

"The so-called Immortal Domain Prodigy, a general under the Immortal King Zaohua, actually has a Dao Heart so fragile."

Lu Yuan coldly assessed in his heart. To him, survival was survival, and a transaction was a transaction.

He had given his Pure Yang Origin and Chaos aura to save her, while simultaneously absorbing her Taiyin Law to stabilize himself; it was a perfect exchange of interests.

Yet this woman was still obsessing over boring vanity and mortal shame, even using this ungrateful method to mask her inner feelings.

This was not only foolish but also an ignorance of power.

Lu Yuan slowly, and even with a hint of laziness, straightened his slightly disheveled robes.

Every movement of his appeared natural, as if the Taiyin Ice Sword, capable of cleaving stars, was merely an unthreatening blade of grass.

Then, he sat calmly on the edge of the bed, slowly raising his eyes to rest on Immortal Monarch Taiyin's beautiful face, which was forcing an air of composure.

Lu Yuan slowly extended his right hand, extending his index and middle fingers, and seemingly casually, without a trace of effort, pinched the incomparably sharp ice sword's blade.

Immortal Monarch Taiyin's heart sank. She was just about to unleash her Sword Qi to teach this ignorant fool a lesson and make him understand the absolute gap between a Middle Stage and an Early Stage Immortal Lord.

However, in the very next instant.

*Crack!*

A physical strength that did not belong to any Law at all, but was pure to the extreme and violent to the limit, instantly erupted from the tips of Lu Yuan's two slender fingers!

This power did not cause any fluctuation in the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, yet it carried a terrifying weight capable of crushing stars and suppressing eternity.

Under Lu Yuan's fingertips, the Taiyin Longsword—condensed from Immortal Monarch Taiyin's Origin Law, incredibly sturdy, and capable of easily slaying any Golden Immortal or even heavily wounding an Immortal Lord of the same tier—was actually like the cheapest and most fragile glass of the mortal world, failing to hold out for even half a breath before instantly dimming and becoming covered in fine cracks!

Immortal Monarch Taiyin's pupils contracted violently at this moment, shrinking to the absolute limit.

In that instant, through the feedback transmitted along the sword, she felt as though she was not facing an Early Stage Immortal Lord Cultivator at all, but a primordial beast lurking in the abyss, capable of devouring the entire world with just a slight turn of its body!

This sense of pure physical suppression instantly shattered all the psychological defenses and arrogant posture she had just built up.

"Do not point a sword at me."

Lu Yuan's voice remained calm, but within this calmness lay a coldness and dominance that penetrated to the bone.

The voice directly pierced Immortal Monarch Taiyin's eardrums, exploding with a boom in her Sea of Consciousness.

"Are you overestimating yourself a bit too much?"

These words were not only mocking her strength, but also her ridiculous pride.

In Lu Yuan's eyes, whether she was a high-and-mighty Immortal Lord or a woman who had just yielded to him on the bed, as long as she dared to show murderous intent toward him, she had to be prepared to bear the consequences.

Immortal Monarch Taiyin's face turned pale from these words. She gritted her teeth, her chest heaving violently.

A strong sense of humiliation and an indescribable trace of fear intertwined, making her instinctively want to mobilize all her immortal essence, prepared to fight to the death just to reclaim her final dignity.

However, just as she was about to lash out and the situation was on the verge of spiraling completely out of control, a world-shaking, terrifying roar suddenly erupted from the entrance of the Youlong Cold Cave, as if it were about to completely overturn the entire immortal island!

*Boom—!*

Amidst the deafening roar, the mystic ice barrier that Immortal Monarch Taiyin had previously exerted the last of her strength to set up—thinking it could block Immortal Monarch Wane for a long time—finally reached its limit after enduring crazy external erosion for so long, and exploded with a bang!

The massive backlash caused Immortal Monarch Taiyin's chest to tighten violently.

Countless fragments of ice, the size of water vats, carried destructive force as they splattered in all directions, crashing against the cave walls with deafening thuds.

Behind the shattered ice, the nauseating, greyish-green poison mist, which seemed to represent all the decay and death in the world, surged into the cave like a bursting black tide in a frenzied manner.

Wherever the poison mist passed, the hard rock walls around the cave, which had formed over countless epochs, melted like melting snow under a blazing sun, making sharp "hissing" sounds as they were rapidly corroded into a sieve, turning into pools of highly toxic pus.

Right in the center of the rolling poison mist, Immortal Monarch Wane's hunched, skeletal figure, resembling a dried corpse, slowly emerged.

The Myriad Calamity Robe on his body emitted a nauseating stench, and within his snake-like vertical pupils, there now flashed unconcealed cruelty, tyranny, and extreme greed for the peerless prey about to fall into his hands.

His gaze swept across the cave, finally locking precisely onto Immortal Monarch Taiyin, who was standing beside the white jade bed.

When he saw that Immortal Monarch Taiyin had not only not been poisoned to death, but had instead changed into a brand-new robe, and even the aura on her body showed faint signs of recovery, a brief flash of astonishment crossed his eyes, but it was immediately replaced by an even more frenzied excitement.

In his twisted perception, the more violently the prey struggled, the more wonderful their expression would be when they saw hope just before death, only to be plunged right back into the abyss of despair.

"Jie jie jie! Taiyin, I didn't expect you to actually hold out until now. You've really impressed this monarch!" Immortal Monarch Wane let out a screeching, unpleasant laugh like a night owl, which echoed through the narrow cave, sending shivers down one's spine.

"However, your Formation has already shattered, and your final turtle shell is gone.

Stop making useless struggles and obediently hand over your Taiyin Dao Fruit! As long as you hand it over, this monarch might show some mercy and leave you a remnant soul, allowing you to watch with your own eyes as this monarch uses your Origin to ascend to the supreme Realm of a Late Stage Immortal Lord!"

Immortal Monarch Wane's heart was filled with arrogance and smugness at this moment.

He felt that he was the Dominator of this hunting game, and Immortal Monarch Taiyin was merely a piece of fat meat on his chopping board, about to emit an enticing aroma.

Then, with a disdainful gaze, Immortal Monarch Wane slightly turned his eyes and landed on Lu Yuan, who was not far from Immortal Monarch Taiyin.

He sized Lu Yuan up. When his malicious Divine Thought easily captured the cultivation fluctuations radiating from Lu Yuan—which were merely at the "Early Stage Immortal Lord" level—the contempt and disdain in his vertical pupils overflowed as if they were tangible.