85: With Tianjizi's intervention, Ye Chen perished!

"Alright, the Legacy is complete."

Lu Yuan's gaze turned cold as he looked at Ye Chen on the ground, his eyes revealing pure killing intent: "Next, it is time to send you on your way."

"I let you escape a few times before; this time, let's see where you can run."

Feeling that tangible killing intent, Ye Chen shuddered, snapping out of his madness.

He would die!

He would really die!

Lu Yuan truly intended to kill him; there was no room for negotiation!

"Senior Heavenly Secret Master! Save me!"

At this life-or-death moment, Ye Chen could no longer care about anything else. He violently pulled the dark golden tianji golden order from his robes and shrieked.

"I am willing to offer ninety percent of my Innate Dao Body essence blood! Save my life!"

Hum!

The tianji golden order vibrated violently, and a vast, boundless, terrifying aura that seemed to originate from the depths of the Heavenly Dao erupted from the token.

The Void Realm twisted.

A phantom of an old man wearing star-patterned Daoist robes, with white hair and beard and a quaint countenance, slowly stepped out from the golden light.

His eyes were as deep as the starry sky, and his body was surrounded by countless threads of Karma, as if one glance at him would allow him to see through one's destiny.

Master Tianji — Heavenly Secret Master!

Although this phantom was merely a projection, the moment it appeared, a sliver of Dao rhyme belonging to the Great Ascension Stage caused the space of the entire Inheritance Grand Hall to groan under the unbearable pressure.

"Sigh..."

Heavenly Secret Master looked at the disheveled Ye Chen on the ground, sighed softly, then turned to look at Lu Yuan, a warm smile appearing on his Face.

"Little friend, it is best to be forgiving when one can."

"I am Master Tianji, Heavenly Secret Master."

"Although Ye Chen has his faults, he possesses great Luck. If you kill him, I fear you will Face divine retribution."

"Why not give him a chance this time for the sake of my Face?"

Although the tone was one of negotiation, the pressure radiating from the tianji golden order invisibly locked onto Lu Yuan, carrying a sense of lofty oppression.

Lu Yuan slightly raised his eyelids, looked at the phantom, and the corners of his mouth curled into a mocking arc.

"Your Face?"

"How much is your Face worth?"

"In this Eastern Wilderness, you likely cannot protect the person I intend to kill with just a projection!"

Hearing this, the smile on Heavenly Secret Master's Face vanished instantly, his eyes becoming deep and cold.

As Master Tianji, he had traversed the cultivation world for over ten thousand years. Even the heads of those Holy Lands in the Central Region would respectfully call him Senior upon meeting him; when had he ever been so disdained?

"What an arrogant junior."

"Since that is the case, let me weigh what methods you have to dare speak such wild words before me!"

Boom!

Heavenly Secret Master waved his large sleeve.

Even though it was just a projection summoned by the golden order, it contained a sliver of the original body's Dao power. With this movement, the heavens and earth changed color.

"Dao-Grade Treasure Art — Five Decays of Heaven and Man!"

There were no flashy Moves.

A strange wind, grey, decaying, and filled with the meaning of finality, blew from out of nowhere.

This wind permeated everything, ignoring defenses.

Once touched, the Physical Body would rot, magic power would wither, the Primordial Spirit would become turbid, Lifespan would end, and even one's fate would decline accordingly.

This was a true curse technique, like a calamity sent down by the Heavenly Dao!

The stone pillars in the Grand Hall instantly weathered into sand, and the array patterns on the ground quickly dimmed and disappeared, as if they had experienced billions of years of time erosion in an instant.

Facing this terrifying strike, Lu Yuan's expression was solemn, but there was not a shred of fear in his eyes.

"Old thing, you dare to act fierce with just a projection?"

"If your true body had arrived, I might have been three parts wary, but now..."

"Break for me!"

Lu Yuan violently spread his hands.

Hum! Hum!

Two earth-shattering sword hums rang out simultaneously.

In his left hand, time flowed—the Pan Huang Years Sword appeared!

In his right hand, the Void Realm collapsed—the Panhuang Void Sword manifested!

Two Transcendent Spiritual Treasures were unleashed at the same time; one golden and one silver beam of light soared into the sky, intertwining into a space-time storm.

"What? Two Transcendent Spiritual Treasures?!"

Heavenly Secret Master, who had been indifferent, finally changed his expression, his eyes filled with astonishment.

He pinched his fingers to calculate, but his brows locked tightly.

"This is wrong! These two swords clearly ascended with Pangu Emperor long ago; why would they appear in this realm? And in the hands of one person?"

The Heavenly Secrets were in Chaos; he could not even calculate a shred of Karma!

Rumble!

At this moment, the torrent of time slashed out by the Pan Huang Years Sword had fiercely collided with the curse wind of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.

Time was, by nature, a force that wore everything away.

The curse that could cause all things to decay was instantly weakened by seventy percent under the more tyrannical scouring of time.

The remaining thirty percent of the curse power penetrated the sword light and landed on Lu Yuan.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

Lu Yuan's protective golden light began to dim, and grey spots appeared on his skin.

"Azure Wood Evergreen, endless life!"

Lu Yuan shouted coldly.

Inside his body, within the Chaos Law that had already merged into one, the Wood Law suddenly lit up.

An emperor dharma image in azure robes manifested behind him, and endless vitality scoured his entire body like a great river.

The power of decay that had just invaded his body was instantly worn away under the opposition of this immense vitality.

"Blocked... he blocked it?!"

Heavenly Secret Master's pupils contracted violently.

Not only did he block it, but he was completely unharmed!

However, Lu Yuan's counterattack had already arrived.

"Slash!"

The Panhuang Void Sword had long since sealed off all spatial retreat routes in the surroundings.

The Pan Huang Years Sword transformed into an unavoidable blade of time, carrying inevitable Karma, and slashed fiercely toward Heavenly Secret Master's phantom.

"Not good!"

Heavenly Secret Master wanted to cast the Great Shift Technique to dodge, but found the surrounding space as hard as iron, completely immovable.

Pfft!

The Sword of Time severed the past and the future.

Heavenly Secret Master's projection, under the joint strangulation of these two Transcendent Spiritual Treasures, was as fragile as a bubble.

"Junior! You dare to destroy a wisp of my soul!"

"I will remember this debt!"

Accompanied by an angry roar, Heavenly Secret Master's phantom shattered with a bang, turning into golden light that dissipated across the sky.

"And what if you remember?"

Lu Yuan snorted coldly, his gaze instantly turning to Ye Chen, who had already collapsed on the ground.

At this moment, Ye Chen, watching his last trump card—the projection of Heavenly Secret Master—be destroyed by Lu Yuan's sword, was left with only endless despair and emptiness in his eyes.

"It is over."

Lu Yuan did not waste any words and swung his sword with a backhand motion.

Swish!

A spatial crack flashed by.

Ye Chen's head flew high into the air, his eyes still retaining deep unwillingness, regret, and attachment to this world.

He possessed the Innate Dao Body and held the tianji golden order.

He should have been a Prodigy of his generation, ascending to the peak.

Yet because he provoked the wrong person, he ultimately ended up beheaded.

Pfft!

Sword Qi entered his body; Ye Chen's Divine Soul did not even have a chance to escape and was directly strangled into nothingness by that tyrannical Void Realm Sword Intent.

He had completely fallen!

At the very moment Ye Chen died and his Dao dissipated.

Swoosh!

That dark golden tianji golden order that had originally fallen to the ground suddenly erupted with a blinding light.