197: Return to the World of Trials

"Brother Lu!!!"

Chu Yu stared in disbelief at Lu Chen, whose heart had been pierced by Ge Hong.

This was the first time in many years that Chu Yu had met a Genius not intimidated by his domineering aura, and he had even envisioned fighting alongside him in the future.

"I! Am! The! Enemy! Of! Ten! Thousand! Men!!!"

Chu Yu went berserk, transforming into a three-meter-tall Hegemon Body, and charged at Ge Hong.

However, Ge Hong, relying on his Qi Refining First Layer cultivation, managed to withstand Chu Yu's rampage.

"Heaven helps me! I never expected that you, a mere Transcendent, could injure me! Hahahaha! One can only imagine how powerful your Spiritual Root is! As long as I kill you, your Spiritual Root will be mine!!!"

Cough, cough!

Just then...

Lu Chen, whose heart had been pierced, actually coughed twice, and his heart rapidly recovered at a visible speed, condensing into a heart of the heavenly dao possessing heavenly dao energy!!

Lu Chen suddenly opened his eyes.

He was back; he had Transmigrated back.

The tens of thousands of heavenly dao energy he had previously acquired had all vanished; the damned heavenly dao system must have repaired itself.

Fortunately, his heart was repaired by heavenly dao energy, which the heavenly dao system couldn't take away, because if it did, he would die.

This could be considered his ultimate trump card.

In the Heavenly Dao Workshop, Lu Chen had simulated his cultivation tens of thousands of times, instantly becoming completely familiar with it.

Ge Hong was dumbfounded: "This, what's going on? Your heart was clearly pierced by me; how can it grow back?! This is my Corrosive Blood Claws! Even if you possess a Cultivation Technique for regenerating flesh and blood, it's impossible to recover!"

Chu Yu laughed up to the sky: "Hahahaha, Brother Lu, I knew it! You're fine! You and I are both favored by destiny; we won't die so easily."

Ge Hong licked his Blood Claws, emitting a chilling 'creak' sound.

His turbid old eyes stared fixedly at Lu Chen: "Heh heh, you little beast, if this old man can kill you once, he can kill you a second time! Die for me!!!"

With this roar, the spiritual power pressure of the Qi Refining First Layer erupted from Ge Hong's hunched body as if it were substantial.

As soon as that spiritual power appeared, the blood mist in the entire underground palace boiled, and a suffocating sense of oppression permeated the air.

The True Qi of the Transcendent Realm was like thin paper encountering a raging fire in front of such spiritual power, completely vulnerable!

"Blood Spear, Eight Desolations Soul Lock!"

Ge Hong's withered arm casually waved, and eight crimson spears instantly condensed into form in the Void Realm.

Each Blood Spear's surface was entwined with eerie blood-colored runes, and what dripped from the spear tip was not fresh blood, but highly concentrated spiritual power venom.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

Sounds of tearing through the air rang out one after another, as the eight Blood Spears transformed into blood-colored lightning, striking Lu Chen from different angles.

Even more terrifying, these Blood Spears actually adjusted their trajectories during flight, as if alive, locking onto their target relentlessly.

This was the most basic Law of the Cultivation World—the absolute suppression of lower-tier Cultivators by higher-tier Cultivators! Under the spiritual power lock, any evasion was futile.

"Lu Chen!" Chu Yu's eyes were splitting with rage, and the golden light of his Hegemon Body frantically circulated on his body.

His leg muscles tensed to their limit, two deep pits were trampled into the ground, and he shot out like a golden arrow, wanting to stop the Blood Spears.

But the Blood Spears were too fast! That was a killing blow driven by spiritual power, far exceeding the movement speed of a Transcendent Martial Artist.

The eight Blood Spears intertwined and rotated in the air, forming a three-dimensional blood-colored cage.

Fine bloodlines extended between each Blood Spear, and these bloodlines intertwined with each other, weaving into an inescapable net in the blink of an eye.

Lu Chen dared not be careless and directly activated his heart of the heavenly dao. Each contraction of that newborn heart of the heavenly dao squeezed out a wisp of precious heavenly dao energy.

These wisps of Qi frantically surged into the dragon fiend spear along his Meridians, and the dark golden spear shaft immediately became covered with dense, profound patterns.

"Dragon Fiend, Sweeping Through a Thousand Armies!"

Lu Chen gripped the spear with both hands and swept it out violently.

Where the spear's edge passed, space itself distorted.

A lifelike five-clawed Golden Dragon leaped out from the spear tip, every Dragon scale clearly visible.

The Golden Dragon let out an earth-shattering roar, its slender Dragon body arcing perfectly through the air, and its Dragon tail swept towards the eight Blood Spears like a giant axe splitting the heavens.

Boom, boom, boom—

Eight consecutive explosions shook the underground palace, making it tremble.

Wherever the Golden Dragon passed, the Blood Spears exploded one after another, and the spiritual power-infused venom was evaporated into a foul-smsmelling red mist by the Dragon's breath.

"Cough, cough..." Lu Chen violently coughed up a large mouthful of blood.

This was the backlash from forcefully activating the heavenly dao energy.

Even worse, the beating of his newborn heart of the heavenly dao became chaotic and irregular; each contraction felt like thousands of steel needles piercing his heart.

Just now, to break free, he had no choice but to overdraft and use all the heavenly dao energy accumulated from only ten heartbeats.

Ge Hong went mad, frantic, pointing at his daughter Ge Juan and cursing: "Damn it, why, why is this happening? Thirty years, I sacrificed tens of thousands of Geniuses, built a blood pool, nourished you, and you just deceived me like this? Why can't I even kill a mere Transcendent Ninth Layer?! Argh, argh, argh!!!"

Ge Hong's bloodshot eyes almost popped out of their sockets, he frantically clutched at his sparse white hair, his chapped lips twitching continuously: "Damn it! Damn it! Why?! What in the world is this for?!"

He suddenly turned, pointing a finger directly at his daughter, Ge Juan, on the blood coffin: "Thirty years! A full thirty years! This old man sacrificed tens of thousands of Geniuses, built this blood pool formation, and nourished you day and night with their essence blood! You just deceived me like this?! Is this how you repay your father?! Why can't I even kill a mere Transcendent Ninth Layer?! Argh, argh, argh!!!"

The blood mist in the underground palace violently churned with his enraged roar, and the blood beads suspended in mid-air burst one after another, turning into a foul-smelling blood rain.

Ge Hong suspected that his daughter had deceived him, that he hadn't truly reached the Qi Refining Layer; otherwise, how could he not even defeat a mere Transcendent Realm Cultivator?

Above the blood coffin, the little girl, bound by twelve chains, laboriously raised her head.

That originally delicate and beautiful little face was now withering at a visible speed, her fair skin turning a terrifying grayish-blue, and she weakly opened her chapped lips, her voice as faint as a mosquito's:

"Father... how could you... doubt Juan'er like this...?"

The little girl struggled to raise her decaying small hand, wanting to touch her father, who was so close yet so far. On her exposed arm, her originally translucent skin was peeling off in flakes, revealing the blackened decaying flesh beneath.

"Juan'er has... has already transferred all her energy to Father... Look... Juan'er's body..."

However, Ge Hong paid no attention to his daughter; instead, seeing Lu Chen cough twice and turn pale, he instantly understood: "I see! Lu Family Village boy, it seems you also have a secret treasure on you, which is why you could block my attack! Heaven helps me! It actually gave me two Geniuses, not just once in a thousand years, but once in ten thousand years! As long as I kill both of you and complete the final sacrifice, perhaps I can reach the Qi Refining Late Stage! And possess a Hegemon Body, a Saint Body! Hahahahaha!!!"

Ge Hong's entire body erupted with evil blood, transforming into blood flames: "This time, let's see how you dodge!!"