244: Bai Qi awakens!

Lei Xingming's voice was pleading, and he crawled forward two steps on his knees, extreme terror showing through his blood-stained face.

He knew he was at the end of his rope, his spiritual power exhausted, and his Golden Core dim.

At this moment, he could only bet that Lu Chen still had a shred of humanity, that he would be willing to let him live.

Lu Chen looked down at him, his eyes calm, as if watching an ant struggle.

A moment later, he suddenly chuckled softly, slowly nodding: "You're right, you indeed have no grudge with me. You may go."

Lei Xingming was stunned, almost disbelieving his own ears. He suddenly looked up, his eyes bursting with incredible light: "You... you're serious? I... I can go? I can really go?!"

Lu Chen stood with his hands behind his back, saying indifferently: "My word has always been my bond. Now, get out."

Lei Xingming felt as if he had been granted a great pardon, and ecstasy instantly dispelled all his fear.

He ignored his injuries, forcefully gathered his last shred of spiritual power, and the remaining thunder Qi within him erupted with a thunderous roar—"Boom!" With a loud bang, he transformed into a dazzling bolt of lightning, tearing through the sky, rushing towards the depths of the forest at the fastest speed of his life!

He dared not look back, fearing Lu Chen would go back on his word, only wanting to get as far away as possible.

"I'm alive! I'm alive!!"

He roared in his heart, as if he could already see the future of the Lei Sect's Legacy continuing and his descendants being safe.

Unfortunately—

Fate never gave him hope.

Just as his lightning bolt streaked out a hundred zhang—

A streak of bloody light, faster than the limits of time and space, shot out from Lu Chen's palm!

The dragon fiend spear was unleashed!

The spear body, entwined with Profound Ice Violet Flame and blood fiend Qi, streaked across the sky like a death meteor!

Its speed far surpassed the lightning!

Its trajectory precisely locked onto Lei Xingming's vital point!

"Pfft—!!!"

The bloody light pierced through the lightning!

The dragon fiend spear penetrated Lei Xingming from behind, directly piercing his Golden Core, nailing him in mid-air!

Blood rained down, the lightning instantly dispersed, and he fell heavily to the ground like a bird with broken wings, twitching incessantly.

He struggled to turn his head, his eyes filled with incredulous resentment and unwillingness: "You... didn't you... tell me to go!! You... you promised me!!"

Lu Chen walked slowly, treading on the scorched earth, a sinister smile spreading across his lips: "I said I'd let you go, and I indeed didn't stop you."

He crouched down, the tip of the spear gently lifting Lei Xingming's chin, his voice as soft as if coaxing a child:

"But I didn't say... I wouldn't kill you."

Lei Xingming's pupils dilated, blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth, yet he still stared fixedly at Lu Chen, as if to engrave his face into his Divine Soul.

He roared in his heart: "I'm not reconciled!!"

Lei Xingming, originally from a Jianghu martial arts family, was exceptionally talented, practicing martial arts from a young age, but due to an Opportunity, he embarked on the path of Cultivation.

Over three hundred years, he, a Mortal, went Heaven-Defying, forcefully breaking the limits of a Martial Artist, transforming from a mere Martial Artist into a Golden Core Cultivator, founding the "Lei Sect," and becoming a legend of the Tianqi Continent!

He was the pinnacle for Martial Artists, a myth in the hearts of countless martial Cultivators—from the mundane to the immortal path, he forged a path no one had ever walked before!

But now—

He was dead.

Dead at the hands of a young man who was even more of a Prodigy, more ruthless, and more heartless than him.

What he was unwilling to accept was not just his own life, but also the future of the Lei Sect.

With his death, the Lei Sect would be without a leader, and the enemies he had suppressed would surely return, bathe the mountain gate in blood, slaughter all the Disciples, and even his young grandson would not escape death.

His life's struggle did not bring a Legacy, but the calamity of his sect's destruction.

"Tianqi Continent... what it lacks least, is Genius."

Great Master Hui Ming's wild laughter now echoed in his ears like a demonic sound.

Yes, Geniuses were like rain, but those who lived to the end—

Were few and far between.

Lei Xingming's head slowly drooped, his last shred of life dissipating.

Lu Chen raised his hand, and the dragon fiend spear automatically flew back, its tip dripping blood, which was, however, absorbed by the blood fiend intelligence, turning into nourishment.

He didn't even look at Lei Xingming's corpse, turning to face the remaining three—

Bai Qi, Hui Ming, Old Monster Mo.

He said softly:

"Who's next?"

Watching Madam Shuang self-destruct her Golden Core only to have it devoured by the divine spear, and Lei Xingming pierced through the heart and nailed to death during his escape, Old Monster Mo finally couldn't sit still.

He trembled all over, his eyes no longer holding treacherous calculations, only fear.

He suddenly turned to Hui Ming and Bai Qi, roaring hoarsely: "Hui Ming! Bai Qi! What are you two waiting for?! If you keep holding back, we'll all die here!! Bring out all your trump cards! Now—is the last chance!!"

Great Master Hui Ming's face was pale, his hands pressed together, the Buddha light trembling slightly.

And Bai Qi—finally stopped pretending.

He took a deep breath, a hint of determination flashing in his eyes, and slowly took out an ancient long halberd from his Cave Heaven Magic Treasure.

The halberd was as black as night, its surface covered with crack-like patterns, as if carrying the vicissitudes of ages, and a cold glint at the halberd's tip actually caused space to subtly warp!

Before Bai Qi left, Great Emperor Tianwu Zhao Zheng had once taken out a Magic Treasure: This is the dao-slaying halberd, capable of cutting through the Heavenly Dao's authority during the Primordial God-Demon War! This was originally a weapon I gave to Bai Qi in the previous civilization, and I didn't expect to find this weapon again in a Secret Realm in this world. It seems this weapon is fated with you, and I will give it to you again in this life.

Bai Qi took the weapon and found that he couldn't use it, as if it was rejecting him.

Zhao Zheng laughed loudly: "It's strange to say, this weapon is also in a master-recognized state. Perhaps, only when you truly Awaken Bai Qi's Soul, will you be able to use it!!"

At this moment, facing life and death.

Bai Qi roared to the sky, his eyes bloodshot, and he suddenly raised the dao-slaying halberd towards the heavens!

He bit his tongue, spitting out a mouthful of essence blood, which sprinkled onto the halberd, and he roared hoarsely:

"I, Bai Qi! Am Bai Qi!!

Bai Qi is me! I am Bai Qi!!"

"Boom—!!!"

The world suddenly darkened!

Countless memory fragments surged into his Sea of Consciousness like a tide—

He saw... the burning Qin Palace, flames soaring to the sky, corpses strewn everywhere;

He saw Emperor Qin fighting the Heavenly Dao alone, holding the Pangu Axe, tearing apart the firmament;

He saw Lin Fei manipulating the great void sky patrol shuttle, traversing the star sea, defying fate and changing destiny;

He saw... himself leading tens of thousands of Ascenders, standing on the starry battlefield, facing that Heavenly Dao meteorite capable of destroying a civilization, and fearlessly brandishing his halberd—

"Slay—the—Dao—!!!"

"Boom!!!"

The dao-slaying halberd suddenly erupted with an aura that could destroy heaven and earth!

A pillar of light, as black as an abyss, shot up into the sky, enveloping Bai Qi entirely!

His aura soared, his Golden Core vibrated violently, showing signs of Breakthrough to Nascent Soul!

Ancient runes flowed from the cracks in the halberd, circling around him, forming a Dao-Slaying Domain, even space was cut with fine cracks!

Lu Chen's pupils constricted, staring intently at the long halberd, a monstrous wave rising in his heart!

"This... the dao-slaying halberd?!"

He suddenly remembered—in the previous great qin civilization, he had personally witnessed Bai Qi holding this halberd, leading the Ascender legion, splitting the Heavenly Dao meteorite with one strike!

That single blow severed even the rules of the Heavenly Dao!

This weapon was created by hundreds of Great Masters in the Primordial Era, attempting to slay Heaven, but unfortunately, it was ultimately crushed by Lu Chen's single finger.

I am the Heavenly Dao, I can kill you!

I am a Cultivator! I can also kill you!!"

Bai Qi's head slowly drooped, his last shred of life dissipating.