159: The Domination of Dongming Sect

PS: I got carried away writing the last chapter and didn't check the time. By the time I realized it, it was already twelve o'clock, so I added it to chapter 158, making it a four-thousand-word chapter. My mistake, I'm really sorry. I'll stay up until 2:40 to write another chapter to apologize to all the Yan Zu and Yifei! It's miserable, don't scold me, at least consider that I'm staying up this late and still have to get up for work tomorrow…

The young man was naturally Lu Chen, who had rushed from the Dongming Sect.

As soon as he finished speaking, one Divine Travel Dao Soldier after another appeared before his eyes, all thirty-five of them, including the Mountain Lord Divine Travel Dao Soldier he was riding. In addition, there were several Five Elements Dao Soldiers.

"These Puppets? He is that contemporary Traveling Envoy of the Dongming Sect, Lu Chen!" Among the many angry Cultivators who followed, someone suddenly realized, looking at the Dao Soldiers before Lu Chen, and recognized Lu Chen.

Lu Chen's reputation in South Chu was now quite significant. During the Nanchu Grand Wash, all the large and small Sects in South Chu were present and witnessed Lu Chen's might while riding the Red Dragon with their own eyes. As time passed, Lu Chen had already become famous throughout South Chu and was no longer an unknown figure.

Although not many Cultivators had actually met Lu Chen, his Puppet Technique was divine, and he was the only one from the Dongming Sect who possessed such skill, making him easily recognizable.

"He is the contemporary Traveling Envoy of the Dongming Sect?"

"Good, I heard that this Traveling Envoy of the Dongming Sect once killed the Heavenly Pride Xiahou Mang of the Tianyuan Grotto-heaven. Now that he has come in pursuit, he will surely be able to kill these guys from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace here!"

The hearts of the many South Chu Cultivators were excited, and their eyes, as they looked at Lu Chen, were filled with anticipation and also nervousness.

The impression that Sword Lord had left on them when he swept through South Chu earlier was truly unforgettable for a lifetime. To say that Lu Chen could completely keep all these guys from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace, they were actually not entirely sure.

But they could not show weakness verbally.

"A few metal Puppets that don't even look like humans dare to make a fool of themselves, how laughable." The four Celestial Swords from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace sneered, their precious swords already beginning to emit a chilling, oppressive Sword Intent.

"Kill them." Lu Chen spoke indifferently, not even lifting his eyelids much, merely stroking the soft fur of the Mountain Lord Divine Tiger he sat upon, somehow feeling a sense of petting a cat from his previous life.

In an instant, twenty-four of the thirty-four Yin God Dao Soldiers separated, forming the Twenty-Four Constellation Greedy Wolf Battle Formation, while the remaining ten formed the Ten Capital Fierce Calculation Battle Formation.

The battle formations were instantly formed, and their astonishing power spread in a flash, instantly enveloping the four Celestial Swords from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace.

The Twenty-Four Constellation Greedy Wolf Battle Formation circulated terrifying Five Elements power, wind power, and Earthly Fiend power. The entire world seemed to surge with layers of invisible giant waves, sweeping and rushing, finally transforming into a terrifying constellation spirit as vast as a mountain above the battle formation, Greedy Wolf!

At the same moment, the space above the Ten Capital Fierce Calculation Battle Formation also changed. Divine phantom images that seemed to judge life and death and control Yin Spirits appeared one after another, a total of ten, their aura connected, filling the sky.

"Such battle formations..." The four Celestial Swords from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace suddenly felt a chill down their spines. An unprecedented sense of oppression struck them, directly shaking their sword hearts.

Such a perfectly complete combined attack battle formation was not just about the terrifying combat power it displayed externally; it also served to intimidate the mind.

"No matter how good a battle formation is, it is only controlled by a group of inanimate objects. How much capability can it have?" A Celestial Sword, not tall but whose Sword Intent soared to the sky, suddenly drew his sword, his sword energy bursting out three hundred zhang: "Kill."

"Chi!"

Sword energy crisscrossed, stirring the Void and the sky. The four Celestial Swords from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace settled their sword hearts. Their Sword Intent mixed with sword energy, crisscrossing in all directions, instantly engaging in battle with the twenty-four Divine Travel Dao Soldiers of the Twenty-Four Constellation Greedy Wolf Battle Formation and the ten Divine Travel Dao Soldiers of the Ten Capital Fierce Calculation Battle Formation.

"Boom!"

The terrifying fluctuations stirred the Void. Gale force winds and air currents rolled like a sea of clouds, instantly engulfing the battlefield.

But only a moment later, the constellation spirit Greedy Wolf, like a mountain across the sky, was seen stomping down with a thousand feet. Sword energy shattered and disintegrated, and then the head of a certain Celestial Sword flew up, followed closely by a Yin God shrouded in Sword Intent that rushed out.

But as soon as it appeared, a certain Five Elements Dao Soldier that had long been waiting arrived and swallowed the Yin God in one gulp.

Almost at the same moment, three more Celestial Sword heads were struck off in quick succession, and three Yin Spirits rushed out. Before they could even get angry, they were swallowed by the other three Five Elements Dao Soldiers.

In the blink of an eye, the four Celestial Swords from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace, who had previously been rampant in the South Chu land, moving as if in an uninhabited realm, were all annihilated. The entire process did not even last five breaths.

It wasn't that these Celestial Swords from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace weren't strong, but that Lu Chen's thirty-four Divine Travel Dao Soldiers were too unreasonable.

They were already surrounded and killed with an absolute numerical advantage, and they even formed two large battle formations. Who else would die if not the Celestial Swords of the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace?

Annihilated in five breaths, they could be considered to have held on for a long time.

If ordinary Yin Spirit Realm high-level Cultivators came, they would only die faster.

This scene made countless South Chu Cultivators feel as though they were in a dream.

"Dead?!"

"The people from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace who had been running rampant in South Chu for over a month have been completely killed here by the contemporary Traveling Envoy of the Dongming Sect!"

"I thought it would be an exciting decisive battle, but who knew these guys from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace were so useless, such trash."

"This is the consequence of bullying our South Chu Cultivators!"

Everyone was overjoyed. The pent-up frustration that had been suppressed for over a month was finally completely released at this moment, as the heads of the four Celestial Swords from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace flew up. They felt an indescribable sense of relief and comfort.

Lu Chen waved his hand and collected the four Five Elements Dao Soldiers that had swallowed the Celestial Swords' Yin Spirits. He also saw Divine Travel Dao Soldiers approaching, carrying the heads and bodies of the four Celestial Swords from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace.

But Lu Chen showed no joy at all. Instead, he furrowed his brow bit by bit: "The Sword Lord, is not here?!"

He had killed all four Celestial Swords from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace, but the Heavenly Pride and Sword Lord of the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace, whom he had specifically noted down, born with a Spirit Treasure immortal sword, had not appeared from beginning to end.

What puzzled him even more was that the many Cultivators who followed the few people from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace had not mentioned this point, and those four dead Celestial Swords from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace had their heads taken off by him before he even had a chance to question them.

So...

Lu Chen patted the Mountain Lord Divine Tiger Dao Soldier he was sitting on. The Divine Tiger understood and immediately moved, its huge body slowly stepping forward, appearing before the many South Chu Cultivators. It instantly cast a large shadow, covering the Cultivators, and also startled them for some reason.

"Fellow Daoists, you have followed all this way. Do you know where that Sword Lord went?" Lu Chen cupped his fists in a salute, then asked gently.

"Sword Lord? The Sword Lord of the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace?!" A Cultivator seemed to suddenly remember, hitting his forehead hard: "Where is that Sword Lord?"

"That's right! We followed all the way, why did we suddenly forget the Sword Lord?"

"He was clearly there all along before!"

"Strange, when did that Sword Lord leave, and why was it only discovered now? Why did we seem to have completely forgotten the Sword Lord before this?"

"Strange, very strange!"

The expressions of the Cultivators were surprised and suspicious.

Lu Chen slowly raised his head and looked towards the sky: "Who, tampered with things?"

To be able to make the Sword Lord retreat without a sound, and even these thousands, or even tens of thousands, of South Chu Cultivators, not a single one noticed, and even seemed to have forgotten the Sword Lord's existence?

Such means...

"It must be that the old guys from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace realized that the Sword Lord brat caused great trouble in South Chu, so they used a heavy treasure to conceal the Sword Lord brat's heavenly secrets and helped him escape and retreat!" A familiar voice transmission suddenly entered Lu Chen's ears.

It was Protector Gu!

'The old guys from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace realized the Sword Lord caused great trouble, but they only took the Sword Lord away, leaving these four Yin Spirit Celestial Swords behind, ignoring them?'

Lu Chen's heart stirred.

Good heavens, in order to protect the Sword Lord, the old guys from the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace actually abandoned even four Yin Spirit high-level Cultivators, treating them as scapegoats for the Sword Lord and as sacrifices to quell the Dongming Sect's anger.

"Smashing my Dongming Sect's mountain gate and leaving four cats and dogs behind to settle the matter? There's no such good thing in this world!" Protector Gu snorted coldly: "Wait until I go and invite the Sect Leader out, and have the Sect Leader personally take you to the Spring and Autumn Sword Palace!"

Spring and Autumn Sword Palace, you're in big trouble!

Lu Chen once again felt the dominance of the Dongming Sect!

As the number one overlord Sect in Northern Qi, the Dongming Sect says they will go, and they will go openly to cause trouble, and perhaps even kill one of their Heavenly Pride Disciples right in front of the entire Spring and Autumn Sword Palace!