262: Seconds

"Divine Soul... attack..."

Among them, four Demon Clan Heavenly Pride only felt intense pain in their Divine Soul, as if pierced by ten thousand arrows, back and forth, without any pause.

This was the only thought that arose in the minds of those four Demon Clan Heavenly Pride. As soon as this thought passed, the four Demon Clan Heavenly Pride, excluding that Deer Demon, had their Divine Souls directly annihilated on the spot by Lu Chen's Dao Soldiers.

Let alone the chance to fight back, they didn't even have time to form the thought of fighting back before it was over!

It wasn't that these four peak Yang God Demon Clan Heavenly Pride were too weak, nor were they not cautious enough, nor was it due to momentary carelessness. It was simply that Lu Chen's Dao Soldiers were too abnormal now.

Just speaking of the Spirit Treasure Wind and Thunder Dao Soldiers that can attack the Divine Soul, Lu Chen had four of them.

Among them, the 'Soul Separation Three Sound Gong' was the only Spirit Treasure Wind and Thunder Dao Soldier whose strength was only comparable to a Two Tribulation Yang God Realm. But don't underestimate its Two Tribulation strength; the Spirit Treasure itself was powerful, and after being nurtured into a Dao Soldier, it also had complete Divine Power blessings. In addition, there were six Dao Soldier Clones, also mastering complete Divine Soul attack Divine Powers. If seven Spirit Treasure Dao Soldiers attacked together, no matter how strong a Nine Tribulation peak Yang God was, their Divine Soul would suffer intense pain.

However, this was only the beginning.

Because behind them were the 'Soul Suppressing Bell', 'Soul Shattering Bell', and 'Nine Luminary Star Soul Shuttle', three Spirit Treasure Wind and Thunder Dao Soldiers comparable to the Seven Tribulation Yang God Realm. Adding their respective six Clone Dao Soldiers, that was eighteen Clone Dao Soldiers simultaneously unleashing Divine Soul attack Divine Powers, plus the three Spirit Treasure Dao Soldier main bodies manifesting their Spirit Treasure forms, along with Divine Power blessings. With such power, even an iron-forged Divine Soul couldn't withstand it.

Especially the Nine Luminary Star Soul Shuttle. This Spirit Treasure was different from the Soul Suppressing Bell and Soul Shattering Bell, and also different from the Soul Separation Three Sound Gong. This Spirit Treasure would directly penetrate the Divine Soul and carried the fire of the star soul. Once touched, there was no escape from death unless one possessed heaven-defying cultivation. Its power was the most terrifying.

The four Demon Clan Heavenly Pride whose Divine Souls were directly annihilated were all at the hands of the Spirit Treasure Wind and Thunder Dao Soldier formed by this 'Nine Luminary Star Soul Shuttle'.

However, there was still the last Demon Clan Heavenly Pride, the one with black scales on its cheeks, who remained resilient and hadn't had its Divine Soul blasted by the Dao Soldiers and their Clones.

"Good, good thing I have a secret treasure protecting my Divine Soul!" The Demon Clan Heavenly Pride with black scales on its cheeks felt its heart pound, and there was still a sense of impact coming from its Divine Soul.

Moreover...

"My secret treasure... it's going to shatter!"

Divine Soul protection type secret treasures were different from Magic Treasures and were most easily broken. Especially Lu Chen's Dao Soldiers seemed tireless. Once they began Divine Soul attacks, it was endless, like the vast ocean's waves, one wave rising before the last subsided, coming in layers upon layers, with no sign of stopping.

Crucially, even with a secret treasure protecting its Divine Soul, its Divine Soul was still not unharmed and was still being affected.

"Damn it, what kind of hellish Puppets are these!" It was shocked and furious in its heart.

In just a brief instant, the four Demon Clan Heavenly Pride accompanying it had their Divine Souls directly extinguished and died, not even leaving half a life behind. And its Divine Soul defense Magic Treasure was also about to shatter. More importantly, up until now, it hadn't truly seen the guy who spoke, only these terrifying Puppets!

Who was speaking?

Who was ambushing them?

Completely unknown!

The existence behind it seemed like a high and mighty deity, indifferently looking down on everything from above!

But at this moment, it couldn't muster the slightest thought of pulling that high and mighty existence down and trampling it into the ground. It didn't have the ability either. Its only thought now was to escape!

The farther it escaped, the better; the faster, the better!

As for these hellish Puppets, it didn't want to see a single one of them again!

However...

"Boom!"

A terrifying chain emerged, bringing with it phantoms like chains of order, overwhelming everything. Let alone this Demon Clan Heavenly Pride who was currently suffering continuous Divine Soul attacks, rendering it unable to move, even without the Divine Soul attacks, it would be impossible for it to escape the binding of this chain!

Because this was the 'Binding Dragon Rope'. Once it locked onto an enemy, they would definitely be bound, unless the cultivation gap was too large.

It was clear, however, that the strength of this Demon Clan Heavenly Pride was not much higher than this Spirit Treasure Wind and Thunder Dao Soldier. Moreover, it was already unable to move. Almost the instant it saw the 'Binding Dragon Rope', the Binding Dragon Rope, bringing with it overwhelming phantoms like chains of order, had bound it.

And as soon as the Binding Dragon Rope touched its body, it bound tighter and tighter, deeper and deeper. Even though the Demon Clan's Physical Body was powerful, it still couldn't resist the Binding Dragon Rope's tyranny. It was directly bound into its flesh and blood, causing this Demon Clan Heavenly Pride to bare its fangs and roar repeatedly in pain. With both Divine Soul and Physical Body under attack, no one could withstand it.

If this continued, this Demon Clan Heavenly Pride would surely be split apart by the Binding Dragon Rope, divided into dozens or even hundreds of pieces, until finally, even its Yang God would be bound and completely strangled!

This was the tyranny of the Binding Dragon Rope!

"Tell me, why did you come to cause trouble for the Dongming Sect Yuanzhou Mountain Gate?" A calm voice sounded, coming from the Void, with no figure visible.

This Demon Clan Heavenly Pride had long been eroded by the pain coming from its Divine Soul to its Physical Body. At this moment, it responded almost roaring: "The Human Race and our clan are inherently mortal enemies, what reason is there? As long as it's Human Race, I'll kill whoever I want..."

The calm voice sounded again, without the slightest emotional fluctuation: "That makes sense. Then now, I also want to kill a demon."

There were no other demons here; there was only one, and that was this Demon Clan Heavenly Pride with black scales on its cheeks.

Therefore...

"Whoosh!"

A sound of piercing the air arose, a spear light flashed, instantly piercing the head of this Demon Clan Heavenly Pride and nailing it in mid-air.

"Demons, still too few!" Lu Chen said unhurriedly, stepping out of the Void on a Piercing Void Dao Soldier. He casually collected the physical bodies of the five peak Yang Spirit Great Demon Heavenly Pride and threw them into the Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin.

He valued these Demon Clan Heavenly Pride who came from the Starry Sky very much. After all, they were all the cream of the crop in their respective cultivation worlds, Heavenly Pride among Heavenly Pride.

Therefore, as soon as Lu Chen made his move, it was sixty Spirit Treasure Wind and Thunder Dao Soldiers, plus six Clones for each Dao Soldier, totaling three hundred and sixty Clone Dao Soldiers. Adding the sixty main Dao Soldier bodies, there were a total of four hundred and twenty.

Unfortunately, Lu Chen took it too seriously, so much so that most of the Dao Soldiers didn't even get a chance to attack, and these five Demon Clan Heavenly Pride had already met their demise.

Let's put it this way!

Lu Chen had as many as eleven Spirit Treasure Dao Soldiers comparable to peak Yang Gods, and there were also three Spirit Treasure Dao Soldiers comparable to Eight Tribulation Yang Gods.

But in this battle, these Dao Soldiers didn't have many opportunities to be used. Even the Binding Dragon Rope and Binding Spirit Rope, these two peak Wind and Thunder Dao Soldiers, although deployed, were just going through the motions.

Because just the Soul Separation Three Sound Gong, Soul Suppressing Bell, Soul Shattering Bell, and Nine Luminary Star Soul Shuttle, these four Spirit Treasure Dao Soldiers, were enough to clear the field.

There were even more Dao Soldiers that could only make up the numbers and didn't even get a chance to attack.

Instantly killed!

"Uninteresting."

This was Lu Chen speaking on behalf of his Dao Soldiers who didn't get a chance to attack.

"Five peak Yang Spirit Realm Demon Clan Heavenly Pride, instantly killed?!" Jiang Daoqing, who had rushed over from the Ancient Demon Remnant Tomb, felt a slight shock in his heart!

When he came to the Azure Underworld, he had seen and heard many cultivators in the Azure Underworld mentioning Lu Chen in the Ancient Demon Remnant Tomb, saying his 'Puppet Technique was heaven-defying'. Originally, Jiang Daoqing just felt it was a bit more unusual than ordinary, perhaps only extraordinary in the Azure Underworld. If placed in the entire universe starry sky, it might just be ordinary.

But looking at it now, Lu Chen's Puppet Technique truly deserved the title 'heaven-defying'!

Because he saw it clearly, Lu Chen's Puppets could actually transform into Magic Treasures?

That copper gong, small bell, ring, shuttle, and so on, were all Magic Treasures, and they were extremely special ones at that.

Refining Puppets with Magic Treasures – Jiang Daoqing had never even heard of this, let alone seen it.

What was even more exaggerated was that he also saw Lu Chen's Puppets split into Clones?

What kind of hellish Puppets were these?

You know, even he, a peak Heavenly Pride from the Void Immortal Sect, didn't have such powerful cloning techniques. Yet Lu Chen's Puppets did?

And this was standard for all Puppets...

"Truly a great talent with heaven-defying Puppet Technique!" Jiang Daoqing couldn't help but exclaim.

He was even a little envious.

Sitting still while the Puppets charged forward and attacked on their own – how elegant was that!

Of course, Jiang Daoqing would never have dreamed that regarding Puppet Technique, Lu Chen actually understood nine out of ten aspects, with one aspect remaining completely unknown.

Furthermore, what he thought were Puppets refined in conjunction with Magic Treasures were actually not Magic Treasures at all, but genuine Spirit Treasures!

It was just that Jiang Daoqing couldn't possibly imagine that there would be someone in this world who could strip the innate Spirit Treasures from those Heavenly Pride and then nurture them into Dao Soldiers.

Therefore, his understanding of Lu Chen was actually very, very shallow!

On the other side, at the border of South Chu.

Old Red Dragon's expression was gloomy. Tens of thousands of miles away, it saw the Demon Clan Heavenly Pride it had personally invited, and also saw these Heavenly Pride instantly killed!

Forget about saying they would bathe the Dongming Sect in blood, these Demon Clan Heavenly Pride didn't even touch the Dongming Sect's mountain gate!

"A bunch of trash!" Old Red Dragon whispered coldly, being surprisingly calm.

The Dongming Sect was indeed as unfathomable as ever!

Those Demon Clan who came from the Starry Sky didn't know; they only thought the Dongming Sect was a piece casually dropped by that ancient Void Immortal Sect in the Starry Sky into the Azure Underworld. But as Old Red Dragon, who came from the Ancient Demon Realm, it knew clearly.

The Dongming Sect was absolutely not as simple as a piece casually dropped by some ancient Void Immortal Sect. A gradually declining Azure Underworld should have been a disposable pawn in the eyes of that Void Immortal Sect in the Starry Sky. However, the reality was not like that.

This Dongming Sect always had powerful existences stationed there and had appeared outside the Seal of the Ancient Demon Realm many times.

Even through the Seal, Old Red Dragon had felt the formidable power of those existences from the Dongming Sect outside the Seal.

It was like this before, and it was like this now.

Before the Seal in the Northern Frontier of the Ancient Demon Realm was completely broken, Old Red Dragon had followed the Demon Clan Great Power in the Ancient Demon Realm to attack the Seal on the South Chu side. Naturally, it knew about the Young Sect Leader stationed in front of the Seal, as well as Chen Tianshu and Jiang Daoqing. It knew them all.

Therefore, it didn't dare to easily attack the Dongming Sect. So, it found the Demon Clan Heavenly Pride from the Starry Sky, wanting to use the power of the younger generation to hunt the Disciples and members of the Dongming Sect. This way, the formidable older generation existences in the Dongming Sect might not intervene.

Of course, Old Red Dragon didn't dare to bet that the formidable older generation existences in the Dongming Sect would definitely adhere to martial ethics. Therefore, Old Red Dragon itself had never set foot inside South Chu, just in case the older generation existences in the Dongming Sect didn't care about rules and just started killing indiscriminately, dragging itself in!

It just hadn't expected that before the older generation existences in the Dongming Sect even made a move, those five Demon Clan Heavenly Pride who came from the Starry Sky were instantly killed by a group of Puppets.

But, it wasn't without any gain. At least, Old Red Dragon saw that young man with astonishing Puppet Technique, who was Lu Chen.

"Such an extraordinary Heavenly Pride, if he perishes, the Dongming Sect will probably feel heartbroken! Excellent!" Old Red Dragon whispered softly, then turned and retreated without any hesitation.

On the other side.

Yang Qingpeng and Liang Tingsheng of the Dongming Sect Yuanzhou Mountain Gate had also walked out from within the mountain gate.

A battle between peak Yang Gods had occurred outside the mountain gate. They naturally sensed it. Although this battle was not intense and lasted for a very short time, they were still alarmed.

"Junior Brother Lu?!" Yang Qingpeng, tall and imposing, radiating killing intent, stepped out of the Void. He originally thought it was the chaos caused by the Demon Clan from the Starry Sky, but instead, he saw Lu Chen at a glance.

However, since it was this Junior Brother Lu, then it was fine.

Although this Senior Brother of theirs hadn't been inducted for long, his strength had always been progressing rapidly. Now, he had even stepped into the peak Yin God Realm, catching up to his previous cultivation level. But, since this Senior Brother of theirs could handle things with the strength of a peak Yin God, what kind of major event could it be?

No wonder this conflict ended so quickly, and the fluctuations it caused didn't seem very intense either.

Yang Qingpeng relaxed, his surging killing intent subsided, and he put on a hearty smile.

'This Junior Brother, his eyesight isn't good!' Lu Chen looked at Yang Qingpeng, whom he had already met in the Ancient Demon Remnant Tomb, and Liang Tingsheng, whom he hadn't met yet. He noticed that Yang Qingpeng, who was originally just at the peak Yin God Realm, had surprisingly stepped into the Yang God Realm. No wonder he was a bit arrogant.

And when Lu Chen didn't actively reveal his Body Refinement cultivation, Yang Qingpeng, with his current strength, naturally couldn't tell.

Thus, Lu Chen silently revealed his Body Refinement cultivation and eagerly stepped forward: "Senior apprentice-brother Yang, are you well?"

'Wait!' Yang Qingpeng, who was striding forward, suddenly stopped. His pupils gradually widened, and the hearty smile on his face also froze: "This is, what Realm?"

Body Refinement Four Tribulation Yang God? Or Five Tribulation Yang God?

Or, even higher?

And that faintly flowing golden Qi and blood...

This...

That little guy who could only contend with the Dao Embryo Realm in the Ancient Demon Remnant Tomb back then, has he now grown to such an exaggerated extent?!

His expression was momentarily dazed. Thinking about his cultivation until now, he had only just barely stepped into the Yang God Realm, while Lu Chen, cultivating for less than two years, was already far ahead of him on the path of Yang God, leaving him far behind. To the extent that even when Lu Chen fully unleashed his strength and no longer concealed any aura, he couldn't discern Lu Chen's specific strength!

The gap between them was too big, too big!

In a daze, Yang Qingpeng noticed Lu Chen's eager and heroic face approaching and felt the sincerity of Lu Chen's smile, but his lips could no longer form any curve.

"Perhaps, I should be the one calling him Senior apprentice-brother!"

Lu Senior Brother!