140: Fortune favors the bold.

RUMBLE—

Flashes of lightning and claps of thunder, accompanied by pouring rain!

A bare tree trunk raced wildly through the air, occasionally emitting a sound like an infant crying.

The trunk was carved with dense symbols, constantly triggering purple Heavenly Lightning bolts to strike the pursuers behind it.

“Don't run!”

A Thunder Tiger, running wildly, spoke human words.

Demonic aura soared to the heavens, devilish energy ran rampant, and multiple middle-aged men sprinted.

Humans and demons were mortal enemies, yet now, unusually, they weren't fighting, their eyes focused solely on the tree trunk emitting the infant's cry.

The drama of chasing and being chased unfolded fiercely!

An eagle cry pierced the sky. Lu Yuan looked down at Li Jinxue, who was wearing a ponytail and panting heavily as she strained to keep up the chase.

“You're interested in the grand void thunder wood too?”

Lu Yuan looked down at Li Jinxue, who had just broken through to the Divine Power Realm.

Whether they were Practitioners from Huaxia, or members of the Demon Race and Devil Race, their starting point was the Transcendent Realm.

In contrast, Li Jinxue had only just broken through to the Divine Power Realm.

Even if she managed to obtain the grand void thunder wood by luck, what good would it do? Could she possibly escape from these powerful experts?

“Seeking Riches in Danger.”

Li Jinxue's expression was calm.

She and her team members were among the first to discover the grand void thunder wood, and they nearly obtained it.

As a student of Pengcheng University, Li Jinxue knew that top-grade heaven and earth spirit treasures could develop sentience.

But she didn't realize this thing could run so fast, or that it could fly!

Ordering her team members to head to the nearest supply point, Li Jinxue chose to chase after it alone.

“You keep chasing slowly.” Lu Yuan greeted her and urged Feng Shi to speed up.

“Wait a moment!”

“Hmm?”

Lu Yuan looked at Li Jinxue.

“I have a way to subdue the grand void thunder wood, provided I get within ten meters of it,” Li Jinxue said, hoping Lu Yuan would give her a ride.

From her perspective, she, a Divine Power Realm Practitioner, was Seeking Riches in Danger.

And wasn't Lu Yuan, a Law Realm Practitioner, doing the same?

Feng Shi landed, and Lu Yuan motioned for Li Jinxue to get on.

Accelerate, and accelerate again!

Like a shooting star, Lu Yuan, who had arrived late, stood out among the pursuers!

RUMBLE—

The thunder was dense. Lu Yuan blocked the path of these demons and devils.

“Screaming constantly in the middle of the night—do you know that disturbing the peace is punishable by a fine?”

Lu Yuan said.

The ten great calamities appeared one after another!

Nine Vipers turned its head to look at the grand void thunder wood, its eyes revealing a trace of greed.

“I must help Master obtain it!” Nine Vipers said in a deep voice.

“You and Feng Shi go chase it.”

Time was pressing, so Lu Yuan didn't waste words.

Li Jinxue looked bewildered. Her idea was to rely on Feng Shi's speed advantage to see if there was a chance to snatch the grand void thunder wood.

Clearly, Lu Yuan's plan was completely opposite to hers.

Lu Yuan decided to block all the pursuers alone, allowing her and Feng Shi to obtain this top-grade heaven and earth spirit treasure using a more secure method!

The question was, could he block them?

“Lu Yuan!”

A middle-aged man, around forty-seven or forty-eight years old and dressed lavishly, recognized Lu Yuan.

His name was Yuan Ruifeng, Thunder Attribute, Peak Transcendent Realm.

Although the Yuan Family couldn't compare to the Jiang Family, it was still a first-class family in Huaxia, located in Shen City, one of the five Super First-Tier Cities.

“Who cares about Lu Yuan? Dare to block me and you're courting death!”

The Thunder Tiger roared, and in an instant, multiple Heavenly Lightning bolts descended, violently smashing toward Lu Yuan.

In the eyes of the Thunder Tiger and the many Demon Kings, they temporarily forgot their irreconcilable feud with the Human Race.

Including the Devil Race, their eyes held only the craving for the top-grade heaven and earth spirit treasure!

What did it matter if he was human? If even one of their own dared to obstruct them, they would kill without mercy!

“A Law Realm Six-Star human kid dares to block me? You're looking for death!”

A voice of indeterminate gender rang out, and the Devil Race member clad in black battle armor also made a move.

Earth Tier High-Grade Spirit Skill: Rolling Devil Flame

Flames mixed with devilish energy ignited under the moonlight!

Four Demon Kings and three Devil Race members, the highest cultivation level being Transcendent Realm Seven-Star.

Lu Yuan stood calmly in place, observing the strength of these demons and devils.

The Annihilation item automatically protected its master; a milky white light enveloped his entire body, completely blocking all Spirit Skill attacks!

“What?!”

An explosion sounded as they looked toward Lu Yuan, who had withstood multiple Spirit Skills completely unharmed.

Yuan Ruifeng looked astonished, as if he had seen a ghost.

How could Lu Yuan, a Law Realm Practitioner, be completely fine after tanking so many Spirit Skills cast by Transcendent Realm Practitioners, many of which were Earth Tier High-Grade?

Even he, a Peak Transcendent Realm expert, couldn't guarantee he wouldn't be injured!

“Are you giving Master a massage?” Blood Butcher mocked.

An ear-splitting eagle cry sounded, and Li Jinxue, riding Feng Shi, vanished from sight.

The top-grade heaven and earth spirit treasure, grand void thunder wood, also vanished.

Blood Butcher's mockery made the Demon Kings and the four Devil Race members turn pale with rage, and they launched another round of Spirit Skills toward Lu Yuan.

The result was obvious: the milky white light absorbed everything!

“Brother Yuan, should we...”

The Huaxia Practitioners present hesitated.

There were six of them in total, four of whom had the Thunder Attribute, with the lowest cultivation level being Six-star Transcendent Realm.

The Huaxia Practitioners were debating whether to attack Lu Yuan, their gazes fixed on the strongest among them, Yuan Ruifeng.

“Go!” Yuan Ruifeng made his decision.

That meant giving up the grand void thunder wood, and naturally, they wouldn't help Lu Yuan either.

The group left in the opposite direction.

Before leaving, Yuan Ruifeng's expression was complex as he repeatedly scrutinized Lu Yuan fighting the demons and devils.

“Let's deal with this human kid first!”

A Devil Race member with the Fire Attribute named Chu Zhishang proposed.

The proposal quickly received the approval of the four Demon Kings.

This human kid was strange in every way, and with him blocking the path, they couldn't free up their hands to chase the grand void thunder wood.

The Calamity of Fire merged into Lu Yuan's body, while the other eight Calamities pounced on the Demon Kings and Devil Race members.

Golden flames illuminated the dark night; the Eternal Sacred Flame appeared!

Lu Yuan locked onto the three Devil Race members and instantly unleashed multiple Spirit Skills.

Earth Tier High-Grade Spirit Skill: Molten Flow

Earth Tier High-Grade Spirit Skill: Wildfire Roar

...After the Spirit Skills clashed, a miserable shriek followed!

ROAR—

Seeing the Devil Race member injured by Lu Yuan, the Demon King Thunder Tiger let out a low growl.

“Are you Devil Race members that useless? A Transcendent Realm Practitioner actually got injured by a Law Realm Practitioner!”

Chu Zhishang didn't respond to the Thunder Tiger, instead looking down to examine the blood flowing from his chest.

“Light Attribute! His Spirit Skills are imbued with a Light Attribute enhancement!” Chu Zhishang pointed at Lu Yuan, his voice trembling.

The faces of his two Devil Race comrades twitched; they had felt it too.

The world is fair.

Regardless of what attribute a Devil Race Practitioner awakened, they were naturally superior to Human Race Practitioners.

This was the unique nature of their race!

Except for the Light Attribute, the Hall of Judgment once conducted a famous experiment.

When a Divine Power Realm Light Attribute Practitioner faced a Law Realm Devil Race member, provided they didn't use the Power of Law...

...they could easily crush them, even across a major realm boundary, including the power of their Spirit Skills!

The difference in power between a Light Attribute Spirit Skill hitting a Fierce Beast versus hitting a Devil Race member was tens of times greater!

“I'll handle the three of them; you guys take out the four Demon Kings.”

Discovering that the Fire Attribute Divine Ability, Eternal Sacred Flame, was so effective against the Devil Race, Lu Yuan formed a new plan.

He wanted the top-grade heaven and earth spirit treasure, and these seven Transcendent Realm demons and devils shouldn't think about escaping either!

The pupils of the three Transcendent Realm Devil Race members dilated. They saw Lu Yuan, who had just cast an Earth Tier High-Grade Spirit Skill, cast multiple Earth Tier High-Grade Spirit Skills again.

Chu Zhishang, whose body was covered in black battle armor, had sweat covering his forehead.

“He... he wants to use Spirit Skills to bombard us to death!”