299: A prodigy of the highest realm? Shattered with a single punch! This grab will disfigure you instantly.

Above the ruins, the dust had not yet settled.

The hemp-clothed old man holding a broken broom, his cloudy eyes just meeting Lu Sheng's, a terrifying aura sufficient to freeze space exploded silently between the two.

At this critical moment.

"Buzz—"

In the eastern sky, purple Qi surged for thirty thousand miles.

This purple Qi arrived dominantly and sacredly, forcibly suppressing the turbulent flows created by the shattering of the hao tian mirror. The originally gloomy sky was now dyed in a magnificent purple-gold color.

The hemp-clothed old man's eyelids lowered slightly, and the towering pressure directed at Lu Sheng instantly retracted, turning him back into an ordinary old sweeper as he turned and retreated into the shadows.

The protagonist had changed.

"Ding-ling..."

A crisp Dao sound seemed to fall from the Nine Heavens.

Everyone subconsciously looked up to see a nine-grade purple-gold lotus platform, ten zhang in diameter, slowly rotating down from the center of the rolling purple Qi. A young man sat cross-legged atop the lotus platform.

He wore no armor, only a simple moon-white Daoist robe. His black hair cascaded like a waterfall, unrestrained, each strand glowing as if flowing with some profound Dao charm. As his eyes opened and closed, his left eye brimmed with vitality while his right was filled with Death Qi, as if his body contained the Reincarnation of life and death.

Kunlun Daoist Successor, Dao Yi.

Level 39, Spirit Ancestor extreme realm!

As soon as he appeared, the originally noisy White Jade Plaza instantly fell silent, followed by the fervent kneeling sounds of countless Kunlun Disciples.

"We welcome Senior Brother Dao Yi back from seclusion!!"

The waves of sound were like a tide, scattering the clouds.

Dao Yi paid no heed to the crowd's kneeling. His eyes, containing the divine light of life and death, indifferently swept over the mess before finally fixing on Lu Sheng.

That look was not one of hatred like Lei Lie's, nor anger like Old Sect Master Mo's.

It was a high-and-mighty compassion, like a deity looking down at a wild monkey that had dirtied his floor.

"Destroying the Heavenly Gate, shattering a Divine Artifact."

Dao Yi spoke. His voice wasn't loud, yet it was like a great bell, making everyone's eardrums ache. "Fellow Daoist Lu, is this the mountain-visiting gift of Dengxian Island? Your hostility is too heavy; it is not a blessing for cultivation."

Lu Sheng stood in the center of the ruins, hands in his pockets, tilting his head to look at the guy above him who was glowing bright purple.

"Tsk."

Lu Sheng curled his lip and said with a face full of disdain to Li Xiaoyao behind him, "Old man, see that? That's a professional show-off. He comes with his own background music and lighting effects. Compared to him, our few dragons really do seem a bit rustic."

Li Xiaoyao's mouth twitched. Was now the time to discuss who was more rustic?!

"I am talking to you."

Dao Yi's brow furrowed slightly, seemingly displeased by Lu Sheng's disregard. He slowly raised his right hand, pointing his long index finger at the void where Lu Sheng was, and lightly made a stroke.

"Since you know no etiquette, then learn the rules in a cell."

"Drawing a Prison on the Ground."

Buzz!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only the alteration of rules.

The space ten meters around Lu Sheng was instantly severed. Four invisible spatial walls rose out of thin air, forming an absolutely closed cube. This was not a spiritual power barrier, but a direct severance of the connection between this space and the outside world!

Spatial rules!

"Heavens! Cutting space at will? This is a Domain that only high-stage Spirit Kings can touch!"

"Senior Brother Dao Yi has actually become this strong?!"

The experts from various Sects watching were pale with horror. Lei Lie was even more ecstatic, staring at Lu Sheng with malice: "This is an extreme realm Prodigy! You little beast, let's see how arrogant you are this time!"

Inside the cube, the air was sucked dry, and gravity increased a thousandfold.

Lu Sheng stood there, not even the corner of his clothes moving.

He looked at the spatial cage that was rapidly shrinking, attempting to crush him into meat paste, a trace of grayish-white mockery flashing in his eyes.

"Rules?"

Lu Sheng grinned, his forest-white teeth looking particularly eerie under the purple light.

"My fist... is the rule!"

Boom!!

Lu Sheng's right foot stomped the ground fiercely.

At that moment, the Primordial Desolate Heaven Dragon Origin deep in his spine trembled. A Desolation overbearing aura of 'impervious to all laws, the end of all things' erupted from his fist.

There were no fancy techniques.

It was pure Physical Body strength plus that sliver of 'Desolation' capable of shattering rules!

"Break... for me!!"

"Crack——!!!"

A crisp sound similar to glass shattering echoed through the field.

Under Dao Yi's shrinking pupils, that indestructible spatial cage was actually punched with a large hole by Lu Sheng!

Countless spatial fragments splashed like shattered mirrors.

Lu Sheng's figure turned into a grayish-white afterimage, instantly tearing through the spatial blockade and charging directly in front of the lotus platform in mid-air with a piercing sonic boom!

Too fast!

So fast that even the protective purple Qi behind Dao Yi didn't have time to react.

"A high-and-mighty lightbulb like you makes me dizzy just looking at you."

Lu Sheng grinned savagely, and his large hand, covered in hideous bone spurs, slapped hard toward Dao Yi's solemn face!

"Supreme Dao Body!"

Dao Yi's expression changed slightly as he shouted.

Buzz!

His body instantly blurred, turning into a cluster of purple light that was neither metal nor jade, attempting to evade this physical strike.

But he underestimated Lu Sheng.

Or rather, he underestimated the weight of a "Super God-Tier Sequence."

"Trying to run?"

Lu Sheng changed his palm into a claw, gray mist swirling around his fingertips as he directly grabbed that cluster of blurred purple light.

"Get... down for me!!"

Rip!

That cluster of purple light symbolizing the supreme Dao was actually torn away in a large chunk by Lu Sheng!

"Ugh!"

Dao Yi groaned, his figure re-solidifying ten meters away. On his originally spotless moon-white Daoist robe were five shocking claw marks, even seeping with traces of golden blood.

The whole place was dead silent.

The myth of Kunlun, the extreme realm Dao Yi... was injured?!

Disfigured upon meeting by a barbarian from a run-down Sect?!

"Good... very good."

Dao Yi reached out to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and in those eyes that were originally devoid of joy or sorrow, a true rage finally ignited.

It was the fury of a deity after being desecrated by a Mortal.

"I originally only wanted to trap you, but since you seek death..."

"Dharma Idol—Supreme Nine Clear Heavens!!"

Rumble——!!!

The ninety-nine floating islands trembled simultaneously.

Behind Dao Yi, a magnificent Dharma Idol a thousand zhang tall, draped in the sun, moon, and stars with a blurred face, towered up. As soon as this Dharma Idol appeared, the Spiritual Qi within a hundred-mile radius was instantly sucked dry, leaving only that suffocating purple in the world.

The pressure was like an ocean, and all living beings knelt.

Lu Sheng floated in mid-air, as tiny as a speck of dust before that thousand-zhang Dharma Idol.

But he laughed.

He laughed unrestrainedly, his spine burning.

"Comparing size?"

Lu Sheng cracked his neck, and a long-suppressed primordial dragon roar came from within his body.

"Then I'll let you see... what real... size is!"

"Archaic Heaven Emperor Venerable... get to work!!"

Boom!!!!!

A gray torrent ten times more terrifying than when the hao tian mirror was burst poured out from Lu Sheng's body.

Amidst that sky-filling purple Qi, an even larger, more ancient emperor Dharma Idol, seemingly carrying the vicissitudes of billions of years, forcibly squeezed into this world.

He had no sun, moon, or stars for decoration.

He only had a suit of grayish-white bone armor and those dead-gray giant eyes that disregarded all living beings.

"Bang!!"

Two thousand-zhang Dharma Idols crashed into each other in the clouds.

This was not an explosion of energy, but the collapse of the world.

At the central point of contact, space was directly annihilated into a massive black hole, crazily devouring all surrounding light and sound.

The terrifying shockwave swept horizontally in a ring. The White Jade Plaza below was directly stripped of a layer of ground, and countless Cultivators spat blood, blown away like straw.

Li Xiaoyao desperately protected the Dengxian Island Disciples behind him, his face as pale as paper.

"Is this... the extreme realm of the younger generation?"

These are two freaking monsters tearing the house down!

Just as the two Dharma Idols were at a standstill and the entire Kunlun Heavenly Gate was about to be shaken down.

In Lu Sheng's ear, a very thin, very cold, yet strangely familiar voice suddenly came.

"You ate that fruit too?"

Lu Sheng's pupils shrank slightly. He looked at Dao Yi across the chaotic energy storm.

He saw Dao Yi's lips move slightly, his eyes carrying a cannibalistic coldness as he transmitted his voice:

"Chaos Seed... Heh, do you know that is the bait from the deepest part of the abyss?"

"Eating it is signing a contract with the devil."

"Your life is no longer your own."

Lu Sheng's heart skipped a beat.

Was this guy... talking about the Enlightenment Fruit, or something else?

Before he could respond.

"Dang—!!"

A bell toll sufficient to cleanse the Soul rippled from the peak of the Kunlun Main Peak.

This bell toll seemed to carry some irresistible rule of heaven and earth. The two massive Dharma Idols that were struggling were actually forced apart by this power and quickly dissipated.

"The Great Competition begins."

A grand voice echoed through heaven and earth, without a trace of emotion.

"All participants, enter the arena."

Dao Yi took a deep breath, calming the surging blood in his body. He gave Lu Sheng a deep look; in that gaze, there was no longer contempt, only the excitement of a hunter seeing top-tier prey.

"Lu Sheng, I'll wait for you in the finals."

"I hope by then, you haven't been... killed by the backlash of that fruit."

After speaking, Dao Yi stepped on the lotus platform and turned into a stream of light, rushing into the Kunlun Main Peak.

Lu Sheng stood in place, watching the direction where Dao Yi disappeared, and slowly retracted the bone armor on his body. He rubbed his chin, deep in thought.

"Bait, huh..."

Lu Sheng gave a low laugh, a trace of madness flashing in his eyes.

"As long as the bait is fragrant enough, wouldn't it be fine to just eat the fisherman along with it?"

At this time, countless golden lights fell from the sky; those were the group lists.

Li Xiaoyao caught one of them, and with just a glance, his face turned deathly pale.

"It's over..."

Li Xiaoyao's hands were shaking as he handed the list to Lu Sheng: "Kid, you've been set up."

Lu Sheng took it and looked.

On that golden list were four bloody characters—[Asura Purgatory Group].

And next to his name, densely arranged, were all the chief Disciples of major Sects, monsters from Hidden Families, and even a few names in gray... those were long-famous murderous Devil Heads, "Death Soldiers" released by special pardon to participate.

This was no competition grouping.

This was clearly a mass grave prepared for Lu Sheng.

"Tsk."

Looking at that death list, Lu Sheng wasn't afraid; instead, he licked his lips, and his stomach actually let out an ungraceful growl.

"A buffet menu..."

Lu Sheng crumpled the list into a ball, tossed it into his mouth, and chewed it with a crunch.

"Pretty good."

"Saves me from having to find them one by one."