299: The taboo in Lu Xuan's heart that cannot be touched! You are looking for death!

After finding no abnormalities, Lu Xuan's eyes flashed with purple light, and his right hand quickly reached out, his five fingers precisely gripping the blade's hilt.

As Lu Xuan touched this demonic blade, a wisp of the Heaven and Earth Dharma Aspect's will swiftly entered the blade's body.

Eight Heaven and Earth patterns were etched inside this blade.

At the same time, the blade's Origin flooded into Lu Xuan's mind.

Eight-pattern Moon Artifact, Nine-Pupil Demon Fire Blade!

Upon learning that this blade was an eight-pattern Moon Artifact, Lu Xuan unhesitatingly looked at the System panel.

Host: Lu Xuan

Realm: Void Realm True Lord (Minor Achievement)

Cultivation Technique: Burning Heaven Blade Technique 9/9, Close Distance to the Horizon 5/9, Undying and Unextinguished 7/9.

Points: 28000

Detected Heaven and Earth Origin power, extract?

Anomaly! Anomaly! Anomaly!

Detected unknown residual will (suspected to be the will of this world), consume 50,000 System points to erase it?

The next second, Lu Xuan's aura surged wildly.

His eyes widened, pupils contracting violently, staring intently at the red warning message flashing at the bottom of the System panel.

"Damn it!"

A terrifying chill, one that made Lu Xuan's hair stand on end, slowly rose from his spine.

The next second, Lu Xuan flicked his wrist, and the Nine-Pupil Demon Fire Blade in his hand transformed into a dark stream of light, instantly disappearing into the Xufu Realm.

Immediately after, Lu Xuan's terrifying Dharma Aspect Divine Sense, imbued with a murderous aura, engulfed the entire bronze ancient palace like a raging, overflowing river.

Then, Lu Xuan's all-penetrating Dharma Aspect Divine Sense began from the carvings on the bronze ancient palace's dome.

Along the mottled walls, it meticulously explored inch by inch downwards, then upwards, repeatedly probing every corner and every crack, not missing any clue.

Under the shroud of Lu Xuan's Dharma Aspect Divine Sense, the bronze ancient palace exuded an indescribable stillness, with only the flickering candlelight seemingly narrating a mystery.

What exactly is this thing?

Residual world will?

Lu Xuan's brows furrowed into a knot!

At this thought, Lu Xuan's eyes sharpened.

No!

Perhaps someone is secretly manipulating this from behind!

Who dares to scheme against me!?

Killing intent surged in Lu Xuan's chest like a volcano about to erupt, and veins bulged on his forehead.

The next moment, the entire bronze hall shook violently, the bronze lamps on the ceiling swayed precariously, and the light flickered erratically.

Under Lu Xuan's terrifying pressure, the surrounding bronze city walls began to emit groaning sounds as if unable to bear the weight.

Immediately after, cracks spread at a visible speed, and the thunderous sound of collapsing bricks and stones was incessant.

As Lu Xuan's anger escalated, the cracks on the bronze ancient palace rapidly snaked upward from the corners of the walls amidst creaking sounds.

Bricks and stones continuously collapsed, and the stirred dust instantly filled the hall.

"Hmph!"

This was the first time Lu Xuan had encountered such a situation, and he gave one last glance around.

As Lu Xuan's mind stirred, the mysterious white halo from before reappeared.

This time, Lu Xuan did not resist, allowing the teleportation power to envelop his entire body.

The moment Lu Xuan's figure vanished, the entire bronze ancient palace let out an earth-shattering wail.

Almost at the same moment, the supporting structure of the bronze ancient palace groaned under the unbearable strain.

The ceiling collapsed without warning, and huge stones rained down.

On the crimson desert, the massive bronze ancient palace showed spiderweb-like cracks on its surface.

Finally, with an earth-shattering roar, it completely collapsed, and rolling hot sand swept over.

In an instant, this incredibly vast bronze ancient palace was buried without a trace.

"Was I discovered?"

At this moment, a hoarse voice tore through the silence of the desert.

"A Void Realm True Lord under thirty years old!"

"What did this Venerable One just witness?"

"Does that world outside truly have such peerless Prodigies?"

The aged voice followed, suppressing an unspeakable excitement in its tone.

"This Venerable One has waited for a full one hundred thirty-nine thousand nine hundred years… Finally, this day has come!"

"Hehehe!"

A breath later, maniacal laughter echoed between heaven and earth, shaking the sky-high yellow sand and making the remnants of the bronze ancient palace rustle.

The laughter contained the loneliness accumulated over more than a hundred thousand years, distorting the space within a hundred li radius.

The next second, amidst the wildly churning sand and dust, a dazzling white light quietly condensed.

At first, it was as dim as a firefly, then gradually became like the light of a bright moon.

Finally, that incomparably profound white light transformed into a white-robed elder.

The elder's deeply furrowed face seemed to bear the vicissitudes of ages, and his deep white pupils reflected the rotation of galaxies and the changes of the universe.

"Wonderful!"

"Wonderful!"

"Wonderful!"

After three consecutive "Wonderfuls," the old man's withered fingers in mid-air stroked his grizzled beard, his voice revealing an unconcealed greed.

"Not only is this child's Martial Dao talent unprecedented, but he can also perceive this Venerable One's residual world power even at the Void Tempering Realm."

"It seems he possesses a Divine Ability of perception!"

"Last time, that girl had an Immortal Artifact protecting her, causing this Venerable One to fail..."

"And she even took half of this Venerable One's world Origin power."

"However, little do they know, how could a mere ant of the Void Realm easily refine this Venerable One's power?"

"When the time comes, this Venerable One will let these ants know what true power is!"

At this point, the white light in the elder's eyes surged, and the surrounding space shattered inch by inch.

"However, it seems the plan has changed now."

"Those ants are completely incomparable to this junior; they are not worth this Venerable One making a move."

"This child's bone Aptitude is even much stronger than this Venerable One's back then."

"This time, even if I burn all the power of this world, this Venerable One will take this Physical Body for himself!"

"Tian Yuan Dao Immortal... This Venerable One is only one perfect Physical Body away from that final step!"

"With this once-in-a-million-years Physical Body, plus this Venerable One's memories."

"Achieving the Immortal Realm will no longer be an illusory fantasy!"

The white-robed elder gazed into the distance, Lu Xuan's figure reflected in his white pupils.

Thousands of miles away, a white light flashed, and Lu Xuan slowly walked out.

The white light of the teleportation had not completely dissipated when Lu Xuan felt a biting coldness rush towards him.

He calmly scanned his surroundings and then realized that the scenery had undergone earth-shattering changes.

One moment it was a desert under a scorching sun, the next he was in a dark, dense forest.

The branches of ancient towering trees twisted into grotesque shapes, outlining terrifying and eerie silhouettes against the starless, moonless night sky.

Even more bizarrely, distorted and terrifying human faces vaguely appeared within the textures of these trees, subtly wriggling with the breathing of the faces.

"Yin Qi, such dense Yin Qi!"

"Pure to the extreme!"

Lu Xuan's pupils slightly contracted as he looked at the scene before him.

A gloomy scene that ordinary Martial Artists would avoid was, in Lu Xuan's eyes, like a precious treasure trove.

The scorching gaze in Lu Xuan's eyes instantly ignited, bursting forth with terrifying brilliance, as if to incinerate everything around him.

His five fingers slightly spread, and black-gold World-Ending Flames flickered in his right palm.

As the extreme high temperature emerged!

The ancient trees within a hundred zhang radius suddenly trembled violently, and the human faces hidden in the wrinkles of the tree bark let out silent screams.

The black-gold flames swirling in Lu Xuan's right palm, merely their residual heat, could distort and shatter space, revealing spiderweb-like Void Realm cracks.

However, the black-gold flames came quickly and left just as quickly, being retracted by Lu Xuan in the blink of an eye.

"How many System points would this be..."

Lu Xuan licked his lips, suppressing the urge to immediately make a move.

Looking out, vast stretches of forest were shrouded in thick Yin Qi.

Images of System points skyrocketing had already flashed through Lu Xuan's mind; his palm tingled slightly, wishing he could unleash a strike immediately.

"It's not time yet."

Lu Xuan murmured to himself. The Yin Qi of this forest alone could contend with a God Palace Realm Martial Artist, reaching the level of a natural disaster-level anomaly.

Because in front of Lu Xuan, there was also a huge human architectural complex.

Illuminated by an unknown green light, what stood majestically ahead were colossal Buddha Pagoda complexes, as grand as cities.

Nine-story gilded pagodas encircled the area, each tower body carved with thousands of Arhat golden statues.

These statues, which should have been solemn and majestic, now displayed various expressions of pain and struggle.

Some had blood flowing from their seven orifices, some had twisted muscles, and even more were tearing at their Buddhist robes.

And in the very center of the architectural complex, a hundred-zhang-tall giant Buddha head overlooked all beings.

That face, which should have been compassionate, was an elder's face Lu Xuan had never seen before.

The wrinkles on its face were as deep as ravines, a strange smile hung at the corner of its mouth, and its half-closed eyes revealed a chilling, scrutinizing gaze.

"What kind of evil Buddha is this...?"

Lu Xuan's pupils contracted sharply. He recognized all the surrounding Arhats and Bodhisattvas.

Only the main Buddha standing in the very center felt completely unfamiliar to Lu Xuan.

Even stranger, as Lu Xuan gazed at the Buddha head, it seemed to possess vitality, like a living Buddha.

In a trance, the stone-carved Buddha's lips seemed to move slightly, and a drop of bronze-colored liquid slowly slid from the corner of its eye.

"Drip."

The sound of the liquid hitting the ground was particularly jarring in the silence.

Lu Xuan looked down and found that the soil beneath his feet was turning bronze, and countless hair-thin blood-colored lines spread out from the point of impact, covering the entire open space in an instant.

It seemed that within the core temple, there must be an even more powerful ghostly entity hidden.

Because Lu Xuan noticed that the roots of these Yin wood trees intertwined underground to form a certain Formation, and all the Yin Qi ultimately flowed towards the central, eerie temple.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

At this moment, withered leaves floated in mid-air, each vein oozing dark red blood, intertwining into dazzling blood characters in the Void Realm.

Abandon all illusions, sincerely worship my Buddha!

The moment these characters formed, Lu Xuan's Sea of Consciousness suddenly surged with turbulent waves.

The seductive power contained within those dozen or so blood characters was actually dozens of times stronger than the demonic pupils in the bronze ancient palace!

The scene before Lu Xuan's eyes began to twist and change—

The gloomy ancient temple transformed into a solemn Pure Land, and the twisted tree shadows became Bodhi treasure trees.

Even that eerie Buddha head now radiated ten thousand rays of golden light with a solemn and majestic appearance.

Waves of incredibly warm Buddhist chants echoed in his ears, carrying a pure power that cleansed the soul.

"Come... Come..."

The Buddha head's lips did not move, yet a benevolent voice reached deep into his Divine Soul.

Lu Xuan's eyes gradually narrowed, and two purple rays shot out from his pupils.

"Hmph!"

The withered leaves forming the characters instantly ignited, emitting mournful and shrill screams.

"Since you are unwilling to convert..."

The hoarse voice made the entire Yin wood forest tremble,

"Then become the Buddha land's nourishment!"

As soon as this threatening sentence fell.

"Crack... Crack, crack..."

All the Buddha heads' bronze lips slowly closed, their terrifying faces returning to a compassionate expression.

As if the evil Buddha Lu Xuan had seen before was merely an illusion.

The entire forest also fell into an eerie silence.

The twisted tree trunks stopped wriggling, and the pained human faces on the bark solidified into serene expressions.

Even the falling leaves suspended in the air, forming a static, eerie tableau.

This abnormal calm, however, did not diminish the Yin Qi it contained in the slightest.

Lu Xuan paid no mind to these deceptive tricks; instead, he took a step forward and walked straight towards the Buddha Tower Temple ahead.

Of course, with the previous System panel prompt, Lu Xuan dared not be careless next and kept an eye on the changes in the surrounding Heaven and Earth power.

This time, he wanted to see if there was anyone else hiding behind the scenes in this dilapidated temple, scheming against him.

Moreover, Lu Xuan still needed over twenty thousand System points to erase the mysterious world will on the Nine-Pupil Demon Fire Blade.

This Secret Realm before him might bring him an unexpected surprise, who knows!

Lu Xuan's lips curved into a playful smile.

His toes lightly touched the ground, and ripples like water instantly spread around him.

"Buzz—"

With the first step, Lu Xuan's figure was already five hundred meters away.

The twisted Yin wood branches that blocked the path were like mere illusions, completely unable to touch Lu Xuan's body.

Lu Xuan's figure flickered between reality and illusion, each appearance bringing him closer to the temple.

After three breaths, Lu Xuan's body stood before the main gate of the temple.

Of course, this was still under Lu Xuan's cautious circumstances; otherwise, he could have stepped directly into the temple's interior in one stride.

The gate of the Buddha Tower Temple was a heavy bronze door, extremely eerie.

Before him, the gate of the Buddha Tower Temple was cast from thick bronze.

Suddenly, "Boom!" a dull sound reverberated, and the bronze gate, without any wind, slowly opened on its own.

Above the lintel, the plaque reading "Temple of All Beings" appeared faintly in the dim light.

In an instant, golden water droplets seeped from the plaque's surface, each droplet emitting an extremely peaceful halo.

After detaching from the plaque, these golden water droplets all floated in mid-air, miraculously arranging themselves to form a line of text.

Those who enter this door must abandon the Mortal World!

Upon seeing this line of text, Lu Xuan felt no particular emotion.

Just as Lu Xuan raised his foot, preparing to step into the temple, his pupils suddenly contracted.

In the shadow cast by the doorway, a familiar figure leaned quietly against the wall.

The person wore a Blackbird Guard uniform, with a crisp collar and unique Xuan Bird patterns, signifying her identity.

Lu Xuan focused his gaze and was shaken—the woman was actually Li Yanran!

However, what he saw before him was far from enough to bring Lu Xuan's shock to its peak.

When the subsequent figures emerged one by one from the shadows of the doorway.

An extremely terrifying rage instantly erupted from the depths of Lu Xuan's eyes.

At the same time, in the distant sky, as if torn open by an invisible giant hand, terrifying black-gold flames surged forth from within.

These black-gold flames, carrying an aura of destruction, surged and roared like a giant Dragon baring its fangs and claws.

These World-Ending Flames were the manifestation of Lu Xuan's towering fury.

"How dare you!"

Lu Xuan's furious voice, imbued with endless anger and disbelief, exploded before the silent temple.

"How dare you!"

Father Lu Jiahe!

Little sister Lu Qingqing!

And the last figure to appear.

That was a presence Lu Xuan had buried deep in his heart, considered taboo, and even recalling her required utmost caution every time.

That was the woman Lu Xuan respected the most, without exception!

His mother!

"You are seeking death!"

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