124: The final battle!

Watching his gradually collapsing figure, Lin You seemed to understand something.

"Senior!"

Zhuge Heting's aged voice resonated in the darkness.

"The Ancient Burial Ground..."

"Is about to open again..."

"What the Zhuge Family needs... is not me, Zhuge Heting, but merely my Legacy."

"If I return, other than occupying a seat for nothing, I have no other use. Tens of thousands of years of torture have long since hollowed out everything I have."

"If I do not die... no one can continue to climb this Dao."

"Your arrival today marks the final journey the Zhuge Family has sent this old man on."

With a sudden boom—Zhuge Heting's body burst apart, erupting with azure starlight in the darkness.

It was like a beast that had been hungry for who knows how long, letting out a final roar in a desperate situation.

That immense power, capable of shaking the firmament, surrounded the entire Void Realm crack like a devouring force. Behind the black mist, roars mixed with a bloody stench erupted!

Lin You could almost hear the unwilling long cries from behind the darkness.

— Bang! Zhuge Heting's Divine Soul also shattered in an instant.

A cyan-blue Dao Fruit slowly drifted out from the darkness.

Just by taking one look at it, Lin You couldn't stop his heart from racing!

Advanced Dao Fruit!

No... It seemed even more terrifying than an ordinary Advanced Dao Fruit!

The azure starlight rippled outward, completely submerging the darkness. The entire Heavenly Abyss was swept by this aura, and countless twisted figures within the cracks were annihilated.

The world became clear!

Lin You gripped the Dao Fruit in his hand, his eyes filled with disbelief!

This existence who was above the Great Saint Realm, and perhaps even capable of reaching the Longevity Realm... just died like this!

And it was a voluntary death, a willing sacrifice!

What kind of joke is this!

He didn't understand. He could have just returned; why waste the life of someone in the Longevity Realm?

Even a Longevity Family wouldn't be this extravagant!

That sentence, "If I do not die, no one can climb this Dao," what exactly did it mean?

Lin You's pupils couldn't help but constrict.

Now, the entire Heavenly Abyss had seen the light again, and there was no more darkness encroaching. That crack had also been filled by Zhuge Heting with his life!

Just as he was filled with doubts, suddenly, the earth began to boil. A wave of intense dizziness washed over him, as if some colossal entity was beginning to wake up.

Above, the sky was filled with red clouds. The cry of a Phoenix resounded through the firmament!

Beneath the branches of the parasol tree, a figure with wings spread out, blotting out the sky, circled the dome!

"The Dragon Court is about to close!"

Lin You didn't have time to ponder deeply. He tucked the Dao Fruit into his bosom and headed straight for his original position.

A cold, chilling voice resounded throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths!

"Madmen of the Zhuge Family, come out and die!"

Immediately following that, waves of Quasi-Saint-Grade pressure spread out.

Lin You had just met up with Qin Feng and the others when they were surrounded by countless dense figures!

On their faces were twisted grimaces and disgust. The undisguised killing intent seemed as if they wanted to swallow them alive.

The sky was filled with scarlet.

"Come on! Snatch it!"

"Aren't you very capable?"

"The Dao Fruits are all yours!"

"Come, let us see how many of you can fight!"

"In this Dragon Court, everyone is a Disciple of a Longevity Family. This is no longer a time for you to bully others with your power!"

Within the crowd, Disciples of second and third-rate families let out low roars. Emotions that had been suppressed for a long time were finally released at this moment.

"Hahahaha, so what if it's the Zhuge Family? So what if it's a first-rate Longevity Family?"

"Those idiots probably don't even know that we have already made up our minds to kill them!"

"Did they really think we were afraid of them, which is why we didn't fight for the Dao Fruits?"

"Keep dreaming!"

"Kill them, and the Dao Fruits will be ours. They have at least a hundred of them in their hands; in just a few days, they absolutely cannot refine them all!"

Scanning across, these hundreds of people had surprisingly and tacitly united together.

Even many first-rate Longevity Families were among them.

But the leader... was a figure Lin You and the others were all too familiar with.

The Sima Family!

The man in the lead had a gloomy face. He revealed a smile of certain victory and spoke nonchalantly.

"Everyone... I trust you have been well."

Zhuge Zhao gritted her teeth and rebuked, "Sima Kongzhang, you are shameless and despicable!"

"Calling so many people to cheer for you today, are you afraid of my Zhuge Family?"

Sima Kongzhang's laughter grew increasingly rampant; he laughed so hard he couldn't even stand steadily.

"Afraid? Just relying on you few weaklings?"

"Even if no one helped me, I could still suppress you all with one hand."

"It would just be... slightly troublesome."

"My grand plan, how could you possibly know of it?"

Zhuge Zhanquan stepped forward, his Quasi-Saint Realm aura unmistakably exposed. He blocked in front of Zhuge Zhao, lightly unfurling his black-gold iron fan.

"Is that so? If you have the guts, why not compete with me to see who is better?"

Zhuge Zhanquan's gaze swept across the crowd, the arrogance of a Genius fully displayed. He warned the crowd in a low voice.

"My Zhuge Family is not to be trifled with."

"Want to join forces to target us? Then let's see how many heads you have to lose."

"Leave now, and I can guarantee that bygones will be bygones. As for the grudges with the Sima Family, we will settle them ourselves."

As his words fell, the people in the arena were momentarily stunned.

Although they had the numbers, if a real fight broke out, there would definitely be casualties.

Then... who would die?

In this kind of situation, no faction was willing to be the first to stick their neck out.

Because this meant they would definitely be met with a head-on counterattack from the Zhuge Family.

For a time, everyone remained silent. The situation reversed in an instant.

"Tsk... A child's trick."

Sima Kongzhang curled his lips into a mocking smile and shook his head.

"My Sima Family shall take the lead."

"Gentlemen... don't forget how overbearing the Zhuge Family was a few days ago."

"Those Dao Fruits... should have belonged to us in the first place, based on our own abilities."

"But the Zhuge Family relied on secret techniques to seize every opportunity and even snatched our Dao Fruits away."

"This grudge... cannot go unavenged..."

A single sentence. It once again stirred up the anger in everyone's hearts.

"That's right, kill them! Those Dao Fruits should have been ours in the first place! Charge together, with the Sima Family leading, what is there to be afraid of!"

— Rumbling. The earth surged, and cracks shook open out of nowhere!

A giant dragon, ten thousand zhang long, crawled out from the center of the earth. It raised its head and let out an angry roar.

As if the crowd had disturbed its slumber.

In the firmament, the Fire Phoenix also let out a cry, intending to join forces with the giant dragon to bury everyone here!

Lin You sighed. He finally understood what Zhuge Changqing meant by "escorting."

These two from the Zhuge Family, one possessed the spirit of a True Dragon, and the other possessed the spirit of a True Phoenix.

Aren't they the perfect match for these two things?

Even without the Sima Family pulling this stunt, everyone would still have to fight for them, and Lin You's task was only one thing: to help them both seize the Dragon and Phoenix True Spirit.

Seeing that the crowd was restless, Qin Feng's hot temper immediately flared up.

"Damn it. You guys are so arrogant. Try making a move?"

As he spoke, Qin Feng began to count the number of people, but his tone began to waver.

"You guys are only... uh, about three hundred people. Why would I be afraid of you?"