129: Lu Chen has reached the threshold of the King level!

The girls naturally did not dare to delay.

At a time like this, every extra minute spent would only be a burden to Lu Chen.

Moreover, Lu Chen was clearly planning to withdraw as well.

As the last person disappeared into the light gate, they faintly heard the roar of the bronze pillars collapsing, along with the warning from the elder Xu Fu echoing in their ears:

"Trust not the life-and-death hexagrams held in hand, but watch the sun and moon rotate beneath the sword. When the day comes that the Yellow Springs pour back, only then will you know this body is but a fragmented chapter! Take care, everyone!"

—

At this moment in Kunlun Academy, the bronze bell in the deepest bell tower rang on its own without any wind, startling the blue birds resting on the sycamore trees.

Old Wu, the night watchman, carried a lantern toward the library basement. As the dim yellow glow swept across the walls, he suddenly saw black slime seeping from the cracks of the Bronze Gate.

The liquid seemed alive, crawling along the cracks in the bricks to form the layout of the Nine Provinces as recorded in the Yu Gong.

"This is bad, something's going to happen!" Old Wu pulled out the wine gourd from his waist and took a heavy gulp, but as he turned around, he saw the entire shelf of Yongle Dadian replicas spontaneously combusting.

The Yongle Dadian was not an ancient text from the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty of China's ancient era.

However, it was a divine codex from the era of the Great Ming Heavenly Court.

The yellowed pages did not turn to ash; instead, they reorganized within the flames into a Formation map of the Guixu seabed, with every line composed of wriggling small regular script characters.

—

When Lu Chen returned to Kunlun Academy,

he felt as if he had narrowly escaped death.

The Heavenly Eye was actually hidden within the abyss!

This was something he had not expected.

Back then, when the Heaven's Body was forced to be dismembered and dismantled,

it seemed that thieving heavens was also laying a plot for the world's destruction a hundred thousand years later.

While the Dao grows by a foot, the demon grows by ten.

Interesting!

"Are you all alright?"

Lu Chen looked at the girls, who were also still shaken.

He asked with concern.

For the next few days, Lu Chen spent his time consulting materials.

At the same time, he obtained various resources for free from the Old Dean.

His main focus was Devouring!

It seemed that the highest levels of China had already notified the Old Dean of Kunlun Academy.

Whatever Lu Chen wanted, Kunlun Academy would provide.

One night.

Female dormitory.

"Brother Chen!"

Five cries of alarm erupted simultaneously in the female dormitory.

Ning Xiwei fell from her bed, the bedsheet burned through by the bone talisman in her hand still smoking.

On the opposite bed, Shelley was using ice crystals to seal her trembling right hand, blue blood seeping from between her fingers—the backlash from forcibly interrupting an ice-type forbidden spell.

Hurried footsteps came from the hallway as Morning Dew burst through the door clutching her holy codex, a candelabra-shaped Holy Light floating over her shoulder. She asked anxiously,

"Did you all dream about it too?"

Morning Dew's plain white nightgown was soaked with cold sweat, and the golden patterns on her forehead were faintly visible.

Before she could finish, Ignis kicked the door open and rushed in, the flame demon patterns on her collarbone flickering, and her flame demon greatsword still dripping with lava.

Sun Feifei's voice drifted in from outside the window, "Neighbors, I'm the same. That Secret Realm still affected us! I cast a divination; at the third mark of the Yin hour, the Enclosure has shifted—it's a sign of evil spirits clashing with the palace!"

The figure of the Daoist girl then emerged from the void outside the window, hanging upside down from the eaves, looking at Ning Xiwei and the others in their dormitory.

The peach wood sword hairpin pinned in Sun Feifei's dark hair was also vibrating slightly.

It seemed ready to activate a body-protecting immortal technique at any moment.

She flipped into the room, and the copper coins shaking out of her sleeve formed the hexagram for "Great Misfortune" on the floor.

Ning Xiwei suddenly pressed her temples, summoning her book of the dead to emerge from the void.

She began to check her contract with Lu Chen.

Suddenly, Ning Xiwei discovered something!

"Wait, Little Skeleton, he doesn't seem to be in the dormitory?"

...In the Kunlun Forbidden Ground, Lu Chen couldn't sleep. In the dead of night, he thought about taking advantage of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi here to Cultivate.

He knelt on one knee in the center of the Kunlun Altar.

His right hand had already crystallized into a semi-transparent state, and bronze rust could be seen spreading across the bones through his skin.

The golden compass floated above his head, and three hundred and sixty copper coins formed an armillary sphere that rotated slowly, each turn scattering blood droplets carrying starlight.

"It's still too forced..." Lu Chen looked at his left arm with a bitter smile, where a blood-red vertical pupil tattoo he had seen on the Guixu seabed had emerged.

The tianwen sword was stabbed into the eye of the Formation, and the jade rings on the sword tassel were bursting one by one—these were the Soul-Suppressing Jades personally tied by the First Emperor back then.

Suddenly, a faint fragrance wafted over. Lu Chen didn't need to look back to know it was Shelley's ice lotus scent.

The Arctic Princess's scepter tapped his back, and six-sided ice flowers bloomed along his spine. "The crystallization speed is three times faster than expected. How much Origin did you overdraw in the Secret Realm? This is a characteristic of an Undead Body. An undead's life is the Power of the Undead Origin, which is Soul Power!"

"I'll help you! Add mine to it!" Ignis's voice also descended from the sky, and her flame demon greatsword plunged into the edge of the altar.

Crimson patterns spread along the blade, forming a lava Formation map beneath Lu Chen's feet.

The firelight illuminated the cracked skin on his neck, revealing the white bones beneath.

Clearly, Ignis intended to transfer her magic power to Lu Chen.

Morning Dew's Holy Light then enveloped the area; she had arrived as well.

The little nun knelt directly in the northeast Xun position, summoning her holy codex to float above her knees. She prayed devoutly, "Holy Mother above, please forgive me for using the forbidden chapters..."

Morning Dew bit her fingertip to draw a thorned cross on the pages, and the soft golden light instantly became intense.

Sun Feifei jumped down from a towering tree with her arms crossed, looking at Lu Chen with both helplessness and concern. She then directly drove the five elements flags, a family heirloom treasure her father had sent someone to give her, into the ground. "—I'm coming too!"

The Daoist girl performed the Starlight Paces, and seventy-two yellow talismans flew from her sleeves to form a Formation.

As for Ning Xiwei, who walked out of the darkness, she gently pulled open her collar, revealing the Undead Contract mark on her collarbone.

Her hands formed the Nine Nether Seal, and seventy-two entities from the entrance to the Undead Valley crawled out from the magic circle summoned in the void.

Ning Xiwei chanted an incantation, "Using the soul as a guide, Deliverance!"

The Bone Legion simultaneously sacrificed their Soul Power, and in an instant, pure Power of the Undead turned into a black rainbow, frantically pouring into Lu Chen's crown.

The golden compass emitted a clear sound like a Phoenix cry, and the crystallization trend temporarily halted.

Lu Chen took the opportunity to slide his fingers across the tianwen sword, offering a gentle look of thanks to the girls.

Sometimes, it seemed he had to rely on his companions!

Although he was used to being alone.

The connection between these girls and himself seemed to go beyond just this lifetime!

Though the soul dissipates, it refuses to fall into the Netherworld,

Though the bones rust, the Heaven-Defying will remains.

Burning this body through the eternal night,

Illuminating the mountains and rivers of ancient oaths.

The moment the Sword Qi soared into the sky, the crisp sound of chains snapping echoed in everyone's ears.

Lu Chen spat out a mouthful of black blood. When the blood droplets hit the ground, they actually grew bronze branches, which flowered and bore fruit in an instant; hanging from the branches were miniature versions of the twelve golden men.

"Is this... Dao Fruit Manifestation?" Sun Feifei stepped back half a pace in shock. "You've already touched the threshold of the King Rank?"

Ning Xiwei was somewhat confused. "What is Dao Fruit Manifestation?"

The other girls also looked at Sun Feifei.

Sun Feifei tapped her head and explained somewhat apologetically:

"That's our way of putting it. According to current common terminology—Lu Chen has already reached the power level to advance to the King Rank!"