139: I'll kill you first, then prove my path!

Ning Xiwei's bone ring grew slightly hot, and the book of the dead in her hand was flipping pages, showing an Aura ready to summon an undead army at any moment.

She looked at Lu Chen, who had been waiting for the right moment, and said:

"Little Skeleton, the silt at the bottom of the Huangpu River is indeed throbbing."

Lu Chen's tianwen sword let out a dragon's roar from its scabbard, and the needle of the golden compass pointed toward Pudong Airport.

He watched the flight tracks carved into the clouds by the taking-off and landing planes.

It was still a bit too early to act.

The heavenly dao contamination had already begun to affect everything.

"Wait! Wait for Ignis to lure the thing out!"

Lu Chen was in no hurry.

At the same time, he wasn't worried at all.

He believed in that fiery-tempered girl.

Just as he believed in himself.

At the stroke of midnight.

"Boom!"

A thunderous sound of the earth splitting shattered the floor-to-ceiling windows of a cafe on the streets of Pudong as Ignis burst out from the ground, wielding Flame Demon Sword Qi.

Eighteen giant bronze statues chased after her, each with a blood-colored vertical pupil fragment embedded in its forehead.

White-collar workers who were still at work raised their phones to film, and the hot search lists on short video platforms exploded simultaneously:

#Mecha Battle Appears in Lujiazui#

#Real-life Red-Haired War God#

#Which Film Crew's Special Effects Are These#

Later on, everyone was shocked to discover that this was the famous figure from Kunlun Academy—Senior Ignis!

"Everyone, get the hell out of the way!" Ignis spun and slashed out a Flame Dragon, but the Sword Qi was absorbed by an invisible barrier before it could touch the statues.

Just as the giant statue behind her was about to crush a Starbucks sign with a single palm!

In an instant, ice crystal chains descended from the sky.

"Frost Imprisonment—Break!" Accompanied by Shelley's elegant voice, the Ice Phoenix she controlled glided through the gaps between buildings, its absolute zero temperature freezing cracks into the statues' joints.

Morning Dew's Holy Light Barrier also enveloped the panicked crowd in an instant, her six-winged angel wings reflecting a dreamlike halo under the neon lights.

Ning Xiwei's bone puppet legion swarmed out of the subway entrance at the same time, wordlessly carrying the screaming white-collar workers and swiftly retreating toward the safety zone.

Upon reaching the safety zone and seeing the military personnel there.

Only then did everyone realize!

—These terrifying white bones were actually on their side?

The military had also deployed over a hundred top-tier experts today.

All of them were seventh or eighth-stage existences.

There was even a fire-element Grand Magister overseeing the operation.

The Old Dean was also by his side!

Lu Chen's figure appeared dominantly in the center of the group of giant statues.

His black robes billowed like clouds hanging from the heavens.

He slid his fingers across the spine of the tianwen sword, and the seal scripts lit up one by one.

It was actually a poem!

The poem read:

A hundred thousand stars temper the sword bone,

Nine layers of thunder and fire forge its edge.

Today I ask the heavens once more,

Do you dare to take this sword strike of mine!

Instantly, Sword Qi traversed three thousand meters, and the glass curtain walls of Lujiazui simultaneously reflected the brilliant sword light.

The eighteen giant statues were severed at the knees; what poured from the cross-sections was not engine oil, but bronze blood emitting a fishy stench.

Lu Chen was the final trump card.

Just like a hundred thousand years ago.

He would be the one to resist the Heavenly Dao!

To resist that unjust and selfish Incarnation of the Heavenly Dao.

In the temporary command post late at night, Sun Feifei stared at the hexagram with a pale face, "Zhen above, Dui below, Thunder over Lake—this is an omen of great misfortune."

She suddenly thought of something!

Lu Chen returned.

As soon as he entered, Sun Feifei pulled open his collar.

At this moment, everyone present, as well as the girls who followed closely behind, gasped in unison:

Those crystallization cracks had already spread to the position of his heart!

Ignis slammed the flame demon greatsword into the ground and said resentfully, "That guy surnamed Xu just won't stay gone, will he? I'm going to burn his nest right now!"

Lu Chen gently pushed away Sun Feifei's worried and displeased hand!

He pinched her small face and said to Ignis, "It's not quite right to say it's Xu Fu; his obsessive remnant soul has merely become a Heavenly Dao Puppet."

—That old friend of his had died long ago.

"Calm down," Shelley also spoke up to dissuade her.

She summoned streaks of ice crystal magic, constructing an ice crystal sand table that was reconstructing a model of the city. "Look at this."

With a light tap of Shelley's fingertip, the rail transit map of the Magic City actually overlapped perfectly with the bronze Formation map from the bottom of the Guixu Sea.

At this time, Morning Dew, as always, brushed her Holy Light over Lu Chen's chest to heal him and suppress the crystallization.

But this time, even though she used the power of the ancient holy codex, the Sacred Light Codex, the Bible in her hand began to overflow with blood.

She was somewhat shocked. "Are these cracks also absorbing the heavenly dao contamination?"

At that moment, an afterimage of Xu Fu appeared on one of the electronic instrument screens in front of them.

The military personnel operating the equipment.

Were all startled as well!

Lu Chen walked over and stared at the afterimage of Xu Fu.

Waiting to see what he intended to say.

Xu Fu's afterimage bypassed everyone, his gaze fixed solely on Lu Chen, as he said coldly:

"Old friend, sparing your life at Mount Li back then was indeed the right choice..."

Lu Chen's tianwen sword directly pinned through the afterimage. "I hate riddlers the most!"

The moment the Sword Qi shredded the phantom, all the electronic devices simultaneously played a mysterious frequency, and the bell tower at The Bund also began to emit ancient chime stone music.

Time continued to pass.

Danger was still occurring.

Before dawn, the Huangpu River suddenly boiled, and a bronze city wall a thousand meters in diameter burst out of the water.

The wind chimes on the eaves played the "Yunmen Dajuan," and black blood seeped from the two characters "Tianyong" on the city gate's plaque.

Morning Dew's Holy Light Barrier trembled violently, and the cross on her pocket watch had already begun to protect her body.

"Activate the Formation!"

Lu Chen, who had leaped onto the tip of the Oriental Pearl Tower, shouted clearly.

In an instant, the Divine Artifact golden compass disassembled in the air into three hundred and sixty copper coins.

Ignis's greatsword was also plunged into the center of the Formation eye at the southeast corner, the Flame Demon ancestral runes spreading along the cracks in the ground;

Shelley's ice crystals covered the entire Nanjing Road;

Ning Xiwei's undead army was responsible for carrying many hundred-ton containers to block several roads;

Morning Dew used Holy Light to protect the sky above the Formation, the light piercing through the clouds and reaching the starry firmament.

Sun Feifei stepped onto the Seven Stars positions, her Daoist robe fluttering loudly.

The Daoist girl softly chanted:

"—The mysterious Origin of Heaven and Earth, the root of all Qi!"

Five-colored command flags were thrust into the bronze city gate, and the power of the Five Elements transformed into chains that wrapped around the door knockers.

Lu Chen's bone true body manifested, a hundred-meter-tall Skeleton King phantom looking down upon the mortal world.

He held his sword with both hands, drawing down the thunderclouds of the nine heavens!

Lu Chen's eyes were like torches, and the sound of thunder resounded through the city, "With my spiritual power, transform into ten thousand bolts of lightning! —Rise!"

Once with a remnant body he suppressed the eight directions,

Now with his beauties he battles the firmament.

Sword Qi traverses thirty thousand miles,

One blade's cold light chills nineteen rivers!

The moment the tianwen sword slashed down, the lights of the entire Magic City went out simultaneously.

The bronze city gate crashed open, revealing the Celestial Star Instrument inside that had been operating for a hundred thousand years.

A blood-colored vertical pupil opened in the center of the instrument's dial, and the Heavenly Dao pressure shattered all the glass curtain walls in Lujiazui.

Ignis suddenly burned her Origin, her Flame Demon true body transforming into a Phoenix bathed in fire!

"I don't care what you are, take my—Supernova!"

Shelley's Absolute Zero Domain unfolded simultaneously, the dual heavens of ice and fire locking down the Incarnation of the Heavenly Dao.

Morning Dew's six wings burst forth with the light of creation, and the holy codex floated above the star instrument, "—In the name of the Holy Mother, I judge you to fall into nothingness forever!"