152: Feeling melancholy about spring and autumn? Better to take it all with a single sword stroke!

Right here in this taiji diagram's eye!

Suddenly, it was seen—!

At the Formation eye, the remnant soul of an ancient powerhouse maintained a hand-seal posture, cradling a rust-covered longsword in his arms.

"Should we go?"

Ignis asked, looking at Lu Chen.

The girls also looked at Lu Chen together, waiting for a decision.

Lu Chen thought for a moment; having come this far, how could they just go back like this?

They arrived at the core.

The moment Lu Chen touched the powerhouse's remnant image, images from a hundred thousand years ago flooded his mind:

This ancient powerhouse, dressed in special armor, had once run wildly inside a pyramid in this Universe, with an asphalt-like biomass chasing behind him!

This powerhouse seemed to be a Grand Magister from the West.

But here, he had gone mad.

The reason, however, was baffling.

Vaguely, he could still hear this powerhouse shouting like a madman as he ran, "The Heavenly Dao is not a rule; it is a cancer of civilization parasitizing the timeline!"

He roared at those unknown things behind him, "Find the real enemy, find the real enemy!"

The image came to an abrupt halt.

Just then, Lu Chen sensed something.

Before he could even move!

Beside him, Ignis suddenly lunged, her flame demon greatsword slashing toward the Void Realm, "Get out!"

The Sword Qi tore through the disguise, revealing an asphalt monster gnawing on the wall.

The thing extended a tentacle to wrap around Morning Dew's ankle, but Morning Dew raised her hand and summoned a beam of Holy Light to disperse the tentacle.

Instantly, where the Holy Light met the darkness, a mix of holy singing and agonizing screams erupted.

This tentacle was not just a physical thing; it actually carried a will!

"Let me!" Lu Chen's golden compass suddenly disassembled, and three hundred and sixty copper coins embedded themselves into the Taiji Formation.

Directly destroying the Formation eye here!

Then Lu Chen struck with a sword, directly destroying the tentacle along with everything else in a rain of swords.

Treading through the Universe to seek the Heavenly Dao, the sword washes the sky to illuminate the past and present.

As soon as Lu Chen took action, the entire pyramid began to vibrate.

It seemed to have gained consciousness, and it seemed to be watching Lu Chen!

The moment the Formation reversed, all the corpses in the ice coffins in the upper area turned into particles of light.

Lu Chen sensed power from them and immediately began to guide it with his spiritual sense, absorbing it all and injecting it into the edge of the tianwen sword.

In an instant, Lu Chen struck again.

This strike was like stars falling from the sky in an overwhelming manner.

It crashed down directly toward those asphalt monsters like Mount Tai pressing down.

The asphalt monsters evaporated within the phantom images of the stars!

The ruins also began to collapse.

"Withdraw!"

Lu Chen assumed his White Bone True Form and spoke to the girls.

The girls didn't dare to delay either.

They quickly retreated... When everyone returned to the starship, the moment Lu Chen turned his head, he seemed to see the remnant image of that powerhouse waving goodbye.

Today's wind is still so noisy!

After returning from the pyramid.

The so-called Earth disappeared.

It wasn't until the next wormhole jump.

That they realized what they were approaching was not Earth, but—Mars.

One of the stars very close to Earth.

"Approach it. Old rules: search for heavenly dao contamination first."

Lu Chen ordered directly.

Everyone began to take action.

The starship gradually approached Mars.

They began to look for a place to land.

Or to moor in space.

Mars' crimson sandstorm struck the psionic shield, letting out a shriek like the howling of ten thousand vengeful spirits.

There was also an altar here.

Lu Chen saw it as soon as they landed.

Ignis came to this place and stood in the center of the bronze altar; the flame demon tattoos on her body were like living lava snakes, winding across her back into a star map of Betelgeuse.

Morning Dew was outside the Holy Light Barrier; the dark red sand was condensing into the hexagrams of the book of easy change from lian shan.

"This altar... is eating my blood." Ignis looked at the changes happening around her in disbelief. Just like the previous altar, the altars on other planets had also produced strange connections with her. It seemed the Flame Demon Clan had been absorbed and utilized alive by the Heavenly Dao from the very beginning. On their path to dying while crusading against the Heavenly Dao, this was an extremely cruel thing for anyone. Even Lu Chen found it hard to accept, let alone Ignis!

Ignis pressed her throbbing temples, and the bronze floor beneath her feet also began to show blood-vessel-like patterns.

Shelley controlled the ice crystal detector, newly developed in cooperation with researchers, to fly around the altar. The hexagonal ice flowers vaporized in the high temperature but condensed again the next moment, achieving Rebirth once more.

Shelley looked at the analysis screen and said through the communication device, "Structural analysis shows there is indeed quantum entanglement inside the altar; it should be heavenly dao contamination. The contamination age is determined to be..."

"—One hundred thousand and seven hundred years." Ning Xiwei spoke first. She didn't even have testing equipment but saw it at first glance.

She controlled a bone puppet, running its bone fingertips over the inscriptions, and the book of the dead in her hand gave her the answer. "It's even three thousand years earlier than the clan history of the Flame Tower."

Lu Chen's tianwen sword hummed softly, its tip pointing to the bronze mirror on the altar's dome.

The mirror reflected not the figures of the group, but a female war god dressed in crimson-gold armor, holding a flame demon greatsword and cleaving through the sea of stars—that woman's face was identical to Ignis's.

"Ancestor?" Ignis's pupils ignited with the color of lava, and her tattoos grew wildly.

Before Morning Dew's Holy Light could unfold, the flame demon power had already turned into a fire tornado and broken through the barrier.

The sudden turn of events caught everyone a bit off guard.

Even Lu Chen was somewhat surprised.

Ignis's Flame Demon Clan had truly made no small sacrifice.

Even in death, they were to be utilized by that Heavenly Dao.

Was it simply because they were natural-born warriors?

Each one with a Bloodline comparable to a god of war?

Flame Demons from Hell!

In the crimson storm, the bronze altar disassembled and reorganized.

Morning Dew was blown away directly by the airwave, the trail of her Holy Light shield plowing a hundred-meter trench in the sand.

Ignis hovered in the center of the lava vortex, her hair burning into a white-gold color, her voice overlapping with the echoes of ten thousand ancestors:

"—Burn through the heavens to attain eternal life!"

Lu Chen summoned the golden compass and exerted his power. The golden compass exploded into three hundred streams of light, and the copper coins embedded themselves into the twenty-eight mansions' positions on the altar.

He stepped into the sea of fire using the Yu Steps, his clothes instantly carbonizing, revealing his White Bone True Form!

However, Lu Chen's true form at this moment was a body with strange runes carved all over his white bones!

Lu Chen shouted at Ignis, "Ignis, look at me—!"

At the moment the flame demon greatsword slashed down, Lu Chen's chest met the blade.

The expected penetration did not happen; the blade was stuck between the crystallized skin, and what flowed out was not blood, but liquid bronze.

"You..." Ignis's pupils regained clarity, and her tears vaporized into clouds in the high temperature.

Lu ChenGrasp her trembling wrist，Point the sword tip toward the core of the altar..

He said gently:

"Truly a fiery girl. The real enemy is here."

The moment the sword tip touched.

The bottom layer of the altar crashed open, revealing a bronze coffin immersed in lava.