Chapter 147
Chapter 147
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 147
Chapter Title: Where is Lu Yang?
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In the Foundation Establishment Realm, a full eight Foundation Establishment true persons each occupied a position, their Dao Foundations manifesting and nearly blocking off all the Foundation Establishment gales in this area from the outside.
Lu Yang's expression had turned utterly grim.
"You came prepared?"
He scanned his surroundings, his gaze finally landing on the Peak Master of Heaven Mending Peak, shrouded in layer upon layer of concealment.
"Who is this person? He wasn't even in my calculations."
Fulong Arhat burst into laughter upon hearing this.
"That's something I won't reveal."
As his words fell, Fulong Arhat's expression suddenly filled with killing intent.
"All this honored benefactor needs to know is that today, this Skull Mountain will be your burial ground!"
In the next instant, the Dragon-Subduing Temple expanded!
Circles of Buddhist light rippled out behind Fulong Arhat's head, revealing a scene of pavilions, towers, temple halls, and Zen groves, accompanied by a thick scent of incense.
Lu Yang's eyes narrowed at the sight.
Compared to his previous life, this life's Fulong Arhat lacked the leisure of a cat toying with a mouse. He went all out from the start, the might he displayed far surpassing that of the previous life as the Dragon-Subduing Temple blanketed the sky and bore down on him.
Clang clang—!
A thunderous clash rang out as a ring of treasure light appeared around Lu Yang, blocking a nine-ring tin staff that descended from the heavens and sparking bursts of fire.
In a flash, the treasure light shattered.
Without a word, Lu Yang transformed into a streak of white Qi and fled from the spot, reappearing in human form some distance away. He had chosen to evade rather than fight.
"Hm?"
Fulong Arhat withdrew his nine-ring tin staff, his brows furrowing tightly. He sensed something off—Lu Yang's attitude seemed far too passive.
Fulong Arhat's gaze swept around, landing on Zhao Xuhe at the farthest edge of their battlefield. The man's eyes were bloodshot, golden auspicious clouds surging unceasingly from beneath his feet. He was clearly striving desperately to condense his Dao Foundation. If he succeeded, it would spell trouble for Fulong Arhat.
"Trying to buy time for him to break through?"
In an instant, Fulong Arhat understood Lu Yang's scheme: drag in a scapegoat. A wise move, but ultimately futile!
"In that case, I'll take him down first!"
With a shift of intent, Fulong Arhat appeared before Zhao Xuhe in a flash, planning to first subdue him as a guardian vajra before dealing with Lu Yang.
Seeing this, Zhao Xuhe revealed a look of utter despair.
The moment the eight true persons appeared, he had sensed something wrong. With his prior experience, he immediately realized he had once again been used as bait.
He had clung to one last shred of hope, desperately trying to condense his Dao Foundation.
But now, that hope was shattered.
In this moment, Zhao Xuhe's emotions were incomparably complex.
Disappointment, dejection, helplessness—a parade of feelings flashed through his mind like a lantern show, finally igniting a nameless fury.
'They've gone too far!'
Just because I'm not at Foundation Establishment, just because my cultivation is insufficient, I'm doomed to be a pawn. Even rational thought was burned away by rage.
"You beasts! You're all beasts!"
Blood burst from Zhao Xuhe's mouth, trickling from the corner of his lips. His eyes bulged red, veins bursting, all emotions overtaken by a single thought:
"If I'm not getting through this... none of you will either!"
"Die, all of you!"
In the next second, Zhao Xuhe reached down forcefully toward Skull Mountain below. Rolling yin energy shot skyward, and the eight-hundred-li earth veins began to tremble violently.
"What have you done?"
Fulong Arhat was momentarily stunned, doubt and unease rising in his heart. It was as if his spiritual platform was clouded with dust. Almost instinctively, he turned to look toward the Peak Master of Heaven Mending Peak.
But with this glance, where was the Peak Master of Heaven Mending Peak?
In a single look, all the Primal Saint Sect true persons had fled clean away, leaving only Huanwu and Xuanwu, the two Divine Martial Sect true persons standing there in bewilderment.
'This is bad!'
Fulong Arhat snapped awake in an instant. The Peak Master of Heaven Mending Peak might not know anything, but with Yu Tong and the other two Primal Saint Sect true persons having fled, how could he do nothing upon seeing it? To be safe, he had naturally followed suit right away.
That damned beast had sold him out so decisively!
In a flash, Fulong Arhat resolved to use his divine ability and leave as well.
However, the innate divine ability that had always let him come and go freely in many places now felt like a stone sinking into the ocean—it couldn't take him away at all!
Fixed Kinship and Distance!
A brief restraint... but it was enough!
Fulong Arhat gritted his teeth. Seeing he couldn't escape with his innate divine ability, he immediately summoned an escaping light to charge out of Skull Mountain. But just then—
"Where do you think you're going!"
The Lu Yang who had been evading all this time suddenly lunged, blocking him midair.
"What are you doing!?"
Fulong Arhat stared at Lu Yang in shock and fury, only to see his features gradually shift, finally revealing a stunningly exquisite, peerlessly beautiful face.
At the same time, a grand hall surging with yin fiend energy materialized behind her.
Hall of Yama
Protector God: Maiden Su!
"You're not Lu Yang!?"
In that instant, Fulong Arhat felt as if he had plunged into an icy abyss, a suffocating sensation overwhelming him like a butterfly trapped in a spider's web.
Rumble!
In the next second, dark clouds gathered over all of Skull Mountain, lightning serpents flashing across the sky! A vast causal force crashed down upon everyone present!
"No—!"
"I clearly fled far away, how could this be?"
"Lu Yang... that damned brat!"
It wasn't just Fulong Arhat—even Yu Tong and the others who had fled the fastest, as well as the Peak Master of Heaven Mending Peak, all let out agonized screams almost simultaneously.
The Heavenly Dao was impartial. With the eight-hundred-li earth veins of Skull Mountain destroyed, the primary culprits—instigator Zhao Xuhe and the one who had driven him to it, Fulong Arhat—bore the brunt. The other true persons, whether accomplices or capable of stopping it but choosing not to, were naturally also marked by the Heavenly Dao.
In the next instant, karmic retribution descended!
Zhao Xuhe suffered the worst, his allotted fate exhausted on the spot. Amid rage and bewilderment, he turned to dust.
"Severing the earth veins, offending the heavens."
Fulong Arhat let out a miserable cry, blood tears streaming from his eyes as he watched his once sky-high merit and fate being smashed apart by a majestic force.
Next were the two Divine Martial Sect true persons and the Peak Master of Heaven Mending Peak.
Heaven and earth could bear witness: if Fulong Arhat was the mastermind, then these three were accomplices. Though not enough to exhaust their merit entirely, their fates were greatly damaged!
The Peak Master of Heaven Mending Peak was so furious he spat blood.
After all, he had come solely to snag some benefits, only to leave empty-handed and suffer heavenly punishment, losing half his merit for nothing!
Not far away, Yu Tong and the others also grunted in闷闷.
They couldn't be counted as accomplices—mere failure to prevent it. Thus, they only lost some luck, a fortunate outcome compared to Fulong Arhat and the rest.
For a time, all was silent.
After a long while, a voice like a malevolent ghost arose from the epicenter of the "explosion"—Fulong Arhat, covered head to toe in blood and filth.
"Lu Yang...!!!"
Fulong Arhat threw his head back and howled, the hatred in his voice endless across three lifetimes. His vast divine sense instantly locked onto Maiden Su!
But what answered him was Maiden Su's playful smile.
"Master, mission accomplished!"
Boom!
In the next second, Maiden Su detonated without hesitation, leaving Fulong Arhat standing dazed in place, only one thought remaining in his mind:
Where is Lu Yang?
Weren't you supposed to ambush me?
You weren't even at Skull Mountain at all! Where the hell did you hide!?
(End of chapter)