Chapter 265: The Bloody Truth (1/2)
This time, Lu Yun made a perfect swing embodying the greatest simplicity of dao!
It came across as unassuming and powerless, as crude as a forester chopping wood. If that were the case, however, then everything in the world would be his firewood!
All of his internal energy was focused on the axe, leaving him drained and exhausted. He was expending energy far too quickly for the recovery pills burning in hell to replenish.
Bam!
A blow from the enormous, clumsy black axe flung the four hairy monsters away despite their three-hundred-meter tall bodies. Lu Yun sagged weakly on the ground as well.
“The ultimate simplicity of dao originates from the dao weapon, rather than being a realm the hairy monsters have reached!” Lu Yun stared at the black axe in his hand, his chest heaving violently. It’d taken all the pills he had in hell, and a hundred breaths, for him to recover fully.
“My strength is only enough for a single swing!” He rose into the air with the greataxe. “Once I ascend to the void realm and become one with the world, I’ll be able to tap into the endless supply of energy from the land and make these swings one after another!”
The four hairy monsters were void realm cultivators, which was why they could wield the dao weapons without resting.
“I thought you’d reached the peak of ultimate dao and became unrivaled among your peers, but you’re just relying on the weapons!” A scoff tugged at Lu Yun’s lips.
To find simplicity in dao was a terrifyingly tremendous height to reach. Returning complicated combat arts and techniques to their purest origins and following the original trajectory of the dao would allow one to strike down anything in the world. Lu Yun couldn’t reach that height yet, even with the help of the Tome of Life and Death. It would be mind blowing if the hairy monsters could do that.
Howling, the four monsters brutally came at Lu Yun with their axes.
Hum.
Violetgrave manifested and shielded Lu Yun with a tidal wave of sword energy, like the stars guarding the moon.
Clang!
A piercing sword hum rang throughout the vicinity. This time, he seized the initiative rather than waiting for them to approach. Vast Dragon Seaturner and Peng of Kun slashed at two of the hairy monsters from tricky angles.
Lu Yun had attacked with the dao weapon before, so he knew how to disrupt the simplicity of ultimate dao. Although the four monsters were void realm cultivators, they possessed a grave weakness: they could only attack with their axes!
“Rooooaar!” Growling, one of the hairy monsters swung its axe awkwardly to meet the cerulean dragon. However, Lu Yun had sent it in such an unorthodox manner that the monster had to change the way it swung its axe, thus disrupting that marvelous trajectory.
Bam!
Another enormous monster hurtled backward, black blood splattering everywhere. Meanwhile, the first monster didn’t face the cerulean dragon head-on, but twisted its body to dodge the slash instead. However, the sword energy still left an ugly wound on its body.
“Stop!”
Lu Yun ignored the other monsters and targeted the one that’d been thrown off its feet. It was severely injured, with a large gash running from its shoulder to its lower abdomen, almost bisected by Lu Yun’s attack. Lu Yun slashed at its right arm—the hand holding a black greataxe—with Violetgrave.
“No!!” The other three monsters panicked. Lu Yun had already gotten one dao weapon, he mustn’t get his hand on another!
“Stop him!” they spoke in a clunky language as they sprang at Lu Yun.
“And here I thought you were actually strong. You’re nothing but trash that relies on your weapons.” Lu Yun cut through the monster’s right arm with a single slash before the other three could reach him.
Thud!
Another dao weapon fell into his hand. Sword energy flared into the air and formed a sparkling stream of stars, cutting the monster into pieces.
“We need to leave!” The other three monsters immediately retreated toward the four blood-stained paths.
“Stop them!” Qing Han suddenly yelled, “if you let them go, cultivators will have to face them when ascending to the void realm! You must kill them, Lu Yun, and destroy the four bloodied paths!” He was too weak to move at the moment. All of his strength had been drained by the Dao Flower. “Without destroying the paths, there will be more hairy monsters like them!”
“Got it!” Qing Han’s words prompted Lu Yun to act and he quickly rushed after the three monsters in a flash of light.
The assembled crowd shuddered when they heard Qing Han. If Lu Yun didn’t kill the monsters and destroy the paths, all of them would have to face those terrible monsters themselves when they ascended to the void realm. They’d all seen what the creatures were capable of; one of them had killed an immortal with an offhanded swing!
It was only a true immortal, but to regular cultivators, true immortals were superiors they could never rival. Since the monsters could kill immortals, cultivators wouldn’t stand a chance against them upon setting foot in the void realm!
“The path of cultivation was severed, and those monsters appeared when it was restored. Did past celestial emperors and peak dao immortals face similar monsters when they attempted to ascend to that fabled realm?” The question suddenly came to everyone.
It’d been a hundred thousand years since the ancient war of immortals. Since then, no immortals or divines from this world or any other had ascended beyond dao immortal realm. All celestial emperors who attempted the breakthrough died a terrible death, with no exception.
Qing Han's words had revealed an ugly, bloody truth. The celestial emperors had been killed by hairy monsters that were more powerful than these ones!
“If Lu Yun fails to kill them, the path of cultivation will remain severed,” someone muttered. “Worse, we won’t be able to even become immortals....”
“No, we just can’t enter the void realm. We can still skip it and become immortals that way.”
“Hopefully he’ll succeed in killing the monsters and shattering those paths!”
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