Chapter 353: Supplemental Paths as King (1/2)

“Canghai Chengfeng, are you still going to fight for the Cosmic Sea and the Cosmic Skycarver?” Qing Yunhe turned to the sharp young man with a smile.

Canghai Chengfeng paused. “Well, yes, why wouldn’t I? Lu Yun just said it'll be another seven days before he can use that weapon again.”

His eyes burned with an eagerness to fight when he looked at Qing Yunhe, the only one here who could stop him.

“And you believed him?” Qing Han muttered before Qing Yunhe could answer.

Rumble!

From atop the Divine Glory came the sound of gears turning. Eighteen black cannons rose from the sides of the ship, locked on Canghai Chengfeng.

He froze and grumbled sheepishly, “Fine, fine, I give up....”

The cannons shifted back to their original state.

“The young lord is the young lord, alright, creating eighteen weapons of such power!” Worshipful awe shone in Situ Zong’s and Situ Yun’s eyes.

“Lu Yun!” Qing Yunhe spoke up with a frown. “Your current cultivation is lacking. It’ll hinder your progress if you rely too much on other items. Two years ago, you were the top sovereign of the world of immortals, but now, many have ascended to the void realm before you.”

“And what’s that gonna do?” Lu Yun turned to him with a surprised look.

Qing Yunhe held himself with an uncommon bearing and there was an air of scholarly grace to him. His words were intended as sage advice for Lu Yun.

However, the recipient quite disagreed.

“Do you think they’re better than me just because they’ve ascended to the void realm?” Lu Yun shook his head. “The void realm is just that—a realm. Their combat arts and techniques have yet to catch up with their cultivation.”

Qing Yunhe and Canghai Chengfeng paused bemusedly. They’d already witnessed what was powerful about the void realm. It allowed a cultivator to become one with the world and draw upon the power of heaven and earth. Even dao immortals had trouble achieving that.

Once void realm cultivators ascended to immortality, they were sure to overtake immortals who’d ascended over the past hundred thousand years since the great war.

However, Lu Yun had come back with such an unexpected response.

“The immortal dao has wilted since the ancient times, and combat arts and dao techniques have declined to an unprecedented low. Truly powerful combat arts have all but disappeared, their legacies lost to history. Those we’ve excavated from the ancient tombs are merely the tip of an iceberg.

“Compared to the ancient times, the combat arts we deploy now are those of a dying era. An arcane dao immortal from the ancient times would be able to diffuse the Black Emperor’s blast in more than a hundred ways and kill me with the backlash in the process, but Donglin Taihuang had to make use of defensive treasures to flee with his life.

“Immortals of the present and ancient times possess the same cultivation realms and similar methods, but there exists a large gap between the two eras’ combat arts and understanding of the dao.”

Qing Yunhe and Canghai Chengfeng stared dumbly at Lu Yun, at a loss for words.

“Since immortals and cultivators have lost so much in terms of combat arts and understanding of the dao, but we still have to defend against enemies, shouldn’t then the supplemental paths reign as king?” Lu Yun put his hands behind his back. “I have at my disposal powerful weapons, treasures, talismans, and pills. What’s so different between them and my combat arts? They all come from my hands!”