Chapter 636: All Sides to the Stage (1/2)

The Diabolical Formation of World Refinement had begun. A field of crackling electricity transformed into a great mountain, from within which agitated a swarm of demonic fiends. They howled and struggled and ripped into whatever they could, seeking to unleash destructive intent that could destroy the world.

Swoosh!

The longsword on Zhao Wushuang’s back flew out of its scabbard with a hazy hue of cyan sword energy.

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Currently in the form of a dust particle, with the use of Shapeshifting, and completely obscuring his life signs, Lu Yun was within the tribulation’s area of effect. He could still clearly perceive the environment around him with his senses and consciousness.

“That’s...” He widened his ‘eyes’, overwhelmed by his discovery. “The Sword of Chaos! That’s the Sword of Chaos!” His heart spasmed painfully. “But… but she’s neither Sword Divine nor Dongfang Hao, so how is that the Sword of Chaos? ...this must be why Dongfang Hao came to me last night!

“Even if it’s not the divine sword itself, it must be connected to the Sword of Chaos somehow. It mustn’t fall into Dongfang Hao’s hands!” Lu Yun calmed his breathing and heart rate, reinforcing his Shapeshifting and Size Manipulation arts to conceal the ripple of lifeforce he’d revealed in his moment of shock. “Dongfang Hao must be around here somewhere.”

Whoosh!

Lu Yun returned to humanoid form, but as a completely lifeless stone sculpture. His death arts were derived from the Tome of Life and Death, which made them connate combat arts that eluded the heavenly dao. Not even heavenly tribulations could sense his existence in this state.

He planned to devour the Diabolical Tribulation of World Refinement with his Thunder Palmstrike, but this was a secret weapon he didn’t wish to reveal to the world.

He’d once used the combat art in the presence of witnesses before, but almost everyone thought it was an art to draw lightning. The lightning tribulation yesterday was no exception; even the Exalted celestial emperor had thought that Lu Yun had simply summoned lightning to enhance his strength.

Lu Yun waited patiently; Dongfang Hao would come.

Boom!

The overwhelming flood of tribulation lightning surged, and mountain upon mountain fell from the sky to crush Zhao Wushuang. Demonic fiends snarled and grimaced in each of the mountains, as if the geographical features were beehives. However, Lu Yun could clearly sense the life energy from the fiends. They weren’t manifested by the lightning, but actual beings!

Instead of the mountains being their homes, they were prisoners. The Diabolical Tribulation of World Refinement was a prison!

A morass of lightning, mountains, and demonic fiends circled around Zhao Wushuang. Countless horrors growled and snapped, throwing themselves at their challenger the moment they were released.

Lu Yun remained unmoving.

At the edge of the Divine Sea, color drained from the Exalted celestial emperor’s face. Even those who’d planned to enter the tribulation in order to sabotage Zhao Wushuang refrained from acting.

Plainly, none of them deemed it possible that he would overcome the tribulation. Once he failed, death would be his only fate.

Hum!

Suddenly, cyan sword energy surged within a lightning mountain and hewed it in half, decimating countless creatures.

Eyes steely, Zhao Wushuang hovered in the sky with his sword in his right hand. Hazy cyan light shrouded the exterior of his white robes. Without a beat of rest in between, two more mountains came howling at him, accompanied by a tremendous chorus of demonic cries and shrieks.

Zhao Wushuang maintained his unusual calm and cut down the mountains one after the other with his sword.

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