Chapter 1035: Defeat (1/2)

“Impossible!” Stricken with incredulity, Lu Yun couldn’t believe his eyes.

Though his realm was very low at simply peerless immortal, his cultivation had long reached unfathomable heights. His combat arts could reign supreme in the chaos, with worthy opponents below sovereign realm in short supply.

But that lizard at the same level as him had broken his combat art with just a sweep of its tail!

It charged over before he could collect his wits, sending him flying again with a soft brush of its front claws.

He could clearly identify the lizard’s move this time, but couldn’t pinpoint a way to counter its blow. It was such a simple motion, but he had no idea how to handle it!

“The greatest of dao is simplicity? Spacetime reincarnation? That blow was more terrifying than the purest essence of dao!” Eyes wide open, he permitted himself to fly wherever momentum took him.

The essence of dao merely followed the trajectory of space and released its power. It seemed like a crude gesture, but it was inordinately profound. While the lizard’s movement didn’t seem clumsy, it was very simple. Inordinately simple.

It also happened to completely stump Lu Yun. He couldn’t see through it or even react to it. He could only stand there and watch as it landed on his body.

There was a saying on Earth that a straight line was the shortest distance between two points. However, the lizard’s movement utterly violated this principle. There was no line drawn between its claws and Lu Yun. It just… happened, as if it was only right and proper that it exist in the same point as its target.

Lu Yun crashed to the ground and the lizard swiftly approached him before he could get up. So fast that they blurred into afterimages, the lizard’s two front claws and tail pummeled the human with a barrage of blows.

Lu Yun furiously exerted his power to break out of this offensive storm, but the lizard’s range of attack was as if a large net, confining him within a tiny space.

What the fuck. It can kill me with one blow but it insists on tormenting me like this… Lu Yun cursed inwardly.

The lizard possessed the same level of strength as him, but its combat arts were far more sophisticated. It would be no challenge to kill Lu Yun, but it didn’t seek to land a fatal blow from beginning to end. It was just torturing him like this, filling him with injuries but refusing to kill him.

……

After who knew how long, Lu Yun suddenly felt a lot lighter and the bloody path in front of him disappeared. He once again appeared before the tomb doors.

The path still shimmered with bloody light; the little fox and Qiu Luoyu also returned to him. He also saw others around him. Most of those that’d taken the path inside milled around him in a large crowd.

“What was that?” He looked around blankly.

“A test.” Qiu Luoyu shook his head ruefully. “I’d thought that I could break through whenever I wanted, that I was invincible beneath sovereign realm. Who would’ve thought that I’d be trampled by a beast in a trial of the Tomb of Heaven and Earth?”

Lu Yun looked around him, seeing the same helpless and frustrated mixture on everyone’s face, including some of the old farts from the nine sacred lands. He frowned slightly, realizing that everything from moments ago had seemed to be an illusion.

The chaos dragon form that’d disappeared from his body also reappeared, as if nothing had taken place at all.