Chapter 229: Chapter 229: Mount Shu in Urgent Need, Nine Revolutions Divine Body Great Accomplishment (Fifth Update)
A figure whose skin was as white as snow and whose beauty was incomparable descended upon Qingyun Peak, the familiar mountain.
The guardian standing in front of the cave dwelling, Lin Qingzhi, stood up and saluted, “Fairy Xia.”
Xia Ningxue nodded, “Where is your master?”
“Master is in seclusion, ordered me to stand guard, and nobody is allowed to disturb him.”
Lin Qingzhi was a stubborn man; if Lu Changsheng said no one should disturb him, then even Xia Ningxue was no exception.
“Hmm.”
Xia Ningxue did not show any displeasure, but silently stood at the entrance of the cave and waited.
Above Qingyun Peak, visions of gods and demons appeared in the sky.
This was an otherworldly phenomenon triggered by a breakthrough during the Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body Refining Skills.
Three days passed like this.
“Xue’er, the protective barrier of Mount Shu is about to be breached, quickly come to the main hall of Mount Shu and gather for a decisive death battle against the horde of demons,” the voice of the Fairy Pavilion Master came, sounding slightly anxious.
The Demon Lord and the leaders of the three great Demon Sects had been attacking Mount Shu’s defensive formations for five days, and the barrier of Mount Shu was in grave danger, on the verge of collapse at any moment.
Xia Ningxue, being one of the strongest in the Inquiry Immortal Pavilion and carrying the Sect-Defending Immortal Sword of the Pavilion, was indispensable.
“I hope you can make it in time.”
Xia Ningxue glanced into the depths of Qingyun Peak’s cave dwelling, then summoned her Flying Sword and headed towards the grand hall of Mount Shu.
Boom!
Another earth-shattering explosion sounded as the Demon Lord’s ancient treasure struck Mount Shu’s barrier once again.
However, this time the rumble echoed among the peaks of Mount Shu, and some mountains showed cracks, with stones tumbling down.
The cultivation of the Demon Lord was unfathomably deep, and armed with an ancient treasure, he intended to smash Mount Shu, this suspended mountain, into pieces!
Xia Ningxue arrived at the grand hall of Mount Shu, where the leaders, Supreme Elders, Elders, and Disciples of the five great Sects were standing by in stringent formation, ready to engage in a life or death struggle with the demon race of Huang State and the three great Demon Sects once the defensive barrier was breached.
Su Qian’er asked, “Has that youngster Lu Changsheng not left seclusion yet?”
Xia Ningxue gently shook her head, “He is almost there.”
“What is he doing? If the fight later affects Qingyun Peak and he is interrupted, leading to him becoming possessed by demonic forces, our five great Sects will lose a Unity Realm level combatant,” Su Qian’er said with a headache.
Ten years ago, she sparred with Lu Changsheng and nearly lost to him. She believed that ten years later, after Lu Changsheng had reached the ninth layer of the Void Refinement Realm, his combat power was equivalent to an early Unity Realm practitioner.
And yet, Lu Changsheng had chosen to enter seclusion at such a critical moment.
If he was interrupted by the Demon Lord, not only would he fail to break through, but he would also risk becoming possessed by demonic forces.
“Please trust his choice, Master,” Xia Ningxue said.
Xia Ningxue knew that Lu Changsheng was a steady person; if he chose to enter seclusion, he must have his reasons.
“I know. As the Pavilion Master of the Inquiry Immortal Pavilion, I wouldn’t place my hopes on a junior. Now that I’ve stepped into the Unity Realm, I might not be able to severely injure the Demon Lord,” declared Su Qian’er, her eyes filled with determination.
This time, she would stand side by side with Taiyuan in battle, and as both of them were at the first layer of the Unity Realm, they posed a threat to the Demon Lord.
Taiyuan, Su Qian’er, Yu Xuanji, Grandmaster Chen, Master Wuxiang, along with the Elders and Disciples of the five great Sects, were gathered in the main hall of Mount Shu, ready to strike at any moment.
At Ten Thousand Swords Peak, the Sect Leader’s senior uncle gripped his wine gourd and drank heartily with big gulps.
He was unsure if he would survive this battle, so he might as well indulge himself to death.
The elderly handyman of Ten Thousand Swords Peak stood shoulder to shoulder with the Sect Leader Uncle, looking at the Ancient Cauldron that was still relentlessly attacking the Mount Shu barrier.
The Sect Leader Uncle, with bleary drunken eyes, said to the old handyman, “Our original plan was to send you and Lu Changsheng, master and disciple, to Luzhou to seek refuge. Unexpectedly, both you and Lu Changsheng rejected the suggestion.”
“If Mount Shu falls, there is little point for this old man to live. It’s a pity, if our Mount Shu were given some time, the Demon Lord would not amount to much.”
“The barrier is about to break, and it’s time for the junior to go and slay demons.”
The Sect Leader Uncle set his wine gourd aside, shaking off the previous drunkenness, his eyes changed from blurry to resolute as he summoned his Longsword to unsheathe with just a thought.
After the Sect Leader Uncle left, the old handyman slowly walked towards the myriad sword mural, staring blankly at the sword marks on it.
“Situ Kong, Taiyuan, even if you of Mount Shu wish to shrink back like turtles, it’s useless. Before absolute power, all of you from Mount Shu are mere ants!”
“Mount Shu shall be the first stepping stone in my conquest of this realm!”
The Demon Lord’s overwhelming Demonic Qi devoured heaven and earth, obscuring the sun and the moon, with dreary black clouds shrouding the skies above Mount Shu, as if to swallow the entire mountain whole!
“Suppression through the ages!”
With the Demon Lord’s Ancient Cauldron striking down once more, this time the defense barrier of Mount Shu could no longer hold up, and the golden barrier rapidly crumbled to ruins!
Mount Shu, the mountain suspended in the air, shook for the first time in history!
For hundreds of thousands of years since Mount Shu’s establishment, it had rarely faced enemies at its gates.
“Hehe, the Mountain Protection Array of Mount Shu is nothing much after all; it seems we have overestimated the strength of Mount Shu. I wonder if extracting the souls of Mount Shu’s people could summon the Demon Lord to the mortal world…”
The Palace Master of the Summoning Demon Palace was shrouded in prodigious Demonic Qi, holding a Demonic Bone in his hand, a medium-grade Immortal Artifact with sky-soaring Demonic Qi.
“Mount Shu isn’t a big deal either.”
The Sect Master of Joyous Union Sect held an iron ring in his hand, the Sect-Defending Treasure “All Thoughts Empty” of the Joyous Union Sect.
The Valley Master of Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons was still veiled in black, with her figure indiscernible, and floating beside her was the Sect-Defending melting furnace of the Refinement Sect.
This furnace was also a medium-grade Immortal Artifact.
The Demon Lord, alongside the three grand masters of the Demon Sects, breached the defense barrier of Mount Shu. The multitude of demons from Huang State as well as the people of the three great Demon Sects, arrived above Mount Shu, facing off against the mighty ones from the five great sects.
The Demon Lord, holding an ancient divine cauldron in one hand and the other behind his back, floated in mid-air, looking down upon everyone as if he were a ruler of all, with an air of unparalleled supremacy.
The terrifying pressure from the Demon Lord descended, suffocating everyone, leaving all the members of the five great sects feeling endangered.
“It seems all the peerless masters of Xia State have gathered at Mount Shu, just in time to be suppressed together. But it seems someone is missing?”
The Demon Lord scanned the assembly at the main hall of Mount Shu and felt that a Supreme Elder from Mount Shu was missing.
Lu Changsheng, who had once slain a Demon General of the Eighth Layer of the Void Refinement Realm, was somewhat noticeable in the eyes of the Demon Lord.
But it was just a slight notice after all.
At Qingyun Peak, the visions of heaven-sent deities and devils disappeared, and Lu Changsheng radiated with golden divine light.
Having attained great accomplishment in the Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body Refining Skills, Lu Changsheng officially perfected the Nine Revolutions Divine Body!
Lu Changsheng didn’t want to be too ostentatious, so he set up a barrier around Qingyun Peak to shield the heavenly phenomena, which is why he did not catch the attention of the Demon Lord and the others.
“After consuming countless Elixir Pills, I have finally mastered the Nine Revolutions Divine Body. My physical strength, combined with the Hundredfold Desolate Force, enables me to dismantle lower-grade Immortal Artifacts with my bare hands.”
Having mastered the Nine Revolutions Divine Body, Lu Changsheng possessed extremely formidable physical strength, essentially the equivalent of a medium-grade Immortal Artifact.
Lu Changsheng also cultivated the Golden Bell Shield, Hundredfold Desolate Force, and Wing Chun Divine Fist, among other cultivation techniques.
“The Demon Lord has finally arrived; let me test the strength of the Nine Revolutions Divine Body.”
Lu Changsheng sensed the presence of the Demon Lord.
But before that, Lu Changsheng had one more disciple to instruct.