hsntnovel Chapter 302 Awakening the Dragon Emperor's Slash, I'll Devour Even Hell!
Chapter 302 Awakening the Dragon Emperor's Slash, I'll Devour Even Hell!
child time.
The night was as dark as ink, and the cold wind howled.
On the ruins of Kunlun Tianmen, broken walls and rubble cast menacing shadows under the moonlight. The traces left by the shocking demolition during the day were still shocking, and the air still carried the burnt smell of the Five Elements rules going berserk.
A dark shadow swept across the half-collapsed archway like a ghost, landing below the spot where the Haotian Mirror had originally hung.
Lu Sheng's punch created a large crater here, from which wisps of cold air are now emanating.
"Why not use the proper front door instead of squeezing through a hole?"
Lu Sheng stood with his hands in his pockets, glanced down into the pit, and smirked, "These days, do all the senior experts have some kind of quirky, unspeakable quirks?"
Without any hesitation.
He leaped into the air, his figure instantly swallowed by the darkness below.
The feeling of falling lasted for a full ten seconds.
"Clatter".
Lu Sheng landed. The ground beneath his feet wasn't soil, but some kind of hard, cold, metallic-textured surface.
This is a huge underground cavern, with long-extinguished lamps embedded in the surrounding walls. The air is dry and cold, filled with a musty smell, like opening a coffin sealed for thousands of years.
"You're here?"
An old, hoarse voice suddenly rang out in the empty darkness.
Lu Sheng looked in the direction of the sound.
A hundred meters ahead stood a tall, wordless stone tablet, ten zhang high.
Beneath the stone tablet sat a translucent gray shadow. The shadow was hunched over, holding half a shriveled spiritual fruit in its hand, mechanically gnawing at it without making any chewing sound.
Spirit.
Moreover, it was a terrifying remnant soul whose strength had reached the peak of the Spirit King realm and even touched the threshold of the Emperor realm in its lifetime!
"Is this the note you passed me?"
Lu Sheng showed no reverence whatsoever for his senior. Instead, he scrutinized the gray figure with great interest, his eyes fixed on some rare delicacy: "The smell of the abyss... no, the smell of the dead. How long have you been squatting here?"
The gray figure paused, then slowly raised its head.
It was a face without features, with only two flickering will-o'-the-wisps replacing the eyes.
"Two thousand years? Or three thousand years? I can't remember."
The gray figure put down the spiritual fruit in his hand, his tone turning sinister: "Little brat, you destroyed the Heavenly Gate, shattered the Haotian Mirror, and still carry that person's aura... Aren't you afraid that I'll leave you here to keep me company?"
boom--!
Before he finished speaking, a chilling aura, powerful enough to freeze the soul, crashed towards Lu Sheng like a tsunami.
This aura is mixed with the killing intent of countless ancient battlefields. If an ordinary spiritual master were to be touched by even a trace of it, their sea of consciousness would instantly collapse, turning them into a walking corpse.
"Trying to scare me?"
Lu Sheng stood still, not even lifting his eyelids.
He simply sighed softly, as if annoyed by this tedious probing.
"hold head high--!!"
Deep within the spine, a silent, yet profoundly powerful, ancient dragon roar shattered the very essence of the spirit, exploding with a deafening roar.
Lu Sheng's eyes instantly turned a deathly gray.
That was desolation.
It is the ultimate destination for all the dead, the remnants of souls, and the departed.
"Kneel down properly for me."
Lu Sheng took a step forward.
With this step, the originally surging Yin energy instantly melted away like snow under the scorching sun, making a "sizzling" sound, before surging back in terror.
"This...this is..."
The once arrogant gray shadow guardian spirit suddenly trembled violently.
It felt absolutely crushed in terms of status.
That feeling was just like when it faced that ancient emperor who swept across the world in its previous life... no, it was even more ancient and more domineering than that time!
"Thump."
The gray shadow couldn't control its spirit body at all; its knees buckled, and it knelt directly in front of the stone tablet.
Its two will-o'-the-wisps of light flickered wildly, its voice filled with horror: "Primordial... Desolation? You are the inheritor of that forbidden sequence?!"
"Now you know who I am?"
Lu Sheng walked up to the gray shadow, looked down at it, and stretched out a finger to gently poke its translucent forehead.
"Next time you treat someone to a meal, remember to be more polite."
"It's only because I'm full today that I could have given you a taste, otherwise I wouldn't mind."
The gray shadow trembled, not daring to show the slightest temper.
Although it was a remnant soul of the Spirit King, it was as fragile as a bubble in the face of this desolate origin that specifically countered the soul.
"Alright, stop shaking."
Lu Sheng bypassed the gray shadow and his gaze fell on the huge, wordless stone tablet.
"You didn't call me here just to show me this broken rock, did you?"
The gray figure stood up shakily, his attitude becoming extremely respectful, even fanatical: "Since you possess such power, you are qualified to see... the truth."
It stretched out its withered finger and pointed it at the stone tablet in mid-air.
"Buzz—"
The surface of the stone tablet, which was originally as smooth as a mirror, suddenly rippled.
A blurry yet majestic figure slowly emerged from the stone tablet.
It was a figure from behind wearing a black and gold imperial robe.
He stood on the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin, holding the Tai'a Divine Sword, his back to all living beings, and walked step by step toward the huge crack in the sky.
Beyond that crevice lay not the starry sky, but countless enormous, tentacled abyssal demonic eyes.
With just one image, a sense of desolate and solitary courage that transcends time is overwhelming.
"I am leaving."
A calm voice, spanning millennia, echoed in Lu Sheng's ears.
"This sea is too small to contain me, nor can it protect my people."
"I will go and block the source."
"If I do not return... then the one who comes after me shall guard this sea for me."
The scene abruptly ended.
The final image captured was the unparalleled sharpness of that sword that severed the path to heaven and forced the Abyss Mother Nest back.
Lu Sheng stood in front of the stone tablet, remaining silent for a long time.
He watched that figure from behind.
That sense of familiarity... Yes, it was the person he saw when he devoured the Abyss Demon Hand.
"So he's not dead after all."
Lu Sheng suddenly laughed, a somewhat unrestrained laugh that broke the somber mood: "I knew it! How could someone who can turn human flesh into preserved meat and hang it in the sky die so easily?"
The gray shadow guardian spirit was taken aback, clearly not expecting Lu Sheng's reaction.
"The Ancient Emperor... the Ancient Emperor did it for all of humanity..."
"Stop giving me that high-sounding talk."
Lu Sheng waved his hand, a glint of shrewdness flashing in his eyes: "He went to block the door because his teammates were too incompetent to carry the team. Rather than letting them raid his base, he decided to just destroy their stronghold."
"This temper suits my taste."
After saying that, Lu Sheng stopped looking at the stone tablet.
His gaze was fixed on a crack in the base of the stone tablet.
There, a faint golden luster emanated.
A surge of energy, so intense it made every cell in Lu Sheng's body cheer, was emanating from there.
"That...that's a piece of finger bone left behind by the ancient emperor before he left."
Seeing this, Gray Shadow quickly explained, "That's reserved for someone destined to be there..."
"Snap!"
Before it could finish speaking, Lu Sheng had already smashed the base of the stone tablet with a punch.
The large hand covered in bone spurs grabbed the golden finger bone that radiated immortal divinity.
"A destined person?"
Lu Sheng grinned, revealing a set of gleaming white teeth: "What a coincidence, my greatest strength is that I'm incredibly lucky with fate."
Without any hesitation.
Lu Sheng opened his mouth and threw the incredibly hard finger bone, which contained the power of super-god level rules, into his mouth.
"Boom!"
That was the sound of something tens of thousands of times harder than diamond being crushed.
The gray figure stared in disbelief, its entire soul weakening slightly in terror: "You...you ate it directly?! That was the remains of a half-step god! The sword intent within would tear you to shreds!!"
"Tear me apart?"
Lu Sheng's Adam's apple bobbed as he forced himself to swallow.
boom--!!!
An extremely violent golden sword aura exploded within his body in an instant.
His skin instantly cracked open with countless bloody fissures, as if his entire body was about to be cut open from the inside.
"Well……"
Lu Sheng grunted, his muscles bulging, and his deathly gray desolate power circulated wildly, like a fine millstone, forcibly crushing, suppressing, and assimilating those unruly sword energies.
"Desolate Heavenly Emperor, digest it for me!!"
Deep within the spine, the imperial image let out a satisfied sigh.
The sword energy transformed into nourishment.
Lu Sheng's aura began to rise steadily.
Level 32...broken!
Level 32, mid-game... late-game... peak!
boom!
Level 33, Beginner Spirit Master!
Not only that.
In his mind, countless sword marks intertwined, eventually condensing into a simple, direct, yet terrifying killing move capable of severing the rules.
[Mastering the New Spiritual Source Secret Technique: Dragon Emperor Slash (Incomplete Version)]
[Description: Wielding the body of a desolate dragon and harnessing the sword intent of an ancient emperor. A single strike is fatal, ignoring defense, and specifically targeting the soul!]
"belch."
Lu Sheng exhaled a breath of turbid air tinged with gold, and the wounds on his body healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
At this moment, the bones beneath his skin gleamed with a faint golden-gray luster, and his strength had increased to a new level.
"It tastes a bit dry and gets stuck in your teeth."
Lu Sheng picked his teeth and commented with a look of disgust, "Could you leave some meat next time?"
The Gray Shadow Guardian Spirit was completely numb.
Looking at the monster before it, it seemed to see the same unreasonable tyrant from years ago.
"Are you... leaving?" Gray Shadow asked instinctively as Lu Sheng turned around.
"What else? Stay and keep you company while you eat fruit?"
Lu Sheng waved his hand without turning his head: "By the way, Old Ghost. Although you look pretty useless, you are still a Spirit King."
"Things have been a bit unsettled in Kunlun lately, and some people... smell even worse than you."
"Keep an eye on things for me."
After saying that, Lu Sheng's figure flickered and disappeared into the dark passageway.
Only the gray figure remained standing, staring at the broken stone tablet base, muttering to himself, "The stench... the abyss... could it be...?"
……
Outside Kunlun Tianmen.
The darkness is deepest before dawn.
Lu Sheng, hands in his pockets, whistling, swaggered out of the ruins.
I just looked up.
His steps faltered slightly.
A person stood quietly on the huge white marble wreckage in front of them, which had not yet been cleaned up.
A moon-white Taoist robe, with black hair cascading down his shoulders.
A faint purple aura swirled around him, completely out of place amidst the mess on the ground.
Kunlun Daozi, Daoyi.
He seemed to have been waiting here for a long time.
Those eyes, which held the light of life and death, calmly watched Lu Sheng emerge from the forbidden area, without the slightest surprise.
"You still went there in the end."
When he spoke, his voice was clear and cold, sounding exceptionally distinct in the quiet dawn.
"That is Kunlun's greatest taboo, and also... its greatest curse."
Lu Sheng raised an eyebrow, took out a half-eaten spiritual fruit from his pocket, and took a bite.
"What? Staying up all night instead of sleeping, you've come here specifically to be a security guard?"
Lu Sheng chewed on the fruit and mumbled, "Or do you want to go in and taste... the bones inside?"
Dao Yi ignored his teasing.
His gaze fell on Lu Sheng, as if he could sense the terrifying aura within Lu Sheng that had just surged and had not yet fully subsided.
A complex and extremely subtle light flashed deep within his eyes.
It seemed like fear, anticipation, and...sorrow.
"Lu Sheng".
Dao Yi slowly turned around, his back to Lu Sheng, and looked at the eastern horizon where dawn was about to break.
"You think you've swallowed an opportunity?"
"No."
"What you've consumed is a pledge of allegiance to hell..."
After speaking, Dao Yi's figure gradually became ethereal, turning into purple mist and dissipating.
Only a profound sentence remains, drifting in the wind.
See you in the finals. I hope that by then... you'll still be you.
Lu Sheng stood still, looking in the direction where Dao Yi had disappeared.
He swallowed the last bite of fruit.
He licked his lips, the deathly gray light in his eyes particularly glaring in the dawn's dim light.
"hell?"
Lu Sheng chuckled softly, his smile gradually turning sinister.
"If hell were full of food this delicious..."
"Then I'll eat hell dry!"