That’s right—if your life is gone, what use are treasures?
A flash of ruthless madness crossed Ye Fan’s eyes.
In that split second, he didn’t even think about whether Su Qingyan’s sword would cut off his head first.
He mobilized every last trace of spiritual energy left in his body and poured it all into his storage ring.
“Buzz!”
A black token, ancient and worn, engraved with a ferocious beast’s head, instantly appeared in his hand.
“Not good!” Su Qingyan’s phoenix eyes turned cold as her wrist moved to strike.
But Ye Fan had already hurled the Demon Emperor token into the sky with all his strength!
The token left his hand, turning into a streak of black light that shot straight into the clouds.
In the next instant, an indescribable, primordial aura—vast, tyrannical, and ancient—erupted violently from the token as its center!
“Rumble—!”
Heaven and earth trembled!
The sky above all of Lizhou churned as winds and clouds reversed, and spiritual energy ran wild!
A massive, visible vortex of spiritual energy formed high in the sky. At its center, the small token seemed to transform into a black sun, radiating endless eerie brilliance!
A colossal pillar of light descended from the heavens, enveloping the token and piercing through heaven and earth!
An ancient, majestic, domineering voice echoed within the hearts of every living being in Lizhou.
“The Demon Emperor’s inheritance has appeared!”
In an instant, within tens of thousands of kilometers, all cultivators above a certain level raised their heads in shock, staring toward the center of the phenomenon.
“The inheritance of the ancient Demon Emperor! Heavens!”
“Such a fortuitous opportunity has appeared in Lizhou?!”
“Go! At any cost!”
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Almost the moment the phenomenon appeared, several overwhelmingly powerful divine senses swept in from all directions.
Immediately afterward, streaks of light tore across the sky, rushing toward this place at astonishing speed.
Each streak carried a heart-shaking, terrifying pressure.
Divine Transformation Realm!
And not just one!
Five or six Divine Transformation Realm experts descended almost simultaneously!
“Now! Go!” The Medicine Saint’s voice, weak to the extreme, roared out as a surge of pure soul power once again burst from the ring, wrapping around Ye Fan.
The Heavenly Demon Disintegration Escape Light—activated again!
Ye Fan’s vision went black as an irresistible force dragged him away, turning him into a nearly imperceptible streak of blood. Seizing the moment when everyone’s attention was drawn to the Demon Emperor inheritance in the sky, he fled desperately into the depths of the forest.
“Trying to leave?”
“Azure Origin Flash Lotus.”
A lotus formed from pure azure spiritual energy bloomed silently.
The moment it left his fingertip, it ignored spatial distance entirely, appearing instantly behind Ye Fan’s fleeing blood-shadow.
Its speed was absolute.
This strike—unavoidable, unstoppable!
Yet just as the azure lotus was about to touch the blood-shadow—
“Rip—!”
A tearing sound echoed through the void.
Behind Ye Fan’s escape path, a massive black spatial rift tore open, and in that instant, a colossal crack split apart!
The entrance to the Demon Emperor inheritance had opened—right here, right now, perfectly aligned with his path!
The azure lotus, powerful enough to instantly kill a Divine Transformation Realm expert, plunged straight into the pitch-black crack and was completely swallowed by chaos energy.
Lu Qingxuan: “…”
Su Qingyan: “…”
And Ye Fan seized the chance to escape completely!
“Th-this…” Su Qingyan’s beautiful eyes widened, her usually calm face filled with disbelief.
Was this luck… a bit too outrageous?
It was as if heaven and earth themselves were helping him escape!
“Master! This villain is cunning, and his destiny luck is strangely abnormal! I will pursue him now and eliminate him at the root!” Su Qingyan snapped back to her senses, killing intent reigniting as she prepared to activate a secret technique to chase him.
“No need.” Lu Qingxuan raised a hand to stop her. “Let him go.”
His gaze swept over the several Divine Transformation auras above, each harboring their own intentions, before turning toward the direction Ye Fan had fled. His tone remained calm.
“He’ll come back for revenge. We just need to wait.”
Su Qingyan frowned slightly, both confused and unwilling. “But Master, if we let him escape, what if—”
“There is no ‘what if.’” Lu Qingxuan interrupted, shaking his head gently.
To be honest, he felt like laughing.
Not because he feared Ye Fan—but because he feared the unreasonable will of heaven.
That strike just now had been a true killing move.
Forget someone at the 4th stage Qi Refining Realm—even someone at the 4th stage Divine Transformation Realm would have died instantly upon contact!
And yet what happened?
The inheritance entrance opened right in front of him.
If he chased further… who knew what absurd twist might occur?
What if the Medicine Saint still had some old friend at the Combined Body Realm or even the Great Ascension Realm, and they just happened to encounter him during the escape, only to be called out by Ye Fan? This chapter is updated first at g.com.
The more Lu Qingxuan thought about it, the more his head throbbed.
Clashing head-on with a child of destiny like this was simply not wise.
Until that absurdly thick destiny luck was reduced to something normal, any seemingly foolproof killing move might instead turn into a gift delivered right into his hands.
Seeing that Su Qingyan still looked somewhat indignant, Lu Qingxuan smiled and lightly flicked her forehead instead of ruffling her hair.
“Qingyan, you’re fixating. Sometimes what seems like a loss may turn out to be a gain.”
Su Qingyan rubbed her forehead thoughtfully and nodded. “Master, this disciple understands.”
How could her master ever be wrong?
At that very moment, the system’s notification sounded again.
[ Ding! ]
[ Congratulations to the host for successfully plundering the “Demon Emperor Inheritance,” obtaining a Saint-grade item: Four Sacred Beast Egg—White Tiger! ]
[ The child of destiny Ye Fan is severely injured, destiny luck decreased. Current destiny luck level: orange! ]
A flash of sharp light passed through Lu Qingxuan’s eyes.
His consciousness sank into the system space, where a giant white egg, about half a person’s height, floated silently.
Its shell was covered with naturally formed black-gold patterns, mysterious and domineering, faintly outlining the phantom of a white tiger roaring toward the sky.
Even through the system space, the sharp, killing aura of metal energy emanating from it was enough to make one’s heart tremble.
However, the five or six Divine Transformation auras that had torn through space to arrive above did not leave.
These old monsters who had lived for thousands of years were all cunning veterans.
They had rushed here at the first moment.
And yet, after arriving, they witnessed something absurd—
The grand Ancestor of the Azure Immortal Sect had failed to kill a mere Qi Refining junior?
Silence spread.
Then, a harsh and arrogant laugh suddenly rang out.
“Hehe… Lu Qingxuan, I didn’t expect even you would have such a day!”
As the laughter echoed, the western sky was dyed crimson.
A foul wind howled, blood qi surged skyward, and a gaunt figure stepped out from the sea of blood clouds.
The man wore a wide blood-red robe. His face was withered, his eye sockets sunken, with two crimson ghostly flames flickering within.
Just standing there, countless wailing phantom souls rose and fell around him.
He was none other than one of the three great Ancestors of the Blood Demon Sect—Ancestor Blood River.
Ancestor Blood River’s gaze swept over the devastated battlefield below before settling on Lu Qingxuan, his tone dripping with undisguised mockery.
“I was wondering who caused such a grand disturbance. So it’s you, Ancestor of the Azure Immortal Sect, playing hide-and-seek with a Qi Refining brat.”
“Tsk tsk… after chasing for so long, you still let him escape. Lu Qingxuan, after a hundred years of seclusion, have you grown too old to even lift your sword?”
As his words fell, the other hidden divine senses within the void rippled faintly—clearly all waiting to watch the show unfold.
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