Necropolis Immortal

While these notions didn’t firmly take root in public consciousness after several hundred years, it still planted the seeds of fear in many people’s hearts.

“I’ll let you in on a secret, miss. The battles of these three years have been simultaneously broadcasted to the rest of the fourth realm. Hundreds of millions of souls have seen me beat these pieces of trash into the dirt. Though I haven’t beaten them to the point where their own mothers won’t recognize them, I’ve just about done so.”

Zhu Hongyu and others that Lu Qing had fought glowered. However, there was nothing they could do since they were no match for him. Lu Qing would be second to only premier geniuses like Jiang Kui if he was in the chief worlds. He did indeed have the right to speak this way.

Lu Qing blazed with arrogance and dripped thick contempt for those he spoke of. They were here to rob and destroy his home, so why would he show them a friendly face? He might appear genteel on the surface, but a blade was always hidden in his smile and he could leap into action at any time.

“You’re absolutely right,” Qiu Feishan nodded. “Shall we, dao brother?”

She said nothing more and deployed a ray of kaleidoscopic sword light with a wave of her hand. It beelined for Lu Qing and halted half an inch from his forehead—he hadn’t even had time to react!

“You win, senior sister.” He smiled and raised a cupped fist salute.

Qiu Feishan inclined her head and jumped up, vanishing from Mount Astronomia. She was the first to pass through the mountain and enter the fourth realm.

“Don’t do anything to her, let her pass!” Qing Buyi hastily transmitted, afraid that someone would attack her in short order.

Though Qiu Feishan had won with one move, no one cheered from the chief worlds side. The supremes in attendance were in foul moods. It was not good that the Autumnus Realm was involved.

……

According to Lu Yun’s plans, he would send his men after anyone who dared cross the mountain and kill them at first light. While anyone below supreme, even thirtieth level sequence experts, was a child in the eyes of the chief worlds, they were agents of incredible death and destruction in the Land of Reincarnation’s eyes.

Lu Yun would ambush anyone who dared enter.

Act with integrity? That was a luxury only for the strong. Lu Yun had a very clear understanding of where he stood—he was a weakling. Fish on the cutting board, to be exact.

He needed to be shameless and ruthless if he wanted to live. But with Qing Buyi’s warning, Lu Yun immediately understood that Qiu Feishan of the Autumnus Realm was no ordinary person. Defeating Lu Qing with one move meant that she was so strong her name should be known throughout the worlds. However, no one seemed to know of her. More important was the general atmosphere of gravity from the supremes on the other side of the mountain. It was an emotion they couldn’t hide.

Lu Yun hastily ordered the Hell Legion lying in wait around Mount Astronomia to stand down. He kept a close eye on her flight path and breathed a sigh of relief to see her head off in a different direction than the Central Hongmeng.

Qing Buyi didn’t say anything else about the Autumnus Realm or Qiu Feishan. He simply repeated, “Can’t antagonize her, can’t antagonize her.”

Since they couldn’t, then Lu Yun wouldn’t. There were plenty of people he couldn’t afford to offend, anyhow.

……

“Lu Qing, how dare you stand in our way after you’ve been unequivocally beaten in one move?” The Myriad Spirit Supreme seemed to have become the supremes’ spokesperson.

“I beat your disciple with three, but you’re still thick-skinned enough to remain here. And please, call me the son of Lu Yun!” Lu Qing definitely rivaled Lu Yun when it came to shamelessness. If it came down to whose skin was thicker, he feared no one in this department.

“How about this, Myriad Spirit Supreme, get another one of your disciples in here and see if he can take a hit from me.” Lu Qing merrily brandished the newly expanded shortsword.

He didn’t know the particulars of Qiu Feishan or the Autumnus Realm, and neither did he know what the supremes were thinking. What he did know was that he couldn’t back down at this juncture or show weakness. He couldn’t come off as weaker even in terms of tone. He needed to be shameless to the extreme!

Formula dao was immensely popular in the fourth realm and almost everyone practiced it. Even if they didn’t, they became involved when formula dao turned into the medium for supplemental dao. Lu Qing’s battles with the outsiders enabled them to analyze the combat arts and great dao of his opponents, as well as the sequence they wielded! All of the formula dao in the fourth realm combined could quickly derive the various methods of the chief worlds and incorporate them into the cultivation system of the fourth realm.

Cultivators of the fourth realm were less than those of the chief worlds because the chief worlds possessed complete worlds. The fourth realm lacked that. Even though Lu Yun had taken Xie Tianxun’s Kinship of Heaven and Earth apart and integrated it into immortal dao, it still wasn’t enough. Thus, the only thing that could be done now was to determine their shortcomings through the combat arts of outsiders and use those arts to shore up their own weaknesses.

“Hmph!” The Myriad Spirit Supreme left with a flourish of his sleeve. Some of the other supremes had picked up a hint of what was happening. Three years wasn’t a long time—just the blink of an eye. Although Lu Qing spoke in righteous tones, they were no fools.

While the supremes might not have personally come into contact with formula dao, anyone who’d visited the Land of Reincarnation had come back with stories of it, making it out to be an absolutely magical creation.

“So you don’t have the balls to?” Lu Qing sneered to see the supreme leave. “Then piss off as far away as you can. I don’t care about the others, but if anyone under the Myriad Spirit Supreme’s banner dares set foot into the fourth realm, I promise I’ll find them and kill them all!”

He scattered several hundred Lifeline Talismans through the air. Lu Qing had created all of them; they would block a fatal blow for him at a crucial moment. He also possessed many Resurrection Talismans, but the outsiders were unaware of this talisman and its impressive capabilities.

“If I self detonate and trade a life for a life, that should be enough to kill all of your disciples, no?” Lu Qing roared with laughter.

Sharps gasps rose and fell through the crowd, no wonder the kid dared block the way! It wasn’t something he planned to do for long. If he was still here after three years, the supremes would likely join hands and run him down themselves. It wouldn’t matter whose disciples he’d beaten then. The intimidation he’d exerted over them at the beginning had also slowly faded away with each successive battle.

When the situation dissolved to that point, Lu Qing would bear the brunt of their fury. Not even Qing Buyi would be able to save him.

But he’d taken out several hundred Lifeline Talismans in one go! He really was blocking the door with his life, and in a most shameless way! He wasn’t afraid of death at all!

“How about this, let’s go for another three years. Anyone who fights Lu Qing during this time may enter after that,” Qing Buyi spoke up. “The arrangements that are in place won’t target them either. How about it?”

“And those who haven’t fought him?” The Myriad Spirit Supreme’s face darkened.

“Do you shameless old farts want to enter through here too?” Qing Buyi snorted. “Only those who’ve fought Lu Qing can walk in through the front door. As for you guys… you guys can dig a random dog hole for your disciples.”

The Myriad Spirit Supreme and his peers nearly vomited blood. This was forcing them to send out their strongest disciples! They could indeed create a passage in other parts of the fourth realm and send in their will and disciples through their dao palaces, just like the Nebula Supreme had brought in Xie Tianxun. But Qing Buyi had just declared this part of the fourth realm the front door, labeling everything else as dog holes. He was a character of note in the chief worlds. His words carried weight and would be disseminated far and wide.

Avoid the front door for a dog hole? That would be the height of humiliation for these supremes! Lu Qing and Qing Buyi might not care about their dignity, but that wasn’t the case for the supremes.

“Let’s do it this way—one thousand battles,” came a woman’s voice. “If our disciples can’t win more than half of them, we’ll dig the holes ourselves. If we win more than half, then all of us can go in through the front door.”

“Uncle, she seems more shameless than us,” Lu Qing mumbled. “That’s one thousand battles in a row against me, and she pitches it like some kind of fair and equitable solution.”