Summit of the Old Gods

Good!

Deng Yuxiang was worried initially, but now seeing Lu Ran's swift movement technique and fierce blade skills...

She recalled the days when he was the pride of the Human World.

[Don't move!] Deng Yuxiang had many thoughts but did not act slowly.

"Sss—"

The Charm Shadow darted through, her long hair flowing.

The dark cyan gauze flowing through the woman in the straw raincoat's hair was more dreamlike compared to the misty sea below her feet.

In her hand, the broken blade transformed once more into a giant blade, 28 meters long, slashing directly at the Faceless Jade Venerable.

At this moment, the Faceless Jade Venerable's eyes were wide open, immersed in some emotion.

She was injured.

Injured by two lowly human clan ants.

She was incomplete.

This noble jade body had a lower leg severed, becoming shattered.

Becoming... ugly!

"Hmm?" The Faceless Jade Venerable's face showed anger, suddenly sensing a sharp blade attacking from the side.

"Whoosh!!"

She instinctively flung her jade robe, the tail swirling like glittering white waves, sweeping to the side.

The robe and the giant blade intertwined once more.

As it turns out, even a damaged jade sculpture could not be easily humiliated by mere human believers.

Deng Yuxiang sliced fractures into the jade robe and was again overthrown by the immense force.

Failed?

No!

As the Nightmare Guardian, she was clear about her role—that she was disrupting the enemy, creating opportunities for the main attacker.

"Kneel!"

Suddenly, a deep male voice came through, accompanied by the sound of raging mist.

The Faceless Jade Venerable was startled!

When she reacted, the remaining intact leg had already been slashed by a sharp blade!

While uttering a command, Lu Ran's charging posture seemed somewhat unusual.

He moved sideways, skirting past the side of the Faceless Jade Venerable's leg, hands positioned one in front, one behind.

Left hand with the Eight Desolate Blade first!

His palm infused with Fierce Heavenly Power, violently hacked across her slender lower leg.

Right hand with the Cloud Sea Sword followed!

Lu Ran's gaze locked onto the long leg ahead, slicing horizontally along the fresh fracture line that had just formed.

"Crack! Crack!!"

Previously, Lu Ran took two bouts to cut off the first leg of the Faceless Jade Venerable.

To sever the second leg, he took merely one exchange!

A seamless coordination between the blade and the sword, the attack flowed smoothly as water, precisely striking the same area.

What kind of terrifying battlefield adaptability was this?

Every split-second on the battlefield, every move the enemy made, he was adapting, learning, adjusting!

The Pride of Da Xia was not just an empty title!

"You..."

The sudden word made Lu Ran's heart tremble.

The authoritative voice came with a hint of anger, mingled with an untouchable fearsome divinity.

Lu Ran side-slipped, turning his head to look.

The Faceless Jade Venerable had not knelt.

Even with her lower legs severed, she in her jade robe remained floating in mid-air.

However, from the fractures at her knees where her legs were severed, cracks spread, crawling all over her body.

Glittering white jadeite dust fell steadily from her shattered knees.

Like beautiful starlight.

"Whew..." Lu Ran slowly halted.

Seeing this jade sculpture climb irreversibly into fracture lines, he knew the enemy was about to disintegrate.

Yan Chou had said: the Faceless Jade Venerable was unlike any living being Lu Ran had ever encountered. She did not need to suffer fatal injuries to pass away.

The noble jade sculpture, with defensive power terrifyingly strong.

But when any part of the Faceless Jade Venerable suffered enough area and degree of trauma, unable to maintain her stability, she would shatter on her own.

The Faceless Jade Venerable before him, after having her lower legs severed, had evidently exceeded the critical point of injury!

Lu Ran turned slightly, through the slowly swirling mist, seeing the pair of scattered jade legs among it.

Hmm... truly a pair of jade legs.

Slender and graceful legs, delicate white feet.

Especially after being chopped off, bringing a tragic beauty of fragmentation, looking even more like a work of art...

Unfortunately, like her master, they were breaking into starry dots, drifting and dissipating.

Neither Lu Ran nor Deng attacked again.

The Faceless Jade Venerable did not flee; she quietly floated in mid-air. The outcome was decided, she instead calmly embraced her defeat, showing no trace of anger on her face.

Those pupil-less eyes stared at the young man in the straw raincoat within the misty sea.

As if wanting to memorize his appearance.

However, with the lower half of Lu Ran's face covered by a mask, she could not as she wished.

"What is your name?"

The Faceless Jade Venerable's voice was round and jade-like, contrasting her visage covered in fracture lines.

She actually spoke?

"And you?" Lu Ran retorted.

Neither side answered each other.

The Faceless Jade Venerable expressionless, jade lips slightly parted: "Human clan, you are different from those lowly ants."

"Different?"

Still without answering, the Faceless Jade Venerable spoke lightly, "The god demons see you as swine and dogs, yet now you've reached here, seeing everything clearly, and let me see you."

"So?" Lu Ran slightly raised an eyebrow.

In his ear, the continuous "crack" noises emanating from her body.

The Faceless Jade Venerable ignored it, still maintaining an elegant posture, gently stroking her long hair: "You should kneel at my feet, revering the new master."

"You... like the God Demon?" Lu Ran's heart stirred slightly and immediately asked.

"God Demon." The Faceless Jade Venerable's lips curled faintly, revealing a barely noticeable curve with a hint of mockery.

"You seem disdainful?"

"God Demon, just a group of exiled fleeing defeated generals."

Lu Ran's face was taken aback.

Exiled? Fleeing? Defeated soldiers?

So the God Demons descended into the human world, being hunted down and exiled here?

The unwarranted disaster suffered by the Human Clan, being forcibly initiated into the era of universal reverence, facing evil invasions on the 15th of every month, is the root of it the internal strife of the God Demons?

Where did the God Demons originally live?

The one who defeated them, leaving them helmets and armor abandoned, is it the Faceless Jade Venerable before me?

So many doubts filled Lu Ran's mind.

The Faceless Jade Venerable's gaze enveloped the young Human Clan, her broken countenance revealing a faint smile:

"God Demons, just old things unwilling to exit the stage."

Old things...

Old gods?

Lu Ran asked, "Then what are you, a new god?"

"Crack! Crack..."

The body of the Faceless Jade Venerable began to crumble, gradually dissipating, leaving faintly behind a phrase: "Human Clan, we will meet again."

"Poof~" The exquisite jade sculpture completely shattered.

Sparks of light rippled out in a most enchanting manner.

[Nightmare, use the Rebirth Money to collect the Dead Souls!] Lu Ran immediately ordered.

[Yes.] Deng Yuxiang wielded the blade and flew into a field of starlight, raising the Ancient Copper Coin on her wrist.

After this jade sculpture shattered, a Dead Soul remained as well.

In essence, it was naturally Origin Energy.

But a problem appeared!

Since the exchange began, the Faceless Jade Venerable always carried herself with the posture of the master, not a minion.

This led to Lu Ran being unclear whether this Faceless Jade Venerable shared knowledge with her true self.

Caution is the parent of safety!

Lu Ran dared not directly employ the Soul-splitting Demon Evil Technique·Soul Prison to interrogate this Dead Soul.

"Alright." Deng Yuxiang flew down.

"Keep it for now." Lu Ran pondered, "Once we reach the Divine Mountain region, we'll ask Lord Immortal Sheep, or..."

Lu Ran's heart slightly stirred.

In the present, I can traverse freely across realms.

Should I directly return to the human world, to Luoxian Mountain, to ask Lord Immortal Sheep?

This battle, with its sudden emerging intel, indeed startled Lu Ran.

[Or what?]

[Should we first make a trip back to the human world?] Lu Ran looked at the woman and said, [You heard it just now, right? She claimed that the God Demon faction was defeated by her?]

Deng Yuxiang nodded gently. She was also deeply exploring this intel.

She immediately looked around, searching for any possible creatures: [Be cautious, let's find a Stone Peak we can hide in and open the Transmission Mirror there... huh?]

Before she could finish her words, Deng Yuxiang suddenly looked up.

Lu Ran followed her gaze upward, and immediately, his mouth formed an O shape!

Holy Spirit Energy?

Previously, the earth-shattering sound in the sky seemed to have delivered resources to the Lower Realm.

But... why is there so much Holy Spirit Energy?

In the sky's Cloud Sea, strands of Holy Spirit Energy descended, and as Lu Ran gazed, within his line of sight, he saw at least a dozen strands!

What does this mean?

In the Holy Spirit Mountain Realm, spotting one or two strands of Holy Spirit Energy in a week would be exceedingly lucky.

The Evil Mirror Demon clan dispatched by Lu Ran, occupying overseas islands, enjoying all resources within a hundred-mile radius, could only collect 13 strands of Holy Spirit Energy on average per month.

Yet this wave in front of him had 13 strands.

"Hmm." Lu Ran, wearing a Blood Crystal Mask, made a muffled sound.

Because Deng Yuxiang pressed down on his head with one hand.

Lu Ran was a bit puzzled, instinctively resisting.

What for? Even my mother never made me kneel!

Big Nightmare this... is indeed Reversed Celestial Spirit!

[Hide in the mist, conceal yourself, instant teleport to draw Holy Spirit Energy.] Deng Yuxiang tugged Lu Ran behind a Stone Peak, pushing him into a recessed stone wall, pressing him further down.

Lu Ran: "..."

In this world, indeed he had not seen any creatures, but Big Nightmare was unbelievably cautious.

Lu Ran did not say anything further, surrounded by three stone walls, and concealed by Deng Yuxiang, he crouched into the thick fog sea.

Invisibility, instant teleportation, all in one go.

Lu Ran rapidly absorbed the Holy Spirit Energy descending from the sky, which he used to nurture a brand-new Divine Sculpture — the Dust Shadow Flower!

In this realm, a full 13 strands of Holy Spirit Energy were all absorbed by Lu Ran.

With a faint wave of Divine Power, Deng Yuxiang realized that Lu Ran had crouched back in front of her.

[Remain concealed.] Deng Yuxiang also crouched into the fog sea, [Put me into the gourd, quickly teleport and continue collecting this wave of Holy Spirit Energy.]

[Alright!] Lu Ran readily complied.

It now seemed that what Lord Immortal Sheep said was true.

The resources in the Heavenly Realm far exceeded those of the Holy Spirit Mountain Realm.

Therefore, the Holy Spirit Energy erupted from the battlefields of the Upper Realm, should traverse through the Third Heaven, Second Heaven, First Layer of Heaven...

And only then fall into the Mountain Realm?

Lu Ran mused as he placed Deng Yuxiang into the gourd, then his figure flickered to mid-air.

He gazed into the distance, entering search mode.

Let's return to the human world later!

Let me first fill up~

...

Asking for some monthly tickets~