A wisp of sword qi, carrying soul-seizing power.
Lu briefly dazed.
Next: soul-splitting pain erupted, eyes brilliant sharp.
Crack crack…
Silver blades swirled, blocked front.
Wisp hit—terrific boom, blood soil flew, five-li pit.
“Beyond Nascent force?”
Dispersed blades, Lu raised—grabbed fist pearl.
Warm, wisp sword qi surged.
Contained intent.
No probe, no system—beyond Nascent relic, great for future realms.
Stored.
Lu no linger.
Martial Emperor outer, Bodhisattva temple.
Crossed air wall—Five Phoenix.
...
Beiluo, Lake Center Island.
Sky blood faded, oppressive gone.
Nie forehead sweat—gasp.
“Ended?”
Murmured.
Rose, dragon-slay—nine heavens.
Faint unusual—doomsday after: undetected evolution.
Post-evolution: world familiar.
Like…
Martial Emperor.
Nie eyes bright—forbidden feel.
World changed?
Not just Nie.
Ning, Sima sense-born: obvious.
Unknown.
Wait Lu.
But crisis: souls evolved.
Lu from South County—no stop, Dragon Gate island.
Out.
Chasing pigeon watering Little Yinglong sensed—shot.
Shoulder perch.
Rubbed head: “Stronger…”
Lu smiled.
Source evolution: dragons keenest.
Sensed.
Pavilion.
Bai Qingniao bosom Little Phoenix One floated uncontrolled.
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Eyes terror.
Wings flap fast.
Bai startled—dropped book, grab.
But saw Lu beckon.
Understood summon.
No mind—flicked One.
One despair to reading Bai—flew Lu.
Abandoned.
Shoulder Yinglong perked—mouth bulge, ready water.
Lu glance—Yinglong gulp, smile.
One pinched neck.
“Hm… stronger, source fusion soul evolution?”
Lu squinted thoughtful.
Five Phoenix break-rebuild + Tianyuan: qualitative leap.
Natives huge change.
No realm surge, but souls varied evolution.
Raised—flicked One head.
Next.
Heat flow.
Clear phoenix cry.
Body grew, flames burn all.
Yinglong stunned.
Chicken to phoenix: impact.
Mouth open—dragon roar.
Lu spirit ring—bound mouth…
Yinglong muffled whine.
Far.
Bai sensed—Lu direction, eyes bright.
Mind Nine Phoenix auto—link clearer.
“Nine Phoenix third change?”
Bai unexpected—One stronger!
“Good.”
Lu smiled.
Sleeve sweep.
One back Bai.
“Books useless—raise chicken key.”
Glanced Bai.
Strength tied chick.
Bai near, Jiang Li book—heard, speechless.
Bai eyes bright—yes, job raise chicken.
Jiang books boring!
Young Master understands!
Soup?
Lu island.
Sima green飘, oil umbrella An Miaoyu curious Lu.
“Young Master.”
Sima nod.
Lu glance—Sima heart jump, new sense trembled.
Strong!
Terrifying.
Lu stunned—no Lock, sense born.
Even odd aura—like Nie sword, Jing sword.
“Paint intent?”
Lu brow.
Paint derive “intent”?
Promising.
“Qingshan, upstairs drink.”
Glanced Sima.
Stunned.
Invite drink?
Excited—rare honor.
“Thanks Young Master.”
No refuse—up Baiyujing second.
Mysterious first.
Second.
Lu lean rail, breeze white whipped.
Ning white skirt—quiet heat wine, green plums.
Plums roll warm liquid, aroma.
Lu chessboard—Sima opposite, wave—white box float Sima.
“Game?”
To Sima.
Hesitant: “Poor skill, laugh.”
Lu wave: “Not really chess.”
Sima ask.
But…
Lu pinched—central tianyuan.
Boom!
Next: Sima sense sucked board.
Vast mountains rivers.
Lu grave—mysterious state.
Start Five Phoenix-Tianyuan fusion.
World fusion: hard.
Eyes lines—Five Phoenix terrain.
Piece outer endless sea.
Tianyuan vast—no inland.
Ambition.
Five Phoenix fuse others upgrade—prepare.
Build Five Phoenix great world.
Continents “domains”.
Tianyuan: “Tianyuan Domain”.
Five Phoenix center, others orbit.
Plan—simulate.
Time drip.
Sense in board Sima: vast.
Pressure breathless.
No fear—excite.
Vision broadened—world view rare.
Sunk thought—weird enlightenment.
Lu face, Ning ladled warm plum wine beside.
Hot cold.
Untouched.
Day pass, sun west.
Lu opened—mind surge, final: fusion.
...
Tianyuan Continent.
Post-war fatigue.
Demon silent.
Lion King tower—mute, autistic.
Empress palace—gathered survivors, explained.
Nascent source.
Knew loss horror.
Fusion little resist.
Live.
“Majesty…”
“That Young Master Lu… plot?”
“Fuse: second Kutu?”
Nascent female officer.
Others vigilant.
Kutu shadow huge.
Empress palace attire, hands clasped, smile: “Different, Young Master not bald donkey.”
“Trust… fusion better.”
Officers eye—surprise.
Blind trust?
Their Empress?
Daqian prepare.
Tianxu, Absolute prepare—little, no experience.
Store classics.
Martial Emperor.
Du peak sit.
Black whipped.
Three days—one: fusion not bad.
Lu saved—no Lu: doom.
Worse than end?
No resist.
Ponder.
Suddenly.
Eyes condense.
Tianxu message.
Fusion start.
...
Beiluo, Lake Center.
Lu brow tight.
Sense web chessboard.
Eyes lines—huge pressure.
Fusion hard.
Manpower move continent: impossible.
Not stone.
Mind Tianyuan source.
Fused Five Phoenix.
Board: five pieces.
Each trigram glow.
Sleeve—hand board, finger per piece, trigram.
Next.
Eyes lines, sense roll.
Fingers press—slow turn…
Creak…
Friction gear-like.
Lu forehead sweat—strenuous, like pulling world.
Five Phoenix outer sea.
Sea churn, waves hundreds meters.
Sky gloomy—oppressive release.
Sima green stone sea edge.
Gazed endless—despair power, heaven-earth.
Front scroll blank.
Brush ink.
Gazed.
No insight—paint first.
Maybe after.
But pen.
Mind shock.
Looked far.
Huge hand sky—tore crack…
Beyond: boundless world.
Rumble!
Quake, boom.
Waves sky.
“What?!”
Sima stunned.
Crack beyond: sea churn.
Water pour—collide Sima sea.
Fuse.
Deafening—wind whipped robes.
Vast land crack—slow with seas… emerge.
Sima inhale—sat stone scared.
Land… emerge sea?
Faint invisible hands push!
But rose—crack world…
Tremble excite.
Brush blank—want depict shock.
But no pen.
Now.
Lake Center.
Lu forehead sweat, eyes grave.
Five fingers pieces trigram glow odd energy.
Turn—near 180, bones crack.
Oppressive second floor.
Ning heat wine scared still.
First Young Master grave.
Arm twisted pretzel—Ning lips.
But Lu ignore.
Fingers blood beads, near 360.
Beads flow twisted board.
Finally…
Node.
Mind “boom” roar!
