Origin Lake rippled with mystic waves.
Ding Jiudeng’s matter caught Lu’s eye.
Idle anyway.
Stored spirit board; beckoned Little Yinglong—eyes bright, wings flap, shoulder perch.
Bamboo rustle, sky chrysanthemum sway, peach serene.
Lu light laugh; unhurried down pavilions.
Dense qi cloaked lake.
Yinglong Gate floated quiet.
Island isolated skyward—ethereal untouchable.
Beiluo boaters dwindled.
Serene.
Wolong drew practitioners.
Lu Thousand Blades; chair lake glide no ripple.
Entered Yinglong Gate.
To Xiliang Mirage Dragon Gate.
Dongyan River Gate: Xiliang root, practitioner army base.
Overlord valued; strong Xiang garrison.
Lu slow emerge.
Xiang alert.
Stared Gate.
Xu Chu trusted; trained for months vs. Great Xuan scholars.
“Who?!”
Xu Chu condense; stare.
Most practitioners Wolong—who cross now?
Xiang weapons; Xu stare.
Suddenly.
Gate behind.
Wheel ground faint.
White youth silver chair; shoulder young dragon slow appear.
Plain; aura unfeelable.
Xu Chu stunned.
Not recognize first...
Seconds brain turn; soul explode.
“Beiluo... Young Master Lu?!”
Inhaled; left Beiluo to Xiliang.
Lu calm sweep Xiang.
Finally Xu Chu.
“Fools, weapons down!”
“Brandish? At who?!”
Xu roar Xiang.
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Sweat dense pressure.
Lu Ping’an temper known.
Weapons at Lu—petty slap, Xiang gone!
Lu twitch.
Temper... that bad?
Xiang lower hasty fear.
“Name?”
Lu glance Xu Chu.
Twin spiked balls interesting.
“Report Young Master: Xiliang King first general, Xu Chu!”
Straight roar.
“Hm...”
Lu nod.
“Promising. Practice well. Favor you.”
Words; chair out; Xiang part no block.
Xu Chu head scratch—praise?
Favored?
Soon sharp deep.
Led ten squad; dash distant tail—see White Jade Lord Xiliang purpose?
Lu knew track.
Uncaring.
Thousand Blades slow.
Seem slow; Xu full run barely keep.
Liangzhou City soon.
Lu stop; Xu ten sweat gasp.
Peacock beyond.
Lu bypass city; desert.
Xu glance ten collapse.
Teeth.
“Useless, train!”
Curse.
Balls back; distant desert follow.
...
Peacock.
Buddha Realm Tower.
New sharp knife skyward.
Base dense nobles shaven nuns monks sit chant.
Ding Jiudeng calm; sudden east gaze.
Abrupt struggle face; mind boom chants.
Fists pound head; no fade.
Memory blur emotion loss.
Flashes: pawnshop clerk, happy little monks—fade.
Belated fear.
Unsuppressable.
Long; face normal.
Stood enter tower.
Door boom shut lock.
Peacock out.
Desert sand storm roll.
But.
White youth silver chair appear; storm halt.
Hard tail Xu gasp.
Curious start.
Desert to Peacock.
No fondness.
Five Barbarians; border raids Xiliang deaths.
Overlord beat fear; war pain unforgettable.
Not forget!
“Young Master purpose?”
Xu ragged curious.
Miles Beiluo Peacock—purpose.
...
Peacock south endless desert.
Two black conical hats sudden stop.
“Familiar terror aura...”
Hoarse.
Other tremble excite.
“Young Master!”
No hesitate; sand explode long shadows capital dash.
...
Lu calm capital gaze.
Chin hand; armrest tap.
Soul sense: weird monk aura gone isolated.
First such.
Tower glance.
Tower reason here.
Entered capital.
Guards block; spirit pressure release prostrate immobile.
Distant Xu surprise.
Peacock changed: devout fanatic.
Unusual.
In.
Lu dense bald citizens sit.
Cold stare chant.
Soul shake faint.
Tail Xu urge shave chant.
Panic.
Lu tap armrest.
Indifferent.
Chants annoy; no soul affect.
Noisy.
Pat Little Yinglong rump.
Understood.
Mouth dragon roar; walls collapse.
Chants stop.
Hand down; pressure prostrate.
Little Yinglong addicted.
Wings sky dash roar evil dragon.
Monks ears bleed pale.
Roar cleared minds.
But.
Boom!
Tower bell drum.
Boom!
Top mallet bronze bell pleasant city.
Recovered fanatic again.
Ignore pressure twist struggle escape.
“Mad!”
Xu inhale.
Peacock catastrophe; alert.
Today Peacock tomorrow Xiliang?
Monks remind Liangzhou temples.
Lu ignore; toure to tower.
Xu hasty.
Sudden Xu pause distant two hats rush.
Tower obvious.
Vast stone stairs plaza tower center.
Stairs royalty nobles monks sit.
Cold stare Lu.
Lu ignore tower.
Sensed Ding + other.
“Not Bitter Apprentice...”
Lips.
“Yuan Shang?”
Dawn: Ding disciple then tampered.
Yuan Bitter; Bitter high martial Buddha.
Tower: lure descent?
Ponder likely.
High martial descend?
System: world protection rules—ignore?
Thinking.
Three whoosh.
Xu two hats.
Lu head glance.
One hasty hat off: Yi Yue face.
“Young Master!”
Eyes fluctuate complex kneel tremble.
Fear blame.
Maid duty fail.
“Stronger; found path?”
Lu smile.
Yi Yue stunned head up lips.
Mo Liuqi hat off bow.
Long; Beiluo Young Master courage none.
Mo Lou assassin path.
Body Storage; courage assassinate Heavenly Lock Nie.
Vs. Lu: approach impossible.
Too strong.
Xu awkward track?
Temper kill?
Lu ignore; monk glares.
Tower top.
Bronze bell under Ding sit.
Brow blood dot palms white eyes smile Lu.
Xu shock.
Promising Ding thus.
Mo Liuqi complex; pawn stranger.
“Late.”
Ding voice overlap two.
“Should block anomaly start.”
“Overconfident arrogant.”
Lu stunned unclear.
“Tower built seed planted; root germinate world Buddha vassal all convert.”
Words.
Ding aura explode.
Buddhist runes float.
Qi surge.
Body to Golden Core; turns no stop.
Back great Buddha aid.
Elevate energy tower lines gold glow.
Chants endless.
Base royalty monks chant.
Brow split blood drops.
Blood float pearls obsession embed tower.
Tower eerie blood eyes rotate.
Waves top.
Bronze blood bell.
Behind.
Mo Yi pupil shrink.
Bad.
Xu inhale track horror.
Lu odd Ding top.
Controller unaware.
Ding rise Lu harvest more.
Sense harvest sigh.
High martial generous.
Sudden Ding stop.
Controller sense wrong.
Ding rise Lu no tense... enjoy.
Stop.
Lu regret loss.
Doubt Ding top inquire eyes.
Why stop?
Continue, don’t stop.
