Lu Yang's voice rumbled and echoed.
At this moment, the Old Dragon Lord had no other thoughts. He respectfully lowered his dragon head and said in a low voice: "I am willing to exert my strength for Senior. May I boldly ask Senior's honored name?"
"Perfected Lord Who Presides over the Supreme Throne and Commands Fate (Yuji Siming)."
Lu Yang's tone was flat.
As his voice fell, the Old Dragon Lord was instantly shocked:
'This is... [Heavenly Fire].'
Dao names and honorary titles couldn't be chosen randomly. Most had to be chosen based on the Dao Fruit and Great Dao one controlled, so that they could match each other in concept.
This was a major matter concerning one's Dao path.
And for [Perfected Lord Yuji Siming], the concept within could be seen at a glance to correspond to [Heavenly Fire]. But the person before him seemed to be cultivating [Mountain Peak Fire]?
Why was this so?
On the other side, Lu Yang didn't pay attention to the Old Dragon Lord's doubts. He merely looked up at the sky. Indeed, he was currently not the Perfected Lord of [Heavenly Fire].
However—he would be very soon.
Lu Yang stood on the high platform, quietly looking down at the [White Jade Capital] below, watching as the struggles for the numerous divine positions and palaces produced victors and losers.
There were Foundation Establishment cultivators ascending to positions, becoming Divine Lords.
There were also Unorthodox Dao Perfected Lords jumping ship, switching to cultivating the Investiture of the Gods Method.
At this moment, they had all become Lu Yang's strength. The boiling divine fire transformed into endless mighty power, completely amplifying his body.
'The time has come.'
He had to admit, Ling Xiao's actions thirty years early in the false history had saved him at least a hundred years of time, while simultaneously stifling many risks in advance.
If there hadn't been this [Dao-Attaining Hidden Profound Palace], he wouldn't have been able to rapidly recover his cultivation, nor would he have been able to contact Sisui, let alone use this to scam Xiu Zhen and subsequently miss out on many early-stage opportunities. If nothing else, at least forging a Primordial Spirit would have been out of the question; the loss would have been immeasurable.
To speak bluntly.
For him to have grown so quickly in the false history up to now, Ling Xiao deserved a third of the credit. He had also suffered a lot of bitterness, and was probably currently being suppressed by the Great Sword Ancestor.
Therefore—
'Since that evil old ghost can suffer a loss, then let him suffer a bit more. There's no rush; rescuing him too quickly will only alert the enemy.'
'I believe he will definitely be able to understand.'
Thinking of this, Lu Yang quickly reined in his thoughts. Then he paced forward, taking a single step out of the [Dao-Attaining Hidden Profound Palace] and arriving outside the grotto-heaven.
"Rumble!"
Instantly, the firmament exploded with a loud bang.
Dark clouds rolled through the sky. In an instant, flying sand and rolling stones darkened heaven and earth, even concealing the light of the sun and moon together. Golden snakes could faintly be seen galloping and dancing wildly within the clouds.
"It's the Heavenly Lord, he's here!"
At this moment, the six Dragon Lords only felt a splitting headache. A premonition of some great disaster descending upon them arrived, as if an invisible giant hand was slowly reaching over.
Like snuffing out a candle, it was about to snuff out their lives!
And under that thundercloud that blotted out the sky and sun, the divine senses originally paying attention to this area instantly reduced by a third. Only a very small number of people dared to linger.
For a moment, the Old Dragon Lord couldn't help but yell:
"Sen-Senior, save me!"
Before his voice faded, a calm and composed voice leisurely spread out, like a gentle breeze, blowing away all the chilling, murderous intent emitting from the thunderclouds.
"Fellow Daoist, this place is not under your rule."
"Retreat."
As soon as this sentence was spoken, the already boiling thunderclouds instantly went berserk, as if thoroughly enraged, reflecting a malevolent and ferocious face.
In the next second, that face was seen slowly opening and closing its lips and teeth. The thunder was him speaking, the rolling wind and clouds transmitting for him. In an instant, it echoed throughout the entire Immortal Nexus. It was clearly just a single voice, yet it seemed as if hundreds of millions of people were speaking simultaneously, treating Lu Yang as the common enemy of the universe and all directions.
"Those who defy heaven, deserve to be killed!"
The voice arrived with the thunder, visible to the naked eye, unfathomable, boundless, as if the entire firmament had been turned upside down, only then crashing down with lightning!
"Rumble!"
In the divine senses of all the Perfected Lords, it was too late to react. Simply because of the special nature of thunder, by the time you heard the sound of thunder, you were already hit.
Unavoidable, inescapable!
In an instant, Lu Yang's body was swallowed by the sea of lightning. Countless golden snakes roamed around his body; every single golden snake was enough to cleave a Perfected Lord to death.
This couldn't help but remind Lu Yang of the Dao Fruit he had previously shaped.
'[Divine Firmament Thunder]...'
Very similar, extremely similar!
'It integrated the power of the Five Elements, thoroughly understanding the [Five Elements], and manifesting thunder... but that is all there is to it. There are no higher-level Five Heavenly Destinies.'
Back then, the Ancestral Dragon used the [Five Elements] to swallow the Heavenly Destinies. The true power of the Five Elements could completely display profound concept corresponding one-to-one with the five great Heavenly Destinies. But the current Heavenly Lord only showed himself through thunder, lacking deeper changes. It could be seen that he hadn't truly grasped the true essence of the [Five Elements].
However, this was also normal.
'The [Great Forest Wood] is in Ling Xiao's hands. Now that the six Dragon Lords have submitted, the [Water Element] has also been cut off by me. The Five Elements are incomplete, so he is naturally at his wits' end.'
Thinking of this, Lu Yang grew even calmer.
Allowing the sea of lightning to tilt and the waves to surge, he still stood steadily within it. His straight and tall body stood proudly like a heaven-supporting pillar that would never break.
"Crash!"
Another loud bang, lightning reappeared. The blazing white light wasn't just dazzling to the cultivators peeping at this place anymore; they even felt a piercing pain.
"Heaven's punishment, true heaven's punishment..."
Jiangbei, the Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea.
Bu Tianque, who had just returned to the Saint Sect, looked up at the sky. And beside him, a handsome Daoist wearing a black crown and a sword at his waist stood sternly.
It was exactly the first-generation Pill Cauldron Peak Master, Lian Tiandou!
And at this moment, both of their expressions were somewhat solemn.
"Senior Brother, if it were you and me, could we block it?" Bu Tianque said faintly.
Hearing the voice by his ear, the corner of the first-generation Pill Cauldron Peak Master's eye suddenly twitched. Immediately after, he imperceptibly put a small distance between himself and Bu Tianque.
Only then did he say in a deep voice:
"With the help of the grand formation, it can be blocked."
"However, this is still not the limit of the Heavenly Demon. This demon received enlightenment from the Ancestral Dragon and controls the Immortal Nexus. Although his stature is the same as ours, his mighty power is too vast."
"If he goes all out, sparing no cost."
"In the present age, I'm afraid only the Jiangnan region can be preserved."
Speaking of this, the first-generation Pill Cauldron Peak Master shook his head:
"That person who struck down heaven back then, the Eastern Sovereign was already strong enough, not inferior to either of us, yet in the end, wasn't he still almost cleaved into ashes of tribulation by heaven's punishment."
"So you're saying this person will definitely die?"
Bu Tianque frowned deeply: "I briefly exchanged blows with this person. He is stronger than me, but cannot kill me. If it is only this much, he probably cannot block heaven's punishment."
"Let us watch."
The first-generation Pill Cauldron Peak Master said in a deep voice: "He is a Heaven Treading realm expert after all. Since he dares to do it, he definitely has other preparations. Didn't the Eastern Emperor also succeed in striking down heaven back then."
Rumble!
As they talked, the thunder between heaven and earth didn't weaken in the slightest; instead, it grew increasingly fierce, as if deep within that sea of clouds, a massive army was beating drums and moving.
The weight of the entire Immortal Nexus seemed to fall amidst the sound of thunder.
For a time, no one dared to make a sound. The peeping divine senses also almost stopped. Between heaven and earth, only the rumbling of thunder and the whistling of the fierce wind remained.
Below, Lu Yang stood amidst the wilderness.
Allowing that weight comparable to the Immortal Nexus and the thunder to press down on his shoulders together, his straight back didn't bend in the slightest. He was even looking up.
By his ear, Patriarch Nether Whisper's worried voice came over:
"If things prove impossible, retreat for now..."
"Patriarch, rest assured."
Lu Yang chuckled lightly, slowly stretching his muscles and bones. And during this process, his aura was also skyrocketing. The door to the grotto-heaven behind him was astonishingly thrown wide open at this moment.
Endless divine light poured out in full force!
Looking down from above, these divine lights were merely the size of sparks. However, when they gathered together and linked into one, they were like a raging prairie fire!
Lu Yang stood precisely in the center of the sparks. His faint voice gradually grew resonant, piercing straight into the firmament, covering up the endless rolling sound of thunder:
"After today, I shall be invincible under heaven."