Chapter 962 - 478: Mysterious Woman
Chapter 962: Chapter 478: Mysterious Woman
Lu Yun frowned, as the remaining Silver Dragon Grass scattered in different directions, choosing to chase any would mean giving up the rest.
Every single Silver Dragon Grass was an unparalleled treasure medicine—letting them escape was a significant loss.
Despite his dissatisfaction, he drove himself at full speed toward a flowing river.
The area was a massive chaos, with Divine Abilities or Sword Light falling from time to time. Lu Yun narrowly missed being hit several times, and his anger accumulated more intensely. If it weren’t for his unwavering will, he might have impulsively thrown these people into the Hell Furnace to smelt them into Primordial Essence.
Wisdom triumphed over impulse, his sole objective now was to quickly capture the second Silver Dragon Grass.
About half an hour later, Lu Yun approached a fairly large battlefield where around a dozen people were fighting, the weakest among them he speculated to be in the late True Spirit Realm.
“Huh?” Suddenly, Lu Yun gasped in surprise; he spotted a familiar figure.
“It’s Ye Zhiying,” Lu Yun murmured softly.
Ye Zhiying, one of the top ten core disciples of the Green Flame Palace’s direct lineage, possessed unmatched swordsmanship talents. His sword domain had already reached the late stages of the first layer. Among his peers, only Zhou Yichen and a few others could compete with him.
At that moment, Ye Zhiying was wielding a treasure sword radiating splendid Mysterious Light and circulating five-colored Divine Light, extremely sharp, battling two powerful opponents.
Those two seemed to share a good rapport, able to act as one mind under the coordination of their Divine Abilities, which greatly enhanced their power.
Therefore, under their cooperation, they were able to contend against Ye Zhiying, a supreme Heavenly Pride of the Green Flame Palace.
Then, Lu Yun was suddenly startled; he saw a graceful figure fleeting through the water.
That figure headed toward the location where three Silver Dragons were trapped under the riverbed.
Was this an attempt to stealthily pick the fruit?
Lu Yun thought to himself that the trap holding the Silver Dragons was an ultimate Great Array—difficult to break and recklessly attempting might attract the attention of other strong cultivators, leading to a desperate situation if surrounded.
“Let’s follow and see.”
Lu Yun made up his mind and concealed his presence, stealthily following like a swimming fish.
Approaching closer, he saw clearly that the person was a woman with a slender physique, her skin white as jade, graceful and enchanting like a sprite in the water.
Moreover, this woman’s stealth technique in diving was profoundly skilled, almost undetectable even at close range; had he not seen and approached her personally, it would have been extremely difficult to discover her presence in the water.
“Her Divine Stealth Technique surpasses my own Cave Mystic Divine Stealth Technique.” Lu Yun dared not get too close, to avoid alarming her.
Undercurrents surged at the riverbed, and the woman in white circled around the ultimate Great Array, assessing it briefly before her pale hands emitted bursts of Mysterious Light.
Within that Mysterious Light were miniature Arrays, four in total. Talisman Restrictions flickered, then interconnected swiftly, rapidly forming a small Array.
Subsequently, this Array gradually began to erode the ultimate Great Array imprisoning the Silver Dragon Grass, tearing a small hole in its impregnable barrier.
The hole wasn’t large, just the size of a barrel’s mouth, and didn’t create much disturbance, so much so that Ye Zhiying and others in the air didn’t notice the anomaly.
Upon discovering the cage torn open, one of the Silver Dragons was delighted, promptly minimized its illusion body, and darted through the hole.
A pale hand reached out, instantly capturing the Silver Dragon, and after observing it closely, her body trembled slightly, seemingly very excited and pleased.
Then, she quietly concealed her figure again, waiting patiently for the second Silver Dragon to be hooked.
All these events happened in the blink of an eye, so quick that it mildly shocked and surprised Lu Yun.
Although the Silver Dragon wasn’t highly intelligent, it wouldn’t be so easily captured without significant power.
At least, an ordinary cultivator in the late True Spirit Realm would find it as challenging as the woman in white did to subdue the Silver Dragon effortlessly.
By then, the other Silver Dragon slowly made its way through the hole torn in the Great Array.
Lu Yun knew he couldn’t wait any longer. Ignoring the possibility of alarming the woman, he swiftly lunged, seizing one of the long, straight, crystalline legs, pulling hard and leaping past her in an instant to suppress the escaping Silver Dragon.
The woman whose fruit had been picked appeared exceptionally shocked and outraged, especially since her thigh had been grabbed, making her feel both ashamed and furious.
“You philanderer, return my treasure medicine!”
After regaining her composure, a white radiance emanated from her body as she attacked Lu Yun.
Lu Yun, with one hand suppressing the struggling Silver Dragon, punched out with the other.
The clash surprised Lu Yun; those white, jadelike flawless hands were even harder than the Ultimate Spirit Weapons, emitting terrifying fluctuations that could have shattered a weaker physique.
“Shared joy is double joy—you have already gotten one Silver Dragon Grass, so this one should rightfully be mine.”
By now, he had completely suppressed the Silver Dragon, and it reverted to its original form. Then, right in front of her, he took the Silver Dragon Grass into his Cave Heavens.
“You…”
Her black hair billowed, revealing an extraordinarily beautiful face, her watery eyes filled with anger and shock.
Angered that he had seized the fruits of her hard work so grandly, and amazed that a mere individual in the True Spirit Realm First Layer could easily block her attack.
Lu Yun had now fully seen the woman’s appearance. Dressed in flowing white, her skirt revealing vast stretches of snowy, crystalline skin, and her cascading black hair framed a pale, jade-like oval face that glowed softly. Her eyebrows were delicate, her eyes like gentle waves, her nose finely shaped, and her lips slightly parted—all contributing to a breathtaking beauty.
Even though his Dao heart was as firm as iron, Lu Yun’s heart involuntarily stirred slightly.
At the moment his consciousness slightly wavered, Lu Yun only felt a pain in his brow, darkness before his eyes, almost losing consciousness.
However, his consciousness was strong, far surpassing those of his level, ultimately blocking that terrifying consciousness attack and quickly recovering.
The woman in white was shocked, ever since she had entered the True Spirit Realm, awakened part of her soul power, her consciousness power had exceeded her peers, and at such close distance, it was enough to kill the unparalleled Heavenly Pride.
It was for this reason that she dared to cross realms and compete with the many Heavenly Prides of the True Fire Domain.
Yet now, her attack on the soul failed, blocked by a mere cultivator in the First Layer of the True Spirit Realm.
“Kill!”
Lu Yun shouted lightly, being attacked stealthily; if not for his powerful consciousness, he would have truly fallen here, hence, he had no intention to “pity the fragrance and cherish the jade.”
His fingers came together, appearing to shine with flowing light, transparently beautiful, but under the infusion of Thunder Divine Power, they were harder than Divine Weapons, sharper than swords, enough to break through numerous ultimate Dao Weapons.
Puff!
However, when a palm wielding the Thunder Blade slashed onto the soft white body, it instead produced a metallic tremble, leaving Lu Yun astonished.
The palm blade fell on her soft body, he distinctly felt its fullness and smoothness, obviously a flesh body, so how could there be a metallic tremble?
Could this woman be an advanced android?
He quickly dismissed the thought; though the Black-yellow Great World was vast and boundless, he had never heard of any world there existing with a technological civilization.
Pushed back by the rebound, the woman in white counterattacked, sending a golden soul power like a fireball, or like a sharp sword; Lu Yun’s brow stung, his consciousness burned hot, his figure stumbling.
However, the Nascent Soul sitting in his Cave Heavens suddenly opened its eyes, emitting brilliant light, suppressing everything, making the opponent’s surging soul power quickly weaken.
“Boom!”
This time, Lu Yun turned his palm into a fist, slamming it down furiously, producing an astonishing boom.
However, Lu Yun found in the blink of an eye that a layer of armor appeared on the woman’s body, merging with the flesh, transparent and colorless.
Yet, when subjected to huge attacks, it autonomously blossomed with a holy light, evolving runes, blocking and resolving damage.
When there was no threat, it merged back with the flesh, becoming invisible.
This reminded Lu Yun of his last enemy, the Divine Bone Heavenly Pride from Blue Sky Sect, who possessed a Divine Dawn Battle Armor which not only weakened most attacks but also provided Divine Power, allowing him to fight across levels.
The precious treasure on this woman’s body, transparent and flawless, hard to break, also capable of self-protection, was probably no less valuable than that Divine Dawn Battle Armor.
“What if I could take it for myself?” Lu Yun thought to himself.
He now had a piece of Divine Dawn Battle Armor, although slightly damaged, its power was still there.
If he could snatch this ultimate treasure armor from the woman’s body, with the inner armor and outer Divine Dawn Battle Armor, who could stand against him?
With this thought, Lu Yun inevitably became excited, again gathered his Divine Power, and struck down with a fist, instantly producing a colorful brilliance, but still unable to break the armor’s defense.
He knew that such brute force was ineffective; the treasure armor, crafted from rare treasure materials and with supreme talisman restrictions, his physical body simply couldn’t shake it.
Even if an Entering Saint Realm powerhouse came, relying solely on brute force, it would still be difficult to destroy.
Just like Han Zhong, who suffered grave injuries and even death, yet his Divine Dawn Battle Armor remained ninety percent intact.
Clang!
The woman in white summoned an ultimate spirit weapon, its Divine Light flowing, light exploding, releasing sharp Sword Intent, slashing towards Lu Yun with a heaven-shaking sword.
Facing such an attack, Lu Yun didn’t dare to be careless and quickly summoned the Blood Slaughter Thunder Blade.
Their clash produced shockwaves that reversed rivers, water waves crashing against heaven and earth.
“Damn!”
Both realized at the same moment that they had become too heated in their fight, forgetting the environment they were in.
Their battle not only scared away another Silver Dragon Grass but also attracted the attention of other powerhouses.
“Little thief, I’ll let you hold onto that Silver Dragon Grass for now.”
With a shout, the woman in white retreated.
Lu Yun paid no mind to the other’s words, feeling malicious intents descend, promptly fleeing in another direction.
The overwhelming Divine Abilities and attacks fell, instantly splitting the vast river into sections.
Lu Yun dodged swiftly, not being hit, surfaced, his Divine Power surged, Demon Wings appeared, with a fierce shake, he shot up into the sky.
“Where are you going!”
Several powerful presences burst forth, chasing after him.
“Is that him?”
Ye Zhiying recognized Lu Yun after seeing him, frowning slightly, her expression not very good.
After a brief hesitation, she sighed softly and chased after the direction the woman in white had escaped.