This must be a wicked soul!
Zhang Yuanjing brandished the bone blade and slashed. The sharp bone blade swept across the smiling face, leaving no trace.
It was just an illusion, but definitely not a simple fake image. Zhang Yuanjing clearly felt a sinister aura hidden behind that face.
His body stiffened, unable to dodge. Seeing the face about to touch his, he suddenly remembered something and quickly took it out.
The Yin-Yang Creation Furnace! This was the nemesis of demonic and evil things.
Usually, he used this furnace to refine strange insects and beast bones, but he had never refined wicked souls. Taking it out this time was a desperate measure.
However, as soon as the Yin-Yang Creation Furnace appeared, the child's face disappeared, leaving only a wooden sculpture spinning in the sand, desperately resisting the suction of the Creation Furnace.
Zhang Yuanjing waited for a moment, then suddenly realized that this imitation Yin-Yang Creation Furnace was only at the Core Formation level, and might not be powerful enough to deal with the wooden sculpture. He quickly rushed forward and slashed with the bone blade.
"Poof!"
A dark light flashed, and the wooden sculpture broke in response. Immediately, it was successfully absorbed into the belly of the Yin-Yang Creation Furnace.
Zhang Yuanjing didn't dare to delay and immediately activated the Yin and Yang fires to burn it.
The wooden sculpture looked like it was carved from wood, but it was very resistant to burning. The two fires burned on it without any reaction.
Zhang Yuanjing urged the fire to burn for over ten breaths, seeing that there was no possibility of rapid refining, he put away the furnace and continued to condense the giant stone to attack Lu Gong.
The moment the wooden sculpture was cut, Lu Gong's expression changed drastically, his eyes filled with shock. A Nascent Soul Initial Stage cultivator was able to break his Soul Division Puppet Technique, which was too unexpected. His technique was an ancient and inherited art. Not to mention ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, even the Palace Master of Xuanjing Palace could not understand it, let alone easily break it.
He hesitated, wavering between leaving and staying for a long time, and finally decided to try again. The silver lotus was too important to him. If he couldn't find an opportunity to break through and advance, he was afraid it would be difficult for him to survive another hundred years.
He took out a jade bottle from his Sumeru Ring, poured out a dragon-eye-sized pill, and swallowed it without hesitation.
The giant stones falling from the sky became more and more numerous and more and more fierce. Sword light broke from time to time, and was reborn from between the two swords.
Lu Gong closed his eyes and ignored everything, his figure slowly moving with the rotation of the black and white millstone.
After a few breaths, a mysterious aura emerged from his body, floating around him. As soon as this aura appeared, the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy that had already been mobilized gathered towards him like a tide.
The Yang Refining Umbrella was closest to him and immediately felt a strong threat. After sensing for a moment, it hurriedly transmitted a thought to Zhang Yuanjing: "Master, he, he is about to break through!"
Breaking through on the spot? Zhang Yuanjing was shocked. This old Daoist didn't seem like such a reckless person. Could it be that he had something to rely on?
Knowing that the opportunity could not be missed, he immediately ordered: "Zhang San, do your best to attack him and disrupt his breakthrough!"
He released the Origin Stone, cast the Earth-Covering Mountain Technique, and rammed a twenty-zhang stone mountain horizontally towards Lu Gong.
The Yang Refining Umbrella's aura vibrated, and another round of blazing sun rose on the black umbrella surface, emitting bright red and fiery light, striking towards Lu Gong.
Lu Gong drifted his figure, concentrating on absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, as if he was unaware of the attacking stone mountain and light.
The Yang Refining Umbrella was close at hand, and the light it emitted instantly bombarded the black and white millstone.
The stone mountain crashed in, and the millstone contracted inward, but when it touched the mysterious power around Lu Gong, it was like sinking into cotton wool, seemingly able to advance, but unable to exert force.
Zhang Yuanjing guided his mana into the stone mountain, driving the stone mountain to continuously expand and increase in weight, putting pressure on the millstone.
The Yang Refining Umbrella condensed the power of the blazing sun, emitting even stronger flames, continuously attacking Lu Gong.
However, Lu Gong's state at this time was very strange. Without using any means, he could skillfully control the two swords and the millstone. The grades of these two flying swords were at most top-grade spiritual treasures, but the power they exerted was extremely powerful. Especially the black and white millstone, which was very similar to the means of a Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivator forming his own domain, while Lu Gong was clearly only in the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
Zhang Yuanjing and the Yang Refining Umbrella tried their best to attack for more than ten breaths. Besides destroying some sword light, they were unable to shake the black and white millstone, let alone stop Lu Gong's aura from continuously increasing.
"Zhang San, can you break through?" Zhang Yuanjing asked.
Zhang San said: "This millstone cannot be broken, so Zhang San cannot escape. Master, don't worry about Zhang San, leave this place quickly. If this person breaks through, it will be dangerous!"
Zhang Yuanjing sighed softly. The battle had turned out like this, which was really unexpected, but fundamentally speaking, he still underestimated the cultivators of the world. Relying on the Yang Refining Umbrella, he could calmly retreat when facing Shou Zhi and the Jixia Academy's Libationer, but he suffered a big loss in the hands of this Xuanjing Palace's Offering. If he lost the Yang Refining Umbrella, the trip to the Northern Region would add many dangers. Even if he obtained the silver lotus from Yu Hanyan, he might not be able to gain anything in the inner space of the Supporting Heaven Divine Pillar.
Just as he was hesitating, Lu Gong suddenly roared to the sky, the heaven and earth spiritual energy gathered around him rapidly decreased, and his aura suddenly rose, actually advancing to the Nascent Soul Great Perfection within a breath.
He reached out and cast a magic formula, causing the two swords to slash down at the same time. With a "Peng" sound, the blazing sun on the Yang Refining Umbrella was destroyed again. Only this time, all the power in the blazing sun was dissolved, not counterattacking Lu Gong as before.
Lu Gong retracted the two swords, urging the sword light to cover the Yang Refining Umbrella like mercury pouring onto the ground.
At the same time, he threw out another wooden sculpture. This wooden sculpture was two feet long, shaped like a fox beast, and disappeared into the sand.
At this point, he stretched out a palm and slapped it on the stone mountain, suppressing the force of the squeeze.
The surface of the Yang Refining Umbrella continued to shrink, and the faint light attached to it also weakened a lot, unable to compete with the millstone.
"Fellow Daoist Zhang, that silver lotus is of no use to you! As long as you hand it over, this old man will return this innate spiritual treasure to you!" Lu Gong shouted into the sand with his mana.
After waiting for a moment without seeing Zhang Yuanjing's reply, he said again: "This old man knows what you are worried about. If you hand over the lotus, this old man can give you a promise to help the Xuantian Sect out of its predicament!"
He paused for a moment and continued: "Do you think this old man is breaking through to perfection before the battle? Wrong! This old man reached this realm a hundred years ago, but he concealed it with special means. This old man has enlightened the Dao for a hundred years, and understands all the principles, only lacking an opportunity. When the opportunity comes, advancing to the Transformation God stage is just a matter of course! This old man gives you this promise and will definitely be able to fulfill it in the future."
Zhang Yuanjing suddenly understood. No wonder this person was so powerful, and the millstone also seemed like a means of forming its own domain. It turned out that he was originally a Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivator.
He immediately recalled the stone mountain, extracted the Origin Stone inside, and still used it as armor. He also placed the Yin-Yang Creation Furnace beside him.
"This poor Daoist does not have a silver lotus!"
"Then it must be in the hands of your female companion, right? I suppose, Fellow Daoist wouldn't mind going to the Northern Region with this old man to retrieve the silver lotus?" Lu Gong pressed closer.
Of course, this could not be agreed to. Lu Gong's strength was so great that traveling with him was equivalent to being captured, and his life and death in the future would be up to him.
But he did not refuse immediately. He wanted to delay for some time to see if the Yang Refining Umbrella could escape.
At this time, the Yang Refining Umbrella had been compressed to three feet in radius, its aura plummeted, and it was about to be completely swallowed by the millstone.
Suddenly, a touch of gold shone out from the gap between the black and white sword light. Immediately, the millstone retreated backward like melting cotton wool, leaving a few feet of space around the Yang Refining Umbrella.
It could be seen that on the rapidly expanding black umbrella surface, there were actually three identical rounds of blazing sun, shining with brilliant light.
