Chapter 1010: Chapter 1010

"You must come back," said Yaochi Immortal.

She did not try to keep him, nor did she say anything overly sentimental.

In this matter, it is destined that someone tall like Lu Chenzhou must bear the burden.

She and her son, along with billions of others, can live relatively peaceful lives because of these tall figures.

"You also must cultivate well, achieve immortality soon," Lu Chenzhou nodded.

After a moment of tenderness between the two, Lu Chenzhou departed.

He first sought out the Black Boat Ancestor.

"Greetings, Hierarch!" Black Boat’s expression was tense, unsure why the Hierarch sought her out.

"How has your cultivation been lately?" Lu Chenzhou asked.

"Quite good, I am preparing for the major tribulation," Black Boat answered.

"About thirty percent chance of success, but for me, it’s worth trying," Black Boat’s expression was somewhat gloomy.

Although her talent is top-level, it is still a notch below that of the Sword River Great Saint, comparable to Wan Yan.

Wan Yan’s failure dealt a blow to her.

"Thirty percent..." Lu Chenzhou muttered, taking out several supreme treasures, "Take these, the Great Universe is in need, wishing you success."

"Thank you, Hierarch." Black Boat had complex feelings, thinking of her previous thoughts, feeling even more ashamed.

Fortunately, she only had thoughts at the time and did not act on them.

After Lu Chenzhou departed, he visited Star-devouring Sword Demon and other Third Step powerhouses of the Great Universe.

These people, he would assist as much as he could.

Otherwise, breakthroughs into great power like Sword River Great Saint and Clam Fairy wouldn’t be so easy.

Lu Chenzhou, Dragon King, Mr. Turtle, Kunxu, Sword River, Clam Fairy, all great powers of the Great Universe gathered.

Innate Water Spirit had a grave expression, upon seeing Lu Chenzhou and Dragon King, she finally relaxed, saying: "It’s great that both of you are in the mid-stage of Ninth Rank. With your monstrous talents, you both have the strength to wrestle with True God at the mid-stage of Ninth Rank, but it’s still not enough; I invited some reinforcements."

Accompanied by bursts of light, figures clad in splendor, their divine might vast, descended.

Leading them was Lan Daogang.

And there was the woman wearing the Red Flame Robe, an elder in a mysterious robe, a golden-robed youth, a green-robed teenager.

"You all know Lan Daogang, the other four are demigods cultivated by the other four divine mansions," Water Spirit said.

Lu Chenzhou glanced at them one by one, nodding slightly: "Not bad."

These five demigods were somewhat reserved in front of Lu Chenzhou.

Although they were the top geniuses of their respective civilizations before Divine Enthronement, they were far from resembling Lu Chenzhou.

Even now, as demigods, Lu Chenzhou is someone who can kill a Demon Lord, still incomparable.

The five gods introduced themselves briefly, Water Spirit said: "In this action, the five of you will wield your respective divine artifacts, and if you employ your trump card, you should be able to unleash attacks almost equal to True God in a short time. Form a Five Elements Annihilation Array with divine artifacts, enough to severely wound the Holy Lord... But your defense and survival capabilities are too weak, so my plan is this: hide you within Lu Hierarch’s inner world temporarily, let Lu Hierarch and the Cangtian Dragon King distract and force out the Holy Lord’s trump card, then Lu Hierarch will release you to deliver a deadly blow to the Holy Lord."

Lan Daogang nodded: "Understood."

Water Spirit said: "Remember, the Five Elements Annihilation Array only has the power for three strikes, after three strikes, your divine power will be exhausted, so within those three strikes, you must kill or seriously injure the Holy Lord and then swiftly leave the battlefield. Seize the moment, all of you are civilization geniuses, don’t disappoint me."

Lu Chenzhou examined these five newly ascended demigods, expressionless.

Dragon King said: "Your will is not strong... I can sense the fear within you."

Water Spirit sighed: "There’s no help for it, Divine Enthronement can only grant them demigod-level divine power, Refining Heart has no shortcuts."

Lu Chenzhou said: "Let it be, this is already the best we could do given the circumstances, mainly time is short."

He also lacked confidence in these five gods’ will.

It’s not that these five gods aren’t outstanding, as Divine Enthronement seeds, they’re top-level in all aspects.

But facing a True God requires real, head-on battle.

Obviously, before Divine Enthronement, the strongest enemy these five gods might have encountered was the Eighth Realm.

They even lack experience fighting demigods.

Although these demigods respected Dragon King, hearing Dragon King say their will is weak, naturally felt discontent.

The green-robed teenager, Master of Wood Path, said: "Willpower doesn’t matter, we’ll know in the battlefield; those leaving relics and legacies are the most outstanding among True Gods, wielding True Divine Artifacts we hold the power of True God. The Holy Lord is just one of the weaker ones among the Evil God of Stars, why fear?"

He even felt that if Lu Chenzhou and others could battle across realms, he could too with True Divine Artifact.

Just lacking the opportunity to prove it.

As for willpower, simply overcoming the inner fear of death is enough, right?

Hard strength is fundamental.

Dragon King glanced at the green-robed teenager: "I’m not debating with you; I’m just reminding that this action is important."

"No need to worry, we surely won’t fail," the green-robed teenager said.

Water Spirit said: "You five indeed lack combat experience, on the battlefield be sure to obey Lu Hierarch’s command."

Lan Daogang said: "No problem... Gongyang Mu, Dragon King senior is kindly reminding you, no need to get angry."

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"I understand, let’s see the truth on the battlefield." The boy in the green robe smiled slightly.

They were all in the same realm, he didn’t understand why Lan Daogang held such a low posture and even called him senior.

Since ancient times, gods have been high and mighty, leading humans, not the other way around.

Lu Chenzhou said, "Let’s practice for a bit first, to have a baseline in my heart."

Soon, he and the Dragon King led five demigods away from the Water Mansion.

"Senior brother, Kunxu Daoist, please guard the human world. We don’t know how long this battle will last; wait for our news."

Lu Chenzhou’s voice resonated in the minds of the great powers present.

"Take care, little junior brother."

"Lu Daoist, we’ll wait for your triumphant return."

"Slaughter gods to prove the Dao, slaughter gods to prove the Dao!"

After a month of practice, Lu Chenzhou found that these five demigods were quite decent.

At least in terms of battle awareness and skills, they could keep up. As for willpower, it wasn’t too bad either.

It’s just that compared to those great powers who have endured countless tribulations, they’re lacking a lot.

One was nurtured by others, the other was tempered over time, incomparable.

With everything ready, Lu Chenzhou placed the five demigods within his inner world and stood shoulder to shoulder with the Dragon King in the starry sky.

Their forms rose continuously, traversing multiple dimensions, the Three Thousand Worlds beneath them shrinking like a sand table.

Above them, amidst the mist, faintly visible were the Jade Palace and Supreme Temple.

At this moment, the Three Thousand Worlds appeared to them as a flat painting.

"The three-dimensional world becomes low-dimensional in our eyes... Is this a higher dimension above the Dao?" Lu Chenzhou murmured.

"Interesting, no wonder the gods can easily stir the winds and clouds in the Three Thousand Worlds; to them, the human world is just a game." The Dragon King said.

When standing above the Dao, the heart becomes more transcendent and forgetful, not taking lower-dimensional existence seriously.

To a Daoist Lord, living people are just characters on a blank page.

The history of all beings is just a sentence that they can change at will.

This is the true attitude of higher-dimensional beings towards lower-dimensional existences.

Therefore, many fierce gods in the Great Wilderness, whenever they descend to the human world and cause disasters unintentionally, don’t even care.

Just like humans wouldn’t feel guilty about stepping on a group of ants.

Watching this scene, Lu Chenzhou’s heart was complicated.

He didn’t know if, when he became a Daoist Lord, he would also become as forgetful as the gods.

They didn’t know how long they had been ascending, but finally, the two stepped onto the Dao.

Before them was a world shrouded in gray mist, in the distance a great serpent coiled around a pillar to the sky before the palace gate.

The great serpent’s head was hanging low, full of wounds and rotting flesh, shattered scales scattered across the square, corroding black pits.

It licked its wounds, its tongue flicking, vertical pupils coldly eyeing Lu Chenzhou and the Dragon King.

The Holy Lord laughed coldly, "I didn’t expect you to come knocking, are you so eager to die?"

Throughout history, there have only been cases of gods descending to be slain by the Four Emperors.

This was the first incident where someone actively came to the Dao to slay a True God.

It must be known, that under the Dao, the gods’ powers are suppressed by the lower-dimensional world.

But on the Dao, it is truly their domain.

Lu Chenzhou knew this as well, but they had no choice.

If the Holy Lord descended upon the human world, even with suppressed strength, a single breath could kill billions.

Even in victory, all living beings would be nearly extinct.

Then all efforts made previously would be in vain.

Unless Lu Chenzhou had absolute crushing power to directly slap the Holy Lord to death, not leaving a chance for them to act.

"After entangling with so many divine artifacts for over a decade, how much divine power does the Holy Lord have left?" The Dragon King laughed.

"Heh, even if only ten percent remains, it’s enough to kill you!" The serpent slithered down from the palace, attacking the two.

Lu Chenzhou exuded a sky-piercing aura, boundless chaotic qi flows spread from him, clearing the surrounding poisonous mist.

A phantom of a Thunder World descended grandly upon the serpent.

Boom! The serpent pierced through the world like a spear, its tail swiping, a flash of ghostly light unleashed a divine art.

Pale white flames erupted between heaven and earth, instantly corroding and destroying the eighty-one thousand Mystic Sky Shields surrounding Lu Chenzhou.

He leaped onto the palace eaves, pressing into the void, forming the Great Wilderness Prison Demon Hand.

Space was sealed, but the serpent easily tore the hand apart with a tail swipe.

However, at this moment, a fist as large as a star, with a diameter of ninety thousand miles, descended with a heavenly aura.

"Heavenly Fist!" The Dragon King punched out, smashing the serpent’s head into the ground, shattering the ten-thousand-mile White Jade Square.

Taking this opportunity, Lu Chenzhou flipped up, his long spear slicing through the sky, a cold light flashing, there materialized a divine lotus of three hundred colors.

"Destroy!" The divine lotus spun like a millstone, engulfing the serpent within.