CHAPTER 98: CHAPTER 89: I AM THE TRUE LORD OF THE SEVEN LUMINARIES!

"No signs of life..."

Fan Wubing whispered.

Luo Qingyao nodded,

"The people living in the shantytown, in fact... have always been the dead, not the living."

A chilling horror swept up from behind.

Come to think of it, how could a place filled with Evil Qi possibly have living people? Everything before was both an illusion and the truth. It’s normal for the shantytown to be out of place with the main city... After all, how could the living and the dead coexist under the same roof?

They proceeded cautiously forward.

Luo Qingyao looked at the houses’ doors. On each household’s door, a Door God portrait was pasted.

"These Door God portraits... are so exquisitely drawn!"

Fan Wubing glanced over. Indeed, they were exquisite.

The lines, colors, aura, posture... nothing was amiss.

So exquisite that it seemed somewhat... lifelike! So vivid as if they were wielding the steel fork right there on the door.

The two of them were slightly entranced as they looked.

The rain was still falling.

The lanterns hanging before each door suddenly brightened several degrees, illuminating the once-dark alleyway brightly.

The Door God on the left door panel... its eyes moved.

Fan Wubing felt his scalp tingle, a prickling sensation spreading, as he grabbed Luo Qingyao and leaped back. In the heavy curtain of rain, the trajectories of the two were traced, only to be instantly covered. Ahead, bursts of rain mist exploded, and in that instant of explosion, a steel fork carrying divine might came thrusting forward with a thunderous momentum.

It was then that Luo Qingyao came to herself,

"Ink Splash!"

The emerald-green flying sword shimmered, instantly arriving in front of her. Like an immortal splashing ink, it dispelled thick ink intentions, forming a breathtaking landscape ink painting in no time.

The landscape ink painting collided with the steel fork.

As if heaven and earth were moving mountains. Divine might tore apart the ink intentions.

The rain mist was dispersed.

Fan Wubing and Luo Qingyao were able to see the true form of the visitor.

Ahead, Divine General Shen Tu held a steel fork imbued with divine power, thrust it towards the ground, dispersing the rain curtain again. His upward-curving eyebrows blazed with golden flames, his fiery golden round eyes exuded awe without anger, his mottled battle armor trembled slightly, and the red tassel on his silver helmet fluttered like flowing fire.

His eyes stiffly turned, and he shouted angrily,

"This is an Immortal Sacred Land, how dare you demons disturb it!"

Fan Wubing, employing the Unwarranted Qi Creation Skill, was utterly shocked in his heart... He felt clearly the Divine General before him, with an unstoppable righteous aura, entirely different from the surrounding Evil Qi. This immaculate divine righteousness made him almost instinctively want to revere it, far beyond the divine brilliance of the Zhaoxing Lake God, like a bright moon compared to fireflies.

Moreover, this figure... so familiar, incredibly familiar.

Breaking away from the suppression of divine righteousness, Fan Wubing asked,

"Who are you!"

Shen Tu’s eyes stiffly turned again,

"I am the Five Pass Eastern Divine General of Taoyi Mountain, Shen Tu!"

It indeed was that Door God Shen Tu!

But isn’t Shen Tu a righteous deity who wards off evil spirits and suppresses malevolent beings?

Why mingling with that Ghost Cultivator?

Wait!

Fan Wubing looked at the divine might in Shen Tu’s eyes, swallowing his saliva. He mistook us for malevolent beings!

"Watch the fork!" The divine might pouring out Shen Tu’s being filled the entire alleyway, and for a moment, divine light blazed, lending an awe-inspiring righteousness to half the shantytown area.

Blood Burning Skill!

Fan Wubing continuously activated the Blood Burning Skill, agitating the blood energy within.

The passive "Heart Ablaze" rapidly stacked. In the rain, granted by the Seven Luminaries Rain Control Skill, it could stack two layers at once.

In the blink of an eye, it stacked sixteen layers.

Fan Wubing’s momentum immediately rose to the fourth-layer Golden Core. Moreover, it wasn’t just an ordinary fourth-layer Golden Core.

But even so, he was still overshadowed by Shen Tu’s divine might.

The steel fork shattered all forms of Qi, charging straight at him.

A wave of ink swept over from the side, enveloping the steel fork. The flying sword, carrying an emerald virtual shadow, soared through the air, like a painting, dotting, hooking, pressing, and depicting... in an instant, it formed an ink-colored mountain.

The mountain blocked Shen Tu’s attack but only for a moment, immediately shattering.

The sword intent of the flying sword shattered, and Luo Qingyao, unsteady, fell towards the ditch on the side.

Taking the opportunity, Fan Wubing broke clear of the divine brilliance upon him to reach Luo Qingyao in a few rapid steps, helping her up,

"We’re not his match; he’s too strong!"

Shen Tu was terrifyingly strong.

After all, he belonged to the orthodox divine ranks. Even in the Peach Blossom Spring, constrained below the Nascent Soul Realm, he was not someone Fan Wubing and Luo Qingyao, mere mortals, could withstand.

The two immediately fled.

Shen Tu shouted,

"Where do you think you’re running!"

Convinced the two were malicious intruders in the Immortal Sacred Land, he was determined to slay them on the spot.

The sound of the mottled battle armor shaking on him was enough to intimidate demons, let alone the encompassing divine righteousness and the authority in his eyes.

His shout made Fan Wubing’s spirit waver, blood energy roiling.

Fan Wubing wasn’t afraid of the blood energy agitation; instead, he could continually stack the passive "Heart Ablaze" because of it.

However... he was painfully aware that the gap in power between himself and Shen Tu was far too large. Even if he stacked a hundred layers, reaching ten times the power, it would still be insufficient to contend.

The gap between them was entirely a dimensional blow.

That Shen Tu, was truly a Great God!

A Great God could suppress mortal demons with mere divine might.

Facing him directly made it impossible to exert full combat power. Just a glance felt like his very soul was captured.

Luo Qingyao exclaimed in shock,

"Why is there such a Great God in the Peach Blossom Spring!"