Starting as the young master of a medicine shop, he practiced swordsmanship for twenty years.

Chapter 297, and you're already pushing the intensity to the limit?

The moment Lu Xuan stepped into the Spirit Ruins, his tense nerves finally relaxed slightly.

The obstruction that Lu Xuan had anticipated did not occur—among those old guys, quite a few had grudges against him.

They actually let themselves in like that.

"They're quite composed."

A hint of wariness flashed in Lu Xuan's eyes; he didn't believe those old guys would be merciful.

After entering, the white light gate connecting Lu Xuan to the outside world remained unchanged.

The white portal connecting to the Spirit Ruins will remain for one year.

It will remain hidden in the void until the end of the year.

Those people from the eight major families and the five transcendent forces are probably guarding this gate to prevent anyone from daring to trespass into the Spirit Ruins.

Lu Xuan looked up and gazed around, but the scene before him left him stunned.

The boundless green grassland stretched to the horizon, a gentle breeze rippled through the grass, and Lu Xuan could smell the fragrance of earth and wildflowers.

In the distance, the undulating mountains resemble the spine of a giant dragon, and the wings of birds circling in the sky reflect a rainbow of colors.

It all felt incredibly real—the dampness of the soil beneath your feet, the flow of spiritual energy in the air, even the temperature of the sunlight on your skin—it was all exactly like the real world.

"This is... an independent little world?"

"Or is it a real-world illusion?"

After all, even Lu Xuan couldn't help but be wary of a completely new world.

Lu Xuan bent down and picked up a blade of grass. The sap oozing from the broken end of the grass leaf emitted a faint, visible spiritual energy.

What surprised Lu Xuan the most was that the thousands of martial arts prodigies who had entered with him earlier had all disappeared without a trace.

In the entire world, it seemed as if he was the only one left.

"The Spirit Ruins are mysterious, each person is a realm."

Opportunities arise from fate, and life and death are determined by destiny.

"It seems that the information we obtained from Master Ziyao was true."

Upon entering the Spirit Ruins, each person will be scattered to different parts of the world by a mysterious force, beginning the so-called Secret Realm Trials.

This mysterious world has always been the birthplace of rare and precious materials, including spiritual objects, sacrificial artifacts, and the ethereal realm. Countless rare treasures originate from here.

A mysterious power?
Could it be this power?

Lu Xuan's eyes shimmered with purple light as he slowly raised his right hand, gazing intently at his palm, where a wisp of almost vanished white light remained.

This wisp of white light, like smoke and mist, swirled and danced above Lu Xuan's palm, carrying a mysterious rhythm that transcended the laws of nature.

"I see.……."

"Presumably, this mysterious power is the reason why those people were teleported to secret realms around the world."

Lu Xuan's lips curled up slightly. Before his Void True Monarch Heaven and Earth Dharma Form, he had already seen through the essence of this power.

The power of spatial laws, which ordinary cultivators find difficult to resist, cannot affect Lu Xuan, a martial arts master who is infinitely close to the master of a cave heaven.

With Lu Xuan's martial arts cultivation at the level of a fully-fledged Void Lord, he could easily shatter this mysterious power of the laws of heaven and earth in an instant.

The next moment, Lu Xuan narrowed his eyes, pondered for a moment, and then suddenly abandoned his thoughts of resistance.

Lu Xuan deliberately suppressed the surging power of the laws of heaven and earth around him, letting the white light wash over his entire body like a tide.

In the last moment before Lu Xuan's body was enveloped by this wisp of white light, he keenly sensed the spacetime trajectory hidden within this wisp of spatial law.

"call out--"

A white streak of light pierced the sky, and Lu Xuan's body traveled thousands of miles in an instant along with this white light.

After Lu Xuan left, only the waves of grass that had been pressed down by the strong wind remained on the grassland, which soon straightened up again as if no one had ever passed by.

Meanwhile, in other corners of this world, countless prodigies are also facing their own trials...

In a daze, Lu Xuan was still able to see the scene beyond the white light through this beam of white light, thanks to his incomparably powerful strength.

Someone is fighting a monster they've never seen before in a secluded valley.

Someone mingled among the local people in the city.

Someone is in a remote mountain village...

The secret realm is filled with all kinds of rare and precious treasures!
Lu Xuan suppressed his excitement. He really wanted to forcefully shatter this spatial law and frantically collect the spiritual treasures of heaven and earth below.

Not yet!
Lu Xuan was afraid that doing this would cause some unfortunate change.

If I were to break the rules of this world and cause a change in the power of its rules, I fear I would face a life-or-death situation.

Now, Lu Xuan has absolutely no chance of surviving the power of the world's regulations.

Even if he could be reborn from a drop of blood, the terrifying power of the world's rules could instantly erase Lu Xuan's existence, leaving not a trace.

When his vision cleared again, Lu Xuan found himself standing in an unfamiliar crimson desert.

The scorching sandstorm whipped against his robes, and in the distance, a bronze temple stood atop a sand dune, gleaming eerily under the blazing sun.

"interesting."

As soon as Lu Xuan finished speaking, his eyes blazed with purple light, and an indescribable power surged around him.

Lu Xuan walked slowly toward the ancient hall, leaving deep footprints on the sand with each step.

But strangely, these footprints were quickly erased by the flowing sand.

Of course, these subtle movements could not escape Lu Xuan's perception.

It wasn't until Lu Xuan entered the ancient bronze hall that this happened.

Meanwhile, in the void at the edge of the desert, a pair of eyes covered in white light patterns quietly opened, then quickly disappeared...

Although those enormous eyes, devoid of human emotion, disappeared extremely quickly, it was still possible to see them watching Lu Xuan's back.

Lu Xuan slowly stepped over the heavy threshold of the ancient bronze hall and entered.

Along the wide corridor, bronze statues of various shapes and sizes come into view, some human figures standing solemnly, and others beast figures baring their teeth and claws.

Beneath the dimly glowing crystal, there was an indescribable eeriness.

The bronze statues on both sides seemed to come alive in the shadows, their gilded beast eyes gleaming with an eerie light in the darkness.

"interesting……."

Lu Xuan gathered a wisp of heaven and earth power at his fingertips and gently stroked the nearest human-shaped bronze statue.

The rusty surface suddenly oozed a dark red liquid, emitting a nauseating, bloody odor.

Even more bizarrely, the blood-red liquid twisted into strange characters in the air!
"Anyone who trespasses will die!"

"Ok?"

The next moment, Lu Xuan's brows furrowed instantly. "This is demonic energy?"

"Moreover, this demonic aura is so intense!"

Lu Xuan's gaze fell upon each bronze statue.

These bronze statues are all surrounded by a faint, malevolent aura, which seems to move about as if it were alive.

Suddenly, Lu Xuan stopped in his tracks, his gaze fixed on the bronze floor beneath his feet.

In an instant, a loud "boom" resounded, and the entire corridor trembled violently.

The seemingly sturdy bronze floor appeared to be impacted from below by a tremendous force, constantly bulging. As the bronze floor twisted, it emitted a sharp, piercing creaking sound, as if countless evil spirits were howling beneath it.

"Monster!"

The floor suddenly shattered, and a giant claw covered in bronze scales burst forth from the ground, its sharp claw tip leaving five deep furrows in the earth.

The scales on the giant claws emitted a ghostly green light, and a stench of blood wafted through the air.

Upon seeing this, Lu Xuan remained extremely calm, standing gracefully with his hands behind his back, calmly looking straight ahead.

It was a bronze beast three zhang tall, with a rat's head, a bird's body, and two wings on its back. Every scale radiated a captivating, eerie green light.

The moment it saw Lu Xuan, it suddenly opened its blood-red maw, but instead of spewing flames, it did not.

Instead, it was a thick, solid, pitch-black, demonic aura.

However, the terrifying black gas that was spewed out was simply dissipated in mid-air by Lu Xuan raising his right hand and gently fanning it, as if it had encountered an extremely scorching sun!

Suddenly, the entire corridor came to life. Hundreds of bronze statues on both sides simultaneously opened their scarlet eyes.

The sounds of clashing armor, scraping claws, and the growls of wild beasts mingled together to create the sound of death.

Most chillingly, the humanoid bronze statues began to twist and deform, gradually revealing their true forms as half-human, half-demon...

"Ok?"

"You're going to increase the intensity right from the start?"

"This world seems strange; it appears to have discovered my situation?"

Lu Xuan remained calm and composed, standing with his hands behind his back, his dark brocade robe remaining perfectly still amidst the demonic aura.

The massive bronze army before us exuded a suffocating sense of oppression.

The leading three-zhang-tall behemoth had menacing scales and armor, and its demonic power, at the peak of the Outer Qi Grandmaster realm, formed a substantial vortex that enveloped its entire body.

Following them were seven bronze demonic beasts, each with a different form and exuding the terrifying aura of an Outer Qi Grandmaster.

Behind these monstrous beasts were hundreds of bronze human figures, marching in perfect unison, their auras of inner energy realm forming a unified whole, causing the entire ancient hall to hum and vibrate.

"You do think highly of me, Mr. Lu."

Lu Xuan can guarantee this powerful lineup.

Anyone who steps into the Spirit Ruins today and faces this scene will be doomed.

"boom--"

The bronze behemoth with a rat's head and a bird's body was the first to attack, its three pairs of green-covered wings suddenly unfurling.

In an instant, the entire bronze corridor transformed into an extremely cold hell, with visible demonic energy condensing into countless icicles that made a teeth-grinding "crackling" sound in the air.

Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow and watched as the invisible air he exhaled solidified into ice, and the bronze ground beneath his feet also turned into a smooth ice surface.

Ahead, the bronze army has formed a battle formation and is charging forward.

The rat-headed monster's wings instantly unleashed two eerie green streams of demonic energy.

The seven bronze beast statues of outer energy simultaneously opened their blood-red maws and lunged at Lu Xuan.

The hundreds of bronze statues, all at the Inner Qi realm, hurled their chilling spears with all their might.

What a pity!

Lu Xuan raised the corners of his mouth slightly, chuckled softly, and his eyes shimmered with an incomparably mysterious purple light.

His slender index finger gently touched the void, the moment his fingertip made contact with the air.

“Buzz........”

In the void ahead, an invisible spatial ripple slowly spread out.

The passing of time seems to have lost its meaning at this moment.

In mid-air, the condensed ice crystals solidified into dazzling diamond dust, and the surging demonic energy transformed into still black silk.

And there were countless bronze spears, silently suspended in the air.

The ferocious attack posture of the rat-headed, bird-bodied monster, the sharp claws waving of the bronze beast statue, and even the sound waves vibrating in the air are all frozen into a bizarre three-dimensional picture.

"Disperse."

As Lu Xuan uttered these words, the ripples that had been frozen in the void began to spread again.

Whether it was the enormous body of the monster or the bronze statue behind it.

It begins to slowly disintegrate, not break apart, but directly turn into the most primitive dust and ash.

The process of annihilation was terrifyingly quiet; there were no screams, no struggles, as if an immortal had erased their existence with supreme power.

When the last grain of flesh and blood of that rat-headed, bird-bodied monster dissipated into dust, the hundreds of bronze statues behind it also vanished into nothingness, ultimately disappearing completely from the world.

Lu Xuan calmly withdrew his finger, and the celestial Dharma image within his body once again fell silent.

Host: Lu Xuan

Realm: True Lord of the Void (Minor Completion)

功法：焚天刀法9/9，咫尺天涯5/9，不死不灭7/9。

Score: 28000
After defeating this monster and the strange bronze statues behind it.

Without any hesitation, Lu Xuan immediately checked the system panel in his mind.

He wanted to verify the demonic beasts he had killed in this world.

Is it the same as in the Great Xia Dynasty, where you can obtain a large number of system points?

"Twenty thousand system points?"

"It's alright!"

Although this number of points is not much for Lu Xuan now, it at least confirms the judgment in Lu Xuan's mind.

In this world, you can also earn system points by killing these ghostly creatures.

At that moment, the entire corridor suddenly began to shake violently.

A kilometer away, the bronze floor emitted an eerie "thump, thump" sound.

Under Lu Xuan's gaze, a bronze altar engraved with patterns of heaven and earth broke through the ground, raising clouds of dust.

Above the bronze altar, a dark green ancient sword floated silently.

The blade was only three feet long, yet it exuded a chilling sense of oppression.

The green light flowing on the blade was not due to reflection, but rather a sinister ghost fire emanating from within.

Even more bizarrely, nine demonic eyes were embedded in the blade, slowly rotating as if scrutinizing Lu Xuan before him.

"It's a sacrificial vessel..."

"What immense power!"

Lu Xuan's pupils contracted slightly.

He moved with a swift movement, the space seemed to shrink as if folded, and in an instant he stood before the altar.

Suddenly, he heard the wails of countless wronged souls. The ancient sword seemed to be roaring silently, and countless pained faces appeared on its blade.

Lu Xuan suppressed the desire deep in his heart, sneered, and his terrifying divine sense instantly spread out, scanning every inch of the place.

He didn't want to be tricked, so it was always better to be cautious!

(End of this chapter)