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

Chapter 424 S-Rank Crimson Monster! The Fifth Guard!
"Sir, yes, that's it..."

As soon as Grandpa Feng finished speaking, he felt a gentle starlight envelop him, and his whole body floated like a feather towards the hillside several miles away.

The moment they landed, the world suddenly changed color.

Endless purple starlight surged forth from Lu Xuan's body, staining the entire world.

Purple light shone through the cracks in the earth, and the thick clouds were edged with a magnificent glow.

Amidst this magnificent divine power, a pair of colossal starry eyes covering the sky slowly opened, indifferently gazing down at the tiny beings below.

The crimson monsters guarding the giant red egg were immediately thrown into panic.

The ten-horned deer was the first to sense the danger, its ten twisted antlers bursting forth with a blinding red light in an attempt to resist the omnipresent purple glow.

However, its struggles only slowed down the process of annihilation—the antlers began to turn into specks of light and dust from the tips, followed by the head, the torso, and finally the entire massive body collapsed and dissipated like a sandcastle.

The strange bird in the sky let out a mournful cry, frantically flapping its bone wings covered in scales, trying to escape the airspace shrouded in deep purple light.

But every scale peeled away in the purple starlight, every bone disintegrated in the breeze, like a moth drawn into a raging fire, turning into a wisp of smoke in the brilliant purple light.

The mutated earthworms underground were violently writhing their bodies, which were over two meters in diameter, trying to burrow deeper into the soil.

But even the underground where it hid had been permeated by the purple starlight. With the hissing sound of the evaporating slime, the enormous creature rapidly dissolved, leaving not a trace.

The most ferocious saw-toothed cat-like monster roared to the sky, its mouthful of fangs snapping wildly at the invisible starlight, its claws tearing through the air with a piercing sound.

But all its resistance was in vain—its sharp claws vanished first, followed by its ferocious head, and finally its entire body turned into scattered specks of light.

Hundreds of low-level monsters on the periphery didn't even have time to waile before they evaporated in the all-purifying starlight.

Their distorted forms twisted and faded in the purple light, eventually returning to nothingness.

The entire annihilation process was breathtakingly quiet.

At this moment, the giant red egg trembled violently amidst the purple glow, its surface vein-like patterns pulsating wildly and radiating a dazzling blood-red light, forming a red domain within a radius of a hundred meters that rivaled the purple starlight.

"Click——"

With a teeth-grinding cracking sound, countless cracks suddenly appeared on the surface of the giant red egg, and viscous red liquid gushed out like a burst dam.

Wherever these liquids passed, the earth hissed and corroded, and even the rocks melted away rapidly.

Grandpa Feng, who had been taken by Lu Xuan to a distant hillside, gasped as he watched the crimson torrent finally stop just three meters away from him.

The murky liquid was still bubbling, and the pungent smell made Grandpa Feng almost vomit.

"Boom!"

The enormous eggshell shattered completely, and fragments fell to the ground, kicking up clouds of dust.

In the midst of this chaos, a giant, scarlet hand covered in sharp bone spurs suddenly shot out, its five fingers digging deep into the ground like blades.

Each finger is three meters long, with barbed bone spurs growing at the joints, and the back of the hand is covered with constantly writhing flesh and blood.

With just a light press, the earth around them trembled violently once again.

Immediately afterwards, a giant leg, as if carved from red crystal, stepped out of the eggshell. It resembled a bull's hoof but was even more ferocious, with a ring of sharp spikes surrounding the hoof.

When the crimson monster fully materialized, Old Master Feng almost stopped breathing—

It stands up to be 300 meters tall, its head covered with a dense array of twisted horns, its four crimson eyes like burning embers, and its wide-open mouth filled with dagger-like teeth.

Its entire body was covered in bone armor made of shimmering rubies, with terrifying bone spurs growing from its joints, making it look like a bull-shaped monster crawling out of the abyss of hell.

The next moment, the crimson monster roared to the sky, and the sound waves turned into tangible shockwaves that spread in all directions. Even Grandpa Feng, who was far away on the hillside, had to cover his ears.

The moment the terrifying bull-shaped monster fully appeared, its four crimson eyes instantly locked onto Lu Xuan in mid-air.

As the enormous mouth, filled with sharp teeth, opened and closed, it uttered a low, hoarse human voice: "Damn human, you ate me!"

Grandpa Feng listened from afar and felt a chill run down his spine—this monster was not only terrifyingly large, but it could also speak human language.

Having lived most of his life, this was the first time he had ever seen a talking crimson monster.

No one knows whether this is a language it learned through observation, or a fragment extracted from the memories of the humans it devoured.

The red bull demon's crimson eyes were fixed on Lu Xuan, and its front hooves slammed heavily on the ground, causing the entire plain to tremble.

Its body shone brightly with red light, and powerful energy fluctuations began to gather on its bone spurs, clearly indicating that it was about to launch a thunderous attack.

"boom--!!!"

Dozens of scarlet beams shot into the sky, instantly tearing through the clouds and carrying with them shattered wisps of cloud, like blood-red dragons hurtling straight toward Lu Xuan.

Wherever it passed, space distorted, gales howled, and the entire world paled in comparison to its terrifying power.

The crimson and deep purple lights collided violently in the air, unleashing a deafening roar.

The energy shockwave spread outwards from the point of impact, lowering the ground by three feet.

The colors of red and purple intertwined and tore at each other in the air, sometimes shining brightly with purple light, sometimes bursting with blood-red light, becoming the only color in this world.

Even though Grandpa Feng was several miles away on the hillside, he was still so shocked by the devastating scene that he kept backing away.

The flying sand and stones rushed towards him, and he had to bend down and grab onto a rock on the ground to barely avoid being thrown away by the terrifying shockwave.

Without a doubt, the red bull demon in front of us is a Star Domain Realm being, which is equivalent to an S-class crimson monster as defined by humans.

Lu Xuan's lips curled up slightly, forming a meaningful arc.

He originally thought that the rules and restrictions of this world prevented the S-class Crimson Monster from truly descending.

Unexpectedly, while humanity has been holed up in safe zones for years, the outside world has undergone tremendous changes.

"How ironic," Lu Xuan muttered to himself.

Those high and mighty people in the Sun and Moon Empire are still immersed in the false peace of the safe zone, completely unaware of how dangerous the outside world has become.

This place is only a few thousand kilometers away from the Ninth Safe Zone, and an S-class Crimson Monster has already appeared. So, in the more distant depths of the wasteland, are there even more terrifying beings awakening?

Thinking of this, the purple light in Lu Xuan's eyes shone even brighter.

Excellent, this way I can recklessly harvest system points.

At this moment, a look of bewilderment and astonishment appeared in the four giant eyes of the red bull demon.

A storm raged within its previously raging consciousness—this human was far stronger than anyone could imagine!
What frustrated the Red Bull Demon even more was that, due to being forced to hatch prematurely, the incubation process was abruptly interrupted, and its strength was now reduced by a full third.

The thought that "I'm probably the weakest Star Domain Realm cultivator in history" uncontrollably surfaced in its chaotic mind. Gazing at the figure shrouded in purple light in the sky, the red bull demon felt for the first time the urge to turn and flee.

Unfortunately, it never had another chance.

Lu Xuan's eyes emitted a deep purple light, and starlight began to swirl around him.

A vast purple starry sky unfolded behind him, seemingly transcending the boundaries of time and space, enveloping the entire world within it.

Above the sky, the giant eyes of the stars that have gazed upon eternity opened once more, bursting forth with a dazzling light that eclipsed the sun and moon.

In this sacred purple glow, the red bull demon was horrified to discover that even lifting a finger had become incredibly difficult.

It could only roar deafeningly to the sky once more, and for the first time, terror showed in its four blood-red eyes.

The omnipresent power of the starry sky around it acted like invisible shackles, suppressing its massive body, which was hundreds of meters tall.

Seeing this, the red bull demon could only struggle desperately, and the ground beneath its feet continued to collapse, forcing the originally surging torrent of blood to flow back into the cracks in the ground.

"what!!!!"

Under increasing pressure, the red bull demon's four blood-red eyes began to contract violently, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the crystalline protective layer on its surface.

Its powerful muscles burst uncontrollably, and dark red blood poured down like a torrential rain, staining the surrounding earth a strange scarlet.

This newly born crimson monster of the Star Domain Realm was like an ant held in the palm of a hand, making even breathing extremely difficult.

The red bull demon felt every inch of its flesh and blood howling and every bone groaning, as if it would completely disintegrate under the boundless power of the starry sky in the next second.

In an instant, it was powerless to resist the power of the starry sky that permeated the heavens and earth.

Under the crushing weight of the deep purple starlight, the ferocious head of the red bull demon was the first to burst open, its incredibly sturdy horns breaking off inch by inch, and then turning into dust in mid-air.

Its massive body was gradually disintegrated by the power of the purple starlight, and the dark red blood within its body poured down, eventually flowing into the bottomless cracks in the earth.

On a distant hillside, Old Master Feng stared in disbelief as the blood-red torrent beneath his feet receded rapidly, revealing the earth stained crimson.

The once ferocious, hundreds-of-meters-tall behemoth has now turned into a ground covered in shimmering powder, its surface glowing eerily under the purple starlight.

"This power," the old man murmured to himself, his wrinkled face filled with shock. "I'm afraid only the Empire's doomsday weapon could cause such destruction."

Lu Xuan scanned the entire wasteland with his divine sense, and after confirming that there was no longer any trace of the crimson monster, his figure transformed into a dazzling purple starlight and disappeared into the sky in an instant.

Grandpa Feng gazed at the receding streak of light, his eyes filled with awe and gratitude.

Not long after, he hurriedly took out an old communicator from his pocket and excitedly pressed the call button.

"Send someone to pick me up immediately! My coordinates are XXX east longitude, XXX north latitude."

He paused, his voice trembling slightly, and then spoke with great excitement.

"And I have some incredibly good news to tell you!"

Host: Lu Xuan, the Immortal of the Mortal World (Sixth Incarnation)

Realm: Star Domain Realm (Minor Success)
Technique: Zhou Tian Xing Mou (8/9) (Can be deduced)
Score: 1080001
Please confirm whether you wish to consume 30 system points to deduce the Zhou Tian Xing Mou.

The system notification that appeared in his field of vision clearly recorded the gains of this hunt—the annihilation of an S-rank crimson monster earned Lu Xuan a full 100 million system points!

"Deduction."

Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Xuan immediately confirmed.

The 30 system points evaporated instantly, transforming into a mighty torrent of insights that surged into the sea of ​​consciousness.

Time flies, and half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

More than a hundred kilometers outside the Fifth Security Zone, a purple bolt of lightning tore through the sky and eventually solidified into a figure, hovering silently above the plain.

Host: Lu Xuan, the Immortal of the Mortal World (Sixth Incarnation)

Realm: Star Domain Realm (Great Completion)
Technique: Zhou Tian Xing Mou (9/9)

Score: 780001
Smoke filled the plains as two women dressed in sun and moon battle robes led ten men in red military uniforms, commanding an elite force of over a thousand men to suppress enemy fire.

Before them, countless crimson monsters resembling pangolins were pouring out of the abyss.

These crimson monsters had jet-black carapaces on their backs, heads covered with sharp fangs, and their scarlet eyes flashing with a mad light.

They surged in like an endless tide, and despite the army's dense firepower, they were unable to stop this terrifying torrent.

"Commander, someone is approaching from the air!" The beautiful adjutant suddenly looked up, revealing a delicate and pretty face.

She was in her early thirties, and her glamorous battle robes could not conceal her graceful curves. Her long, slender legs, encased in white stockings, were particularly eye-catching.

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged female leader turned around. When she saw the newcomer's face, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes: "Lu Xuan, the deputy leader of the Ninth Guard Regiment? What's he doing here?"

"Oh? It was him."

The female adjutant with fiery red lips unconsciously pursed her lips, her long, wine-red hair swaying gently in the wind.

She looked up at the figure in the air, a hint of surprise flashing in her beautiful eyes.

"Why would the Ninth Guard Regiment leave their own defense zone and come to the territory of our Fifth Guard Regiment?"

The name Lu Xuan was renowned throughout the entire Sun Moon Empire.

At only forty years old, he had already stepped into the Star Domain Realm and was hailed as a super genius most likely to break through to the Star Domain Realm before the age of fifty.

Such achievements are beyond the reach of countless peers.

Thinking of this, the female adjutant unconsciously clenched her fists.

Considering that he had only broken through to the Blazing Sun Realm at the age of thirty-four less than two years ago, it would be a miracle if he could reach the threshold of the minor completion of the Blazing Sun Realm at the age of forty.

This gap was like an insurmountable chasm, making her feel a sense of resentment in addition to admiration.

As combat guards of the Sun and Moon Imperial Court, the Fifth Guard Regiment was originally on par with the Ninth Guard Regiment in terms of strength, and they were evenly matched in various evaluations.

Until Lu Xuan suddenly appeared—with his cultivation at the peak of the Blazing Sun Realm, he was parachuted into the position of deputy commander of the Ninth Guard Regiment, which abruptly broke the balance between the two Guard Regiments.

What's most frustrating is that this appointment was approved by everyone in the empire.

Faced with absolute strength, any doubts seem pale and powerless.

After all, a powerful expert who has one foot in the Star Domain Realm is more than qualified to serve as the captain of the Guard Corps, let alone the position of vice captain.

(End of this chapter)