The True Lord has arrived

Chapter 314 A sword, a green lotus, arrives; two parts of Geng metal energy.
The moment Li Yuanying saw the white-haired old man, he was in a daze. Li Taibai entered a dream, gazing at that pure white immortal aura. After a moment's thought, although he didn't quite understand what had happened, he was very clear about what to do.

The sword energy was magnificent and flowing, the moves were not particularly fierce, but the artistic conception was free and unrestrained enough. In just an instant, it shattered that white, ethereal essence.

Yang Taizhen was slightly lost in thought. Li Pingyang held the seriously injured Li Zhiwei in his arms, looking at that familiar yet unfamiliar back, watching the surrounding mist swirl around like clouds from the heavens, and then came to the ground. The person was wearing a green robe, and his white hair was held up by a single wooden hairpin.

Aged, listless, and disheveled.

Arrogant, unrestrained, and capricious.

The two different temperaments blended together, creating the kind of person who, even when displaced and penniless, could lie on his side in front of a temple or Taoist monastery, laugh out loud at the sight of rain and the bright moon, and raise a glass in invitation.

Dreams, mist, celestial energy, essence, numerous methods, and countless techniques.

As the old man approached, Li Pingyang was overwhelmed by his unrestrained and elegant aura, as if he had descended from the heavens to the mortal realm. He stared blankly as the white-haired old man took a step to the side, revealing his wrinkled face.

The old man and the gentle-looking Li Pingyang exchanged glances.

Looking at his father's wrinkles and white hair, Li Pingyang felt a lump in his throat.

Looking at the man who was much older than his age, with complex emotions in his eyes—dazed, joyful, and sad—he noticed that his daughter seemed about to cry because of this long-awaited reunion, so he suppressed his own grief.

Shu Lang simply laughed heartily in response:
"...The little girl who cried and clung to her father's leg when she pushed open the door back then has grown up and become beautiful now, hahaha."

Li Pingyang pursed his lips, tears welling up in his eyes: "Father."

Li Yuanying stared intently at Li Taibai, gritting his teeth in resentment, and said, "Li Taibai... do you also want to be my enemy? We had a friendship back then, you should come and help me."

Li Taibai turned to look at Li Yuanying, tapped his fingers on the sword, and laughed heartily:

"How can I bow and scrape before the powerful and wealthy, thus losing my joy?"

“Your Highness Prince Teng, we had a friendship back then, but I have another reason. A father can stand in front of his daughter without needing any other reason.”

The sword in the man's hand glowed with a thin layer of white light. He stepped aside to block Li Pingyang and Li Zhiwei, and shouted loudly to Zhou Yan, who was galloping forward, "Little brother, the big brother is here. Leave this to me, hahaha, don't forget the wine for me."

"Go ahead and do whatever you want!"

Zhou Yan nodded and said loudly, "After things are over here, I'll treat you to a good drink, brother! I'll treat you to the best wine, and we won't leave until we're drunk."

Li Bai laughed heartily, "Good!"

His green robe billowed, sword energy surged, and a smile played in his sharp, unrestrained eyes as he turned to look at Li Pingyang, whose eyes were red-rimmed. He suppressed his earlier arrogance and said softly, "Throughout my life, I have been unrestrained and arrogant, and what I have done has left me with far too much to owe you and your mother..."

"I've been traveling a lot all this time and haven't had much time to spend with you."

"I will take good care of you this time."

Li Pingyang choked up. This usually gentle yet decisive girl was now in tears, her usual strength gone. Li Taibai said softly, "Watch closely, this is your father's sword intent and swordsmanship."

"Today, I will teach you everything."

"One day, you will be able to rely on this sword to roam freely across the land."

………………

Li Yuanying used the Dream Entering Technique to circulate his immortal essence, but it seemed that because of the presence of Li Pingyang and Li Taibai's swords, he accidentally attracted Li Taibai, who was currently at Tengwang Pavilion in Jiangnan West Road.

Zhou Yan had a sudden thought, wondering if he could also summon the two ancestors.

However, after trying, nothing happened. He couldn't help but sigh, thinking that perhaps Li Taibai's appearance here was not just due to Li Yuanying's magic, but also because of other demanding requirements.

Before he could think any further, Li Yuanying charged forward with his three-pointed double-edged sword. He used his magic and supernatural powers, drawing upon the power of the blessed land to create obstacles in front of him, but Zhou Yan wielded his weapon and slashed and chopped them away with overwhelming force.

Looking at the utterly unreasonable 'monster' and how it effortlessly broke through the formation, even Li Yuanying found it absurd—all these methods had their own profound principles; spells, supernatural powers, and barriers were all ways of using magical power, and breaking them was difficult.

But Zhou Yan seemed to ignore everything.

When the three-pointed double-edged sword in his hand was swung out, pure power and pure reason, mixed with the destructive power of the master of war, relied on the enlightened Dharma eye to see the weakness, directly tore through the divine power, annihilated the spell, and shattered the profound power.

With a thousand supernatural powers and ten thousand spells, he could only rely on sheer force to sweep everything aside.

Li Yuanying activated the first layer of the formation.

Zhou Yan held the three-pointed double-edged sword in both hands.

The weapons whistled, and wisps of primordial energy rose and gathered behind them, transforming into the divine forms of Dharma images. They also grasped their weapons and launched their attacks in unison. As a result, all magic was severed, and the mysterious array that had been set up for hundreds of years was brutally destroyed!

A crisp cracking sound.

Like thin ice in spring, pick it up and smash it on the ground.

The ripples of the exploded magical fragments spread out, blurring the surrounding energy and making the passage of time seem to slow down. Li Yuanying could even see the shattered array turning into ripples of energy, see Zhou Yan with his cold gaze, and see the three-pointed double-edged sword that was tearing apart all laws.

Li Yuanying's face tightened, his teeth clenched, and resentment welled up in his eyes.

He raised his palm, attempting to manipulate the formation.

A golden light exploded, and Li Yuanying felt a pain in his right hand. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw an ancient sword, wrapped in extremely pure Geng metal evil energy, coming from the sky. It saw the moment the formation was broken and pierced through the formation node and Li Yuanying's hand with one sword.

The Golden Heavenly King, with his sharp and cold features, had escaped the dream state after Li Taibai appeared and restrained the pure white celestial essence. A surge of anger rose within him, along with a calm composure beneath that anger—

To obtain this rare and precious celestial essence, one must kill its previous owner, Li Yuanying, and restore the celestial essence to its pure state.

Jin Tianwang was like a ferocious beast roaming the world, driven by his desire to become stronger. At this moment, his goal overlapped with Zhou Yan's—to eliminate Li Yuanying.

No matter how disheveled Li Yuanying was, this was still the Tengwang Pavilion.

This place remains the blessed land where Li Yuanying holds the vast majority of power.

King Jin clearly distinguishes between them.

Even though the power Li Yuanying possesses here does not belong to him and requires various rituals and preparations to use, once used, its power will be considerable.

When faced with such a "weak" opponent, one must suppress them with overwhelming force!

boom! ! !
Jin Tianwang landed, gripped his longsword, and his gaze sharpened.

Zhou Yan held the three-pointed double-edged sword with both hands.

Almost simultaneously, they slashed at their most pressing opponent. At the moment of their attack, their eyes met, and they made no attempt to conceal their killing intent and malice toward each other.

Just like before, ripples spread out in front of Li Yuanying, representing the characteristics similar to the "Royal Way" that were born after the fusion of the "Humanity's Fortune," the "Li Tang Imperial Family," and the power controlled by the Langyuan Immortal Realm.

Li Yuanying barely managed to block the attack, but then he saw Zhou Yan and Jin Tianwang attack simultaneously, severing and destroying the formation he intended to use to destroy everything.

Li Yuanying retreated in a sorry state, failing once again. In a daze, he was transported back to his childhood. Those scenes, his father's malice, and the way the people around him looked at him like he was a wild beast or a bastard, pierced Li Yuanying, who was more than a hundred years later, like countless needles.

His eyes, which seemed to be about to give up, suddenly exploded with madness and intense resentment.

Those phoenix eyes looked at him and said, 'You're not ruthless enough to yourself!'

It was clearly Li Zhiwei who said it, but in Li Yuanying's memory at this moment, it seemed to be mixed with another man with phoenix eyes and a face like the sun and the heavens. Li Yuanying roared in a low voice, as if he was rebelling against something he was born with, and that man.

what……

It's truly pathetic.

From beginning to end, from birth to death, and now to the struggle to live, is it all to prove oneself, to break free from the shadow of the sun?
Li Yuanying had clearly seen all his sorrow, but even this sorrow was the reason he was who he was. Despite this desolation, his anger and resentment had not faded in the slightest.

He seemed to be answering his god-like second brother.

"Then I'll show you how ruthless I can be!"

Suddenly, the Tengwang Pavilion lit up, and then golden flames ignited, instantly engulfing the magnificent pavilion. Li Yuanying's eyes were bloodshot, yet he felt a sense of exhilaration.

"Come, sacrifice this body, burn away the legends, and shatter the Dharma realm!"

"I want you all to be buried here with me!"

The Tengwang Pavilion, a structure resembling a Dharma realm, has begun to collapse.
They reversed their control over the blessed land and grotto-heavens, in exchange for the power to ascend in an instant.

Second layer of formation activated!
An extremely complex formation appeared in the void.

The Tengwang Pavilion trembled amidst the flames. Zhou Yan and the others felt the colossal structure beneath their feet, the magnificent pavilion shaking. Li Yuanying, the [Residual Immortal], pressed one hand to the ground, intending to fight with all his might to 'reconcile' with his past and respond.

At this moment, Zhou Yan stepped forward without hesitation and grasped the three-pointed double-edged sword with one hand.

boom! ! !
Golden primordial energy forms the Dharma image behind him.

The power of the Dharma image was bestowed upon this three-pointed, double-edged sword.

Gathering its strength, it suddenly hurled itself forward, the three-pointed double-edged sword emitting a golden light, like a pillar of light, crashing heavily into the massive formation. Golden humanistic energy entered and forcefully blocked the formation, which was on the verge of mutual destruction.

Interrupt the spellcasting!

"I'm not going to watch you get away with this!"

The second layer of the formation intercepted the evil dream-entering formation that had been prepared for hundreds of years, forcing it to surface. The nodes and core of each formation were revealed—this was the great formation that enveloped the 300,000 people of Langzhong.

It is also the cornerstone for the goals pursued by the descendants of Gonggong, Shi, and Li Yuanying.

Top-tier formations incorporate all things in heaven and earth, concealing their nodes and core in inconspicuous places to remain hidden within the vast universe; now that many nodes and the core of this formation have been exposed, the formation is 90% broken.

Then, simply destroy each node one by one, and the formation will break on its own.

There's not enough time, we need to hurry!

Zhou Yan could already hear the surging waves, the feeling of the giant object moving like an earthquake or tsunami, and its deep, dragon-like roar.

They've finally pushed things to this point through a lot of back and forth.

Zhou Yan raised his hand to recall his weapon, and used the three-pointed double-edged sword to break through the formation.

The three-pointed, double-edged sword slashed down, striking the node.

However, it failed to break that node. Instead, a tremendous counterforce shook Zhou Yan's hands and made his tiger's mouth go numb. This great formation was designed to break the formation with the formation itself, thus breaking the seal that King Yu and Queen Nujiao of Qingqiu had placed on the ancient dragon turtle.

The elder brother of the ancient dragon turtle, whose limbs can support the heavens and the earth.

Although the dragon turtle was not as powerful as its elder brother, its strength was still undeniably formidable. By extension, the seal that could contain this ancient dragon turtle must be extraordinary, especially considering Yu the Great's ancient aesthetic style of "large, heavy, and beautiful."

Both the seal and the array used to break it must be robust enough.

Zhou Yan made a judgment the instant he was struck by the recoil, gripped the three-pointed double-edged sword tightly, his eyes wide with rage. Golden flowing light and baleful energy entwined around the three-pointed double-edged sword, which was made using the innate Geng metal energy.

The most powerful innate energy to break through spells and defenses.

Zhou Yan spun around and cleaved through a node of the evil formation, shattering it. After the node broke, wisps of dream energy dispersed, extremely pure, radiating the mysterious light of a divine soul-type rare treasure.

Zhou Yan swept his sleeve, enveloping the power of the dream and storing it inside.

The movements never stopped; the parts were constantly being disassembled.

Zhou Yan felt a growing anxiety.

The array had a great many nodes, a total of 365, yet it was extremely sturdy and solid. Zhou Yan saw that Li Taibai was protecting the people over there, while Wang Boze struggled to get up, as if he had just barely escaped from the dream.

In this dream, the heavier one's inner demons and the more flaws one has, the more susceptible one is to being affected, the deeper one sinks, and the more one is influenced.

It seems unlikely that Zhou Yan can completely break this formation by relying solely on his innate Geng metal energy. Even after paying a heavy price and making continuous attempts to break through, having already penetrated Langzhong's secrets to the core nodes of this great formation, will he still fail?
The roar of the ancient dragon turtle echoed in my ears.

No, we absolutely cannot stop here!
Faced with this desperate situation, where hope seemed to be just one step away yet separated by an insurmountable gap, Zhou Yan's eyes blazed with extreme unwillingness and almost frantic drive. He activated his Dharma Form and, disregarding the depletion of his magical power, swiftly unleashed a flurry of attacks.

At the same time, the incredibly crisp sound of breaking the formation also rang out from the other side.

The innate Geng metal energy, which was so pure that it even surpassed Zhou Yan's in purity, cleaved down, creating ripples that spread outwards. The nodes of the formation were shattered. The ancient sword was sharp, but the arrogance of the swordsman was even greater. The Golden Heavenly King's sword slashed and cut off all the nodes, shattering them.

Zhou Yan and Jin Tianwang stared at each other, two people who wished they could stab each other to death.

At this moment, they were not only facing Langzhong, nor just Li Yuanying, but a conspiracy spanning hundreds of years, a shadow dating back thousands or even tens of thousands of years. Zhou Yan's three-pointed, double-edged sword broke through the formation, his tone icy:
"I never expected you would make a move."

The Golden King's voice was almost icy cold: "The strong roam the hunting grounds, while the weak are merely prey to be hunted. But I do not intend to let this hunting ground be destroyed by the despicable schemes of a group of weaklings."

Zhou Yan broke through the formation and said, "Let me guess."

"Is it true that without the weak, the strong would also lose their meaning of existence?"

King Jin sneered:
"Even a tiger will go hungry if there is no prey in the hunting grounds."

"I am not breaking the formation, but rather protecting the cattle and sheep that people raise; people also eat cattle and sheep, but when a pack of wolves comes to devour them, they will also take up weapons and kill those wolves. It's nothing more than that."

"Humph!"

"Zhou Yan, your life is in your own hands for now."

"Each each other."

The two streams of malevolent energy piled up one after another, instantly destroying 359 array nodes.

This formation is about to be completely destroyed!

However, at the final node of the formation, which was also the core of the formation, a figure appeared that Zhou Yan had never expected, causing a momentary ripple to appear on his face.

"what?!"

(End of this chapter)