A scarlet red color appeared on the land that was illuminated by the sun.
Xingfan clutched her shoulder and stared blankly at the dead Yue Bei. She suddenly turned around and roared, "Eternal Substance, Lu Yin! You used it! Despicable!"
On the seventh pillar, Lu Yin sneered, "Fine, I'll let you know why you died."
As soon as he finished speaking, the original consciousness on the Startled Sparrow Terrace attacked Xingfan. She stood in place and pushed her palms forward. This time, there was no Eternal Substance. She was Xingfan, the God of Defense of the Ninth Firmament Universe. How could she be defeated so easily?
Xingfan stood in place and swayed. She spat out a mouthful of blood and almost fell down.
Her face was pale as Lu Yin's voice sounded in her ears.
Kneel, kneel, kneel …
She couldn't control her body. Her consciousness and thoughts were all telling her to kneel, but she didn't have any thoughts of resisting. She really wanted to kneel.
She bent her legs and slowly knelt down. At the same time, she felt an inexplicable feeling of being penetrated. It was a karmic spiral that followed her consciousness.
Just as she was about to kneel, another figure walked out of the void and grabbed her arm to help her up.
Xingfan suddenly woke up and looked to the side in a daze. "Dan Hong?"
The person who appeared next to Xingfan was an ordinary-looking woman. She looked like an elder sister next door. She was dressed very plainly, but she was the one who supported Xingfan. She was Dan Hong's God of Defense.
Dan Hong looked down. "Mister Lu, you've passed."
On the seventh pillar, Lu Yin hadn't expected Dan Hong to come out instead of the Startled Gate's God of Defense.
Some people said that she had become the God of Defense because of her alchemy, and that she had contributed greatly to the Ninth Firmament Universe. Others said that she had unfathomable strength.
Now, Lu Yin was sure that she belonged to the latter category. She was even stronger than Xingfan.
"Even if Xingfan made a grave mistake, she shouldn't have knelt to you. Do you know what the consequences are?" Dan Hong's voice fell on the seventh pillar, stunning Gu Duanke and the others.
Kneel?
What had happened on the Startled Sparrow Terrace?
The God of Defense had been forced to kneel?
What had Lu Yin done?
Lu Yin was calm, but Xingfan was driven mad.
She came back to her senses and realized that she had almost knelt down. She had been forced to kneel in front of that lowly person from the universe. How preposterous! How preposterous! Her eyes turned red. "Lu Yin, you're courting death."
After he finished speaking, he suddenly rushed out of the Startling Sparrow Stage. His palms stirred up the wind and clouds, causing the sky to change color and the entire starry sky to tremble.
Lu Yin frowned and looked down. It wasn't just the Nine Firmaments Universe; at that moment, the spiritualized universe's sky was also shaking. She had provoked the spiritualized universe's sky, which was the world of spiritual threads.
Back then, Xingfan and Yue Ya had joined hands to fish for spirit transformations. Although Yue Ya had died, Xingfan could still use the spirit threads to control the world with his Heaven and Earth Phenomenon ability.
It seemed like a monster was breathing in the Continent of the Nine Clouds. Many people's hearts were pounding. They didn't understand what was going on.
Dan Mu shouted, "Xingfan, stop!"
Xingfan could not hear anything. She hated Lu Yin for suppressing her time and time again. She hated Lu Yin for actually daring to go against her will. He was clearly from a lowly universe, so why didn't he listen to the Defense of God's orders?
How could he dare to resist?
He shouldn't have resisted.
He had destroyed one of her clones in the Tian Suo Mountain Range, killed Yue Bei in front of her, and forced her to kneel. She had completely lost her mind.
Xingfan glared at the Seventh Night Pillar. "I want you dead. Lu Yin, you're dead."
"World of Spiritual Threads, Thousand Sails Celestial Mirror."
As soon as he finished speaking, mirrors appeared in the sky. In the sky and on the ground, countless people subconsciously looked at one of the mirrors. That mirror was them. They knew which mirror they represented. Why were they the mirrors?
Gu Duanke said solemnly, "The Thousand Sails Celestial Mirror uses one's cultivation as the mirror. The sky and earth are the sunlight. Everyone is a mirror. The refraction of the mirror's light condenses into a single point to form the Celestial Mirror. This is the convergence of the cultivation of countless creatures in the world, and it also contains the world of spiritual threads.
Jing Lian and Wei Heng were stunned. This was the battle prowess of a Defense God?
A Defense God was at the peak of the Ku Adversity Level, and they were disciples of a Defense God. They often saw Great Perfection Level cultivators, so they didn't pay much attention to Defense Gods. However, at this moment, their understanding was refreshed.
A Defense God was definitely different from an ordinary Great Perfection Level cultivator.
At this moment, Xingfan's strength surpassed their understanding of a Great Perfection Level cultivator. Even the leaders of the various great powers, those who had cultivated to the Great Perfection Level on their own, could not unleash such a terrifying attack.
Gu Duanke's eyelids twitched. A Defense God was definitely a Great Perfection Level cultivator, but that didn't necessarily mean that one could become a Defense God.
The more people understood the Continent of the Nine Clouds, the less they cared about the Defense God. Everybody thought that the Defense God was at the top of the Ku Adversity level, but only a few people knew that the Defense God's Ku Adversity level was different.
They stood at the peak of that level.
They were qualified to touch the Eternal Realm.
Yu Sang Tian, Yue Ya, and now, Xingfan were the strongest powerhouses he had ever encountered who had reached the peak of the Bitter Calamity Stage. Aside from them, Grandmaster Lan Ye, Lei Gong, Ku Ji, Swordmaster Taicang, and other powerhouses who had reached the peak of the Bitter Calamity Stage through their own cultivation were all slightly inferior. Perhaps only Gu Duanke could compare to them.
What was the Defense of Gods?
It was chosen by the Eternal Emperor to distinguish them from ordinary Great Perfection Level cultivators. How could an ordinary person imagine it?
But it was still not enough. Xingfan's power was still not enough. Lu Yin knew this, and so did Xingfan herself. Although she was furious, she had directly experienced how terrifying Lu Yin's power was. The power that had almost made her kneel had suffocated her. It was still not enough.
Xingfan's hair fluttered, and she took another step forward. Countless mirrors retreated. "Thousand Sails in front, Sky Mirror behind."
Sunlight pierced through Xingfan, making her look like a sun that illuminated the entire Nine Heavens Universe. It was so dazzling that it was difficult for cultivators to see clearly.
Xingfan's body changed constantly. The changes of the Nine Heavens were like a scripture.
The Thousand Sails Sky Mirror transformed for the second time. Sunlight surged and spread continuously, as if replacing the sky. A palm pressed down. Death.
Lu Yin looked up at the sky, facing the palm that was illuminated by the dazzling sunlight. "Now this is interesting."
After saying that, he raised his hand as well. Boundless power and Heaven Sealing Foundation particles flowed along his arm. An invisible air current appeared in his palm like a gentle breeze, dispersing with a single blow. However, it was this invisible air current that made Lu Yin want to test it out. Just now, he seemed to have undergone a metamorphosis. It was a metamorphosis that came from battle force in the Palm Realm.
Breaking through to the Primordial Realm had not resulted in a metamorphosis into battle force in the Palm Realm. However, when he had released the pressure and attacked the Sparrow Arena, the pressure and turbid air had been completely released. He had undergone a metamorphosis. It was a metamorphosis of both his mental state and his power.
He had many ways to deal with Xingfan, but right now, he wanted to try this one.
Dazzling sunlight fell from the sky, and Lu Yin reached out with a single palm.
Countless gazes watched as he did so.
The dazzling light pierced everyone's eyes, but it was only for an instant. In the next moment, the light was extinguished by Lu Yin, vanishing from his palm.
It was as if a flame had been extinguished. It had been so casual and easy.
Everyone who saw this was dumbfounded. They could not understand.
Not only them, but even Xingfan herself could not understand. She stared blankly below, her eyes unfocused.
The world returned to its original color, and the sky was still as blue and beautiful. There was no more dazzling sunlight, nor was there any trembling that shook the universe. Everything returned to normal, vanishing under a single palm.
Lu Yin stood high in the sky and looked at Xingfan. His gaze turned cold. "Get down here."
With a loud shout, an invisible force pressed Xingfan down to the ground. Xingfan was shocked, and only then did she react. An indescribable fear filled her entire body. Her world had been turned upside down, and she had been completely defeated. She had been defeated by Lu Yin, and she had been defeated so miserably that she did not even know how she had lost.
He was an Eternal Realm cultivator. He was definitely an Eternal Realm cultivator.
Xingfan screamed, "Startle Gate Lord, save me!"
On this day, many people cried for help from Lu Yin's massacre. The first five had all died, but a round pill appeared in front of Xingfan. It immediately exploded, releasing a terrifying pressure that caused the heavens to collapse and the earth to cave in as the pill fell towards the seventh pillar.
Lu Yin did not move, and Gu Duanke slashed upwards with his sword, cutting through the pressure and clearing up the world.
In the sky, Xingfan panted heavily. She was battered and exhausted, and there was still fear in her eyes.
In front of him, Dan Hou's God of Defense looked down at the seventh pillar and met Lu Yin's gaze.
Lu Yin looked at her calmly.
Gu Duanke frowned. "Dan Hou, you used a pill technique on my seventh pillar. That's too much."
Dan Hou's tone was calm. "Pill techniques cannot harm the seventh pillar. Mr. Lu, you went too far."
Lu Yin did not care. "Where did I go too far?"
This time, his anger had completely dissipated, and he had killed five lackeys. As for Xingfan, it was impossible to kill her. After all, she was a God of Defense.
Lu Yin thought that the Startle Gate Lord would stop him, but he did not expect that the Startle Gate Lord would not even appear.
Dan Hou's actions were to protect the God of Defense's reputation and also to give Lu Yin a way out.
If Lu Yin had really killed Xingfan, it would be difficult for him to establish himself in the Nine Heavens Universe unless he immediately broke through to the Eternal Realm.
In fact, his anger had already dissipated when Xingfan almost knelt down. It was Xingfan who had taken the initiative to attack.
Dan Hou looked at Lu Yin. "Ever since you entered the Nine Heavens, you have been unscrupulous. You destroyed the Spring and Autumn Scroll and the Cheng Clan. You interfered with the Four Lin Swords Gate, destroyed the structure of Cang Tian City, and affected the Nine Heavens Universe. You have crossed the line in these matters, and now you want to kill Xingfan. Do you want to become the enemy of the entire Nine Heavens Universe?"
Lu Yin said, "I heard that the God of Defense is respected. I used to believe it, but now it seems that it is no different from the Spring and Autumn Scroll."
Dan Hou shook her head. "The Spring and Autumn Scroll likes to kill people's hearts. Are you saying that I am doing the same?"
"What else?"
"You have broken through to the Primordial Realm, and your words are like the heavens and earth. From your words, I could tell that it was difficult for a child to bear the burden of his hometown and struggle to survive. You used tyranny to cover up your anxiety and threats to cover up your fear. At that time, I reported to the God of Defense that there was no point in reactivating Tian Yuan. One Lu Yin is worth ten Tian Yuan."
Lu Yin's expression changed as he stared at Dan Hou.
Dan Hou's eyes did not show any signs of backing down...