The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 1118

Chapter 1118: Chapter 1115: The Tree is Destroyed Chapter 1118: Chapter 1115: The Tree is Destroyed Outside the Valley, Ming Yue still sat cross-legged, appearing not to have moved a step these past several days.

Not long after Shen Luo entered the Sun and Moon Hall, he suddenly received a strict order from Jieyin Daoist to closely monitor Shen Luo and to report immediately if there were any changes.

At this moment, a surge of malevolent Qi suddenly emanated from within the Sun and Moon Hall, causing Ming Yue's entire body to bristle and his heart to shiver in alarm.

“What's going on?” He suddenly opened his eyes, and with a flip of his hand, he retrieved a jade pendant inscribed with dense runes, looking like a communication artifact, and was about to activate it with an incantation.

However, the fluctuation of malevolent Qi that had emitted from the Sun and Moon Hall suddenly disappeared as if it had never existed.

Ming Yue stood there, dumbfounded, he spread out his Divine Sense to carefully probe the Qi inside the hall, but he sensed nothing.

“Could I have sensed it wrong just now?” Ming Yue thought to himself. He once again expanded his Divine Sense to probe the Sun and Moon Hall, but still, he detected nothing.

Looking at the jade pendant in his hand, he shook his head and put it away.

The Qi from just now, he himself wasn't confident about its existence, naturally, he could not report it to Jieyin Daoist. Moreover, even if it was real, it was not a big deal, Shen Luo was refining treasures inside the Sun and Moon Hall, and it was possible that the surge of malevolent Qi had come from the aura of a treasure.

Inside the Sun and Moon Hall, Shen Luo had an expression of agony on his face.

A black silhouette stood not far from him, swiftly forming incantations with both hands and activating a white formation flag. The surrounding Liangyi Micro-dust Array stabilized once again, blocking all the malevolent Qi.

That black silhouette was none other than Ghost General.

“Continue… exert full strength on the Array… do not let the malevolent Qi spread outside…” Shen Luo said with difficulty.

“Master, rest assured, I will do my utmost,” Ghost General hastily said, a flash of fear in his eyes as he looked towards Shen Luo.

Shen Luo nodded then immediately closed his eyes, exerting his full power to activate the Slayer's Broken Sword and Pure Yang Sword to counter the Demonic Qi.

Time ticked away slowly, a full quarter of an hour passed before the malevolent Qi around him gradually receded.

And by the time Shen Luo fully recovered, an hour had already passed.

“Master, are you alright?” Ghost General flew over, asking with concern.

“It's no longer a hindrance,” Shen Luo opened his eyes and said flatly.

“That's a relief,” Ghost General sighed.

They were currently inside Wuzhuang View. Should anything befall Shen Luo, he, a ghost entity, would definitely not meet a good fate.

“Master, this place is so hot, it's quite detrimental to my ghost body. Let me hide inside the Qiankun Bag,” Ghost General said, looking towards the Sun, Moon, and Stars Furnace and those Earth Heart Sacred Fires, a pained expression on his face.

Shen Luo nodded, waved his hand to collect Ghost General into the Qiankun Bag, then closed his eyes to contemplate the matter of the Demonic Qi.

The outbursts of Demonic Qi seemed to be getting more severe each time, but fortunately, he had the Slayer's Broken Sword to suppress it for now.

The best strategy was to rapidly increase his cultivation level, on one hand, to reach the True Immortal Stage as soon as possible to attract Thunder and Lightning for body tempering; on the other hand, the higher his cultivation level, the more Pure Yang Power he could draw from the Slayer's Broken Sword.

He also needed to find more Pure Yang artifacts. For instance, the Pure Yang Sword had been of great help in suppressing the Demonic Qi this time.

“The first outbreak of Demonic Qi was due to the influence of the Jiuli Devil Armor, the second was because of Yuan Tiangang's investigation, but there was no external trigger for the third outbreak. Why did the Demonic Qi erupt suddenly?” Shen Luo pondered the reasons behind the Demonic Qi outbreaks.

This time the Demonic Qi acted up, and he could be certain that there was no external object triggering it. Given that, the problem must be with himself.

“Is it because I've been refining treasures for several days straight, depleting too much mana and Soul Power?” Shen Luo thought of a possible reason, and the more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

This sort of thing wasn't unheard of; even if a mortal had a serious illness within their body, overexertion could easily trigger an outbreak.

“It seems I must be even more careful in the future,” warned Shen Luo to himself.

He then closed his eyes, activated Divine Wood Grace, and checked the status of his vital energy, his expression darkening.

Sure enough, as he had predicted, his vital energy had been tainted by a good amount of Demonic Qi.

Shen Luo activated Divine Wood Grace and began to refine the Demonic Qi within his vital energy.

This time, a larger amount of his vital energy had been tainted by Demonic Qi, and the refining process took quite a long time, not stopping until a full day and night had passed.

Although most of the Demonic Qi had been refined and expelled, the black-red evil aura within his vital energy had increased yet again.

Vital energy is fundamental to life; the slightest issue is a matter of grave concern.

Shen Luo's face was gloomy, but for the moment, he couldn't think of a better solution. The only thing he could do was to be more cautious in his future actions to prevent another outbreak of Demonic Qi.

He sighed, got up to collect the array tools in the hall, and turned to leave.

With a “boom,” the doors of the Sun and Moon Hall suddenly swung open, and an invisible, overwhelming force came crashing like a tidal wave.

Shen Luo was taken aback, his feet shining with the Moonlight Glamour as he swiftly retreated. But the force was faster and caught up to him in the blink of an eye.

However, he was not panicked as he quickly activated a sword technique.

A Crimson Sword Aura several zhang long shot out from his hand–it was the Pure Yang Sword–slashing across the air in front of him.

The oncoming tidal force was immediately cleaved in two, narrowly missing his body and flying past him to crash into the ground of the Sun and Moon Hall.

The Sun-Moon Qiankun Array on the ground shone with a red light, effortlessly shattering the two forces and remaining undamaged.

Only then did Shen Luo have the spare time to look outside, frowning.

He saw two middle-aged men standing outside, both elders from the Wuzhuang view he had encountered at the Hundred Fruit Immortal Feast.

One elder held a blue longsword, and the other wielded a Mountain Chopping Axe taller than a man. It was the latter who had just launched the attack.

“Shen Luo, our Wuzhuang View has treated you graciously, and yet you have repeatedly stolen our Ginseng Fruits and even outrageously destroyed the fruit tree. This time, I will not spare you, hand over your life!” the elder wielding the Mountain Chopping Axe roared with rage, launching the axe which instantly appeared above Shen Luo's head, rapidly increasing in size and slashing down like a mountain cleaving into the sea.

“Elder Qin Shan, what are you talking about? The Ginseng fruit tree has been destroyed? What happened?” Shen Luo was startled by these words and dodged the strike.

At the previous Hundred Fruit Immortal Feast, he had learned the names of these two elders. This man was Qin Shan, and the other who was manipulating the blue flying sword was surnamed Li, named He.

“Shen Luo, since you dared to commit such deeds, why don't you dare to admit it?” Elder Li He also attacked, his blue flying sword striking like lightning, illusioning trails of misty rain sword shadows that enveloped Shen Luo's body.

“The Smoky Rain Sword Technique!” Shen Luo recognized the sword technique being used–it was the famous Smoky Rain Sword Technique of Wuzhuang View.

This sword technique was like smoke and rain, with illusions mixing with reality, confounding the eyes and unfathomable. It seemed like every move was a feint, but once an opponent revealed a weakness, the illusory sword shadows would immediately solidify, killing decisively. Numerous monks had been confused by these illusions, dying under the Smoky Rain Sword Technique without understanding how.