"Let go of this king!"
"What do you want to do!"
The feeble cries echoed across the empty square.
Lu Chenzhou dragged the little Inspiration King and brought him to the edge of the Dragon-locking Well.
The little Demon King’s face changed dramatically: "Dragon-locking Well?! You want to imprison this king!"
"What do you mean by imprisonment? This is called ’full board and lodging’ from nine to five!" Lu Chenzhou tossed the little Inspiration King into the well.
"You won’t die a good death. This king’s father is the Inspiration Demon King, and my grandfather is the Spiritual Eye Demon Emperor. You’ll wait and see, you are doomed. If I die, they’ll immediately sense it. A single Cloud Piercing Arrow will bring thousands of troops to flatten this broken cave of yours!" The little Inspiration King cursed, as six Heaven-reaching patterns twisted together.
Crash—the chain coiled like a snake, binding the little Inspiration King, piercing into the scapula, the pelvis, and the brow, accurately avoiding the vital points to ensure "confused but not brain-damaged." The ancient and mysterious array, dormant for countless years, began to operate again as the intricate tadpole script lit up, shooting to the sky.
Crackle—golden electric snakes began to appear as void phantoms in the long-dry Thunder Pool.
"Finally, it’s starting." Looking at the automatically operating array, Lu Chenzhou breathed a sigh of relief.
In extreme pain, the little Inspiration King briefly fainted.
When he awoke, he saw Lu Chenzhou’s large face.
"What have you done?"
"Don’t worry, I’ll feed you well... Once I reach Grandmaster, I’ll let your father come and reunite with you."
Lu Chenzhou tapped the little Inspiration King’s head with the tip of a spear, took away a trident and a storage bag, and turned to leave.
"I’ll fight you to the death, together we’ll die!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Chenzhou turned around.
After three breaths of silence, the little Inspiration King was horrified to realize he couldn’t even commit suicide...
"This is a Sixth Rank array, just stay put. Here you’ll have food and drink; it’s your fortune."
Speaking, Lu Chenzhou threw the corpse of a freshly killed Inspiration Fish Demon to the little Inspiration King.
The little Inspiration King was so furious he fainted again.
Lu Chenzhou’s figure gradually appeared, as he shook off the charred skin from his body, revealing burned flesh beneath.
"Golden Light Thunder is indeed formidable, though I can control thunder myself and have some resistance, both inner and outer cultivation suffered this much damage; any average master would surely die upon touching it."
The ensuing Ghost Tiger Domineering Body cultivation would become increasingly painful.
By Lake Taihu, the little Inspiration King was abducted, and a Fish Demon Leader of Late Stage Third Realm power roared angrily: "What have you done with the young master?"
Lu Chenzhou stood on the city wall, smiling: "Tell the Inspiration Demon King to keep the demon head on its neck well reserved for me. I’ll take it later."
The Fish Demon Leader laughed in extreme anger: "Arrogant! Simply arrogant, a waste not even on the Earth List, yet dares to utter such madness..."
Whoosh! Before the leader could finish speaking, he felt a sharp gray sword Qi flash by.
The next moment, his head exploded, and his headless body sank into the lake.
The other Fish Demon Leaders of the Third Realm were shocked, abandoning armor and fleeing, diving into the lake, disappearing without a trace.
The crisis at the base was resolved, Shentu Youshan clasped his hands in gratitude: "Many thanks to Lantern Master Lu."
Lu Chenzhou returned the gesture: "You’ve been through a lot too."
Shentu Youshan was busy with military matters, occasionally dining with Leopard Woman, while his daughter constantly praised Lu Chenzhou, practically idolizing him.
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Watching his classmates continually rise against the odds seemed indeed moving, as they now soared and became living legends.
Back then, the genius class 1 students had also witnessed the "youth phase" of a legend.
In the future, when Lu Chenzhou ascends to Absolute Peak, he will surely become a lifelong topic.
On the way back, Ye Zhiqiu and Zhou Ruoxue were equally astonished.
"Brother Lu, the sword Qi just now... what’s the method? I rarely see you use it." Ye Zhiqiu asked.
"This, oh, it’s simple. Want to learn it? I’ll teach you."
"You consume a treasure containing Innate Geng Metal Qi, paired with hidden weapon martial arts ’Life and Death Talisman’, using the interaction of Five Elements Power, entwined by Life and Death Qi, then learn a martial art to practice accuracy, preferably using telekinesis for perception... Practice for three to five years, and it should be almost finished."
Just hearing it made Ye Zhiqiu feel overwhelmed.
Zhou Ruoxue covered her mouth with a smile. Lu Chenzhou never hid his martial arts from them, but few tried to learn from him.
No reason, they couldn’t learn it...
At the bottom of Taihu, in a pitch-black, ancient Water Mansion.
Inspiration Demon King, towering ten zhang high and mighty like a Demon God, held two long-handled melon hammers, his beard flying in anger.
"A bunch of trash, this was the emperor’s grandfather’s favorite grandson, the future successor demon!"
He wished he could rush out of Taihu immediately, kill his way to Su City, and tear Lu Chenzhou into eight pieces, eating his flesh and blood alive, but reason told him that would be like a gourd doll saving his grandpa.
"Just wait... It won’t be long before you can’t laugh."
News of Lu Chenzhou’s slaying of the little Inspiration King at the edge of Taihu made headlines in the Jiangnan Region.
"Even the Six-Pattern Demon King has been slain... Dragon City Chief, invincible."
"This could have grown into an emperor, a freak in the water where even End Realm isn’t a match."
"No way, it encountered a bigger freak. In the same realm, only with the Seven-Pattern Demon King could it be compared with Lu Chenzhou, right?"
"Seven-Pattern Demon King? It seems there are also no more than a handful in the human world, that’s the genuine stance of a Demon Venerable."