In the Nine Nether Forbidden Lands, this headless corpse was undoubtedly a powerful and terrifying existence.
If it weren’t for Dantai Meng’s possession of the Dao Artifact “Eternal Dream Bell”, maybe Dantai Meng and Lu Changsheng, even together, wouldn’t have been able to defeat the headless corpse.
Lu Changsheng, facing the powerful headless corpse, took a deep breath and crazily operated his cultivation technique, as vast True Qi surged into the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower.
The moment he exerted his full strength to activate the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower, Lu Changsheng felt his True Qi rapidly depleting, like a dam had collapsed, unstoppable.
“Not good.”
Lu Changsheng realized he had exerted too much force; with the massive True Qi rushing into the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower, he himself would run out of True Qi and burn out!
“Go!”
Lu Changsheng quickly deployed the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower.
At that moment, the True Qi provided by Lu Changsheng was not even enough to unleash one-tenth of the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower’s magical power.
The Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower transformed into eight hundred zhang tall, flames shooting into the sky, as the eight five-clawed golden dragons on its body seemed to come to life, their claws brandishing fiercely.
The Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower descended, suppressing the headless corpse.
The headless corpse held the Demon Blade in both hands, confronting the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower.
Boom!
Accompanied by a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering noise, the ground beneath the headless corpse shattered, with cracks spreading rapidly in all directions.
The headless corpse’s six hundred zhang figure sank downwards, and even the Demon Blade showed fine cracks.
In life, this headless corpse might have been a Divine King, or perhaps even the Demon Blade was a Dao Artifact.
However, its body and magical treasures had been eroded by the endless passage of time and the Yinsha Qi of the Nine Nether, so they were no longer as formidable as they had once been, and the rank of the Demon Blade had degraded to that of an Emperor Soldier.
“Destroy!”
Lu Changsheng struggled to control the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower to suppress the headless corpse, aiming to kill it in one blow.
The Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower shook violently as the headless corpse continued to sink.
The terrifying pressure of the Dao Artifact made the headless corpse extremely uncomfortable, numerous cracks appearing all over its body.
The Yinsha Qi of the Nine Nether Forbidden Lands surged like black clouds, pouring non-stop into the headless corpse, repairing its body.
“Stop.”
Lu Changsheng ended the simulation.
Sweat had already soaked Lu Changsheng’s Daoist Robe, making him look as if he had been fished out from a pool.
The Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower, being a ninth-grade Dao Artifact, consumed an immense amount of True Qi.
With Lu Changsheng’s fourfold Immortal Emperor realm cultivation, and being among the best of his realm, to be able to exert less than one-tenth of the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower’s powers was already overwhelming, and he could not maintain it for long.
“This headless corpse is truly formidable, I used the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower, and still wasn’t able to annihilate it outright. No, if I could exert more than one-third of the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower’s power, then I could destroy the headless corpse completely, both soul and body.”
“Dantai Meng’s bell Dao Artifact is easier to use compared to the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower and yet its power surpasses that of the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower; a single shake is enough to severely damage the headless corpse. The Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower can’t do that. This suggests that the grade of her bell Dao Artifact is higher than the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower. Could it be an eighth-grade Dao Artifact? Or perhaps, a seventh-grade Dao Artifact?”
Lu Changsheng now understood why Hallucinatory Dark Demon Venerable gave the Eternal Dream Bell to Dantai Meng for protection.
The grade of the Eternal Dream Bell was higher than that of the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower, and moreover, the Eternal Dream Bell was easier to activate, especially suitable for a high-level Immortal Emperor realm expert like Dantai Meng.
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Lu Changsheng wasn’t discouraged that the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower was inferior to the Eternal Dream Bell.
After all, Dantai Meng was the daughter of Hallucinatory Dark Demon Venerable, one of the Demon Realm’s greatly influential Great Experts; with many magical treasures at her disposal, she possessed Dao Artifact-level treasures for protection.
Not even the Holy Sons and Holy Maidens of the various Holy Lands had such treatment.
Lu Changsheng still had the Disciple Apprenticeship Simulator; in the future, he would be able to fuse other Dao Artifacts.
To fuse a Dao Artifact, at least eighteen artifact fragments were needed.
Lu Changsheng used eighteen Dao Artifact fragments to fuse the ninth-grade Dao Artifact “Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower”.
So, the more Dao Artifact fragments accumulated, the higher the grade of the Dao Artifact fused?
“I wonder if I can forge a first-grade Dao Artifact by collecting a thousand Dao Artifact Fragments?”
Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but feel expectant.
Dao Artifacts are ranked by their power.
The magic of a first-grade Dao Artifact is far superior to that of a ninth-grade Dao Artifact.
If the treasure that certifies the Way is the treasure that guards each Holy Land, then a first-grade Dao Artifact is the treasure among treasures, the very foundation that establishes the prestige of a Holy Land.
Lu Changsheng had yet to witness the true power of a Dao Artifact.
Neither Dantai Meng’s Eternal Dream Bell nor Lu Changsheng’s Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower had shown more than a tenth of their power.
At the Yaochi Convention, the Dao Artifact “Plain Colored Cloud Realm Banner” used by the Yaochi Goddess wasn’t even properly employed, merely serving to set up a boundary.
Moreover, the “Wanhua Divine Umbrella,” a treasure that certifies the Way belonging to the Mount Taihua Goddess that Lin Qinghan obtained from Goddess Daoxu, was no ordinary item either.
The “ordinary” here doesn’t refer to the common grade within treasures, but rather to the common grade within Dao Artifacts.
“I still have a long way ahead, I should continue cultivating diligently and accumulate Dao Artifact Fragments. A ninth-grade Dao Artifact is already sufficient for self-defense. Next time, when I have more fragments, I’ll forge another Dao Artifact.”
With Lu Changsheng’s cultivation at the fourth level of the Immortal Emperor Realm, he couldn’t even unleash a tenth of the Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower’s magic power, let alone a higher-grade Dao Artifact.
If he were to acquire a first-grade Dao Artifact, Lu Changsheng might not even be able to shift it by an inch.
This was akin to handing a peerless sword to a kindergarten child; they wouldn’t be able to lift it.
Lu Changsheng, with a ninth-grade Dao Artifact in his possession, was already extraordinary, and coupled with the Taiyin Goddess Talisman as his trump card, even if he encountered a Great Accomplishment Immortal Emperor, Lu Changsheng was no longer powerless to fight back.
“Four thousand years later, I must make a trip to Yellow Dragon Mountain to save my fourth disciple, Shen Xiaoyao. The Evil Extreme Sect is not an easy opponent.”
Lu Changsheng knew that the Star Pavilion, the place where Tang Ling’er and Tang Wansan stayed, was annihilated by the Evil Extreme Sect, which was still hunting them down.
The Evil Extreme Sect, a group of evil-doers who take pleasure in committing malevolent acts and are wicked to the core, can be considered a bunch of lunatics.
The Star Pavilion was destroyed by them, and they relentlessly pursued Shen Xiaoyao and Tang Ling’er.
This attested to the madness of these individuals.
Tang Ling’er sought refuge with Lu Changsheng, who accepted her as an outer sect disciple.
In the Mortal Realm, Tang Ling’er’s talents would have qualified her to be a direct disciple of Lu Changsheng, but in the Immortal Realm, the conditions for taking disciples set by the Disciple Apprenticeship Simulator got stricter, and even Tang Ling’er’s Pure Yin Body fell short of the requirements.
Unless Tang Ling’er’s Pure Yin Body merged with Shen Xiaoyao’s Pure Yang Body to form a new special physique, they would meet the Disciple Apprenticeship Simulator’s conditions for apprenticeship.
Shen Xiaoyao is a Son of Fortune whose fate should not come to an abrupt end; Lu Changsheng was meant to lend a helping hand.
Additionally, Lu Changsheng wanted to uncover the origins of the Evil Extreme Sect.
Mount Taihua’s records regarding the Evil Extreme Sect simply described that group as lunatics who cultivate purely to commit evil deeds and take delight in such acts.
There was no mention of who the original heretic cultivators were who founded the Evil Extreme Sect or who the current sect master might be, nor was there any relation to the Star Immortal Emperor noted in Mount Taihua’s scriptures.
Lu Changsheng could only try to capture the heretic cultivators of the Evil Extreme Sect alive, possibly to extract some information from them.
Luckily, Lu Changsheng had acquired the ninth-grade Dao Artifact, “Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower,” whose greatest feature was its ability to imprison powerful cultivators.
Once the heretic cultivators of the Evil Extreme Sect were imprisoned within it, they would find escape challenging.
If Lu Changsheng failed to extract the information he wanted through interrogation, he could take them back to Mount Taihua, hand them over to powerful beings like Lin Xuantong and the Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan, and use Great Divine Powers to question them.
The Eight Desolations Imprisoning Dragon Tower is much more powerful than the lower-grade Emperor Soldier “Fengling Net”; there won’t be a repeat of Dantai Meng escaping this time.
Of course, if Lu Changsheng encountered Dantai Meng again, it wouldn’t be easy to actually capture him, especially since he had already offended the Hallucinatory Dark Demon Venerable.
The Hallucinatory Dark Demon Venerable refrained from acting personally merely because Lu Changsheng hadn’t harmed Dantai Meng.
If Lu Changsheng captured Dantai Meng again, it would be tantamount to slapping the Hallucinatory Dark Demon Venerable in the face.
By then, it wouldn’t be surprising if the Hallucinatory Dark Demon Venerable decided to storm Mount Taihua and abduct Lu Changsheng.
“I’d better keep a low profile.”
Lu Changsheng continued his low-key cultivation and would only emerge from seclusion when his disciples were in trouble.