Buzz!
The moment the Chaos Realm withdrew, a powerful and oppressive aura suddenly descended upon the Dragon Transformation Bell.
Despite being separated by the Dragon Transformation Bell, even with Lu Tao's cultivation and strength, he felt a suffocating sensation, unable to breathe properly, amidst this overwhelming aura.
This aura was many times stronger than the Nine Palaces Dragon Trapping Formation previously set up by Tianyu Pavilion.
That feeling of being cut off from heaven and earth, with nowhere to escape, was incredibly intense.
It subtly evokes a sense of despair.
at the same time.
The world was ablaze with red, with endless flames burning and hissing, intensifying the feeling of despair.
"I knew it would be like this!"
Lu Tao looked up at the sky, revealing an expression that said, "I knew it."
He felt the unfamiliar aura that enveloped the world, and instead of feeling nervous or afraid, he was filled with curiosity.
"Interesting. It seems you've known of my existence for a long time?"
A slightly unexpected voice descended from the sky, and as the voice reached Lu Tao's ears, a figure slowly appeared from the sky.
He was a young man who looked ordinary and did not possess any powerful aura of a cultivator.
Not to mention God King or Half-Step God Emperor, he didn't even have the aura of an ordinary body refiner.
He seemed like just an ordinary person.
However, there was a flame mark between his eyebrows, which, even with Lu Tao's strength, gave him a feeling of his soul being scorched just by looking at it.
This flame mark also made the seemingly ordinary young man appear somewhat eerie.
The eerie young man, dressed in a fiery red robe, descended step by step from the void, surrounded by countless flames. Each step he took seemed to be a teleportation, appearing not far away one moment and the next.
He looked at Lu Tao with a strange expression, and asked with great curiosity, "Logically speaking, an ant like you shouldn't know of my existence. How... how did you manage to do it?"
He didn't seem to be in a hurry to make a move against Lu Tao; instead, he seemed curious about how Lu Tao knew about him.
Lu Tao did not get angry when he heard the words "ants".
On the contrary, they were somewhat wary of the strange young man's movements as he descended from the void.
He was quite certain that this was teleportation.
Just like when he used supernatural powers in the lower realms, only the distance he could teleport was not as exaggerated.
Lu Tao was certain that the person in front of him was definitely not a half-step God Emperor, but most likely a true God Emperor powerhouse.
What puzzled Lu Tao was that he hadn't received any information from this guy when he made his wish.
It's as if...
Like Lu Tao using the power of a minor world to shield himself from karma, or the karma of his disciples, so that other beings cannot detect any information.
But the extraordinary thing about the statue of the deity is that it does not investigate through cause and effect.
therefore.
Through the prayer statue, Lu Tao sensed that there were other variables after the battles with the various races and the Tianyu Pavilion.
But Lu Tao couldn't judge how big this variable was, or how strong the enemy was, or what their origins were.
after all.
When the amount of faith points required for a prayer is extremely large, the information obtained through prayer becomes illusory.
For example, when Kong Xin prayed for the Immortal Sect to be safe and sound in the future, the required faith value was ridiculously high, and the success rate was countless zeros after the decimal point.
Such information is actually meaningless.
Similarly, Lu Tao felt the same way when he wished for the true information about the guy in front of him.
Lu Tao recalled his previous prayer and replied with a smile, "Shouldn't a powerful figure like you be well aware of the methods of an ant like me?"
Hearing the sarcasm in Lu Tao's words, the strange young man was slightly taken aback, and couldn't help but chuckle, "You've got quite the nerve!"
"As expected of a prodigy capable of eradicating the Tianyu Pavilion, at least this kind of courage is not something ordinary beings possess."
The strange young man nodded slightly, then his tone suddenly turned icy, "However, do you know the consequences of angering me?"
"Whether I offend you or not, you will not let me go, so why should I be afraid?"
Lu Tao retorted without fear, and before the strange young man could get angry, he continued, "Before we make a move, may I ask you a few questions?"
The strange young man sneered and was about to make a move, but at that moment, Lu Tao hurriedly added, "Of course, in exchange, I can also answer some of your questions."
"Can!"
This time, the strange young man nodded without the slightest hesitation.
After obtaining the strange young man's consent, Lu Tao asked directly, "If I'm not mistaken, Tianyu Pavilion wasn't founded by you, was it? It's just under your control, helping you... or rather, helping you hunt down geniuses?"
"Not bad, you're very smart to have guessed these things."
The strange young man nodded and said, "I only control the Tianyu Pavilion in secret. Even the pavilion masters like Zhang Lan are completely unaware of my existence. I didn't expect you to be able to guess these things. This makes me even more curious about the secrets you hold."
As he spoke, the strange young man licked his lips with a rather greedy air.
After receiving confirmation from the strange young man, Lu Tao felt not joy at learning the truth, but rather his mood became increasingly heavy.
Lu Tao asked directly, "Why are you hunting down geniuses who have the potential to comprehend the Chaos Domain? Is it to prevent us from leaving the Desolate Region?"
"The Realm of Chaos..."
He paused, lost in thought, at the words "strange youth," then looked at Lu Tao with a half-smile and chuckled, "Don't you already have the answer in your heart?"
Lu Tao nodded silently.
He had actually suspected it for a long time, but suspicion and the truth are two completely different things.
If Tianyu Pavilion itself hadn't been unaware of the purpose of hunting such monstrous beings, Lu Tao would have already discovered their true intentions through the Prayer Statue, and there would have been no need for further questions.
"The higher the cultivation realm, the greater the requirement for comprehension. Someone like you, who can comprehend the Chaos Domain at the Heavenly God Realm, is someone no force dares to underestimate."
At this moment, the strange young man, seemingly struck by a sudden thought, offered a few more words of explanation: "With your mere cultivation at the peak of the Divine Lord realm, you're already capable of killing a half-step Divine Emperor. Tell me... if it were an enemy force facing a prodigy with such immense potential as you, wouldn't they eliminate him beforehand?"
Although Lu Tao did not kill powerful enemies with his own cultivation and strength, both the formation and the divine artifact were part of his own strength.
You need to know.
With his extraordinary comprehension, he could comprehend the existence of the Chaos Realm. Whether it was mastering powerful formations or forging powerful artifacts, it was all effortless for him.
"Hostile forces?"
Lu Tao caught those four words.
Unfortunately, the strange young man did not offer much explanation.
Left with no other option, Lu Tao asked another question: "Why did you wait until all the experts of Tianyu Pavilion were killed before showing yourself?"
Lu Tao didn't believe that the strange young man in front of him couldn't appear in time to stop them, given his cultivation level.
The strange young man could have appeared shortly after the start of the war, in which case Tianyu Pavilion would not have suffered such heavy losses.
"Was it only the experts from Tianyu Pavilion who were killed? Why not... all the experts were killed?"
The strange young man looked at Lu Tao with a half-smile and said this.
"I see!"
Lu Tao instantly realized that the strange young man was hiding his identity and did not want it to be exposed to the powerful figures of the desolate region.
As for the specific reason, it was obvious that the strange young man wouldn't tell him.
"Alright, it's my turn now."
The strange young man didn't give Lu Tao a chance to ask any other questions. He asked the same question he had just asked, "How did you know of my existence?"
"Hmm...relying on a divine artifact, with an ability similar to detecting causal rules," Lu Tao replied hesitantly.
"impossible!"
The eerie youth chuckled and shook his head, but his voice gradually turned cold. "My realm has transformed into a world, capable of shielding myself from karma. In the desolate region, who can detect me? You... are you lying to me?"
"I see!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Tao suddenly realized what was going on.
Originally, after a domain transforms into a realm, the next step is to transform into a world.
The world of cultivators is different from ordinary small worlds; like a minor world, they can shield themselves from karma.
No wonder he couldn't glean much information about the strange young man even with the prayer statue.
So this guy has an inner world.
This gave Lu Tao a better understanding of his subsequent cultivation.
Sensing the murderous intent emanating from the strange young man, Lu Tao shook his head and said, "I'm not lying to you. I did indeed vaguely detect it through a divine artifact."
"faint……"
Upon hearing these two words, the strange young man frowned slightly and then asked, "What kind of divine artifact? Don't tell me it's a God-King artifact. Any artifact that can detect even a little bit of my information must at least be an Emperor-level artifact. But in the Desolate Region... there is no God-King artifact that can be promoted to Emperor-level."
Lu Tao confirmed another thing from these words.
In the desolate region, not only can cultivators not break through to become God Emperors, but even divine artifacts cannot.
Although he had learned about this from Master Luo and others beforehand, he still couldn't help but sigh for the countless lives lost in the desolate region after it was confirmed.
Lu Tao shook his head and said, "It's definitely not a divine king artifact, it's just... at the divine lord level."
"It seems I've been too easy to talk to, making you think I'm easy to bully."
The strange young man shook his head indifferently, thinking that Lu Tao was just making fun of him.
In his understanding, let alone a mere Divine Lord artifact, even the best Divine King artifact would be unable to detect deliberately hidden causes and effects, not even with a 'vague' detection.
With an indifferent expression, the strange young man didn't bother to ask any further questions. With a thought, he channeled all the power of the world into Lu Tao's Dragon Transformation Bell.
At the same time, endless flames enveloped the Dragon Transformation Bell.
when!
With a deafening sound, the indestructible Dragon Transformation Bell was blown away by the power of the world.
To the young man's surprise, the Dragon Transformation Bell did not shatter, and there wasn't even a dent.
Even under the scorching heat of the flames, there were no signs of damage whatsoever.
"You have quite the temper!"
The moment the power of the world struck the Dragon Transformation Bell, Lu Tao only had time to utter a sarcastic remark before his figure disappeared from within the bell.
However, upon seeing this, the strange young man's eyes suddenly lit up, "This is... a minor world?"
Under the divine sense scan of the strange youth, he clearly saw that as soon as Lu Tao's figure disappeared, a tiny dot appeared inside the Dragon Transformation Bell and merged with the void.
Not only is it invisible to the naked eye, but even a half-step Divine Emperor expert cannot see it, yet it cannot be hidden from him.
He knew that this was no ordinary small world, but a microcosm.
A small world containing the essence of three thousand Daoist principles.
The eerie young man, his face contorted with ecstatic joy, reached for the Dragon Transformation Bell, but suddenly…
Buzz!
A subtle void fluctuation, so subtle that even a half-step God Emperor wouldn't sense it, suddenly appeared. The strange young man noticed that it was the fluctuation of a minor world trying to escape.
"Order it for me!"
His expression changed slightly as he used the power of the world to suppress it, attempting to fix the small world within his own world.
That's right!
This is his world, not Tianzhou.
In his world, he has the final say in everything.
Even if Lu Tao is incredibly powerful, he doesn't believe that Lu Tao can escape in his own world.
But in the next instant, the dots formed from the small world vanished without a trace from his soul.
"impossible!"
The strange young man roared in disbelief, suddenly grabbing the Dragon Transformation Bell in his hand. He poured all his immense divine soul power into the Dragon Transformation Bell to search for it, but there was no trace of the Lesser Thousand Worlds.
"How is that possible? How did he do that?"
The strange young man, no longer in complete control, became enraged and utterly unable to accept the outcome.
This is the first time that a being below the level of a God-Emperor has safely left his world.
The strange young man knew that it wasn't that his world was weak, but rather that Lu Tao had too many tricks up his sleeve.
Without the Dragon Transformation Bell, the power of the world could have acted directly on Lu Tao or in the Lesser Thousand Worlds, leaving it behind.
However, separated by the Dragon Transformation Bell, the space inside the Dragon Transformation Bell no longer belongs solely to him.
This allowed Lu Tao to escape.
But this also shows how strong Lu Tao's escape skills are.
"Hmph, trying to escape from me? Dream on!"
The strange young man snorted coldly, and in the next instant, he withdrew his own world. At the same time, his enormous divine soul power swept across the entire desolate region.
The next moment, the strange young man's expression suddenly turned gloomy.
It was only because he suddenly saw that Lu Tao had already appeared in Longzhou and was currently taking the Dragon Transformation Pool into his Lesser Thousand World.
then.
Seemingly sensing his presence, Lu Tao waved towards Tianzhou and called out, "Goodbye!"
"Kid, you've successfully angered me!"
The strange young man's furious expression suddenly calmed down, and he instantly used his movement technique to teleport towards Tianzhou.
But after only one teleportation, Lu Tao's figure had already disappeared from Longzhou.
When the strange young man used his divine soul to search for Lu Tao's figure in the desolate area again, he found nothing.
The strange young man's calm expression changed once again.
Next.
The strange young man searched every corner of the desolate region time and time again, but he couldn't find Lu Tao anywhere. However, during the search, he learned a lot about Lu Tao from the discussions of other creatures.
"The idol traveled... it actually went to the mortal realm?"
From the other beings, the strange young man learned that Lu Tao could freely travel between the two realms through the statue.
This made his expression turn ugly.
It also made him realize how Lu Tao had escaped from his world.
He knew absolutely nothing about Lu Tao before.
actually.
He was unaware of the matter between Lu Tao and Tianyu Pavilion. The reason he appeared was because, after years of seclusion, he suddenly sensed that Zhang Lan's life tablet was shattered and that he was about to be annihilated.
They thought Zhang Lan had encountered some misfortune and was preparing to select a new leader for Tianyu Pavilion.
turn out.
Not only Zhang Lan, but all the other God-King level experts of Tianyu Pavilion had their life tablets shattered.
Only then did he realize that something terrible had happened in the desolate region.
That's why they rushed to Tianzhou.
However, they were still a step too late, and all the powerful figures of Tianyu Pavilion perished.
With his cultivation as a Divine Emperor, the fact that he could cover Tianzhou and Lu Tao with his world beforehand already showed that he regarded Lu Tao as an opponent of the same level.
Unexpectedly, Lu Tao still managed to escape.
Only now has he learned much about Lu Tao from the discussions of other beings.
But the more he learned about it, the more it shook him to his core.
"To comprehend the Chaos Domain and cultivate to the peak of the Divine Lord realm in just one year—such talent... this person must not be allowed to live!"
The strange young man's expression was extremely solemn. Then he frowned slightly. "A divine platform that enhances comprehension and talent, allowing beings to have sudden enlightenment? What kind of secret realm is this?"
With his limited knowledge, he had never even heard of such a treasure.
But he didn't care too much. As long as he killed Lu Tao, this thing would eventually fall into his hands.
"It's a pity I can't go down to the mortal realm to kill him!"
Thinking of this, the strange young man became somewhat annoyed.
Lu Tao not only descended to the lower realm, but also sealed the spatial nodes there. With his cultivation level, he couldn't possibly go down there, which naturally eliminated his idea of going down to the lower realm to kill Lu Tao.
"However, you will eventually have to undergo tribulation to become a God-King. I have plenty of time to wait for you!"
The strange young man wasn't worried that Lu Tao would stay in the lower realm forever.
Not to mention that Lu Tao is only a perfected Divine Lord with a lifespan of only 450,000 years, even a Divine King with a lifespan of a million years cannot outlive him.
As long as Lu Tao survives his tribulation, he will be able to kill Lu Tao.
"What a pity about the Dragon Transformation Pool, it can no longer create true dragon bloodlines, alas!"
The strange young man gazed at the area where the Dragon Transformation Pool had been dug up in Longzhou, shook his head with some regret, and then vanished from Tianzhou in an instant, his whereabouts unknown.
Just as the strange youth had guessed, Lu Tao had already returned to the lower realm.
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