The two looked at each other, both seeing the terror in each other's eyes...
Li Zhu, who had already ascended the altar, seemed to have entered another world. The corpses that had covered the entire set of steps had vanished, replaced by countless pilgrims, each with eyes filled with piety and fervor…
Li Zhu seemed to have become the center of this world, receiving the worship of these people!
No!
This isn't right. How could there be anything sacred here? There are corpses everywhere...
Perhaps sensing Li Zhu's thoughts, the worshipping believers instantly transformed into countless demons, rushing towards and devouring Li Zhu...
This scene did not frighten Li Zhu, because he knew that whether it was a divine being or an evil spirit rushing towards him, they were all illusions and could not harm him at all. The only one who could truly harm him was himself…
He can avoid harm if he ignores everything he sees…
Li Zhu watched helplessly as the evil spirit pounced on his body and then disappeared. Just as he had guessed, it couldn't cause him any harm at all...
Taking a deep breath to calm himself, Li Zhu continued forward, walking towards the top of the altar…
Whether it was his imagination or not, it seemed as if a force was influencing Li Zhu's mind, gradually making it become ethereal...
The moment he stepped onto the top of the altar, an invisible wave spread outwards, and Li Zhu's body had somehow already appeared on the platform...
An invisible force surged into Li Zhu's body, and the surrounding mist slowly dissipated...
Beyond the Great Wall!
The Dragon King was walking through the desert when Li Zhu stepped onto the altar. The Dragon King immediately stopped, gazing towards the Central Plains, a glint of light flashing in his eyes…
On a street in a certain city!
An old Taoist priest was walking down the street carrying a fortune-telling banner. Just as Li Zhu stepped onto the altar, the priest stopped and looked in Li Zhu's direction...
"What's coming will come..."
After finishing his story, the old Taoist priest turned around and continued telling fortunes, as if nothing had happened...
Meanwhile, in many unknown corners, amidst famous mountains and rivers, sounds of sighs, joy, or anger could be heard…
But in the end, they all accepted reality; no matter what, they could no longer remain in seclusion and had to go out, either voluntarily or involuntarily…
Li Zhu had no idea what changes he had caused. When everything calmed down, he opened his eyes. The patterns on the altar had disappeared, the mist in the city had vanished, and everything had returned to normal…
The altar beneath their feet had been reduced to ruins piled with giant stones, and the corpses that once stood there were now only bare bones, as if their flesh and blood had been devoured by the altar in an instant…
Looking at the shocked Nazha and Hou Wang, Li Zhu didn't know how to explain it, because he himself didn't know why such a thing had happened!
Why did everything return to normal after he ascended the altar?
Could it be that he absorbed the power of the altar? Thinking back to the power that surged into his body earlier, it seems that's indeed the case…
But why was he able to absorb the power of the altar? Why didn't the person who prepared the altar absorb this power?
A sudden, unbearable thought crossed his mind: this altar was prepared for him…
Who is so crazy?
He then recalled the words the fortune teller had once told him: "The soul is not the soul, the body is not the body, and one's destiny cannot be changed even after two lifetimes!"
Is someone defying fate for him?
But isn't it a tragedy to sacrifice so many people? If it's truly for his sake, then he'd rather not accept anything the other party has done for him!
Because the loss of nearly 100,000 lives was a burden he could hardly bear!
"Zhu...Brother Zhu...Are you...are you alright?"
Naza's voice startled Li Zhu from his reverie. Seeing Naza's evasive eyes and the Hou Wang's shocked expression, he realized that the two of them seemed to be thinking the same thing as him. If their guess was true, it was normal for them to be afraid of him...
"I'm fine..."
Li Zhu sighed and began to examine his body. He discovered that although his strength hadn't increased, he seemed to have gained the ability to see inside his body...
Isn't this something only masters of the Transcendent Realm can do? Why am I able to do it even though I'm at the Indestructible Vajra Realm?
This illogical event left Li Zhu deeply unsettled. The Transcendent Realm requires self-reflection and the realization of one's true self. Masters at this level are terrifying; the idea of one person destroying a nation is not an exaggeration. Under the right conditions, it wouldn't be too difficult for one person to wipe out a nation's royal family...
As he gradually came to understand himself better, he finally saw the dark power that had entered his body…
When he was offering incense at the Dragon Head Temple, it was because this black energy entered his body that he was transported to this time and space…
This force altered the body's martial arts aptitude, even allowing him to cultivate to the indestructible realm at a speed incomprehensible to ordinary people!
But when Li Zhu tried to control this power, he discovered that the black force seemed to have its own ideas, completely ignoring his commands and operating entirely on its own...
Although each use of this power slightly advanced Li Zhu's strength towards the indestructible realm, the fact that it was beyond his control was ultimately a problem. It was currently helping him, but what if one day it wanted to kill him? It only needed to breach any part of his body to cause him pain or death…
This is a ticking time bomb...
Li Zhu sighed, but he was helpless. After all, he didn't even know the nature of this power, let alone how to expel it from his body…
Moreover, it's uncertain whether he could even exist without this power, since it was this power that brought him to this time and space. Once the power disappears, the consequences are unpredictable...
Could it be that the power of the altar wasn't absorbed by him, but rather absorbed by this power?
Thinking about this, Li Zhu suddenly understood; everything made sense now…
Perhaps those who set up the altar were unaware of this power within him, for without it, no one could walk alive to the altar…
It seems he still knows too little about this world; he needs to understand it more deeply…
"Let's go back first..."
Li Zhu said calmly. Having witnessed that miraculous scene, Nazha and the Marquis dared not disobey him and followed him out of the city...
"Nazha...where are you..."
"Your Highness, did you hear that?"
Just then, the sound of horses' hooves approached, and Wang Yanzhang and Tuoba Dada appeared in the distance with their cavalry...
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