Chapter 396 : Seven Luminaries Heaven Became Anxious

Chapter 396: Seven Luminaries Heaven Became Anxious

“Will win!”

Lü Yang’s unease lasted for only an instant before it turned into firmness. With a movement of his divine sense, he had already touched the core of Seven Luminaries Heaven.

“Boom!”

In that instant, dazzling radiance burst forth from Lü Yang’s entire body. This was the fruit-position power belonging to Seven Luminaries Heaven, yet at this moment, it was being seized by him.

Reflected in reality, it manifested as the dazzling brilliance surrounding him. These rays merged into 【Heaven of Parting Sorrow】, causing the originally lifeless and silent 【Heaven of Parting Sorrow】 to gradually revive with flourishing vitality. At this moment, this small blessed land actually showed signs of transforming into a true blessed land!

And along with this transformation surged—

‘Power!’

Seated cross-legged, Lü Yang felt the immense transformation pressing upon his body. This was a qualitative change distinct from the Path of Incense Fire.

The Path of Incense Fire, its foundation was hollow.

Moreover, no matter how incense fire shifted, in the end, it merely circulated internally without affecting heaven and earth. Yet Lü Yang’s current action was different.

He was stripping!

Every trace of fruit-position power he seized was solidifying the status accumulated from incense fire upon him, making it increasingly firm.

For a moment, the entire 【Heaven of Parting Sorrow】 trembled.

Yet Lü Yang’s heart gave rise to not the slightest ripple. He only quietly watched as the fruit-position power he stripped gathered before him.

Finally, it transformed into a dazzling, multicolored radiance.

As this radiance merged with him, in that instant, boundless knowledge surged into Lü Yang’s sea of consciousness, directly flooding into his mind!

Heaven and earth, primordial chaos.

Yin and yang, the five elements, the three talents, the four images.

The knowledge belonging to a realm’s heaven ceaselessly poured into Lü Yang’s mind, the veil of mystery lifting before his eyes to reveal its true form.

‘【Exquisite Heart】’

This was, without doubt, an innate divine ability!

It was a divine ability that enhanced the calculating power of divine sense. Only with such an ability could one bear the torrent of information and incense fire impact from Seven Luminaries Heaven.

The next moment, Lü Yang raised his head toward the sky. His eyes were shrouded in divine brilliance. Under the augmentation of 【Exquisite Heart】, his divine sense intertwined with heaven and earth. At this moment, he clearly saw deep within Seven Luminaries Heaven, three calamities being brewed, their chilling murderous intent already locking onto him.

‘Refining a realm’s heaven truly isn’t easy.’

This was still a realm heaven without a true fruit-position. If it were a great realm heaven like Ten Thousand Martial Realm, what kind of terrifying backlash would it be?

“Boom!”

The next moment, through 【Exquisite Heart】, Lü Yang saw the first calamity of Seven Luminaries Heaven abruptly descend, striking upon two figures below.

Ancestor Yan.

City God.

At once, the aura around these two native incense fire gods of Seven Luminaries Heaven surged violently, their eyes staring straight at Lü Yang!

“The impact of incense fire… is gone!”

The City God murmured in a low voice, his heart ecstatic to the extreme, for the demonic murmurs that had always lingered at his ears had all vanished.

It was consensus that incense fire impacted consciousness.

Thus the City God had to establish the City God system to disperse incense fire, and had to remain in long-term seclusion to avoid the impact of incense fire upon himself.

But now, the nature of incense fire had been altered. The setting of ‘incense fire impacting consciousness’ was temporarily erased from the City God and Ancestor Yan. At the same time, clarity arose in their hearts as they looked toward Lü Yang: Kill him! Kill him, and this state could be maintained forever!

“Boom!”

In the next instant, the City God and Ancestor Yan moved. All the incense fire of the world was drawn to them at the highest seat.

At this moment, the other incense fire gods lost incense fire and fell from their positions.

Correspondingly, the City God and Ancestor Yan continually ascended. In the blazing incense divine light, all things between heaven and earth manifested.

Flowers, grass, trees, birds, beasts, fish, insects.

Mountains, ridges, rivers, lakes, seas.

Ordinarily, they would never dare condense incense fire on such a scale, for such incense fire would drive them mad in an instant.

Yet now, all shackles were released.

At the same time, the two incense fire gods, enlightened, realized what Lü Yang was doing. They both revealed anger: “Outsider, how dare you!”

Lü Yang did not reply.

He only urged 【Exquisite Heart】, clarity surfacing in his eyes: “So this is the first calamity. This is my calamity of men.”

Refining a realm’s heaven inevitably provoked resistance from the beings within!

‘However… a little too hasty!’

After all, this was a young realm heaven, its fruit-position embryonic and far inferior to Ten Thousand Martial Realm. Like an infant, upon discovering Lü Yang was stripping its power, it immediately panicked.

‘In truth, the power I seized is nothing. Merely one divine ability’s position. To a fruit-position embryo, it is no more than a drop in the ocean. If it were other heavens of that level, they would surely endure in silence, continue amassing strength, and finally erupt in one blow to crush me.’

That Seven Luminaries Heaven hurried to descend calamities instead proved its loss of composure.

If all three calamities erupted at once, Lü Yang would certainly be doomed. But descending one by one left him room to maneuver and respond.

“Grandmaster.”

The next moment, Lü Yang calmly spoke: “Please protect the Dharma for me.”

Grandmaster Ting You nodded at his words. Taking a step forward, he unfurled the Myriad Spirits Banner, riding light to directly block Ancestor Yan and the City God.

Yet seeing this, Ancestor Yan and the City God did not care in the least. After all, they had gathered the incense fire of all their subordinates, while in comparison, Grandmaster Ting You only held one-third of the White Lotus Sect’s incense fire. In incense fire, the disparity was one to six—the advantage theirs!

“A mantis trying to stop a chariot…!”

Ancestor Yan was most domineering. At this moment, he stood at the pinnacle of his life, triumphant and conceited, utterly dismissive of Grandmaster Ting You. With a raised hand, he struck a palm.

“Boom!”

With that palm, dragon roars resounded. Boundless incense divine power surged forth, as if the entire sky was crashing down.

Yet Grandmaster Ting You only shook his head:

“Gorgeous but empty, vast yet unfit. Merely releasing incense fire power in one lump… are cultivators of this realm’s heaven all ignorant of refining Dao arts?”

With his words, Grandmaster Ting You extended a finger.

Formed seals, recited incantations, pointed at the profound.

“Fix!”

【True Method of Commanding Mountains and Moving Peaks】!

Lü Yang had used this Dao art countless times, and Grandmaster Ting You had witnessed it countless times. How could he not understand it? At this moment, he employed it with ease, leaving Lü Yang dumbfounded.

Not because Grandmaster Ting You had learned the art.

After all, if Lü Yang could learn it, Grandmaster Ting You learning it was perfectly natural.

What truly astonished him was that Grandmaster Ting You was not using his own magic power to cast it, but entirely incense fire divine power!

It looked like merely replacing magic power with incense fire, but their natures were utterly different. How could the same Dao art be used? It was like trying to install a sports car’s engine into a train—not even the same kind. Yet Grandmaster Ting You succeeded. He had improved the Dao art!

“Pu!”

The next instant, struck solidly by 【True Method of Commanding Mountains and Moving Peaks】, Ancestor Yan’s entire body erupted with mud, then turned into a stone statue falling from the sky.

Seeing this, Lü Yang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He knew that as long as Grandmaster Ting You held the line, the calamity of men from Seven Luminaries Heaven would not hinder him!