Under the projectile force from the Liang Family's ancestor, Lu Yu quickly approached Li Yanfeng.

Li Yanfeng heard the sound of wind behind him, turned his head to see Lu Yu flying toward him, and glanced around, noticing that the Qi Sea Realm expert had already been intercepted by another Qi Sea Realm, leaving Lu Yu alone.

Immediately, hope arose in Li Yanfeng's heart. Although Lu Yu's behavior was somewhat unusual, the fact that he needed protection from a Qi Sea Realm expert when facing him indicated that Lu Yu considered his own strength weaker and could not resist him.

Thus, Li Yanfeng believed he could deal with Lu Yu.

Even though he was already seriously injured, he was still a Martial Cultivator at the eighth level of Qi Gathering.

Moreover, he had figured it out, the reason Lu Yu remained unscathed from his attacks was likely due to Lu Yu cultivating that technique, granting him strong flame resistance, thus making the extreme heat rays less effective.

By this logic, ice property attacks would also cause minimal harm to him.

Li Yanfeng drew out his spiritual weapon, a sharp spear, and while gliding to escape the Qi Sea Realm expert in the distance, he controlled the spear to attack Lu Yu.

The sharp spear of the spiritual weapon swiftly flew towards Lu Yu, its icy glint flickering; he didn't believe Lu Yu could withstand a five-grade spiritual weapon.

Already within twenty meters of Li Yanfeng, Li Yanfeng was now within Lu Yu's optimal attack range. The Demon-Breaking Saber in his hand slightly unsheathed, and Lu Yu felt his spiritual power rapidly depleting.

The Demon-Breaking Saber's force was charged to the limit.

Seeing two points of icy light flying from Li Yanfeng's body, the sharp aura pricked Lu Yu's skin painfully. He did not hesitate at all, and the spiritual power within his body erupted furiously.

Iaijutsu - Celestial Collapse!

An overwhelming saber energy crossed with the icy light.

Boom! Li Yanfeng was struck and fell to the ground.

"Humph!" Lu Yu grunted as he was sent flying by the spear weapon, which pierced his spirit armor, leaving two small marks on him.

With no burst of Qi Blood nor the weight of a thousand pounds augmenting the strike, Lu Yu's strike merely executed an outstanding attack at the first level of Qi Gathering, but failed to kill the severely injured Li Yanfeng.

But once he fell, things would become much easier.

Lu Yu landed and smashed onto a house's roof; before the homeowner could come to investigate, his figure disappeared from the rooftop.

A streak of light rapidly closed in on Li Yanfeng.

Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, Li Yanfeng admitted Lu Yu's attack was strong; even when he was at the first level of Qi Gathering, he couldn't unleash such power.

However, at this level, even though he was seriously injured, he could still defeat Lu Yu.

Seeing Lu Yu's figure reappear in his view, Li Yanfeng smiled, but the smile slowly froze. He realized that the full-force strike he controlled with his spiritual weapon didn't wound Lu Yu.

Or rather, it wasn't that it didn't wound him; it left two blood marks on Lu Yu's abdomen, but these two marks quickly disappeared, unnoticed by Li Yanfeng.

"With such defense, are you a demon?"

Li Yanfeng turned and tried to escape, suddenly hearing the sound of whistling wind by his ear, feeling the air around him solidifying and pressing down.

Boom! A faint red Qi Blood drifted out of the dust cloud, and Lu Yu, returning to his normal height from over two meters, walked toward Li Yanfeng.

Blood Burning Secret Technique + Iaijutsu charging + Celestial Collapse, one strike erupted, with ninety percent of its power coming from the explosion of Qi Blood, obliterating Li Yanfeng.

Luckily, he was a Martial Cultivator at the eighth level of Qi Gathering, so his body was quite resilient; otherwise, Lu Yu would have needed to sift through a heap of fragments for items.

Lu Yu found two storage bags in Li Yanfeng's corpse, scattered some Celestial Falling Bright Flame, and under the boost of spiritual power, the flames burned wildly, quickly incinerating Li Yanfeng's body to ashes.

Bang! The flames exploded, a hidden storage bag was burned open by the Celestial Falling Bright Flame, and its contents scattered out, with Lu Yu managing to salvage less than half.

Among the salvaged items were a red and a blue shard. The Celestial Falling Bright Flame couldn't harm these two shards, which were what Lu Yu sought.

"Didn't expect this guy to have three shards, really unexpected." Lu Yu thought he would use the shards to fish, possibly having two shards, but it turned out he had not just two, but a total of three.

Thus, Lu Yu's shard count increased to five, with four remaining lost outside.

Li Yanfeng's body was burned to ashes, leaving only a tattered fourth-grade spirit armor in the Celestial Falling Bright Flame. Lu Yu didn't even give that ruined armor a glance before heading toward the direction of the Liang Family's ancestor.

Suddenly he remembered Li Yanfeng's attacking spear seemed to be a fifth-grade spiritual weapon; he wondered where it had fallen to and who would benefit from it.

Lu Yu instinctively touched his belly; the two blood marks left by the spear had vanished. Upon touching, he could only feel scars, but given his body's recovery speed, even the scars would disappear after a short while.

He hadn't anticipated that he could even withstand attacks from a fifth-grade spiritual weapon.

Imprinting the Golden Armor Spirit Array on himself was indeed a wise choice.

A sense of greed emerged in his heart; if he had a complete version of the Golden Armor Spirit Array, perhaps not even a scar would remain.

With the complete Golden Armor Spirit Array engraved on him, possibly even a sixth-grade spiritual weapon couldn't breakthrough his defense, truly something to aspire to.

Greed drives people to progress, and Lu Yu decided to prioritize the research of the Golden Armor Spirit Array as one of his daily tasks.

One day, he would be able to inscribe the true Golden Armor Spirit Array on his body.

It's important to know that the power of the Golden Armor Spirit Array changes with the strength of the object; the stronger Lu Yu's defense, the stronger the amplified defense after the array.

The Golden Armor Spirit Array is like a defense amplifier.

On the way, Lu Yu fused the fragments into the inheritance jade disc, learning the information of the three fragments: the second piece Ice Jade, the third piece Fire Jade, and the fourth piece Ice Jade.

They recorded the Ice Jade Eye cultivation technique, the Fire Demon Eye cultivation technique, and the Fourth Heaven of the Ice and Fire Seven Heavens cultivation technique.

These three fragments solved Lu Yu's most urgent problem and were the most useful to him.

It was a pity he couldn't keep Li Yanfeng alive to ask where he got the fragments and what else he knew about them.

When Li Yanfeng tried to escape, Lu Yu, eager to stop him, had no choice but to kill him directly.

Returning to where Li Yanfeng attempted to escape, Lu Yu saw from afar a confrontation among several Qi Sea realm cultivators, his arrival causing only slight attention from a few.

He Yichao didn't notice Lu Yu, his focus entirely on the little mermaid. With such a commotion, if he couldn't obtain the little mermaid, it would be hard to make amends, even as the eldest son of the He family.

Not to mention, just the other members within the He family would seize the opportunity to hold him accountable.

After Lu Yu left, they were in a stalemate, mainly because the newly appeared masked Qi Sea realm expert hadn't expressed support for any side, and they couldn't ignore his presence.

After all, the masked man was a Qi Sea realm level seven expert; if he ambushed them, even the Qi Sea realm level five or six among them couldn't hold their ground, so they remained in a deadlock.

"Don't worry, Young Master, we've contacted the master. He's sent the third elder; once he arrives, none of these people can escape," said a guard beside He Yichao in a low voice.

He Yichao showed a look of joy, "Good, it's best to maintain this stalemate until my uncle arrives, then no matter who the masked man is, he will have to kneel."

Of course, he didn't dare say it aloud and only dared to think it because he didn't want to offend any Qi Sea realm expert.

The Liang family patriarch, seeing Lu Yu's return, descended from the sky to Lu Yu's side.

Seeing the Liang family patriarch's movements, others paid close attention to the black-robed figure who had left and now returned, realizing the Qi Sea realm masked man seemed to obey the black-robed man's orders.

Lu Yu looked in the direction of the little mermaid, who was cloaked under a gray robe and held by a female sea tribe member.

Suddenly, he noticed a reflection under the gray robe; the little mermaid seemed to be looking at him, the glimmer coming from her eyes.

Recalling the little mermaid's face, almost identical to Little Tail's, he noticed the sea tribe woman holding the little mermaid genuinely wanted to protect her.

Lu Yu deliberately made his voice hoarse and said, "Teach a lesson to those who blocked us earlier."

Using the excuse of attacking the He family, Lu Yu did not want to see the little mermaid, who resembled Little Tail, die here or be captured by the He family.

After hearing Lu Yu's order, the Liang family patriarch attacked the He family consecrator who had previously blocked him.

Under Lu Yu's covert command, he unleashed powerful attacks relentlessly, with exotic beasts rushing from his side at the He consecrator and even "accidentally" hitting three nearby consecrators.

Seeing the masked man suddenly act against the He family, the sea tribe seized the opportunity to unleash powerful attacks, breaking through the encirclement and fleeing swiftly.

"Madman!" He Yichao cursed loudly, having heard Lu Yu's words, accusing them of attacking the He family using the excuse that his men had stopped his attack earlier.

Back then, if the He family consecrator hadn't intercepted the falcon, it would have almost hit him in the face.

The three He family Qi Sea realm consecrators were caught off guard and could only watch as four sea tribe members escaped with the little mermaid, while the one left behind could only stand helplessly.

On Lu Yu's signal, the Liang family patriarch retreated after a barrage of attacks, urgently using Spiritual Power to whisk Lu Yu away to escape far into the distance.

After flying a certain distance, Lu Yu stored the Liang family patriarch in the Storage Ring, removed his black robe, put on the Light and Shadow Treasure Pearl, and walked toward the direction of the Divine Weapon Pavilion.

Seeing people on both sides disappear, He Yichao was livid, "Chase! Quickly after them!"

"Which side should we chase?" a Qi Sea realm consecrator asked.

"Chase the sea tribe!" He Yichao calmed down and said.

Several Qi Sea realm consecrators pursued the sea tribe, though their chances of catching them were slim, as they were already near Yunhai City's edge, where the ocean became the sea tribe's domain, making pursuit impossible.

He Yichao, gritting his teeth, said to the guard behind him, "Issue a wanted notice! Seek the black-robed man and masked Qi Sea realm for secretly colluding with the sea tribe to attempt capturing Yunhai City and invading the Great Zhou Dynasty."

Hearing the charge, the guard hesitated slightly and cautiously asked, "Isn't that charge a bit too severe?"

"Severe?" He Yichao sneered, "Yunhai City will soon be our He family's territory. If we say he colluded with the sea tribe, then he did!"

"Hurry and issue the wanted notice."

As soon as he finished speaking, a terrifying figure flew overhead, and joy flashed in He Yichao's eyes; the third elder had arrived and might be able to catch the fleeing little mermaid.

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