Chapter 2888: The Immortal Lu Qi

Chapter 2888: The Immortal Lu Qi

One of the bubbles popped with a clear sound, and Lu Qi's skin flushed red. An incredible pressure erupted with the arrival of a scorching heat that spread out, evaporating the Middle Ocean in its wake. The entire Middle Ocean started to boil. Countless dead fish floated to the surface, as the ocean had instantly started boiling.

A shockwave blasted out, the high temperature warping the air. Countless spatial cracks appeared, and the Higher Realm was rattled by the pressure that shot upwards into the sky.

Just a short distance away, Cheng Kong was startled. What was this? What kind of power had just appeared?

Lu Qi's clothes were completely burned away, exposing his scarred body. There was practically no part of his body that was unblemished. The terrifying pressure that reached even the Higher Realm did not crush the man.

"Where’s that rat who dared to attack me? Don't you know that I’m called the Immortal Lu Qi?" Lu Qi searched for Cheng Kong, but he had already vanished.

It was only natural for an assassin to escape if the attack failed.

Cheng Kong had instantly sensed that his attack had failed. This was not his first failure either.

Anytime Cheng Kong launched a sneak attack, the target was either on guard and Cheng Kong failed to seize control of them, or the target was controlled and eliminated. Nine times out of ten, Cheng Kong would succeed, but he had first failed with Lu Yin, and then again with Lu Qi. His attacks on both the father and son had failed. What was going on?

It was also clear that Lu Qi was not particularly strong.

Lu Qi had no idea that Cheng Kong had already left, and he continued to search for his attacker.

At this time, people started to shoot up out of the Middle Ocean. "It's so hot! Which bastard screwed up so badly?"

"I nearly got cooked!"

"Who was it? Get out here!"

"Shh! Keep your voice down! It might have been some powerhouse we can’t afford to offend."

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Lu Qi stared blankly at the numerous people emerging from the Middle Ocean. They were all quite familiar to him. Aside from the cultivators from the four ruling powers who had been condemned to the 100,000 currents, all of the other guardians were people that Lu Qi were responsible for.

All of the guardians of the 100,000 currents had risen to the surface.

Clearly, the 100,000 currents had been damaged.

The Aeternals!

A fog appeared above the ocean, blocking everyone’s sight.

Lu Qi waved his hand, dispersing the fog. He stared out at everyone, and everyone stared back at him.

Someone quickly shouted, "Lu Qi, you lied to us! Where are the resources that we were promised?"

Many others also started to glare at Lu Qi.

All of the people looked to be in miserable condition, and some were even quite skinny, looking like they had starved for a long time.

In order to prevent the 100,000 currents from being found by Aeternus, the Lu family had hidden them to ensure that they could not be used to attack the Mother Tree. This also prevented the guardians from leaving their posts.

In the past, the Lu family has sent the various guardians training resources on a regular schedule, but after the Lu family’s exile, none of the guardians had received any resources during the many years that the family had been missing for.

Lu Qi had been sent to the Middle Ocean with the task of delivering the neglected resources, but he had never gotten around to it as he had been considering what he should say to the guardians of the 100,000 currents.

That the Lu family had been exiled? That was too humiliating, but what would be best?

Before Lu Qi could come up with some excuse, the Aeternals had destroyed the 100,000 currents, releasing all of the guardians.

While the sourcebox array used to hide the 100,000 currents could conceal them from average cultivators, it was impossible to hide the currents from the Aeternals’ peak powerhouses. In the past, due to the presence of the Lu family, the Aeternals had not dared to approach the 100,000 currents, but at this moment, they attacked manically.

Everyone who had appeared above the ocean was staring at Lu Qi.

100,000 cultivators who were at least Enlighters should have been guarding the 100,000 currents, but nowhere close to that number appeared before Lu Qi, even with the cultivators from the four ruling powers. There were significantly more than half, but even so, a great number was missing.

Even so, it was a shocking number of cultivators.

Because of this, Lu Yin noticed the odd situation above the Middle Ocean even from the rear battlefield. He immediately changed course when he saw tens of thousands of cultivators who were at least Enlighters surrounding Lu Qi. Many of them looked as though they had been starving for years, and it made for a rather impressive spectacle.

Everyone was waiting for Lu Qi's explanation.

"Ancestor Tianyi told you?"

"When you were attacked in Food Paradise by the strange power that was headed your way, it was Heaven’s Furnace’s pressure in your body that kept you from dying, wasn’t it?"

Lu Qi stared at Lu Yin as though seeing a ghost. "You know about all of that? I never mentioned that bit to Ancestor Tianyi. Xiaoxuan, how do you know about that?"

Lu Yin let out a breath. "Thank you."

He paused and looked over at Lu Qi. "Dad."

Lu Qi stared at Lu Yin in a daze. Being called “Dad” had touched him deeply, and he felt as though he was seeing Lu Xiaoxuan again, with his bright smile. Lu Qi saw the Seven Heroes all waving to him, encouraging him to have a drink. How long had it been since he had seen that scene? It felt like so much time had already passed, but it had not been very long at all.

Lu Qi's eyes started to flush red, and he quickly pulled out a bottle of alcohol and took a drink.

Lu Yin stood to leave.

"Xiaoxuan, don't dwell on things. Everyone wishes for you to live a good life," Lu Qi said solemnly.

Lu Yin gulped. Yes, all of his family wanted him to live a good life, but he wished the same for all of them. Why was such a simple wish so difficult?

Sometimes the simpler the wish, the more difficult it was to realize.

After leaving the Middle Ocean, Lu Yin returned to the rear battlefield.

The Aeternals had invaded in massive numbers, but no powerhouses were among them.

"Ancestor, these monsters are acting like they’re at the warfront," Lu Yin commented.

Lu Tianyi looked solemn. "It seems like they attacked this place to divert our attention from the sneak attack on the 100,000 currents."

Lu Yin's eyes turned cold. "You can never underestimate the Aeternals."

Lu Tianyi nodded. "Even the incredible Heavens Sect was destroyed by them, and back then, Aeternus was much, much weaker than the Heavens Sect. Even so, they managed to destroy the other Mainlands, one by one. They instigated traitors, like Wu Xing, Wang Miaomiao, Gu Yizhi, and so many others. Now, the Aeternals are no longer what they once were, so of course we cannot underestimate them.”

As Lu Tianyi spoke, Lu Yin looked upwards. Senior Brother Mu Xia and Master Shan had both arrived there. The Heavens Sect’s Progenitor-level experts were scattered all over the megaverse.

Chen Le, Cloudflow, Bai Sheng, Xia Shenji, Xia Qin, Nong Yi, and Progenitor Smoke were all helping to protect other parts of the Sixverse Association. Meanwhile, Lu Tianyi, Master Shan, Mu Xie, and Lu Qi were standing guard over the Perennial World. In the Heavens Sect itself, there was Big Sis, Arch-Elder Zen, Leng Qing, Monarch Xing, Shao Chen, the jiao, and Ancestor Tortoise.

The Heavens Sect was not impregnable, but it was getting there.

Even after more than ten days of fighting on the rear battlefield, no Progenitor-level corpse kings ever appeared.

Finally, Lu Tianyi stepped away from the array bases and headed towards the New World. He wanted to see who was directing the Aeternals on the rear battlefield.

The results were disappointing. There really were none of Aeternus’s peak powerhouses. Not to mention the Seven Skygods, there were not even any of the captains of the True God Guard.

Any Progenitor could easily sweep away all of the attacking corpse kings.

Lu Tianyi casually destroyed the Cosmic Door.

This was the second of the Aeternals’ Cosmic Doors to be destroyed in the Perennial World.

With the Cosmic Door destroyed, the Aeternals were unable to send out more corpse kings to the rear battlefield. The defenders of all five array bases moved out and eliminated the rest of the corpse kings from the New World in a matter of days. Of course, this was in part due to the fact that Lu Yin also took action.

However, Aeternus showed no reaction at all even after all of the corpse kings were wiped out.

On top of that, no Progenitor-level corpse king appeared with another Cosmic Door.

Lu Yin wondered why it had been so incredibly difficult to destroy the first Cosmic Door. After all, Corpse God had personally moved to protect the Cosmic Door in the Astral Sea when Lu Yin had gone to attack it. There was no question that the Cosmic Doors were extremely important to the Aeternals, so why had it been so easy to destroy this one?

No one could understand this until Lu Yin received a bit of news.

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Translated By: OMA

Edited By: Neshi/Nyxnox

TLC'ed By: OMA