Chapter 237: Heh Heh, Mortal!
“I see…”
As Lu Qingyang’s final thought surfaced.
He completely lost consciousness.
【Ding! Return to True ended: You died】
【Return to True settling, please wait…】
【Settling complete】
【Items that can be brought back this time: Spirit Ancient Pill*1, Beast Bone Immortal Artifact*1, Blade Horn*1】
“It’s over.”
“I wonder if my final plan succeeded.”
Lu Qingyang listened to the System’s notification that Return to True had ended, feeling somewhat anxious.
This Simulation Return to True had been utterly fantastical.
But without a doubt, the rewards had been enormous.
Never mind whether his plan had succeeded.
Just learning the birth process of the Myriad Realms had broadened Lu Qingyang’s horizons.
Especially that great existence who created everything.
It had given Lu Qingyang an immense shock of information.
The might of Great God Pangu surpassed his imagination.
Merely his beard and hair had bestowed endless vitality upon countless worlds.
“So even the Prison Dragon Realm might have been created by the Heaven-Opening Axe.”
“But… many of the current small worlds are acquired formations. That isn’t necessarily so.”
Lu Qingyang’s eyes flickered as he pushed aside these stray thoughts.
He focused his attention on the brought-back item rewards.
Without question, the only truly valuable thing from this Return to True was the Blade Horn.
At this thought, Lu Qingyang spoke softly.
“Bring back! Blade Horn!”
【Ding! Congratulations, Host, on a successful retrieval】
【Item Name: Heaven-Opening Axe Fragment】
【Item Origin: Obtained from hunting the snake demon in Return to True】
【Item Analysis: Heaven-Opening Axe—the foremost supreme treasure of ancient Primordial Chaos. Its whereabouts became unknown after Great God Pangu separated heaven and earth. Though this fragment is less than one ten-millionth of the original axe, it remains a supreme treasure beyond compare!】
【Item Note: This fragment should have lost all world-opening spirituality, but due to baptism in Ancestral Wu blood, it has recovered a trace of Primordial Chaos power】
“It worked!” Listening to the System’s notification by his ear.
Then looking at the System’s introduction of the brought-back item.
Lu Qingyang’s eyes instantly lit up, and excitement appeared on his face.
Though he hadn’t held high hopes for his plan.
When he learned of his success, he still could not help but rejoice.
And as the System’s notification settled.
A pressure suddenly descended from thin air.
In that instant, Lu Qingyang felt his body sink, as if the whole of him had fallen into a swamp and could not struggle.
The enormous star body of the Chaotian Palace seemed affected by this pressure too, swaying slightly.
Immediately after, a Blade Horn fragment barely the size of a thumb, pitch-black all over and stained with flecks of blood, appeared out of thin air.
“Boom!”
Along with the appearance of that fragment, the entire Chaotian Palace actually lurched downward.
Seeing this, Lu Qingyang did not dare delay.
He hurriedly extended his spiritual power, wanting to subdue and refine the fragment.
But the moment his spiritual power touched the Blade Horn Fragment.
A terrifying fluctuation immediately came from the fragment, rebounding it directly.
If Lu Qingyang had not been prepared, he would likely have been injured by now.
“Hiss—”
Feeling the intense pain from his meridians.
Lu Qingyang drew a sharp breath, and his temper flared at once!
“If the Heaven-Opening Axe itself came, This Sect Master would certainly not dare act recklessly.”
“But you’re just a fragment, and I was the one who found a way to awaken you. Don’t think that just because you’re some Primordial World fiend you can strut and swagger. If I don’t refine you today, This Sect Master will take your surname!”
His words were cold, filled with fury.
This mission had taken Lu Qingyang nearly a thousand years to finally succeed.
Even inside Return to True, the passage of time felt exactly like the real main world.
He had spent so much effort. How could he allow a mere fragment to run wild?
“Bzz~”
Lu Qingyang’s palm suddenly emitted white radiance, billowing Immortal Might rising, scorching and dazzling.
Clearly he had activated those few Immortal Artifacts!
Then he viciously slapped toward the Blade Horn Fragment.
“Bang—”
A muffled thud.
The Blade Horn Fragment did not move in the slightest.
Yet Lu Qingyang’s face flushed red, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.
“Damn it!”
Lu Qingyang gritted his teeth, his expression gloomy to the extreme.
An instant later, his gaze shifted.
He actually put away those few Immortal Artifacts.
He stared coldly at the Blade Horn Fragment.
After watching for a long while, Lu Qingyang suddenly reached out.
He actually did not use spiritual power, grabbing at it with only his physical body.
“Bang—”
Another muffled thud.
Lu Qingyang’s right hand exploded outright, blood spraying everywhere.
But he seemed not to notice, merely staring at the Blade Horn Fragment with crimson eyes.
“Roar—”
Suddenly, he let out a low shout, all his essence blood surging into his right arm.
In that instant, a pale golden membrane covered his right hand.
“Shh-laa!”
At the same time.
A brilliant silver radiance erupted from the Blade Horn Fragment.
A slender ray of light shot out from within, as if probing, as if weighing.
In an instant, the silver radiance dissipated.
The Blade Horn was firmly grasped in Lu Qingyang’s hand!
“It worked!”
“As expected! Even a fragment has spirituality. Forcing it by brute strength won’t do.”
Seeing that he had successfully refined and subdued the Blade Horn Fragment with the power of his blood and qi.
Lu Qingyang could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Since force hadn’t worked, he adopted a soft approach. After all, though such a supreme treasure no longer possessed a spirit intelligence.
It certainly had a trace of spirituality.
So he gently wrapped the Blade Horn Fragment with the power of his blood and qi, gradually seeping inside.
Maintaining reverence for Great God Pangu in his heart all the while.
Slowly wearing it down, it would eventually accept him.
“Phew~”
Having done all this, Lu Qingyang also breathed a sigh of relief.
“Since you are one of the countless fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe…”
“Then from now on, you shall be called Heaven Shard.”
Lu Qingyang looked at the thumb-sized fragment in his hand, murmuring to himself.
Having said this, Lu Qingyang closed his eyes.
Preparing to rest for a while.
Clearly the process of subduing Heaven Shard had left him feeling rather strained.
As for Heaven Shard’s power, he was in no hurry to examine it.
Once he returned to the Central Region, there would be plenty of chances to let Heaven Shard take the stage.
And just as Lu Qingyang and his group returned to Chaotian Heavy Industries, preparing to teleport back to the Central Region.
In the Central Region, the Northern Region Great Wall was suffering its greatest crisis since the Great Wall's founding.
There, the Demon Race Overlord, known as the Dragon Venerable, Ao Ye, was currently standing obediently at the side of a silver-robed man.
And that man stood with his hands clasped behind his back outside the Great Wall, gazing at the Northern Region Great Wall from afar.
Before him was a dense, countless army of Human Race cultivators.
In the sky above stood the Human Race’s few remaining dozens of Supreme Great Vehicle cultivators.
But strangely.
At this moment, every one of these Supreme Great Vehicle cultivators was pale-faced, gasping for breath.
Some even trembled all over, drenched in sweat.
As if enduring enormous pain.
And all of this originated from that handsome, silver-robed man.
He was tall and imposing, his eyes pale purple.
A faint trace of disdain and contempt hung on his face.
“Heh heh, mortals…”
“You can’t even withstand a mere Immortal Might. What will you use to stop me?”