My starting summon is a small skeleton

Zone 1, within the Changping Secret Realm.

As Tie Xiong and the others delivered their strongest strike,

Lu Wu, standing at the Land of Burial, atop the Old Bone's Great Tomb, lifted his head to look up at the sky.

The sky of the Changping Secret Realm was usually dark and oppressive,

especially looking up from the Land of Burial, it was blood-colored.

But now, the sky over Changping Land was shattered.

It was bright, twinkling to the extreme.

The moment Lu Wu looked up, he saw a meteor falling straight toward him.

The meteor was so huge that there was absolutely no way to dodge it.

And at this moment, Lu Wu didn't want to dodge.

He knew he couldn't avoid it; to survive, he only had to give it his all.

Before acting, Lu Wu gently touched the tombstone of Old Bone: "Old Bone, I originally wanted to stay here by your side, as only you in the entire Alliance could give me peace of mind. But I didn't expect such an incident to occur.

I'm sorry for disturbing your peace even in death.

But I promise you, if I say if, if I survive this, I'll definitely make it up to you!"

Having said that, Lu Wu stood up and faced the meteor falling from the sky.

As he stood, a force burst forth within his body.

It was the power of "Little Skeleton," "Little Golden Dragon," "Han," and the "Heavenly Cluster Cloud Sword."

Lu Wu did not invoke the Beast Soul Burst; they burst forth of their own accord.

Because they could feel that Lu Wu needed their power!

He needed their power to oppose that terrifying meteor overhead.

"You've all given your all, right? Then here I go!"

As he spoke, Lu Wu, holding the longsword, assumed a stance.

This was a posture to draw his sword.

It was also the first time Lu Wu was about to draw his sword since advancing to Epic level.

It implied that he was truly going all out.

When he advanced to Epic level influenced by Yukawa Ryuzo,

he gathered all his strength into one force, condensing a power he seldom unleashed.

This force, which began gathering from Epic 1 Star all the way to his current Epic 3 Star, had been continually honed, the strength of which even Lu Wu did not fully know.

Now, the time for this force to burst forth had arrived.

At the moment that the unimaginably huge meteor fell, Lu Wu drew his sword like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

All those outside the Changping Secret Realm watched his movement.

And the most frantic and violent reaction was from Zhang Chen.

He saw Lu Wu's stance and couldn't help but say, "What do you think you're doing? Trying to slice through our attack with one sword?"

"No!"

Inside the Changping Secret Realm, Lu Wu was utterly calm, eyeing the meteor and gave Zhang Chen the unexpected answer: "I just simply want to kill you!"

Zhang Chen fell into a brief silence.

Then, Zhang Chen began to laugh uncontrollably.

"Kill me? Now?

Can't you see the situation you're in? You aren't just as you were yesterday.

You can hardly save yourself now, do you think you could possibly kill me?"

Lu Wu nodded firmly: "Possible!"

At this, Zhang Chen's expression changed.

He could hear from Lu Wu's tone that Lu Wu was serious.

But regardless of Lu Wu's seriousness, this should still be impossible!

While Zhang Chen was comforting himself with this thought, Lu Wu in the Changping Secret Realm drew the Heavenly Cluster Cloud Sword and also struck out.

In an instant, a sword strike, concentrating all of Lu Wu's power, Sword Intent and insights, was unleashed.

Accompanied by this sword strike, a magnificent sword light that seemed not to belong in this era was born and slashed toward the giant meteor.

In that moment, Zhang Chen's heart began to race.

He vaguely sensed the aura of death, but kept reassuring himself.

"Don't worry, it won't hurt me!"

"That meteor has the combined full-force strikes of nearly ten Epic 3 Stars and dozens of Epic 2 Stars, Lu Wu can't possibly contend with it!"

"It's okay; this is just Lu Wu's death throes, I'll be fine!"

"Yes, the only one who's going to die is Lu Wu! It should only be Lu..."

"Pfft!"

Zhang Chen hadn't finished speaking when the sword light Lu Wu slashed out split the meteor and resolutely swept past the boundaries of the Changping Secret Realm.

That moment, Zhang Chen's scalp went numb.

Although he still didn't believe that Lu Wu's sword light could directly kill him,

he was frightened and subconsciously retreated.

But this subconscious retreat immediately made Zhang Chen come to his senses, and endless shame and anger surged in his heart.

"I was scared back?

Scared back by a dying beast?

How absurd is that!"

"Why should I retreat? Why should I be afraid?

He couldn't possibly do anything to me…"

"Pfft!"

Before Zhang Chen could finish, that supreme sword light, at an unimaginable speed, pierced through the huge meteor.

In that instant, Zhang Chen was rendered speechless.

He could only stand up, his body's energy bursting forth, trying his utmost to block Lu Wu's sword.

Logically speaking, Zhang Chen was supposed to be able to block Lu Wu's sword.

After all, although Lu Wu's sword was strong, having split the meteor, most of its power had already been spent; what was left should not have been much, considering Zhang Chen's power, he should have been able to defend against it.

At least, that's what Zhang Chen thought.

But when Zhang Chen's defense came into contact with the sword light, he was stunned.

The defense he exerted his full strength on was as thin as paper before Lu Wu's Sword Qi.

Lu Wu's Sword Qi lightly sliced through, cutting Zhang Chen's defense open, and with one sword, split Zhang Chen into two.

This terrifying blow stunned everyone present.

Nobody had expected Lu Wu's sword to be monstrously powerful to this extent.

Not only did it cut through all their attacks, but it also killed an Epic 3 Star powerhouse right in front of them.

"Don't panic, Zhang Chen won't die!

At most, he's just heavily injured."

"And Lu Wu can only strike this one sword; after this, he's definitely spent!"

Tie Xiong's statement instantly rallied everyone.

Of course, this was more due to the latter sentence, as basically nobody present cared about Zhang Chen's well-being; what concerned them was whether they could kill Lu Wu.

Everyone's attention returned to Lu Wu.

They saw Lu Wu, who had just unleashed a massive burst.

When they realized that Lu Wu was in a nearly spent state after his outburst, everyone's excitement soared.

"Charge!"

"Kill him!"

Lu Wu, the Undead, none of the people present could feel at ease.

Everyone was actively preparing for the next round of attack, wanting to thoroughly resolve Lu Wu.

But it seemed they no longer needed to prepare.

At this moment, the meteor that Lu Wu had just split fell into the Changping Secret Realm.

Yes, the meteor unleashed by Lu Wu.

Although that meteor had indeed been split by Lu Wu, it did not mean it was dissipated.

Lu Wu's Sword Qi had merely passed through the meteor, and the meteor's intrinsic power had not diminished by much.

The meteor, split in two, crashed into the Changping Secret Realm, releasing unimaginable energy in a full burst.

Terrifying waves came forth in an instant, and the entire Changping Secret Realm began to shatter, inch by inch.

Meanwhile, Lu Wu was right at the center of the meteor he had cleaved, with energy erupting on both sides and completely engulfing him in an instant, destroying most of his body.

If that were all, it would be fine, as Lu Wu could actually withstand it.

After all, his Han had reached Epic 3 stars, and recovering from this injury wouldn't be difficult, effortlessly restoring Lu Wu completely.

But this was just the beginning.

Next, explosions continued to occur, wave after wave, round after round.

In these explosions, rings of waves continued to spread, each more terrifying than the last.

In the center of it all, Lu Wu was like a tiny boat in a tempest.

In an instant, he was about to be completely torn apart by the storm.

He couldn't hold on any longer!

In the storm of energy, Lu Wu, though reluctant, had to accept this reality.

This time, he truly might not make it through.

"Alas!"

Just as Lu Wu faced this dire situation.

Ilya's elderly father sighed softly and reached out to point into the void, hmm, he finally took action.

He simply could not stand idly by.

After all, Lu Wu's current predicament was largely his own doing; if he didn't intervene, Lu Wu's death would be on his hands.

Thus, he finally made his move.

With his gentle tap, right beside Lu Wu in the Changping Secret Realm.

The huge tomb that he had prepared for Old Bone was opened, and Lu Wu's figure was enveloped by the tombstone.

Ilya's elderly father opened up a deeper layer of the Secret Realm, hidden within the Changping Secret Realm, and sent Lu Wu deep inside.

This action was very swift, especially as the 'meteor's' power was erupting.

People outside the Changping Secret Realm simply didn't notice.

They were unaware that Lu Wu had disappeared; they only saw the Secret Realm shattering bit by bit amidst the explosion of the meteor.

The fracturing of the Changping Secret Realm quickly triggered a chain reaction.

Huge chunks of fragments fell.

The core of the Secret Realm itself also began to collapse.

Clearly, this secret realm, which had been messed with for quite some time by Zhao Xue'en and the others, could not withstand it anymore.

Then, as the core of the Changping Secret Realm collapsed to a certain extent, countless energies began to burst outwards.

Hmm, this led to a massive explosion.

With a huge "Boom."

The powerful energy wave slapped outward, directly blowing Zhao Xue'en and other powerful beings several miles away.

Immediately afterward, the core of the Changping Secret Realm began to suck back all the energy.

Almost instantly, the energies that had just exploded and erupted were all pulled back in a flash.

In the blink of an eye, the Changping Secret Realm was reduced to a tiny, tiny dot.

"It's done!"

"Lu Wu is dead!"

Seeing this scene, the big shots present couldn't help but rejoice.

The most surprised, or perhaps the happiest, was none other than Zhang Chen.

Hmm, Zhang Chen, who had just been sliced in half by a single strike from Lu Wuyi, was not dead.

After all, as an Epic 3-Star combatant, how could it be so easy for him to simply perish?

Not to mention being sliced in half, even if he was torn to shreds, there would still be a chance for him to survive.

Having survived, he looked at the tiny dot that the Changping Secret Realm had become and laughed heartily.

"Good, good, good, this bastard is finally..."

"Pfft!"

Zhang Chen's laughter lasted only a second before it was cut off.

Of course, it wasn't Lu Wu who interrupted him; Lu Wu didn't have the capability at this moment.

It was Zhao Xue'en who interrupted him. While Zhang Chen was laughing wildly, Zhao Xue'en decapitated him with a single sword strike.

What's the phrase again?

Birds gone, bow hidden, crossing the river and tearing down the bridge.

The group present had united merely for the purpose of killing Lu Wu.

Their relationships were not harmonious, and there were even considerable conflicts and hatred among them.

While Lu Wu was alive, they still had a common goal that could unite them.

But now with Lu Wu's death, this alliance crumbled immediately, and Zhao Xue'en decisively made his move.

With one strike, he decapitated Zhang Chen and then turned to make a move on Tie Xiong.

But Tie Xiong was not Zhang Chen; he wasn't foolish. As soon as the dust had settled, he fled.

At this moment, Zhao Xue'en wanted to strike but couldn't find his target.

"He runs fast!"

Zhao Xue'en scoffed, turned back, and continued dealing with Zhang Chen.

Poor Zhang Chen, already mentally affected by Lu Wu the day before, and just now bisected by a single strike from Lu Wu, his body, mind, and power were all severely damaged—he simply wasn't a match for Zhao Xue'en.

Facing Zhao Xue'en and wanting to survive, his only hope was Tie Xiong.

However, at this moment, Tie Xiong had simply left, skillfully betraying him.

The betrayed Zhang Chen only lasted a few minutes before being taken down by Zhao Xue'en.

Zhao Xue'en originally intended to directly kill Zhang Chen.

But on second thought, considering the Gate Fragment's refinement experiment needed materials, he ultimately spared him, opting not to kill.

"I'll spare your life; consider it recycling trash."

Holding the sealed Zhang Chen in one hand and clutching the condensed dot from the collapse of Changping Secret Realm in the other, Zhao Xue'en's mood was extremely buoyant.

Of course, ninety percent of his good mood came from the death of Lu Wu.

After all, they had been terribly tormented by Lu Wu yesterday.

Zhao Xue'en and the others from Elder Mountain had even prepared to tuck their tails between their legs, seal the mountain until their leaders returned.

Unexpectedly, in just one day everything changed.

Yesterday, Lu Wu forced them to seal the mountain, to tuck their tails like dogs and hide; today, they killed him as if he was just a stray dog.

"Indeed, life is really full of surprises, full of delights."

"People like Lu Wu who don't abide by martial ethics, may be rampant for a moment but can't be rampant for a lifetime, let him be proud for a while, when the time comes, he still has to die!"

"With his death, people can finally sleep well tonight."

Zhao Xue'en said, laughing heartily, leading the people of Elder Mountain back to Elder Mountain, and at the same time declaring the day-long seclusion of Elder Mountain lifted...