Controlling the illusion of a sudden surge in inner strength, Lu Yu slowed down the absorption of the Celestial Falling Bright Flame, maintaining a gradual and repeated absorption to give himself time to adapt, so as not to get burned by the heavenly fire.
[Absorbed a small amount of Celestial Falling Bright Flame, Fire Spirit Body Second Heaven cultivation progress +4%, Qi Blood +12, Fire Spiritual Qi +6]
[Absorbed a small amount of Celestial Falling Bright Flame, Fire Spirit Body Second Heaven cultivation progress +2%, Qi Blood +7, Fire Spiritual Qi +3]
[Absorbed a small amount of Celestial Falling Bright Flame, Fire Spirit Body Second Heaven cultivation progress +3%, Qi Blood +8, Fire Spiritual Qi +4]
In the continuous tempering of the Celestial Falling Bright Flame, the impurities within Lu Yu were incinerated and expelled from his body. Wisps of smoke from the burning impurities continuously drifted off him, making it look like he was about to be incinerated.
A gust of wind blew by, and many black fragments fell from Lu Yu’s body; these were pieces of carbonized skin.
After the carbonized skin peeled off, it revealed a layer of tougher new skin beneath.
Lu Yu could hear the sound of his bones being incinerated by the Celestial Falling Bright Flame.
After a while, Lu Yu exhaled a long breath of turbid air, expelling any remaining ash from the impurities inside, feeling much lighter.
After Lu Yu absorbed the Celestial Falling Bright Flame, the meteorite that had just landed became the first cooled meteorite.
"I didn’t expect you to have some tricks, directly touching the Celestial Falling Bright Flame with Qi Cultivation level without getting burned to death." The man who was waiting for Lu Yu to be burned so he could collect the items showed his surprise.
"Qi Cultivation?" On hearing this, everyone looked extremely surprised; they had all assumed Lu Yu was at the Qi-Manipulating Realm, but Wu Chang said Lu Yu was at the Qi Cultivation level.
Wu Chang was one of the two Qi-Manipulating Realm Martial Cultivators in Luoyan Valley, and also one of the rule-makers there.
Upon hearing Wu Chang’s words, Lu Yu turned to face the crowd.
Wu Chang squinted at Lu Yu and said, "Since you broke the rules here, you must pay the corresponding price."
He was very interested in the protective gear on Lu Yu, which was like a protective spirit armor.
Not only him, the other Qi-Manipulating Realm Martial Cultivator also wanted Lu Yu’s treasures. However, his strength was slightly weaker than Wu Chang’s, so he did not immediately step forward, hoping to be the mantis behind the cicada.
They just didn’t expect to meet one who wasn’t a cicada drinking dew.
Wu Chang swung out a saber; the azure saber aura expanded after leaving the blade, flying toward Lu Yu. By the time it reached him, the saber aura had extended over two meters.
The saber aura activated the defense of the Illusory Spirit Armor, shattering against the invisible Illusory Spirit Armor and dissipating into azure light in the air.
Wu Chang showed a gleeful expression, "It seems you have quite a nice Spiritual Treasure on you. It’s a pity to shatter such a treasure, but I’m sure your storage bag contains more good stuff."
"Of course, if you’re willing to willingly hand over the Spiritual Treasure and storage bag as the price for breaking the rules, I might let you leave here." Wu Chang said.
As for sparing Lu Yu’s life, that was impossible. Given the Spiritual Treasure on Lu Yu’s person, his identity was certainly not simple. To avoid provoking a major force behind him, the best solution was to kill him, destroy the corpse, and possibly silence any onlookers as well.
This would depend on how much loot they could get from Lu Yu.
Qi-Manipulating Realm? Lu Yu looked at the shattered and dissipated saber aura in front of him and then glanced at Wu Chang.
The Fire Demon Eye activated, consuming Fire Spiritual Qi at the rate of 1 point per second.
[Unknown, Qi-Manipulating Realm Second Heaven, Qi Blood 621/621, Spiritual Qi 2123/2103]
Lu Yu directly ignored the data bars of the people standing behind Wu Chang. The only ones who caught his attention were the three team leaders of Qi Cultivation level nine, with Qi Blood around 460 and a Spiritual Qi max close to 1000.
"Did that strike just consume 20 points of Spiritual Qi?" Lu Yu noticed the Spiritual Qi depletion on Wu Chang. Judging by the power, Wu Chang’s 20 points of Spiritual Qi were much stronger than his own 20 points.
With the same amount of Spiritual Qi consumed, the Qi-Manipulating Realm’s power output is much larger than that of the Qi Cultivation realm.
Suddenly, Lu Yu noticed Wu Chang’s Spiritual Qi bar plunging down by 100 points.
"Desperate Breath Saber Technique—Wind Dance of Death!"
A mass of azure saber auras flew at Lu Yu, countless saber auras slashing toward him from every direction.
Although Wu Chang slashed from directly in front of Lu Yu, the saber auras strangely curved around, striking Lu Yu from above, behind, left, and right.
Amidst the countless saber lights, the Illusory Spirit Armor merely ten centimeters from Lu Yu’s body was clearly displayed in front of everyone.
"A special Spirit Armor?" Wu Chang squinted his eyes and chuckled, "A Qi Cultivation-level wants to compete with me in terms of Spiritual Power?"
Spirit Armor’s defense also consumes the user’s Spiritual Power. Once the Spiritual Power is depleted, the defense of the armor will sharply decrease.
Wu Chang continued to suppress Lu Yu with saber auras, fully exploiting the advantage of the Qi-Manipulating Realm, using his longer reach to bully the Qi Cultivation-level. At the same time, he was wary of Lu Yu possessing a powerful one-use Spiritual Treasure, so he kept suppressing Lu Yu with saber auras, preventing him from getting close.
After withstanding several waves of saber light in place, Lu Yu was sure that the opponent could not possibly break through the Illusory Spirit Armor on him, not even if the opponent depleted his own Spiritual Qi.
The saber light struck the Illusory Spirit Armor; although it put some pressure on Lu Yu, it was still not to the point of immobilization. In fact, the impact was not significant.
After using the Fire Demon Eye to confirm that only the two Qi-Manipulating Realm individuals were the major threats in Luoyan Valley, he deactivated the Fire Demon Eye and retrieved the Demon-Breaking Saber.
With a swing of the Demon-Breaking Saber, Lu Yu easily shattered the masses of saber light in front of him and felt that the power in the saber light wasn’t significant.
The power of Wind Dance of Death was too scattered. If all 100 points of Spiritual Qi were concentrated in a single saber aura, Lu Yu would definitely not be able to break it so easily.