Chapter 418 – Armed Demon Tribulation

“Let me be your eyes.”

When Yuwen Tong said this, Lu Yuan felt a slight tremor in his heart.

The next moment, he sensed an incredibly cool and gentle power flowing through the palms resting on his eyes and quickly entering his mind.

With the blessing of this power, his consciousness instantly became as clear as crystal.

Then it rapidly expanded upward, and the whole world suddenly transformed.

Lu Yuan saw countless mysterious and dazzling colors.

Numerous intersecting, twisted lines combined with translucent, gear-like giant unknown objects…

These lines and gears seemed to follow a certain set rule, appearing chaotic and disordered, yet actually operating in a methodical and orderly manner.

At that moment, Lu Yuan felt as if the world before him had suddenly stripped away all external façades, revealing its complex and intricate inner structure without reservation.

A pale green line glided faintly across his view, and Lu Yuan couldn’t resist reaching out to touch it.

Yet the green line skillfully evaded him, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t catch it.

After several attempts, Lu Yuan had to give up.

As his thoughts shifted, he “saw” Yuwen Tong holding him in a very affectionate manner, her eyes closed peacefully as she leaned on his back, as if asleep.

He had never been so intimately connected with Yuwen Tong before.

This “intimacy” even surpassed physical contact, with certain secrets buried in their hearts being completely bared to each other.

Driven by curiosity, just as Lu Yuan wanted to delve deeper into Yuwen Tong’s inner thoughts,

Yuwen Tong’s clear, cool voice resonated in his mind.

“Focus… don’t forget what we’re here to do.”

“Got it.”

Feeling like a kid caught red-handed while trying to do something mischievous, Lu Yuan quickly adjusted his mindset, focusing his mind on what lay ahead.

Looking “up” again,

He saw that the silver vines filling his vision, once stripped of their surface appearances, were merely clusters of silver light spots.

All the light spots subtly formed a pattern resembling a vine.

Suddenly, a cluster of light spots “pounced” toward Lu Yuan’s face.

Lu Yuan shifted slightly, swiftly passing through these light spots.

In the real world, this scene was Lu Yuan, enveloped in a light blue flame, gracefully maneuvering through the onslaught of countless silver vines.

“Where’s that guy’s core of consciousness?”

Lu Yuan moved his body slightly.

Under the enhancement of Yuwen Tong’s consciousness, he discovered his mental power had surged to an unprecedented height.

The benefit of powerful mental power was the ability to foresee crises earlier and gain a more acute insight into the battlefield.

As a result, the previously fierce and dense attacks from the silver vines now posed a minimal threat to him.

He could easily evade any attack, almost standing invincible.

“Look closely, the black mass is him…”

Yuwen Tong answered.

Following Yuwen Tong’s guidance, Lu Yuan quickly located an irregular black mass in a certain area ahead.

This black mass was conspicuous, hidden amidst a large cluster of silver light spots.

The surface of the black mass twisted and transformed, occasionally revealing a fierce and violent face, presumably belonging to the one who had been relentlessly hunting Yuwen Tong.

“Okay, found it.”

Lu Yuan locked eyes on the black mass, squinting and swiftly stepping toward it.

In reality, surrounded by blue flames and resembling a deity from the Starry Sky with icy composure, a handsome man took each step forward with grace.

All around him, thousands of silver vines crazily swept toward him.

But he merely lifted a hand casually, making a single-arm sweeping gesture, and a wave of blue flame spread out, immediately repelling and blocking the silver vines that attempted to obstruct him.

Without the power of the ultimate skill, Lu Yuan, in his ultimate form, was still unable to directly dismantle the structure of the silver malignant vine barehanded.

However, the energy he wielded far surpassed the strength attached to the silver malignant vine; he tore through with sheer force, his path irresistible and overwhelming.

Before long, Lu Yuan reached the location of the black mass.

His expression calm, he reached out and made a tearing motion.

Thick black cracks rapidly spread outward from the tips of Lu Yuan’s fingers.

Lu Yuan “pushed” aside the multitude of silver light spots that obstructed him from reaching the black mass.

Surrounding him, the thick silver vines that tried to block his path suddenly shattered like bubbles, scattering all around.

Raising his hand, his long fingers, wrapped in blue flame, reached straight for the black mass along the cleared trajectory in the void.

The sinister face emerging from the black mass gave him a cold glance, then suddenly dispersed, vanishing like smoke right in front of Lu Yuan.

“Trying to run again?”

Lu Yuan chuckled.

With a quick glance, he pinpointed its new location almost the instant it attempted to reassemble.

He drew a deep breath, his figure blurring as he moved.

“Boom!”

The surging blue flame enveloped his body, transforming him into a fiercely burning meteor, swiftly slicing through the air, breaking through the silver vines’ blockade, and appearing right in front of the black mass.

“What?!”

The black mass was visibly startled, and it vanished again immediately.

“Boom! Boom! Boom boom!”

Following the black mass’s shifts, Lu Yuan continuously moved, the blue flame meteor tearing through the domain of silver vines as if walking into an unguarded realm.

With each disappearance and reformation of the black mass, Lu Yuan’s approach was incrementally faster.

He was constantly “closing in.”

Finally.

When the black mass shifted positions for yet another time, just as it began to reform, a large hand, adorned with countless black cracks, stealthily appeared at its location and grabbed it fiercely.

“Finally… caught you, didn’t I?”

With his eyes figuratively “covered,” Lu Yuan nonchalantly reached out and grabbed the presently reforming black mass.

Even though Anders’s core of consciousness could transfer within the body of his Fate Mech, this transfer process required a certain amount of time.

Yuwen Tong’s Secret Technique granted Lu Yuan heightened mental power perception, enabling him to detect the fluctuations immediately after Anders’s consciousness relocation finished.

As long as he was fast enough, he could, as he did now, capture it right at the moment of its “landing.”

This time, the twisted face on the black mass finally showed an expression of terror and panic.

Its mouth opened wide, seemingly screaming in agony.

The burst of consciousness impact crashed against Lu Yuan’s mental power, which was as clear and steady as a crystal, yet not a ripple stirred.

It was as gentle as a spring breeze brushing by.

“It’s over.”

Lu Yuan remained calm, his arm reaching straight in, about to grasp the swirling black aura.

At that moment, Anders’s twisted face suddenly split apart.

A dazzling point of silver light quietly emerged.

“Boom!”

The expansive water region exploded completely.

Countless silver vines that sprawled across the water began to thrash wildly, then retracted into a single point, converging.

In an instant, they formed a gigantic silver sphere, and hundreds of thick silver vines moved to envelop Lu Yuan.

It was like a huge mouth brimming with tentacles, aiming to swallow Lu Yuan whole.

This time, Anders didn’t relocate again; instead, he went all in, gathering the full strength of his Mech, intending to crush Lu Yuan entirely.

His twisted, menacing face showed a cold, smug smile.

It was a “trap.”

As Lu Yuan sought to calculate Anders’s moves to annihilate his core of consciousness, Anders was likewise waiting for a chance to completely eliminate him.

“Rumble!”

The mass of silver vines contracted towards one spot, their terrifying compressive force crashing down like an overwhelming tsunami, directly crushing layers of air around Lu Yuan.

The void began showing signs of near collapse.

Lu Yuan found himself at the center of this formidable force of compression and strangulation. The blue flame surrounding him flickered desperately, like a candle flame in the wind.

Yuwen Tong, perched on his back, suddenly opened her eyes, her beautiful face showing a serious and tense expression for the first time.

“Be careful!”

In the face of such a life-and-death crisis, Lu Yuan’s expression remained calm.

“Don’t worry, nothing’s going to happen.”

Lu Yuan closed his eyes.

Under this unprecedented terrifying pressure, a brilliant idea erupted in his mind like a fountain.

The boost from Yuwen Tong’s Secret Technique not only heightened his mental power perception.

It also significantly enhanced… Lu Yuan’s insight!

Lu Yuan couldn’t quite grasp just how fast his mind was racing at this moment.

It felt as if time itself had come to a standstill.

Within his mental dimension, he moved leisurely, having ample time to devise a solution robust enough to break through the stalemate.

“Blast through… obliterate all the obstacles, and the problem will naturally be resolved.”

“So, I need a more powerful kill move.”

Lu Yuan pondered quietly, as countless flashes of inspiration in his mind collided, intertwined, and evolved…

In a daze, he seemed to return to the eleventh stage of the first phase of the trial, where he encountered the enormous evil deity creatures, as vast as planets.

Strong means big, and big means strong.

“If I were as big as a planet… how could you possibly swallow me…?”

“Your stomach would surely burst.”

He murmured softly to himself.

Gradually raising his hand, complex spiderweb-like black cracks started spreading from every part of his body.

These dark black fissures began to coalesce into a new form outside his body.

Quickly, an arm was fashioned.

It was a monstrous arm, covered in scales, both menacing and robust.

It closely resembled the arms of his asura form, yet bore distinct differences.

Then came the second arm, the third…

When eight arms, woven from countless black cracks, manifested, the aura of the Lv2 power of the ultimate skill, shatter, emanating from Lu Yuan became overwhelmingly intense.

At that moment, Lu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.

In those dark blue orbs, reminiscent of the vast Starry Sky, an image seemed to reflect-a colossal elephant deity-like monster, with eight arms stretching toward a minuscule spot, ready to grasp it with immense force.

“Can you withstand this move…?”

Lu Yuan murmured, slowly raising his hand, and gently aimed a punch at the point before him.

At that instant, on the dark and silent panel depicting the elephant deity, a radiant light spot quietly flared to life.

Thanks to Yuwen Tong’s mental power reinforcement, combined with the pressure of a life-and-death crisis, he found a path to harness this newfound power effectively.

Lu Yuan successfully created a more powerful new killer move, centering on the Lv2 power of the ultimate skill, shatter.

If his previous use of the power of the ultimate skill, shatter, was crude and clumsy, now this forbidden power finally revealed a glimpse of its true terrifying potential.

This new killer move was named-

Lv1 [Ultimate Killer Move-Eight-Armed Demon Tribulation: Collapse!]

…

Above the expansive water region, the enormous silver sphere that had been frantically contracting suddenly halted.

All the vines froze in place, as though time itself had abruptly come to a standstill.

In the next instant, a colossal, indescribably dark silhouette quietly emerged in the void.

Its face was indiscernible, only the sight of its eight arms stretching out, gently pressing down on the tiny, bean-sized silver sphere below…

“Crack-“

Accompanied by the clear sound of something breaking, the massive silver vine sphere shattered with a resounding crash.

Countless black energy beams shot out from within.

These beams sliced through the void like blades, leaving horrific, lingering cracks that refused to fade.

When the disturbances finally ceased and the aftermath settled, from amidst the shattered silver fragments, a figure calmly walked out.

Blue light flames silently burned, his long pure white hair cascading to his ankles, majestic and handsome like a deity.

Upon seeing this figure emerge, not far from the battlefield, a figure with long, sharp limbs and a red narcissus blooming on its chest was left staring in a daze.

For a moment, it seemed lost for words.

Lu Yuan scanned his surroundings, confirming that Anders’s core of consciousness no longer existed, utterly annihilated by his ultimate killer strike.

Suddenly, the world around him lost its variegated and bewildering hues; mental power waned, and the reinforcement of consciousness dissipated.

The hand that had been on his eyes, and the soft body pressed against his back, withdrew from him simultaneously.

“It’s over…”

Lu Yuan sighed softly, unsure whether he was referring to Anders, the opponent, or something else.

“Turn around.”

Yuwen Tong’s voice came from behind him.

Lu Yuan turned obediently.

In the next moment, cool little hands gently cupped his cheeks, with warm breath hitting his face…

Caught off guard, a smooth, full forehead gently pressed against his own.

“Uh…”

Lu Yuan’s body tensed slightly, and he looked dazed.

Before he could fully react, Yuwen Tong released him.

A deep purple eye pattern was imprinted within him.

Lu Yuan felt the drain on his life potential cease, and he naturally emerged from the state induced by the triple perfect limit break and the gathering of three flowers at the apex secret technique.

“Ha-“

Yuwen Tong exhaled gently, glanced at him, and said, “If you can avoid using this ability, then don’t use it. Next time, I really can’t be sure I’ll be able to suppress it…”

“You said the same thing last time.”

Lu Yuan chuckled at Yuwen Tong, ran a hand through the hair on his forehead, and noticed that in his normal state, his hair had once again turned white.

“I’m not joking with you.”

Yuwen Tong gave him a stern look and said seriously.

“Alright, alright, I know my limits.”

Lu Yuan quickly ended the conversation and suddenly noticed something quietly floating a short distance away from them.