Chapter 1945 – This Way Is Barred  

“A creature of the darkness?” Lu Yun’s expression shifted and he took a half step back, evading the blow. When he caught his breath, he surged forward with the first move of the Divine Fists of Hell—Darkstar.

An enormous black star streaked out as a meteor and crashed into the endarkened.

Bam!

The creature yelped and flew backward. It swiftly made a neat turn in the air and came for Lu Yun again. Relatively unscathed by the countermove, it moved with an ease that made the young man suck in a sharp breath.

He was much stronger than before and an ordinary high supreme would’ve been obliterated by his blow. But this creature of the darkness remained completely unharmed!

This first move of his Divine Fists of Hell had been perfected with help from the young girl that was the manifestation of sea dao. Sea dao was a great dao that possessed a world of sequence. Despite its manifestation dying and becoming a ghost, it still possessed the most perfect combat arts and dao methods in the world.

Lu Yun’s Darkstar had reached great perfection with her as a sparring partner and was a perfect combat art. Even Yun Yi and Qiu Feishan failed to find any flaws and had to subdue it with brute force.

Yet, this exemplary combat art was unable to inflict a single scratch on the endarkened. It only caused some aches and pains to a creature that seemed weaker than Lu Yun!

There was no sign of Cen Sui—the premises seemed to be a vacuum that extended for half a kilometer in all directions. One thing that Lu Yun could be certain of was that this was no mental or visual illusion. Everything taking place here was very real.

With the Tome of Life and Death now in his mind, it was impossible for any illusion to replicate the treasure.

The endarkened in front of him possessed four heads and eight arms—human, dragon, tiger, and elephant. Its eight arms corresponded to each head and each of them deployed an unfamiliar combat art. Eight in total, they combined into an incomparably disordered will.

While it was far inferior to the Disordered Empyrean Supreme’s power of disorder, it was much purer than the latter’s strength. The Disordered Empyrean Supreme was a being under order and her command of disorder was derived from the order of opposition. The four-headed creature in front of Lu Yun… was a true being of disorder.

Just as the denizens of the chief worlds cultivated order, so did disorder reside in this creature’s very bones.

Humm!

Humm!

Humm!

The disordered creature howled and waved eight different combat arts around, attacking Lu Yun with tempestuous waves of disordered will.

“Is this… a chance to let me meet a real creature of from the land of darkness before survival is on the line?” Lu Yun swallowed hard and backed up again, this time exploding forward with both fists deploying Darkstar. He sent black shooting stars wherever his opponent fired an attack at him.

This endarkened was purer than any he’d met in the Dark World. Its eight eyes were bloodshot and it howled in a language that he didn’t understand. As it forced the young man back, Lu Yun could clearly sense its cultivation level—high supreme!

But there was no presence of a dao palace on it, which meant that this being lacked a dao palace! Only cultivators of order forged dao palaces.

“No wonder… If it was another high supreme on my level here, you would’ve bashed their head in a long time ago. What a pity for you that you ran into me!”

BOOM!

Lu Yun released an explosive ring of air while the muscles of his arms swelled alarmingly. His fists waved with greater strength than before and he could now use the power of order to destroy his opponent if he wanted to.

But he didn’t choose to.

He used only his physical strength and personal combat arts to fight the creature of darkness. He knew more than just the Divine Fists of Hell—he’d just given up on things he’d practiced in the past, like sword dao. But with the addition of sword dao into immortal dao, he could use the myriad of great daos and combat arts beneath immortal dao as he wished!

Qing Yu was the Dao Sovereign and the will of immortal dao, whereas Lu Yun was the great dao’s flesh and blood and its Dao King. Everything he’d ever practiced or relinquished immediately returned to him and was etched into his bones.

He extended two fingers out of his fist and pointed them forward as a sword, striking at his opponent.

Dragonrise!

Hummm!

Cutting sword qi accompanied by a dragon’s long croon slashed through the air. Lu Yun took a quick step forward and punched with his left hand. Darkstar!

Dragon and star combined into a brand new combat art.

Kaboom!

The blow pierced the endarkened through and its four mouths gaped at the same time. Roaring with outrage, it fell to the ground.

Lu Yun’s chest heaved for breath as he looked at the lifeless creature of darkness and sank into deep thought.

“I didn’t continue in the same vein after inventing Darkstar because it turns out that my line of thinking was wrong,” he murmured to himself. “I always thought that any combat arts under hell dao must be pure hell dao. But it seems that I must incorporate other great daos if I’m to create the second move of the Divine Fists of Hell.”

He’d had no inspiration for a second move after creating Darkstar, but just now, spontaneous enlightenment struck when he deployed sword dao alongside the Divine Fists of Hell. Darkstar was the foundation of his method of hell and needed to employ hell dao as its basis. On the other hand, he had to utilize the great daos of many, or even of all life, to surpass it.

There was no combat art or great dao that was one hundred percent pure. Even hell dao was the combination of numerous great daos and the intersection of multiple rules and laws. Attempting to use one great dao to craft a combat method would not work!

Lu Yun’s path of cultivation had been a journey of exploration through the Tome of Life and Death. No one had ever sat him down for lessons. Cen Sui imparted some knowledge during their trip, but their time together had been too short. The young man still depended on himself to invent new combat arts and investigate dao.

“As strong as that blow was, it was a function of my personal strength. That creature was less than me, so of course I beat it to death with one blow. It won’t be that easy if I meet someone on the same level as me.” Lu Yun came to this conclusion with careful deployment of formula dao.

While the combination of Dragonrise and Darkstar enhanced their offensive capability, they mostly relied on sword dao’s keen edge and Lu Yun’s own strength. He hadn’t been able to harm the endarkened during their fight, so it’d belittled the human and was caught off guard by the fatal blow.

If they were to fight again, it wouldn’t be that easy for Lu Yun to do anything to him. And if he met someone of the same level, they’d easily identify the flaws in his combat art and strike back at him.

“I need a lot more endarkened to help me refine my combat arts! There should be a lot more on this bridge!” With that in mind, he strode forward.

A log bridge stood at the end of this area and there was a trapped creature of darkness howling on it. It flung itself at an invisible barrier when it saw Lu Yun. There was very likely a strong relationship between it and the one that the young man had just killed.