Chapter 284: Changes In Earth City

Ye Wanwan’s voice?

Really?

Regardless of whether it was, the sudden appearance of these two voices here made everyone’s hair stand on end.

Even Lu Yang’s smile disappeared.

He dared not call out anymore.

The scene was deathly quiet.

But no sound followed, which made Lu Yang’s expression grow increasingly grim, and his gaze towards Yun Yue and the others was filled with hatred.

He wished he could flay them and tear out their bones.

The black flower’s shroud had been broken.

Yun Yue and the others reacted quickly; one person charged towards Lu Yang, another grabbed Yun Fan, whom Lu Yang had released, and ran, while Yun Yue, holding his sword, coldly stabbed towards Lu Yang’s throat.

“You—are a dead man!”

However, the longsword was blocked by a force.

He couldn’t get close to Lu Yang’s vital points no matter how hard he tried.

It seemed something was stopping him.

On Lu Yang, it was like an invisible barrier.

But the sword intent Yun Yue unleashed still forced Lu Yang back two steps. Lu Yang, recovering his senses, roared in anger, “Die!”

The roar fell.

The black flower bloomed again, and the vortex directly sucked in Yun Yue, who was lunging forward.

Seeing this, Yun Hua and Yun Xian pounced to grab Yun Yue, but they couldn’t avoid being dragged in, leaving only Yun Fan, who had just been rescued and was now powerless to move.

Yun Fan’s entire body was a dry, gray color, tears in his eyes. Looking at Lu Yang approaching, his cracked lips moved.

“Kill…me…”

“Kill me…”

Young Master Lu Yang looked down at him condescendingly and sneered, “Of course, but I won’t waste your value. Go in, be its fertilizer.”

The young man before him was devoured.

In the alley, only the disciples pursuing them and Lu Yang remained.

The air was filled with an eerie silence.

Lu Yang had not moved.

He seemed to be waiting for something.

“Not coming out? Ye Wanwan!”

Lu Yang suddenly looked around, his expression contorted with ferocity, “Come out, stop pretending!”

Everyone held their breath.

But it was too quiet.

No one came out.

As Lu Yang’s expression became more uncontrollable, someone finally spoke, “Young Master, that voice just now came from your side.”

Lu Yang suddenly turned his head, “What do you mean?”

The disciple who spoke was startled but still forced himself to say through his fear, “It seemed to be… from the flower.”

Hearing this, Lu Yang paused slightly.

The other disciples nodded.

It was indeed the flower.

And it was the black flower that Lu Yang controlled.

Hearing this, Lu Yang’s gaze slowly shifted towards the Corroding Heart Lotus. He laughed aloud, “Do you think I’m an idiot? Ye Wanwan is inside? Do you know what kind of place it is inside?”

The disciple knelt down with a thud, “Young Master, I must have misheard, I misheard!”

Lu Yang’s smile was ferocious. Although he tried his best to appear amiable, his bloodless face and fierce eyes made him look even more terrifying. “How could that be? Since there’s a possibility, why don’t you go in and verify it for me?”

“What?”

The disciple looked up blankly.

Then he saw the suction force surge, directly pulling him in.

“Young Master—”

Lu Yang played with the black flower, “Isn’t this better?”

As he spoke, he looked at the others again, as if talking to himself, “One person might not be enough.”

Hearing this, the others ran.

But in the end, they were too slow.

As darkness descended, one person cried out in agony, “You’re not Lu Yang, you’re not our Junior Brother, you’re a devil! You’re a devil!”

“Give us back our Junior Brother Lu!”

The cry pierced the void and exploded in Lu Yang’s ears.

Lu Yang was suddenly stunned. He threw the black flower and sat on the ground.

Silence surrounded them.

Only a pool of blood stained the ground. He looked at the Corroding Heart Lotus slowly floating in front of him, landing a step away, his eyes filling with confusion that slowly turned to coldness.

“I did nothing wrong, they were disobedient.”

“Right?”

“Those who are disobedient deserve to die.”

“I won’t be wrong!”

Black mist swirled around Lu Yang, and a voice said, “Of course, how could you be wrong? You are the child I chose, the hope that can lead the Returning Origin Sect to become the first among the Three Supreme Sects.”

“Everything you do is not wrong.”

Lu Yang nodded, his expression ferocious, “That’s right, the sacrifices of these people are all for our Great Undertaking.”

The aged voice said softly, “Of course, you narrowly escaped death in the dreamscape. It took me great effort to wake you. We must achieve supreme greatness and reach the top, so what do their sacrifices matter.”

“They will understand later.”

Lu Yang’s eyes became firmer, “That’s right, not only will I reach the top, but I will also reshape this Cultivation World. I will let them know who the true Strong Practitioner is!”

“Who is it!”

Lu Yang clenched his fists, put away the Corroding Heart Lotus, and heard the voice say, “If it weren’t for Ye Wanwan, you would have already achieved everything you desired, you would be—the strongest.”

“That’s right!”

“I am the strongest! As long as I kill—Ye Wanwan.”

Lu Yang stood up.

And turned to leave.

The alley was empty.

The moment he turned, he also threw a formation stone behind him.

Spiritual power was poured into the formation stone, which sank into the ground.

As it merged with the formation buried beneath the Earth, a powerful flowing light covered the entire Earth City, slowly forming a barrier.

“To achieve first place, there must be sacrifices.”

Lu Yang said coldly.

Some people, sooner or later, had to die.

So they might as well die with some value.

At this moment, the Returning Origin Sect disciples who were still reinforcing the formation suddenly discovered something—the formation had opened.

“What’s going on? Didn’t they say to open it after everyone evacuated? Why was it activated early? We didn’t receive any notice!”

“This must have been opened by the Young Master!”

“How could he do this? Our people are still inside the city, how could he do this!”

“Why are you still crying? Run!”

“Now’s the chance, run!”

When the Corroding Heart Lotus returned to its place, this would be an inferno.

But they did not know that the person closest to the formation would be the first to be devoured.

As they fled from the formation eye, a black light surged from behind them, directly devouring them. And in the direction where they had buried the formation eye.

A Corroding Heart Lotus slowly appeared.

But it wasn’t just one now.

There were eight in total, in eight directions around the entire Earth City.

The formation eyes laid by the Returning Origin Sect, the buried formations, became their routes of action. The Corroding Heart Lotuses moved through the formations, harvesting lives.

And the last of the continuous spiritual power and life—gathered in Lu Yang’s hands.

Causing that one Corroding Heart Lotus to slowly turn from black to gold.

“Fallen Immortals were, after all, immortals.”

Lu Yang murmured softly.

This change was seen not only by the Audience Seats and the Elder’s Platform but also by the people in the two camps, Sun and Moon, outside the battlefield.

Ji Changhuai and Dou Ming’s expressions changed drastically.

Even Bai Yi and Bai Lin stopped their actions.

At this moment, everyone on the battlefield looked towards this Earth City, which was also the Territory with the largest gathering of people, watching the ominous aura engulf it.

And the cultivators who had been hiding on the City Wall, fighting alongside them, suddenly exploded into blood mist, absorbed by something.

Such a scene unfolded before everyone’s eyes.

Bai Yi shouted, “Ceasefire!”

Ji Changhuai also immediately ordered a ceasefire.

The situation was not right.

The Earth City had changed!