sovbooks Chapter 124 A Stone Embryo Creates a New Beginning
Chapter 124 A Stone Embryo Creates a New Beginning
"You wicked creature, prepare to die!"
Golden sword light illuminated the entire Thunderfire Golden Palace, its immortal and magnificent radiance overshadowing the dazzling lightning and flames within. Sharp sword energy swept through the void, annihilating everything in its path.
As Lü Qian leaped out of the stone embryo, the originally pitch-black and hard stone embryo transformed back into surging black mist, which gradually took shape again, eventually coalescing into a human form in the blink of an eye.
"what!"
The lightning and flames inside the golden palace transformed into lightning serpents and fire dragons, rushing towards the black mist humanoid figure. Like snow meeting the blazing sun, the lightning serpents and fire dragons caused the originally solid form to crumble once again as soon as they touched the humanoid figure.
"boom!"
The Thunder Serpent Fire Dragon did not directly shatter the black mist humanoid. Instead, the two intertwined, transforming into fire shackles and lightning chains, which pinned the black mist humanoid to the ground in the center of the golden hall.
When lightning and fire meet, they unleash tremendous power, obliterating the imprisoned black mist humanoid.
Above, the sword light had already taken shape, and the sharp sword energy pierced through the void. The magnificent sword light was about to fall from the void in the blink of an eye.
"Third Brother, save me!"
The black mist humanoid figure looked at the rapidly descending sword light approaching from above. Its blurry face swirled with mist, transforming into a distorted human form. It cried out to Zhou Sheng in the distance, "Third Brother..."
"boom!"
The sword light swept across the void like a shooting star streaking across the sky. The fierce sword energy raged and surged within the golden palace, churning the black mist below to annihilation and eradicating any remaining consciousness within it.
The Thunder Serpent Fire Dragon, which had been imprisoning the black mist, also swept away the black mist that was trying to escape, following the sword light.
"boom!"
The dazzling light flashed by in that instant, and as the light dissipated, the black mist that had been lingering in place also vanished completely.
In the center of the golden hall, only Lü Qian sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, holding a peach wood sword.
Inside the Golden Hall, the Thunder Serpent Fire Dragon no longer possessed its previous arrogance. They circled and danced around Lü Qian's figure, spewing lightning and flames from their mouths, as if blacksmiths were practicing with their hammers. The lightning and flames transformed into the hammers that struck Lü Qian a thousand times, one blow after another.
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
Thunder and fire intertwined, their sounds like the tolling of bells and drums echoing within the golden palace. Lü Qian faced the onslaught of thunder and fire, his body radiating a faint, immortal glow.
Zhou Sheng stood calmly to the side, as if the black mist figure's plea for help was nothing important.
He stroked his beard and turned to look through the cracks in the door and window at the rising sun on the horizon.
On the eastern horizon, a purplish-red glow is about to rise, and the dark night is about to welcome the colors of a new day.
"The time has come!"
With a push of his palms, the doors and windows of the Golden Hall, which had been tightly closed, burst open, and the first ray of reddish-purple sunlight from the eastern horizon successfully pierced through the void and entered the Golden Hall.
"The morning sun shines brightly during the Awakening of Insects, you're quite blessed, kid."
The crimson morning sun shone into the golden palace, and also shone on Lü Qian inside.
"boom!"
Amidst the dazzling white and crimson gold of the thunder and fire, a touch of red and purple aura suddenly swirled around Lü Qian.
The crimson and purple aura, carrying a hint of vitality, gradually increased under the hammering of thunder and fire, reddening Lü Qian's originally pale face and making his heartbeat rhythm more distinct with each breath.
As his vitality slowly increased, Lü Qian, who was sitting cross-legged with his sword in his arms, slowly opened his eyes, his eyes flashing with golden and red flames.
"Break free from the shackles of the old body and sever the inner demons within the remnants of the
"My bones and flesh have regenerated, and today I am truly myself!"
As he awoke, the lightning serpents and fire dragons that roamed the golden palace gradually extinguished, and their dazzling brilliance faded away, disappearing back into the void.
Outside the Golden Palace, as the sun fully rose, its golden-red light shone upon the earth. The three Qimen formations that had been operating continuously suddenly shattered, as if three mirrors were covered with cracks.
"Snap!"
A crisp sound of a mirror shattering echoed through the void, faint yet resounding throughout the entire golden roof.
"Three Grand Tutors!"
Lu Qian flashed to the outside of the Golden Hall. Zhou Sheng sighed, then turned and followed him out of the hall.
In the Golden Temple Square, three elderly people, though hunched over, sat cross-legged facing the rising sun, their backs to the two people who had come out of the Golden Temple.
The golden-red sunrise shone on the golden roof, and the clear and bright golden palace shone brilliantly under the sunlight, illuminating the dark purple night sky.
On Wudang Mountain, the peak where the Golden Summit is located seemed to be bathed in the light of the rising sun. The once dim Golden Summit shone brightly again, and the golden light illuminated the entire Wudang Mountain. It was as if the mountain had been cleansed of its past rust and grime and was once again radiant with its own glory.
"Hehehe, after being trapped in the cave for decades, we have finally seen the new sunrise again."
"Young Master Lü, don't come any closer."
As Lü Qian and Zhou Sheng walked out of the Golden Hall one after the other, the three old men seemed to see them. Hong Yin, with his back turned, rang out with a defiant voice.
"Big monkey, how's my practice of the [Feng Hou Qi Men] going? You have your Seventy-Two Transformations, I have my Zhou Tian Lun Zhuan, cough cough cough..."
As he spoke, his body suddenly trembled uncontrollably, but he still managed to continue, haltingly, "This method is deadly?"
"So what? I'm not afraid to die, I'm just fighting for this pride! Cough cough cough..."
A series of coughs echoed across the Golden Summit. "Big monkey, you old bastard won this time after all. I'm going to see my master now..."
Hong Yin's figure slumped down for a moment, and his head, which had been held high, drooped again, but he never raised it again.
"Obsessed with winning and losing, who can truly understand the outcome? Cough cough cough..."
The old man surnamed Lu shook his head. "Big monkey, we don't blame you. In the end, it was our greed that led to this..."
After he finished speaking, his trembling earlobes fell silent as his head sank back down, and he never spoke again.
"Junior brother, a free spirit is not bound by physical form. You exude an air of weariness; you no longer resemble that [King]..."
The old man surnamed Fang lowered his head further, his voice growing weaker, but he still mustered his strength to crack a joke, "If you've lived long enough, then come down... and join us..."
Under the rising sun, the three old men sat in the same spot, backlit, and fell silent once more, but this time they were no longer alive.
Lu Qian bowed to the three men, saying, "Disciple Lu Qian respectfully sees off the three Grand Tutors!"
"Kid, focus on your training."
Behind him, Zhou Sheng, enveloped in a gentle breeze, transformed once more into an invisible mountain wind and flew away. "Fortune and misfortune have no fixed gate; only self-reflection will suffice!"
On the mountain path, as Zhou Shengche disappeared from his spot, Zhou Meng stepped onto the square. He looked at the corpses of his three fellow disciples with a calm expression.
"Young Lu, you're about to embark on a new path!"
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The author's equipment broke.
The author's heart is broken too.
Two chapters today, and tomorrow will be the third volume.
I need to come up with a plot and work out some subplots. Then I'll ride a crane down from Wudang Mountain to settle accounts with the Celestial Master of the Righteous One Sect and Tongtian Valley. There are some interesting details to this!
Oh right, there's only one day left. As long as I stay in the top 100 of the gift rankings today, I guarantee three chapters a day for the first week of next month!