Chapter 175: Celestial Ranking (Second Update)

In the Second Heaven.

Only items at the level of Primordial Treasures could be considered true heavy treasures.

The Heavenly Divination Platform was crowded with people.

A massive light screen slowly unfurled, mirror-like, revealing none other than the figure of Lu Ye.

Many were seeing Lu Ye’s appearance for the first time.

Previously, they had only seen portraits. Now, gazing at Lu Ye, they couldn’t help but comment.

Truth be told, he was quite handsome.

Just that his killing intent was too overwhelming.

Step by step, his figure flickered continuously as he advanced toward the Jiang Family.

It seemed as though he wasn’t heading to annihilate a super clan, but rather taking a leisurely stroll through the wilderness.

Passing through a stretch of forest.

A tall figure, wielding a golden spear, intricate patterns densely covering the weapon, an overwhelming aura radiating from it.

They met!

They met!

Everyone assumed the two would exchange words, given they were both formidable figures.

Yet Lu Ye didn’t utter a single word—his figure vanished in an instant.

Tuoba Yu’s Sky-Piercing Spear thrust out abruptly, as if the heavens and earth held nothing but this single spear.

Lu Ye’s figure appeared before the spear, only to be impaled through by it.

Tuoba Yu felt no joy. With a slight tremor, Lu Ye’s form dissolved into bubbles. The spear swept horizontally, unleashing a tempest.

A gale howled through the mountains and forests, uprooting countless towering trees.

Another Lu Ye emerged, only to be shattered by the spear the moment he appeared.

The third, the fourth, the fifth…

“Have the guts to face me in an honest fight!”

Tuoba Yu roared. In that instant, countless spear shadows enveloped the space around him.

Even the void trembled.

Tuoba Yu’s strength, combined with the Sky-Piercing Spear, was indeed terrifying.

But he had encountered Lu Ye.

The figures of Lu Ye that had been shattered by the spear reappeared simultaneously—six Lu Yes, forming a hexagram formation, encircling Tuoba Yu.

An intricate rune materialized beneath Tuoba Yu’s feet. With a furious roar, he thrust his spear violently at the hexagram.

“Clang!”

The hexagram was pierced but began to levitate.

Beneath the hexagram, two more Lu Ye appeared, while above Tuoba Yu's head, a ninth Lu Ye emerged.

All nine Lu Ye were illusory.

The hexagram transformed, shifting from a plane into a circle that enveloped Tuoba Yu's body.

At that very moment, it solidified into reality.

Tuoba Yu, witnessing this, felt his scalp tingle instantly—what kind of technique was this?

"Peerless!"

Tuoba Yu roared.

"Nine Extremes Sundering Heaven!"

All nine Lu Ye struck simultaneously.

Nine sword beams erupted in an instant.

Before the sword beams even arrived, their terrifying sword intent had already pierced through Tuoba Yu's body.

The sword beams gleamed like moonlight.

Pure and razor-sharp.

"No!"

Tuoba Yu let out a heaven-shaking bellow.

He sensed an extreme crisis, but it was already too late.

"Boom!"

The Sky-Piercing Spear shattered one sword beam, then two, then three—but the fourth beam had already penetrated his body. The fifth sliced him in half, and the sixth obliterated his Nascent Soul...

Ranked fourteenth on the Celestial Ranking.

A single ultimate move, instantly erased.

Lu Ye extended his palm, and the Sky-Piercing Spear appeared in his grasp. As strands of light pulsed, the spear struggled violently, but Lu Ye's hand had already left a deep imprint upon its shaft.

In the end, the spear crumbled into dust.

Lu Ye's true essence was replenished.

Tuoba Yu was indeed formidable. Had Lu Ye employed conventional combat methods, he might have been entangled for a while.

So he simply unleashed an ultimate move.

This move, called Nine Extremes Sundering Heaven, was the signature technique of the Nine Extremes Sword Sect from the Seventh Heaven—or rather, an enhanced version of it.

Back when the Nine Extremes Sword Sect was betrayed by Chu Ling, Lu Ye, as an apology, promised to refine one of their divine abilities or cultivation techniques for them.

After all, they were allies, and it wouldn’t do to let things turn too ugly.

Of course, it was also because Lu Ye was simply too powerful.

The divine ability Lu Ye helped the Nine Extremes Sword Sect refine back then was precisely this Nine Extremes Split Heaven. This move possessed immense power but had a glaring flaw—its wind-up was too long.

After refinement, it became what it is now.

Though the skill’s wind-up is still lengthy, it has been significantly improved.

“Insta… insta… insta-killed…”

Outside the Heavenly Mirror, countless cultivators were stunned as they witnessed Tuoba Yu being sliced into mincemeat.

That was Tuoba Yu.

That was the fourteenth rank on the Celestial Ranking.

That was the fourteenth strongest expert on the entire Second Heaven’s Celestial Ranking, yet now, he had been obliterated in a single strike.

The Jiang Family… this time, they’d truly stirred up a catastrophe!

But then again.

A mere Earth Immortal, yet his combat power had soared to such terrifying heights—just how had Lu Ye managed this?

Some believed Lu Ye must have overdrawn his potential to unleash such a horrifying strike, all to intimidate other powerhouses and buy himself time to recover his true essence and heal his injuries.

And so, another round of slaughter began.

Within the Heavenly Mirror, it was clear to see Lu Ye’s aura growing even fiercer as he slaughtered enemy after enemy.

At one point, Lu Ye even cast a glance through the Heavenly Mirror directly at them.

A single look was all it took to make countless watching cultivators feel as though their hearts had been violently struck, their very souls trembling under that gaze.

Forty thousand li!

Unbeknownst to all, Lu Ye had already covered half the distance.

Behind him, the corpses were too many to count, practically carpeting the entire Avenue.

The major factions were growing desperate.

The strength Lu Ye had displayed so far revealed no weaknesses—whether in defense, speed, power, Avenue, divine sense, energy storage, or recovery…

Recovery? Hell, he hadn’t even been injured yet.

Many were beginning to realize they’d kicked an iron plate.

Jiang Die’s expression darkened. The pressure Lu Ye exuded was overwhelming. Step by step, he advanced toward the Jiang Family, and even though forty thousand kilometers still separated them, the terrifying weight of his presence seemed to have already enveloped the entire clan.

Human-wave tactics were utterly useless against him.

Even Tuoba Yu had been slain in a single move.

Was this even human?

“Patriarch, what do we do?” Many elders turned to Jiang Die.

At first, they couldn’t comprehend why Jiang Die had been so relentless in targeting Lu Ye. A prodigy like him should, by all logic, have been a figure major families sought to win over. Had they bound him to their clan through marriage, they might have soared to new heights.

But they had been blinded by the benefits Jiang Die offered, and with her overwhelming strength, she had seized control of the Jiang Family’s voice.

"Invite all the top twenty from the Celestial Ranking! Whatever they want, as long as the Jiang Family has it, they can take it!"

"Patriarch, this won’t do. These people have insatiable appetites. If we agree to this, the Jiang Family’s foundation will be completely drained!" An elder immediately objected.

"If Lu Ye reaches the Jiang Family, our entire lineage will be annihilated. What use is preserving our foundation then?" Jiang Die said coldly.

"Our Jiang Family possesses a supreme array. He will never be able to enter!"

Jiang Die laughed at once.

Array?

"Lu Ye’s mastery of arrays is unmatched in this world. The Jiang Family’s array will be nothing but an illusion to him. Against Lu Ye, the only way is to gather the strongest force and kill him—there is no other option!"

"Contact them immediately!"