The overcast clouds dispersed; the enveloping darkness melted like ice and snow.
Brilliant beams pierced the parting clouds.
Enveloping Nie Changqing; a warm, soothing sensation.
His charred, thunder-bombarded, wound-riddled body healed drop by drop.
Nie sensed the light's extraordinariness; sat cross-legged; mobilized attribute power; faint gold glints; like a golden statue.
"This must be Young Master's post-tribulation feedback."
Nie condensed inwardly.
Under the beams; wounds recovered; attribute comprehension soared.
As Nie healed; surroundings boiled.
Passed... really passed?!
That terrifying Heaven Lock tribulation—Nie crossed it!
Besides Young Master Lu; world's first Heaven Lock... born!
Seated cultivators frenzied; massive impact.
Witness great cultivator birth; how not joyous, excited?
Lü Mudui wood staff; even steady him couldn't hold.
Sudden face change.
Lü Dongxuan from West Mountain; robes lifted; sped.
Lü beard quirk; bamboo staff; turn run.
Pig blood unprepared.
Late; Old Lü cough blood announce...
Too hard.
But Lü sharp; gold chain shake; knew Lü flee; blocked path.
Lü lifeless dragged back.
Nie Heaven Lock; Baiyujing huge joy.
Lü yellow paper; Lü cough blood; pen write.
Nie Heaven Lock; world first; announce.
Overlord rub chest stand; complex; unwilling lost.
Wanted tower continue.
But Nie Heaven Lock; far behind; listless.
No cultivate desire.
Turn leave West Mountain; horse out Beiluo.
Nie break far West Mountain; few knew.
But great cultivators sensed.
Broken snow village.
Kong Nanfei shabby Confucian; Meng Haoran follow; snow steps.
Sudden Kong head back.
Heart lost: "Someone passed Heaven Lock..."
"Who?"
"Nie? Overlord? Ning?"
Kong murmur.
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Smile shake: "Whatever; irrelevant... I Heaven Lock; will."
Kong laugh; Meng; snow steps; famous mountains rivers.
...
Beijun.
Buzhou peak base.
Li Sansi blue ox back; slow open.
Bitter extreme.
First Body Storage; now far甩; first Heaven Lock not him.
Sigh unwilling; close continue.
Snow cover; snowman.
Buzhou top.
Girl hug legs blue stone; peak four seasons spring; flowers vivid; grass crisp.
Zhu Long closed eyes tremor; lashes flutter.
Someone Heaven Lock?
World big change soon...
Zhu Long faint expect.
...
South.
Secluded Tang Yimo slow exhale.
"Still slow... Eight Meridians Dun Jia; third meridian no open... where wrong?"
Tang face tangled.
Tiandang Dao Pavilion challenges many.
Li Sansui full Dao array beat repeated.
Tang thought breakthrough edge; still far.
Really Beiluo for way?
Tang tangled.
No Beiluo; went once; too terror; Young Master Lu... horrible!
South secluded hard.
Heaven Lock birth; many strong feel shackles break; odd feel world big change.
...
Lü paper sky-machine order; pigeons; announce.
Nie Heaven Lock; world first.
Baiyujing jianghu boil; families pot.
Jianghu families cultivate cultivators; like past martial; power.
Pursue strength extreme.
Heaven Lock like thousand-li horse.
Nie break direction; possible!
Kong fail unknown.
Nie success world know.
Cruel; path remember success.
No fail memory.
Just Beiluo Sword Saint Hua Dongliu witnessed tribulation grand.
Sigh thousand.
Cultivators defy heaven; reverse; this path?
Hua worldview shock.
Beiluo West Mountain joy ocean.
Joy worry.
Nie break; happy disappointed.
Lu lean Thousand Blade; Nie light bath; plane origin beams; origin breath; attribute help.
Nie seize; attribute big rise.
Heaven Lock strong.
Vs soul qi Jindan; comprehensive.
Body strong; strong sense.
But harder break cultivate.
Lu now; not Nie.
Panel words; Lu slow exhale...
"Finally... waited."
Lu mixed.
Low to mid; requirement.
Nie Heaven Lock; Wuhuang level up; upgrade qualify.
Lu感慨.
No immediate; world upgrade unknown accidents.
Least not here.
Upgrade not simple.
"System; low to mid... changes?"
Lu ask.
No response.
Lu furrow.
Before barrier break; qi tide.
This upgrade qi energy no less.
Lu hesitate; fingers tap.
Distant.
Beams fade.
Nie slow open; refreshed; mind baptism.
Felt gold consciousness; sense.
Sense move; farther clearer.
Saw Nie Shuang; sense wrap; pores excited.
Ni Yu; mouth qi pill.
Too clear; perception sharper.
Heaven Lock... new realm!
Vs Body; too strong.
Nie sense to Lu.
Ponder Lu glance sense.
Nie feel Lu blazing sun; sense rapid retract.
"Sense use mystic; Jindan Heaven Lock mark..."
Lu.
"Passed; promised knife; forge now."
Chair.
Lu hand.
Runes palm surge.
Distant Gongshu Yu shock; Young Master forge spirit tool!
Eyes wide; hungry stare.
Lu hand spirit stones; compressed liquid; hot white flame; air twist.
Flame; Gongshu incredulous.
Forger; good flame level up.
Legend god fire.
Worthy Young Master; master such!
Stones melt; pig knife remnants melt twist.
Lu sense control embryo; knife shape.
Runes into body.
No think; pig knife shape.
Flame gone.
Lu beckon.
Knife air spin; snow sizzle.
Lu void grab.
Liquid rain red knife; cool; terror wave; qi fluctuation; cultivators greedy envy!
"Name; you decide."
Lu wave.
Knife to Nie.
Nie bright; grip.
7-8 like old; blade deeper black.
Mystic patterns flow.
Hold; warm palm whole.
Nie bright; knife power; strength +30%!
Control 70-80%.
Treasure!
No weak; stronger Jing Tian sword.
"Thank Young Master!"
Nie joy; kneel.
Heaven Lock; no Lu match.
Pressure same; sense sun; horrified.
"Heaven Lock start; path long; no pride impatience..."
Lu.
Nie stroke; blade ink black; sun no reflect.
Faint terror wave; heart surge.
"Old pig knife... reforged; no more..."
Nie soft stroke.
Mouth quirk; gaze condense: "Then... 'Dragon Slayer'."
Lu hear; no say.
Name Nie freedom.
Shoulder Little Yinglong不满; water at Nie.
Like...
Come! Slay me!
Lu smile; turn; vanish West Mountain snow.
Lu gone.
Gongshu speed to Nie; mad stare knife.
"Let old see 'Dragon Slayer'?"
Nie no refuse; hand.
Gongshu stroke; callused tremble; life forge; hidden weapons; storm pear.
Now know forge deep.
"Worthy Young Master... stones base; spirit fire; liquid cool... rare!"
"Near mystic tier treasure knife!"
Gongshu lips quiver.
Eyes crystal.
Distant.
Jing Yue sour; Jing Tian strong.
...
Lu back Lake Heart.
Head out Ximen sense.
Lu leave; world abandon; return; comfort.
If knew Hua arrived; tower watched; despair.
Lu sit Baiyujing second.
Breeze; hair sway.
Lu eye choice.
Upgrade world?
Low to mid... unexpected?
Long; Baiyujing Lu sudden laugh.
Obsessed.
Purpose world evolve?
Now time... hesitant?
"What fear?"
Lu squint.
Mind.
"Upgrade?"
"Yes."
Words.
Instant; heaven earth quiet.
Silence.
Lu sense.
Sudden head.
Pierce clouds; plane origin.
Origin vast energy surge; inflate...
Bigger!
Low to mid... origin explode!
Just start!
Lu eyes lines dance.
Brows pick.
Whole land quake; quake...
Ground expand; majestic mountains; towering; rise from nothing!
