CHAPTER 422: CHAPTER 422 AM I HANDSOME NOW?

"Our Lv Family has searched for this fated opportunity for three thousand years! How can we let an outsider take it? If Wang Lan doesn’t surrender it, the Lv Family will fight him to the death!"

"What a joke. Just because you’ve been searching for it for three thousand years, it becomes yours? Then should I claim Sky Blue Star is mine because my ancestor dreamed of being its ruler for five thousand years? You disregarded the safety of our home and country, forcefully opening the Different Dimensional Space, causing severe losses to the nation. With your monstrous crimes not yet accounted for, you still have the nerve to bark wildly here? Get lost! The Great Cosmic Dragon!"

BOOM—

A golden dragon burst forth from Qiu Bo, surging upwards as it struck Lv Yifeng’s chest in an instant. Lv Yifeng immediately spat out blood, his body violently hurtling backward.

But a sudden change occurred once again.

The Demon Clan’s divine soul, which had been stationary, suddenly transformed into countless tendrils, swiftly wrapping around Lv Yifeng’s body.

"What is this? How can I... AH—"

Black smoke suddenly surged into Lv Yifeng’s seven orifices and vanished in the blink of an eye. As Lv Yifeng landed, his black hair instantly erupted, turning into a full head of silver strands. Numerous fine scales visibly grew on his face.

"The human body is just too fragile—"

An overlapping voice spoke from Lv Yifeng’s mouth, but his words made it clear he was no longer the human Lv Yifeng.

"A member of the Demon Clan?"

"Spread out... Spread out quickly—" The people from the Lv Family retreated in terror.

"Spread out? You all must die!" A ferocious smile appeared on Lv Yifeng’s face as he lightly waved his hand. A streak of black light flashed from his hand, and the bodies of the fleeing Lv Family members suddenly froze in place.

They froze as if captured in a photograph.

Lv Yifeng lightly extended a finger. With a snap, the elite Star Sea Realm experts of the Lv Family behind him all exploded into plumes of smoke and dissipated.

"Second Miss, take Wang Lan and go! I’ll hold them off!"

"Qiu Bo—"

"Don’t delay. This is an ancient Giant Demon, its strength unfathomable. I fear even the Qing Emperor cannot contend with it. I can’t buy much time. You must leave quickly—"

Yu Ruoyun clenched her jaw, knowing this was not the time to be sentimental. She quickly grabbed the still-dazed Wang Lan and was about to run.

But just as they took off from the ground, she suddenly froze on the spot. Yu Ruoyun felt as if she was trapped in a constricting space, where even moving a single finger was a vain hope.

Qiu Bo had already turned pale, sweating profusely. He hadn’t even noticed how the ancient Giant Demon attacked. Its terrifying strength, as deep as an abyss, filled him with despair.

The ancient Giant Demon slowly extended a finger. Just by snapping it, Wang Lan and the other two would turn into ash, just like the Lv Family members. At that moment, Yu Ruoyun closed her eyes in despair.

At this moment, clarity returned to Wang Lan’s eyes.

Suddenly, a sharp aura burst forth.

Qiu Bo felt a breeze pass by him, and then Wang Lan, a blur of afterimages, materialized in front of him. As fast as lightning, Wang Lan jabbed two fingers straight towards the ancient Giant Demon.

Countless strands of Sword Qi erupted from Wang Lan’s fingertips, transforming into streaming light that bombarded the demon.

"Liu Changfeng—" The ancient Giant Demon’s face changed dramatically as it let out a roar. Energy burst forth from its body, forming a pitch-black energy shield in front of it to block Wang Lan’s Sword Qi onslaught.

After several Sword Qi strikes were deflected, one suddenly broke through the defense and pierced into the ancient Giant Demon’s body. Countless more followed, riddling the Giant Demon’s body with wounds.

"AH—"

BOOM—

With a loud explosion, Lv Yifeng’s body burst apart, and the dark smoke transformed into a black streak of light, vanishing into the void.

With the ancient Giant Demon defeated, Yu Ruoyun and Qiu Bo regained their freedom. They rushed to Wang Lan’s side. "Wang Lan, I never imagined you still had such a move up your sleeve... Wang Lan?"

Wang Lan’s body, stiff as a javelin, fell backward and passed out into Yu Ruoyun’s arms.

Qiu Bo quickly reached out to check Wang Lan’s condition. "He’s fine. He just passed out from exhaustion. We need to figure out a way to get out of here now."

"But this is a fixed, sealed space. Unless someone opens a spatial rift here, we can’t get out," Yu Ruoyun said gravely. "Moreover, now that the Divine Sword is shattered and the altar is broken, this place is no longer protected. Powerful Exotic Beasts from this dimension might attack us at any moment."

"There’s always a way out. Let’s take it one step at a time... Huh?"

Suddenly, where the broken altar had stood, the ground collapsed strangely, countless rocks tumbling down. Normally, a collapse would leave a dark pit. But oddly, this one left a hazy white glow.

Qiu Bo and Yu Ruoyun cautiously approached the glow and looked down. To their amazement, they saw an island at the bottom of the pit, surrounded by a vast ocean. It was as if they were looking through the floor at the scene below them—and below was none other than Three Immortal Island.

The two were overjoyed, yet also worried about what might happen during the passage through the hole...

"Second Miss, I’ll jump first. If you see that I’m okay, then you jump." With that said, Qiu Bo leaped into the hole. He landed with ease in the world of mortals, as if simply jumping down from an upper floor.

"Second Miss, you can jump—"

Hearing Qiu Bo’s call, Yu Ruoyun did not hesitate. Carrying Wang Lan, she leaped down.

In a daze, Wang Lan didn’t know how long he had slept. Gradually, his consciousness began to clear. What was I doing again? Right, the Divine Sword exploded, the divine soul of the ancient Giant Demon appeared...

Abruptly, Wang Lan sat up.

In front of him was sheer whiteness; the sunlight outside the window was splendid. Sunlight? That means I’ve returned to the outside world, right? But what happened in between? Why can’t I remember anything?

Wang Lan quickly delved into his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness. He recalled that the system seemed to have undergone a change when that beam of white light entered his mind.

As he opened the system and accessed the skill panel, the change was obvious. The skill that had always been first on the list, Phoenix Form, was now displaced by a brand-new Star Martial Skill—which was infuriatingly gray.

"Sunlight Sword Skill, Blue Diamond LV1 (0/1,000,000) - Cannot be activated."

Wang Lan was taken aback, not by the Blue Diamond level Star Martial Skill, but by the sheer number of zeros in the skill points. He counted them. One million? Does a single upgrade really require one million skill points?

It was only then that Wang Lan properly saw the skill’s rank. Blue Diamond?

He had already elevated some Star Martial Skills to Platinum level. He sensed that some skills, like Star Sky God Arrow and Extreme Heat Light Beam, had reached their limits at Platinum Nine and couldn’t be improved further. However, he knew many other skills still had untapped potential, such as Mandala Flower and his intrinsic skill, Life Light. Therefore, he deduced that Diamond level must exist above Platinum. But what lay beyond Diamond? Wang Lan had no idea. Now, the appearance of a Blue Diamond level, even higher than Diamond, made his heart pound intensely.

But why is this skill gray? Does it need skill points to activate? Wang Lan searched in vain but couldn’t find any button to add skill points. This means this skill is very different from Phoenix Form; it can’t be activated by consuming skill points.

"Are you awake?" The door of the sickroom opened, and Yu Ruoyun entered gracefully.

"Where is this?"

"Penglai First National Defense Hospital." Yu Ruoyun casually placed a food container on the table. "You’ve been asleep for two days. Are you hungry?"

"Hunger’s not the main issue. How did I get out? What happened afterward?"

"You don’t know what happened?"

"I don’t," Wang Lan shook his head.

"You don’t remember anything?" Yu Ruoyun asked seriously once more.

Looking at Yu Ruoyun’s expression, Wang Lan gave a faint smile. "Judging by your reaction, it seems I did something significant afterward?"

"Do you know that Lv Yifeng ambushed Lv Yi?"

"I remember."

"Then, do you know that Lv Yifeng was possessed by the divine soul of the ancient Giant Demon and became a member of the Demon Clan?"

Wang Lan shook his head.

"So, you don’t remember anything about killing Lv Yifeng, who had turned into a Demon Clan member, with a single sword strike?"

"Killed him with a single strike? Damn, I can’t believe I blacked out during something so epic."

"Afterward, a spatial rift connecting to the outside world appeared where the altar collapsed, and we took you away from the Different Dimensional Space. The spatial rift lasted for less than five minutes before disappearing.

After I got you settled in the hospital, I went to the Pioneer Space to report to my uncle. That’s when I learned that while the Lv Family was opening the Different Dimensional Space, an Abyss Giant Beast had appeared in the Pioneer Space.

However, my uncle was guarding the East Sea at the time, and that Abyss Giant Beast was suppressed before it could cause much trouble. From this, we deduced that the Lv Family was behind the anomalies in the East Sea’s Different Dimensional Space for the past two years. Following the downfall of the Duanmu Family, the Lv Family has also fallen."

"Is that so? So, everything has been settled?"

"Pretty much. However, with two top Star Martial families destroyed one after another, many rumors have emerged recently, leaving the Star Martial families uneasy. Some individuals with wild ambitions are boldly forming alliances."

At this point, a wry smile appeared on Yu Ruoyun’s face. Those so-called individuals with wild ambitions were mostly her uncles and members of the Yu Family.

"Regarding the arrest of the Lv Family, didn’t they desperately fight back?"

"Fight back how? Most of their experts died in the Different Dimensional Space. The remaining two Titled Strongmen and Lv Yi were not on the same side at all. The arrest of the Lv Family proceeded smoothly, a result of coordinated efforts from both within and without, allowing everything to fall perfectly into place. By the way, do you have any recollection of the sword technique you used? What kind of state were you in?"

"I’m not sure, just a muddled state... But I do remember the name of the move. It’s called the Sunlight Sword Skill."

"Sunlight Sword Skill? It’s a shame. We found another Ancient Cultivation Sect, but couldn’t obtain their cultivation inheritance. If only we could revive the cultivation civilization of ancient times, that would be great."

"There will be a chance. Have you forgotten what Lv Yi said about the Heavenly Court? Above the cultivation civilization, there should be the Heavenly Court."

"Oh right, I forgot to tell you, Xinyu is returning to the country today."

"Uh..." Wang Lan was startled for a moment, then sprang up from the bed. "Why didn’t you say so earlier? When does she arrive?"

"She arrives at Modu City airport in three hours. We’ll make it if we leave now..."

Yu Ruoyun hadn’t finished speaking when Wang Lan dashed towards the door. Suddenly, he stopped sharply at the threshold.

"What’s wrong?"

Turning around once more, he looked seriously at Yu Ruoyun. "Do I look handsome right now?"

"..."