CHAPTER 325: CHAPTER 310: SUDDEN MUTATION!

"You really opened my eyes," Lu Chen’s face was no longer cold, like melted ice and snow, revealing a smile, "I was originally heading to the Desolate Land with the Wu Meng Warriors from the Divine Hall, but midway I heard that the Holy Queen had already returned to the Wu Meng Divine Hall, and brought back a man... I only glanced at the back on the portrait and knew it was you. Never expected you to be connected to the Holy Queen, truly surprising."

"Senior Brother Lu Chen, please don’t tease me," Wang Xu said helplessly, "I never expected that Ai’ai would actually be the Spiritualization of the Holy Queen, and her power is extremely formidable. You haven’t seen it, but those super strong Wu Meng were obedient like children in front of the Holy Queen, it’s incredible just thinking about it."

"As for you, Senior Brother Lu Chen, I just returned and heard that in the last Divine Stone Contest, you swept away all the competitors and obtained a Wu Meng Divine Stone... With your original strength, you couldn’t have achieved such a huge massacre, right? You must have had some fortuitous encounter, correct?" Wang Xu asked curiously.

The Divine Stone Contest has always been a focal point within the entire Wu Meng Divine Hall, but this time it was even more shocking. A Wu Meng Warrior had actually killed all the competitors and successfully obtained a Wu Meng Divine Stone. It is widely known that every competitor for the Wu Meng Divine Stone is a genius and monster, their strength absolutely not weak, but they were all slaughtered. This shows just how formidable this Wu Meng Warrior is!

Unprecedented news spread like a storm within the Wu Meng Divine Hall, and Wang Xu heard it as soon as he returned.

"There’s no harm in telling you," Lu Chen transmitted his voice, "Remember when we first arrived at the Wu Meng Sacred Cosmos, I was searching for Blue Demon for revenge, the pair of ’Eyes of Life and Death’ on the wings on his back?"

Wang Xu nodded.

Lu Chen extended his fist and slowly opened it: "It’s here now."

Wang Xu was shocked to see that Lu Chen’s palm bulged, a narrow crack appeared, and from it, a deep light shone through. It was an eyeball filled with a deathly aura, and Wang Xu could feel the overwhelming killing intent, resentment, and hostility.

"Senior Brother Lu Chen, this is..." Wang Xu began, but Lu Chen waved to cut him off.

"I know what you’re going to say, the Eye of Life and Death feeds on blood, devours life, it’s an evil thing," Lu Chen said in a deep voice, "But for me, only this way can quickly enhance my Life Index, making my strength stronger."

"From the first sight of you, I knew your Life Level had reached the Celestial God Realm, and your power surged. You must have felt the benefits of increasing your strength... Becoming stronger is my only belief now, I can’t wait anymore. Only by making myself stronger can I accomplish more, and it’s the Eyes of Life and Death that can give me all of this!" Lu Chen’s gaze looked a bit grim.

"Hatred has been accumulating in my heart for a long time, I don’t want to continue to suppress it, nor do I want to continue to deceive myself and sink any further. I want to become strong, stronger than anyone else, to make them fear, tremble, not dare to meet my eyes!"

Wang Xu frowned; the Eyes of Life and Death had already triggered Senior Brother Lu Chen’s deepest inner hatred. This hatred had been buried by Lu Chen for millions of years, and once it erupted, it would be very terrifying.

But Wang Xu had to remain silent. Pursuing strength was not wrong, using the Eyes of Life and Death wasn’t wrong either, even though the path was a bit unorthodox, the direction wasn’t off at all. Wang Xu felt he had no reason to persuade Lu Chen of anything.

"Senior Brother Lu Chen, I can understand your desire to become strong, to seek revenge, but you have plenty of time to slowly improve. There’s no need to achieve it at once, you’ve seen the side effects of the Eyes of Life and Death in Blue Demon, I don’t want to see you suffer the same fate," Wang Xu advised.

"No, we don’t have time," Senior Brother Lu Chen said calmly.

"What do you mean?" Wang Xu was puzzled.

"You don’t know?" Senior Brother Lu Chen transmitted his voice, "The Teleportation Array from the Wu Meng Sacred Cosmos back to the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion has been erased, we can’t go back!"

What?!

The Teleportation Array was erased? Who did it!

"Senior Brother Lu Chen, what happened?" Wang Xu asked urgently. The erasure of the Teleportation Array meant they couldn’t leave the Wu Meng Sacred Cosmos and would be stuck here for a lifetime!

If Wang Xu knew nothing, perhaps he could willingly spend the rest of his life here, but he clearly knew this was just an Inner Cosmos, isolated from the outside, like being trapped in a cage. Staying here felt like losing freedom, and Wang Xu didn’t want to be imprisoned in such a prison for life!

"Calm down, it’s not just our Heaven-Reaching Pavilion’s Teleportation Array, the Cosmic Alliance, Mercenary Martial Arts Hall, and many Immortal Cosmic Countries’ fixed-point Teleportation Arrays have all been erased too, no one can leave!" Senior Brother Lu Chen said, "I don’t know what happened outside, but this situation is unprecedented, very likely..."

"Very likely what?" Wang Xu’s breath quickened.

"Very likely something significant has happened outside, affecting the entire universe!"

A major event affecting the entire universe...

Cosmic War!

The first thought that popped into Wang Xu’s mind was the disconcerting Cosmic War.

This war, even revered figures have fallen. Whether Immortal Cosmic Countries or smaller ones, they would all be engulfed by the flames of war.

"Damn, how could this happen..." Wang Xu gritted his silver teeth, his fists gradually clenched tight. He had only entered the Wu Meng Sacred Cosmos for a little over twenty years, how could a Cosmic War erupt outside, could it be...

Dark Holy Banquet! Yes, it must be the Dark Holy Banquet!

Aside from this ambitious colossus making a comeback, no other force could possibly have such terrifying capability, enacting a war involving the entire universe!

"Senior Brother Lu Chen, is there no other way to leave the Wu Meng Sacred Cosmos?" Wang Xu forced himself to calm his mind, took a deep breath, and asked.

Lu Chen shook his head: "There’s no way at all, this happened too suddenly, without any warning, everyone is trapped in the Wu Meng Sacred Cosmos, although some seniors have started researching ways to leave the Wu Meng Sacred Cosmos, most are not feasible."

"Infeasible ways?" Wang Xu continued.

"The Teleportation Array was erased from the other end, meaning our array is very intact here. If someone skilled in arrays could repair it, perhaps the coordinates at the other end could be changed, allowing transmission to another place... But such an array, even I am helpless, it requires a Grandmaster Level character at the level of Hundred Generations Celestial God to barely achieve it," Senior Brother Lu Chen said.

Lu Chen himself was a Grandmaster Level Array Master and his strength was not weak, yet even he couldn’t do it, showing how difficult this array was.

"The second way is to tear the void."

"The void is made up of countless spaces. Entering a spatial wormhole might allow us to leave the Wu Meng Sacred Cosmos and return to the outer universe, but this method is even less practical. Without a Supreme Treasure level flying treasure, it’s impossible to resist the terrifying space-time storm. With just us, we would be torn into pieces by the space-time storm."

Tearing the void, Mixed Universe Realm characters can do it, but surviving in a space wormhole, even a Hundred Generations Celestial God can’t do it, only an Eternal Generations Celestial God has such terrifying ability.

But this is the Wu Meng Sacred Cosmos, the Cosmic Law constantly monitors them, if they reveal any information about the outside, they would be obliterated immediately, so this method naturally wouldn’t work.

"Senior Brother Lu Chen, is there a third method?" Wang Xu asked again.

"I only heard about the situation, and as of now, there’s no other method," Senior Brother Lu Chen sighed.

The two fell into silence, with the outside erasing the teleportation formation, severing all connections, it was hard not to think negatively. Of course, staying here could avoid the war, no need to fight for their lives, they could wait until the cosmic war is over to leave, which wouldn’t be a bad thing after all.

But what if...

What if the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion, Cosmic Alliance, Mercenary Martial Arts Hall lose, what then?

If the Dark Holy Banquet rules the cosmos, they would be trapped here for life, never able to leave!

Thinking of this, Wang Xu could no longer stay calm.

"Senior Brother Lu Chen, could you help me contact disciples from other forces? I need to meet with them," Wang Xu couldn’t just sit and wait for death; he must understand the changes behind the teleportation array’s erasure clearly.

"Go to the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion’s fixed point, I heard that Senior Brother Lu Ya has returned, go ask him."

Wang Xu nodded, and the two immediately left the Wu Meng Divine Hall, flying to the fixed point of the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations, monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com to read.)