Chapter 99: Chapter 99: In the Next Life, I Will Kill You

“Convert my ass!”

Before the words even faded, Lü Yang arrived at the center of the Vast Skull Mountains. A savage grin spread across his face as he clawed at the Lay Line below.

RUMBLE!

In an instant, the heavens shook and the earth quaked. An intensely dense stream of Yin Qi surged from the Lay Line, transforming into a boundless, turbid river that hung in the sky.

Celestial Corpse Fiend!

It had now been forcibly extracted by Lü Yang from deep within the Skull Mountains’ Lay Line, instantly triggering a massive earthquake throughout the mountains.

Then, the turbid river descended from the sky and submerged Lü Yang. The sparks of the Fire Dragon’s flames on his body were instantly extinguished. At this sight, Arhat Fulong’s eyebrows shot up, a hint of surprise in his eyes. “Celestial Corpse Fiend? Such a thing still exists here?”

The Fire Dragon is born from the budding of Yang Wood and Yin Earth.

Its flames are fierce, but its foundation is wood qi, nurtured by earth. Thus, it doesn’t fear things that counter fire. To deal with it, one must find a way to target its earth and wood qi.

“The Celestial Corpse Fiend belongs to Chen Earth, an Yin Earthly Branch!”

“The Branch could nurture Wood and has no fear of being drained by it. The Branch can absorb Water and cannot be washed away by it, so the branch has no fear of raging floods…”

Hence, the Celestial Corpse Fiend couldn’t be dealt with by neither Water nor Wood!

While it couldn’t suppress the Fire Dragon, it could absorb the searing white flames it generated, causing them to gradually dissipate into nothing.

Strictly speaking, these two ingredients were even compatible with each other, perfectly capable of paving a path toward a Fruit. However, upon seeing this, Arhat Fulong showed no trace of greed. Instead, he subconsciously took a step back, as if he had seen something he deeply feared.

“Major Wood… and Chen Earth…”

This path, formed by the union of a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch, corresponded to only one Fruit in all the world, but it was a Fruit that Master Fulong dared not cultivate.

Its name: The Fruit of Lamp-Cover Fire!

’If I take this, I’ll become that fiend Minor Metal’s rival on the Dao. That’s just asking for trouble. The Bodhisattvas in the Pure Land won’t necessarily protect me…’

At this thought, Arhat Fulong immediately shook his head. He spat out the Fire Dragon once more. Its intense flames collided with the river formed by the Celestial Corpse Fiend.

Before long, the river began to dry up. After all, one side was sustained by the power of a Foundation-Stage Cultivator, while the other was merely a river without a source.

“Do you still insist on fighting with me?”

With the appearance of the Celestial Corpse Fiend, Arhat Fulong’s tone grew hostile. His patience had clearly run out, and he no longer wished to be entangled with Lü Yang.

BOOM!

The response was an earth-shattering crash. Lü Yang had thrown the entire Yama Hall at him, and it came down on his head like a massive hammer.

“More of these petty tricks…”

Arhat Fulong shook his head and repeated his earlier move. A protective Mythical Light flared up from the crown of his head, resembling a lotus canopy and making him appear all the more divine.

But in the next second, his expression changed.

“Explode!”

Before he could react, Lü Yang performed a hand seal. The mountain-like Yama Hall instantly disintegrated, like a spark igniting dynamite.

And the dynamite was the Celestial Corpse Fiend!

RUMBLE!

The next moment, as the disintegration of Yama Hall detonated the turbid river, dark clouds gathered over the Skull Mountains, and the sky filled with writhing snakes of lightning!

“Bad!”

Seeing this, Arhat Fulong lost all of his earlier nonchalance. His face turned ashen. Neither the self-destruction of Yama Hall nor the Celestial Corpse Fiend could harm him.

What truly made his face fall was the realization that with the detonation of the Celestial Corpse Fiend, the entire Lay Line of the Skull Mountains was being destroyed along with it!

“Destroying a Lay Line… is an offense against Heaven!?”

Arhat Fulong’s right hand moved ceaselessly, performing finger techniques for divination. A look of shocked fury appeared on his face. “How can he know such a method? Who in the world is he?”

He had only followed the connection he felt to the Ninefold Dragon Metamorphosis.

He had never actually grasped Lü Yang’s karmic links, nor had he cared to. After all, as a Foundation-Stage Cultivator, dealing with a mere Qi Refining junior should have been a sure thing.

But he never would have imagined Lü Yang had a move like this!

In truth, this was the final trump card left behind by Progenitor Tingyou.

Back then, the Golden Core Sword Qi had failed to completely annihilate the Wu Ghost Sect precisely because Progenitor Tingyou had used the Wu Ghost Secret Realm to hold the Lay Line of the Vast Skull Mountains hostage.

If necessary, Progenitor Tingyou could detonate the entire Lay Line, which would immediately trigger heavenly punishment, stripping away one’s Merit and Fortune. Not even a Golden-Core Perfected Lord was willing to be involved in such immense karmic links.

That was why the Wu Ghost Sect had been left a sliver of a chance to survive, with their enemy opting to take it slowly, wearing them down over a thousand years.

And now, Lü Yang had used this move on Arhat Fulong!

The next second, Arhat Fulong staggered back a step. The image of Fulong Temple appeared behind him, but the Buddha Light within the temple suddenly dimmed.

Once the Buddha Light faded completely, countless cracks appeared on Fulong Temple before it shattered!

Arhat Fulong’s eyes looked ready to split with rage. Though he was unharmed, two streams of bloody tears ran from his eyes. “My Merit, my Fortune… it’s all gone!?”

Honestly, being injured would have been better!

After all, injuries could heal. With the Shixiu Pure Land backing him, he had plenty of ways to recover. Even if he were to die from grievous wounds, he could still be reincarnated into a good life.

After reincarnation, he would still have a chance to climb the path of the Immortal Dao again.

But with his Merit and Fortune gone, when his current life ended, he probably wouldn’t even be reborn as a human. He would have to spend ten lifetimes as a pig or a dog just to have a chance of clearing his karmic debt!

And a Foundation-Stage Cultivator could reincarnate five times at most!

Ten lifetimes as a pig or dog was practically a death sentence for a Foundation-Stage Cultivator. Arhat Fulong was in the prime of his life; how could he accept such an outcome?

“Why… why would you do this?”

Beyond his fury, Arhat Fulong was utterly bewildered. “For the karmic debt of destroying the Lay Line, I was at most an indirect cause. You are the one who actually did it.”

The Heavenly Dao is impartial. If he had to spend ten lifetimes as a pig or dog for this karmic debt, then Lü Yang wouldn’t be able to pay his off in a hundred, or even a thousand, lifetimes. Even if he did, and was reborn as a human again, he would be doomed to a life of hardship. Forget climbing the Immortal Dao—even attaining wealth and status would be harder than ascending to the heavens.

This was truly a case of ’kill one thousand enemies, lose ten thousand of your own.’

At this thought, Arhat Fulong nearly coughed up blood from sheer anger.

“If you had a way for us to die together, why the fuck didn’t you say so?! We could have talked! If I’d known you had this kind of trump card, do you think I would have been so aggressive?”

“You animal! You fucking animal…!”

“Heh.”

Watching Arhat Fulong lose his composure and curse, Lü Yang just sneered. ’Karmic debt? What karmic debt? After I restart, everything will naturally reset to zero!’

“This was just me collecting some interest.”

Lü Yang stared intently at Arhat Fulong. Although this “Merit bomb” of detonating the Lay Line had far-reaching consequences, its raw power couldn’t harm Arhat Fulong in the slightest.

But he didn’t feel the least bit dejected. On the contrary, his ambition was soaring.

’Even if I failed to reach Foundation Establishment this time, at least I’ve seen the hidden dangers in my Cultivation Technique. In my next life, I can prepare for it with ease, and even turn the tables and teach Arhat Fulong a brutal lesson!’

Cultivation is hard, harder than ascending to the Cyan Heaven. He might not be the one who gets the best laugh.

But with the Centome in his possession, the one who laughed last would definitely be him!

“In my next life, I will kill you!”

As his voice fell, Lü Yang fearlessly self-destructed. His once-clear consciousness instantly plunged into obscurity. In the boundless darkness, only a single, clear echo remained:

“Centome!”

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