During the final judgment ceremony at the Holy Sanctuary, Lu Mo had already demonstrated her strength as a high-tier transcendent.
They believed they could not defeat Lu Mo, but they thought they could at least engage her for a while.
If they attacked all at once, perhaps they might eventually win.
But now, everything had changed.
Lu Mo truly wanted to kill them, and all it took was one sword strike!
“……”
Solaris looked at the headless corpse of the demon, unable to speak for a long time.
Such a clean, smooth wound was something she might not be able to achieve even with the Decapitation Sword in her hand.
This had nothing to do with cultivation or talent; it was about sword mastery.
***
The remaining demons were quickly wiped out.
Yet, everyone remained immersed in the shock of Lu Mo silently killing that demon in a single strike, unable to snap out of it for a long time.
They looked at Lu Mo, feeling a chill run down their own necks.
That strike… was simply too terrifying!
Previously, when Lu Mo and Solaris sparred, they hadn’t quite realized the extent of it.
But now that Lu Mo had truly unleashed her sword arts with transcendent power…
They felt an extreme sense of dread toward her!
She thought back to that day she sparred with Lu Mo, the time she was completely suppressed.
The memory of that final strike, combined with the smooth wound before her, made her pupils tremble.
The demons were all dead.
Yet, this area remained chillingly silent.
“Let’s go.”
Finally, Lu Mo broke the silence. “We have the data, it’s time to return, right?”
“Ye… yes.”
“We should go back early, lest other demons appear.”
The others replied, bracing themselves.
“Let’s head back.” Solaris also spoke up at this moment.
She and Lu Mo locked eyes for a brief second.
Soon, both of them looked away.
Lu Mo took Cecilia and headed toward the Wall of the Sacred Demon along with the others.
***
Time flowed, and soon, a year had passed.
During that year, some hero squads suffered casualties.
Others pressed forward with great momentum.
The team led by Solaris clearly belonged to the latter.
They carried out many missions, all of which were completed perfectly.
Over that year, Solaris grew rapidly.
During one mission, they were ambushed by a noble demon.
Solaris took the initiative to engage the noble, but ended up defeated and severely wounded.
The noble sneered, intending to bury the future hope of the Holy Sanctuary.
At that moment, Solaris had an epiphany and broke through on the spot.
She advanced from the Transcendent tier into the Earth-Vein Realm.
The noble demon’s strength approached the Earth-Vein Realm, but he was not truly in it.
Facing the breakthrough of Solaris, he retreated step by step and was ultimately killed by her alone.
This scene was witnessed by a member of the Holy Sanctuary who had come to provide reinforcements.
News of this event soon spread throughout the Wall of the Sacred Demon and reached the internal circles of the Holy Sanctuary.
Everyone at the Wall of the Sacred Demon praised the power of Solaris’s talent.
To step into the Earth-Vein Realm at 20 years old was a rare feat indeed.
The Holy Sanctuary and the God-descendant families sent envoys to investigate Solaris’s condition.
They were increasingly surprised to find that the God-blood and holy power talent within Solaris became more active with her breakthrough.
This breakthrough could be considered a sublimation and transformation of her life level.
Solaris’s radiance at this time could be said to overshadow everyone at the Wall of the Sacred Demon.
Even Lu Mo.
— Before Solaris broke through, Lu Mo had also been a focus of attention at the Wall of the Sacred Demon.
Because during her missions, she repeatedly displayed transcendent strength and terrifying sword mastery.
The perfect fusion of the two caused her power to erupt geometrically!
Her performance was not a bit worse than that of Solaris at the time.
Compared to Solaris, there was an additional sense of breathtaking beauty to her movements.
Some even felt that Lu Mo’s comprehensive strength was a bit higher.
“She is, after all, the ‘Mo’ who defeated a God-descendant in the past…”
“Although she refuses to admit it, her strength has long since spoken for itself.”
“Do you think if Miss Lu Mo had the holy power talent, she would be even more powerful than Miss Solaris?”
“Likely, perhaps then Solaris would only be the second-ranked.”
People had once discussed it like this.
But now, as Solaris further awakened her holy power talent and God-blood, Lu Mo’s radiance seemed to be fading rapidly.
Some began to secretly speak ill of Lu Mo.
But sometimes, before these words could even reach Lu Mo’s ears, others were already extremely dissatisfied and began to argue on her behalf.
At first, it was Cecilia.
Later on, Yuxia was added to the mix.
That Yuxia would suddenly jump out to argue for her was something Lu Mo had not expected.
Isn’t this girl the one who always wants to beat me and make me lick her feet?
When asked why she did it, Yuxia’s answer was simple—
She wanted to defeat Mo.
And before she defeated Mo, she would not allow anyone to defile her.
“What, is big sister Mo shy?”
“Or… does big sister Mo think what they said is right, admitting that you’re just a small fry?”
“A big sister Mo like that is no fun to step on at all…”
Yuxia revealed a scornful smile, looking up and eyeing Lu Mo with a mischievous intent, wanting to see a different expression on her face.
But she failed.
“Hey, tell me, can you show some expression? For example, trembling with rage but being unable to do anything about me, biting your lip until you’re almost crying…”
“Hey, don’t walk away!”
“Waa… Mo! You’re bullying me again!!!”
***
Yuxia is also a very strange person, isn’t she?
She doesn’t care that her own ranking among the new generation at the Wall of the Sacred Demon has dropped to third.
She doesn’t care that Solaris has stepped into the Earth-Vein Realm.
She only cares about… Mo.
She wants to make Lu Mo admit that she is Mo.
And then, defeat Lu Mo in a fair and square fight.
However, Lu Mo ignores her completely.
“Mo! Come out!”
“Fight me fair and square!”
“If you have the ability to act like a bystander, you have the ability to open this door!”
Sometimes, Yuxia would suddenly come to Lu Mo’s residence, pounding on the door and shouting.
If no one opened the door, she would squat by the entrance and wait.
In the end, she would usually be discovered by the Vice-City Lord, who would then drag her away, citing that she was damaging the family’s image.
Lu Mo’s residence would then have a few days of peace.
A few days later, Yuxia would return to knock again.
***
When she was free, the thing Lu Mo did most was research sword arts and the Power of Fusion Sublimation.
Most of her points were spent on redeeming sword manuals.
The Wall of the Sacred Demon had better training facilities, so she would often rent a high-level training room to further research the Power of Fusion Sublimation.
“It’s still lacking quite a bit…”
Lu Mo had tried many times, but she could never merge the Power of Fate into the Triple Fusion Sublimation Power.
In the second simulated reincarnation, her perception of fate was very acute.
However, her fate-attribute talent was only mid-level.
Theoretically, only high-level attribute talents had the possibility of being merged into the Power of Fusion Sublimation.
And Lu Mo’s fate talent was just a little bit short.
This sense of powerlessness was very similar to her reality.
In reality, her comprehension was very strong, but she had absolutely zero cultivation talent.
She could fully understand some theories and directions, but she could never turn them into true power.
In fact, Lu Mo could step into the Earth-Vein Realm at any time.
But the first law-vein she condensed would determine the foundation of her entire Earth-Vein Realm journey.
She had to be cautious.
And she… very much wanted to complete the Quadruple Fusion Sublimation Power.
With this, she could condense the Fusion Sublimation Vein!
This was also her best insurance for contending with Solaris and defeating the Demon King in the future.
“Is there any way to raise my fate-attribute talent to high-level?”
“If it really doesn’t work… obtaining other high-level attribute talents would also suffice.”
Lu Mo had considered other methods.
Like taking precious treasures and gambling, or something like that.
But the probability was infinitesimal.
Given her experience of only getting the item after hitting the pity timer and still getting the wrong one, she shouldn’t even think about such things.
“But within this period, I must make a decision.”
Lu Mo muttered to herself.
If she didn’t break through soon, the gap would truly widen.
***
Meanwhile, outside the Wall of the Sacred Demon.
A fortress of the demon race.
This fortress was not far from the Wall of the Sacred Demon.
And at this very moment, the atmosphere in the entire fortress was heavy.
Elite demons clad in pitch-black armor trained continuously, array mages perfected complex blood-red arrays in silence, and summoners were taking inventory of the alien monsters they had summoned…
Dense, dark clouds covered the sky above the fortress.
Everyone in the fortress was preparing for something.
A war.
A slaughter.
A… blood-red performance.
“How are the preparations going?”
At the very top of the fortress, a demon wearing blood-red armor spoke faintly.
Black marks crystallized on his forehead, forming a dark crown.
“Please rest assured, Great Duke; everything is proceeding according to plan, and it will be completed properly within this period!” A tall demon beside him spoke respectfully.
Even though the tall demon was the lord of the fortress, he still knelt and scraped before the Great Duke-level entity.
“That is good—”
The Great Duke looked toward the Wall of the Sacred Demon from afar and said faintly:
“The Lord of the Sacred Demon City is severely wounded and has gone missing; with the core combat power of the city lacking, the present is indeed the best time to strike the Wall of the Sacred Demon…”
“Everything is just waiting for the King’s command—”
“The Great Duke is absolutely correct!” The fortress lord echoed.
“And regardless of whether the Wall of the Sacred Demon is conquered, Stella, your mission will proceed as usual.”
After that, the Great Duke looked at the petite figure beside him and spoke.
“As you command.”
The petite figure nodded and said no more.
She was the rarest race among all demon races—the Soul-Eater clan.
Their talent was called Soul Seizing.
Simply put, it could be understood as possession.
Once the possession was complete, she would bring her own power into the new body while simultaneously gaining the memories and power of that new body.
With this, she could infiltrate the human world as a human after possessing one, secretly carrying out orders issued by the demon race.
Many of her kin had already possessed creatures of this world, lying in wait in every corner of the world.
Now, it was her turn to carry out this mission.
What kind of human should she possess?
She wondered.
It would be best to be strong, high-ranking, young, and also very beautiful.