In the ruins outside the Holy Lotus Hall, located in the Central Region of Boundless Heavens, Luo Xiu stood with his sword. He surveyed the area; there were no more enemies left to fight. As he retracted the Mysterious Central Sword, the Glazed Thunder swirling around him also subsided.
"Brother Luo Xiu, have you killed them all?" Zhang Yi asked as she flew over and landed beside him.
"I've killed them, yes, but the task isn't finished," Luo Xiu said, looking around with a slight frown. Although he had just rcilessly eradicated the Void Entities, the air was still thick with a gray mist that only he could see.
He suddenly asked, "Xiao Yi, can you detect the presence of The Void?"
Zhang Yi nodded gently. "I can't see them with my eyes, but through my Spirit Martial Markings, I can feel lots of little bugs in the air."
Luo Xiu was sowhat concerned. "Won't you get infected yourself?"
Zhang Yi waved her small fists. "Don't worry, Brother Luo Xiu. I cover my whole body with the power of the markings, so these little bugs can't get inside ." As she spoke, she gave Luo Xiu a peculiar look and muttered, "Unless... they're *your* bugs, Brother Luo Xiu."
Luo Xiu's face darkened. "You little pervert. Is this really the ti to be cracking lewd jokes?"
Zhang Yi stuck out her little pink tongue.
Luo Xiu changed the subject. "We've got our work cut out for us."
Zhang Yi looked puzzled. "Didn't you kill them all? What else is there to do?"
Luo Xiu's left eye focused, and a sacred white light blood from within it.
In the next instant, Zhang Yi's eyes went wide. In the Void ahead, a disgusting, calf-sized parasite covered in tentacles had appeared! This was a giant Void parasite, identical to the one Luo Xiu had killed after Master Ping sent him into the Void.
Zhang Yi exclaid, "That's one of those little bugs! Brother Luo Xiu, did you use Ten Thousand Manifestations to make it bigger?"
Luo Xiu nodded slightly. "They're too small. Not even my Glazed Thunder can destroy them, so I have to enlarge them first."
"You're amazing! You can even enlarge living creatures," Zhang Yi said excitedly. "This way, we can just squash them!" She paused, then asked, "But Brother Luo Xiu, can you use Ten Thousand Manifestations in your normal form?"
Luo Xiu replied, "Ten Thousand Manifestations is a Divine Technique from the Ancient Gods. It's unrelated to my 'My Own Path,' so I can use it anyti."
"That's great! You're so aweso, Brother Luo Xiu!" Her eyes glinted mischievously. "I have a bold idea."
Luo Xiu glanced at her. "What is it?"
"It's just... could you enlarge certain... parts of a person?"
Hearing this, Luo Xiu looked bemused. "I'm already big enough. If I got any bigger, it would be overkill."
"No, no, that's not what I an! I know you're big, I ant... enlarge parts of !"
Luo Xiu imdiately caught her aning and asked, puzzled, "You've never seen it, so how do you know I'm that big?"
At his question, Zhang Yi's pretty face flushed red, and she hastily looked away. "It's... Qian Qing told ."
Luo Xiu was speechless.
Zhang Yi stamped her foot shyly. "Hey, be serious! Can you help or not?"
Luo Xiu stroked his chin, appraising her figure. "Your proportions are just right. There's no need to change anything. Besides, with your petite and delicate fra, if you were too big in so places, it would look strange. It would also be very inconvenient in a fight."
"Really?" Zhang Yi's heart fluttered at his complint, and she deliberately puffed out her chest toward him.
"Really."
"Then I'll listen to you."
Luo Xiu sighed silently, completely puzzled by these won. To think they had the ntal energy for such things at a ti like this. Indeed, won's concerns were always different from n's.
Luo Xiu's expression turned serious again. "But only the Power of Laws can kill these Void bugs, and there are far too many of them—at least in the trillions. I'd work myself to death and still not be able to kill them all."
Zhang Yi nodded earnestly. "That makes sense. I an, a single drop of mucus contains hundreds of millions of tadpoles, and these Void bugs are even smaller than that, so of course there'd be a lot."
Luo Xiu's mouth twitched. For a mont, he was at a loss for a rebuttal. With a dark expression, he said, "Your analogy is crude, but your logic is sound. Still, you could have phrased that a *lot* less crudely."
Zhang Yi giggled. "I was just giving an example."
Luo Xiu returned to the topic at hand. "This is why we still need your Spirit Martial Markings to handle them."
Zhang Yi's expression soured. "But I'll be worked to death, too! You're working harder than a rented mule."
Luo Xiu clarified, "What I an is, I'll enlarge so of the Void bugs for you to experint on. It'll help you get familiar with the power of the markings. anwhile, I'll go repair the seal. We'll split up."
"Okay, you got it!"
***
「A short while later.」
The two returned to the Holy Lotus Hall. After the Void Entities outside were exterminated, the infected cultivators had all dissolved into puddles of stinking pus on the ground. With a casual wave of his hand, Luo Xiu used the Indestructible Divine Fla to incinerate the putrid ss.
"Xiao Yi, I'll leave these Void bugs for you to ss with. But protect yourself and don't get infected."
Before they returned, Luo Xiu had already used Ten Thousand Manifestations to enlarge two hundred of the Void bugs. He then tied them up like hairy crabs and piled them all together.
"Don't worry, I'm super strong!" she assured him.
After giving her so final instructions, Luo Xiu proceeded into the depths of the Holy Lotus Hall.
"Xiao Qing, how do I repair that seal you ntioned?"
Array Spirit Xiaoqing explained, "That seal is ford from the power of the Wood Path Law and is called the Azure Heaven Seal. The Holy Lotus Great Formation that guards this traveling palace is, in fact, the Wood Path Law itself."
Luo Xiu was surprised. "So the Wood Path Law those small fry from the Celestial Realm were looking for is actually this great formation."
Xiaoqing continued, "Your Majesty only needs to enter the Ancient Path Node and reapply the Azure Heaven Seal."
Luo Xiu felt a pang of embarrassnt. "But I... don't know how."
Xiaoqing was silent for a mont before replying, "Then you must comprehend it anew."
As Xiaoqing's voice faded, the Holy Lotus Hall was bathed in a brilliant azure light. The array guarding the entire hall rapidly contracted, finally condensing into what looked like an ordinary tree branch that fell into Luo Xiu's hand.
The mont he held the branch, he felt the fluctuation of a Law Trace. It reminded him of the Glazed Tile he had obtained from the Purple Gold Box. This branch was very similar to that tile.
"This is a branch from the Construct Wood," Xiaoqing said. "Back then, Your Majesty, you used this very branch to comprehend the Wood Path Law."
Without another word, Luo Xiu sat down cross-legged and began to ditate, his mind focused solely on comprehending the branch.
He sat for ten full days.
After ten days, Luo Xiu successfully comprehended the Wood Path Law. But he didn't stop there. He spent another five days integrating the Wood Path Law with his own Lightning Principle. The greatest strength of the Lightning Principle was its ability to accommodate other Laws without conflict.
***
"Wow... Brother Luo Xiu, your thunder wings are getting more and more beautiful!"
Inside the Holy Lotus Hall, Zhang Yi gazed enviously at the Destructive Thunder Wings on Luo Xiu's back, wishing they were hers.
Luo Xiu glanced over his shoulder. He noticed that after fusing with the Wood Path Law, his Destructive Thunder Wings had gained a new color. The original transparent hue was now joined by the light green from the Wind Dao Principle and the deep green from the Wood Path Law, making for three colors in total.
"From now on, I'll call them the Tricolor Thunder Wings," Luo Xiu said.
"That's a great na. It sounds much better than Destructive Thunder Wings."
"By the way, Xiao Yi," Luo Xiu asked, "what progress have you made this past half-month?"
Zhang Yi tilted her head up proudly and flexed her small fists. "Is there even a need to ask? I'm a genius too, you know!" As she spoke, she held out her slender hand, and a strange, purple-gold pattern erged in her palm. "I successfully sealed all those disgusting bugs inside."
Luo Xiu smiled. "Excellent. In that case, you will be in charge of sealing all the Void bugs throughout the Boundless Heavens."
"But that's an enormous workload! I'll need a powerful Divine Sense."
"Don't worry. As long as I'm here, your Divine Sense will be more than sufficient."
"You truly are amazing, Brother Luo Xiu. To have achieved Divine Sense freedom at such a young age."
Luo Xiu was silent.
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