Chapter 70

"Are you ready?" Li Xiao scanned the crowd with a blank expression and coldly asked, his gaze intentionally or unintentionally pausing slightly on Lu Tianyu.

"We are ready," Lu Tianyu and the others nodded in unison.

"Good, everyone close your eyes. I am about to open the Life and Death Realm," Li Xiao immediately instructed. Upon hearing this, everyone closed their eyes.

"Huff" As soon as everyone's eyes were closed, Li Xiao's right hand trembled, and the scroll in his hand quickly opened. As it opened, it emitted a series of thunderous booms.

A more powerful pressure rapidly spread from the scroll, causing Lu Tianyu and the others to tremble violently, like a small boat in a storm.

Seeing this, Li Xiao waved his left hand, immediately releasing a vast, ocean-like purple battle aura that transformed into a huge purple shield, blocking the front of Lu Tianyu and the others to protect them from the pressure emitted by the opening scroll.

"Rumble" As the scroll opened, it gradually revealed a series of undulating mountains, rivers, and seas, all vividly depicted, as if there were another world inside the scroll.

After about three minutes, the scroll was finally fully opened.

Li Xiao immediately held the Life and Death Realm scroll in his right hand and waved his left hand at Lu Tianyu and the others. The huge purple shield in front of them quickly transformed into a purple mist, sweeping over them like a tidal wave.

Everyone's bodies suddenly trembled, and a faint human figure quickly emerged from their heads, merging into the purple mist. Li Xiao's left hand fiercely grabbed the purple mist, which contained their souls, and it rapidly transformed into a purple dragon, merging into the Life and Death Realm scroll in his hand.

"Uncle Li, you are truly powerful. With just a wave of your hand, you can summon and control souls. If I could reach your level one day, I would be content!" Several white-robed disciples, who were standing nearby, immediately opened their eyes in shock, filled with envy.

Li Xiao's right hand trembled again, and the Life and Death Realm scroll in his hand immediately rolled back up. He threw it, and it floated high in the air.

After doing this, Li Xiao immediately sat cross-legged under the Life and Death Realm scroll and closed his eyes to meditate.

"Ah, Uncle Li, why is one person missing?" Just as Li Xiao had been meditating for less than three minutes, a sudden exclamation came.

Li Xiao quickly opened his eyes and looked at the leading white-robed disciple who had spoken: "Missing?"

"Yes, Uncle Li, I remember very clearly that there were fifty people participating in the third stage of the Life and Death Realm competition. Now, there are only forty-nine left," the leading white-robed disciple said with great certainty.

"Hmm? Do you know who is missing?" Li Xiao asked, his expression remaining calm.

The leading white-robed disciple looked at the group of people sitting cross-legged on the ground and began to silently count their names in his mind. After finishing, his face turned extremely pale.

"Uncle Li, the missing person is named Lu Tianyu. He is the one whom Uncle Zhan specifically instructed me to take good care of. Now that he has entered the Life and Death Realm entirely, what should we do?" The leading white-robed disciple's voice trembled, and his face turned deathly pale with fear.

When Zhan Longxing left yesterday, he had repeatedly instructed the leading white-robed disciple to take good care of Lu Tianyu and ensure that nothing happened to him. However, now, a major disaster had occurred: Lu Tianyu had not just entered the Life and Death Realm with his soul but his entire body. If he died inside, he would be truly dead.

The leading white-robed disciple had already experienced the terror of the Life and Death Realm. In the past, when he had entered it with his soul, his cultivation was also at the mid-War Master stage, like Lu Tianyu. However, he had not lasted half an hour and died inside, causing his cultivation to drop by one level.

Failing the Life and Death Realm test, the white-robed disciple had not become an inner disciple and was relegated to an outer disciple.

"Uncle Li, you must think of a way. If Lu Tianyu dies inside, there will be no way out," the leading white-robed disciple pleaded anxiously, seeing that Li Xiao seemed unconcerned.

"What's the panic for? The boy entering the Life and Death Realm with his entire body was unexpected, but you know that once the Life and Death Realm is opened, it will operate for half an hour, during which no one can open it. Therefore, I am powerless. Perhaps the boy is not meant to die, and he might come out alive after half an hour," Li Xiao said calmly.

"But what if he dies inside?" The leading white-robed disciple was almost in tears, his voice trembling.

"If he dies, it is his fate, and no one else is to blame. Now, stop babbling and stand aside," Li Xiao glared at him coldly and closed his eyes again, ignoring him.

The leading white-robed disciple's face turned ashen. After a moment's thought, he suddenly turned and rushed towards the direction of Zhan Longxing's residence. Only Uncle Zhan could save Lu Tianyu now.

Li Xiao sensed the white-robed disciple's actions but did not even open his eyes. A mocking expression flashed across his face, and he muttered to himself, "That old ghost Zhan is already drunk. Even if you go to him, it will be useless. Today, Lu Tianyu is doomed."

"Whoosh" As for Lu Tianyu and the others, when they were swept into the Life and Death Realm by the purple mist, they immediately felt a dizzying sensation, as if entering a long, dark tunnel. The world around them was shrouded in a thick, white fog, and they could hear the howling wind.

It felt like an instant, yet it seemed to last for centuries. Suddenly, the white fog dissipated, and they found themselves floating in the air above a vast, boundless continent.

The Life and Death Realm was another world, a self-contained space.

Upon entering, the group immediately scattered. Lu Tianyu was now alone, floating in the air, with no familiar faces around him.

"Roar" Just as Lu Tianyu was about to look down, a loud, fierce roar suddenly came from below, making him jump in fright.

He quickly looked down and saw a vast forest below, with countless beast silhouettes moving within. The terrifying roar had come from the forest.

From the faint pressure emitted by the roar, it was clear that the beasts in the forest were quite powerful. At his current level, he could not fight them all at once.

If he fell into the forest, he would surely be torn to pieces.

On the Divine Wasteland Continent, one could only levitate after reaching the War General stage, but only up to a few hundred feet. To fly freely in the sky like a bird, one needed to reach the War Lord stage.

Lu Tianyu was only at the mid-War Master stage. As he floated in the air, gravity pulled him down rapidly towards the forest, and he could not stabilize himself.

"Thud" Finally, in a state of fear, Lu Tianyu crashed to the ground, flattening the grass and creating a shallow, human-shaped pit.

Struggling to his feet, Lu Tianyu immediately touched his waist and found his hand covered in blood.

"What's going on? Weren't we supposed to enter the Life and Death Realm only with our souls? Why am I bleeding, and why does it feel so real?" Lu Tianyu looked at the blood on his hand, frowning in confusion.

In the world of cultivation, when one's soul left the body, it was like a dream. In dreams, one could be injured and bleed, but it was never this real. Lu Tianyu could even smell the faint, metallic scent of blood in the air, which was truly unbelievable.

"Perhaps this is the mystery of the Life and Death Realm," Lu Tianyu muttered to himself, not thinking too deeply. He could not imagine that, unlike the others, he had entered the Life and Death Realm with his entire body, and if he died, it would not just be a drop in cultivation.

"Whoosh" A gentle breeze blew through the treetops, quickly dispersing the smell of blood.

"Roar" At that moment, a long, continuous roar echoed from the distance, rapidly approaching.

"Oh no!" Lu Tianyu was startled and immediately turned and ran towards the edge of the forest, the only way to save his life.

From his vantage point in the air, he had already seen the edge of the forest. The only way to survive was to quickly escape this dangerous situation.

"Whoosh" After running about three hundred meters, Lu Tianyu felt a strong, foul wind coming from behind, and a huge shadow quickly cast a shadow on the ground in front of him.

"Looking for death!" Lu Tianyu was enraged. He had already chosen to flee, but the beast was still chasing him. It seemed he had to kill it to escape.

He raised his right hand, forming it into an axe shape, and swung it back with all his might. Immediately, a phantom axe shadow shot towards the huge beast flying towards him.

"Crack!" With a sharp, loud sound, the phantom axe shadow swept across the beast's waist.

Blood spurted out, splattering Lu Tianyu's face and head. With a loud thud, the beast's body, now in two pieces, crashed to the ground beside him.

A yellow, round beast core rolled to Lu Tianyu's feet.

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**End of Chapter**