Chapter 705: His Name is Yao Qing

Lord Wuji’s expression was incredibly ugly.

He had still underestimated Su Zhiwei’s ability to control the Red Dust Realm. She had actually been able to shrink the entire realm into a red flower; it was already impossible for him to leave this realm by conventional means.

"Su Zhiwei... if you think you can trap me like this, you are too naive."

Lord Wuji snorted coldly and stomped his foot heavily on the ground!

THUD—!!

The next moment, the ruined ground beneath his feet was visibly transformed into silver, and then it surged frantically into Lord Wuji’s body... All this matter—soil, stones, buildings, and so on—was assimilated into Lord Wuji’s body, and his figure expanded at an astonishing speed!

If the original Lord Wuji was just a small bug on a red flower petal, in the blink of an eye, he had become the size of a ping-pong ball, and he was still growing at an astonishing speed!

The distance between atoms was stretching frantically. At the same time, the space around Lord Wuji gradually distorted, seemingly tearing through the limitations of dimensions bit by bit, forcibly turning himself into an existence of the same dimension as Su Zhiwei.

Su Zhiwei’s eyes narrowed slightly. The palm that could visually cover the Earth slammed toward Lord Wuji’s body with a roar, like the sky falling and the end of the world!

If Lord Wuji’s situation was like Sun Wukong in the palm of the Buddha, then at this moment, the Five Fingers Mountain suppressing him had arrived.

Lord Wuji’s chest heaved constantly. The power of "Materials Science" was pushed to the limit. His towering silver body began to glow with a dazzling brilliance. Countless materials were born, combined, and intertwined within his body...

His body was visibly turning into something resembling a super-large mecha. A super nuclear reactor the size of a city ignited in his chest, and a mountain-like power system ran frantically in the positions of his various internal organs. The surface of his silver body steamed with air frantically. His right fist clenched, and the next moment it transformed into an indestructible stellar material, suddenly swinging toward that giant palm!

When this punch was thrown, the surrounding space began to collapse. A full-force strike from Lord Wuji, possessing 40% of his peak strength, could instantly blast half of the Red Dust Realm into powder if it hit the ground beneath his feet.

It was a pity... what he was facing at this moment was a complete Red Dust Lord with peak combat power!

BOOM—!!!

The moment the sky-covering giant palm collided with the silver fist, the ground beneath Lord Wuji’s feet suddenly moved away. The red flower containing the Red Dust Realm was moved aside by Su Zhiwei; otherwise, the aftermath of their clash would likely have caused a doomsday-level earthquake.

The Red Dust Realm was moved away, which meant Lord Wuji’s figure lost its fulcrum. The fist and palm collided in the void, and a roaring shockwave instantly swept across the Gray Realm, blasting all the mountain peaks within a radius of hundreds of miles into fragments, and along with them, a batch of Gray Realm Calamities that happened to be in the vicinity were all annihilated into nothingness.

The next moment, Lord Wuji’s body flew backward!

One of his arms exploded on the spot, and his silver remains streaked across the sky like a meteor, carving a trench several kilometers long into the Gray Realm earth, and finally stopped silently deep in the ground.

Su Zhiwei’s white practice suit swayed lightly in the wind. She held the Red Dust in one hand, took a step, and instantly arrived at the end of the trench.

"...This is impossible."

Deep in the earth, the battered Lord Wuji crawled out of the ruins, looking at Su Zhiwei in disbelief. "You clearly slept for more than three hundred years; how could your body still be in its peak state... After leaving the stasis pod, you shouldn't have lived long! How did you do it?!!"

Since his awakening, Lord Wuji had been in a state of aging and dying, and could only extend his life by abandoning his physical body and using the power of "Materials Science" to transform himself into a Mercury Moon... But even so, he couldn't solve the problem of his soul, so he racked his brains to refine Philosopher’s Stones.

He had thought that his "Materials Science" was special enough, and as long as he obtained enough Philosopher’s Stones, he could become the first Nine Lord of this era to restore his peak strength...

But now, he saw an existence that had reached that step faster than himself.

A Red Dust Lord who hadn't been backlashed by the stasis pod, possessed enough lifespan, and was still in her prime!

Lord Wuji didn't understand how Su Zhiwei had done it. Could it be that she also had a method similar to the Philosopher’s Stone? No, that’s not right...

Lord Wuji’s eyes narrowed, staring at Su Zhiwei’s skin.

Beneath Su Zhiwei’s skin, an embroidery was flowing silently, as if possessing endless mysteries... Lord Wuji’s brow furrowed tighter and tighter. In a trance, he seemed to see an old man covered in wounds standing back-to-back with her behind Su Zhiwei.

Lord Wuji was stunned.

The current Red Dust Lord was not just the Red Dust Lord... She was a peerless work of art that another Green God Path demigod had spent three hundred years completing.

Facing such a Red Dust Lord, how could he win? What could he use to win??

"I ask you." Su Zhiwei looked down at Lord Wuji, her voice seeming to come from the netherworld. "What was the name of that Leader of the Green God Path just now?"

"...What?"

Lord Wuji was stunned. He suspected that something was wrong with his ears.

"I asked you, what was the name of that old man you injured just now?!"

"..." Lord Wuji seemed to think of something funny and sneered, "That man bet his own life just to lock away the time on you, and you don't even know what his name is?"

Lord Wuji’s words were like needles piercing Su Zhiwei’s heart, and the premonition in her heart grew stronger.

She clenched her fists abruptly, rushed deep into the earth, slammed Lord Wuji’s broken shoulder into the trench with one hand, and beckoned with the other in the void, a shimmering sword blade pressing against Lord Wuji’s brow!

"I’ll ask you one last time... what is his name?!" Su Zhiwei’s killing intent was chilling.

Facing Su Zhiwei’s light sword, Lord Wuji had no extra expression on his face. After a pause, he spoke:

"His name is Yao Qing."

Su Zhiwei’s heart trembled abruptly.

Yao Qing...

In Su Zhiwei’s mind, the old man with a face full of wrinkles and covered in wounds surfaced again. He hunched his body, almost burying his head in the ground, not daring to look at her...

"Leader of the Green God Path... respectfully welcomes the return of the Red Dust Lord."

"Take care of yourself, old man... is leaving."

In her memory, the tears that slid silently from the old man’s eyes were like a sword so heavy it couldn't be borne, piercing deep into Su Zhiwei’s heart, leaving her heart shattered and in excruciating pain.

It was Yao Qing.

No wonder she could survive without a stasis pod, no wonder she was in the Su Residence as soon as she woke up, no wonder he didn't dare to look at her more when he was there... But, but why didn't he acknowledge her just now?!!

Su Zhiwei felt like she was about to break. Her eyes instantly turned red, and even the light sword pressing against Lord Wuji’s brow trembled along with her body.

"By his own strength, he defeated three hundred years of time for you. I admit he is a prodigy of the Green God Path," Lord Wuji said calmly.

"Unfortunately... he is going to die."