Necropolis Immortal

Star Sect, Mount Buzhou.

Ah Zhi's primary body had returned to the sect. She wore a dress of purple chiffon and lounged on a net that sparkled with purple radiance of the same color.

A man in blue robes stood in front of the net and regarded her with an ardent gaze.

"Is this pretty?" Ah Zhi sat up with a large yawn.

"The beauty is as if a painting, of course it is a pretty sight." The man had handsome features and a tall, strapping body. He held himself with a casual and elegant bearing, the epitome of a dashing and carefree attitude. He was a sequence expert as well, and he'd accessed more than one level. He was stronger than the Sword Sovereign King.

He took in his fill of Ah Zhi and sighed appreciatively, "I would sever a hundred million years of my life with absolutely no regret if I were so blessed as to have the Star Sovereign King as my dao partner."

"Pfft." Ah Zhi stretched and curled her lip. "Cut the smooth talking crap. When both of us first set foot into sequence, I pursued you for eight thousand years. You wouldn't even look me in the eye, so what's this bullshit of a hundred million years of your life now?

"What's a hundred million years to folks like you and I? But I have to thank you for not marrying me back in the day. Where would I be now if you had?" she concluded mercilessly.

"Ahem!" the man coughed awkwardly. "Star Sovereign King, what of the matter I just spoke of?" he continued in grave tones. "The Luminaries are a poisonous tumor in the Boundless Planes. Countless daos have been shattered throughout these eons and an untold number of beings died because of them.

"Now that they are struck with disaster, it is the perfect opportunity for us to eliminate the faction and administer justice in the planes!" He drew himself righteously upright and paced back and forth.

"Administer justice in the planes?" Ah Zhi laid back down with a tilt of her head. "Does it matter one farthing to me whether or not denizens of the Boundless Planes die? By the way, farthings are the lowest monetary unit in certain mortal worlds."

"Star Sovereign King!" the man boomed. "I know I have caused you to be prejudiced against me when I rejected you, but this has to do with the survival of the Boundless Planes! We shall have no peace as long as the Luminaries exist! Do not be petulant!"

Ah Zhi sneered and pointed at her mouth. "Read my lips."

"Huh?" The man paused.

"Fuck. Off!" she snarled.

"HMPH!" The man was livid. He'd never thought that the slavishly devoted Star Sovereign King, the one who'd dogged his footsteps even after he rejected her, would one day be so merciless. He raked her with a vicious glare and turned to leave.

"Why are you in such a hurry to leave when you're the one who's come, Kun Sovereign King?" A lilting voice drifted through the air as a bright moon shifted into view. Silvery-white illumination trapped the man inside.

The Kun Sovereign King looked around wildly.

"Moon Sovereign King! So the Luminaries bought out the Star Sovereign King long ago!!" he raged furiously.

Yueyi floated down from the air with a wan face.

"You don't need to say anything, I know." Ah Zhi waved a hand at Yueyi's sudden appearance and sent lilac nets through the void. They covered Yueyi and treated her injuries.

Although she could leave the mountain when it came under attack, the task wasn't an easy one. She suffered grave injuries to break through the blockade, and it was only then that Yueyi realized how grave the situation was. After she struggled free, she rushed madly for the Star Sect.

It was the only place she could go to for help. Due to her relationship with Lu Yun, they wouldn't deny her entrance.

The sight of the Kun Sovereign King at Mount Buzhou was a chilling sight. His faction, the Kunpeng Ocean, had always been at odds with the Luminaries. They were only a hair weaker than her own faction. If it wasn't for the Sky Sovereign King, the Luminaries would be less than the Kunpeng Ocean. And now, the Sky Sovereign King was dead after becoming one with Mount Astronomia.

Thank goodness Ah Zhi hadn't agreed to his proposal! The Luminaries would be in true danger if she had. If the faction fell, the land of darkness could stab straight into the heartland of the known expanses and turn them all into darkness.

"Kun fish, I'll let you go this time on account of our shared past. We are enemies the next time we meet." Ah Zhi bestowed him with an incomparably aloof look.

"Hmph!" The Kun Sovereign King snorted and glared at both Yueyi and Ah Zhi.

Yueyi dismissed her moonlight upon hearing this, allowing the sovereign king to stomp off in a huff.

"It was just one of his replicas here, so there was no point in killing him." Ah Zhi chuckled when she saw Yueyi's expression.

"I thought you really were thinking of your past relationship with him," Yueyi coughed drily.

"Me? Him? I cultivated the Dream Sutra before accessing sequence and passed my time in dreams. Would I seriously be interested in him?" She rolled her eyes. "I know what's happened at Mount Astronomia. Jian Bu'er has set out from the World of Swords to render aid, but that's not a permanent solution.

"The darkness attacks again and again, whereas the Luminaries are constantly eroded away. The Boundless Planes are no longer what they were, either. There are more powerhouses by the day and more creatures defiled by the darkness. You Luminaries are no longer the sacred land at your founding, but a demonic cult."

The Luminaries had once been the same as the Ten Valleys of Evil in the Hongmeng, an organization to safeguard life. But as time went on, they lost sight of their original goals and became corrupt. They were proud and overbearing, destroying daos and legacies at the drop of a hat.

Take the Great Brahma, for instance. He'd killed a dozen billion beings without giving it a second thought and had been executed for it.

Although the Luminaries still inspired fear, many were starting to rebel against it. There would be a great crowd of those to add insult to injury if anything went wrong at the faction.

Yueyi remained silent.

"You may as well disband," Ah Zhi continued.

"What?!" Yueyi shot to her feet. "Who will protect Mount Astronomia if the Luminaries disband?"

"The Formula Dao Academy." Ah Zhi sighed as she looked at the girl. "Lu Yun is planning to set the academy's entrance on the mountain. The Formula Dao Academy will shoulder the burden for the Luminaries."

Yueyi stared blankly at her. She knew that Ah Zhi's words stemmed from Lu Yun's decisions. She'd just proposed having their disciples enter the academy, but to think that her martial grandfather was two steps ahead!

The Formula Dao Academy was located in a massive world that wasn't in the fourth realm. Its entrance could be anywhere Lu Yun chose.

"Alright, the crisis at the mountain is nothing to worry about this time since it can be resolved. Jian Bu'er is a sequence expert of eleven levels. He can use the strength of nine levels in the Boundless Planes," Ah Zhi reassured. "The real problem is the Kun Sovereign King from earlier. He's not the one that I know."