Necropolis Immortal

Lu Yun didn't know who the arms in the sky belonged to or where they'd come from; he lumped them all together in his mind. They were the enemy!

Lu Qingtian's transformation into a demon of malice and emerging in the world as a connate demon fetus thoroughly roused their greed. They could do whatever they wished if they claimed the demon fetus!

Many secrets brewed in the Land of Reincarnation—there was more than just a simple world of sequence here. Why else would the powerhouses of the outside realm send in their most treasured genius disciples? Far from just tempering themselves, they were also on a quest.

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"All assembled now, are we?" Frostiness edged Lu Yun's tones as he looked at the enormous figures in the sky. They were all greater than eighteenth level sequence, but none of them were here in person. They'd projected their wills into the land and were all backed by supremes with dao palaces.

The supremes were wary of Qing Buyi and didn't dare send their projections in. Neither could the secondary worlds host any cultivators above eighteen levels, so their representatives had only projected their wills inside. It was a similar case to the zombie confined beneath the hell battleship—it grasped more than eighteen levels of strength, but there was no power of sequence on it.

Lu Yun snuck a quick glance at the demon and noted that he showed no signs of attacking the young man. Once more, that reminded him of his master.

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"Do you know something?" Xie Tianxun frowned at the leisurely splayed Moran Dongning. She behaved completely differently when Lu Yun was present in the Disordered Hell.

Xie Tianxun couldn't see the outside world and was thus blind to what was taking place, but he knew that Lu Yun would use his method to destroy the tomb and eradicate the demon of malice. Lu Yun had likely already made his move, but he didn't see any nervousness or worry on Moran Dongning's face. She obviously cared about him a lot—or was that all an act?

"What can I possibly know?" She rolled up the scroll in her hand and stretched lazily, snatching a sparkling fruit out of thin air—a karmic fruit. She wiped off nonexistent dust from it and took dainty bites.

"Are you not worried about him at all?" Xie Tianxun frowned. "If I'm seeing things correctly, we're in a hell. Lu Yun cultivates hell dao and has formed a hell that's never existed before. If he dies, this yet-to-stabilize hell will collapse and the two of us will be crushed out of existence!"

He keenly recalled that Lu Yun practiced the Dragonquake Scripture. Since time immemorial, no one who practiced that method ever met with a good end.

Moran Dongning snorted at him and focused on finishing her karmic fruit. "I'm the Time Guard of this land," she mumbled. "No one can see through anything I do other than nutty Chen Xiao and Qing Buyi. Oh, and scaredy cat Lu Feng."

A little hint of pride dawned on her face.

"Wait, wait, does this mean you handled Lu Yun's demon of malice a long time ago?" Xie Tianxun abruptly realized what she was hinting at.

The girl nodded. "The demon was formless and intangible. Although I planted the demon fetus on it and bestowed it with incredible battle strength, it still lacked a physical body. This is where you came in."

If Moran Dongning hadn't gone about things in this manner, Lu Yun would've used his own methods to take care of the problem. He'd use a Hell Flower and karmic fruit to revive Lu Qingtian. That would render the demon fetus unusable.

The demon fetus was crucial to too many matters—it was the treasure that the demon of immortal dao would use to terminate the current cycle. In order to prevent the same thing from happening again, Moran Dongning implanted it into the demon of malice and used her ghost mask to seal it away.

She'd then sealed both of them into the dao fruit of Lu Yun's future self.

Lu Yun's future self had drawn akasha ghosts into existence with the brush of the future not only because he'd once seen Moran Dongning wearing the ghost mask, but also because she'd sealed the power of her mask into his future self. Thus, akasha ghosts were born of his own resentment and the bitterness that Lu Qingtian bore for his disciple.

It was why akasha ghosts had targeted Lu Yun when they first appeared. This would change now that Lu Qingtian's bitterness had been released through the medium of akasha ghosts. It was why Moran Dongning had directed this massive play to set the demon of malice free with the demon fetus.

Even Lu Yun had remained wholly unaware. It could be seen from this process that he wouldn't have any room to maneuver if Moran Dongning decided she wanted to eliminate him from the picture. Such were the capabilities of the Time Guard of the Land of Reincarnation.

The demon fetus possessed the power to end this world and restart reincarnation. She naturally wasn't worried about Lu Yun. The fetus had fully released its strength from the demon of malice—its most primitive and ferocious strength.

The demon of immortal dao cautiously poked a head out of the Imperial Seal from his position inside the Tome of Life and Death. He viewed the outside world through Lu Yun's nascent spirit.

"I was wondering why this thing disappeared in this cycle. So the lass gave it to him," the demon murmured.

"Little doggie, do you know what the demon fetus is?" A clear voice traveled behind the demon. He whirled around to see a handsome man in white robes, his features as if carved from jade. He didn't know when the man had appeared.

"Heavens above!" the demon yelped and darted back into the seal like he'd seen, well, a demon.

"Come back here." The man beckoned and summoned the demon back in front of him.

"Boss, I, I, I—I have nothing to do with any of this! I'm just a watchdog, arf! Arf arf arf!!" The demon started barking in his panic.

"I know you're a dog," the man nodded. "Come and chat with me, little dog. It's been such a lonely stay in the endless days of the Abyssal Hell." He sighed and suddenly thought of something. "What did you say has nothing to do with you?"

"Eh? Me? Wait, wait, I thought you were the person that the master of reincarnation was suppressing…" The demon took a look at the man and at the coffin behind him.

"You mean him?" The man looked at the coffin as well and cocked his head. "He's deader than dead and all traces of his existence have vanished. I had to lie there in place of him."

The demon's jaw dropped.

etvolare's Thoughts

So the demon of immortal dao thought the man was the senior in the coffin, but it turns out someone had replaced the senior a long time ago?