Necropolis Immortal

Shortsword in hand, Diexi stood to the slight forefront of the center of the palace. Rays of snowy sword light intersected in front of her and melded with her aura, forcing the three hundred and sixty-five versions of her back out.

"I think I can break the major cycle formation, want me to give it a try?" Diexi turned around and raised an eyebrow at Lu Yun.

"No!" Chu Xingran responded before the young man had a chance to. "The formation is what's supporting this place. If it breaks, the void will collapse and exile the coffin into an unknown space!"

The light of wisdom flashed through his eyes. He'd clashed with the Corpse Refiners countless times in the outside realm and was well acquainted with their methods and style. Fully present in the here and now, he'd regained his usual tempo.

The crystal coffin and the skeleton inside were the basis of corpse dao. Once the major cycle formation was broken, the coffin would immediately vanish and corpse dao would never be eliminated in the Land of Reincarnation.

This was another trap.

In Lu Yun's calculations, Diexi only had a ten percent chance of breaking the formation if her name wasn't written into the Tome of Life and Death. Still, ten percent was high enough that the Corpse Refiners placed immense importance on it.

Thus, while Lu Yun made his contingencies, so did the Corpse Refiners. Once Diexi broke the major cycle formation, the crystal coffin, palace, and everyone inside would be exiled to a patch of unknown space. They would never return to reality.

Furiously gathering the coffin, Lu Yun had guessed the same thing, but remained silent. He focused on summoning more power from the Tome of Life and Death. A sheen of sweat beaded his forehead as the coffin remained immobile. It wasn't that the world inside the book was insufficient to contain the coffin, but that it was too heavy.

A speck of empyrean crystal could create an entire major world—how many worlds floated within a coffin? Lu Yun couldn't count the sum. There were possibly more than all of the worlds in the Land of Reincarnation.

That was the true weight of the worlds. The Tome of Life and Death could hold them, but Lu Yun couldn't move them.

"If we don't break the formation, it'll slowly coincide with the major cycle of this land and replace the Major Cycle Worlds, becoming a new version…" Diexi frowned slightly. She'd established contact with the three hundred and sixty-five previous versions of herself; she now possessed a firm understanding of all the potential causes and effects present.

But even if she knew everything, there was nothing she could do about it.

She could either destroy the major cycle formation and cement corpse dao within the Land of Reincarnation, facilitating it to eventually become the only great dao in the land, or she could allow the formation to mature and use the core essence of corpse dao to support the major worlds of the land. Either way, corpse dao would become the one and only of this land.

And no matter what, the world of immortal dao sequence would be seized by corpse dao in the future and become a world of corpse dao sequence.

This was a massive trap that Lu Yun and Diexi couldn't maneuver around.

Lu Yun was already utilizing his fullest strength and bolstering himself with the power of the four hells. However, the crystal coffin in front of him didn't shift at all. It was like it was rooted into the ground.

"Ai!" came a sigh before a surge of strength flowed out of the Tome of Life and Death. It lifted the coffin and brought it inside the treasure.

"You're finally willing to act, senior!" Lu Yun lit up and projected his mind into the book after the coffin entered it. He saw the owner of the Abyssal Tomb once more—an unfamiliar man in white robes with features as handsome as jade, his bearing dashing, and his presence charming.

However, Lu Yun read a familiar aura from him.

"You're…" The young man's eyes widened. He ignored both the crystal coffin and the demon of immortal dao that'd turned into a small lapdog. Instead, he trembled as he looked at the man in white.

"Well, then, surprise!" The man smiled faintly at him.

Lu Yun had no idea what to say. Although the stranger in front of him had a different appearance and aura from the person that he knew… they were in the inner world of the Tome of Life and Death and Lu Yun was the master of this place. He recognized the stranger.

Fuxi's father—Leize!

Lu Yun had never fathomed that Leize would be the second owner of the Abyssal Tomb! The first tomb owner's resentment had refused to dissipate and caused endless trouble as he was unwilling to be buried here to nurture a world of sequence. Four new tomb owners had killed him… and one of them was Leize!

Fuxi had quite a background since he'd been present in the original Hongmeng. He could be traced to even earlier ages, but there was no sign of Leize and his dao partner Huaxu to be found elsewhere.

Lu Yun had thought that they were simply two monarchs of the six sacred palaces in the chaos, and also the first connate divine dragon and snake of the realm. The first connate divine dragon was a different concept from the azure dragon ancestral god. The azure dragon ancestral god was the first dragon and thus the forefather of all dragons. A connate divine dragon was similar to a connate demon god—influenced by the azure dragon when it took form.

Thus, the azure dragon ancestral god was a god, whereas Leize was the first of the dragons below him. Lu Yun had thought that Fuxi and Wahuang used their identity as Leize and Huaxu's children to become part of the chaos, and then part of the great wilderness. To think that Leize and Huaxu might have even more powerful backgrounds!

After the six sacred palaces of the second realm combined into the sacred land of immortal dao, the monarchs abdicated and traveled the realm. Lu Yun never imagined that Leize would be the manifestation of the dead! Or more accurately speaking, all of the Leizes in the chaos and great wilderness were just replicas.

His primary body was buried here and he'd become a yin ghost.

"This is absolutely a surprise!" Lu Yun nodded. "No wonder the senior would grant me such an opportunity to wield more power from hell."

He'd only built a tomb and almost ruined Chen Xiao and Qing Buyi's plans—he'd actually done nothing good. Leize had given him a present all the same.

"Then the other three…" Lu Yun nearly choked with surprise when he thought of something.

"Are naturally my dao partner and children," Leize nodded.

etvolare's Thoughts

Holy. fecking. shit. Who saw that coming? WHO?!