Chapter 88: Another Wayfarer (2/2)

“He is!” she answered immediately.

Is this a clone? A spirit manifestation? Or something entirely different? Lu Yun frowned deeply, a torrent of thoughts swirling in his mind. “Who are you?” he asked again.

“I’m Wayfarer, of course.” He looked at Lu Yun with surprise. The mist obscuring his body dissipated, revealing his true self.

Dressed in white, he was a devoutly handsome man with long hair and eyes as radiant as the stars. And he wasn’t blind at all. He looked exactly like the art saint Yuying remembered, both in grace and temperament.

“Didn’t you recognize me?” The man chuckled.

“Are you really Wayfarer? The governor of Dusk from a thousand years ago?” Lu Yun scoffed. “Are you really so kindhearted as to stop the altar from claiming lives?”

Wayfarer blinked. “Why wouldn’t I be?”

“A thousand years ago, you triggered the calamity that almost destroyed Dusk Province and altered the rituals left by the river god, creating countless unjust deaths. Now you want to suppress the altar to save lives? I don’t think so.” Lu Yun was slightly nervous when he made the accusations, since they were merely his conjectures.

Wayfarer fell silent, confirming his role in the matter.

“You were also the person who barged into this place five thousand years ago, weren’t you?” Lu Yun’s chest tightened. This man was truly responsible for all those atrocities.

“Aren’t you afraid that I’ll kill you for knowing my secrets?” Wayfarer smiled. “You’re a golden core cultivator, little one. I can kill you with a single breath.”

“You would’ve killed me already if you wanted me dead.” Black light shone in Lu Yun’s eyes. “The Portrait of Emptiness is on me, you need that to suppress the altar.”

“You’re very smart.” Wayfarer nodded. “And I sense a familiar presence on you. Did you enter the ancient tomb outside Dusk City?”

Killing intent flashed through his eyes. Yuying was his bottom line. Anyone who dared disturb her tomb was his enemy.

Lu Yun tensed. Yuying had died and returned to the Tome of Life and Death, so it’d be a few days until she could resurrect.

“That’s right,” he responded frankly. “But the tomb had long been broken into by members of the Exalted Immortal Sect.“

Wayfarer closed his eyes and fell silent. The Exalted Immortal Sect… he hadn’t gotten around to taking his revenge on them, yet.

“The altar will activate in less than a day.” He suddenly opened his eyes. “Hand me the Portrait of Emptiness if you don’t want to die.”

“How do you know I’m the one who took it?” Lu Yun’s heart sank. The Dusk River Sacrament was only a day away! He’d been in the abyss for five days and hadn’t noticed the passage of time. “Have you been in the burial mound all this time?” He instantly hit upon the answer.

He’d always felt there was someone else behind the altar. Feinie, and the members of the Exalted Immortal Sect who’d entered this place, had all met an unexplained death.

“Wait!” Disbelief flashed through Lu Yun’s expression and he took several steps back. “You aren’t human. What are you?!”