Chapter 112: Duo Dragons Execute a Snake (2/2)

“Don’t! Feinie’s not going to hold!” Lu Yun sucked in an urgent lungful of air. “Get the gem!”

“Understood!” Aoxue, too, had noticed the condition below.

More than thirty of Feinie’s formations laid in tatters. Only a couple still stood, and only with great difficulty. Even with the Formation Orb, she couldn’t deploy formations faster than their rate of destruction! Qing Han and she would be crushed in a few breaths.

Aoxue hurriedly made her way to the hovering starstone.

“Retrieve!” commanded Lu Yun.

The Treasurefall Coin attached to the starstone pulsed brightly with a golden splendor as the eye of the coin turned into a black hole, swallowing the treasure. As the stone disappeared, so too did the Big Dipper Formation.

The brightly lit chamber plunged into darkness again.

Lu Yun’s face paled. He’d exhausted the last of his energies. Weariness overcame his entire body as dizziness flooded his head. Now he knew how Qing Han had felt.

“Are you alright?!” The imperial envoy flew to Lu Yun’s side to take his other arm as soon as he sensed the formation’s disappearance.

“I’m fine,” Lu Yun said weakly. “Help me down. I’ll be alright after taking a few energy replenishing pills.”

Aoxue and Qing Han helped him to the ground, whereupon the dragon princess placed a few pills in his mouth. Lu Yun closed his eyes, letting the gentle medicinal effects wash over him.

Whoosh!

A ball of black flames enveloped the snake king corpse above them and slowly set it ablaze, turning it to ashes in the end.

Within the Gates of the Abyss.

An enormous black snake three hundred meters long slowly took shape in the netherworld.

Infernum!

Lu Yun had killed the snake king with Aoxue’s help and turned it into one of his ghostly soldiers!

What surprised him, however, was the snake king’s strength. It could rival a golden immortal, but it wasn’t one. It was just a regular beast with a physical strength and consciousness that were on par with golden immortals. It wasn’t even a cultivator.

Something had broken its cultivation and scattered its power, otherwise it wouldn’t have had to rely on its bite when Lu Yun charged at it. It would’ve smashed down with combat arts instead, making mincemeat out of the human.

Of course, that’d been the only reason why Lu Yun had dared charge the snake king.

“Now I know how you felt back then.” After an indeterminate period of time, Lu Yun opened his eyes and flashed a wry smile. Maybe it hadn’t been a good thing to bully Qing Han at that time.

“Good!” Qing Han twisted his lips, then asked in concern, “Are you really alright now?”

“I am.” Lu Yun raised his hand and threw a fist-sized silver stone at Qing Han.

“This is a... starstone?!” The imperial envoy’s eyes shot open in incredulity. He hadn’t spotted the starstone at all, earlier. Or, more precisely, the starstone that was already on him had prevented him from sensing the power of another.

It wasn’t until the treasure came into his hand that he got a clear look at it. So the cosmic treasure was a starstone. And wait, Lu Yun had thrown it to him just like that?

“I saw the same stone on Qing Yu,” Lu Yun said weakly. “Perhaps this will be useful to her. Give it to her for me.”

“Oh,” responded Qing Han. He tucked the stone into his storage item, feeling a tinge of jealousy in his heart. Jealousy?

Why would I be jealous of Qing Yu?

“Or you can keep it for yourself if you want,” added Lu Yun.

A sudden warmth rose in his chest, and… now he was jealous of Qing Han as well. “I’m not developing split personalities, am I?”

Both Qing Han and Qing Yu are me! Why the hell would I be jealous of myself?

Qing Han shuddered. There were indeed bodies that housed two personalities in the world of immortals. If a Qing Yu personality really awoke in him one day, he’d have no idea what to do.

“Split personalities?” Lu Yun asked in surprise. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing!” Qing Han hurried out. “The formation is broken. We can now look for the coffin here, can’t we?”