Chapter 169: Lu Yuns Sword Intent (1/2)

In an explosion of crimson light, a scene of blood and corpses appeared in general view and an overpoweringly baleful aura enveloped the entire area. After struggling a few times more, the giant arm gave up the fight.

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“How many lives were consumed to manifest such a powerful sea of blood and corpses? The legendary zombie king is indeed the embodiment of evil!”

Many immortals fell back, retreating from the gruesome ocean peppered with floating corpses. Diexi was an arcane immortal, while the humans present were at most august immortals. No one even dared draw close to her crimson light.

“The embodiment of evil?” someone else sneered in protest. “The one you label the embodiment of evil is doing her utmost to hold back a zombie that can lay waste to the world and our people! You mouth righteous words of justice and heroism, but you cower in the corner like the lily-livered rat you are. You don’t even have the guts to draw close to this monster!”

Visibly ashamed, the one who’d spoken earlier didn’t say anything else.

Diexi had suppressed the fearsome arm, thanks to her vista of carnage, but the tremors underground became all the more intense in response. It sounded like another hand had taken up the cause, battering away in an attempt to force another hole through the earth.

The Sugato Sword could physically restrain the bloodcorpse and prevent it from transforming, but it couldn’t freeze the harrowing creature’s limbs. Now that one of its arms was suppressed by the zombie king, it immediately switched its efforts to breaking its other arm out and grabbing the inheritance tower.

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Meanwhile, Lu Yun arrived in front of the Sugato Sword.

Surrounded by a keen, boundless light, it looked a full three hundred meters tall and more than a hundred meters wide. But in fact, the Sugato Sword was only a meter long. Exquisitely crafted from top to bottom, its details daintily sculpted, it resembled a pagoda of glazed, colored glass.

“I must traverse this dense array of spectral light to make it mine!” He withdrew the Path of Ingress, noting how the icy edge of the sword light shredded the bloodcorpse’s crimson light wherever it drew close. “One must pass the pagoda’s trial and scale all 999 floors in order to obtain Lord Sugato’s full legacy. Likewise, this array of light is also a trial! Only by passing its layers will one earn the right to become the Sugato Sword’s master!”

It was because of this realization that he’d dispelled the Path of Ingress at his feet; not even the path could pierce through this terrifying radiance. Lu Yun could only rely on his own sword intent to break through and obtain the magnificent pagoda’s approval.

As though it had sensed Lu Yun’s intentions, the bloodcorpse’s eyes suddenly landed on him. Its free arm stopped bombarding the ground and reached for the governor instead.

If someone could control the Sugato Sword and release its true sharpness, they would be able to exterminate the not-yet-fully-evolved bloodcorpse. With a hazy self-awareness of its own, the bloodcorpse was no longer a creature driven by instinct alone.

Lu Yun frowned. An arc of violet light arose beside him and carried him away, barely avoiding yet another attack.

Rooooar!!!

The bloodcorpse bawled in pain as its hand had ventured too close to the light and was decimated to mincemeat by the Sugato Sword. However, crimson radiance immediately flashed around its broken wrist; a new hand grew in place of the destroyed one and resumed its attack on the governor.

Lu Yun’s expression hardened. Riding Violetgrave’s sword light, he ducked and dodged around the Sugato Sword. Each time, the bloocorpse’s hand ended up hacked to pieces by the Sugato Sword, only to grow back and resume the offensive.

He slowly ran out of stamina. The dread zombie buried inside Violetgrave was already making the sword incomparably heavy to lift. In fact, it was almost too heavy for him to wield in his current condition.

Just as the governor decided to return to hell and devise another plan, a voice suddenly reverberated in his mind. “This won’t do. If you continue like this, you’ll be killed sooner or later.”

“Who is this?!” Lu Yun’s mind shook and he subconsciously scanned the surroundings. “Is this Lord Sugato?” He was only in the tomb’s outer regions, some distance away from the deepest parts where Lord Sugato’s corpse should be buried.