Chapter 187: A Great Curse (1/2)

Compared to Aoxue, the man in gold would rather stay with Lu Yun.

A blood dragon, even one in the august immortal realm, was a great threat to him, while a nascent spirit realm cultivator like Lu Yun was nothing. Even if the young governor was good enough to kill peerless immortals, those were ones with their cultivation sealed to august immortal. Suppressing their cultivation made those immortals trash, but Lu Yun was bound to fall if he met true geniuses.

The White Tiger descendant was not only a peerless immortal, but a genius among his peers. Despite his sealed cultivation, he could make quick work of any mere cultivator.

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The tomb keepers opened a pathway through the eight doors formation that led to the Sword Barrow. They might not understand feng shui, but their very existence had become a part of the tomb, which allowed them to control the fringe formations and layouts. The Sword Barrow deep within the tomb, however, was beyond their reach.

They deactivated what defense mechanisms they had authority over, making way for the human who was their only hope of resurrecting their queen.

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The further Lu Yun and the divine ventured into the tomb, the higher the ambient temperature grew. Every once in a while, ghostly figures appeared in the labyrinthine underground tomb, all of which were zombified flying swords.

Strangely enough, though the zombies flickered in and out of visibility, seemingly keeping watch on Lu Yun and the man in gold, they never attacked the intruders. The two were allowed to make their way to the Sword Barrow in peace.

“Who is Yuchi Hanxing to you?” Lu Yun asked suddenly.

The man in gold started and violently turned his head in the human’s direction.

“No one!” he responded harshly.

Lu Yun stopped and looked back with a half-smile. “Shouldn’t you ask me who Yuchi Hanxing is?”

The man’s expression was as black as charcoal.

“I would’ve killed you, had you nothing to do with Yuchi Hanxing,” continued Lu Yun.

The man took a few steps back. “You think a nascent spirit realm cultivator like you can touch me?”

“Of course not. Relax.” Lu Yun smiled faintly. “I’m just asking.”

He turned around and kept on walking, but the man in gold wanted nothing more than to swat Lu Yun dead. After a long pause, he answered, “Yuchi Hanxing is my daughter. How could you tell?”

“There’s a trace of pure White Tiger bloodline in her body. House Yuchi… there wasn’t a House Yuchi five, or even ten thousand years ago.” Lu Yun responded as he walked, “Someone specifically established House Yuchi for her.”

Wushen Ruyi had finished refining the Divine Spymirror not too long ago, acquiring the memory of the treasure slave within it. That was how Lu Yun learned the man in gold was related to Yuchi Hanxing.

She served Lu Yun as the commander of the Dusk Phalanx. Since the man in gold was her father, Lu Yun wouldn’t hurt him, for the moment. If he left the man to the tomb keepers, they would certainly kill him.

“You refined my treasure slave?” The man’s expression darkened. That slave had known almost all of his secrets.

Lu Yun shrugged. “I didn’t. Someone else did.”

“What do you want?!” Agitation brewed and stirred in the gold-clad White Tiger descendant.