Chapter 303: First Prince of the North Sea (1/2)

Tinglan and Guanqing’s memories held no location of Su Xiaoxiao’s final whereabouts.

Lu Yun couldn’t help his disappointment. As this was a water tomb, they were surrounded by sea water with countless floating corpses forming an obstacle course of sorts, and even more terrible things lurked about. Yin and yang were even more chaotic in the real tomb, which interfered with his Spectral Eye. They would have to search carefully to locate Su Xiaoxiao’s resting place.

He took point with his luopan, while the Deaf Prince drove away the surrounding miasma of yin energy via the golden radiance beaming brightly from his gleaming armor.

“That is the Celestial Exorcism Armor of the ancient heavenly court’s celestial masters, capable of countering all things yin and evil in the world, similar to the Azure Dragon’s cleansing thunder,” Empress Myrtlestar’s voice suddenly rose. “The East Sea has always claimed to be the legitimate successor of the ancient heavenly court, and it seems that they do have something to validate their claim.”

“Compared to the ancient lords, how powerful were the ancient court’s celestial masters?” asked Lu Yun.

“There were four leading celestial masters serving the ancient heavenly court. Every one of them surpassed dao immortal, and they held higher status than the Sugato Lord.”

During Qing Han’s stay with the Qing Clan, the empress had acquired a wealth of knowledge and common sense about the current world of immortals. She now referred to her own era as the ancient times, like the contemporaries did.

“There were many lords back then, but only four celestial masters. All four of them were—” She stopped suddenly.

“Were they all ingress realm immortals?” Lu Yun asked without thinking. “Or primordial or principal realm?”

“How do you know that?” Surprise colored Empress Myrtlestar’s expression. From what she’d learned from Qing Han, the immortal dao of the current era had been severed. All realms after the dao immortal realm had been erased, so no one in the world of immortals should know what they were. Yet Lu Yun had blurted out the three realms seemingly without thinking.

“There truly is something unusual about you…. The Sugato Lord was a peak ingress realm immortal and wielded the Sugato Sword, the top man-made treasure of the realms. He was the foremost lord of the heavenly court,” Empress Myrtlestar sighed. “However, while many lords served the ancient court, there were only four celestial masters. They were all primordial realm immortals who served the court as guardians. Despite their lower cultivation, they were no less powerful than principal realm immortals.

“The East Sea court must have inherited the heritage of the Monster Celestial Master, one of the four great celestial masters.”

The ancient heavenly court had been a tremendous entity that’d ruled over the entire world of immortals. Back then, there were no differences between the various races and factions. Everyone served the heavenly court, be they human, monster spirit, demon, divine, dragon, phoenix, qilin, or other. All race patriarchs were officials of the court, and the Monster Celestial Master was a heavyweight of the monster spirits.

“The armor the xiangliu wears was crafted by the Monster Celestial Master,” explained Empress Myrtlestar.

“Do you know Doctor Poison Su Xiaoxiao?” asked Lu Yun.

“I do,” she responded. “She was a master of both medicine and poison. In some areas, she had exceeded even her master, Qi Hai. One time, she refined the Poison Wheel and summoned the Poison Fiend within, killing all beings across eighteen major worlds. That was why Qi Hai crippled her cultivation and disowned her.”

Lu Yun was rendered speechless. Eighteen major worlds in a row…. From what he knew now, each major world would rival a facet in the current world of immortals.

After committing genocide in eighteen worlds, Doctor Poison’s bad karma should’ve coalesced into the worst retribution, and the resulting tribulation should’ve struck her down straight into ashes. However, according to Empress Myrtlestar, Su Xiaoxiao didn’t seem to have been sentenced to such retribution. Something else must’ve happened then.