Chapter 364: Ghost Dragon Battles Ghost Tree (1/2)

Having the voice come out of nowhere and suddenly whisper into his ear raised all the hairs on the back of Lu Yun’s neck. It’d overheard his transmission to Qing Han!

Qing Han’s worried gaze stayed on Lu Yun; he hadn’t heard anything from his friend.

I’m already here.

It’d always been here.

A quick scan of the surroundings revealed only an endless supply of zombies and immortal ghosts. There was no sign of the Water Ghost Grasp; even the Spectral Eye couldn’t detect it.

Has its power exceeded that of the Tome of Life and Death?

Lu Yun lowered his head with a dark expression. His consciousness spread like mercury out from his Purple Manor, amplified to tremendous heights by the power of hellfire.

“Ah… you aren’t really here.” He tilted his head up and looked back at the ghost tree.

Its blazing eyes remained fixed to the snoring dragonling on Lu Yun’s shoulder. Patently, the ghost tree cared very much about this dragon. In fact, it’d tacitly allowed the immortal ghosts of other dragonlings to consume the souls of immortals as nutrition for this baby dragon.

“You’re in a different space,” Lu Yun said in a voice only he could hear. “This dragon nest is a location in which the layout of water and fire meet, a grand influence of the world where the two elements synergize and strengthen each other.”

“Oh?” the voice said.

“The layout of fire comes from the ancestral fire of the dragons. As for the layout of water, it must come from a water treasure that can create its own world, which is where your true body is!”

That was how the Water Ghost Grasp killed its victims—by dragging them into the treasure to drown them.

Only silence answered him. Then, a white figure slowly padded out from thin air.

“Jin Heyi?!” Lu Yun froze when he saw the newcomer’s face. It was Jin Heyi, who had been killed by Water Ghost Grasp earlier.

“...no, you’re not him. You’re Ao Lin, the crown prince of the North Sea dragons from ten thousand years ago.” Lu Yun’s eyes flashed black as he called upon his death art.

Ao Lin had died and become an immortal ghost. Thus, Lu Yun could easily see his identity with the Spectral Eye. He was the first prince of the dragon clan, Aoxue’s elder brother.

Ghost Dragon’s eyes turned black as they settled in blank shock on Lu Yun. After a beat, he responded quietly, “Ao Lin is no more. I am Ghost Dragon.” He turned to the ghost tree with a mutter. “I finally meet the one who destroyed the North Sea dragons.”

Public knowledge put the blackwater snakes as the ones who’d destroyed the North Sea dragons, but in truth, the blackwater snakes by themselves were no match for the dragons. The true culprit was this ghost tree, which had been in this tomb for an unknown period of time.

Ghost Dragon had merged with the water treasure and become the layout of water in the dragon nest. Although the water and fire layouts strengthened each other, they could never meet.

He was finally able to see the tree in person because Lu Yun had suppressed the layout of fire with his luopan and diminished the conflicting power of the two layouts.

At last, the two great horrors met.

The ghost tree didn’t spare a glance for Ghost Dragon; its gaze remained fixed on the dragonling on Lu Yun’s shoulder.

“No, we can’t have any more death here, or it’ll become stronger!” Lu Yun exclaimed when he noticed that the number of immortal ghosts and corpses in the area had grown much higher, and the tree’s presence had solidified even more as well.

“Death fuels me too.” Ghost Dragon quirked his lips in a malicious smile. “Whoever covets the territory of the dragons must die.”