Chapter 371: Graveyard (1/2)

The two-headed zombie was dead; there were no further ripples of life from the phoenix and dragon heads.

Lu Yun didn’t spare the other immortals a glance. With a wave of his hand, a white path manifested before him and punched a hole through space, spanning across the tomb to reach the ghost tree, where Qing Han waited.

The Ingress Path.

The Nephrite treasure was the only thing capable of transcending space and connecting the two places.

Qing Han was currently suppressing an endless swarm of ghosts and evils at the tree with the luopan. The two-headed zombie may have fallen, but other unearthly creatures, including the ghost tree, had grown only fiercer.

Ghost Dragon’s face was so pale that it was translucent. A vast water realm had appeared by his side, within which a ghastly white ghost face was slowly stirring to life.

“Take this.” Lu Yun readied himself to throw the zombie’s body to them with a wave of his hand.

“Wait!” Ghost Dragon shouted urgently. “Cut off its phoenix head and throw just that to us. Don’t let its body shift to this place!”

After a startled blink, Lu Yun dropped the zombie and slashed at the phoenix head with a burst of sword energy from the Sugato Sword.

Clang!

Sparks flew as the sword connected the phoenix head’s neck, but it failed to decapitate its target.

“Hurry up!” Ghost Dragon urged when he saw Lu Yun fail. “Or it’ll come back to life again!”

Lu Yun had noticed the slight wave of energy rising from the dead zombie. If it resurrected, his layout of heaven and earth wouldn’t be able to keep it down again.

Swoosh!

Fey purple light flashed in Lu Yun’s hand. Violetgrave!

The moment Violetgrave was summoned, Lu Yun felt a slight tremor pass through both the phoenix nest and the dragon nest on the other side of the Ingress Path.

Violet sword energy slashed at the phoenix head, and, with a thud, black blood geysered out of the cut surface. Violetgrave had sliced through the zombie that had stumped the Sugato Sword like a hot knife through butter.

“Violetgrave....” Ghost Dragon stared at the sword with a trace of fear.

He hadn’t ever seen or even heard about the sword, but somehow, the name came unbidden to him. Something about the ninth-rank sword radiating a strange violet light evoked an instinctual fear in him.

“Take it!” Lu Yun kicked the head to the other side of the Ingress Path. Then, the treasure slowly retreated.

“I’ll return once I find the Skydragon Pearl and the Skyphoenix Pearl. Be careful, don’t pull any punches if dangers arise, and… keep an eye on Ghost Dragon.” A little spark of black flame carried Lu Yun’s message to Qing Han’s mind. He hadn’t transmitted directly to his friend since Ghost Dragon had already shown he could intercept transmissions.

Qing Han nodded and looked meaningfully at Lu Yun.

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