Chapter 386: Nine Divine Vaults (1/2)

Reconstruction efforts began in Dusk Province in a bid to restore the cities, mountains, and rivers ravaged by the fires of war. The province that’d formerly been on its way to prosperity was now a land of ruin and desolation, more than sixty percent of its inhabitants dead.

Moreover, the world had witnessed firsthand how fearsome the monkey was. It’d gone against the restriction and gotten the better of its opponent! Though it had fled back to the North Sea for now, its eyes were still set on Dusk Province.

Immortals of the world had never been afraid of Lu Yun.

True, his meteoric rise was paved with blood. He’d killed too many immortals to count, but the path he walked was an upright one, fair and aboveboard. Unless provoked, he didn’t commence a slaughter for no reason.

No, they were afraid of that big monkey.

Dusk City itself would likely be destroyed when the beast came again. Everyone had seen the Divine Glory almost destroyed in the wake of the final attack launched in its cannon form. Out of the nineteen cannons aboard, only the main cannon had survived. All of the auxiliary cannons had been destroyed, along with the physical manifestation of the province restriction itself.

A victory it might have been, but one with a bitter price. If the giant monkey recovered and came back even stronger, the outcome would be impossible to predict.

Dusk Province was now a shattered land, a taboo territory that various faction leaders ordered their members to avoid. Most of the inhabitants left belonged to the Lu and Chen Clans, the Star Demon Sect, or Skandha Range.

The latter was the one silver lining in the great battle that’d just rampaged through the province. Both Scarlet Ape and the human demon had instinctively been afraid of the place and avoided it during combat.

As for the monster immortals of the East Sea, and the other human immortals who’d come to help, they left after the invaders withdrew. They had no desire to go a second round against the monkey that defied common sense.

……

Hell.

A giant palace towered somewhere in the netherworld. The Yin and Yang Formation Orbs hovered in the sky above, casting rays of formation light that illuminated a palace that was almost five thousand kilometers wide.

Known as the North Sea Palace, it was the true abode of the previous rulers of the northern waters. After entering the netherworld, Lu Yun had manipulated the power of hell to release all of the spatial folds in the palace.

This was the ancient dragon palace, after all, the lair of ancient dragons. After their disappearance, the palace’s true nature had been thoroughly concealed. Even the dragons ruling over the North Sea ten thousand years ago had been unaware of its true form.

Now, thanks to the energy of the netherworld, Lu Yun had returned it to its original self.

“Wha….” Lu Yun trembled violently at the sight of the giant edifice, his eyes filled with disbelief. He wasn’t the only one; his envoys were likewise given a scare.

“This was modified from the corpse of a Black Tortoise… A true Black Tortoise, a natural-born divine!” Yuchi Tianhuang, one of Lu Yun’s ghostly subordinates, murmured from the side.

His dao partner’s body had contained the bloodline of the Black Tortoise and had been a powerhouse of the tribe, so he was intimately familiar with this presence. Furthermore, the Black Tortoise in front of them was a divine beast born from nature itself, rather than one that inherited the bloodline of the tribe.