Chapter 390: Akasha Ghosts, Again (1/2)

A demon fetus!

Su Xiaoxiao was scared witless by what she saw—Qing Ruyan’s child was a demon fetus! That was the only explanation for the omens manifesting here.

Once born, the demon baby would wreak havoc in the world.

“Formation!” declared a clear voice, ushering the instant appearance of a great formation over the area. Feinie had taken over the protective formation of the governor’s manor to conceal what was happening in its premises.

If any other immortal saw this scene, rumors would run rife through Dusk Province and the authority Lu Yun had worked so hard to build would be destroyed overnight.

“It really is a demon fetus!” Lu Yun and Qing Han were stunned when they arrived at the manor.

The roiling smoke above the premise had turned into a giant infant’s head. It was smiling, an uneerie hatred quirking its lips. It was as if the baby bore strong resentment for the world before it had even been born.

“Xing Mou and the little fox are still in there...” Qing Han was looking on with great concern. The situation in the manor was too frightful, and now Qing Ruyan’s lifeforce had vanished entirely.

……

“Qing Ruyan entered Dusk Province when too much blood was being spilled. The resentment of the immortals who died there concentrated on her, turning the immortal fetus she carried into a demon fetus. We didn’t even have to risk our own karma by moving against her!”

Outside Dusk Province, a few grim-looking elders were looking into the province with strange smiles on their faces.

“She fancied herself so clever, sneaking into Dusk Province during that Scarlet Ape’s attack. All the malice and resentment in the air from the violence raging in the province… someone pregnant with an immortal fetus was the perfect target. Besides, she even killed a few people while she was at it… tsk tsk, how foolish.”

There was an eerie presence of death about them, but they were still alive. Their auras were even greater and more powerful than the various leaders of the major factions; they were all origin dao immortals!

They were those who’d reached peak arcane dao immortal realm and entered the void under the origin dao fruit’s guidance, and were lucky enough to pluck their dao fruit. During the process, however, they’d suffered great injuries. Those injuries constantly ate away at their life force and forced them to go into closed door cultivation to fight their wounds.

They hadn’t appeared when Scarlet Ape invaded Dusk Province. Now that Qing Ruyan was going to deliver her child, they’d emerged at the border to take in what was happening.

Clearly, it was their doing that Qing Ruyan had so easily entered Dusk Province and participated in the earlier battle. Gleeful delight punctuated their lighthearted conversation as they watched the demon fetus arrive in the world.

“That little fellow in the Panorama Pavilion is about to be guided by the dao fruit tree, isn’t he?” chuckled an old crone with a cane.

“Soon. Another hundred years…. I do hope he’ll succeed in plucking the origin dao fruit and become inhuman beings just like us… hehehe...” cackled another voice.

“Origin dao? Hehehe, we’re the real origin dao immortals, the true powerhouses of the world of immortals. The nine celestial emperors are nothing but free-range pigs. Pigs are to be slaughtered and roasted once they grow fat enough. How foolish of those nine poor bugs to think about working together....”

“Silence!” the other origin dao immortals hectored when they heard the old crone bring that up.

She laughed awkwardly and stopped talking.