Chapter 419: Ninety-Nine Steps (1/2)

The burial mound of an immortal had been broken into, giving rise to powerful natural phenomena and drawing the attention of thousands of cultivators within five hundred kilometers of the mound.

Upon arrival at the land of darkness, many had discovered the wreckage of burial mounds. Not knowing who was buried where, nor what dangers lay within, had given the cultivators pause. Immortals should be buried in tombs upon death; it was hardly fitting that they’d been stuck in burial mounds.

However, someone had broken into a burial mound that belonged to an immortal, releasing a surge of immortal energy. Lu Yun naturally wasn’t going to miss out on this opportunity. There was no telling how far the beam of light would reach. It was bound to attract many eyes, perhaps including Qing Han’s.

Many in and outside of Destiny City reacted as well.

“It’s a legacy of the ancient immortal dao!” exclaimed an arcane dao immortal. “Just like the ones found in ancient tombs!”

Realization rippled out. Such legacies were exactly what contemporary immortals excavated ancient tombs for!

They were often embedded in items, treasures, or books. The Sword Pagoda erected in Dusk Province, for example, was the legacy of the ancient Sugato Lord. Anyone who reached its top would receive the ancient lord’s heritage.

Who would’ve thought that such legacies were to be found in the Sovereign Meet as well!

No wonder origin dao immortals who’d been laying low and recovering from their injuries had emerged and sent their proteges to the Sovereign Meet. There were great opportunities to be had!

Cultivators who’d been eliminated bemoaned their luck, beating their chests in frustration and regret, but there was nothing they could do. Among the thirty million cultivators who’d acquired a Life Glyph, only five hundred thousand had reached the land of darkness. They were the cream of the crop among the cultivators of the world.

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The beam of light continued to persist, thickening the presence of immortal dao in the area.

Cultivators who’d exhausted much of their energy in battle felt a wave of replenishment and refreshment when they approached its area of effect.

Given the lack of natural or immortal energy here in the central world, spirit stones and immortal crystals were the only source of energy replenishment, and the crystals couldn’t even help the cultivators since their cultivation was suppressed to the core realm. They had to rely on spirit stones instead.

The great majority of them were core members of their factions and normally cultivated with crystals, so they didn’t have a reason to bring something as lowly as spirit stones with them.

The precise circumstances of the Sovereign Meet had caught everyone off guard.

Core realm cultivators couldn’t use immortal treasures or crystals. Once they exhausted too much of their inner energy, they could only remain in place and slowly recover with their own cultivation methods.

Thus, the energy-replenishing radiance leaking from the burial mound prompted a swarm of cultivators to head toward its source, creating quite a stir in the local vicinity that’d been flooded by the light.

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“It was too easy to lure those fools here.” Under the rays of ethereal light, two figures stood shoulder-to-shoulder, smiling at the cultivators seated in the area to recover their energy.

They looked roughly eighteen, and there was an exceedingly high degree of resemblance between them, marking them to be most likely brothers. Behind them was a short foothill with a broken tablet erected before it, faint characters still visible on it.