Chapter 433: Chaos (1/2)

“What exactly is Violetgrave?” Lu Yun asked with a frown.

Hearing the name of the sword sent a chill down Silverblaze’s spine, her eyes shining with fear. As a Silvermoon Wolfking, one of the greatest immortal beasts in the world, she’d inherited her ancestors’ memories. To her knowledge, Violetgrave was a vicious weapon that no one should approach.

“I don’t know.” Qi Hai shook his head. “There seems to be a large mausoleum within the sword, where eras and civilizations are buried.” After a pause, he continued, “It’s been around since the era of the human dao. Even then, its owners always suffered a terrible end.”

The era of human dao.

That was what Qi Hai called the time he hailed from. As for the time after that, including the present, the Primordial Era, and the time before, Qi Hai called it the era of immortal dao.

“Back then, the woman Violetgrave helped me become the greatest pill master in the world of immortals… However, that also caused my death.” By now, Qi Hai had recovered his memories of the Primordial Era with Su Xiaoxiao’s help. After conveying his story, he fell silent once more.

Lu Yun’s heart sank. Violetgrave had refined a corpse puppet that would grant him the power of a celestial emperor three times, after which the puppet would be freed. Now it seemed that the moment the puppet was freed was the moment it would strike back at Lu Yun.

“Don’t trust her,” Qi Hai warned again.

Lu Yun nodded without a word as the color drained from Qing Han’s face. The two hadn’t kept their conversation a secret from her.

“I brought this to you,” she said in a low voice. “I should’ve been its owner.”

Lu Yun smiled. “Don’t worry. It’s just a sword.”

Meanwhile, Violetgrave and the sword of dao engaged in battle over Destiny City. Violet and jade sword light each occupied half of the firmament, triggering powerful phenomena and casting the entire city in the two colors.

Streaks of violet and jade repeatedly collided against each other in midair while countless shocked immortals bore witness from below.

“It’s the sword from the immortal tomb!” The Thunder Lord shot to his feet. He was incredulous at the sight of the jadeite sword in the sky. “Has someone taken ownership of it?”

“No.” A violet-robed counselor shook his head. “It followed the two people in the tomb to Destiny City. Qing Yu and Silverblaze.” He glanced toward Jadeite Manor with a frown. “Although, what can that violet sword be?”

The conflict was evidently a battle between two greats, and the power radiated by the two swords was climbing to heights of absurd intensity.

“Qing Yu can’t be the master of that jade sword, he’s just a cultivator. Can the sword have its own spirit? Can the violet sword’s master be trying to tame it?” The man scrunched up his face; he desired the jade sword for himself, but didn’t dare act on that desire. The swords’ duel in midair required intervention on the level of at least the old wolfking.

……

“Thank you for your protection, senior.” Lu Yun bowed to the sudden arrival.

Xi Yingchen blinked, then shook his head. “For ten billion crystals, I can hold off outside pressure for you. Offending the divine race like this would cost far more than that.”

Divine corpses were strewn about all over Jadeite Manor—most of them high-ranking dao immortals. If Xi Yingchen was the one who had intervened, he would only have thrown them out.

Although the divines were currently hiding themselves from the world, they’d never changed their modus operandi. Whoever made an enemy of them would gain one unto the bitter end.

“With that senior here, you really didn’t need to pay the ten billion anyway,” he remarked after a brief pause.

“That senior?” Lu Yun tilted his head toward Qing Han.

“There’s probably someone else here. When we were in the Sovereign World, someone protected me from the Sword of Dao’s influence,” Qing Han messaged him about what had happened before.

“Come out, whoever you are!” Lu Yun bellowed in a low voice, wanting nothing left to the unknown.

“Ah… ah, yes!” a somewhat obsequious voice came from a nearby corner. The old man who emerged looked rather different, but he couldn’t fool Lu Yun’s eyes.

“What are you doing here?” Lu Yun frowned.