Chapter 460: The Power to Kill Cultivators (1/2)

The human demon stood silently off to the side while Mo Yi alertly scanned the premises.

However, this area was simply too bizarre. Apart from where the golden light of the luopan touched, it was pitch black with not a shape to be discerned. Eerie noises traveled out of the dark, as if something was munching on a mouthful of food. Was it Ge Long devouring a big yum-yum, or was the yum-yum eating the old servant?

Lu Yun slowly sat down cross-legged, his complexion pale and haggard. A black flame gradually flared to life within his pupils, dispersing the strange power within his body.

That unknown thing earlier had not only interrupted his invocation, but also delivered a hefty blow. The attack hadn’t connected with his body or spirit, but his mind. Though he looked fine on the surface, his mind was on the verge of collapse. A strange power was barreling through it, seeking to shatter it to smithereens.

Any other cultivator or immortal might’ve immediately collapsed on the spot and turned into a drooling idiot, but thankfully, Lu Yun possessed hellfire. When the flames roared to life, they seeped through his mind to burn away that uncanny power.

Moments later, he breathed out a turbid breath of air intermixed with black smoke.

“This is a divine obsession.” It suddenly occurred to him where the strange attack had originated from. “There’s a divine obsession here, so we need to be careful.”

A divine obsession was a monster born after the death of a divine spirit, something akin to a fragment of memory. Lu Yun had once seen a divine obsession with a complete thought process of its own in the abyss of divines, but Wayfarer had captured it for further study.

Just now, a familiar sensation had come across Lu Yun when the hellfire consumed the strange power. It was that which sparked inspiration in identifying the source of the strange power.

A divine obsession was an entity of thought, so its method of attack was likewise via the mind. Some thought divine obsessions were a fixation on the desire to live on, so the only course of action these entities would take would be possessing the bodies of others.

Of course, divine obsessions lacked soul and spirit, so whatever they took possession of was doomed to die.

Wushen Ruyi was the incarnation of a divine obsession, but Lu Yun was the ultimate overlord of the netherworld. Her circumstances were unusual, due to Myriad Formation Summit, and she’d retained her complete memories. This was the only reason why Lu Yun had allowed her to dwell within the Divine Spymirror.

The divine obsessions here, however, were pure thought without sentience.

When he called upon his Spectral Eye, dense clusters of death information flooded his brain, sending him into a daze from the overload.

“But why would there be divine obsessions here? Did the divines once attempt to explore this tomb?” he murmured to himself. He’d overlooked the obsessions earlier, distracted as he was by the presence of so many strange things. It’d been easy for one to hide well enough that he’d failed to detect it.

…wait, is this divine obsession sentient??

There’d been some intelligence in the one at the bottom of the abyss, too. A few more sweeps of his Spectral Eye yielded nothing. There were no more divine obsessions to be found, just unending layers of soul fragments.

Dusk River lay not too far from them, its inky waters silently making their way to the outside world. The hair-raising crunching noises had ceased coming from the depths of the tomb, and it was now so silent that it made the heart quail.