Chapter 467: To Copy (1/2)

“It, me… it’s all the same if you’re going to be eaten anyway. Why not let me have you instead? Do you hate me so much?” Violetgrave feigned heartbreak, but her voice was filled with enchantment.

Lu Yun turned a deaf ear and put the sword away. “I can’t look at it or try to sense it… well, I’ll just ignore it for now. Let’s get rid of the extinction layout here first.” Really, there wasn’t much else he could do.

Qi Hai gawked at the young man’s apparent callousness for his dire situation. Anyone else would be weeping in fear right now and begging the world for a solution.

“Think about it, it’s been quite a while since I refined the hearts’ blood and it hasn’t come for me all this time… but as soon as I enter this tomb and reach where the tomb’s owner is buried, it just pounces on me?” Lu Yun explained as he looked over the scarlet hanging coffin.

The rotten flesh was almost thirty meters tall, a mass of writhing yellowish-grey that looked incomparably sticky on Lu Yun’s back. A tilt of his head was all he needed to catch a glance of it in his peripheral vision.

“Plus, why would it only attack me after I see or sense it?” he couldn’t help but add.

Qi Hai shook his head. He couldn’t answer that, either.

“Perhaps someone refined it into this tomb. If I break the part of the tomb that this thing is connected to, I may very well be able to get rid of it. Of course, it’s possible that I’ll set it loose on the outside world too.

“Anyways, are the Sacred Origin Runes really that complicated?” A wave of Lu Yun’s hand caused the floating Yin and Yang Formation Orbs to fuse back into a congruous whole. “A divine emperor’s dao runes? I’m sure they’re high level, but they’re just another kind of formation or talisman rune in the end. They’re a pattern meant to summon a greater power from heaven and earth.”

Taking out an immortal crystal, the young man began drawing in the empty space in front of him.

“What are you doing? Stop that immediately!” Qi Hai was scared out of his wits.

He wanted to break up what Lu Yun was doing, but his current host was merely an ordinary Infernum. Although he was stronger than Lu Yun, he was beholden to the youth’s control. The Sacred Origin Runes were an emperor’s masterwork, inextricably tied to the dao! Such a thing was forbidden to ordinary beings!

“I’m copying the runes, of course,” Lu Yun responded matter-of-factly. “If I want to crack the code, I need to first understand it.”

Boom!

The space he drew on exploded with dark golden light. The runes he replicated shattered, and the corresponding runes upon the hanging coffin flickered for a brief moment.

“Aha!” Lu Yun’s eyes lit up. His fingers began dancing through the air. The immortal crystal disintegrated at top speed, fusing itself into the path he traced.

“W-what are you doing?!” Qi Hai stared open-mouthed at the young man. Cracking the code of the divine emperor’s Sacred Origin Runes? No one had dared voice such a thing even in the era of human dao, to say nothing of actually putting their words into action.

“Do you remember what I said before? What happens to one will affect the other! The twin layouts here will make sure of that. When I copy the Sacred Origin Runes and make a mirrored layout here, I’ll be able to affect the real thing through that!” Lu Yun brimmed with confidence.