Chapter 471: Whos the One Going Extinct? (1/2)

Lu Yun could clearly sense that each soul emanating from the rotten flesh was connected with a spirit as a single entity. They were the souls of regular beings, rather than those of cultivators.

That meant that in the human dao era, or the eras before it, all living beings had a soul, and one fully fused with their spirit. Modern times, on the other hand, saw living beings beneath the dao immortal realm with just souls and no spirits.

Only by reaching the dao immortal realm would one’s true spirit take form and lodge itself in the soul.

However, Lu Yun had only studied the souls and spirits of aether and arcane dao immortals, and those were separate, rather than a single entity like the souls of the rotten flesh. As for origin dao immortals, he didn’t have followers of that level available to study.

Hum.

A whir traveled through the air as a pillar of golden light blasted down from above, barrelling into Lu Yun’s body. The Sal Tree of Life and Death within him trembled violently and grew at tremendous speed, faint golden flowers instantaneously blossoming along its branches and bearing fruit.

Moments later, the spindly and frail sapling had grown into a large tree of more than twenty meters tall. A hundred and eight sparkling golden fruits hung on its branches.

“This is the true fruit of karma. The tree has collected great wisdom and merit and transmuted them into the fruit it now bears. This is so much more than the goodwill fruit I consumed before!” Lu Yun cracked a smile.

He’d freed the rotten flesh from its torment with the Scripture of Salvation and guided their soul fragments into hell to become Hell Flowers—a deed of incomparable virtue and merit.

The goodwill of the damaged souls had transformed straight into virtuous merit and entered the Sal Tree of Life and Death in his body. As a result, Lu Yun’s cultivation made another leap from the perceived void realm to the unravelled void realm, and one of his death arts evolved as well.

“Instant Thunder Palmstrike!” Lu Yun’s eyes shone with excitement. It was such a pleasant surprise that his palm strike method had evolved!

The original death art had required an unusually complicated activation sequence. He first had to attract lightning from the nine heavens to charge the palm strike before attacking. Now, he could summon heavenly lightning in an instant!

He’d previously saved Thunder Palmstrike as a secret weapon for special occasions, but now he could deploy it whenever he needed to.

“Now it’s time to deal with that latent threat.”

Crackle!

Lu Yun clenched his fist, prompting strands of navy blue lightning to burst forth from his palm and dance a frenzied circle around him.

“This is… Yi Wood Cleansing Thunder of the Azure Dragon tribe!” Qi Hai started. “What was the Azure Dragon King thinking, passing down the combat art of its ancestor to Lu Yun...”