Chapter 486: A Pathetic Worm (1/2)

The world of immortals was still skeptical of soul planting. The Chen and Lu Clans, especially, didn’t even believe Lu Yun. After all, having a foreign soul planted didn’t really result in noticeable changes.

Their disbelief was echoed by the rest of the world. Although the Mo and Zi Clans, along with the Immortal Martial School, had all come out and confirmed Lu Yun’s words, no one believed them, either.

Moreover, based on current events, it wasn’t possible for Sword Divine to tamper with the immortals and cultivators of every faction in the world, further diluting those who could prove the existence of soul planting. Other than the Mo Clan, Zi Clan, and the Immortal Martial School, he’d been focusing mainly on the Chen and Lu Clans.

His intentions were clear: gaining ownership of the factions that the dao sovereigns belonged to.

Lu Yun had been struggling to come up with a way to deal with the tampered individuals in Dusk. He couldn’t just kill them, but he also couldn’t release them. Thankfully, the cultivators invading Dusk City had just resolved the issue for him.

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“I should’ve connected Sword Divine to the shamanic divines a long time ago!” Lu Yun scowled at the sight of Lu and Chen immortals being slaughtered beneath him.

“Soul planting was invented by the shamanic divines. The shamans could refine soul shrouds, so there was no need for them to create flawed soul seeds!” Lu Yun looked at Zi Chen, then cast his gaze upon Mo Qitian and Wu Tulong outside the city.

They’d each had a flawless soul seed planted in them. Once they matured, the seeds would turn the host’s soul into a soul shroud and conceal the foreign soul. Such was what had happened to Lu Shenhou.

“Is the heir of the Sword of Chaos a shamanic divine, or has a member of that tribe gotten close to the heir?”

Countless immortals and cultivators tore into each other within Dusk City, inciting bedlam in every part of the city. Lu Yun’s mind was an equally tangled mess.

Rumble!

A sudden tremor passed through the land outside Dusk City as skeletons emerged from underground, disassembling and reassembling into giant skeletal beasts in the air.

“Lu Yun!!” Atop a beast three hundred meters in height was a faint figure enveloped in a pall of corpse energy. Unaffected by the energy, his gaze pierced through the air and settled on Lu Yun on the inheritance tower.

“Dare you come out of the city and fight me?!” The void realm Corpse Refiner brimmed with confidence. Although he hadn’t participated in the Sovereign Meet, he’d reached the returned void realm all the same.

The Corpse Refiners possessed a great secret, which was why they hadn’t even considered the Fangyang Nobles from the Primordial Era a threat. The projected self assurance from the genius Corpse Refiner indicated that their disciples didn’t need the Sovereign Meet to become top cultivators of the world!

“My name is Jiangchen Xie. Jiangchen Wushang, who you murdered, was my clansman! However, he was merely the future host selected by our ancestor, so he would’ve died sooner or later. You killing him has nothing to do with me. I’m just here to prove that I, Jiangchen Xie, is no lesser than anyone, despite not attending the Sovereign Meet.”

With a wave of his hand, another hundred-odd skeletal beasts emerged from earth.

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“Jiangchen Xie! That freak finally showed his face!” Ankle deep in a killing spree in Dusk City, the Fangyang youth blanched and stared at the Corpse Refiner in fear. “It’s said that Jiangchen Xie reached peak spirit realm thirty thousand years ago, but refused to ascend to immortality, claiming the existence of another realm past the spirit realm! Thus, he sealed himself and went into slumber...”

“He sensed the existence of the void realm when he was at peak spirit realm?!” the Thunder Lord asked in shock.