Chapter 500: Karma Visits the Bloodline (1/2)
The land and skies slowly returned to peace. Cut off from their source, the flood of scarlet yin spirits was entirely extinguished.
In the firmament, the enormous graph of yin and yang rotated slowly. Almost everyone believed that the crack had been sealed shut again. When they saw that Lu Yun really did intend to prepare Qing Long and Feng Xiao for burial in stone sarcophagi, two arcane dao immortals of their clans couldn’t help but leap into action.
Of course, while they looked like they were preventing Lu Yun from burying two of their kin alive, their goal was very apparent: the Embittered Bamboo!
Face tinged with a black pallor, a dark, poisonous miasma wreathed Qing Han’s body. From their positions in the Scroll of Shepherding Immortals, the Azure Dragon King and Empress Myrtlestar poured forth their efforts into keeping the poison under control.
“Stop them!” Lu Yun roared, but no one moved a muscle.
Wayfarer was fully preoccupied at the moment, still embroiled in the finer details of the layout of burying immortals. If he struck out in defense of the two youths, flaws would appear in the layout and invalidate all of their previous efforts.
Up in the sky, the unsteady yin-yang graph began to tremble.
Arcane dao immortal strength was simply too overwhelming, while Lu Yun’s cultivation was too weak—the yin-yang layout he’d set up was similarly constrained by his capabilities. Adding to that its incomplete status, it meant he was unable to fully deploy the power of the land.
As the two arcane dao immortals came bearing down on him, their explosions of energy shook the yin-yang graph greatly. Repercussions were immediate—the previously obstructed scarlet yin spirit tide came flooding out again.
“What? No!” Numerous dao immortals struck battle stances again, attempting to stem the tide.
“Lu Yun, you’re taking public revenge for a private slight!” hectored the Qing dao immortal. However, he didn’t halt his actions. After clearing the space around him, he was less than three hundred meters away from Qing Han—spitting distance for arcane dao immortals. Insatiable greed glinted out of his eyes.
“Qing Han, you little bastard, it was your great fortune to survive the poison from back in the day. Let’s see who can save you today, hahahahaha!!”
This Qing dao immortal had plucked eight arcane dao fruits and was one of the peak experts of the world. Though he appeared benevolent and refined, he was the mastermind behind some of the Qings attempting to kill Qing Han with rimesnake poison. The poison spirit root within her was her greatest souvenir from that attempt.
Immortal sword scintillating with piercingly cold light, he closed the distance to Qing Han like he was stalking prey. The Feng dao immortal had arrived as well, and stood in a marvelous spot that just so happened to block all of the immortals behind them.
They’d reached an agreement in the second it’d taken them to flash to the youths. The Feng and Qing Clans would subdue the connate spirit root together, marking the formal alliance of the two clans with joint possession of the Embittered Bamboo.
Both of them were eight-fruit arcane dao immortals, and heavyweights that stood at the top of the world. Their statuses within their clans were second only to their forefathers, so they absolutely had the right to make decisions on their own. Their agreement today was the precursor to official partnership between the two clans.
“Qing Yuezhe, Feng Wuxian, stop! Both of you, stop!” Zhao Changkong’s uncle called out urgently when he took stock of the situation. However, he too couldn’t spare further effort from the new siege of scarlet yin monsters surrounding him. “Lu Yun and Qing Han really are presiding over the formation. If any flaws develop within it, that will be the prelude to great disaster!”
“Heh heh heh, that whelp Lu Yun is greedy and cruel like a wolf with a savage heart. Don’t you see that he’s purposefully opening a portion of the formation to release the spirits? This is how he plans to hold the imperial court hostage,” chuckled the confident Feng Wuxian. “Don’t worry, this seat is a formation grandmaster as well. After killing Lu Yun and Qing Han, I can naturally take control of this formation and seal off this place completely!”
He performed a pincer movement with Qing Yuzhe, gradually closing off the avenues of escape for Lu Yun, Qing Han, and Wayfarer. The remaining Feng and Qing dao immortals gathered ‘round as well, but no one else dared move.
They’d discovered that whenever they deployed their own energy, the resulting ripples in the qi of the land shook the yin-yang graph and spewed forth another rush of yin spirits.
Many had already retreated thousands of kilometers back, so they could do nothing about the alliance forming right before their eyes. Even if some of them coveted the Embittered Bamboo as well, they didn’t dare approach. Where the connate spirit root was would be a spot of unmitigated death if there was another explosion of yin spirits.
However, the two clans cared not about this at all. Just as Feng Wuxian had said, he was a formation grandmaster, so he could absolutely take over from Lu Yun and seal away the tomb.
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“Die!” No longer hesitating, Qing Wuxian brought his sword down on Qing Han. Frosty light carved a sinister curve through the air, slicing down on the youth’s head. If this stroke connected, Qing Han would be cleaved in half.
“Scram!”
Boom!
The ground trembled as an earthen-vein-evolved dragon burst forth, shattering the ground it’d come from.
Rumble!!