Chapter 519: Tomb Front Doors (1/2)

Lu Yun fidgeted in mild discomfort. It was normal for any man to dream of a harem, but his heart was already completely filled up by one person. He couldn’t fit anyone else in there.

“Ahem!” he cleared his throat. “Well, you two should rest up before you go find Situ Zong.”

The leader of the Star Demon Sect expedition was once again Situ Zong.

He was a nine-fruit peak aether dao immortal, but he could hold his own against opponents an entire realm beyond. The Pelagic Realm of the connate Pelagic Orb had turned his constitution into a connate-grade one, and he was already able to wield its full potential.

A connate treasure would be a powerful guarantee for any top clan in the world. Situ Zong wouldn’t have been able to keep any other connate-grade treasure for himself—the Star Demon Sect’s senior council would’ve taken it away from him as soon as he returned to them. However, the Pelagic Orb was special: Lu Yun had given it to him personally.

The same Lu Yun that was now the head of the sect.

The senior council didn’t dare take the sect head’s gift to another. Indeed, the five demon sovereigns helped Situ Zong fully refine the Pelagic Orb for his own, fusing its energy into his body.

Though Situ Zong wasn’t yet an arcane dao immortal, he had no problem dueling any eight-fruit arcane dao immortal. That he was heading the expedition into the ghost realm was an acknowledgement of his current strength.

However, Lu Yun couldn’t establish communication with Situ Zong on his own. The little nun and Yu Hengluo would need to try their luck at the celestial master tomb.

The main reason he’d come here was to look for the Skyqilin and Skyturtle Orbs in order to fully resolve Qing Han’s underlying issues. He didn’t need extra baggage dragging him down.

After using a dozen healing talismans each on the two girls, Lu Yun finally managed to heal their wounds. He took them on his skiff and once again set course for the celestial master tomb.

There was quite a hubbub now before it; many experts surmised this was where the Path of Ingress had ultimately landed.

From the outside, the tomb was a mountain roughly fifty thousand meters high. It was impossible to see its peak with a casual glance. The sky-sundering mountain was entirely pitch black, made of a kind of stone not found anywhere else in the world. Upon the mountain, innumerable piles of bleached bone could be seen.

It seemed that millions and millions of living creatures had once died here, their carcasses piling up into this terrifyingly huge mountain. The celestial master tomb lay beneath the mountain of bone.

A gargantuan tombstone five hundred meters tall marked where it stood. Its surface was entirely flat and nondescript, free of any inscriptions or markings whatsoever—even those left behind by natural wear.

Those who drew near it could see their reflections surprisingly clearly.

Behind the gravestone was a giant door, ancient and etched full of primordial dao runes, and in front of all this was a large, open plain. Clearly, it hadn’t been like this for long. The plain was the obvious result left behind after a brawl between two enormous creatures.

The kui’s fur and scales were scattered everywhere upon the flatland. Scorch marks left behind by its unique thunder art abounded. There were round pockmarks in the ground, too, left behind by Scarlet Ape’s iron staff.

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