Chapter 523.1: Lungs? (1/2)

Blood dragon, blood phoenix, blood qilin, and blood turtle!

The birth of any of these four demons heralded disaster for the world and suffering for its inhabitants, and each was backed by an evil coffin.

The Enneawyrm Coffinbearers, Nine-Phoenix Casket, Enneaqilin Coffinbiers, and Ninefooted Turtle Cist!

According to legend, those coffins had originally been the bodies of the four sacred beasts—four grand existences turned into vessels of burial. As for what exactly they were intended to inter, nobody knew.

Three of those evil coffins rested in hell, but Lu Yun had no desire to crack them open. Whatever was interred within them had apparently broken free of their restrictions, and curiosity wasn’t a good enough reason for him to provoke them.

His Spectral Eye immediately identified that the crimson rack buried in the nascent spirit soil belonged to a blood turtle. This demon had risen and died countless eons before.

Should I make it an Envoy of Samsara? Lu Yun was very much tempted to. He had a blood dragon, blood phoenix, and blood qilin as envoys already. He was very close to collecting all four!

When he’d encountered a blood qilin corpse before, his cultivation and mastery over the Tome of Life and Death hadn’t been strong enough to turn the blood demon that’d melded with its past identity into an envoy.

This time, he was a returned void cultivator. The wisdom he’d gained from the grand influence over heaven and earth had taught him many new things about the Tome of Life and Death. He was now more than capable of reviving a blood demon and taming it on the spot.

“In you go!” Placing a hand on the turtle skeleton, Lu Yun sent it to hell. A moment later, he dashed in himself as well.

All eight of his envoys were sitting together with Qing Yu in the center, heatedly discussing ways to analyze and research the combat arts of others. The floating peak of the resurrection layout was carved full of runes and derivation methods.

To Lu Yun, they rather resembled the math formulas he knew from back on Earth.

“Lu Yun!” Qing Yu stood up immediately when she saw him, face flushed with excitement.

“Sir!” Yuying and the others followed suit.

“Carry on with what you were doing, don’t mind me.” Lu Yun waved with a smile.

“Lu Yun, Lu Yun, you need to figure out how to get some more geniuses in here. There’s only a few pieces of the puzzle left, and we can’t figure it out with our current group!”

After some consideration, Qing Yu didn’t suggest releasing Empress Myrtlestar and the Azure Dragon King. The two ancients had taken good care of them, but they needed the two youngsters to help them recover and eventually bring them back into life.

In other words, it was a fair exchange.

If the ancient lords found out about the Tome of Life and Death and the existence of hell, it might incite their greed.

Qi Hai had been suggested earlier as well, but Su Xiaoxiao had vetoed that idea.

In her words, if Qi Hai knew they were trying to figure out a method like this, he would immediately take it for his own and do everything he could to prevent its propagation.

In the Primordial Era, he’d been the foremost pill master of the world, but he’d also been the only person privy to the majority of pill dao’s secrets. After his ‘death’, pill dao had pretty much disappeared overnight.

He’d schemed against Su Xiaoxiao because of her attempts to spread the fruits of her research into medical dao; she’d wanted more immortals to grasp the healing arts.

Qi Hai’s pettiness and narrowmindedness festered a deep-abiding hatred for this action. Thus, he came up with an idea to force Su Xiaoxiao’s hand in killing several worlds’ worth of denizens, then destroyed her cultivation and banished her.

She only learned of all this a very long time afterward. If Qi Hai’s knowledge of medical dao had been complete in the past, he probably would’ve killed Su Xiaoxiao on the spot.

Lu Yun had seen all of this in his envoy’s memories, hence marking his first impression of Qi Hai.

……

“Don’t worry, I’ll have someone with you straight away!” Lu Yun grinned. “Ninth Envoy, take your place!”