Chapter 535: The Fifth Abyss of Divine Burial (1/2)

The heavy breathing was deafening here, and even the veil of black light formed by the Tome of Life and Death trembled under its noise.

Lu Yun’s three immortal fires flickered in the din, looking like they were about to go out at any moment. This wasn’t because the Tome or the fires were weak; he was the weak one and couldn’t make use of their true strength.

He could no longer pinpoint the Scaled-Dragon King’s dirt because nascent spirit soil was everywhere. Gaseous grains of sandy dirt surged forward on a torrent of currents.

The Scaled-Dragon King’s soil had been swept up by a much larger stream of its peers, but Lu Yun was finally at his destination. The source of the breathing was right in front of him.

“This isn’t where the celestial master tomb’s source is, though.”

A look at his luopan told him as much. Every indicator showed that the origin was deeper still. However, the source of the breathing was extremely close.

Flurries and eddies of dirt filled the air here. The immortal fires were blotted out, lending their light no longer to their surroundings. Without the Tome of Life and Death protecting him, Lu Yun would be dead already. Not even the celestial emperor corpse puppet could save him. Right now, he didn’t dare move a single finger.

The dirt here was cloyingly thick and bound his body tightly to the ground. Even so, the flying grains moved ever forward according to the rhythm of the breathing, carrying him upon their tide.

“Halt!” He flipped over the compass in his hand. It emitted a faint light, which he bolstered with the Dragonsearch Invocation and Dragonshift Method.

A moment later, the luopan burst into a translucent minor world in midair. The Tome of Life and Death left his fingers and took up a hovering position as well, actively backing up the projection.

A projected minor world was embryonic, at most. It would hardly be able to resist the dirt here, as thick as it was. The breathing? That was in another league entirely.

The minor world itself was far stronger than he was. When used as a conduit, it could also serve as an amplifier for the Tome of Life and Death. But at the same time, the embryonic minor world was quite fragile.

Lu Yun couldn’t hold that state for long. Right now, he was firmly planted where he stood, and the nascent spirit soil couldn’t shake him from his stillness. Inside the minor world, the structure that belonged to the compass began to spin. Heavenly energy gathered inside the world and a hazy figure slowly took shape within it.

The first thing he saw was a great abyss right in front of him, and his toes were barely half a step away from the precipice. Cold sweat beaded on his forehead. In this strange place, he was unable to fly at all. If he’d stepped out into the chasm, he would certainly have met a grisly demise.

He was a hundred percent sure that no matter how deep the abyss was, he would reach the bottom in a single instant. He wouldn’t be able to react quickly enough to send himself to hell.

“What is this place?” Lu Yun drew a sharp breath and carefully fiddled with the luopan to begin the analysis.