Chapter 539: Nether Fire (1/2)

Lu Yun nodded without a word and turned back to the giant lungs.

“Is there really no such thing as an organ of the world?” he couldn’t help but wonder. All animals, no matter their level of advancement, possessed five yin organs and six yang organs. Even plants grew similar organs at some point throughout the course of their evolution.

The desolate willow in the Skandha Range, for example, had developed a real face that wasn’t just an illusion. Like all other living beings, the desolate willow had nine orifices, five yin organs, and six yang organs.

Once ascending to the void realm, cultivators would be able to draw in the power of heaven and earth and create a minor world within their bodies that was identical to the real world.

Lu Yun didn’t think this ability was a coincidence, as the same was true of feng shui layouts. All layouts were based on something that existed in the world. Even man-made layouts set up by feng shui masters, such as Ghost Deceives God, had been created through combining the existing layouts in nature.

Therefore, hell must exist as well.

Lu Yun was sure that the hell he ruled over would become the hell of legends once it fully evolved. What, then, was the underworld?

……

“Do you want those lungs?” Violetgrave asked after a brief pause, noting Lu Yun’s silence.

“Are you offering help?” Lu Yun shook his head. “I don’t dare take it.”

“Don’t worry, I’ve decided not to eat you. You’re too hard to chew.” Violetgrave rubbed her cheeks. “I wonder what the book on you is. I can still kill you despite its protection, but I can’t eat you.”

“Then why would you help me?” Lu Yun pursed his lips in suspicion, abruptly changing the subject. “Ah, you mentioned that this is a mausoleum?”

“That’s right,” Violetgrave explained. “The underworld is a mausoleum. This tomb is just one of the many tombs within it.”

“What about you?” Lu Yun blurted out. “What are you?”

“Me?” Violetgrave dimpled. “I’m Violetgrave.” She whirled around. “Violet meaning Violetgrave, and grave as in Violetgrave.”

Lu Yun shrugged. “That’s not an answer.”

“Alright. I’ll kill the divine spirit in the lungs, then you’ll be able to make them part of your own body!” Violetgrave’s tone turned serious. “I have an idea about who the lungs belonged to, and who killed him and left the lungs here. He must not be allowed to acquire the lungs, else the consequences will be unbearable.”

She stared gravely at Lu Yun. “You must take the lungs. If you refuse, I’ll knock you out and shove them into your body!

“The book won’t let them kill you. This time, it’s not me helping you, but you helping me! In this world, probably only you can refine the lungs without alerting their previous owner.” Faint flames burst from Violetgrave’s eyes like violet ghosts.

Lu Yun stepped back without thinking, gaping at Violetgrave with shock.

“It’s you!!” He stared at the flames in Violetgrave’s eyes. He’d seen the spectre-like flames before… in hell!

The first time he’d seen the flames, he was trying to combine Size Manipulation Talismans with formations.

The second time, Lu Yun had captured an inmate from the depths of hell, attempting to make it his Infernum. The fire had then appeared and reduced the inmate to ashes.

The third time… was in Violetgrave’s eyes!