Chapter 544: Two Scarlet Apes (1/2)

“Now, this is what I call an ancient tomb!” Lu Yun grinned from ear to ear at the sight of the dark tomb in front him.

The Hell of Skinning was completely destroyed the second the yin and yang tombs came together. Human skins in the yang tomb merged with their flesh and blood in the yin tomb, returning their owners to the world of the living.

“It’s too bad that the orbs came together so fast… if the scarlet yin spirits had stuck around a bit longer, I would’ve been able to grasp the theory of my own sword dao.” He raised his head longingly at the black void above.

Alas, the hole that led toward the unknown realm was gone. No more yin spirits could come from there to here. More importantly, the layout of the lungs of heaven and earth that’d been about to be torn apart by the yin and yang tombs had restabilized.

Indeed, the place had come the tiniest bit alive. It seemed that the layout had created a delicate new beginning somewhere inside its boundaries.

“This is a complete layout of the lungs of heaven and earth now. It’s far superior to the actual lungs in hell!” Lu Yun could see everything about the microcosm more clearly.

This minor world was an exceptionally brilliant feng shui layout. There were no physical lungs anywhere in sight, but the entire world had the ability to fulfill the functions of a lung. It renewed waste into heavenly qi that was so crucial to the world’s continued existence.

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Now that the yin and yang tombs had become whole, two shadowed tombs were a single, real tomb. From where he stood, Lu Yun couldn’t see a thing inside. “The celestial master tomb is still interring the lungs of heaven and earth. If the tomb outside isn’t broken, the layout will still wither, sooner or later.”

He called the recombined Formation Orb and Sugato Sword back to him, then stepped out of the layout altogether.

“Hmm?” A faint haze of darkness covered his eyes, and he turned back to see that the minor world formed by the layout had disappeared.

“So if I want to go back there, I just need to turn into gaseous sand.” He breathed a sigh of relief.

The lungs of heaven of earth was far more powerful than any grand influence over the world. It was probably one of the strongest layouts ever, and Lu Yun wanted to be able to study it some time in the future.

“I should destroy the tomb before I do anything else.” His trusty luopan appeared on his palm. “Eh?”

Before he could do anything, he heard a disturbance up ahead.

“There’s a fight going on!” Lu Yun looked forward with his Spectral Eye. This was the end of the tomb, and a wall of bone bricks was right behind him. There was no other way out.

The din of the fighting grew fiercer as time went on, shaking the cavern he was in.

“It’s Scarlet Ape and Kui!” Lu Yun’s heart skipped a beat. He curled up and turned into a rock, then shuffled into an insignificant corner.

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“Kakaka… you’ve nowhere to run, Kui!” Scarlet Ape’s grating shriek was followed by a loud explosion.