Chapter 552.1: Primordial Heavenly Army (1/2)

The Path of Ingress was here, but Lu Yun’s branch had given him no indication of it at all.

The Scaled-Dragon King and Beigong Yu sprinted upon the path, evidently in quite a predicament. Many other immortals were fleeing madly alongside them.

“Aaah!”

“Help!”

“Noooooo…”

A wave of anguished shrieks rose and fell upon the treasure.

Lu Yun opened his Spectral Eye just in time to see immortals being ripped apart left and right.

“Zombies!” His face colored. “Corpse divines!”

It’d been this tomb that’d turned Kui into a corpse divine. A single wisp of lingering obsession had enabled it to keep all of the abilities it’d had in life. If even Kui had succumbed, none of the other zombies would be spared.

“These corpse divines are all in uniform armor!” Standing at the end of the Path of Ingress, Lu Yun peered at the tide of corpse divines from afar.

Though their armor was dented and mottled with rust, they were clearly relics of the primordial immortal court. The damaged weapons they wielded were similarly consistent. Moreover, they were all peerless immortals.

However, these peerless immortal corpse divines cut down their living peers with indescribable ease. They didn’t even fear some of the dao immortals, either. The Scaled-Dragon King and Beigong Yu barely managed to get through the crowd with their combined strength.

“The corpse divines are the ancient primordial court’s heavenly army!” Lu Yun drew a sharp breath. “Those interred out of loyalty included more than the three hundred and sixty-five star divinities, or Fengbo and Yushi. Even the primordial heavenly army was buried alive for the Monster Celestial Master!

“If Kui and these heavenly soldiers were transformed into corpse divines, what about Fengbo and Yushi? And the Monster Celestial Master, is he dead or alive?” The young man fixed his eyes upon the ivory path; the gap between the corpse divines and the fleeing immortals was rapidly decreasing.

“Run, milord!” Beigong Yu and the Scaled-Dragon King scrunched up their faces in great anxiety when they saw Lu Yun.

“The corpse divines are terrifying! An eight-fruit Ling arcane dao immortal also fell under their coordinated assault,” the Scaled-Dragon King babbled out.

“The direction ahead leads only to death,” Lu Yun replied somberly.

The end of the ancient tomb lay in front of them. The harried immortals would soon be backed into a corner.

“Come!” he called out suddenly. The Divine Glory appeared in midair, lighting up the sky with its weapons of war.

“That’s Lu Yun’s ship! We’re saved!” The panicked immortals charged toward their new beacon of hope with a burst of speed.

In the ancient skydragon tomb, Lu Yun had saved a number of immortals from Scarlet Ape with his ship. Hopeful that he would do so again, goodwill streamed to him through the air. The Sal Tree of Life and Death inside him grew lusher and more vigorous, slowly forming a karmic fruit on its branches. When enough goodwill condensed into virtuous merit, a fruit eventually formed.

Lu Yun’s appearance at the end of the immortals’ rope gave them a new lease on life. Even the most malicious and villainous among them would feel immense gratitude; it was an instinctive reaction.

However, he didn’t fire the weapons immediately as many immortals were locked in melee with the corpse divines. Only eighteen war treasures remained upon the Divine Glory, in any case, but there were more than a million corpse divines. It would be difficult to repel them all.

What he could do was create a barrier with the war treasures’ combined power. Encompassing a kilometer and a half around the ship, it was a new invention from him, Feinie, and Huangqing. Because the barrier was still in an experimental phase, he couldn’t guarantee just how well it would hold, but it was at least something.

A number of immortals rushed into the defensive barrier of the Divine Glory.

“Sir Lu Yun…” Some of them came to the base of the ship, looking hesitantly up at him.

“Recover as much of your strength as you can. I don’t know how long this’ll last.” Standing at the bow, Lu Yun glanced at the teeming flood of corpse divines with considerable worry.

He converted as many of the immortal crystals he carried as he could into immortal qi, then injected it into the Yin Yang Formation Orb. It cost too much energy to activate the orb at its full power; his personal qi was a drop in the bucket compared to even the maintenance cost.

The corpse divines were already at the gates and rammed the barrier with heavy thumps. The barrier created by the Divine Glory would permit the living to pass, but not the dead.