Chapter 567: Swear Upon Your Internal Demons (1/2)

“Are you the internal demon?” Lu Yun steadied his nerves. He wasn’t particularly worried, not with hellfire protecting him.

“I am.” The internal demon nodded. “If she is willing to die for someone else’s sake, why would I exist? She’s deceived you.”

Lu Yun nodded. “No one would willingly sacrifice themselves to help someone else.”

Back when Empress Myrtlestar had entered Qing Yu’s Scroll of Shepherding Immortals, she, too, had planned on possessing Qing Yu. But when Lu Yun had helped reforge her soul with the Tome of Life and Death, a new hope had dawned and she’d changed her mind.

Likewise, Lu Yun hadn’t trusted Timelight’s soul from the start.

Perhaps she’d been benevolent and kind when alive, someone who would’ve willingly given up her life for her people. But she was dead now. What was left of her soul was a yin spirit, and just like ghosts, yin spirits possessed an instinctive craving!

After moving on from this world and becoming a ghostly existence, even saints of great virtue longed to come back to life!

As the master of hell and the Tome of Life and Death, Lu Yun was naturally aware of the instincts of the deceased. In life, one feared death; in death, one wanted to live! Such was the instinct deeply engraved in the soul. As a result, a ghost was the last existence he’d trust.

“Then why did you promise to bring this possessed body to the underground palace?” The internal demon tilted her head to the side and looked at him in confusion.

For his part, Lu Yun was also baffled. Compared to the soul of Empress Timelight he’d seen earlier, this internal demon seemed much more like a living person.

“Because several of my friends are stuck inside that palace,” he answered truthfully.

“I see.” The internal demon nodded. “But I can’t let you go inside, or Timelight’s soul will have enough power to control the tower and erase my existence. Likewise, she’ll fully possess the little dragon in your arms.”

There was some perplexity in the internal demon’s gaze as she looked at him too. Just where did his courage come from? What made him confident enough to do the bidding of a dead empress?

Why wasn’t he afraid of listening to the dead? Wasn’t that just inviting trouble and asking to be schemed to death?

Hellfire?

The current level of his hellfire wasn’t enough to deter the internal demon.

“I know.” With a faint nod, Lu Yun no longer paid the internal demon any attention. He set his sights forward and strode toward the underground palace.

Earlier, the empress’ soul had shown him the palace’s location before taking her leave. Additionally, she hadn’t seemed worried he’d be led astray by the internal demon and end up changing his mind.

The internal demon’s complexion turned chilly at his attitude.

“Since you’re so eager to die, I can lend you a hand.” She waved a hand, condensing countless rays of gloomy black light and shooting them at Lu Yun. As if they themselves were so many other demons, the rays howled with anguish and despair, desperate to invade his body.

Crackle!

The hellfire raging around Lu Yun billowed furiously and incinerated them all. The internal demon shook, a slight paleness surfacing on her face.

“Die!” she suddenly snarled, her previous ethereal voice now as macabre as a demon’s.

An imposing specter emerged behind her, similar to the one that’d appeared earlier when Jing Huaci had refined the cross. A boundless ghostly presence suddenly permeated the air, and the internal demon unexpectedly turned into a ghostly creature.

“Demons can see Jing Huaci, but ghosts can’t… No wonder, no wonder!” Lu Yun snapped to attention.

Boom!

The specter’s fist suddenly appeared from above. Even as it descended, it started burning with hellfire and scattering black ash everywhere, but it continued bearing down on Lu Yun with irresistible force.

Lu Yun once again felt the shadow of death looming over him. But this time around, he stayed unwavering and held his ground.

Boom!

All of a sudden, a silver column of light erupted from within his clothes and blasted the giant fist apart. The silver Timelight Tower was now an incorporeal structure that shielded him within.

Sighing in relief, he continued onward, Jing Huaci in his arms. He then came to a strange zone made from many folded layers of space, but he was still inside the celestial master tomb. This was something that Lu Yun couldn’t begin to understand.

He saw many human silhouettes walking past him, and even saw Jiangchen Xie, who’d abandoned his zombie king body. He was in the middle refining many giant bones to perfect his Hadal Bone Art.

“He’s about to become a void-realm immortal!” Lu Yun’s heart shook as he observed the man from another plane. But there was nothing he could do other than helplessly look on as the man refined his bones and increased his strength.

Things aren’t too bad, I suppose. At least he’ll ditch the arts of the Corpse Refiners for the demon sovereign’s bone arts, so he should stop creating zombies…. But the Corpse Refiners will grow more powerful in his wake. Lu Yun took a deep breath. Void-realm immortals were frightening existences.