Chapter 576: Lake of Yin (1/2)
After Empress Vastspace’s escape, the Deaf Prince and his five friends began to refine the source of the Vastspace Mountain, leaving it temporarily without an owner.
The branch of the Path of Ingress in Lu Yun’s possession could easily navigate around the domain, but his mood plummeted when he returned to the celestial master tomb.
“Yuchi Tianhuang is being pursued!”
Although he was but an Infernum, he was one of the select few with great potential that Lu Yun had bestowed special attention to after sufficient progression in his own cultivation.
The Scaled-Dragon King, Beigong Yu, Yuchi Tianhuang, Xue Daozi, Bing Ling, Bing Xuan, and the latest addition, Kui, were all a rank beyond regular Infernum.
Regular Infernum couldn’t stray too far from Lu Yun or his Envoys of Samsara, lest their souls be decimated and scattered. On the other hand, the ones Lu Yun had handpicked were granted enormous freedom, even though their names weren’t written in the Tome of Life and Death.
Lu Yun and Yuchi Tianhuang maintained a line of communication, through which Lu Yun could clearly sense the man’s emotions: his despair, anger, and resignation. Yuchi Tianhuang could likewise sense his master’s reappearance. However, his delighted surprise quickly evaporated and was replaced by heavy concern.
Lu Yun then noticed his follower moving swiftly away from him.
Yuchi Tianhuang knows my strength, and he knows someone as powerful as Kui is in hell. Still, he chooses to put more distance between us. He doesn’t want me to cross paths with whatever’s chasing him!
“Can it be the two scarlet apes?” Heart pounding, Lu Yun reached Yuchi Tianhuang with a thought, his voice ringing in the Infernum’s mind. “Yuchi Tianhuang! Who’s after you?”
Yuchi Tianhuang shuddered as he fled. “That bitch of a fur seal!”
Lu Yun paused. “Bitch of a… fur seal?”
“Ge Yanxia from the fur seals of the West Sea!” Yuchi Tianhuang spat out. “Don’t come here, milord. I suspect that their immortal dao is complete!”
“What?!” Lu Yun frowned deeply. “Explain.”
“The West Sea fur seals are a very reclusive race, never showing any interest in the power struggles of the world. But they’re more powerful than the Corpse Refiners or even the Fangyang Nobles! That old bitch Ge Yanxia is just an aether dao immortal, but I’m not her match!”
Lu Yun had etched a formation of heaven and earth into Yuchi Tianhuang, making it so that he could rival a void-ascended peerless immortal, thus ensuring he was much more powerful than regular aether dao immortals.
However, he still wasn’t Ge Yanxia’s match. The only possible explanation was that she was a void-ascended immortal as well, and that the rules of immortal dao were complete within her!
“Their race’s ancestral lands must be a giant ruin from the primordial world of immortals, preserving a complete immortal dao,” concluded Yuchi Tianhuang.
“Oh?” Lu Yun made a mental note. “Return to hell first.”
Though Yuchi Tianhuang wasn’t with Lu Yun, the overlord of hell could still send him back to the netherworld.
“If I do, milord, that old bitch will kill Yu’er!” Yuchi Tianhuang said in a pleading voice.
“Then you may return to hell with her and her corpse divine soldiers.”