Chapter 580.1: Fright (1/2)

A group of void-ascended fur seals… no, they couldn’t be called void-ascended immortals, but connate immortals. They were born into immortality and grew up under the influence of a complete immortal dao. As such, they were stronger than even Zhu Yan or Yue Longsha.

But to Lu Yun, they were nothing more than a group of wild beasts. Yes, their strength was nothing to sniff at, and their cultivation was in the immortal realm, but they knew very little of immortal methods.

They didn’t even know how to fly.

“Hahaha!” Ge Yun stood on the crest of a wave and threw its head back with hearty laughter. “Lu Yun, I’m going to eat you, since you dared hurt me! Children, capture this lowly human!”

“Augh woorgh aaaargh!” The seals frothed at the mouth like rabid beasts and set foot on the waves, throwing themselves at Lu Yun.

For its part, Ge Yun stayed away from the human. Losing more than fifty kilograms of flesh from a single sword stroke had truly spooked it. Had his sword penetrated a little deeper, the youth might truly have injured its essence.

Fur seals were nothing more than ordinary beasts back in the primordial times. Of course, since immortal dao had been complete back then and woven into the fabric of the world itself, even the most common animal had been an immortal beast in that era.

When the world of immortals had fragmented, the fur seals were, by chance, swept into a larger shard retaining a complete immortal dao. In fact, the environment inside was entirely identical to that of the ancient primordial world.

So the race had continued on in the same way as they ever had, and newborn calves came into the world as true immortals. Conversely, the tribe had mastered very few cultivation methods, so those who reached dao immortal realm were one in a million.

Someone with Ge Yun’s cultivation was an extraordinary figure among its kin. Nevertheless, it’d been scared witless by Lu Yun’s earlier attack, so it chose to unleash the fur seals inside the water jar—its descendants—and use them as cannon fodder.

Though ordinary fur seals couldn’t transform into other species, they still possessed a complete immortal dao and mighty physical strength, so even someone like Lu Yun felt threatened by the combined assault of several hundred of these beasts.

“Damn it!” He paled when he noticed several fur seals rushing toward the Arcane Yin Tree, only to be instantly churned into bloody mist by the black halo of light emanating from the tree and their souls devoured.

“Vermin... scram!!” In a fit of anger, he gestured with his hand and summoned the last of his cannons to his side.

Boom!

The cannon fired a blast worth a full billion immortal crystals, evaporating seawater and fur seals alike. The Lake of Yin trembled, and the fissures on the lakebed widened substantially, draining the boundless sea water underground.

In return, after being swallowed entirely by the Arcane Yin Tree, yin energy once again came gushing out.

“What is this, what in the heavens is this thing!!!” Mouth agape, Ge Yun looked in horror at Lu Yun’s weapon of war. “Mom said that immortals these days are useless trash, and that all of the war treasures have been ruined… So what in the heavens is this thing that you brought out?!”

As it yelped, it subconsciously sank downward in search of seawater to hide itself in. However, the water it immersed itself in wasn’t quite seawater anymore. Corrupted by dense yin energy, it was now water of extreme yin.

As a result, Ge Yun howled with pain the moment it entered the water, its immensely rotund body withering at a speed visible to the naked eye. Flesh, essence, soul, and nascent spirit were all swallowed by a strange force.

Suddenly pale, Lu Yun abruptly whirled around. On the Arcane Yin Tree, the Arcane Yin Fruit was as red as fire and bounced on the branches like a dancing flame.

His blood ran cold. The fruit had matured, but the tree hadn’t withered!

What he’d been most afraid of had occurred. An eye had appeared on the fiery Arcane Yin Fruit, which now closely resembled a fiery-red eyeball. For its part, the diminutive tree had become a thing of shadow.