Chapter 585: Mausoleum Keepers (1/2)

A living dead.

The gold-clad, golden-eyed man in front of Lu Yun was a living dead, a living soul sealed inside a dead body!

He’d met such existences in the past. For example, the tomb keepers inside Huangqing’s tomb, but those had been living souls trapped inside zombie flesh. In contrast, the one in front of him was a corpse that was alive, not a zombie.

“A mausoleum keeper, you’re a mausoleum keeper for the underworld!” Lu Yun cried out, immediately guessing the man’s identity. This was one of the natives Xuan Yu had spoken of!

Violetgrave had once said that the underworld was in fact a giant mausoleum, a place where, apart from ghosts, only mausoleum keepers could survive. Lu Yun had hypothesized the existence of such guardians when Xuan Yu had mentioned natives, but he hadn’t expected one would appear of its own accord.

The gold-clad man started lightly before flashing a smile. “Sure enough, the rumors weren’t false. You really do have some skill to guess my identity, Lu Yun.

“Since you know who I am, hand over the Panorama of Clarity. Believe me, keeping it on you will only bring you trouble sooner or later.” The man’s faintly golden eyes now flashed pure gold, and a power that couldn’t be explained circulated around him as he made his way toward the human youth.

“Since you know who I am, you should also know that… someone like you isn’t enough to stop me.” As Lu Yun’s words fell, a cannon appeared beside him.

Dong! Boom!

Three billion immortal crystals went up in smoke the second the weapon of war appeared, and a giant pillar of light spewed forth to ruthlessly bombard the gold-clad man.

At the same time, Lu Yun spun around without a shred of hesitation, grabbed Ding Lei, and stuffed the giant body inside the water jar. Without even resorting to the Path of Ingress, he immediately deployed the Wandering Step and darted toward the tomb’s exit. The mausoleum keepers posed far too great a threat!

When even Xuan Yu’s soldiers had been slaughtered almost to the last by these guardians, Lu Yun wasn’t deluded enough to think he could face them on his own.

……

“Young lord!!” Color drained from the faces of the other mausoleum keepers nearby, and they hastily moved forward.

However, the cannon’s pillar of light had struck too fast. Three billion crystals were a full-powered shot, and the discharge obliterated the gold-clad man. Not even a speck of dust was left behind.

“Kill, kill, kill!!” a keeper raged. “Do everything in your power to hunt down and kill Lu Yun! ...no, kill any intruder!!”

In no time at all, the entire celestial master tomb… the whole of the underworld boiled over with action. Countless mausoleum keepers rushed out of the darkness to hunt outsiders, their slaughter dying the tomb with crimson light.

Boom!!

White brilliance suddenly flared within the tomb, heralding the appearance of a purple-clad man out of nowhere. With a strong stature that towered into the skies, the man’s fearsome aura immediately flooded the underworld. As it happened, he was the one who’d carved out the Path of Ingress in the abyss with a single punch.

“If thou dareth slaughter the innocent, I shalt mete out punishment upon thy entire clan!!” A majestic voice boomed throughout the tomb, causing all of the mausoleum keepers to kneel on the ground and shiver in fear.

But apart from the keepers... none of the outsiders, be they immortals or cultivators, could see the man’s figure. Lu Yun was the lone exception. He’d already fled outside the tomb and happened to be right below the figure’s feet.