Chapter 587: The Key Of Life (1/2)

“Ashu!” Lu Yun carefully studied the sinfully handsome man. Rather than being alive, he was another living dead. However, the man had reached the apex of his existence. A tiny fraction more would make him a true living being.

A holy lord!

Holy lords were the strongest existences among mausoleum keepers. That was even more true of Holy Lord Ashu, who was many times more powerful than the ones currently looking for Lu Yun.

Lu Yun sensed an aura from the man as strong as that of the Azure Dragon King. This was a powerhouse at the principal realm, at a bare minimum! To think a character of this level existed in the underworld!

But there was no denying it; Ashu was indeed an immortal who’d reached the principal realm.

“The Panorama of Clarity is on you, isn’t it?” The holy lord’s gentle voice was strangely magnetic, and one couldn’t help but feel well-disposed towards him.

“It isn’t.” Lu Yun took a deep breath. It’d be impossible to get away if Ashu were to suddenly spring an attack on him. There was an insurmountable gap between him and this opponent, one that not even the Tome of Life and Death could surmount.

“Really?” Ashu blinked, then carefully observed Lu Yun again. “Indeed, you don’t lie… But unless I’m mistaken, it should be with someone very important to you.”

Lu Yun looked down and stayed quiet. To find clues from nothing more than minute changes in his expression... this Ashu was even more redoutable than he’d feared.

“A few fools have sealed off the underworld, so you can’t leave right now.” Ashu promptly set aside the Panorama of Clarity and instead broached the current situation.

“And you can help me leave?” Lu Yun looked up again at the man.

“I can.”

Lu Yun was surprised at how easily this holy lord agreed.

“However, I’m leaving with you.”

“You? Leave with me?” Lu Yun frowned. “You’re a living dead, so you can survive only in here. If you try to leave, you’ll be destroyed by the yang energy in the outside world.”

“It seems that you’re quite informed.” Ashu nodded. “I’d initially planned to kill you outright, then search your soul for the Panorama’s whereabouts. But I changed my mind when I saw you.”

Lu Yun stayed silent.

“I’m very interested in the way you breathe. I tried to mimic your breathing rhythm just now, but it’s not quite the real thing. I have a hunch that I won’t have to fear yang energy if I were to acquire your breathing method.”

A hint of keenness appeared on Ashu’s face. The greatest difference between the living and the dead was breathing!

The living dead here could make their hearts beat, make their blood flow, and have their bodies generate warmth. The only thing beyond their reach was breathing! A living dead who’d learned to breathe would truly become alive again. But no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t replicate genuine breathing.

Ashu had copied Lu Yun’s breathing tempo moments ago and was greatly surprised to discover that it reawakened his long-dead lungs and generated a long-forgotten feeling of harmony in him.