Chapter 621: Ancestry Bridge, Road of the Dead. (1/2)

Curled up in Qing Yu’s arms all along, the little fox suddenly burrowed out and jumped on top of Lin Yu’s head. The youth was in the middle of deploying a formation of pure yang, so his location was the densest in yang energy and made it impossible for ghostly energy to coexist with him.

Crouched on his head, the little fox stared warily at the yin dragon vein inside the embryonic world beside Lu Yun. A close imitation of life, the dragon vein resembled a genuine black dragon brandishing scaled claws.

“There’s something sitting on top of its head!” The little fox’s misty blue eyes stared fixedly at the yin dragon vein before shaking her head. “It feels very familiar, I must have seen it somewhere before.”

“It’s a palace!” More or less done with his layout, Lin Xuan paused his work and looked in the same direction. “The palace is a coffin!”

With a mild nod, Lu Yun retracted the luopan, slowly collapsing the embryonic world.

“The palace is the outer coffin, the ghost king is buried at the heart of it.” Lu Yun let out a long breath. “In life, the ghost king was no doubt an emperor’s descendant, and an extremely noble one to boot.”

No mundane emperors would use a palace as a tomb; it would be far too extravagant for them.

“It must be related to the Exalted Divine emperor,” the fox offered weakly. “If there’s anyone left in this world who can use a palace as a coffin, it’d be a direct descendant of their emperor.” Confusion filled the little fox’s eyes as her thoughts were thrown into disorder again.

I really want to toss this little thing inside the celestial master tomb.

Inside that tomb, the fox would recover her past selves. The ancient monster celestial master or the monster spirit ancestor would certainly recall something. Alas, her current self was a confused ditz.

“A direct descendant… someone put them here to turn the place into a killing tomb layout.”

Possessed by the ghost king, Li Youcai had vanished into the depths of the manor. As the heavy clouds above brought more darkness down upon the surrounding region, faintly discernible ghostly howls began to echo through the air.

The little fox’s soft white fur bristled at the sound. All of her limbs froze stiff, and she tumbled down from Lin Yu’s head and landed in his arms with a thunk.

She’d literally been frightened into fainting.

Without a complete soul, she wasn’t equipped to handle this kind of shock. But even so, her true identity was too formidable to die of such a simple scare. Moreover, Lu Yun had nurtured her soul with his sect’s soul fostering art. The more shocks of this nature she received, the more beneficial it actually was for her soul.

Resigned, Qing Yu walked up to the fox and stuffed the stiff furball back against her chest. As she did so, she caught Lu Yun glancing at the fox in envy. When understanding dawned on her, her cheeks flushed bright red.

“Success!” Lin Xuan shouted in excitement at this time. He’d deployed his first feng shui layout all by himself without help from anyone else! A sense of achievement rose in his heart, and it seemed his understanding of feng shui had improved yet again.

“I’m also done!” In front of Lin Yu, a golden column of light shot to the dome of the sky and disintegrated the sea of dark clouds.

Before the immortals hovering in the clouds for surveillance could react, they ended up deader than dead from the blast of pure yang.

“What a powerful yang formation... H-how…” Lin Yu himself was stunned. Such a formation wasn’t exactly a new achievement for him, but in the past, its strength wouldn’t have been nearly this great.

As the blast of yang energy subsided and the sky cleared up again, the eerie manor overflowing with yin energy also regained its former appearance. While still cold and ghastly, the phantasmal wails were gone.

“Alright, everyone stay put!” Lu Yun strode inside Lin Xuan’s layout, his hands dancing a few times in the air to fix some imperfections. For his part, Lin Xuan couldn’t tear his gaze away as he engraved each of the weak spots and Lu Yun’s gestures on his heart.

Hum!

The feng shui layout shook fiercely and morphed into hazy blue light. Spectral Eye wide open, Lu Yun formed a series of hand seals to activate the layout.

A mottled bridge abruptly came into existence. Connecting the sky to the land, it moved toward a certain direction. As it happened, Mount Exalted lay in that very direction.

“Sure enough, the Ancestry Bridge can locate this tomb’s descendants!” Lu Yun smiled gently.

This feng shui layout was called an Ancestry Bridge. It bore no offensive abilities whatsoever, but possessed a special function: it could calculate the location of a lineal tomb’s descendants.

Lineal tombs housed the remains of a bloodline’s ancestors to bless their progeny, but some ended up abandoned for various reasons. Deprived of their later generations’ incense and offerings, the wrathful dead inside would transform the tomb into a killing layout.

That very thing had happened to this particular lineal tomb, turning the one buried inside into a ghost king. And the Ancestry Bridge, as it happened, had located someone belonging to the ghost king’s lineage.

If the bloodline was severed, the Ancestry Bridge would be broken. Instead, the bridge extended toward Mount Exalted, proof that a descendant existed there.

The Exalted Divine Tribe!

The one buried inside this lineal tomb was unquestionably an Exalted Divine, a direct descendant of the Exalted Divine emperor.

“I see. Without the mountain’s protection, the tomb would’ve long cursed the Exalted Immortal Sect and Exalted court to extinction.” Looking at the irregular splashes of color and rust on the Ancestry Bridge, Lu Yun swallowed hard. “It seems that the divines live on not only due to the Sword of Chaos forcibly maintaining the race’s last hints of fortune, but because Mount Exalted is fundamentally interfering with things!”

Without the mountain, the lineal tomb alone would’ve wiped out the last of the divines, even without the Skandha Range’s curse. Lineal tombs were double-edged swords. They could bless a lineage, but could also destroy it forever.

The Exalted Divine Tribe wasn’t just a divine tribe like the others. It represented those who’d ruled over all the divines. Even powerful tribes like the cardinal divines—the azure dragons, white tigers, vermillion birds, and black tortoises—were their subjects.