Chapter 624: Why, Why Is He Alive Again? (1/2)

Lu Yun gasped, instantly retracting the hellfire he was about to unleash.

“That’s right, this place has fused with only a corner of hell. It isn’t the real thing!” Cold sweat beaded across his forehead.

Hell was defined by the presence of hellfire. A hell that contained hellfire would spawn an independent set of laws and generate natural energy all by itself. If Lu Yun used hellfire here, the unknown power might steal it for itself and create a new world with the flame.

Once that happened, he would no longer be able to fuse it back into the original hell at all. Even if he somehow subjugated this place later on, it would only be a second hell that was divorced from the first.

Moreover, this locale was under the dominion of that ghost king. The nourishment of this corner of hell had likely strengthened it to unimaginable levels.

Lu Yun didn’t possess a complete hell, either. Technically speaking, he only had the most crucial fragment. That, combined with the Tome of Life and Death, was the reason it’d become the principal part.

In the era of human dao, hell had been immeasurably large. It had ruled over all life and death in the multiverse. As such, there were sure to be countless fragments strewn all over its past domain, some much larger than Lu Yun’s.

For example, he knew that the Ancient Tree of Life had taken root in one such fragment, but the tree’s vigor had dispersed any hellish presence that Xing Chen could have detected.

……

“Qing Yu, take my compass and look after the brothers.” Lu Yun handed his luopan to Qing Yu once again. The girl nodded, then silently incanted the Dragonsearch Invocation and took over.

Lu Yun had taught her the Dragonsearch Invocation, Dragonshift Method, and Dragonspike Litany a while back inside hell; she was more than capable enough to wield the luopan’s might.

The young man took a deep breath. A tricolor flame appeared over his body, the combination of Emerald Mist, Lucent Void, and Daevic Sky. Though the three fires weren’t quite hellfire, they burned with the utterly destructive essence of pure yang. Even the ghosts here would be burned to nothingness before they could approach.

Under the tricolor flame’s protection, Lu Yun slowly shuffled out of the luopan’s range.

His Spectral Eye saw ghosts everywhere around him. Those who dared edge toward him were turned to ash after coming just a bit closer.

“There are both normal and immortal ghosts here. The souls of those who die in Exalted Major’s Center Province are drawn here by this corner of hell.” Lu Yun frowned faintly.

The Gates of the Abyss divided the worlds of the living and the dead. The dead, drawn naturally by the path outside, would eventually make their way here.

But this corner of hell wasn’t actually hell; there was no cycle of reincarnation to be had. The souls became immortal ghosts, only to be infected by the yin dragon vein underground and turned into vicious ghosts.

“What kind of lineal tomb is this? The manor outside is just another set of Gates of the Abyss, so entering the manor means reaching the underworld.”

The darkness of the void here was filled with the presence of death. Even the tricolor flame couldn’t penetrate the gloom with illumination.

Lu Yun opened his Spectral Eye to cut through the haze. The roiling aura of death gradually became clear to him, and he could see Li Youcai.

The fatty was standing upon a boulder shortly ahead. He looked much thinner than before; instead of a mountain of meat, he was now something much more commonly presentable. His skin was a ghoulish shade of white and his eyes were pitch black, the whites of his eyes disappearing in favor of nightmarishly large pupils.

“You’re the ghost king.” Lu Yun strode toward Li Youcai. “But you’re not the master of this lineal tomb.”