Chapter 630: Accident (1/2)
Lu Yun’s sect possessed three ultimate techniques: the Dragonsearch Invocation, the Dragonshift Method, and the Dragonspike Litany.
The Death Spike was a most malicious art derived from the Dragonspike Litany, and had been classified as a forbidden art by the sect ancestor. In all of history, it had been used only twice. Once to destroy the aforementioned dynasty, and a second time to eradicate a tomb-robbing sect hostile to Lu Yun’s.
Death Spike was a very strange layout as even a feng shui master of equal expertise would be hard pressed to notice it without mastering the forbidden themselves. This layout was harmless to dragon or earthen veins; it severed only fate.
In this instance, to ‘sever’ meant to cleanly cut off with no recourse. Once inserted into the land, the layout caused massive bloodshed within forty-nine days!
Lu Yun wasn’t one to casually use such a sinister killing layout, but the notion of a coalition between the Exalted Immortal Sect and Exalted court was too dreadful to contemplate.
Taken as a whole, Mount Exalted and its surrounding terrain formed an ‘imperial cradle’. This so-called imperial cradle was a place that gave birth to emperors and kings, a land rich with blessings and good fortune.
The Exalted Immortal Sect and Exalted court were both located here. One was light to the other’s darkness, yin to the other’s yang, offense to the other’s defense. Like the sun and the moon in the sky, they illuminated the entire world.
Lu Yun couldn’t let this come to fruition. Once the notion of using the Death Spike came to mind, it was impossible to shake off.
“Lu Yun… there’s billions of immortals in the Exalted Immortal Sect and court… Mount Exalted itself might be destroyed by the Death Spike. You have to think this through! ” Qing Yu was greatly alarmed by the prospect.
“No, I’ll only destroy the Exalted Immortal Sect’s fortunes and cause its decline.” Lu Yun gently shook his head. “The genuine Death Spike layout culminates in a spike 33.33 meters tall, but I’ll just refine one that’s 3.33 meters tall. It’ll be enough to damage the sect’s foundations without going further.”
He, too, was wary of attempting the true Death Spike. Such an action would incur too great a karmic debt. Though he was protected by the Sal Tree of Life and Death, the tree was currently in the process of evolving, so there was no telling whether it could shoulder retribution of such a scale.
He’d also learned Qing Yu’s formula dao. While he hadn’t reached her heaven-defying realm of using raw materials to synthesize whatever was needed, it wasn’t a problem for him to deduce some methods, combat skills, and secret arts.
For example, to write the book in Lin Xuan’s possession, Lu Yun and Qing Yu had worked together through formula dao to perfectly derive the ancient teachings of his sect’s forefather.
Likewise, Lu Yun had employed formula dao to cobble together a simplified version of the Death Spike. However, he didn’t know how much power the simplified version retained, and Qing Yu couldn’t theorize the result either.
Now that Lin Yu and Lin Xuan had fully committed themselves to Lu Yun’s side, he meant to gradually disclose some of his secrets to them. As it happened, he needed help from them to set up the Death Spike. It wasn’t a layout deployable by one person.
One brother could arrange the formation and the other the feng shui layout, making for a complementary pair. For his part, Lu Yun would be responsible for the main body of the layout.
As for Li Youcai and the little fox, they were sent to the Exalted Immortal Sect’s various pointless banquets in lieu of their party. Previously unrivaled to begin with, the fox’s illusions had progressed even further after returning from the celestial master tomb. Her human guise would be a challenge to see through, even for dao immortals.
Lu Yun could imagine how flustered Exalted Major and the Exalted Immortal Sect were at the moment, undecided on how to handle him. They’d probably never entertained the possibility that he’d truly set foot into Exalted Major.
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