Chapter 650: Capturing Akasha Ghosts (1/2)

Akasha ghosts!

Lu Yun hadn’t expected the footprints to be left behind by an akasha ghost! He’d encountered them before, and more than once. In fact, he’d arrived in the world of immortals because of an akasha ghost, or more precisely, a layout of absolute death!

……

“What did you just say?” Lu Yun’s eyes whipped to Yueshen, meeting her baffled gaze. “Who did you say left the footprints?”

His eyes bore into immortal ghost’s.

“Gods!” Yueshen shuddered. “They were left by the gods… These are the footprints of the gods! Gods… it can’t be!!” Yueshen’s eyes were wide with disbelief. These were indeed the footprints of the gods, but they turned out… to be left by akasha ghosts instead?! Did that mean that gods became akasha ghosts after they died?

Did gods die? Could they die?

Yueshen shook her head, her heart a tangled mess despite being an immortal ghost.

“This akasha ghost isn’t like the ones we’ve encountered before.” Qing Yu hadn’t lost her rationality. With a flip of a hand, she gathered the illusion shattered by the akasha ghost through space and time.

“You’re right.” Lu Yun nodded. “But it’s still an akasha ghost.”

Thud!

Yueshen suddenly returned to hell, leaving Li Youcai snoring thunderously on the ground. She was having a mental breakdown. Being a ghost instead of a living person, her condition could be exceedingly unstable. Something challenging her understanding of the world was enough to cause significant mental anguish.

Of course, this was temporary. She would be back to her perky self after some rest.

“Come on, let’s go find an altar.” Lu Yun gave the giant footprint a final once-over before departing.

Akasha ghosts seemed to only be able to tap into their full strength in layouts of absolute death. Otherwise, Lu Yun would’ve been dead during one of his many encounters with the strange ghosts.

And now, the one that’d visited here had left behind a series of footprints. Lu Yun couldn’t understand it, so he didn’t waste effort trying.

There were only four days until the demon fetus arrived in the world, but the Exalted celestial emperor didn’t seem too worried. That meant there was no shortage of altars in the cracked land of the Last Repose, so Lu Yun should have no trouble locating one.

With a flip of his hand, he manifested a luopan of faint gold. It was a complete feng shui luopan, created by merging his two previous ones.

The new product had only one layer and one indicator, but the treasure was connected to his mind and could point him to what he was looking for. Lin Yu picked Li Youcai up and the group continued to advance.

“Here it is!” He came to a sudden stop.

Not far ahead was a small altar of roughly six meters across. Pentacolor light sparkled on it and a small doll was propped up on the heart of the altar. It was little more than a foot tall, with neither facial features nor limbs, resembling a tilting doll with its bottom cut off.

Lu Yun sensed very faint ripples of energy from the doll. It… felt alive.

“The altar seems to be a collection of the connate essence of the five elements!” Qing Yu’s eyes lit up as she approached the altar to get a closer look. “It really is that!”

Connate essences of the five elements!

Lu Yun could summon such ingredients of incredible value with his Mastery of the Five Elements, so he and Qing Yu were no stranger to such essences. However, they weren’t of much use to him at the moment, as he wasn’t powerful enough to refine connate grade ingredients.

He might be able to, if he could deploy the three immortal fires at their maximum, but that was something beyond his current abilities. It’d taken everything in Lu Yun and the sacrifice of a living soul for him to refine Scarlet Ape’s chunk of iron rod.