Chapter 653: World Gates (1/2)

Ugly cracks tore through a dark crimson sky. They healed into scars that tore open and scabbed over and tore open again and again in a horrifying cycle. The vast land was covered in crimson mud with fist-sized bubbles constantly popping on its surface, within which various crimson creatures swam and lurked.

These were the Exalted Divine Tombs, the resting place of the divine race back in the Primeval Era of human dao and the primordial divine court. The elites of the Exalted Divines and all other divine tribes were buried here.

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Lu Yun and his companions traversed the scarlet world on the back of the Path of Ingress. Although there was a space-restriction formation here, the Path of Ingress was such a special treasure that it overrode all formations, rendering the restriction ineffective against it.

“So this is the great tomb of the divine race?” Lin Xuan paged through his tomb raiding archives, looking for any feng shui layouts that were a possible match. After a good while, he looked blankly at Lu Yun. He wasn’t identifying any structures that could be labeled as burial or feng shui layouts.

“This is the Ichor Bog,” Li Youcai suddenly said. “The mausoleum is on the other side of the pond.”

Yueshen had recovered through the power of the Tome of Life and Death and assumed control of Li Youcai again. His heavyset body dropped down from the path and landed on the bubbling crimson pond below.

“Have you been here before?” Lu Yun and the others followed suit. Strangely enough, they didn’t squelch into the pond despite the moist look of the earth. Instead, they were insulated from the mud by some sort of power.

“I have.” Yueshen nodded.

She had once numbered amongst the twenty-four divine kings of the divine race—the senior council of her kind that employed great authority. Over the twenty thousand years of divine rule over the world of immortals, Yueshen had explored her fair share of strange places.

The Exalted Divine Tombs had been maintained with particular care. When she’d first visited, however, there had been none of the giant footprints that now littered the Last Repose outside.

“This pond was created from the congealed flesh and blood of countless lives,” Yueshen said faintly. “Perhaps the flesh and blood of those sacrificed to the altars are added to it as well.”

A shudder ran down Qing Yu’s spine.

“What are those vein-like things down there?” Lin Yu asked, staring at the living souls moving about the pond.

Yueshen took a closer look and answered, “Blood vessels, probably.”

Lin Yu shut his mouth.

“The mausoleum of the Exalted Divine Tombs is in that direction,” Yueshen said, pointing in a certain direction.

“Have you remembered something again?” Qing Yu asked with a frown, sensing Yueshen’s change in mood.

Yueshen nodded and turned to Lu Yun. “I have.”

She’d regained more of her memories the longer she spent recovering in hell, but there remained many things she couldn’t remember. Once she’d been resurrected through the Tome of Life and Death as an immortal ghost, though, she could recall everything.