Chapter 654: Ichor Bog (2/2)

All of a sudden, Lu Yun thought of Ge Long.

There was a certain treasure hidden inside the divine mausoleum. This treasure… might very well provide a way to keep the emperor’s true spirit in check. After all, it was a true spirit and nothing more. Until the fetus arrived in this world, it wouldn’t wield the strength that the emperor had once possessed in life.

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Numerous serpentine creatures twisted within the bloody swamp’s boundless expanse, somehow presenting an eerie and uncanny sight.

Lu Yun’s group hastily rushed forward on the Path of Ingress. Space was extremely strange in this area. Here, the Path of Ingress could only sustain flight at best, not pierce through the space’s confines.

Boom!

A deafening roar came from the swamp below as a great hand stretched out of the morass to grab at the Path of Ingress. The hand of bloody mud was more than sixty meters wide, and the fresh blood dripping from it created a harrowing sight.

“Oh no you don’t!” Without undue panic, Lu Yun brandished Violetgrave and unleashed a dazzling ray of violet sword light that cleaved the hand in two.

Screech!!

A great number of scarlet serpentine creatures hissed when the great hand was cut apart, then scuttled away in every direction. Impressively, the hand had been formed by a pile of the creatures.

Glug, glug, glug!

Their retreat was followed by a strange sound from the gory bog. Pockets of scarlet gas wafted out of the swamp’s air bubbles to fill the surrounding air.

Hum!

Under Lu Yun’s feet, the Path of Ingress shook as it glowed with a vast expanse of white light and repelled the scarlet gas. It was a lethal poison, something even more toxic than corpse poison.

“Be careful, there must be foreign presences inside the mausoleum,” Yueshen suddenly said. “The divine emperor’s true spirit was born from a divine fetus. His transformation into a demon fetus must be the doing of certain people.”

She couldn’t help but worry, as anyone who could transform a divine fetus into a demon one would hardly be weak. If they’d stayed behind, not even Lu Yun would be their match. Her master nodded gently, but there was also a glimmer of hope deep in his heart. Princess Zhao Qing was also here!

If the divine emperor’s true spirit had indeed been demonized, she wouldn’t sit back and do nothing. Moreover, she was someone who owned a corner of hell. By coming here, Lu Yun wasn’t only after the treasure Ge Long had mentioned, but Zhao Qing as well.

He had no idea what would happen once he assembled all ten Envoys of Samsara, but according to Ge Long, he could solve the issue of the akasha ghosts invading hell when all ten seats were accounted for. Needless to say, the envoys had to be far more than simple subordinates to the master of the netherworld. So, for his final envoy, Lu Yun had settled on Zhao Qing!

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Like a giant curtain suddenly whisked open, the world of blood and gore abruptly vanished from their line of sight, only to be replaced by darkness without end.

“Did any of you notice something just now?” Lin Yu’s voice betrayed his trepidation. “I think I saw an eye… I think we just flew out of an eye!”

He looked back behind him, but there was only darkness as far as he could see.