Chapter 656: Revenge is a Dish Best Served Hot (1/2)

Lu Yun wasn’t worried about Qing Yu. Although Empress Myrtlestar’s existence had been revealed to the world, no one would expect Qing Yu to carry the primordial empress around with her.

Hair-raising screeches occasionally rang throughout the dark mausoleum.

“Someone’s fighting over there!” Lu Yun quickly stepped behind a tombstone and looked toward the closest disturbance.

Two powerful immortals were clashing against each other; heavenly power radiated from both and their every move summoned the might of heaven and earth.

Void-ascended immortals!

Although the two were only true immortals, they were more powerful than many arcane, or even peerless immortals. Only void-ascended true immortals would possess such terrifying might.

“Yin Qingran, this will end up biting the Yin Clan in the end!” an immortal roared in frustration, retreating as he fought.

“Tsk tsk tsk, I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m certain that House Donglin is doomed.” Yin Qingran was a beardless, fair-faced man who looked to be in his early thirties. Dressed in cyan, his attacks were quick and vicious with no extraneous movement, forcing the Donglin immortal to retreat time and time again.

“Your head and nascent spirit are worth a billion premium immortal crystals!” Yin Qingran threw his head back with laughter. His weapon of choice was a narrow sword that blended into the air like a faint breeze. It danced through the air, imperceptible to the eye and consciousness.

A billion crystals was a great fortune to many immortals and would be a particular boon to the Yin Clan. The Yins were a second-rate clan in Exalted Major; a billion crystals would increase their strength by thirty percent!

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“Yin Qingran? What a funny sense of humor fate has… You plotted against me in the Last Repose, so how can I possibly let you take Dusk’s crystals so easily?” Lu Yun smirked. With a single step, he vanished from where he stood. Manifesting an unassuming, simple sixth-rank immortal sword, he struck out with sword dao.

Swoosh! Blinding brilliance shot out from the sixth-rank sword, illuminating the area.

“Who’s there?!” Both Yin Qingran and the Donglin immortal whirled with great shock. Before they could react, the sword light reached them and vanished into the sky.

Thud! One of them collapsed, nascent spirit and head gone.

Yin Qingran stood rooted to the spot, his flabbergasted consciousness sweeping over the prone form of the Donglin immortal.

Lu Yun’s bounty called for the heads or nascent spirits of members of House Donglin, assigning no value to headless corpses. As the final lifeline of an immortal, nascent spirits were the more important of the two, so there was more weight on turning in nascent spirits.

The head and nascent spirit were the most important things to an immortal. If both of them were preserved, an immortal would be able to regrow their body, even if they were beheaded. However, there wasn’t a trace of the Donglin’s nascent spirit to be found.

Poleaxed by the sudden turn of events, Yin Qingran could almost picture a pile of immortal crystals growing a pair of wings and flying right out of his reach.

“Who is it?!” he howled in rage. “Who stole my crystals?!”