Chapter 657: The Divine Fire Bead (2/2)

The immortals of Clan Ling stared, agog and uncomprehending. In the meantime, the burning divine zombie leapt out of the bronze coffin, roaring with enough fury to split the sky as it threw itself into the crowd of Ling immortals.

“Yin Qingran, Clan Yin!!” Ling Chengzu howled with saddened fury. “This isn’t over!”

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Somewhere far away, shrouded by emptiness, his eyes locked on more than a hundred immortals from House Donglin, Yin Qingran shuddered for a reason he couldn’t explain.

“What’s the matter?” He turned back in confusion, dimly aware that something bad had happened. But what, exactly? He hadn’t a clue.

“Forget that. As long as I can kill void-ascended immortals of House Donglin and obtain Lu Yun’s bounty, our clan shall rise.” His gaze was keen and resolute.

He wasn’t here to raid the tombs. While there were indeed treasures inside the mausoleum, any obtained by a weak clan like theirs would ultimately end up in the Exalted Immortal Sect’s hands. So for him, the reward offered by Lu Yun offered was the main focus of his expedition.

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“The Divine Fire Bead, a connate treasure!” Inside the darkness, Lu Yun hummed an obscure tune as he made his way toward the place where ‘yin and yang reverses, and earth tops sky’ with spry skips.

The Treasurefall Coin was an atypical treasure, and he’d activated it with the power of a karmic fruit. Such a combination had been too great to defy, even for a connate treasure like the bead.

Of course, it’d only been possible because the bead had been ownerless.

Had it been refined by someone already, the Treasurefall Coin would’ve proven ineffective. Lu Yun’s cultivation wasn’t great enough yet to call upon the coin’s full strength, even when strengthened by karmic fruits. In any case, the addition of the bead was an unexpected, but welcome surprise.

“It’s right over there!” He screeched to a halt and put the bead away. He’d arrived at the place where the demon fetus was nurtured, the same place where Zhao Qing was buried. The fetus was underground, while Zhao Qing was located high in the sky.

However, everything was still and silent. No activity whatsoever could be detected, and the demon fetus’ aura was so well hidden that not a trace of it could be sensed.

“You came, as expected,” a cold voice reverberated from the void. Lu Yun’s heart pounded in his chest—had he been discovered?

Just as he was about to show himself, he heard a second voice.

“Indeed, I have come.” The voice belonged to Qi Hai. “How could I not? A divine emperor’s true spirit has been demonized.”

Hum!

A gentle light spread outward and painted the space with white as pure as snow. Two tall figures faced each other from some distance away.

One was Qi Hai, and the other… Zhao Chong!

1. The son of a sky god, Zhurong is a god of fire and of the south in Chinese mythology. Elsewhere, he is also described as a historical person who served as a Minister of Fire.