Chapter 661: Confounding Truth and Falsehood (1/2)

When Lu Yun looked backward, he saw a mass of dense black smoke that not even his consciousness could penetrate. Produced by the human-headed octopi, the smoke formed a barrier that sealed off the area.

Without any hesitation, he employed the Wandering Step and set forth to where Qing Yu and the others could be found. She’d joined the Exalted celestial emperor and was besieging a hole shrouded by the same black mist they’d seen in the cavern under Mount Exalted. There was another demon fetus in there!

In fact, even Qi Hai had been deceived by this locale at first.

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“This place gives off a strange feeling.” Sword in hand, Zhao Wushuang stared fixedly at the giant hole in front of him, a grave expression on the disguised girl’s face.

Inside the hole, a black flame fanned all the way to the horizon like a smoke signal. Faintly discernible ghost faces hovered above the wispy flame, an appropriate omen of a demon god’s arrival.

However, Zhao Wushuang didn’t perceive any signs of warning from the heart of the Sword of Chaos in his hand, as if this place were an ordinary place like any other. Meanwhile, many immortals from Exalted and Nephrite Major frantically attacked the smoke. As long as they could dispel it, they would be able to enter the cave and slay the fetus inside.

Neither House Donglin nor the fur seals were present. The fur seals had gone with Ge Yanxia to sacrifice themselves to the true demon fetus, while the noble house had scattered elsewhere in the divine tomb in search of treasures.

The demon god fetus? They cared not a whit for it.

“Where has Lu Yun gone?!” the Exalted celestial emperor demanded of Qing Yu. Had Lu Yun and his crystal cannon been with them, perhaps the smoke would already be history by now.

Qing Yu hugged the little fox in her arms and gently stroked the soft fur, staying away from the melee. She was aware that everything here was fake. Rather than helping the assembled immortals, Lin Yu and Lin Xuan were deploying formations in an attempt to alter the environment.

There was no demon fetus to be found inside the cave; instead, what awaited was a terrible zombie. Once the smoke was destroyed, the zombie would have free rein to come into this world.

When she heard the celestial emperor’s question, Qing Yu raised her head.

“You people should prepare yourselves. What you’ll find inside isn’t a demon fetus, but a zombie,” she warned calmly. “When it comes out, the plans you’ve made against a demon fetus will prove ineffective.”

“What?” The celestial emperor froze.

Boom!

A sudden explosion broke through the air as Ge Yanxia’s enormous frame made a heavy landing that shook the entire tomb.

“Die!” As if gone mad, Ge Yanxia threw a punch at Qing Yu the moment she landed. Having reverted back to human appearance, she was naked from head to toe. Her punch shattered space and reached Qing Yu faster than one could blink.

Zing!

A black light flashed in front of Qing Yu, accompanied by a Black Tortoise’s roars at the sky, its simple and thick shell blocking the force of the punch.

Snap!

Shattering sounds came in quick succession as formations fractured one after another. They formed the Black Tortoise Formation that Lin Yu and Lin Xuan had laid down together. Though still incomplete, it’d nevertheless stopped Ge Yanxia’s attack.

“Die!” The fur seal struck again, aiming straight at Qing Yu’s head this time. Cruel excitement glinted in her bovine eyes; she’d destroyed the Black Tortoise Formation with the first punch, and her second blow was thirty percent stronger.

“What are you doing!!” Color draining from his face, the Exalted celestial emperor rushed in front of Qing Yu, the Exalted Chart glittering above him as he countered Ge Yanxia’s punch with one of his own.

Boom!

The space between them shattered into a black hole thirty centimeters in diameter. Ge Yanxia slid back, a hesitant expression in her bovine eyes.

“Celestial Emperor!” Ge Yanxia’s voice rang out thinly, but it somehow evoked the sound of a gong as well. “Lu Yun partnered up with the demon fetus a long time ago. He’s gone to the real location to release it.”

Falsehoods flowed freely out of the fur seal’s mouth the moment her sausage lips pried open. “Risking life and limb, this seat had to sacrifice all of my children to stop his evil plot. And now, this little lover of his is planning to bury all of you here! If I hadn’t arrived in time and destroyed that formation… before long, all of you would’ve become food for the monster under the black smoke.”

The crowd blinked in confusion, then turned to Qing Yu in astonishment. With light sources illuminating the area, the premises were no longer as dark as they previously were.

She’d remained unmoving through the commotion, her expression calm and at ease. Not a single soul could associate her devastatingly beautiful mien with anything remotely untoward.