Chapter 671: A Combat Art From Human Dao (1/2)

Among the Yama Kings of the Ten Halls, Zhaoqing was the most mysterious. Lu Yun couldn’t read her memories, nor see what she’d experienced during her life. In fact, he couldn’t even share her talents.

As the daughter of a divine emperor, she was without a doubt the strongest of the ten, even though her current cultivation was only at the peerless immortal realm.

“There’s no rush.” Lu Yun gently shook his head at her. “All of you should first consolidate the Invincible Yama Method. There’s still two big fellows waiting for us outside.”

It hadn’t been long since the Yama Kings had familiarized themselves with the method; more time was needed for them to fully grasp it. Lu Yun had also scanned the cultivation method and came away astonished that it contained many of the improved arts and methods he’d developed with Qing Yu through formula dao!

“It seems that the Tome of Life and Death isn’t a stickler for tradition.” The hint of a smile floated onto his lips.

With a gentle beckon, the floating peak that housed the resurrection layout slowly materialized into existence. It’d been driven into the ground by all the chaos earlier. When it fully took form, he released Qing Yu and the others from the Demonic Sovereign Cauldron.

“What is this place?!” The netherworld’s scenery and atmosphere left Lin Yu thunderstruck.

“We are no longer in the world of immortals, this is another world altogether.” Lin Xuan flipped through the book in his hand, using its contents to assess the situation.

“This is my world. You can rest safely here.” Lu Yun explained with a glance at Qing Yu.

The latter naturally knew of hell. As for the little fox, she squirmed out of Qing Yu’s arms and jumped on top of Lu Yun’s head.

“The aura of yin is dense in this place, and I can’t sense any yang energy whatsoever. Living creatures can’t exist here.” The little fox fell deep in thought. “Can this place be…”

She rested her stomach on Lu Yun’s head and dangled her head down, peering deep into his eyes and whispered mischievously, “Can this be the world of the dead that the legends speak of?”

Lu Yun yanked the furball down and tossed her into a corner of the resurrection layout, then locked her inside.

The little bundle of fur shot an aggrieved look at Qing Yu. But aware of Lu Yun’s long-nursed jealousy, she quickly looked away and pretended she hadn’t seen anything.

Meanwhile, Yueshen exited Li Youcai’s body and flew to the center of the new kingdom, whereupon she joined in the construction efforts. For her, this was her home. Compared to the former divine race, hell brought her a deeper sense of belonging.

Occupying the ten directions of the netherworld, the ten Yama Halls towered over the world like ten stone guardians. As for hell’s completely destroyed ‘City of Life’, it was being rebuilt as the City of the Dead!

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A considerable amount of time later, the ten Yama Kings began to shimmer with dark golden light as exotic armor materialized on them, a sign that they’d achieved rudimentary mastery of the Invincible Yama Method.

“Master!” Zhaoqing approached Lu Yun and fell on one knee. Now that she’d taken human form, the pure white armor on her lent an air of unsullied sanctity.

“A-a-aren’t you…” Lin Yu stared at her with a double take. He’d followed Lu Yun into the lineal tomb and seen the palace coffin, so he’d already met her before and knew who she was.

An emperor’s daughter!

Though he didn’t know what the identification ‘emperor’s daughter’ implied, or what differentiated the great emperors of old from the celestial emperors of the current age, she was for him an incomparably terrifying figure nevertheless.

Dumbfounded, Lin Xuan also shared his brother’s sentiment. How had Lu Yun recruited such an awesome figure into his service?

“All of you stay here while I go out and deal with the two big monsters.” Seeing Ge Long make no move to leave the netherworld, Lu Yun didn’t say anything about having him deal with the stone spirit and demon god. He’d vaguely grasped that Ge Long must be under some kind of restriction in the outside world.