Chapter 703: So It Was You! (2/2)

A trace of pain floated onto Qing Yu’s face as her figure was wreathed in a black fog. This fog, of course, was the terrible poison inside of her. Any other pill furnace would long have been corroded by the virulent poison.

Whoosh!

Lu Yun waved his hand and summoned the Poison Fiend to an empty spot next to him. The fiend opened its mouth wide and sucked in the poison inside the forge of earth and sky. Meanwhile, the various treasures inside the furnace melted into streams of light and flowed into Qing Yu.

Crackle!

An invisible fire lit up from her figure and began to expel the poison inside.

……

A human figure strode out of the void with a measured pace. He considered Lu Yun and the forge of earth and sky in front of the young man with a cool, detached expression. For some mysterious reason, no one out of Empress Myrtlestar, Chen Xiao, Mo Yi, Qing Buyi, Lu Feng, or the Yama Kings noticed his arrival. Thus unimpeded, the man arrived in front of Lu Yun as if on a leisure stroll.

“It’s... you,”  Lu Yun suddenly noted.

“So it was you!” A second Lu Yun came into existence as well and looked up at the tall figure, his eyes wide with shock.

“Lu Yun, you’re truly a very lucky man. To think you’d find the proper way to eradicate the poison curse,” the newcomer sighed gently. “So I had no choice but to come.”

“Did Sword Divine… Dongfang Hao send you here?” Lu Yun’s brows knitted tightly together.

“Sword Divine? Dongfang Hao?” the man sneered. “Shit like him?”

“That’s exactly right!” Lu Yun’s forehead relaxed somewhat; his replica had reached peak golden immortal realm. While he wasn’t as strong as one of those ancient monsters, he was strong enough to fear no one. At least… he didn’t fear arcane dao immortals.

As for the man facing him...

Lu Shenhou.

Lu Shenhou!

Lu Shenhou!!

How could it be Lu Shenhou!!!

It was the same Lu Shenhou who’d discovered the void realm. Although dead, his lingering obsession had persisted and returned to bring the path of cultivation back to the world of immortals!

Lu Shenhou was also the first Sword Divine Lu Yun had met, the one who’d made repeated appearances at the Sovereign Ranking Battles and the battle in Dusk Province. It would seem that had just been a distraction.

Lu Yun had once thought Lu Shenhou to be Dongfang Hao’s subordinate—just like Wu Tulong, Mo Qitian, and Zi Chen, that he was someone that Dongfang Hao had brought back to life through a special method and turned into a sword god at his service.

However, in the battle for Dusk Province, Lu Shenhou had displayed the body of a shamanic divine and led everyone to believe there were shamanic divines at Sword Divine’s command.

But now… his arrival lifted the curtains on a very different truth. Lu Shenhou had been the one who’d planted the poison curse inside Qing Yu.

Although he hadn’t been in Xiankan when Qing Yu had been poisoned, it now seemed almost certain that all had been a plan he’d set in motion. Weave by weave, twist after twist, from Donglin Taihuang to the cosmic constitution, he’d spun his plot like a giant net that covered the entire world.