Chapter 705: The Immortal Emperor (1/2)

Lu Shenhou's murmuring was as quiet as a whisper, but it made Lu Yun’s heart tremble.

He wasn’t alone? Who else had come?

Xing Chen opened the Spectral Eye and warily observed his surroundings. Dark and cold, an eerie wind blew past and elicited a subtle transformation inside the formation.

Mo Yi, Chen Xiao, Qing Buyi, and Lu Feng stood up at the same time, vigilantly observing the growing darkness around them.

Empress Myrtlestar elected to revert to her true appearance. Imperial Star remaining over her head, the other two starstones landed beside the forge of sky and earth and shielded it in boundless starlight.

The Formation of the Ten Yama Kings also came into view, the ten kings standing in the ten directions, locking down the vicinity. The eerie wind gradually grew in intensity, filling the air with ghostly wails.

……

“This isn’t yin wind from hell.” Lu Yun inhaled sharply when he felt the strange wind. “Be careful… akasha ghosts are here.”

Akasha ghosts!

Lu Shenhou’s reinforcements were akasha ghosts! In the air, white figures flickered in and out of existence, filling everyone with dread.

“The akasha ghosts have hell weapons with them,” Lu Yun suddenly added. “Be careful not to let them take your souls.”

Lu Yun had once narrowly escaped this very fate himself. Thankfully, Qing Yu had thrown caution to the wind and exposed her true appearance to deploy the power of her starstone and the Scroll of Shepherding Immortals, saving his life in the nick of time.

And now, their forms vague and indistinct, an unknown number of akasha ghosts had arrived.

These specimens were different from the ones in the divine’s Last Repose. The ones who dwelled there merely came to destroy activated altars, and were closer to incarnations or replicas. But the ones they saw now, these vague and shadowy figures, were the akasha ghost’s primary bodies.

Bursts of yin wind blew by, so cold it made one’s blood run cold.

Empress Myrtlestar beckoned gently with her fingers and conjured the Scroll of Shepherding Immortals in her hand, unleashing pure white light from the scroll that drifted through the air like the petals of a giant white lotus flower.

The next moment, a stillness descended upon the scene. When time flowed a beat later, the akasha ghosts scattered in a panicked flurry.

So it would seem that the Scroll of Shepherding Immortals really could suppress akasha ghosts. The first time they’d appeared, Qing Yu had also used the scroll to frighten them away.

However, these akasha ghosts only reacted for a short moment before rushing at them a second time. They wielded various hell weapons, or chains and shackles, and torture instruments once found in the eighteen layers of hell, and the very fabric of reality rippled intensely in the wake of their assault.

The ghosts shrieked like feral beasts as they swarmed forward. At that moment, the image of a similar charge in hell came to Lu Yun’s mind.

Deja vu? The two scenes were eerily familiar, if not identical.

“Wait a moment!” He stiffened when he suddenly thought of something.

Hum!

With a gentle shake, the Scroll of Shepherding Immortals streaked into a trail rainbow light and shot at the akasha ghosts.

“No, don’t!!” Lu Yun howled even as he lunged forward and threw himself in the scroll’s way.

Bang! The scroll slammed heavily into him and sent him flying.