Chapter 720: Four Blood Spirits Formation (1/2)

The one sanctuary in the multiverse wasn’t, alas, all that safe. Small chinks had appeared in Nephrite Major’s Dusk, Azure, Crimson, and Argent Provinces. An even bigger fissure could be found elsewhere, one that required nine celestial emperors to seal with their lives—the World Gates.

Lu Yun had seen for himself the tide of yin spirits in Azure Province. He’d been a powerless bystander as yin spirits tore apart the bodies of immortals and swallowed their defenseless nascent spirits.

And now, he’d personally destroyed the nascent spirit of a primordial dao immortal with the tribulation lightning from a cultivator’s ascension… It gave him a profound sense of crisis.

No matter how strong a cultivator’s tribulation was, it was still a phenomenon activated by a simple cultivator. Once stripped of the protection from the laws of nature, many immortals could scatter tribulation clouds by force. But no matter how strong the nascent spirit was, it was utterly vulnerable to lightning when lacking protection from the flesh.

“I have to create a spirit art so that an immortal’s nascent spirit can possess real fighting ability!” The look in his eyes turned resolute.

To create a brand-new cultivation method would be sheer folly for most. The immortal dao was the product of eons of evolution. While cultivation methods were always evolving, they never strayed far from those pioneered by the three founders of the immortal dao.

But times were changing. Dao sovereign Beneath the immortal dao, Qing Yu had comprehended “formula dao”. With it, she could theorize everything beneath the sun. Lu Yun himself had used formula dao to postulate his body-refining method based on the organs of heaven and earth.

All of this was a basis, a starting point with which to build from. In the near future, it wouldn’t be impossible for Lu Yun and Qing Yu to create a new nascent spirit method. More importantly, he had a faint premonition that the creation of such a method would depend on Qing Yu’s Scroll of Shepherding Immortals.

The scroll had been painted by the primordial Human Celestial Master Zhang with the essence of God, then sealed by the immortal fires of the three founders… In the process, the founders had left their imprints on the scroll!

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“Aoxue, Huangqing, Cangyin, Luli, the four of you protect this altar with the Four Blood Spirits Formation. Kill anyone who tries to take it from us!” Lu Yun summoned the four Yama Kings from hell.

“At your service!” The four of them genuflected, their figures turning into four blood demons. A blood dragon, blood phoenix, blood qilin, and blood tortoise flashed into existence. Together, they combined into a terrible crimson formation in the sky and slowly melted into the void.

“Strange. Is it just me, or is the energy I sense from them not the pure power of feng shui, but… something else?” Lu Yun stiffened.

The four blood demons were legends from a bygone era, ominous existences feared in hush whispers. Stories abounded of how the advent of any blood demon brought untold calamities in its wake, enough to throw the entire world into turmoil.

These creatures were in fact a fusion between a living creature and feng shui layouts. Together, they combined to produce an ominous feng shui energy. When Lu Yun had gathered the four, he’d used the Tome of Life and Death to suppress the ominous feng shui that created them.

But when they’d formed the blood formation, he’d unmistakably felt the ominous feng shui vanish without a trace. Or rather, it’d transformed from one state into another—a purer and more formidable energy.

“Ge Long’s the one who came up with this formation… And there’s also some kind of connection between him and the four evil coffins… Maybe the body parts buried inside the coffins actually belong to him?”

The idea flashed through his mind, but he chose not to delve any deeper. Ge Long’s past might be extraordinary, but now… he was subordinate to the Tome of Life and Death.

In a blur, Lu Yun flashed onto the altar. Once he sacrificed a primordial legacy to it, space warped in front of him and permitted him inside the central world’s core region, a land eight thousand kilometers in width.

Indeed, eight thousand kilometers only. To be more precise, it was a large tomb eight thousand kilometers wide.

“The tomb of the immortal emperor!’ A tombstone as tall as a mountain and piercing through the clouds was the first thing that greeted the eye. But strangely enough, he could see it in its entirety even without the Spectral Eye.

In fact, no matter where he was, no matter from which angle he looked at, he could still see it in its entirety.

Here lies the immortal emperor.