Chapter 721: To Write Off Past Enmity (1/2)

The demon sovereign!

Lu Yun hadn’t expected to run into this old enemy as soon as he entered the immortal emperor’s tomb!

Just like the shamanic divine, the demon sovereign had used an art similar to Spirit Fragmentation to leech off the bodies of countless followers and disciples. But what the demon sovereign had sent wasn’t his nascent spirit, but rather his primary self… the Hadal Skeleton!

With the demon sovereign’s outstanding mastery of the Hadal Bone Art, he could transform himself into an indestructible skeleton.

“Hadal Bonefire, Haldal Bone Art… Hadal Bone Mountain…” Lu Yun suddenly recalled the white creature that’d once crawled out hell’s abyss and invaded his kingdom… It’d also cultivated the Hadal Bone Art, and its Hadal Bonefire was a million times stronger than the Demon Sovereign’s.

That creature was an extraordinary existence that summoned a world with a single punch. Even imbued with the power of hell, Lu Yun hadn’t been its match. If not for Ge Long’s timely arrival, his replica would’ve been destroyed and hell a new master. Now that he saw the demon sovereign’s bone appearance, it brought to mind the white creature that was suppressed in the boundless void of the netherworld.

That creature was still inside hell as of this moment, but it hadn’t shown itself during the akasha ghosts’ rampage, proof that they too were existences it was wary of.

In addition, Lu Yun had glimpsed another existence similar to the demon sovereign inside Exalted Major’s lineal tomb. Hadal Bonefire likewise burned in its eyes, and the corner of hell born from a fragment of the Gates of the Abyss also originated in hell.

Did the demon sovereign hail from the netherworld as well, and was some sort of connection between him and the white creature lurking in the depths?

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The demon sovereign had split himself into a thousand and eighty bones, entrusting them to a thousand and eighty true immortals. When they simultaneously deployed the Hadal Bone Art, they could instantly manifest the demon sovereign’s true form, as if through a battle formation of prodigious power. Since his strength was fragmented over a thousand parts, that set the demon sovereign free from the immortal restriction at the same time.

His true skeleton self slowly stood up; cold, eerie, white fire burning deep in his skull. Like two white eyes, these fires stared fixedly at Lu Yun.

“Who did you say couldn’t protect himself?” the demon sovereign asked again.

“Honored Demon Sovereign, there’s no real enmity or grievance between us. What contradiction there is was caused by your disciple Jiangchen Xie.” Lu Yun steadied his nerves and responded calmly, “But he’s dead now and possessed by his ancestor Jiang Chen. Therefore, it’s not impossible to resolve the differences between us!”

“No enmity?” There was no flesh or blood on the demon sovereign’s face, but Lu Yun could sense the malevolence emanating from it.

Last time, the demon sovereign had paid a visit to Dusk Province when Lu Yun established his dao. His would-be glorious arrival was sent packing by a few well-placed slaps from Lu Feng. For that very reason, he’d become the butt of countless jokes in the world.

He’d been an invincible existence inside the celestial master tomb, one even stronger than Silverlight. There, he’d obtained countless treasures, used the energy released from the fusion of the Yin and Yang Realm Tombs to come back to life, and erased every last wisp of death energy from his enduring true spirit.

But after his revival, he’d chosen to cultivate the Hadal Bone Art anew. As a result, he was weaker alive than he had been as a dead spirit. Nonetheless, he was still the equivalent of a flawless primordial origin dao immortal, and could easily crush Lu Yun with one hand!

Not even in his wildest dreams had Lu Yun expected to see these mighty figures use such means to avoid the immortal restriction and enter the central world.

The immortal restriction here was different from the one in Dusk Province. The latter was controlled by the human demon and resembled more of a shield that protected the land. In comparison, the restriction here was closer to a rule of nature… and like every rule, there were loopholes that could be exploited.

He’d first encountered a shamanic divine that’d used Spirit Fragmentation to send his nascent spirit inside, and now, here was a demon sovereign who’d split himself into a thousand and eighty bones.