Chapter 724: The Dao Tree (1/2)

Wu Tulong’s spear landed the moment his voice fell; Lu Yun leaned slightly to the side to evade the foreboding edge.

Boom!

The spear buried its tip in the ground in a massive cloud of gray dust.

Retrieving his spear, Wu Tulong didn’t press on any further. Hovering in the sky, he looked down at Lu Yun as Mo Qitian and Zi Chen came into view. Both wielding a keenly honed divine sword, they looked at their former companion with cold, ruthless eyes. Evidently, they intended to keep him cornered here and prevent him from entering the circular area a hundred kilometers across.

“Senior brothers, so we meet again.” Lu Yun made a deep bow of greeting. “Unless I’m mistaken, all of you have freed yourselves from the soul seeds and regained your autonomy. Why then do you still let Dongfang Hao order you around?”

“Dongfang Hao?” Zi Chen’s expression remained chilly, a hint of derision flashing in his eyes. “Who is he to control us?”

Lu Yun’s heart sank upon hearing the response. Since it wasn’t Dongfang Hao… then it had to be Lu Shenhou!

In Lu Yun’s eyes, Dongfang Hao was little more than a lucky bastard who’d chanced upon the Sword of Chaos. But Lu Shenhou was different. He was the real enemy, someone the primordial immortal emperor himself considered an enemy!

He was a character who’d played a part in the fall of the Primordial Era! Compared to Dongfang Hao, Lu Shenhou was the one to guard against!

“I see, so Dongfang Hao is also being played by Lu Shenhou!” Lu Yun’s eyes narrowed.

“Lu Yun, it’s time we finished the battle we postponed all those years ago.” Wu Tulong’s spear vibrated as its light rose again, glinting viciously at Lu Yun. “You two, don’t interfere. He’s mine.”

Both Zi Chen and Mo Qitian nodded. Forming a triangle with Wu Tulong that trapped Lu Yun in the center, they showed no signs of participating in the fight to come. However, if Lu Yun tried to charge out of the encirclement, they would surely retaliate with no reservations.

“Under any other circumstances, I would’ve been happy to settle the question once and for all, Senior Brother Wu. But forgive me for lacking the time to play with you right now,” Lu Yun replied slowly.

“Do you think you can leave?” Mo Qitian snorted coldly. “We’ve sealed off the entire area, not even a speck of dust can slip out.”

Offering no reply, Lu Yun sat cross-legged in empty air.

Hum!

A second identical Lu Yun walked out over the seated one, halting over his head.

“The nascent spirit?” His three opponents blinked. “Do you think to overwhelm us with just your nascent spirit?”

Nascent spirits could only unleash their proper battle strength by remaining inside the body and acting in concert with the flesh. For example, the Exalted Immortal Sect’s Method of the Great Peng could transform one’s nascent spirit into that of a great peng, but the user’s own immortal force was needed to deploy the mythical bird’s combat arts.

To fight with the exposed nascent spirit alone was only possible when one held an overwhelming cultivation advantage. Take the previous shamanic divine as another example; he could easily overpower everyone in the realm, which explained why he’d felt safe sending his nascent spirit piecemeal into the central world.

Under the immortal restriction’s influence, Lu Yun’s nascent spirit was restricted to the true immortal realm, just like Wu Tulong, Mo Qitian, and Zi Chen, so to face them with his nascent spirit alone was simple suicide.

What they didn’t realize was that the “nascent spirit” they saw wasn’t Lu Yun’s primary one. Rather, the energy leaking out of his nascent spirit in hell had formed a replica spirit within Lu Yun.

Shaped after the six paths of reincarnation, his nascent spirit was too powerful for his body to accommodate. Even a single strand far surpassed the nascent spirits of other immortals.