Chapter 728: No Regrets! (1/2)

“Moreover!” shouted another immortal of the ‘Lu Yun Killers’, “I could tell that the Lu Yun we saw earlier was his true self. That he’s made it out in one piece means he’s an ally of the fiends who’ve severed the immortal dao. They simply put on a show for us!

“We must slay the demon to right the wrongs of the world!” The speaker was a monster spirit whose true form was that of a silver sea snake. Blue fog puffed out of its mouth whenever it spoke, a clear sign of potent poison.

“Have the monster spirits of the South Sea joined that shitty alliance as well?” Lu Yun narrowed his eyes.

These immortals had just escaped thanks to his Path of Ingress, but he hadn’t received any goodwill from this particular group. Moreover, they’d gone after his treasure immediately after making it out, and not only did they not retreat once Lu Yun re-emerged, but instead attempted to overwhelm and kill their benefactor.

They were more than ungrateful for what Lu Yun had done for them; they were going so far as to bite the hand that fed them! This truly roused his ire.

The silver sea snake was plainly a member of the South Sea court. Although the South Sea emperor hadn’t announced an alliance with Dusk Province, the two were allies in everything but name. Lu Yun had even once sent a large shipment of treasures to the South Sea.

But the sea snake clan of the South Sea had started a ‘Lu Yun Killers’ alliance with other factions! That ignited his rage, and to add further insult to injury, he could tell that the big snake was carrying around numerous talismans and pills produced in Dusk.

“Lu Yun, head of the Star Demon Sect, you’re a monstrous fiend yourself! You not only helped the demon god escape from Mount Exalted, you’re also working with the demons of the Dao Tree to destroy the world of immortals.

“Everyone should kill you as a matter of principle! Today, we strike down this demon on behalf of the heavenly dao!” snarled the silver sea snake. “We kill!”

“Kill!” The hundred and some immortals struck out in unison, banding together behind their collective hostility against Lu Yun. Immortal swords converged into a stream of sword light and slashed powerfully at him.

“Oh fuck off!” he commanded coolly. He lifted his hand and sent Violetgrave’s sharp radiance surging through the sky, forming a great sword curtain that cut into the stream of swords.

Wham!

Combat arts poured in behind the swords—flawless primordial methods, one and all. Some passed down from great immortals of the Primordial Era, others the flawless combat arts that Lu Yun and Qing Yu had deduced and disseminated through the world.

Though Lu Yu rebuffed the stream of swords with a single move, the combat arts ripped with a momentum to sweep over heaven and earth and shattered his sword barrier. He staggered back with a pained grunt.

“Lu Yun!” Venom glittered in the great sea snake’s eyes. “If you brats hadn’t so recklessly restored the path of cultivation and recovered the void realm, we elders wouldn’t have been forced to sever our cultivation and start anew!”

The snake had once been an arcane dao immortal, supreme and unchallenged in the world of immortals. However, the void realm had threatened to knock it off its throne and render it obsolete with the times, forcing it to restart the arduous journey to immortality if it didn’t want to be eliminated by the world. It had thus severed its cultivation to travel through the void realm, and by now had reclaimed its immortal heights.

Incorporating a formation of heaven and earth was an option, but that would forego the phenomenon of ascension, forever placing them a peg lower than void-ascended immortals. Most importantly, the formations that Lu Yun distributed couldn’t be applied to dao immortals.

For dao immortals with sufficient mental fortitude to begin anew, they obtained their cultivation methods from Dusk Province. The basic void realm method might be lesser than the ones acquired from the Dao Flower, but it was flexible with innumerable possibilities and worked for every immortal in the world.

……

“Do you regret it?” a voice suddenly demanded in Lu Yun’s mind. “These immortals are trying to kill you with your own cultivation methods, your combat arts, and even weapons you’ve refined… Do you regret your actions??

“Do you?

“Do you regret it now?