Chapter 738: Connate Yin Water (1/2)
“Time… The Timelight Tower!”
That treasure was the first thing that came to mind when time was on the table. The Timelight Tower had been the ultimate treasure of Empress Timelight—one that could modify the rate in which time passed and even traverse the time continuum.
“But the Timelight Tower is in the underworld, inside the celestial master tomb.” Lu Yun fell into deep thought. “Apart from that treasure, this is the only thing that can affect time…” He clutched at empty air to return with the dao weapon of time. “The dao weapon of space, the dao weapon of time…
“Empresses Timelight and Vastspace respectively controlled time and space, and both of them vanished before Emperors Fall. They didn’t participate in that battle…”
Lu Yun seemed to be on the verge of grasping something, but it remained tantalizingly out of reach. He subconsciously looked at the Tome of Life and Death. There was a special corner of space within it which held a girl fast asleep—Yu Hengluo.
“I’m just going to forget about what I can't wrap my mind around. The truth will come out sooner or later one day.” He stood up and heaved a long sigh, then took a careful look at his feng shui compass.
The true spirit fragment of the immortal emperor was deep asleep inside it, now become the resident spirit of the weapon. The luopan’s energy was nurturing him into a gradual recovery.
“Since the emperor’s coffin could spark the Sol Truefire, it’s no ordinary item either. I’m taking it with me!”
As the tomb had ceased to have a purpose, the restrictions within deactivated as well. Lu Yun flew like the wind, reaching the end of the passageway with a few steps.
The heart of the tomb was now a world of darkness so complete that one’s outstretched hand would be invisible to the eyes. Even the Spectral Eye failed to pick up anything. In here, his consciousness was firmly confined to himself.
“Gaseous nascent spirit soil?” Lu Yun paused. Last time he’d run into this situation, he’d been in the celestial master tomb. That endless flood of gaseous grains had isolated everything in its vicinity.
“No, wait, this isn’t nascent spirit soil, it has a completely different structure.”
Frowning faintly, his ears picked up on something different in the darkness. Though his consciousness and sight were sequestered, his hearing hadn’t been affected. He could clearly hear the rise and fall of an enormous breath, as if something was awakening in the darkness.
“What is it?” Lu Yun took a half step back, Violetgrave at the ready in his hand.
“It’s vapor, black water vapor…” An idea struck him and he collected a bit of black light in his hand. “Connate kui water of yin!”
Yin wood of the east, yang metal of the west, yang fire of the south, yin water of the north, and yang earth of the center were the strongest tangible forms of the five elements.
“The lungs of heaven and earth nurtured geng metal, while the heart fosters li fire, the liver protects yi wood, so if there’s kui water here… can the kidneys of heaven and earth be here as well?!” Lu Yun trembled violently and quickly shot backward when the thought occurred to him, not daring to stay a moment longer.
Boom!
A tremendous roar sounded along with an enormous pulse of water as soon as he exited the chamber. Where he’d been standing was promptly annihilated into a void of nothingness.
Cold sweat drenched his back.
“The kidneys of heaven and earth have fully formed and become a divine spirit! The Water Altar [1] comes from the Central World, which means this thing must’ve formed roughly five thousand years ago. It then broke free of the altar’s restraints and caused tremendous instability in the Central World, shaking loose all that stuff onto the twenty three facets below.”
When the Central World had rocked from instability five thousand years ago, countless fragments from it had showered onto the world of immortals, the most famous of which were Levitating Island in the North Sea and Myriad Formation Summit in Dusk Province.
It now looked like the unrest had been a result of the kidneys of heaven and earth coming to life in the immortal emperor’s tomb. Thankfully, the emperor’s coffin resting on top of the organ’s divine spirit all this time had kept it from running amuck.