Chapter 740: The Tenth Spirit Root (1/2)
Lu Yun’s manifested water god wasn’t all that strong, and in fact, was almost on par with himself. However, the two dragons that water god Gonggong used for shoes were the two dragon veins beneath the tomb of the immortal emperor. These two were almost ancestral veins and possessed incredible might. Combined with the Dragonshift Method, Lu Yun was temporarily able to bestow greater strength to his manifestation than it would otherwise wield.
This also brought to him a stroke of inspiration at the same time, and his understanding of the nascent spirit observation method reached new heights as well.
Observation with the nascent spirit didn’t just result in using the power of the world to project whatever was being studied, he could also create form by borrowing from others.
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Dark-green radiance shimmered over the golden-armored warrior when he discarded the look of a bean soldier for his original appearance of a youth in green robes.
“There’s a scar in the deepest reaches of its true spirit. If you can cause it to flare up again, you’ll be able to seriously injure it!” he quickly spoke up when he saw Lu Yun rush over.
“I can’t trigger its old injury, not at the moment,” Lu Yun’s response sounded in his mind. “If I cause it to act up again, then this divine spirit really will become a fat lamb for the slaughter. All of the things that go bump in the night will come charging out to claim ownership of it.”
The youth started.
“I’ve already discovered the demon god’s presence at the very least. He’s lurking in the dark, waiting to take advantage of whatever prime opportunity shows itself!” Lu Yun sneered. “If he can divide himself into two, then he can divide himself into three! I’m willing to bet that him undergoing his tribulation is just another smokescreen—his real goal is the pair of kidneys!”
The organs of heaven and earth!
Xing Chen already possessed two, but they were completely concealed via Holy Lord Ashu’s special methods, thereby evading detection by others. The kidneys here didn’t possess that kind of cover and as such, Lu Yun was sure that there were many eyeing it up.
For one, the demon god didn’t currently have a body and there weren’t many in the world that he could take. The Venerated Sacrosanct Demon Sovereign was one possible candidate, and the divine spirit born of the kidneys was undoubtedly one of the most suitable.
An organ of heaven and earth was no small matter. If one could assimilate such an organ, then it was highly likely that they would be able to transform into a world themselves.
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Kui water vapor had formed an ocean in front of them, and though it was so dark as to be impenetrable, it’d still taken on some of the translucent qualities of water.
Lu Yun and the youth in green both approached the coffin of the immortal emperor. It’d once been a blazing sun, washing over the main chamber with solar radiance. Now that the Sol Truefire had departed, its true form was available for all to see.
It was a flower.
A golden flower still in bud form that’d been chiseled into the shape of a coffin.
“Emperor Sunflower!” Lu Yun went slack-jawed with shock upon seeing it. “The last of the ten great spirit roots—the Emperor Sunflower!”
There were ten connate spirit roots in the world, the greatest of which was the Chaos Lotus and speculated to belong to genius Ling Rumeng of the Ling Clan, the one who’d summoned a lotus for her phenomenon of ascension.
Qing Yu possessed three of them—the Fusang Purewood ranked at number three, Moon Osmanthus at number six, and Embittered Bamboo at number seven.
Number ten was now right before Lu Yun’s eyes!
The Emperor Sunflower was a flower akin to the blazing sun, nurturing within it an incandescence and heat that was greater than the full sun. Legend had it that the Emperor Sunflower and Fusang Purewood came from the same origins, that the two spirit roots were twins of nature.