Chapter 740: The Tenth Spirit Root (2/2)

The Fusang Purewood had been Empress Myrtlestar’s treasure, while the Emperor Sunflower had been the principal ingredient that enabled the immortal emperor’s body and Sol Truefire to lie in state.

“The divine spirit is inside the Emperor Sunflower. It wants to draw on the spirit root’s energy, and if it ends up eating the spirit root, both fire and water will coexist in it. It’ll be an entity of both yin and yang then, and a being that rivals the human lords of the Primeval Era!” The dire consequences of the situation suddenly struck the youth. “Hurry and stop it, the Emperor Sunflower’s strength is healing the sword wound in its body!”

No one had dreamed that the emperor’s coffin would be sculpted out of a spirit root!

Hiss hiss hiss.

Serpentine sibilance traveled out of the water domain as enormous black snakes slithered out of the coffin. Jaws extended and blue venom glinting off their fangs, they leapt at Lu Yun and the youth.

“Don’t let those water snakes bite you! That’s poison of the nascent spirit!” Lu Yun found mention of these snakes from Xingzi’s memories. Their poison wouldn’t harm the physical body, just the nascent spirit. In fact, the nascent spirit would instantly die if even grazed with this poison.

Lu Yun wasn’t afraid, his current body was a projection to begin with and the nascent spirit it harbored was just a strand of his six paths. But if the youth next to him suffered a bite, there would be no recourse for him, not even from the overlord of hell.

In Xingzi’s memories, there was no antidote for a water snake’s poison. One bite was sufficient to pierce through life, consign the nascent spirit to death, doom the true spirit, and wipe out the last traces of that being beneath the heavens.

“Nascent spirit poison!” gasped the youth and flung himself out of the way, narrowly evading a water snake in the process.

Whoosh.

The next moment, the water snakes released their blue venom and dyed the waters a rich blue.

“Out of the way!” Gonggong grabbed the youth and threw his partner to safety over his shoulder.

Whoosh!!

Emerald flames erupted from the water god’s hands and blazed furiously in the ocean, purifying the yin waters. They then formed a ferocious snake of fire and churned toward the group of water snakes.

Screeches burbled in the waters as the water snakes were exterminated.

“Impossible! What’s going on here? How can Gonggong use fire?! If you learned Gonggong’s methods, how can you then use fire?! Don’t you know that water and fire are incompatible?!” exploded a roar of exasperated rage from the coffin. An enormous head extended from the petals of the Emperor Sunflower and fixed a vengeful glare on Gonggong.

Lu Yun was just projecting the ancient water god with his nascent spirit observation method, he wasn’t actually using the god’s water methods. Two of his Yama Kings—Cangyin and Su Xiaoxiao—were characters of the Primordial Era, so they’d both seen Gonggong with their own eyes before.

As the patriarch of the water qilins, Cangyin had once conversed and shared insights about dao and cultivation with the water god. Thus, it was the easiest thing for Lu Yun to manifest Gonggong. His nascent spirit observation method was newly formed, so no one else knew about it apart from the Venerated Sacrosanct Demon Sovereign.

Whatever was in the Emperor Sunflower had simply thought someone practicing Gonggong’s methods had arrived, so seeing Lu Yun unexpectedly deploy Emerald Mistfire greatly alarmed it with the unwelcome development.

“And here I was, wondering what manner of great personage you’d be. You’re just an old fart of a snake spirit…” sneered Lu Yun. His body underwent tremendous changes in the next second and he became a giant wreathed in flames—Zhurong!

Fwoosh!

The Emerald Mistfire, Lucent Voidfire, and Daevic Skyfire spontaneously ignited on him, burning so brilliantly that the connate kui water energy couldn’t douse the flames.

“The methods of the Zhurong Clan! Celestial Master Zhang’s three immortal fires!” shrieked the snake spirit in the flower. “Mercy, oh great one! This little monster spirit didn’t know of the venerated one’s arrival! Please spare this humble spirit, oh hallowed master!”