Chapter 741: Sun Star (1/2)

Hazy light blossomed as a flamboyantly dressed young man with green hair rolled out from the petals of the Emperor Sunflower.

“Mercy, oh eminent one! Please spare this lowly one! This little monster spirit didn’t know that the heir of Celestial Master Zhang had come, please be lenient of this humble one’s ignorance!” The young man fell to his knees the second he showed himself and smacked his head repeatedly into the ground, sobbed for mercy all the while.

Lu Yun and the youth in green from the Green Firmament gaped at the sight.

The true form of the young man in front of them was an enormous water snake, and an incomparably dominant one at that. Fangs glinting dangerously, his nascent spirit poison had reached preposterous heights.

If it hadn’t been for Lu Yun letting loose with the three immortal fires, allowing them free rein with a momentum to destroy the entire world, they wouldn’t have been able to withstand the tremendous poison this monster spirit spewed.

“The heir of Celestial Master Zhang?” Lu Yun’s projection of Zhurong looked down his nose at the big snake. “Did the celestial master arrange for you to be here?”

“Yes, Celestial Master Zhang had me stay here to guard the immortal emperor’s coffin.” The green-haired youth almost tripped over his tongue in his haste to answer. “Before he left, he said that if someone comes using the Emerald Mistfire, Lucent Voidfire, and Daevic Skyfire at the same time, then that person is his heir and has the right to inherit the Emperor Sunflower!”

Lu Yun coolly assessed the snake while the six paths of his nascent spirit communicated with the Karmic Tree. Only fear and unease exuded from the snake when he faced Lu Yun; there were no other undertones.

However, that wasn’t enough to make Lu Yun relax his guard.

“The celestial master went missing before the great war… How did you evade it and manage to survive until now?” The Spectral Eye clearly outlined to Lu Yun that the water snake’s true cultivation level was at the ingress realm. This was a king of the Primordial Era, not a contemporary powerhouse who’d reached the ingress realm under the current immortal dao!

“In response to the great master, this humble one doesn’t live beneath the immortal dao. I died when the immortal dao was being created. Celestial Master Zhang came here three months ago and revived me, bestowing upon me the knowledge of how to walk the immortal dao as well. He commanded me to guard the Emperor Sunflower and wait for his successor.”

“What??” Lu Yun and the green-clad youth looked at each other. “Died when the immortal dao was being created?”

“Impossible!” shrieked the green-clad youth. “Any living being that died at the immortal dao’s founding was swallowed whole by the immortal dao to fortify itself. Not even a trace of your true spirit would’ve been left behind, so how could anyone revive you?!”

“Anyway, that’s enough for now, I don’t really care about any of this.” Lu Yun frowned. “What of the divine spirit of the kidneys?”

In his eyes, their first priority was the kidneys of heaven and earth. Once it nursed itself back to full health and recovered its strength, the world of immortals would likely be next on its menu. In the split second when it broke free, Lu Yun had gained the full picture of its boundless malice and destructive lust.

It was no wonder, since it’d been suppressed for the past five thousand years and subjected to a daily regimen of roasting by the Sol Truefire. Its hatred and resentment were easy to imagine, and if it didn’t fully vent its ill will, it would become an evil god even more monstrous than the demon god.

“It’s… in the world of the Emperor Sunflower. This lowly monster spirit is too weak to enter that world...” His eyes darting around, the green-haired youth obviously had something else on his mind as well.

“You want to enter the world of the Emperor Sunflower?” Lu Yun arched a brow.

The ten connate spirit roots were called such not only because of their prodigal energy and unique attributes, but also because they each nurtured a world within themselves. In contrast, though the Ancient Tree of Life possessed just as much strength as the ten, it wasn’t included on the list because it wasn’t endowed with a standalone world of its own.

The Fusang Purewood, Moon Osmanthus, and Embittered Bamboo all contained their own worlds—Qing Yu was simply too weak to utilize any of them at the moment.