Chapter 743: Crimson Firmament (1/2)
With Yu Qinghun’s roar, the center of his brows suddenly exploded and blood glimmering with golden light shot out of his head. A gigantic illusory blade of mystical light spilled from the hole between his brows and enveloped him as he spread his arms wide open.
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“AHHHHH!!!” The divine spirit of the kidneys shrieked with anguish as a hideous scar floated onto its chest. Black blood spurted out of its old injury and it fell bonelessly from midair, smashing heavily into the petals of the Emperor Sunflower.
“Why do all of you hurt me?!” An incredulous and resentful howl forced itself out of its throat. “I devoted my time and energy to cultivation after being born and never involved myself with anything that would result in karma. But when I was able to take form five thousand years ago, those of the Green Firmament came to kill me and the spirit fragment of the immortal emperor suppressed me. And now you!
“When did I ever become enemies with any of you?!”
“A man’s wealth is his own ruin because it causes someone else’s greed,” Lu Yun answered coldly as it approached the spirit. “As you are an organ of heaven and earth, no expert in the world will ever leave you alone. Your sin… is that you are alive.”
He’d once felt the very emotions displayed by the divine spirit. Upon arriving in the world of immortals, he’d kept his nose down and sought to stay out of everyone’s way. However, the Exalted Immortal Sect, Lu and Qing Clans, and House Donglin all came to make trouble for him one after another. They picked on him for none other than being the governor of Dusk Province.
For a weakling like him to occupy a future sacred land like Dusk made him a sinner.
However, he differed from the divine spirit in terms of his reaction. People bullied, suppressed, insulted, and tried to kill him, but he took all of that as motivation and drive to constantly hone his skills, blazing a way through all obstacles until he achieved his current accomplishments.
The divine spirit, on the other hand, only sought to vent its resentment. All of that negativity had accumulated for far too long in its heart and transformed into terrible malice. There was no way to erase it other than indulging in destruction.
The two dragons beneath Lu Yun’s feet rose in the air and careened forward with imposing momentum.
Wham!
Wham!
After two tremendous collisions, the divine spirit sagged to the ground. Its eight eyes dimmed at the same time, snuffing out the last of its life. The two dragon veins were also destroyed at the moment of impact, proving to be no match for an organ of heaven and earth.
Despite the divine spirit’s background and fearsome strength, it was only five thousand years old. When the two sides collided, it was as if two worlds had rammed into each other. With the divine spirit’s limited tenure of life, it was impossible for it to survive.
If it’d been in perfect health with no injury, a whole body could have protected its soul. But with its old wound flaring up, that incomparably fragile soul had been instantly crushed.
“It’s dead!” Yu Qinghun’s eyes lit up and joy crossed his face before he too deflated, like air gone out of a balloon, and fell from sky.
“We’re leaving!” Lu Yun whirled around, grabbed Yu Qinghun, and darted outside the world of the Emperor Sunflower.
“Huh?” Both the demon god and the nun froze from surprise.
Without a doubt, the divine spirit of the kidneys had perished after the two dragon veins had trampled its soul. Its body was a true ultimate treasure, but Lu Yun had given up just like that?