Chapter 744: Lighting the Heavenly Palace (1/2)
A bronze bell slowly descended onto the scene with a man in purple standing upright on it. He looked to be in his early twenties and was classically handsome with flowing long hair. Poised atop the enormous bell, he twinkled merrily at the Crimson Firmament elder.
Flaring with sword energy, the bell was as solid and real as the cauldron beneath the elder’s feet.
Faint ripples oscillated through the air when the two great treasures faced off against each other, and all of the color drained from the demon god’s face. He’d turned himself into a red marble and was silently cowering in a corner of the world.
If the two treasures came after him at the same time, they would severely injure his true spirit and send him into a deep sleep. Once he entered a deep slumber, the Exalted divine emperor’s true spirit might very well end up with a new master.
But at this moment, whether it was the elder from the Crimson Firmament or those from the Purple Firmament, everyone’s attention was on the kidneys of heaven and earth. Its divine spirit had perished, leaving the organ drifting through the air and the smallest mirage of an altar beneath it.
Though it’d lost the Water Altar, the kidneys still retained the instinctive reaction to receive worship. Thus, it wanted to create a new altar for which to receive sacrifices to birth a new spirit. After all, its creation had resulted from the worship of living beings to begin with.
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“Heh heh heh, vermin of the Purple Firmament, you actually dared show yourself. Aren’t you afraid that I’ll smash your sword bell into the mundane world again?” Taking repeated swigs of wine, the elder chuckled darkly, a mirth not echoed in the frosty look of his eyes.
“Do you think my Purple Firmament is as easily bullied as the Green Firmament?” The purple-clad youth shook his head and waved a hand, changing the bell beneath his feet into a streak of light that encapsulated him and the nun from head to toe.
Wham—
The elder made his move.
Boundless sword rays spewed forth like the radiance of the blazing sun. With a tremor, the cauldron projected a crimson beast from the sword light. Snarling a challenge, it pounced on the bell. Waves of booming bell tolls rang forth in response, spreading through the air like sword aura to match the cauldron blow for blow.
Scared senseless, the demon god didn’t dare linger for one more second now that battle was joined. He scampered for the exit as the two sides officially clashed with each other.
The Emperor Sunflower trembled from the collisions as well; its core couldn’t handle a fight between such great powerhouses. Only the kidneys of heaven and earth remained unaffected by the tumult.
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“Strange, it’s really damned strange!” Outside the Emperor Sunflower, on a microscopic speck of dust, Lu Yun beheaded Yu Qinghun with a casual palm strike and turned his companion into an Infernum. At the same time, he looked toward the world of the spirit root. “I killed that divine spirit, but it didn’t turn into one of my ghostly soldiers. Er… is it actually not dead?
While the world created by the spirit root appeared to be boundless, it was actually a seed storage. Once outside its domain, Lu Yun could see through everything taking place inside with a quick glance.
The divine spirit of the kidneys was indeed dead—there were no ripples of life emanating from it. However, anything that Lu Yun killed should become his Infernum.