Chapter 750: The Fourth Holy King? (1/2)

There were three holy kings in the underworld—strongest of all underworld denizens and the true rulers of the region.

A herd of rotting kuns swam around Holy King Atrophy, moving thunderclouds that blotted out the sun. Some time back, the Azure Dragon King had executed a rotting kun that’d swam out of the underworld. It hadn’t occurred to him at all that the true visitor to the world of immortals might be one of its holy kings.

Goosebumps pebbled everyone’s skin when they paused in their flight from Nephrite Major to take a look back.

“The beings of the underworld really have come… no wonder he wanted us to leave.” The master of the Ingress Island blinked and heaved a sigh, then steered his blue bull back home without a glance backward.

“Master, what do we do now?” The head of the Dark North Sword Sect stared blankly before hurriedly following the youth.

“We wait!” The youth on the back of the cow spread out his hands. “Since even a holy king from the underworld has come, we’d be going to our deaths if we returned to Nephrite Major now.”

The two scarlet apes on Levitating Island also assessed the situation warily. They were incredibly relieved that they’d chosen to leave earlier. If they’d stayed, the only possible outcome for them was to become a living dead, then be dragged to the underworld to become one of its tomb keepers.

“I hadn’t thought that one of the holy kings of the tomb keepers would set foot into this world. It looks like we really are in for a period of great turbulence and upheaval,” murmured Silverlight as she took human form and looked in the direction of Nephrite Major.

Bafflement filled Goldenlight’s eyes.

“The holy kings of the underworld very rarely leave their realm.” Silverlight sighed, “Whenever they do so, it means the beginning of great chaos. They need to make preparations beforehand to protect the underworld, so they furiously search for geniuses all over the world and turn them into tomb keepers.

“They were a part of the battles of Emperors Fall, the destruction of human dao, when the path of cultivation was severed, and the beginning of the great war a hundred thousand years ago…”

Goldenlight looked askance at his dao partner. He had no idea about these things, and his dao partner had been sealed away a hundred thousand years ago, so how did she have so much knowledge?

She continued murmuring to herself, “There were once three hundred and sixty-five holy kings in the underworld, a nod to the great cycle. Their strength was on par with the human kings of the Primeval Era, but there are only three of them left now.”

“The human kings of the Primeval Era!” yelled Goldenlight.

A strange smile crossed Silverlight’s face. “It seems the holy kings of the underworld have chosen Lu Yun this time. If he becomes a tomb keeper, it’s very likely that he’ll be the fourth holy king.”

……

Chen Xiao, Qing Buyi, Lu Feng, and Mo Yi had revealed themselves in midair and were warily assessing the newcomer.

Holy King Atrophy! A personage who rivaled a primeval human king! Though he currently possessed a cultivation level at only the primordial realm, that still made him invincible in the modern world of immortals.

Contemporary society was far inferior to that of the Primordial Era. The world had been whole and complete back then, and even the immortal emperor wouldn’t have been able to destroy it. However, it’d been smashed into pieces since and was barely glued together by the four great oceans. It’d likely fall apart completely if another war exceeding the dao immortal realm took place.

Lu Yun suddenly grasped something in a moment of spontaneous enlightenment. Immortal dao being severed between the origin dao and ingress realm… seems… to have been to… protect the world of immortals?

He had no idea where the thought came from. With the break in immortal dao, current immortals were hard pressed to reach origin dao realm and found it even harder to reach beyond. Perhaps this was meant to protect the world of immortals?

The appearance of flawless origin dao immortals had resulted in the arrival of the Purple Firmament to prevent those dao immortals from doing anything they wanted. Now, however, the Purple Firmament representatives had left and no longer kept these immortals in check.

There must be some sort of relationship between this.

Perhaps humanity broke the immortal dao rather than the enemy. It’s also possible that someone placed the long-haired monsters near the Dao Tree…