Chapter 752: Carmine Eternal (1/2)
Xing Chen stood protectively in front of the Ninth Heavens Demon-Destroying Patriarch, wielding the weapon of space in one hand and the weapon of time in the other. When the two dao weapons intersected and were augmented by the six paths of his nascent spirit, he deployed the reincarnation of space-time.
“You!” yelled the Spiriteater Demon Snake, almost vomiting blood as he looked at the broken bone spear in his hand. This was his ultimate weapon, the spine of a primeval human king. It’d been refined with his core venomous fang, but had been destroyed after one blow of Lu Yun’s dao weapon!
Sadly, there was no time for the snake to wallow in misery—the Ninth Heavens Demon-Destroying Patriarch and Xing Chen were coming for his head.
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Lu Yun’s primary body arrived beside Holy King Atrophy and shoveled into the latter’s mouth all of the various antidotes and medicines that Xingzi and Su Xiaoxiao had refined.
“Don’t waste them.” The holy king shook his head. “This is more the power of the Blood Sea than just a poison of the nascent spirit. There is no one in this world who can cure it.”
Poisonous blue light had completely invaded his body, but he clung to the hem of Lu Yun’s clothes with his remaining strength. “Promise me, become a holy king of the underworld, protect the underworld! If the underworld is destroyed, the world of immortals will be no more, and all life will fall to Chaos!”
“You’re not going to die.” Lu Yun called upon the Tome of Life and Death, slowly infusing the book’s strength into the holy king’s body. He wasn’t going to try and dispel the nascent spirit poison; instead, he was going to just bring the holy king back to life.
Death art: Resurrection!
This death art could revive anything that’d died within the last seven days, but Lu Yun didn’t want to wait and elected to forcefully continue Holy King Atrophy’s life before then. The nascent spirit poison had ended the holy king’s life prematurely, so Lu Yun would create a new one instead!
“What… is… going… what are you doing??” Holy King Atrophy yelled in disbelief upon discovering that vitality was returning to his soul. His originally dead body was also slowly coming back to life as well!
“No, wait, I can’t come back to life! Stop, stop!!” he yelled frantically.
Lu Yun frowned, then wordlessly redirected the flow of energy from the death art to the nascent spirit and soul instead. As life drained back out of his body, the holy king slowly retained his calm. He gaped at Lu Yun, unable to speak for the longest time.
“You can… just return Holy Lord Ashu back to life with a snap of your fingers…” he murmured, having just experienced a complete cycle of life and death. After being poisoned, he’d skipped the process of actually dying since Lu Yun had saved him.
“He doesn’t need it.” Lu Yun shook his head and stood up. “He can return to life through his own strength. Also, I can be a holy king of the underworld. My replica Xing Chen has refined the organs of heaven and earth. He’s stronger than me and so is more suited to be a holy king.
“He’s refined out of the sacred shamanic item the Nine Yin Soul-Parting Wood. As a connate constitution of extreme yin, he’ll be even more powerful in the underworld. What do you think?”
He floated over to Qing Yu as he spoke, remaining solidly planted in front of her. Two hours had passed, and two hours remained. Up in the air, Mo Yi, Chen Xiao, Qing Buyi, and Lu Feng had also joined the fray against the Spiriteater Demon Snake.
Wavelets of the Blood Sea surged around the snake king and an unending tide of creatures reared from the bloody depths, pouncing toward the Central World. If Holy King Atrophy had come to the world of immortals for Lu Yun, then the snake king was here for the Central World.
All of Nephrite Major was overcast in a deep crimson. If it wasn’t for Zhao Shenguang deploying his heavenly mandate and directing the celestial palace in protective maneuvers, the major would’ve been fully tainted by the Blood Sea by now.