Chapter 765: Heaven Locus Marsh (1/2)

Qing Yu breathed a quiet sigh of relief when she heard Lu Yun’s intentions.

“Xing Chen can’t easily leave the underworld, so I’ll have to go look for the world’s spleen myself,” pondered Lu Yun.

“I’ll go with you!” Qing Yu quickly volunteered.

“No, you can’t leave Mount Xuanhuang!” he quickly refuted. “There’s a woman by Dongfang Hao’s side who once took control of the immortal dao. You need to stay at the mountain and hold down the fort so she doesn’t have a chance to steal it again.”

Qing Yu fell silent, then nodded in a visibly downcast manner. “Alright then.”

“Honestly, we don’t need to be in a rush about this, it’s just one of my many plans. Right now… I have something much more important to do.” Lu Yun suddenly turned much more somber than he’d been moments ago.

“What is it?” He’d successfully caught the curiosity of Mo Yi and the others.

“Qing Yu, let’s get married.” Lu Yun turned gravely to Qing Yu. “We said a long time ago that we’d get married once you became an immortal!”

It felt like a thunderbolt had crashed into Qing Yu; she stared dumbly at her beloved. After a long while, she abruptly flushed beet red as she returned to her senses and fidgeted in place, not knowing how to respond.

Qing Buyi’s eyes widened with indignation. With a quick twitch, he interposed himself between the young couple and forcefully separated them.

“Hey kid, where’s your betrothal gift if you want to marry my sister!” He huffed and puffed and glared ferociously at Lu Yun.

Bam!!

A tremendous force blasted out behind Qing Buyi and sent him flying—Qing Yu. After sending her brother screeching toward the horizon with a powerful punch, she mumbled, “I, I do!”

“Betrothal gift, my dear sister!!” Qing Buyi wailed with injustice. “Look at you defending outsiders before you’ve even gotten married!”

Chen Xiao rolled his eyes at Qing Buyi. “We should make careful plans for this if you two want to get married. Little Yu is the dao sovereign and you are the headmaster of the Dao Academy. You also seemed to have obtained the legacy of the primeval human hell. You’ll likely earn the jealousy of all living beings if the two of you become dao partners.”

“We were enemies of the entire world before and got through that, what more is a little bit of jealousy?” The young couple shrugged off this concern.

Lu Yun had been waiting for this day for a very long time. He’d been besotted ever since he glimpsed her true form in the layout of absolute death beneath the burial mount of Myriad Formation Summit. After all these trials and hardships, his happily-ever-after was finally at hand. Why would he care about a little jealousy?

“The jealousy of all living beings can be a grave matter, but it can also be a minor trifle,” Lu Feng picked up the reins of conversation. “But if you wait until after Lu Yun excises the Dao Tree and connects the new dao immortal realm to the immortal dao… the unexpected may happen.”

“Huh?” Both Lu Yun and Qing Yu blinked in incomprehension, while Qing Buyi, Chen Xiao, and Mo Yi turned to Lu Feng.

“I think if you wait until then to become dao partners, you’ll be able to find a way to save the obsolete dao immortals!”

The batch of immortals to be discarded this time would be permanently obsolete with no recourse. They wouldn't be able to evade their fate even by practicing other methods or severing their cultivation, since this would be a fundamental change in cultivation realms, and not the restoration of a missing one like the void realm.

Qing Yu looked at Lu Yun, who grabbed her hand in return.

“Alright,” she made the decision with aplomb. “I’ll use the power of the Central World to seal away the Dao Tree so that no immortals can pluck their fruits anymore. Everything can wait until you find the spleen of the world.”

“Mm.” Chen Xiao nodded. “But we need to be quick about this. The new dao immortal realm must come to fruition as soon as possible. A hundred years isn’t enough.”

……

“The spleen of the world is in Xuan Yuan’s tomb… The Yellow Emperor?? Yellow Emperor Xuan Yuan of Earth’s legends?!” [1]

This time, Lu Yun traveled with Ashu and the Venerated Sacrosanct Demonic Sovereign. Being a holy king of the underworld, Xing Chen had lifted the realm’s restrictions on Ashu. Apart from the oppression of yang energy in the world, which meant he couldn’t call upon his core essence, the holy lord no longer had anything to fear. He’d received the breathing, body tempering, and nascent spirit methods and was now infinitely close to a true resurrection.

As for the demon sovereign, he viewed Lu Yun as a personal god after learning the nascent spirit observation method and did everything the human said. He’d fully merged the Hadal Bonefire with his nascent spirit with the method and combined them to create a Hadal Bonefire nascent spirit. This marked his Hadal Bonefire Method reaching the state of grand perfection, and he’d in turn gifted it to the Dao Academy to make it one of its legacies.

They were traveling to Heaven Locus Land, one of the ten monster spirit domains and not a particularly strong member at that. Ranked closer to the bottom half, Heaven Locus Land housed the Xuan Yuan Tomb.

“Lu Yun, I remember your primary body is also an adept tomb raider. However, you don’t seem to have passed on those methods.” Quiet during the entire trip, Ashu suddenly raised this question upon entering Heaven Locus Land.

“I haven’t?” Lu Yun started and looked blankly at the holy lord.