Chapter 766.1: Xuan Yuan Tomb (1/2)

Cyan fog permeated the Heaven Locus Marsh; it was truly more of a march than a large body of water like the Sword Lake. The tendrils of heavy fog prevented Lu Yun from getting a clearer look at what lurked inside the murky depths. Moreover, the swamp was shrouded in a strange layer of heavenly power that obscured its feng shui and formation layouts.

With a slight frown, Lu Yun opened the Spectral Eye and took in any information of the dead within five thousand kilometers in radius. A dull pain quickly throbbed in his head and eyes before he hastily shut the Spectral Eye.

“How… how many have died here?!” he cried out in shock. “Was this an ancient battleground?”

“It was a taboo zone back in the Primordial Era,” said the Venerated Sacrosanct Demon Sovereign. “It was guarded by the Heaven Locus Lord appointed by the immortal emperor, and the marsh has been like this since the Primordial Era. I didn’t expect this area to become a facet in the world of immortals of this era.”

“The Xuan Yuan tomb and the Earth Altar are both there,” Ashu spoke up. “There are also things from an even more distant past.

“The ten lands of the world of immortals, namely Heaven Locus, Odyssey, Horizon, Mist, True Water, Yang Fire, Heaven Descent, Yellow Springs, Crimson Abyss, and Demon Measure Land, are derived from the ten forbidden lands from the primordial world of immortals.

“The monster emperors of their ten courts are all descendents of the lords who guarded the ten lands. Only these ten bloodlines are able to keep the forbidden lands under control.”

Ashu used to be a holy lord of the underworld; he’d observed the world of immortals from there and probed many unknown secrets.

What he and the demon sovereign revealed stunned the three hundred peerless immortal soldiers. They’d never realized what the ten lands actually were, and not even the ten monster courts were in the know.

“We don’t have time for chit-chat, something’s coming out of the marsh.” Lu Yun manifested a giant black donkey’s hoof with a wave of his hand.

Bam!

A giant black hand puffing with smoke shot out of the marsh, agitating the air and filling it with the pungent smell of rot and burnt charcoal.

“Alert, alert! Zombies want to charge out of the Heaven Locus Marsh! Attention! Assemble into formation!”

Alarmed, the squadron of peerless immortals hastened to form a battle formation of domineering presence to block the giant hand.

Boom!

Another giant hand dropped from the sky as soon as the battle formation came together and broke apart the newly assembled formation. Vomiting great mouthfuls of blood, the peerless immortals were thrown in all directions and completely incapacitated.

A five-kilometer-tall, charred zombie slowly crawled out of the marsh. It was a zombified figure that’d always been five kilometers tall. No combat arts or manifestations were involved to reach its size.

A five-kilometer-tall giant...

“The titan race! A species that was extinct before the Primordial Era!” Ashu soared into the sky, his eyes glowing faintly of gold as runic patterns interwove into a large golden net before him, blocking the zombie’s second punch and saving the three hundred peerless immortals.

Though he could rival a primordial origin dao immortal, the zombie was too powerful and he too was sent flying for his efforts.

Meanwhile, the Venerated Sacrosanct Demon Sovereign sat cross-legged on the ground to meditate on a Hadal Bone projection. A great manifestation covered in Hadal Bonefire emerged before him and body slammed the giant zombie. The manifestation, while being half a kilometer tall, was still dwarfed by the five-kilometer tall zombie.

Wreathed in black smoke, the giant zombie extended its yellowed mouth filled with corpse energy and bit at the Hadal Bone manifestation.