Chapter 769: Dusk River (1/2)
“This isn’t a tomb.” Lu Yun shook his head. He looked almost like a human torch with hellfire blazing all around him; the flames of the netherworld radiated great power in all directions to keep the corpsefire at bay.
Corpsefire guided the zombies. Without it, the giant zombies wandered about listlessly.
“The moat snake is the outer-coffin, and the Heaven Locus March the real tomb! We’re inside the tomb already. No wonder,” Lu Yun murmured, “No wonder a yang door would emerge outside the march as soon as we entered.”
“That… is...” The Venerated Sacrosanct Demon Sovereign and Ashu goggled at each other. Using the only connate earth-affiliated divine beast as an outer-coffin? That was more horrifying than shaping it as a tomb!
“Then… what should we do now?” The demon sovereign was at a loss. “Should we enter the snake coffin?”
“If my observations are correct, this should be the handiwork of the shamanic divines. Specifically, their corpse coffin method,” Lu Yun said with furrowed brows. “Whoever is buried here came with a powerful coffin, though. That’s why the shamanic divines turned the moat snake into an outer-coffin instead.”
He’d encountered corpse coffins twice before. Once under Myriad Formation Summit, where the shamanic divines had buried Ruyi with Yueshen’s corpse. Someone had plainly broken that layout at some point and collected Yueshen Jixiang’s soul for a resurrection layout in an attempt to resurrect her.
However, the resurrection layout was then adjusted twice: the first time to resurrect the little fox, and the second time for Aoxue. Meanwhile, Yueshen was refined into an immortal ghost, and Ruyi’s corpse sealed somewhere in the Abyss of Divine Burial. All the resentment and grudges from the endless divines she came in contact with turned her into a terrifying undead hag.
The other time he’d encountered corpse coffins was in the inner sea at the heart of Levitating Island. There were two corpse coffins within Su Xiaoxiao’s tomb that were refined from the corpses of two Exalted Divine holy girls.
Lu Yun still didn’t know what corpse coffins were for and had gleaned no new clues from his third encounter with them. Although it was an outer-coffin, it wasn’t all that different from the coffins he’d encountered before.
The Heaven Locus March was a tomb, and the moat snake an outer-coffin. To enter it, Lu Yun and his two companions would have to break through the yin door. Something “alive” was on the other side of the door, something that had been directing the corpsefire and giant zombies to stop them from entering.
With a flip of his hand, Lu Yun collected his luopan. “Come on, let’s go inside!” he declared.
The demon sovereign fidgeted. “Do we really have to?”
Lu Yun turned to him with a smile. “You awoke from your slumber in a tomb. Are you really afraid of entering an outer-coffin?”
The demon sovereign didn’t have an answer for that. Ashu didn’t mind either way. In his eyes, the inside of the coffin was much safer than the outside. Though corpsefire had filled the tomb to the brim, it couldn’t enter the snake coffin. Otherwise, the coffin would’ve already been destroyed.
“Grrrraawl!!” Sensing the approach of Lu Yun and his companions, the hundred-strong group of zombies defending the door into the coffin snarled and charged at them with reckless abandon.
However, the corpsefire surrounding them evaporated as soon as it came into the vicinity of Lu Yun’s hellfire. Confusion surfaced in the zombies’ eyes, but they followed their instincts and continued the charge.
The demon sovereign waved a hand and pushed out the Skyturning Seal, sending it right through the crowd of zombies with terrifying might. Anything it rammed went flying off into the distance.
Seizing the opening, Lu Yun attached a talisman each to the demon sovereign and Ashu. They quickly shrank down until they were the size of minute particles. At the same time, he diminished his own size with Size Manipulation. The hellfire surrounding him brought his two companions under its protection as well.