Chapter 770: Pollution (2/2)

“Don’t!” Lu Yun shook his head. “That thing cut undead hags into pieces. If we go down there, we’ll immediately be cut apart and devoured.”

He flicked out a soybean, which flew into the vortex in a flash of gold. A warrior in golden armor emerged out of nowhere and was swept underwater. Lu Yun hurriedly activated Spectral Eye and connected his thoughts to the bean soldier’s.

Splash!

He died and was sent back to the outer realm before he could even draw breath for a scream.

“I got a clear look.” Lu Yun frowned. “It’s a sword, a sword without a hilt! It appears to be alive, but it isn’t. It isn’t a living being, but it doesn’t have a spirit, either. So what is it?”

That information didn’t give Lu Yun an answer.

“Can it be a connate-grade treasure? One that’s just taken shape,” Ashu spoke up. “There are different levels of connate-grade treasures. There are regular connate-grade treasures, connate-grade spirit treasures, and connate-grade peerless treasures!

“Perhaps the sword you can’t understand is a connate-grade peerless treasure in its infancy! It’s similar to the likes of Qing Yu’s Cosmic Eyes and Cosmic Skycarver, as well as your Cosmic Sea!”

The ultimate treasure of the peak factions in the world were all regular connate-grade treasures, while the Cosmic Sea, Cosmic Eyes, and Cosmic Skycarver found in the dragon tomb were connate-grade peerless treasures, the greatest among connate-grade treasures.

Unfortunately, neither Lu Yun nor Qing Han could tap into their full power.

Feinie’s Formation Orb had started out as a regular connate-grade treasure, then became a connate-grade spirit treasure after the Yin and Yang Formation Orbs merged. Apart from that, the connate-grade treasures Lu Yun had taken from the North Sea Palace were all regular ones as well.

“That’s not the case.” Lu Yun shook his head. “The sword isn’t naturally born, but man-made. The yin energy in the Dusk River isn’t so much nurturing it as contaminating it…” He shuddered. “That’s right! Someone’s trying to turn the sword into a yin sword!”

“A yin sword?” Ashu’s lips thinned. “That’s what happened to the Dusk River… It wasn’t like this before—it was polluted and transformed into a yin river!”

“Is whatever infected the Dusk River here? Is it polluting the sword with the river even now? Do you know who owned the Dusk River?” Lu Yun asked.

“The first owner of the river is buried under Dao City, within the ancient tomb exceeding emperor grade—this term doesn’t refer to the immortal emperor, but to the realm above the great emperors of the Primeval Era!

“The great personage has died, though, in an eon long ago. They and their three peers were each buried in four great tombs.

“The Dusk River was claimed by someone else after the ancient being’s death… It wasn’t until the end of the primeval human rule and establishment of the immortal dao that the Dusk River emerged again, as a yin river in the ancient tomb.

“I think... I’ve figured out what that thing under the river is...” Ashu said slowly. “Among the four great treasures of the four tomb owners, only one remains pure from pollution... It’s the sword!” Realization of the situation at hand struck him. “It mustn’t be contaminated! You have to get it out of the river!”