Chapter 774: A World as a Tomb (1/2)

It was pitch black all around them. With the Dusk River and Traceless collected, complete darkness and utter quiet descended upon the premises. With neither sky above in sight nor earth below in view, it felt like they stood in an enormous black hole.

“Come with me.” Lu Yun brought out his luopan. The brilliant golden light it released took the shape of a golden avenue leading into the depths of the darkness.

The Venerated Sacrosanct Demon Sovereign and Ashu followed closely after the young man. The dark was too bizarre; losing all its yin energy made the strange void even more dangerous and even Ashu felt a prickle of fear.

“Where are we?” The demon sovereign shoved his concerns down.

“We should be inside the pearl of the Moat Snake,” Lu Yun said with his eyes fixed on the luopan in his hand, clearly enunciating every word. “The snake reached heights I can’t comprehend, and its snake pearl became a real world!

“However, the world turned into a dead realm after the snake’s death.” Instead of the luopan revealing the true nature of this realm, Lu Yun came to this conclusion through his own calculations.

“We need to hurry up,” Ashu said with slight panic. “The Moat Snake’s resentment won’t scatter after its death, they’re very likely to still be around. The three of us aren’t powerful enough to even tickle it. Let’s go, let’s go at once!”

The golden avenue created by the luopan led to the end of the world. Though the three of them moved at top speed, it still took them four hours to depart the world of darkness. What greeted them upon exit was a world of verdant green and a cacophony of bird song, insect chirps, and animal roars, all signs that they had entered a place of great vitality.

The sudden brightness caught them off guard, and they narrowed their eyes and shaded their eyes with their hands.

“Are we inside the snake now? Is this the snake outer-coffin?” Lu Yun looked around, flabbergasted. He was suddenly reminded of Su Xiaoxiao’s tomb. It had been brimming with life as well, but the two worlds were day and night apart.

“Should be.” Ashu squatted down to take a closer look at the ground. “The Moat Snake is the divine beast of the land rather than a simple earth element beast. The land encompasses everything, be it metal, wood, water, fire, or earth. It’s a standalone ecosystem with its own circle of life.

“Impressive, how impressive! Someone refined the corpse of the Moat Snake with great power, making it more than an outer-coffin like you speculated. It’s also a real world. The great dao the snake grasped in the past has remained entirely intact and manifested in this very world.” Ashu’s wealth of knowledge allowed him to draw conclusions through simple observation.

“In that case...” Eyebrow raised, Lu Yun shared a look with Ashu before the two said at the same time, “There must be a descendent of the Moat Snake here!”

“The Moat Snake was so powerful that it wielded a standalone dao encompassing everything in the world. Not even after its death should its body be desecrated!” exclaimed Ashu. “Refining it into an outer-coffin is one thing, but in order to refine a real world while keeping the snake’s great dao intact, the snake had to be willing!”

“It’s the only Moat Snake in the world,” Lu Yun murmured. “If it has any lingering obsessions, it must be to pass its bloodline on!”

“Then the grudges in the world of the snake orb couldn’t have been the Moat Snake’s!” Ashu turned back to where they’d come from, but the path was gone, replaced by a vast, primal forest.

“It must belong to the snake’s enemy…” said Lu Yun. “Perhaps the Moat Snake killed someone at the cost of its own life. Its body was later taken away and refined into this outer-coffin with a standalone world within it.”