Chapter 785: Ingenium Realm (1/2)
“A fox?” Lu Yun struggled to grasp the sudden shift in conversation. Before he could react, the local space erupted in turmoil.
His physical body, immortal force, and even thoughts were locked in place. He was so thoroughly incapacitated that he was like a fly caught in amber, his connection to the netherworld and with the Tomb of Life and Death forcefully severed.
The torch dragon can absolutely snuff me out in a second if it wants to! Color drained from his face when Lu Yun realized that the torch dragon could destroy his nascent spirit in hell though attacking his physical body.
Although the torch dragon was imprisoned in the depths of this cavernous hole, so laden down with chains that he resembled more a chained sculpture than anything else, those restraints stripped him only of bodily freedom. They did nothing about the creature’s terrifying strength and combat arts.
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“According to the vow I made that year, I am not to make a move against humans unless they provoke me first. However, you carry about you a presence I loathe with a passion.” The small bloom of flame atop the torch dragon’s head brightened with intensity and sent out roiling heat waves that were even more frightening than the connate li flames from earlier. “So I want you to stay here for the rest of your life and keep me company.
Boom!
The void trembled as a pitch-black structure formed in the air, swallowing Lu Yun whole. The torch dragon stared frostily at the structure housing his opponent and boomed with a voice that threatened to deafen one’s ears.
“I will let you go if you can walk out of this Ingenium Realm. I will not care where you go or what you do then. If you cannot, you will stay here and safeguard that blasted dead man with me.
“I know your nascent spirit is elsewhere, but you need not think of committing suicide to leave. The Ingenium Realm is a system of its own with its own rules, a major world completely independent of the world outside. If you die inside there, your nascent spirit will disperse in true death.”
The torch dragon seemed to see through Lu Yun’s thoughts and issued a series of solemn warnings, causing the young man to frown where he stood.
“Ingenium Realm? The Ingenium layout? A maze?” Lu Yun naturally knew what was going on.
The Ingenium layout was one of the most special feng shui layouts there were. An ingeniously and delicately wrought layout, a clever and marvelously original world. It formed a real world when called into being at a level beyond a grand influence over heaven and earth. At that point it would be a system independent of the multiverse, an existence much like the heavenly palace or kingdom of hell.
It would possess its own passage of time, definition of space, and even laws of a world.
All this time, Lu Yun had thought the Ingenium Realm was just a mythological legend that didn’t exist, a theoretical and hazy goal. He’d never thought that it would one day truly appear in front of him, and in a manner like this!
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A trace of cruel enjoyment flashed through the torch dragon’s pale-golden eyes to see Lu Yun stand unmoving in the Ingenium Realm.
“Harrumph, fox.” Curling his lip, he lowered his head again and slowly shut his eyes, falling back into deep slumber.
“A real layout exceeding the level of a grand influence over heaven and earth is right in front of me! It’s real, it exists! This is it!” Excitement danced in Lu Yun’s eyes.