Chapter 786: Meng Wang (1/2)

Though the immortal emperor was smiling, the meaning behind his words made Lu Yun’s hair stand on end. He didn’t believe in fate or predestined outcomes… any sort of tribulation was man made!

After Emperors Fall, the very title had become inauspicious. Any who dared call themselves an emperor was struck with ill fortune without exception. With the demise of the primordial immortal emperor, the entire primordial world of immortals had fallen apart and even the four cardinal emperors had met grisly deaths.

Empress Myrtlestar and her entire clan had been slaughtered and buried in the Skandha Extinction Tomb as catalysts for a curse. If Lu Yun’s guess was right, the other three cardinal emperors were interred in the other tombs of the mountain range.

The ominous doom brought about by the title persisted even to today. None of the celestial emperors of the nine majors, monster emperors of the ten lands and four immortal seas, and even the divine emperor eighty thousand years ago had ever enjoyed natural deaths.

Now that Lu Yun had saved the immortal emperor, the latter’s string of bad luck would continue and maybe even affect his savior. Perhaps becoming the treasure spirit of the luopan was the best possible outcome for him.

As for Empress Myrtlestar… no one dared make trouble for her after she became Ge Long’s disciple. Besides, she’d changed her name to Fuying and no longer went by her former title.

……

“I will be able to release the true strength of this treasure after becoming its treasure spirit,” the immortal emperor sighed softly and stared at the world beneath his feet. “Such is likely the only value of me living on. My past life and present existence are but a dream. Why does one exult in living, why does one rage upon death?

“From henceforth, I shall no longer be the immortal emperor. I am the resident spirit of this treasure, and my name… shall be Meng Wang.” [1]

With that declaration, Lu Yun discovered that a layer of haze seemed to lift from his body, leaving a comfortable emptiness in its wake.

He’d known that the karmic repercussions of being the immortal emperor were too great. Just the change of a name wasn’t enough to stave off the incoming bad luck; only by becoming the resident spirit of a treasure would it mean that the immortal emperor hadn’t truly revived.

Lu Yun sighed, there was nothing he could do about this. He was too weak and just a regular immortal. Perhaps even Ge Long wouldn’t be able to protect him if an emperor-grade run of misfortune descended upon him. At a loss for any other options, he waved a hand to allow the luopan to merge with Meng Wang.

A tranquil smile creased the former immortal emperor’s face and his figure turned to motes of light, transforming into the state of a treasure spirit.

Hummmm.

Aureate light flared from the compass and forced the blazing flames back.

“Oof.” Lu Yun’s face flushed beet red as his immortal force surged, smashing through a bottleneck and ascending from true immortal to empyrean immortal realm.

Previously, he’d reached arcane immortal realm immediately upon becoming an immortal because of his replica. So once Xing Chen’s connection to his primary body was severed, Lu Yun lost this cultivation realm.

However, though he’d fallen back to being a true immortal, his comprehension and experience of the arcane immortal realm still remained. Future ascension would be a smooth affair as long as he continued to increase his personal strength.