Chapter 790: Skeleton of the Torch Dragon (1/2)

Somewhere in a corner of the tomb realm, the four high priests were gathered together with ugly looks on their faces.

“It looks like the priest of flame’s already fallen to their evil schemes… I’d thought Lu Yun was going for the spleen, but it turns out his real target was us! He wants to have that connate treasure on the verge of evolving into a connate spirit treasure devour us and swallow our heritage…” Looking like he’d seen a ghost, the unsettled priest of earth glanced back in the direction of the volcano with his heart still racing furiously.

“That may not be the case, I really do sense the presence of the world’s organs in his body.” The priest of ocean had recovered from his injuries; his body seemed to be made of water and could reassemble itself in a split second, even when it’d been broken apart earlier.

“So he really is going to try for the spleen then! We used the worship of the Xuan Yuan Slaves to raise it to godhood when it took shelter, now it’s time for it to repay us!” A cold light glinted in the eyes of the priest of earth. He couldn’t enter the yin tomb, or he would’ve laid hands on the altar of earth that housed the recuperating spleen a long time ago.

“Honestly, we have another way of entering the yin tomb.” Silent all this time, the priest of forest finally spoke up. Clad in a jade-green silk dress, she was a woman with green eyes and lips. Dark-green locks reached to her waist, and she emanated a powerful vitality at all times.

“The mother altar!” her brethren spoke in unison.

“But the mother altar has been quiet for a very long time…” frowned the priest of earth.

“Then we sacrifice all of the Xuan Yuan Slaves here to awaken it!” Bloodlust flashed through the priest of forest’s eyes. “Such is the sole purpose of their existence anyway. Once we obtain the altar of earth, take down Lu Yun, and collect all of the world’s organs, we’ll be able to summon the other elemental altars and win our freedom. We won’t need those Xuan Yuan Slaves anymore and won’t have to guard the tomb of a damned dead man.”

“That would be wonderful and our intentions as well!” the priests of ocean and blade laughed uproariously.

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Situ Zong devoured the altar of flame, but it would take countless months to fully refine the power within it and complete the evolution of the Pelagic Orb to a connate spirit treasure.

However, since the kingdom of hell was fully formed now, time in that realm was no longer of significance to Lu Yun after the six paths of his nascent spirit took up residence in the underworld. He could adjust the flow of time according to his whims and fancies, slowing it down or halting it entirely.

His grasp over hell as a whole was much less thorough, so he always returned to the outside world at the point of time in which he flashed into the netherworld. Once his cultivation reached a certain point and his control improved, the flow of time in hell would fully synchronize with the passage of time in the outside world.

Meanwhile, the six paths of his nascent spirit accelerated the flow of time within the netherworld so that the Pelagic Orb would fully evolve and meld with Situ Zong. In the outside world, Lu Yun brought Ashu, the Venerated Sacrosanct Demon Sovereign, and priest of flame back into the deep pit in the ground.

The torch dragon cracked open one eye, swept it over Lu Yun, then closed it again to practice the nascent spirit observation method. However, Lu Yun glimpsed a hint of dissatisfaction in that eyeball. The torch dragon seemed irked that it hadn’t seen the young man make a fool of himself.

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