Chapter 802: Altar of Earth (2/2)

Lu Yun wasn’t predisposed to saving the immortals. Such had been their modus operandi for the past hundred thousand years—he wouldn’t change anything just with him alone. The demon sovereign retracted his fire, but the avenue of ice remained. Instead of flying through the air, the group took the path to the outer-coffin.

It was a strangely smooth passage and they didn’t meet any obstacles along the way. The zombies were deterred by the avenue, and all of the other unholy denizens of the tomb seemed to have vanished without a trace

“Something’s wrong here.” The former priest of flames frowned. The level of protections for the yin tomb were many times greater than the yang tomb. All of the dead Xuan Yuan Slaves ended up here, or became zombies or vicious ghosts.

But apart from a few titan zombies, there was nothing else here at the moment.

“Would you like to leave?” Knowing full well what was about to happen, Lu Yun looked at Ashu.

Ashu shook his head. “I need to face my demons in the end. If I remain on the run for my entire life, my final ending will be in its stomach!”

He’d known for a while that the zombie tree was here, so he didn’t want to run from the inevitable confrontation. It would pinpoint him with accuracy no matter where he fled. In fact, it’d been fattening Ashu like a pig for slaughter. Whether it was resurrection or Ashu gaining more power, either were favorable outcomes for the tree.

When Ashu had used his core essence to protect Xuanyuan Xiaoyue earlier, that set him on the path of slowly recovering his true self. Once he did and stepped back into the role of Ling Weiyang, the zombie tree would no longer have a chance of devouring him.

Therefore, the tree chose to come to the Xuan Yuan Tomb before this happened.

All ghosts, spirits, and undead entities in the yang tomb were drawn to it. Its origins were too terrifying to think of and it was on the same level as the Dusk River, corpsefire, and Traceless. But somehow, it accidentally gained a spirit along the way—Ashu.

Though Ashu had split off from it and was slowly recovering his own identity, another set of thoughts appeared in the zombie tree: their only goal to consume its spirit.

However, the Azure Dragon King had possessed it for a very long time and it’d also collected a hint of hell after that encounter with Lu Yun. The dead things in the tomb couldn’t resist hell’s siren call and congregated to the tree as soon as it arrived.

After an indeterminate period of time, Lu Yun and the others arrived in front of the outer-coffin.

It was so lofty that they couldn’t see its top. Like a tremendous shadow, it dwarfed everything within the core area of the yin tomb. The mouth of the snake gripped an enormous scarlet coffin roughly fifty kilometers long that was emblazoned with lines of dark gold runes. Etched into the coffin, the runes seemed to represent the ultimate theories of the universe and the great dao between heaven and earth.

An enormous altar sat beneath the coffin, one exuding a bright yellow-brown light that illuminated the structure. There were also a few people standing in front of it—the priest of earth, priest of forest, priest of ocean, priest of blades, and a daoist wearing yellow-brown robes.

Grasping a golden staff, the priest of earth fixed a sharp stare on You Si.

“I thought you’d been swallowed by that person’s human-shaped treasure, but you actually betrayed Xuan Yuan and your faith!” He pointed the staff at You Si while the altar beneath his feet roared into action.