Chapter 817: The Far Reaches of the West Sea (2/2)

There wasn’t anything the merchant alliance could do in retaliation since the demon god backed the fur seals—they could only withdraw from the West Sea. As things stood now, the West Sea was almost completely isolated from the rest of the world.

“What happened here?” Lu Yun passed by countless islands along the way, but they were all deserted. Most of them were drenched with blood and littered with corpses. An ugly expression descended upon him as he read their information with the Spectral Eye.

Fur seals had slaughtered them all. Their souls were gone, leaving behind empty husks of bodies. A faint air of resentment floated over the West Sea, but it gave birth to no vicious ghosts or malicious spirits.

“What do those fur seals want to do?” Lu Yun lifted his head to look at the ends of the Black Sea, where a great tree shadowed half of its waters. A demonic air wreathed forebodingly around it, making it more terrifying than the zombie tree he’d once seen.

It’d reached peak human king realm and would become a great emperor upon taking one small step forward!

Lu Yun’s brow furrowed tight.

“Let’s go, the zombie tree is no longer something I can handle,” he sighed and turned to leave.

His replica could’ve defeated even a demon tree on the verge of becoming a great emperor, but they were at the far reaches of the West Sea… If two personages such as they had a great battle here, then all four great oceans would suffer from the fallout. [1]

Apart from a few special locations in the current world of immortals, there was no other place that could endure a clash between great emperors. Once the four great oceans were impacted, the twenty-three facts would lose their bindings and immediately disassemble, becoming twenty-three independent worlds. They’d also become instant fodder for the yin ghosts outside of the World Gates.

The demon god knew about Lu Yun’s replica, so he very smartly didn’t conceal himself in the primordial ruins. Instead, he rooted the demonic tree at the far reaches of the West Sea to await Lu Yun’s arrival.

Once the immortal dao was repaired and connected heaven and earth, he’d become the first great emperor beneath it. Lu Yun already knew how to fix things, it was just a matter of whether or not he was willing to discard the current dao immortals.

“Since the headmaster has visited from afar, why leave in such a hurry?” A clear voice sounded in the air as the demon god walked out wearing black robes.

Lu Yun halted and looked at the speaker. This was the demon god’s human form, the body that’d become a void-ascended immortal. It was a replica, and because it cultivated the immortal dao, that enabled the demon god’s primary body to become one beneath the immortal dao.

“What am I supposed to do instead? Have a few drinks with you?” Lu Yun snorted with laughter.

“I happen to have some fine wine here, so it would be just as well if we had a few drinks.” The demon god swept his arm out in an inviting gesture.

Lu Yun nodded slightly and followed his enemy further into the ends of the West Sea. Both sky and earth were black beneath the demonic tree, and everything wafted a faint demonic air.

Wine the color of blood flowed into a cup; Lu Yun lifted it with decorum and drained it in one go.

“This is fine wine.” He smacked his lips appreciatively. The wine was blood-red and very strong, but there wasn’t any tang of blood to it.

The demon god drained his cup as well.

“I didn’t kill the creatures of the West Sea. The fur seals have turned traitor and taken the Ichor Bog with them, heavily injuring Sword Divine Dongfang Hao as well. Almost all of his men are dead,” the demon god raised after savoring the taste of his wine. “My ideal future is to take root in the core of the multiverse and assimilate my demonic dao into the immortal dao, thereby becoming the sovereign of all life under demonic dao.

“Thus, I wouldn’t kill the immortals here like this.”

1. The great oceans are different from the four immortal seas. Great oceans are the glue of the world and are the Untroubled, Unsullied, Unmeant, and Unselfish Seas. The naming is a bit off as the author uses the same ‘sea’ character for them as he does for the cardinal seas. I could change it, yay/nay?