Chapter 876: Where They Should Be (1/2)

Lu Yun’s voice rang out with great resonance, projecting into every corner of the netherdark. He’d arrived at the shores of the Blood Sea.

“Wait, this is the Blood Sea?” Confusion flashed through his eyes when he looked at the endless waters.

The Blood Sea was vast, so vast that it seemed boundless, and the carcasses of countless beings drifted in its depths. However, it didn’t seem as strong as Lu Yun remembered. He even had the strangest feeling that this genuine article was less than the Blood Sea in Life Province to the southwest of Nephrite Major.

“This is indeed the Blood Sea in which flows the blood of all beings… but why’s it so weak?” Lu Yun muttered to himself.

“The Blood Sea of the future has been refined into a treasure and this one hasn’t. Naturally, that makes it weaker than its future self,” explained the little fox when she saw the befuddlement in Lu Yun’s eyes. “Legend has it that Darkriver wanted to refine the Blood Sea as his replica, but Leize warned him that if he dared refine the Blood Sea, he would kill Darkriver even if he had to evaporate the sea!”

“Damn, that’s a statement alright.” Lu Yun swallowed hard and felt a twinge of admiration for this great god.

The netherdark was the future foundation of hell of human dao and the Blood Sea an important site within it. It couldn’t be claimed by another, no matter what.

……

Rumble—

The Blood Sea frothed as Darkriver’s enormous face coalesced again.

“Lie Shan of the human race!” roared Darkriver. “I can say in good faith that I have not provoked you after you visited the netherdark, so for what reason do you come insult me on my doorstep?!”

A bit of suffering and highly strung nerves sounded in his tone. This Lie Shan had killed three connate demon gods in only a few days and even turned one of them into roast meat for some ants to eat. He was the number one bastard of the great wilderness, but he was also backed by some terrifying existences.

Who dared incur his displeasure?

But Lie Shan had come to the netherdark and demanded Darkriver answer for his crimes. If the patriarch was just a little bolder, he would smacked the impertinent rat dead.

“For what reason?” Lu Yun leered. “An envoy from Leize is here to interrogate you, do you know your crimes?!”

Darkriver’s enormous face immediately froze with awkwardness when he heard Leize’s name. It was as clear as if it’d happened yesterday—Leize had annihilated his Blood Sea replica with a single punch all those years ago.

“I, I, I know my crimes, I know them!” he stammered.

“And hand over Bashe!” Lu Yun chuckled darkly. “He dared threaten me when I first arrived in the netherdark…”

“No!” Darkriver flew into a panic when he heard the demand. “Bashe is my subordinate and you cannot kill him! You’ve already obtained the mountain god, so why must you kill Bashe!”

His surprisingly firm tone threw Lu Yun for a loop. Down in the Blood Sea, the lurking Bashe had spasmed with fright when he heard Lie Shan’s words, but then breathed a little easier when he heard the patriarch’s response.

However, everyone also realized at this point that Darkriver had been bluffing earlier about being wary of the four gods in concert. Just Leize by himself was enough to send the patriarch into paroxysms of fear.

“Alright, you don’t have to hand over Bashe.” Lu Yun nodded slightly. He regarded Darkriver with a bit of newfound respect. Though the demon god was cowardly and afraid of death, he treated his subordinates well.