Chapter 886: A Body of the Great Dao (2/2)

“Truth be told, I do have a favor to ask,” Lu Yun responded gravely.

“Please go ahead, fellow daoist!” Goumang nodded.

“I’d like to see Ling Weiyang.”

“See Ling Weiyang?!” Joviality slid off Goumang’s face and the look in his eyes grew a bit remote.

“Hmm?” Lu Yun blinked, a bit confused, but didn’t voice his confusion out loud.

“What might Lie Shan have to do with Ling Weiyang?” Even Goumang’s honorific for the human changed.

“I’d like Ling Weiyang to help me locate the Constellation Willow and bring it to me.” Lu Yun held nothing back. He could forgo all of the other spirit roots, but he had to obtain the willow.

“I see…” the demon god heaved a slight sigh of relief, then continued after a pause, “Who told you that Ling Weiyang can help you obtain the Constellation Willow? And where did you hear this name?”

“Is there… something special about Ling Weiyang?” Lu Yun asked subconsciously when he heard the questions. He suddenly recalled the little fox saying that she’d never heard of the name in this era.

“Correct, there is something very special about Ling Weiyang. Helping you locate a connate spirit root is indeed one of his abilities.” Goumang peered deep into Lu Yun’s eyes and enunciated carefully, “In addition, he possesses a connate dao constitution. His body was forged from the great dao itself. …do you know what that means?”

“A body of the great dao?!” Lu Yun yelped. “A special constitution that can communicate with all living beings and become one with dao?!”

“Correct!” Goumang nodded. “Ling Weiyang will be invincible if he reaches the chaos realm, and even Leize now won’t be his opponent then. At the same time, his soul is quite fragile right now, and he has a less than perfect control over his body. Anyone can possess him!”

He kept his eyes tightly fixed on the human as he spoke.

“…does fellow daoist know the mountain god of Mount Tai?” Lu Yun smiled gently. “And the torch dragon being nurtured in the Sea of Hellfire? That one’s an existence that can control yin yang and reverse them.”

Goumang blinked, then roared with laughter. “Hahahahaha!! So it’s this one who’s been rather rude!”

Whether it was Tianqi or the torch dragon, neither of them was any less than Ling Weiyang’s body of the great dao. One of them had become Lu Yun’s disciple and received his careful tutelage, while the other had received his guardianship. The human had weathered a chaos tribulation for eight years and left without a word, making no designs on the recipient.

“Servants, have Ling Weiyang come here!” Goumang bellowed and waved a hand.

“Understood!” came the response outside the palace.

It wasn’t long before Ling Weiyang arrived with a young man dressed in white robes—Bai Zhaoju, who Lu Yun had met before.

Bai Zhaoju had now broken through divine king and reached empyrean realm. He was a great master of the combat arts, and this cultivation speed was downright frightening.

“Lie Shan, it really is you!” Bai Zhaoju exclaimed when he saw Lu Yun. He couldn’t connect this mighty existence on par with Nuanzi and Dijiang to the thin, weedy human youth he’d once seen.

“Long time no see, White Emperor!” Lu Yun nodded when he saw Bai Zhaoju.

“Ling Weiyang greets the Mu emperor and Lie Shan!” Looking exactly like Ashu, just much younger, Ling Weiyang was only at the divine king realm. That didn’t make him very strong, but an uncommonly comfortable presence emanated from his body. It felt like the great dao sharpened into focus if one was next to him.

“Ah Bao, little fox, go run around and play,” Lu Yun fished out the little fox from his robes and shoved her into Ah Bao’s arms.

1. Goumang, also known as Jumang, is an auxiliary god of the Fuxi family. The Classic of Mountains and Seas described his appearance as ”bird body and human face, riding two dragons”. He is the god of wood and spring, in charge of life and health.

2. Also known as the Ladder to Heaven, this mythological Chinese tree connects the heavens to the mortal world.