Chapter 925: The Origins of the Dao Tree (1/2)

Xing Chen sat cross-legged in hell, continuously employing the great dao within him to refine and reinforce the kingdom of hell. It’d once been overrun by akasha ghosts, and many awful existences yet lurked in the deepest parts of the netherworld. Lu Yun didn’t want his final retreat to be breached again.

After the blood demon entered hell, he bounced off joyously to the deepest parts of the realm. That innermost layer hadn’t ever been part of human hell, but instead the most mysterious layer of prisons beneath the Sea of Hellfire in the netherdark.

It held some of the most vile criminals since the dawn of time, but no one knew who’d locked them there and why they were incarcerated there. There was another name for that particular prison—Hadal Battlefront.

Luo Houluo’s Hadal Bonefire originated from there.

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“Wanfeng, come here for a moment.” Back in Dao City, Lu Yun smiled happily to see the capable maid. Despite having grown into a fine young lady, she would always be a child in his eyes.

There were three hundred and sixty-five cities in Dusk Province now, and apart from Dao City, all of them were fully opened to the public as part of the academy campus.

Lu Yun refused to run provincial affairs and Qing Yu was even more of a recluse. His ten Yama Kings busied themselves with teaching classes in the Dao Academy, so the reins of Dusk naturally fell into Wanfeng’s hands.

After a period of tempering, Wanfeng had shed her childishness and adopted a stern and decisive style. Her immense abilities cowed even top experts of peak factions.

“Sir!” She always chattered like an exuberant little bird whenever she saw her young master.

Lu Yun reached out and tousled her hair, an action that creased her eyes into crescents from the force of her broad grin. He suddenly imprinted the strand of soul force on his fingertip into her mind.

It immediately felt like a thunderbolt had crashed into Wanfeng. She shook like a leaf as a lost look flashed through her eyes.

“…big brother Lieshan…” Wanfeng looked dumbly at Lu Yun after an indeterminable silence and suddenly threw herself into his arms with loud sobs.

“There’s a good girl. Don’t cry, Ah Bao, big brother has come back.” He stroked her hair with a smile.

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Lu Yun had refined Ah Bao’s soul force with the power of reincarnation, so Wanfeng didn’t lose her sense of self after reabsorbing the tendril. All that happened was that she recovered the memories of her past life.

She buzzed around Lu Yun, chattering for three days and nights before she fully conveyed everything that Ah Bao had seen and knew. Finally, she sat on the ground in vexation.

“What’s wrong, Wanfeng?” Lu Yun was carefully digesting everything that’d happened after his departure, so he was surprised by her long face.

“Do I call you big brother now, or still sir?” She pouted, highly troubled by what to call Lu Yun.

“Call me big brother.” He tousled her hair with a chuckle. “Affinity is a strange thing. You were the first person I saw when I came to the world of immortals… and you were also the first person I saw when I went to the great wilderness.”

“Okay!” Wanfeng nodded emphatically, not knowing why the young master had said that, but not asking further as well.

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