Chapter 938: The Sacred Land in the Depths of Space (1/2)

A marvelous power descended from the heavens to envelope Earth. Everything in this world came to a halt, leaving only Lu Yun, Qing Yu, and the little fox moving about freely.

Lu Yun lifted his head to see an elder in white robes and loose-flowing white hair walk out of a beam of white light.

“This human descendant greets the Flame Emperor.” Though the elder’s long hair scattered around his shoulders, he wore the clothing of modern humans. He bowed respectfully when he arrived in front of Lu Yun.

“I know you.” Lu Yun frowned slightly at the newcomer. He could clearly see that the old man’s cultivation was at the human king realm. The latter wasn’t an immortal of the grand pure realm, but a human king who practiced human dao. “You’re a forefather of my sect.”

This old man was a hallowed ancestor of Lu Yun’s sect; worship had to be offered up to his portrait every festival holiday. To think that this historical figure was still alive, and as a human king!

“Oh no no no!” Startled, the old man jerked backward when he heard the title. “The forefather of the human sacred land is Holy Emperor Fuxi. This humble one is but an advocate of his teachings.”

Every cultivator in the multiverse had seen Lu Yun excise the Dao Tree from the world of immortals and battle the fiend within. This old man was no exception, and he also knew that the youth was one of the founders of human civilization—the Flame Emperor.

“Do you know who he is?” Lu Yun put the issue of the elder’s identity out of his mind. He’d traveled back in time to become the Flame Emperor of the human race and in doing so, thrown an enormous number of hierarchies into complete disarray. This forefather of his sect had somehow become his junior as a result and had to refer to himself as “this humble one” in front of Lu Yun.

Back in his days on Earth, this would’ve been grave insubordination almost on par with personally stabbing his master. But with his changed mentality now, these issues were completely meaningless in his eyes.

“This humble one doesn’t know who he is either, but the holy emperor left instructions for this one to stay on the ancestor planet to protect him.” The old man’s expression grew ever more respectful.

“Holy Emperor Fuxi? Where is he?” Lu Yun brightened. He’d come back to Earth to look for Fuxi.

He'd originally guessed that Fuxi would be on Kunlun Mountain or the ruins of Mount Buzhou, but didn’t discover traces of the demon god when he swept Earth with his consciousness. Besides, it would be Fuxi standing in front of him if he was still on the planet, not this old man.

“The holy emperor is in the human sacred land outside the cosmos, standing guard over the Great Formation of the Nineheavens Gates. He hasn’t been back to the ancestor planet for several tens of thousands of years.”

“The Great Formation of the Nineheavens Gates in the depths of space…” Alarm crept into Lu Yun’s face. “Has something happened there?”

The great formation among the stars should’ve been the one that Lu Yun had set up according to Taiyi’s formation diagram. It was to protect space and stopper the realm monsters in the chaos. What he hadn’t expected was that it’d still be standing after a hundred million years! It was still there, sealing away the fissure between the chaos and this world.

“Many things have indeed happened and the original great formation has already been destroyed. The one now was supposed to be protecting the ancestor planet, and the holy emperor expended great effort to move it.

“But it, too, has begun to waver. I’m afraid the holy emperor won’t be able to maintain it for long.” Fresh hope flared to life in the old man’s eyes when he looked at Lu Yun.

Though the Flame Emperor’s cultivation was so low now that it was almost nonexistent at peerless immortal, the human race nursed a nearly fanatical faith in their Flame Emperor. This elder was a human king from the era of human dao, so the legendary emperor was almost invincible in his eyes.

“Alright then, you remain here and keep him safe. I’ll go take a look in space.” Lu Yun looked deeply at the old man and walked out of Earth with a single step.

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“There’s something wrong with that elder,” Qing Yu whispered softly to Lu Yun.

“It’d be weird if there isn’t something wrong,” Lu Yun chuckled. “But thankfully, though his body has decayed, his soul hasn’t changed.”

“Oh?” Qing Yu blinked.

“The way he looked at me… I’ve seen too many humans look at me with those eyes in the great wilderness. It’s an emotion that other races can’t understand at all.” Lu Yun heaved out a long sigh. “He’s changed, but his roots are still there.”

Qing Yu and the little fox looked at each other, unable to understand Lu Yun’s words.

Though Earth was many times smaller than the planet of the great wilderness, the cosmos outside of its atmosphere was still the same. Its boundless stars were still transformed from bodies of countless great masters.

Qing Yu picked up on a few things and subconsciously deployed formula dao, deducing a few theories.

“I can bring them back to life!” she suddenly whispered next to Lu Yun’s ear.

“Oh??” Lu Yun’s eyes lit up.

Of these great masters, some were connate great gods and others were empyrean powerhouses. It would be a tremendously wonderful thing for the world of immortals and the realm at large if they could return to life.