Chapter 947.1: A Rendezvous with Death (1/2)
Lu Yun had no idea what kind of astonishing chain reaction he’d set off by turning into a chaos dragon to intimidate a connate demon god. All he’d wanted was to ensure that he came away with his treasure. But that was a story for the distant future.
Currently, he was in the world of immortals upon returning through hell.
After Xing Chen refined the netherworld, he’d left a door in the Dao Academy that led directly into hell. Lu Yun could immediately disengage from danger if he ever found himself in a tight spot.
He didn’t return to Earth or visit Mount Buzhou. The fissure in the depths of Earth’s space was no longer important. Creatures from the chaos wouldn’t be able to enter through it, even if it was pierced through. All of the preparations they’d laid there were meant for realm monsters. Now that he’d carefully sifted through everything, Lu Yun realized that they’d never run the risk of anything else coming through that particular gap.
The fake Fuxi had purposefully maintained the fissure and painted a false picture of its dangers in order to exhaust the strength of the human sacred land. His eyes were set on Mount Vastspace and the Timelight Tower. He’d also broken the Great Formation of the Nineheavens Gates and moved the one around the ancestor planet to surreptitiously destroy it elsewhere.
Lu Yun wasn’t worried about the Deaf Prince, Houtu, and the others; he’d given them a comprehensive summary a while ago. As premier experts of the world, they would be able to do whatever was necessary to restrain the imposter.
Mount Vastspace and the Timelight Tower weren’t meant to guard the fissure, but to protect the ancestor planet! This was the plan that the real Fuxi had left behind.
As for who the imposter was… Fuxi didn’t know either. Perhaps he was a unique chaos creature, or perhaps he was a survivor of a destroyed world like Hongjun and Carmines Eternal and Arbiter. Not every survivor gladly helped other new worlds fight off the chaos when their own had been destroyed. They, too, nursed their own thoughts and motivations.
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The Ascension Pool rested in hell. According to the original plan, Lu Yun had only needed to refine the chaos dao fruit, absorb the curse into his body, then easily cleanse it with hellfire. Given the direction of his actions, he would now have to expend greater effort to break the curse against great emperors.
Sitting cross-legged beneath the Karmic Tree, Lu Yun hefted the core essence of the Ascension Pool with his hands. Hellfire billowed forth beside him to flood into the treasure. With the flames of hell as the base, he projected Pangu and God charging into the treasure, respectively wielding Worldcarver and Heavenfall, to attack that dreadful existence.
He’d identified the heart of the curse as a terrifying concoction of malice and evil. It was an enormously strong living being, and its spite and animosity weren’t the result of resentment or a desire for vengeance. It was just pure, unadulterated evil. Since it hadn’t managed to find happiness or contentment, it wanted all of life to be the same and burn as its funeral pyre.
“What the hell is this to think these kinds of thoughts?? It’s cutting off its nose to spite its face!”
Lu Yun knew that this curse originated from the fallen great emperors, but their resentment had only been a conduit. This curse had already existed in the world to begin with, and was brought into full manifestation after the massacre of the great emperors. It was something very similar to the akasha ghosts.
“Emperors Fall not only forged a bloody immortal dao, but was also exploited by many other parties, such as the akasha ghost and this horrific curse.”
A legion of Lu Yun’s projections charged into the Ascension Pool, but were all destroyed the moment they rushed in. Thankfully, this was hell. The six paths of his nascent spirit hovered overhead, feeding him endless energy to create his projections. In addition, the kingdom of hell also imbued him with sufficient strength so he wouldn’t be injured in the appalling backlash.
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