Chapter 963: Scarlet Bale Spirits (1/2)

“Eh? Corpse Refiners?” Lu Yun started when he saw a few battle zombies furiously throw themselves at the dead spirits and carve out a path in the sky. Apart from the boundless dead spirits, he was the only in the area. Plainly, the Corpse Refiners had come to save him. What a surprising turn of events.

He didn’t have a good impression of this sect. Jiangchen Wushang, Jiangchen Xie, Jin Heyi and other members had all refined living people into zombies. Their transgressions were so severe that they’d once elicited massive punitive expeditions from the rest of the world of immortals.

That matter had been resolved only when the celestial emperor of Truespirit Major passed his throne onto the sect master of the Corpse Refiners.

However, what happened after changed his mind about them. The sect master of the Corpse Refiners and celestial emperor of Truespirit Major had… sacrificed himself to protect Exalted Major.

That was why Lu Yun had agreed to let Yin Jiuying incorporate corpse refining as one of the great daos beneath the immortal dao. The Corpse Refiners was a full illustration of how good and evil existed in people, and not dao.

Now that their disciples rushed to save him, he mentally revised his feelings about the sect once more.

“How dare you travel to the Quiet Realm by yourself?? You court death!” A battle zombie with a stiff expression on its face spoke human language in a girl’s voice. She snapped at Lu Yun, “Follow me!”

The hovering battle zombie spat out dense corpse energy and forced back the dead spirits around them. It then shot toward the continent protected by the boundary while Lu Yun leisurely followed behind.

“Gyak gyak gyaaaak!” A strange cry came from the air before a scarlet yin spirit suddenly materialized and bit down on the battle zombies.

“It’s scarlet bale spirits!” Though the battle zombies in midair didn’t have any expressions on their face, their masters were greatly dismayed.[1]

Scarlet bale spirits were far more terrifying than the black dead spirits or gray yin spirits. They understood the existence of a battle zombie and thus always delivered resounding defeats to the Corpse Refiners. Otherwise, this sect swept through the opposition with ease in the Quiet Realm. They hadn’t thought that they’d run into the dreadful scarlets on a simple rescue mission!

In the ten years since the Ascension Pool was rebuilt, immortals who’d been completely ignorant of dead spirits had slowly built up general knowledge about them after a decade of campaigns.

The weakest among the enemy were the gray yin spirits. The prolonged tides of yin spirits in Nephrite’s Dusk, Azure, Crimson, and Argent Provinces were mostly comprised of these spirits.

One step above them were the dead spirits that were most often mentioned. Black in color and stronger than their gray brethren, they were faster and wielded an infinite supply of death energy. Even immortals with an internal world frequently lost to these dead spirits.

If one couldn’t shake off these dead spirits, it was only a matter of time before the immortal was picked clean.

A further step up were the scarlet bale spirits. These ones seemed to possess some sentience and intelligence as battle zombies ignored by the yin and dead spirits would register to these bale spirits. Not only were the scarlet ones stronger than the previous two, they possessed the ability to control their inferiors.

Aimlessly drifting tides of yin and dead spirits swiftly formed terrifying armies when directed by the scarlets. When directed by an intelligent mind, the spirits swiftly redoubled in awful might. As for even more horrifying existences… no immortal had ever lived to tell the tale, so no one knew much about them.

During the yin spirit tide in Azure Province, Lu Yun had seen gray, black, scarlet, and even a few purple bale spirits. However, he’d been preoccupied with setting up the bronze palace with Wayfarer so they could seal those things outside the world of immortals. Otherwise, he might’ve taken a closer look at them at that time.

Those of the world of immortals felt very lucky that the descent protocol had appeared for them to visit the lower worlds and get to know their enemies. Otherwise, if their first close encounter with dead spirits was during that final encounter in seventy years, half of the world’s immortals would probably die in the first engagement.

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