Chapter 979: The Old Path of Humans? (1/2)

Almost every major faction in the world of immortals had enrolled disciples in the academy, and some disciples had even reached the inner academy. Many of the smaller clans also joined en masse, entering the Dao Academy with their entire faction.

In the eyes of the world, the Dao Academy was a massive umbrella of protection, a towering tree that they could shelter under. They could use its name in all manner of lawbreaking and continue to enrich themselves in the new world order.

How very wrong they were, and realization of this hit them only now.

Immortal after immortal died ignoble deaths in this bloody purge of undesirable elements. Tens of thousands of immortals were involved before it finished, an abnormally terrifying number. Of those, the Lus and Qings numbered the greatest.

The Lu Clan was Lu Yun’s home clan and the Qing Clan where Qing Yu hailed from. The two factions were extremely brazen both within and without the Dao Academy because of this. Never had they fathomed that Lu Yun would be even more straightforward and decisive when it came to killing them. Any case that had to do with either clan resulted in Lu Yun personally executing the immortal in question.

As a result of this, Patriarch Lu Daoling of the Lu Clan resigned his position of academy protector and brought the experts of his clan to one of the most dangerous lower worlds—the Harshcloud Realm. His cultivation level had reached Supreme Immortal of Original Order, which put him very close to the next level that was the ingress realm.

However, seven Supreme Immortals of Original Order had already died in Harshcloud Realm!

Lu Daoling simply felt that he’d embarrassed himself beyond all measure and no longer had the face to remain in the Dao Academy. His descendant had created this wondrous establishment for the benefit of the entire multiverse, but his own kinsmen were sullying it. Though he’d been unaware of the unsavory acts his juniors had committed, he was still hard pressed to explain himself.

Patriarch Qing Taxian of the Qing Clan also traveled to Harshcloud Realm with his clan’s dao immortals.

Lu Yun naturally wouldn’t allow any accidents to happen to these elders, so he sent his old trump card Kui with them.

Kui was the mythological one-legged beast of lightning that’d become Lu Yun’s Infernum. Now that his master’s control of the Tome of Life and Death had taken a step forward and the treasure further submitted in the chaos, Kui’s strength rose as well and he returned to the peaks he’d attained in the Primordial Era. He even broke through principal realm to supreme pure realm, the first of the Three Purities realm after the divine dharma realm, which came after dao immortal realm.

He was now on par with a human king of the Primeval Era and rivaled the four great emperors of the primordial world of immortals. With his name written in the Tome of Life and Death, a wisp of the treasure’s energy wrapped around him at all times. He was a walking door to the underworld; experts from hell could arrive in Harshcloud Realm any time they were needed.

Harshcloud Realm had been the biggest realm in the multiverse a hundred thousand years ago, so strong that it was able to rival the world of immortals! Their ruler, Immortal Emperor Harshcloud, had been so fearsome that he’d been able to suppress the ascent protocol, ensuring that his realm’s immortals remained on home territory.

When he felt that they’d accumulated enough strength to challenge the world of immortals, he released the ascent protocol and sent nearly a hundred million immortals to the world of immortals at the same time, attempting to conquer the heavens, overthrow the immortal emperor’s rule, and occupy the world of immortals.

In those times, the immortals of the lower realms found their way to immortality from the starting point of mundane cultivators. Having bypassed the void realm, they were the weakest of the weak when they arrived on the battlefield.

The world of immortals put down the rebellion without breaking a sweat. Zhenwu, Emperor of the North, smacked the principal realm Emperor Harshcloud dead with a single swipe. The Immortal Subjugation Seal that could suppress the ascent protocol also fell into the immortal emperor’s hand. [1]

The rising of Harshcloud Realm to conquer the heavens was well documented by later historians and stored in the ancient tombs. Thus, this particular realm’s name was viewed with certain awe in the current world of immortals.

Lu Yun had once thought that Fuxi was behind the countless tombs in the world, but the demon god denied responsibility when asked. That left it still a mystery as to who had built the tombs that forested the world of immortals.

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Harshcloud Realm had been Lu Yun’s next destination; he’d be able to greatly raise morale if they were able to retake this legendary realm. The world of immortals would be immensely confident in facing off the dead spirits in seventy years if he were able to manage this feat.

However, he set this aside after the events of Dustfall Realm. He would personally oversee the reorganization of the Dao Academy and all of his forces, including Dusk Province.

What greatly set his heart at ease was Wanfeng’s steady hand at the helm of Dusk Province. Though there were some thugs in the province as well, they didn’t dare use Dusk’s name when breaking the law or oppressing others.