Chapter 1002: All Dead (1/2)

A strange fatigue filled Lu Yun’s body as both immortal force and nascent spirit seemed insufficient to satisfy his mind. For a split second earlier, he’d reached a plane of being that was wholly different from when Xing Chen had reached creator realm.

As strong as the creators were, their strength was a function of their cultivation level. There was no intrinsic difference between them and Lu Yun. But when the Tome of Life and Death became his nascent spirit and hellfire his source of strength, they’d changed his level of existence on a fundamental level.

It wasn’t a function of strength or cultivation level, but a metamorphosis of the sophistication of his kind of life form.

Lu Yun stood blankly in place for a very long time before recovering from this peculiar exhaustion. The little girl in a red dress was gone again and the Bridge of Forgetfulness had quietly returned to hell. The bridge… His level of existence just now had been greater than the bridge’s.

“What just happened?” He asked Qing Yu, dumbfounded.

“The Tome of Life and Death should be an item from the fourth realm,” Qing Yu responded. “Only something from the fourth realm can alter your level of existence on a basic level. Of course, that also means you can evolve only here.”

When he’d been staring off into space, Qing Yu had already employed formula dao to calculate the ins and outs of everything.

“Hellfire is born of the fourth realm as well, you’ve just been unable to utilize it to its fullest strength,” Qing Yu added after some more thought.

Lu Yun had always thought that hellfire was born of the world and reigned dominant in the chaos. But when it flooded his body to replace immortal force, Lu Yun and Qing Yu realized that their understanding was very wrong.

Qing Yu’s Sol Truefire was the flame of the immortal dao and the light of the heavenly palace. However, it was a completely different concept from hellfire and the two existed in completely disparate levels. It was impossible to compare the two.

The heavenly palace, Sol Truefire, and the blank book that’d been born in the heavenly palace were all creations of the world of immortals. Though the catalyst had been the Tome of Life and Death, their level was still subpar to a treasure of the fourth realm.

“Do we keep looking for more?” Qing Yu asked carefully as she looked at her beloved.

“No! We enjoyed the blessings of the heavens to find one Bridge of Forgetfulness. We probably really will die here if we keep looking for more,” Lu Yun chuckled ruefully.

This fourth realm was simply too mysterious; it’d transformed the Bridge of Forgetfulness into an incomprehensible existence. If there was any life to be found here, it would absolutely be stronger than the bridge. After all, the bridge had had to turn itself into a zombie to be able to protect itself in this realm.

“Let’s go back to our world for now. We’ll return when we’re strong enough to plumb its deaths.” Lu Yun grabbed Qing Yu’s hand and called upon the Tome of Life and Death, forcing it to communicate with hell and safely transport the two of them out of here.

He was unable to open the Gates of the Abyss while in this realm, and he was completely cut off from hell. If it wasn’t for the book, he would’ve tucked tail and ran away from this uncanny world a long time ago.

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