Chapter 1017: Ladder (1/2)

“What are you doing here?” Lu Yun was in close communication with the Bridge of Forgetfulness and it would materialize as soon as the newcomer made a move.

Though the eyes didn’t seem to be poised for action, Lu Yun could deeply sense just how terrifying the entity was. It was unquestionably stronger than a creator!

“I’m… just here to take a look.” Only two eyes hovered in the void, its owner didn’t materialize with them. They looked down quietly upon Lu Yun, Qing Yu, and the little fox.

Lu Yun frowned and didn’t say anything to that.

“Are you also a fox?” The little fox suddenly lifted her head and looked at the eyes. “I smell the scent of my kind from your presence. But a purple fox? We don’t seem to have any purple foxes among our kind.”

Pausing, the eyes faded away and vanished without a trace.

“What, why’d he leave?” The little fox looked around blankly in the void.

“Have you deduced anything?” Lu Yun looked at Qing Yu.

“He somehow has something to do with you… but he’s too strong, so I couldn’t figure out anything else. He shouldn’t mean us any harm,” Qing Yu concluded after a bit of thought.

“What’s this?” The little fox bounded over to where the eyes had appeared and picked up something in the void. It was a ladder the size of a palm, one that shimmered gently of purple light.

“A ladder?” Still confused, the little fox looked at Lu Yun.

“It’s an ultimate treasure of the chaos creatures!” Qing Yu’s eyes lit up when she saw the ladder. “This ladder can traverse space! We don’t have to waste time here anymore, we can immediately head to the sixth dao palace!”

She swiftly identified the tiny ladder when she saw it—a tremendous treasure of space. It was stronger than Mount Vastspace, though the mountain was a treasure of the human dao and thus fundamentally different from this ladder.

“Why is he helping us? A fox of the chaos?” The little fox didn’t understand what was going on.

“He’s always been helping us,” Lu Yun said. “He saved me from certain disaster once in Pangu’s tomb underneath Mount Buzhou, and he was the one to break apart hell at the end of human dao. Human dao wouldn’t have ended if its hell hadn’t fallen, and thus immortal dao would’ve never risen accordingly.”

The relationship between human and primitive great dao was one of succession and evolution, but the one between immortal and human dao was one of ruin and opposition.

“Violetgrave… should be on our side. He was the first one to transact with her, which makes him a force on our side too.” Lu Yun thought for a moment and summoned the ladder with a gentle beckon of his hand.

In that moment, he was astounded to find that the ladder had automatically recognized him as its master.

“What the?” It was his turn to be perplexed. “This treasure accepts me as its master? Do all treasures of the chaos have their own sentience like this?”

When he’d obtained Quietus, it too had automatically acknowledged Lu Yun to be its owner, but not to this degree. With the sword, he could only use his own strength as the foundation upon which to deploy Quietus. But with the ladder, he could call upon its entire strength with a quick shift of his mind and deploy its greatest capabilities. He wouldn’t even have to exhaust too much of his own strength.

This was his ultimate ace for self defense!