Chapter 1018: With Body as Dao Fruit (1/2)

Lu Yun turned around; he could still see Qing Yu smiling at him from the other side of the ladder. Waving gently at her, he retracted the ladder with reluctance. With the Bridge of Forgetfulness next to her, he’d be able to flash back to her side in an instant if he called upon the Tome of Life and Death.

The void in front of them wasn’t a world—it was still empty space. Countless pristine currents floated and drifted through the void, coalescing into marvelous existences.

However, out of all the places they’d visited, this seemed more like a world of life than any other. Verdant plants rooted in empty space, forming a scene of lush vitality. This wasn’t where the sixth dao palace was, but an outskirt where chaos creatures gathered.

However, the pure currents here were hundreds and thousands of times more concentrated with energy than anywhere else. Both Lu Yun and the little fox felt great comfort flood their limbs.

“Little fox, would you say that I have to refine a dao fruit?” Lu Yun suddenly asked his companion.

“Eh? Have to refine a dao fruit?” The little fox blinked. “I don’t have a dao fruit either.” She paused, “I reincarnated beneath the immortal dao and rewalked the path of cultivation, but I really did skip over refining a dao fruit.”

“So why do I need one then?” Lu Yun sighed. “Perhaps my path was incorrect to begin with. Maybe someone purposefully put the six dao palaces in front of me so that I would fight for them, seize them, and refine them. Perhaps they planted the sixth one here on purpose to lure me into the chaos.”

The little fox blinked and remained quiet.

Lu Yun had thought through a lot of things after entering the chaos, including musing over the six dao palaces. He seemed to have gained five of them through arduous and hard fought difficulty, but he hadn’t actually run into that many obstacles in reality. He’d acted whenever his impulses called for it and come back fruitful.

In fact, everything had been too smooth.

The last palace had been moved into the chaos, ensuring that he’d have to venture deep into enemy territory for it. He’d then presumably obtain it without trouble, naturally refining the six greatest laws of order in the chaos as his dao fruit for his final course of action.

But this abnormal smooth sailing was now growing into his biggest mental hurdle. Inexplicable worry beset his mind and he suddenly felt like he was a pawn, taking his steps in accordance with someone else’s plan.

That sense of alarm only grew stronger after that unknown existence delivered the purple ladder.

He was also skilled in formula dao, which was why he’d picked up a hint of something out of the ordinary. His understanding of formula dao was different from Qing Yu’s.

Her usage derived the complete cause and effect of something, overseeing the situation from an omnipresent view and scanning everything in its entirety.

His grasp melded himself into what he was deriving and made its inferences from the intricacies of the situation.

There was no right or wrong about their methods, just a different emphasis. Qing Yu saw things with greater foresight, but he saw them in greater detail. However, since the matter at hand had to do with himself, he could only pick up a hint that something was wrong, but none of the precise details.