Chapter 1034: On the Bloody Path (1/2)

Lu Yun’s scalp tingled numbly as he looked at the path basically made out of fresh blood. However, those beside him were already taking the road into the Tomb of Heaven and Earth.

“What is it? Are you afraid?” Qiu Luoyu’s voice echoed in Lu Yun’s mind.

“Yeah, I am.” Lu Yun took a deep breath and nodded gently. “To openly send tens of millions of beings to their deaths like this… not bothering to cover up what they’re doing in the slightest… This really does shake me.”

“Doesn’t it? They can sacrifice everyone else for themselves. If this wasn’t the case, why would we—what they call otherkind—have to hide in the shadows and defend ourselves from them?” Qiu Luoyu sighed. “It’s the rule of the strong. The weak can only be food, ready to be forfeit at any moment.”

“What about the sacred palaces? Are they also like this?” Lu Yun asked.

It was plain to see that the nine sacred lands were behind this. There were no representatives from the sacred palaces on the scene; Lu Yun caught no sight of the sacred clan or their sovereigns.

In the eyes of everyone here, the only ones here on behalf of the sacred clan and palaces were Lu Yun and the little fox.

“I don’t know, I haven’t come into contact with them much.” Qiu Luoyu shook his head slightly. “But they rarely show themselves after the dao palaces metamorphosed into the sacred palaces. Only when a new sovereign is born in the chaos do they walk out of their abodes.

“Of course, there are still many stories when it comes to the sacred clan and of them, the most proliferated have to do with the chaos dragons. Chaos dragons are by nature brutal and savage, massacring races to extinction whenever the whim strikes them. Their rampages leave behind blood and gore for a hundred million kilometers. Thus, they don’t have the best reputation within the chaos.”

Lu Yun shrugged his shoulders a bit awkwardly.

“However, the sacred clan isn’t a clan of saints either. I hardly believe that none of them are involved in this matter. To collect the blood of tens of millions as a path through this tomb… it would take more than those of the nine sacred lands to pull off this feat,” Qiu Luoyu concluded.

Lu Yun nodded and concealed himself off to the side. Someone else was here and they were stronger than Qiu Luoyu.

They weren’t sovereigns, but they were closer to that realm than Qiu Luoyu was. Additionally, they radiated a presence that was remarkably similar to a chaos dragon’s.

The sacred clan!

Four young men flashed before Lu Yun’s eyes and darted into the tomb. He wasn’t able to get a good look at them.

As more beings entered the tomb, the bloody path increasingly sharpened into focus. It finally solidified as a path paved with blood-red jade, twisting and turning into the cavernous maw of the tomb doors.

The mental illusion seemed to have vanished, and while beings still streamed in through the doors, they did so with control over their actions.

It was time for Lu Yun to set foot onto the path as well.

He’d wanted to dig a thieves’ tunnel, but there weren’t any flaws in the surroundings around the Tomb of Heaven and Earth. He wouldn’t be able to enter the tomb this way, no matter what angle he dug the tunnel from. It was also highly likely that he’d be lost in the endless void instead.

The tomb doors and path beneath his feet were the only ways into this tomb.

Everything around him vanished the moment he stepped onto the path; it felt like he’d set foot into another world. Even the little fox in his embrace disappeared.

“What’s going on?” Lu Yun’s eyebrows knit together tightly. The strength in his body rapidly receded and he returned to being a peerless immortal.