Chapter 1044: Ice Corpses (1/2)

Lu Yun was losing his mind. He didn’t know what kind of place they were in, but he did know that if he lost track of the him ahead of them, he would die!

My soul!

His soul had somehow split off from his nascent spirit and transformed into someone who looked exactly like him. That was what was walking ahead of them!

He would be dead without a doubt if his soul dissipated. Even though the six paths of his nascent spirit were in hell, a special power had yanked his soul out from its position of safety. Despite the combined might of the Tome of Life and Death and kingdom of hell, they hadn’t been able to prevent it from happening.

The same thing had happened to Ying Luo by his side. Her soul had slipped off her soul lamp and once it dispersed, she would be thoroughly dead. She’d also discovered the same thing and subconsciously picked up speed, chasing after her soul.

Neither Lu Yun nor Ying Luo had reached third level mortal realm, which meant they hadn’t formed a true spirit yet. To them, their souls were everything.

Though the cultivation system of the chaos was different from the world of immortals, there was one point of commonality—chaos creatures didn’t form true spirits until third level mortal realm. True spirits in the world of immortals were formed by the energy of the land, whereas true spirits in this realm were forged by the chaos laws of order.

In the great wilderness, denizens were born with true spirits. However, this limited their future development. Formed naturally, their true spirits lacked any tempering whatsoever and thus their potential was constrained.

This was why very few latter-day descendants in the great wilderness, no matter how strong or weak, could reach chaos realm. The little fox was the sole exception to this as she’d been enlightened by Hongjun with a creation seed.

It wasn’t until the establishment of the immortal dao that the three founders used it to destroy the naturally occurring true spirit, leveraging the dao immortal realm to reforge the true spirits of all. That was the true way, just as it was in the chaos.

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Lu Yun and Ying Luo’s souls were growing fainter, a sign that they were about to disappear.

“Freeze!” Ying Luo shouted as she brought out a treasure shaped like a box. Two beams of white radiance shot out from the box and held the two souls in place.

Unable to drift away, the two souls slowly solidified again.

Lu Yun darted forward and withdrew his soul back into his body, sighing with relief when it was complete.

“What was that? Why did our souls suddenly separate from our bodies?” Ying Luo took her soul back as well. She’d pulled Lu Yun backward earlier because she’d suddenly seen double of herself and the wanderer.

“The illusions.” Lu Yun didn’t fully relax until he called upon the Tome of Life and Death to send his soul back to hell. “Both of us were taken in by an illusion earlier. Though we woke up from it, its power still affected us and hooked our souls right out from us.”

He still felt a little off balance as that strange mental power remained inside his body, influencing his mind and trying to yank his soul out of hell again. He quickly sat down and called upon the power of inception to expel the intruder from his body.

Lu Yun and Ying Luo opened their eyes in unison after an indeterminate period of time, reading traces of horror in each other’s gaze.

“Do we… keep going?” Ying Luo asked hesitantly.

“We do.” Lu Yun stood up and said slowly, “The core of the realm monster is ahead. There should be a way out from there.”