Chapter 1109: The Underworld of the Chaos (2/2)

Qing Yu didn’t have a response for that.

“Okay, let’s set aside the soul lamps for now,” Lu Yun said hastily. “Soul lamps existed in the mythological realm as well and have been passed down till modern day. There must be something extraordinary about them.”

Huaxu and Wahuang exchanged worried glances with each other. The current sacred clan had indeed lost all respect for and consideration of death. When the soul lamps had malfunctioned in the Tomb of Heaven and Earth, that had been a ruinous disaster for the sacred palaces. Too many geniuses with great potential had died on that trip.

“If Little Yu doesn’t want to, we can forget about the soul lamps.” There was a tendril of her soul force in a Hell Flower bud anyway. If anything happened to her, she could be reborn in the sea of Hell Flowers.

However, the process would be interminably long.

“We’ll be off to the tomb now.” Lu Yun resolutely grabbed Qing Yu’s hand.

“Do we need to talk this out some more?” asked Wahuang with a frown.

“No need, no plan can account for all possible changes. Little Yu and I are well versed in formula dao and can just adapt to the situation.” Lu Yun shook his head.

“I’m going too,” the little fox said weakly after poking her furry head out of Qing Yu’s robes.

“We’ll take you with us if you take human form and promise to never return to fox form,” Qing Yu chuckled.

The little fox withdrew her head, plainly intent on not going anywhere. There was nothing that Lu Yun or Qing Yu could do.

“Since you’ve made your decision, I shan’t interfere.” Huaxu had a more open mind about things and let the matter rest. “This is a one-time use transportation formation. You can use it to return to Creation Palace if you meet with any inexorable danger. Remember, it can be only used once.”

She gave a tiny formation disk to Lu Yun.

“Understood.” Lu Yun nodded and put the disk away.

Although he had Qing Yu by his side and released the Bridge of Forgetfulness so it could protect them at any time, it was better to keep his aces hidden as much as possible. He also had no idea what level of strength the bridge was at. If his past self, in the prime of life, had faced the bridge, he would’ve been crushed in a split second.

After absorbing his past self, he grew ever more reverent of the chaos. It was simply too enormous and filled with all manner of strange and eccentric things. Even his past self hadn’t dared probe it too deeply, to say nothing of the third realm.

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The Tomb of Heaven and Earth now completely occupied the previous current of clear energy and towered in the chaos as a titanic tomb. It released a suction force from time to time, devouring the vitality from any nearby creatures and leaving them as withered husks.

While there were still some cultivators in the area who wanted to try their hand at fortune and fame, they were few and far in between. The place had become restricted grounds, but the tomb no longer appeared as it once did.

A boundless black earth extended from the tomb, unfurling into an eerie land of rubble and charred dirt. It was a connector between the tomb and the fathomless chaos, and its end wasn’t in sight.

“This is…” Lu Yun stood upon the charred dirt and peered at it closely, incredulity flashing across his face.

“What is it?” Qing Yu looked at him curiously.

“The underworld!” Lu Yun slowly breathed out a sigh. “This burnt earth is the underworld!”