Chapter 1119: Great Emperors No More (1/2)

The black eyes looked down dispassionately at the ten Yama Kings. The ladies met it tit-for-tat and regarded it frostily back.

“So you ten are still alive.” An immense will exuded from the eyes.

“The ten you speak of are dead, we are we,” Yuying responded calmly as the scroll returned to her hands.

The pair of eyes looked deeply at them, and the hint of a sneer seemed to waft through the void. And then…

Light abruptly returned overhead and the tribulation clouds dissipated, silencing the thunder and lightning. With peace restored, the pair of eyes were nowhere to be seen.

The mythological kingdom of hell disassembled in the next second and returned to the ten Yama Worlds, which swiftly vanished as well.

All was as if it’d never taken place.

……

“Was that really the mythological kingdom of hell… and its ten rulers?” Enormously shocked, Wahuang looked at her father with confusion.

“She was right, the ten rulers are dead. These are their own people,” Leize responded slowly. “What kind of person is Lu Yun? Not only did he dispel the curse on the chaos dragons, he can summon these ten masters to come to his aid and resolve the tribulation of the forbidden.”

Leize knew that Lu Yun’s past self had been part of the mythological realm, but a past self was a past self. Everything stayed in the past and karmic relationships were forbidden with the present. Otherwise, if the past affected the present, then Lu Yun’s past self would be a fruit of malevolence, instead of a dao fruit.

Regardless, the Inception monarch spoke no more. When he next looked at the young man, Lu Yun had reached peak grand pure realm and was only half a step away from empyrean realm.

He’d devoted everything and brought out every trick in his book to study the Dragonquake Scripture, enabling his breakthrough to empyrean realm in the shortest period of time possible. At the same time, the dense presence of the immortal dao flowed from his body and permeated the chaos, creating a starting point for the immortal dao in the chaos.

A smile finally graced Leize’s face, and Wahuang breathed out more easily as well.

“Dad, how did you choose Lu Yun back in the day?” Wahuang asked with sudden curiosity.

It hadn’t been Fuxi’s idea to send Lu Yun to the great wilderness; everything had been orchestrated by Leize and Huaxu. Even characters like Hongjun and Pangu had received pointers from Leize when it came to their plans.

“I didn’t choose him, he chose me.” Leize slowly lifted his head and looked into the boundless chaos. There seemed to be a tiny purple flame there, retreating into nothingness.

He’d always thought that Lu Yun was the important pawn of a great master in the third realm, but when the ten Yama Kings showed themselves, he realized how ridiculously wrong he’d been.

“Everything he is today is his alone. No one can dictate Lu Yun’s actions, not even him.” Leize was still looking at where the purple flame had disappeared.

……

Rumble—

Peals of thunder roared out from Lu Yun’s body. The peak of grand pure realm was great emperor!

When he broke through to this realm, he abruptly woke up. Two rays of hazy black light flared from his eyes—hellfire. If he wanted to change great emperor realm back to empyrean realm, he had to borrow the strength of hellfire.

Another pillar of light erupted from Mount Xuanhuang in Dusk Province, transcending the limits of space to hurtle straight through the chaos and connect with Lu Yun.

Currently, all was not well in the world of immortals.

They’d received word of chaos creatures attacking the underworld with dead spirits, but this wasn’t a battle that immortals could involve themselves in. If they entered the underworld, they would be treated as another enemy by the living dead and destroyed as well.

However, that didn’t prevent them from setting up layers upon layers of formation at the end of the East Sea, trying to repair the boundary riddled with holes that was all that stood between them and the underworld.

Thus, no one paid much attention to Mount Xuanhuang erupting again. Last time it’d done so, it hadn’t affected the world of immortals that much.