Chapter 1132: Avici Hell (2/2)

“My warning ends here, take care.” Huo Zongxing leapt off the Inception Spiritrial Arena.

Chi Wuxia brightened when he heard these words, recalling something as well.

“Pressuring me with groundless fabrications?” Lu Yun shook his head and tapped the air again, taking Chi Wuxia’s sense of smell. “Princess of Nirvana Palace, it looks like you think I’m blowing hot air. Well then, you can’t blame me for doing this.”

Lu Yun sighed softly when he saw that his Nirvana counterpart remained completely unmoved. Wei Yuan… was in no danger of losing his life for now, but undergoing torment and torture was a given. Whatever Lu Yun did to Chi Wuxia now would be repaid in full, and then some, onto Wei Yuan. I hope he can stay strong through it all and treat it as some kind of tempering of body and mind.

The consciousness and memories of the sacred clan were protected by the highest orders. No one could scan their mind, or Wei Yuan would’ve already died ten times over.

Lu Yun deployed the punishments within the Judgment of Life and Death to their utmost, taking Chi Wuxia’s vision, hearing, touch, and the organs associated with them.

Chi Wuxia suddenly discovered that he could no longer sense the outside world, including his own body. His mind had been exiled to a void of nothingness.

He couldn’t walk or move. He had a mouth, but couldn’t form any words. Ears, but couldn’t hear. A nose that couldn’t smell, and eyes that couldn’t see. His body no longer registered sensation and even his consciousness had vanished. In this world of the mind, everything about him and the world around him was gone. He was just a ball of thoughts, adrift in a wash of eternity.

Never ending, never dying, sealed away in a dream. Interminable in body, form, and time. This was the most terrifying portion of the human dao hell—the Avici Hell. [1]

Lu Yun had always thought that the final, eighteenth level of hell was the Avici Hell. But when his Judgment of Life and Death reached these heights, he realized that his previous understanding was incorrect.

The Avici Hell wasn’t a tangible hell. If one possessed retribution in their bodies, this hell was everywhere to be found.

……

An expressionless Lu Yun stood next to Chi Wuxia’s prone form. If the nine divine sects were to march on the underworld, Chi Wuxia would certainly be a lethal killing machine. Thus, Lu Yun would’ve had to find a way to remove him from the picture even if it wasn’t for Wei Yuan.

Chi Wuxia currently lay still in the arena, his presence completely vanished. If it wasn’t for the rise and fall of his chest, he would be no different from dead.

Finally, Lu Yun kicked him off the Inception Spiritrial Arena, greatly surprising the fire origin divine sect. The Inception prince really had left their genius alive after only stripping him of his senses!

Lu Yun didn’t say another word as he sat down cross-legged, mentally putting everything back in order.

His past self practiced the great dao of the mythological realm, a path that may not be suitable for current methods. He would one day be beset by disaster if he continued relying on his past self in all things. The greatest meaning in the existence of his past self was the dao fruit, and not its experiences.

Thus, Lu Yun wanted to make use of this challenge to the nine divine sects to add to his current self’s experiences and combine it with his past. He would keep only the purest essence and expel the dross.

Silence reigned among the nine divine sects. The Inception Spiritrial Arena had cut through space to block their doors, but there was no one among them who dared step forward to answer the challenge anymore.

If Lu Yun’s battle with Jin Gushen had allowed them a wisp of hope, his face slaps of Chi Wuxia spoke despairingly of overwhelming domination.

The sacred prince of Inception Palace had become an inescapable nightmare for all cultivators of the nine divine sects.

1. In Buddhism, Avici is the lowest level of the Naraka or “hell” realm. Avīci is often translated into English as “interminable” or “incessant”, referring to suffering without periods of respite, although it is believed to be ultimately impermanent.