Chapter 1145: She Nong (1/2)

The thought ripple was very out of place, sending Tianqi into a panic before he had time to closely inspect the fourth realm.

“Don’t be afraid.” Lu Yun patted his disciple’s shoulder, but Tianqi still felt uncomfortable.

The fourth realm was a plane of existence held in high veneration by everyone in the third realm. Legend spoke of an enormous wall between the third and fourth realm; whoever could break through the wall would become an unparalleled existence of the fourth. Lu Yun had just casually dropped into the plane with Tianqi, making everything seem incredibly surreal.

“So you’ve come back, and with two tiny creatures! Are they your new toys?” It wasn’t a thought ripple this time, but a tangible voice.

Last time Lu Yun and Qing Yu visited, they’d only seen the bridge and nothing else. Their return visit brought them a close encounter with a local denizen at first light.

“Who goes there?!” Tianqi roared. He didn’t see anything and his consciousness was sweeping at its maximum range of a hundred thousand kilometers, but to no avail.

The fourth realm was so empty, so expansive that it made one despair.

“You can stop looking, he’s right in front of us,” sighed Lu Yun and pointed at the darkness ahead of them. “That’s his eye.”

Tianqi shuddered.

Instead of responding, the Bridge of Forgetfulness began to expand to the size it’d been when Lu Yun first bumped into it. The bigger it was, the stronger it was. Of course, its spirit was still too weak to control its body when it grew that big.

But becoming larger was the only recourse to standing toe-to-toe with this ponderous existence.

The darkness in the void shifted, as if something was moving in another direction.

“Say, Bridgie, will you give me one of the little creatures on you?”

Tianqi still couldn’t see where the being was, but Lu Yun’s eyes were staring straight ahead of them. He could see his reflection with the Spectral Eye, one coming out of a pupil larger than the entire chaos!

The Bridge of Forgetfulness didn’t respond. If it’d been any other time, it would’ve already turned itself into a zombie and unleashed a flood of ghostface maggots and corpseflies. It could disgust its opponent to death, even if it couldn’t beat him!

As things were, it was very much at ease, despite the encounter, since there was an even more dreadful being on its back.

“Tianqi, do you remember the death art I taught you before?” Lu Yun suddenly grinned. “Deploy Size Manipulation to its greatest.”

Boom.

With a tremble, Lu Yun began to grow explosively in size himself. Tianqi was half a second behind his master, but his body swiftly increased in volume as well. He grew so quickly that the immortal force within his body was diffused to its maximum and was beginning to become too thin.

Whoosh!

The Karmic Tree inside of him blazed with black flame and replaced his original immortal force. New strength flooded his limbs and his cultivation realm bounded forward. He was the mountain god of Mount Tai, and the mountain was a divine mountain formed out of the Hadal Hell. He was also the second person after Lu Yun to practice the Method of Life and Death and wield hellfire.

Though he wasn’t bolstered by the Tome of Life and Death, anything Lu Yun could do, he could do too.

A large eyeball appeared in his line of sight and quickly grew smaller. His field of vision zoomed out to see a face, a head, and then a full being standing in the void.