Chapter 1146.1: The Great Peak of the Five Hells (1/2)

The fourth realm was so vast that it exceeded the limits of understanding of any creature from the worlds, chaos, and Hongmeng. It was called thus only because the inhabitants of the third realm and Lu Yun had named it so.

When compared to the fourth realm, the Hongmeng was just a speck of dust. There were even some denizens of the fourth realm that were bigger than all of the third.

Take She Nong, for instance. He was larger than all of the chaos, but he wasn’t even one of the peak existences here. He counted as middle of the pack, at most, a most ordinary life form in the vast population of the fourth realm. He was only a tiny bit stronger than the Bridge of Forgetfulness.

What Lu Yun displayed with his boosted death art unequivocally placed him in the upper echelon of the fourth realm. Thus, She Nong didn’t dare disrespect any of the human’s orders.

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“Come with me.” Lu Yun opened the Gates of the Abyss with a wave of his hand.

The doors opened to the ninth level of the Hadal Hell. They were the front doors to the Hadal Hell to begin with, just that Tianqi had commandeered them to be the doors of the human dao hell instead.

Their size was peerless without match, as if they were the gates to an entire world. Towering in the void of the fourth realm, they exuded an unquestionable authority that surveyed everything within its purview. It felt like only in the fourth realm could the Gates of the Abyss fully recover its true self—just like the Bridge of Forgetfulness.

“The Hadal Hall!” shrieked She Nong when he took a clear look at the other side.

“Eh?” Lu Yun and Tianqi paused, looking at the man in unison.

“You know about the Hadal Hall?” Lu Yun asked with surprise.

“Who doesn’t know about that incredibly mysterious and terrifying hell!” She Nong smiled ruefully. “It holds the most ruthless and evil villains of all time. Not only are their hands drenched in blood from their ravaging of the land, but they’ve destroyed countless Hongmeng realms on their rampages.

“They’re so strong that even the unparalleled existences that exist cannot destroy them. The only recourse is to lock them away within the Hadal Hell.”

“Destroyed countless Hongmeng realms?” Tianqi asked with astonishment. Hongmeng was the name of the third realm, but it sounded like there was more than one of it?

She Nong glanced at the figure roughly the size of his head and heard the question in Tianqi’s tones. “There are many Hongmeng realms scattered in the corners of that plane.

“What we call the Hongmeng isn’t a singular realm, but a multitude of cages that incubate life. When life inside a cage transforms to levels high enough to break through the Hongmeng wall, they gain the right to open the cage and enter the real world.”

“You… mean… that the Hongmeng is just a series of holding pens and not the third realm?” Tianqi was beginning to doubt his very life.

“Naturally, how can there be a realm that small?” She Nong pointed at Lu Yun. “Your lord is bigger than even the greatest Hongmeng realm.”

“Master!” An extremely confused Tianqi smiled lopsidedly at Lu Yun.

“The Hongmeng and chaos aren’t true realms, but ours—the world of immortals and the rest of the worlds, is a bonafide, complete realm.” Lu Yun grinned back, knowing that She Nong’s words were too much of a shock to Tianqi’s worldview. His disciple wouldn’t be able to accept them for a while.

Lu Yun also fully understood what the man meant. To sophisticated life forms of the fourth realm, the creatures of the Hongmeng were the equivalent of amoebas to humans on Earth.

“Right, that’s right, our world is a true realm!” Tianqi’s dao heart began to settle down. The world of immortals, or the worlds, rather, was a true realm. Whether it was the chaos or the Hongmeng, both of them were after it.

The immortal dao in the world of immortals had the potential to traverse the fourth realm. Once the immortal dao ruled the chaos, Hongmeng, and ran through the fourth realm, there would be no difference between any of them. All life forms would be on par with the most sophisticated in the fourth realm.

“Milord, why did you suddenly open the way to the Hadal Hell?” She Nong asked cautiously.

“Where does the Hadal Hell originate from and who created it?” Lu Yun asked instead.

“I don’t know… I don’t have the right to look upon such persons. All I know are the rumors that everyone knows. Only a select few know the truth,” She Nong quickly responded.

“I see, that will do then.” Lu Yun inclined his head.

The situation in the Hadal Hell was likely far more complicated than what She Nong spoke of. Hellfire originated from there, and it blazing in Lu Yun’s body was the basis for him becoming an ultimate powerhouse of the fourth realm. Tianqi also relied on it to possess power in the fourth realm.