Chapter 1149: The World Gates Fall (2/2)
Lu Yun stood in front of the World Gates—speechless, voiceless, motionless.
“They were all personages of great virtue. You can raise images of them and have them be reborn through worship as gods,” Violetgrave said softly as she took in how affected Lu Yun was.
After a hundred years of close contact, she also greatly pitied and venerated the nine. How they’d remained standing guard here, as if still alive, though they were dead!
“There’s no need for that.” Lu Yun shook his head with a sigh. “They accepted their death the moment they set foot here. Life and death mattered no more to them, following in the footsteps of their fathers was their dying wish.
“The era of the celestial emperors is over. Since they are in the past, let the past be past. If they return as gods, they will no longer be them. The name of the nine celestial emperors will live on in immortal dao history forevermore, to be remembered by future descendants.”
Lu Yun wore a complicated expression on his face; he deeply wished for the nine to be reborn through the fires of worship to be divine spirits of the immortal court. But they didn’t wish for that to happen. Just as they’d said, they were too tired. It was time to rest.
The current celestial lords of the nine majors were also far from the old celestial emperors. Otherwise, Lu Yun would’ve saved the celestial emperor title even if he’d had to bear the brunt of the curse himself.
With the dissipation of the final vestiges of the curse on Di Ling, the great emperor and celestial emperor titles could return to use. However, Lu Yun didn’t want the mediocre and unworthy to insult these names.
Violetgrave looked at Lu Yun and nodded gently.
“There is one more year until the World Gates collapses. You have one more year to prepare, and you should take us away from here now,” she suddenly said to him.
“Alright.” Lu Yun pulled out the sword in the ground before the World Gates and sent Diexi, Yueshen, and Ruyi into hell before departing. Without protection, the World Gates would last for another year at the most.
He didn’t ask Violetgrave about her affairs. She’d helped him multiple times after he entered the chaos; sometimes, asking too many questions about personal affairs would only result in estrangement.
The World Gates continuously shuddered and buckled over the next year. The entire world of immortals could feel the vibrations of their shaking. Within the center of Witherdew Major, the image of the ghost ancestor slowly sharpened into focus. It seemed ready to be reborn at any time.
The ghost ancestor was a peculiar life form that could be reborn an infinite number of times upon its death. Lu Yun and Qing Yu hadn’t been able to find a way to end it for good, so Lu Yun had sealed away the part of the sky that the ghost ancestor resided in.
Armies of immortals raised their banners in the nine majors, ten lands, four immortal seas, and four oceans. The immortal emperor from the central world led them to the void where the World Gates were and set up extensive formations, ready for the cataclysm to arrive.
Though there were immortals residing in the nine hells, those facets had yet to form their courts. The nine masters were only keeping order as their guardians.
Tensions ran high and nerves were tightly strung. Everyone was waiting, waiting for doom to present itself.
……
In the third month of the hundredth year in the Xuanhuang calendar, the ghost ancestor in Witherdew Major suddenly revealed itself in full and howled at the sky.
The demonic sound reverberated through the world of immortals, shattering the World Gates as if it were a call to arms. Countless dead spirits surged in through the broken gates and dove down at their prey.