Chapter 1160: The Sanguine Flame (2/2)

“This tiny ember of Sanguine Flame is the last hope of the Sanguine Hell… If it goes out, then the Sanguine Hell is truly ruined, just like the Nihil Hell. It will become an unholy nest for yin spirits…”

Lu Yun frowned slightly. “Is the Nihil Hell the world beneath Mount Tai?”

The thought spoke no more, having dispersed fully into nothingness.

“Damn, this corpse oil has been refined with unusual thoroughness. I can’t resurrect it through the power of reincarnation,” Lu Yun sighed and carefully put the lamp away.

Though the thought had faded away without answering his question, he could still make an educated guess. The Nihil Hell had been corrupted into an unholy nest for evil spirits and was the source of the festering spirits beneath Mount Tai.

That was likely due to the Nihil Flame going out, so if the Sanguine Flame went out as well, that would be the fate of the Sanguine Hell.

Countless numbers of living beings had died in this hell, and a boundless number of them had melded into the Sanguine Hell upon their death, never to be reborn or freed from suffering. If the Sanguine Flame was extinguished and the Sanguine Hell truly destroyed, then these fallen souls would struggle free of their torment.

As long as its fire burned on, the Sanguine Hell would never be fully shattered.

Lu Yun completely dismissed the idea of entering the Nihil Hell. To do so would be nothing short of seeking death. His projected image suddenly scattered apart and vanished into the void.

Outside the fissure, his primary body slowly opened its eyes and two streaks of black fire flashed through them. He seemed to meet something’s gaze.

“Idiot, did you think I would send the oil lamp through the Gates of the Abyss? The fastest speed in the world isn’t light, combat arts, or cultivation methods, it’s thought!” Lu Yun’s lips curved upwards with a hint of derision.

A projected body was a replica formed by thought and outside force. It was in essence, pure thought. When the strand of hellfire attached to his thought dispersed, the thought brought everything attached to it back to the primary body.

The nascent spirit observation method was a truly heaven-defying method. It was the fundamental reason why the current immortal dao could fully surpass the past and even exceed the world of immortals in the mythological realm.

It wasn’t because the Hadal Hell supported the modern world of immortals. It wasn’t that the Dao Flower bloomed on Mount Xuanhuang and had become Qing Yu’s dao fruit. It wasn’t because of the body tempering methods or the various setups by Fuxi and the others.

It was due to the nascent spirit observation method.

This was why Fuxi said that it wasn’t they who’d chosen Lu Yun, but Lu Yun who’d chosen them.

Though Lu Yun’s past self had traveled to the mythological realm, his past self couldn’t do anything that would create any karmic repercussions with the past. Thus, his past self hadn’t taught the nascent spirit observation method. Even Qing Han had learned it only after she arrived back at the modern Lu Yun’s side.

Within the Sanguine Hell, where his projected body had just been, a ghostly face slowly materialized. It seemed to be both laughing and crying, as if a child had clumsily drawn out a face with a brush.

The face of an akasha ghost.