Chapter 1172: A New Creator (1/2)

“This entire abyss evolved from this fragment of Mount Tai. That makes it the core of this area, and it remained undiscovered by the zombie king and lizard-dragon all along. It probably wouldn’t have materialized if I wasn’t refining the abyss with hellfire.”

Neither the zombie king nor lizard-dragon had fully controlled the abyss. Though it was no longer hell, it still carried the same attributes and the same robust strength. If the lizard-dragon had obtained this fragment, it would’ve easily broken through the seal from the Bridge of Forgetfulness.

What a shame that there were no ifs, ands, or buts in life.

Lu Yun reached out and closed his hand around the small fragment. There was no sense of repulsion from it. On the contrary, it exuded a very intimate and joyous feeling.

“This fragment belongs to Tianqi’s past life, alright,” Lu Yun sighed gently.

Tianqi’s past life had been an unparalleled existence of the fourth realm. Sadly, that great one had died and reincarnated as the new god of Mount Tai. The one now overseeing the Sacred Peak of the Five Hells and in charge of all five hells was Tianqi.

Lu Yun was Tianqi’s master in this life and shared a karmic relationship with the mountain god. Thus, any power left behind by Tianqi’s past life would naturally be close to Lu Yun.

Strength from the Tome of Life and Death enveloped the fragment and easily refined it, turning the abyss into Lu Yun’s world.

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“Though this abyss is a real world, its core essence is a passage.” Lu Yun carefully sent his senses around the abyss after refining it and discovered that its very bottom was connected to another locale—the third realm, the Hongmeng!

“I see, I see!” A fine sheen of sweat beaded his forehead.

Once the world of immortals grew to the point of being able to endure power from the third realm, experts of the Hongmeng would descend upon the world of immortals through this abyss.

At that time, the world would belong to the creatures of the third realm. Once they arrived, there would be none in the world of immortals who would be able to match them!

No one in the chaos had been able to rise beyond and reach the Hongmeng since the age of the mythological realm, to say nothing of the world of immortals.

Thankfully, the lizard-dragon didn’t know what the heavyweights of its realm were planning. If it’d quietly bided its time in our world and gone with the flow, it might’ve succeeded.

For now, Lu Yun left the abyss alone and merely redirected its connection from the end of the East Sea to his hell.

After breaking free of the Hadal Hell, hell was stronger than before. With both hellfire and the Karmic Tree in residence, Lu Yun was certain that before long, not even kings of the third realm would be able to throw their weight around in the netherworld.

“Hmph!” a cold snort echoed in the abyss.

Lu Yun shifting the other end of the abyss out of the world of immortals naturally drew attention from the experts of the third realm. Thus marked the failure of his new plan at its inception. Those of the Hongmeng were no fools. Though they couldn’t personally visit the abyss, nothing that happened to it would escape their notice.

“Someone from Dragonhollow Mountain?” Lu Yun lowered his head and peered at the depths of the abyss.

A dragon’s head had appeared there at some time, one far different than any of the dragon race that Lu Yun had seen thus far. It didn’t resemble one out of the Chinese legends, but looked like a dinosaur’s head.

That didn’t surprise Lu Yun much. The lizard-dragon’s appearance took after a large lizard, which was also a type of dinosaur.