Chapter 1191: The Sacred Land of Order (1/2)

“In that case, I’m very much at ease,” Lu Qing grinned wryly. “With the chaos tribulation happening ahead of schedule, the seal beneath the chaos sea has also cracked open. I need to go back and handle that.”

“Are you not going to meet your mother?” Lu Yun asked with a pause.

Lu Qing looked toward Inception Palace, where the little fox was hiding behind Ying Luo and shyly poking her head out for a look. When she saw that her son was looking at her, she quickly shrank back.

“Not today. I’ll meet her whenever she’s ready to see me.” Lu Qing firmly shook his head.

“Alright then.” Lu Yun nodded. “Be careful out there. Come find me if you run into anything you can’t handle. I’ll take care of it for you.”

“I will!” Lu Qing finally broke into a broad grin and left with a neat turn. Always alone and isolated from everyone in the chaos and Hongmeng, the Purple King finally had his own backer now—his own father.

Thump!

Thump!

The lizard-dragon and Zhuo Bufan plopped to the ground, unable to lift a single finger. The Purple King’s aura was too great.

Meanwhile, most of the chaos creatures were a bit lost as to what had just happened. They only knew that there was a powerhouse beyond the chaos who guarded the chaos sea. Legends of the Purple King were wholly unfamiliar to them.

But for those of the Hongmeng, the Purple King was an inviolable being who was an utter legend. Everyone in the third realm knew of him. This kind of intangible, psychological pressure was the most lethal.

Leize, Huaxu, and the others looked blankly at each other. They’d always thought that Lu Yun was one of the Purple King’s, that his accomplishments up till now were a result of the Purple King’s support. How very wrong they were! The scene they’d just witnessed was the exact opposite of everything they’d surmised before.

The one in the chaos sea had knelt and called Lu Yun father!

What the hell was all this??

The Purple King hadn’t planned on obscuring his relationship with Lu Yun, and neither had Lu Yun wanted to do so either. If even father and son didn’t dare proclaim their relationship to the world, then there was no courage to speak of in their hearts.

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The Karmic Tree remained in front of the six palaces, irradiating the chaos with scintillating waves of merit and virtue. The golden light swiftly cleansed the realm of resentment from the deaths of innocents.

This chaos tribulation was finally over and the mortal souls that the palace sovereigns had saved were released back into the realm. They would be the new seeds of life in the chaos and repopulate its vast reaches.

However, palace sovereigns had jointly saved less than a thousandth of their usual numbers this time. It would take untold ages for these seeds of life to return the chaos to its previous vibrancy and prosperity.

Though most of the vengeful spirits that’d suddenly appeared had focused on the six palaces due to attaching to the nine sacred lands, other factions had also been caught up in the fallout.

Nearly half of the regular factions in the chaos were no more after this unforeseen disaster. The remaining ones limped on, mostly intact, if lacking all of their mortal members. Only those above chaos realm still survived in these factions.

The early tribulation had been a true cataclysm for the realm. It hadn’t been an impartial, regular rhythm of life, but an artificially contrived calamity.

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“The heavyweights of the Hongmeng can’t be bothered with using schemes on us anymore. They’ve gone so far as to ignite a chaos tribulation and nearly caused us all to go extinct! We no longer need to show insincere courtesy when dealing with them.”

The six palaces were now truly one entity and the relationship between the six monarchs an open secret.