âYour master sent you here for the creation seed and mine sent me for whatâs buried in this tomb,â Brightheart suddenly sighed. âI didnât want to come, but I was somehow at the right place at the wrong time and ended up in here.â
âCould you tell early on that the one behind the tumors is here for that item as well?â Xing Wuliang asked when he got over his shock.
âYes.â Brightheart nodded. âThe plotter is stronger than my master, so my master has given up on this place.â
âHas he really?â Jian Juexian asked suspiciously.
âOnly someone who has opened the doors to sequence can lure you, the master of the immortal end dao of Ingress Sword Island, into a layout. My master cannot afford to provoke someone like that,â Brightheart admitted candidly.
âSo you saw through my identity a long time ago?â Jian Juexianâs eyes narrowed warningly.
âIf that wasnât the case, why would my master have given up?â Brightheart nodded at Xing Wuliang. âHis masterâs also given up.â
Jian Juexianâs expression flickered darkly and he subconsciously glanced at Lu Yun. The two kids in front of them didnât seem to know their companionâs true identity. He was also a Nihil World Sovereign, one that could release his full power in the tomb!
Though the Brightheart World Kingâor her master, ratherâhad seen through Jian Juexianâs true self, they hadnât seen through Lu Yunâs.
Unbidden, the hairs on the back of his neck rose with horror. He couldnât see through Lu Yun either. In Jian Juexianâs eyes, Lu Yun was just a true void cultivator. If it wasnât for the young man displaying the strength of a Nihil World Sovereign and utilizing a pair of hammers to activate sequence, Jian Juexian wouldâve never guessed the truth about him.
âWhy are you looking at me like that?â Lu Yun didnât know what Jian Juexian was thinking, but he could sense a gaze so terrified that it almost physically pierced him.
âWhere did you two meet this Feng Feifan?â Jian Juexian transmitted a hasty question to Xing Wuliang. He now suspected Lu Yun, that he was a transformed yin spirit from the tomb.
âOutside the Tomb of the Hallowed Emperor, what of it?â Xing Wuliang answered out loud, then quickly explained when he realized the motive behind the question, âWhen I met junior brother Feng, he was knowledgeable in supplemental dao, but not skilled in it. He didnât even have methods to cultivate in supplemental dao. He possesses his current soul force only after I passed on the Three Thousand Soul Daos and gave him a Profound Nineroot.â
Now that Xing Wuliang knew Jian Juexianâs identity, he treated the latter with nothing but respect. Jian Juexian breathed out with relief upon hearing how the two met Lu Yun.
âThen heâs not a yin spirit from the tomb.â
âWhat? You suspect junior brother Feng to be a disguised yin spirit??â
âYes! Heâs so uncannyâŠâ
âThatâs impossible!â
âWhatâs going on with you three?â Lu Yun asked oddly when he read the expressions on the other threeâs faces. He couldnât be bothered to eavesdrop on their conversation.
âNothing.â Jian Juexian caressed his new sword. With Immortalâs End in hand, he wasnât afraid of anything. Plus, Feng Feifan was most likely not a yin spirit in the tomb and certainly not the horrifying hand directing everything behind the scenes.
âIf you guys arenât going to go, then Iâll go take a look.â Those three were becoming increasingly weirder to Lu Yun. He retracted the world from Horizonâs Edge, returned the treasure to the form of a cube, and threw it to Xing Wuliang.
The man had broken out of the trap thanks to Jian Juexianâs keen sword edge, but Lu Yun was still caught in it.
âYou be careful.â Jian Juexian nodded, dismissing the notion of further exploring this strange tomb.
Xing Wuliang and Brightheart also had no intention of proceeding further. They werenât the first batch of people here, perhaps there were others ahead of them who were caught in the same trap.
The headless corpses on the ground were still present and remained unmoving. Lu Yun swept his gaze over them and took out a bell.
The bell rang crisply and commanded the bodies to rise and amble forward.
âYouâŠâ Jian Juexianâs eyes widened and he stared incredulously at Lu Yun. Manipulating corpses? What kind of method was that?
âThe dao of herding corpses!â Xing Wuliang identified with shock. âLegend has it that there is a terrible sect called the Corpse Refiners in an unknown part of the Boundless Planes. They can turn corpses into battle zombies and wield a great dao of herding corpses. They can compel zombies to do their biddingâŠ
âAre you a Corpse Refiner, junior brother?â
The Boundless Planes were so vast that no one could fully explore it. Thus, they divided the realm into the known and unknown. When Jian Juexian made a circle with his fingers, thatâd included countless unknown spots. They were unknown, undeveloped, and unexplored. Everything about them was unknown and all was a mysteryâsuch as the Corpse Refiners Xing Wuliang had just mentioned.
âCorpse RefinersâŠâ Lu Yun raised a brow. There were Corpse Refiners in the world of immortals as well! Those were now a legitimate path under the immortal dao and the sect was in charge of Truespirit Major, one of the nine majors of the world of immortals.
The technique he was using came from them, and heâd never imagined that there would also be a Corpse Refiners in the fourth realm! So theyâre based in an unknown spot?
Lu Yun didnât know where the Corpse Refiners of the world of immortals originated from and he didnât know their secrets. Heâd never conquered the entire world to hold in the palm of his hand; he didnât even completely eliminate those whoâd once opposed him.
Heâd only set everything back to its proper path, a normal path, and let the struggles between good and evil, different perspectives, and different motives continue as they would. He was removed and independent from it all.
That was how things were in the world of immortals, chaos, and Hongmeng.
Now that he heard the Corpse Refiners name again, his hackles rose. Heâd thought that this sect didnât have the right to be his enemy any longer.
âYou know, I never once saw them in the thirty-three cycles. Fucking hell, I was too small to see them!â he grumbled and vigorously rang the bell, sending the corpses forward.
âIâm not a Corpse Refiner, I got this technique from a rival. He was probably one of them,â Lu Yun offered after some thought. He wasnât lying, the Corpse Refiners in the world of immortals was indeed his rival.
âDo you know Ye Guangxiong?â Jian Juexian suddenly asked.
âYeâwhat?â Lu Yun blinked.
âYe Guangxiong,â Jian Juexian repeated.
âNever heard of him⊠is he a Nihil World Sovereign too?â Lu Yun transmitted back.
Jian Juexian didnât answer him.
Explosions rang from the front as the moving corpses mysteriously detonated one after another.