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Chapter 1744: Staging a Comeback
A ghost at fifteen levels of sequence could be considered a ghost king. Lu Yun didn’t know how creatures of darkness accessed sequence or what kind of sequence precisely that they utilized, but there were indeed the ripples of sequence shifting throughout their body.
Ghosts and yin spirits counted as dead beings in the worlds of light, but they were part of the living in the darkness. To Lu Yun’s eyes, they were also pieced together by soul fragments.
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“We’re no match for it, run!” Lu Yun finally saw the vicious ghost when he deployed the Spectral Eye. He flung open the Gates of the Abyss without further thought and yanked the other two inside.
He was only sixth level sequence; a ghost king at fifteenth level could smack him to death with a single slap. Even the Demonic Vine at thirteen levels couldn’t put up any resistance. As for Jian Bu’er, Lu Yun automatically overlooked his battle strength.
“That’s strange, didn’t you choose a spot that doesn’t have anything above ten levels?” Heart palpitating with fear, Jian Bu’er frowned at Lu Yun who was next to him. “Huh? Where are we?”
There was light here. Though it was very faint, it was very real. Jian Bu’er looked around and saw that they were in a gray world. The dirt beneath their feet was ash gray and completely lifeless.
“You’re asking me?” Lu Yun sneered. “I told you when we entered the darkness two hundred years ago that you need to tell me as soon as you show signs of breaking through. I needed time to get ready!
“You motherfucker ascended in the darkness because you wanted those ghosts and monsters to see us, didn’t you?”
“It’s not his fault!” The Demonic Vine immediately stood by Jian Bu’er’s side and jabbed a finger at Lu Yun’s nose. “An opportunity to break through comes when it will. There are no signs ahead of time!”
Jian Bu’er scratched his head and said with embarrassment, “Well… I was spontaneously inspired by you two. I would’ve felt something beforehand otherwise…” He reddened and didn’t want to say anything else.
“We’re in the Abyssal Hell,” Lu Yun breathed deeply. “I didn’t want to bring you guys here, but sudden activity from the fifteenth level sequence ghost king will raise the attention of the outside cultivators lurking in the darkness. We can’t stay there anymore, so we can only come here.”
“I thought you’d take me back to the World of Swords,” Jian Bu’er said sadly.
“There’s no point,” Lu Yun shook his head. “All of the secondary worlds have probably been conquered by outsiders. The World of Swords is likely no exception.”
“I see.” Jian Bu’er nodded, but the despondency in his mood couldn’t be concealed.
While Lu Yun understood his feelings, there truly wasn’t anything he could do at the moment. “I thought that I could locate a world of light to resurrect my master, but it turns out we’ll have to do it here in the end.”
He looked around to confirm that the layout of burial in the Abyssal Tomb was still intact. All of the zombie farms remained destroyed, including the tomb for the living. Only the original great tomb remained.
It and three others had been used to nurture the world of sequence, but since Lu Yun had claimed its core essence, the remaining empty shell of the world collapsed. This particular Abyssal Hell remained as the great tomb it’d been modified into and was the source of energy for Lu Yun’s hell battleship and hell cannons.
“Be careful, there’s something else here!” Strongest out of the three of them, the Demonic Vine suddenly pointed in a certain direction. “Something’s moving over there!”
Lu Yun’s expression shifted when his line of sight followed her finger. “That’s where the core of the Abyssal Hell is… the tomb owner is there. Let’s go take a look!”
The owner of the tomb had once done Lu Yun a great favor and strengthened his body and immortal force so that he could absorb more power from hell. The young man now traveled through the Abyssal Tomb under his own power and possessed six levels of immortal dao sequence. He was well and truly a powerhouse in his own right.
The trio quickly arrived in the heart of the hell and hid themselves; Lu Yun burned with fury when he saw what was going on. Though he’d guessed what was taking place, it was another thing entirely to see it with his own eyes.
Zombie upon zombie was shifting the stones and earthen veins in the area to build a tomb for the living!
He hadn’t thought that his mirror layout wouldn’t fool the Corpse Refiners. It’d taken them only two thousand years to find this place.
He’d been exceptionally confident in his arrangements and only realized how short-sighted he was after he saw Xie Tianxun’s Netherdark Talisman. The prosperity of the great daos in the outside realm was so magnificent that it couldn’t be imagined from his perspective. He would never hoodwink outside cultivators with something from the Land of Reincarnation!
No wonder Qing Buyi and Chen Xiao had only moved the owner’s coffin here and dumped a pile of dirt over it. They’d known that setting up anything else was useless.
“Corpse Refiner battle zombies!” Jian Bu’er recognized them as soon as he saw them. The Corpse Refiners were the head of the three unholies in the secondary worlds and he’d exchanged blows with them countless times.
“What are they doing?” He hid himself with even more care and transmitted his question to Lu Yun.
“Building a tomb for the living.” Lu Yun’s eyes were fixed on a particular figure in the crowd. It was a very familiar person that he wasn’t acquainted with.
Princess Mu of the World of Sea.
She’d been refined into a battle zombie and was shifting the earthen vein with other zombies. If she was here, that meant the Sea Emperor and Haidong Lin weren’t too far away.
“Hmph!” Lu Yun snorted. “Thankfully, I left a backdoor last time I set everything up. Since you’re trying to stage a comeback and rebuild a tomb for the living, you can’t blame me for not showing any mercy!”
His eyes were still trained on Princess Mu—he wanted to learn of Haidong Lin’s whereabouts from her.
“Let’s go.” Lu Yun concealed his aura and left quietly. Since there were battle zombies here, that meant Corpse Refiners had pierced through the void to come to this locale. Anyone who could rip through the barrier between the yin and yang tombs would be a formidable opponent.
He’d also seen that the sect was setting up a tight encirclement for him. He would be doomed if he didn’t exercise utmost caution with every step he took.
“We must destroy whatever it is that the Corpse Refiners are doing, always!” Jian Bu’er ground his teeth. “The head of the three unholies… do they come from the outside realm too?”
“They’re equally unholy out there,” Lu Yun nodded.
etvolare's Thoughts
I'd really like to see how Lu Yun will revert someone back from zombification.