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A smile crept across Jiang Chen’s face. “That year, the Dao King said that Fuxi was taking the Dragonquake Scripture with him to locate the most suitable heir to break this tomb. That’s why the idea occurred to me.”
So it was Fuxi.
The Dao King, Jiang Chen, and Fuxi were existences of the same level. Jiang Chen was hiding nothing from Lu Yun. If it wasn’t for this potential outcome, he wouldn’t have voluntarily stood guard in the tomb of the void that never saw the light of day.
“Don’t they say that misfortune will strike those not of the Three Thousand if they cultivate the Dragonquake Scripture?” Lu Yun asked with a frown. “Do you trust Fuxi that much?”
“I wouldn’t trust anyone else, but I had to trust Fuxi’s word. He kept his promise and achieved two major accomplishments with the tree god in order to dispel the misfortune associated with the Dragonquake Scripture.
“The first was to nurture a world of sequence that buried Fuxi’s entire family. He used their lives to endure what the Dragonquake Scripture entailed.
“The second was done by the tree god. His replica utilized the Dragonquake Scripture countless times in the endless loops of the Land of Reincarnation and coordinated with the Infinite Deorc’s invasion to destroy the Hongmeng. He collected the resulting resentment to exorcise the misfortune associated with the method.”
Lu Yun couldn’t help a shudder. Employing the Dragonquake Scripture to kill all inhabitants of the original Hongmeng countless times
 All just to eliminate the misfortune infesting the method!
But even so, the ominous terrors brought by the Dragonquake Scripture were sufficient to destroy the chaos dragons that once possessed it. It could be said that after countless iterations of its misfortune, the Dragonquake Scripture was split into three before it came into Lu Yun’s hands, whereupon it was made whole again.
Lu Yun walked on the shoulders of the endless dead.
At the same time, his questions were meant to sound out Jiang Chen. He already knew everything the other spoke of. Although Jiang Chen had held down the fort in the tomb, his replica constantly roamed the chief worlds to collaborate with Fuxi and Yun Yi.
What Lu Yun couldn’t make sense of was whether Yun Yi and Fuxi were on the same path. But he was certain that he could trust Jiang Chen. Although he couldn’t sense Jiang Chen’s emotions, the latter wasn’t concealing any of his thoughts. He wanted to refine all of the ghostly entities in this tomb and incorporate them into his body to enhance his strength.
That was Jiang Chen’s pure, unadulterated motive. He has his desires, ambitions, and goals, which was why Lu Yun trusted that he would help him. Otherwise, he wouldn’t dare travel with the zombie.
It was empty inside Ancestor’s tomb, as if a boundless emptiness. But when Jiang Chen walked through the void, he left a trail of footprints—a path of existence within the nothing.
Lu Yun followed in his footsteps.
“I can only show you the way, I cannot take action for you. It is all up to you.” Jiang Chen headed further into the depths of the tomb without looking back.
“I will be fine without your help—the evil here cannot see me.” Lu Yun broke out into a broad grin. He withdrew the power of the Dragonquake Scripture and operated the Tome of Life and Death at full force. The power of reincarnation manifested over his body, whereupon he compelled it to transform his body into nothing.
The death art of Shapeshifting could turn him into nihil!
The power of nothing on him came from the nihil powerhouse that Yun Yi had summoned. Since Lu Yun possessed nihil and had seen it before, he could turn into it when he operated the Tome of Life and Death at full strength.
It wasn’t just turning his form into nothing, but his presence, his strength, his great dao
 everything that was him became a power similar to nihil. After the Tome of Life and Death transformed into a bamboo scroll, he could shift his form, his aura, and his great dao.
When Jiang Chen next looked back, he discovered with great shock that his consciousness detected no sign of Lu Yun. Yet the young man was right behind him, following his every footstep.
“It’s Unrest,” Jiang Chen suddenly voiced a name. “Little lass Yun Yi reached a deal with Unrest. She sacrificed herself to him so she could borrow his strength to repair the primordial world of immortals and deliver a grave wound to the overseer.”
Lu Yun finally knew the name of the nihil powerhouse—Unrest. But he didn’t say anything as he’d discovered a shadow staring at Jiang Chen. It hadn’t discovered him yet.
If he exposed himself, he’d likely already be under attack. The shadow was at least an empyrean supreme. Lu Yun wouldn’t have any room to fight back as he wasn’t outside Ancestor’s tomb anymore. Instead of the entire Three Thousand’s earthen veins to call upon, there was
 nothing here but the void. He couldn’t use the Dragonshift Method to bring the dragons here.
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The shadow didn’t care about Jiang Chen—it’d noted the footprints behind the zombie. While it couldn’t detect Lu Yun, it keenly perceived that Jiang Chen wouldn’t leave the footprints behind for no reason. They were the key to resolving the tomb.
Jiang Chen couldn’t be bothered with the shadow. In his eyes, it was only a matter of time before they became a part of him.
“We’re here.” Jiang Chen suddenly stopped. This was the end of the tomb of the void. The nothingness receded, replaced by a towering tree. It was black and countless shadows like bats rested on it.
The shadow that’d been trailing Jiang Chen and Lu Yun also turned into a bat and hung upside down from the sinister tree.
The tree could be more accurately called a ghost tree.
“Does it look familiar?” Jiang Chen heaved a long sigh when he looked at the ghost tree rooted in the void, turning the nothingness into existence by itself.
“Is this
 the tree god?” Lu Yun trembled.
“Yes, it is Tree,” Jiang Chen nodded. “The first spirit root born in the Three Thousand was called Tree.”
However, the tree in front of them was a withered version of itself. Completely lifeless, it’d become home to countless ghostly entities. Plainly, Tree was the same as Jiang Chen. Both of them had been here all along. All of the tree gods that’d appeared in the chief worlds and the tomb of the empyrean supreme were his replica. His replica was also transformed out of an incredible spirit root.
The tree god was likely dead now after suffering the bad luck of the Dragonquake Scripture.
“No, he’s still alive!” Lu Yun’s eyes brightened and he threw caution to the wind, operating formula dao to determine where the tree god was through his primary body.
“He is indeed!” A smile curved his lips. The tree god was alive and had become someone he was very familiar with.
Jin Huo suddenly came to mind. If the tree god was a nihil powerhouse, then Jin Huo’s background should be equally impressive. She was just blinded at the moment and had lost sight of who she was.
“But I need to visit the World Heart if I want him to become the true tree god again.” It all circled back to the World Heart.
“Ancestor’s coffin lies in the boughs of that tree.” Jiang Chen didn’t prevent the young man from deriving the tree god’s whereabouts. If even Jiang Chen was still alive, how would the tree god be dead? But the backlash from the Dragonquake Scripture had been so enormous that the tree god lost his sense of self and wandered aimlessly through existence.
Only after visiting the World Heart could Lu Yun return the tree god to who he was. Or at the very least, he could choose if he wanted to return to being the tree god or remain who he was now, the one who possessed the strength of the tree god—Ashu, Ling Weiyang.
Lu Yun lifted his head to see Ancestor’s coffin.
“An empyrean crystal
 coffin?” He blinked. He could clearly sense a coffin on the boughs of the ghost tree, one in which lay a person. He’d seen the coffin before. Or rather, that type of coffin. Diexi’s primary body had been held in one, and so was Ancestor?!
When Lu Yun took a clear look at who was inside, his eyes twitched uncontrollably.
“He’s
 Ancestor?!” he gasped. “But he’s still alive! Isn’t he dead??”
“He’s Ancestor, so do you think he’s dead or alive?” Jiang Chen asked quietly. “Forebear is alive as well, and by your side. But isn’t her body resting in a similar empyrean crystal coffin?”
Although Lu Yun had already guessed the answer, his heart still pounded painfully.
Diexi was Forebear.