Time to exit the tomb!
The Dao Flower had divided itself into four parts to enter Qing Han, Wu Tulong, Zi Chen, and Mo Qitian. Only after the four of them left the isolated tomb would the flower once again bloom in the outside world.
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âIt wonât be as bad as when we entered the tomb, is it?â Mo Qitian shrank in on himself when he thought back on their journey through the tomb. It was the singular most terrifying exploration heâd ever conducted.
Lu Yun frowned and examined the area through his luopan. The four layers of coiled mountains are whole again! His heart quailed.
The four coiled mountains comprised the Door of Demise. On their journey inside, heâd destroyed the green lanterns, formation of coffins, foggy maze, and the Avici Cell, essentially deactivating the layout. It hadnât disappeared completely, but it shouldnât pose any threat.
Now, however, his compass told him the Door of Demise layout had been activated again, and the four coiled mountains had been repaired! Can the layout recover on its own? Wait, Huangqing and Ge Long are still outside!
Ah⊠no, theyâre dead. Lu Yunâs heart sank. Heâd left the two of them outside to guard the tunnel in case anything happened. However, a mysterious death had visited them while he was protecting Qing Han and the others.
They could be resurrected through the Tome of Life and Death, but the fact that they hadnât even managed to sound a warning meant that theyâd been killed in the blink of an eye. How was that possible, when Huangqing was a blood phoenix who could rival Aoxue in power?
The governorâs dark scowl alerted his four companions to the severity of their situation.
âThereâs no path for the living past the Door of DemiseâŠ. It looks like I underestimated the danger of the layout. Something must have happened outside as well.â Lu Yun looked up. âWe canât go back the way we came in, we have to keep pushing forward!â
âWhat?!â Wu Tulong started. âPush forward? You mean the third chamber isnât the end of the tomb?â
âThatâs right.â Lu Yun nodded. âThis tomb is an island in the Ten Yins Estuary. We have to cross the ocean of blood to get out of here!â
âThe ocean of blood....â Qing Han couldnât suppress a shudder when his mind strayed to the waters behind the bronze door.
Suddenly, Lu Yun started; Aoxue had just returned to hell. Sheâd blocked the Qing entrance for an entire month, not moving an inch even on the day of Zhao Shenguangâs coronation. Thatâd pushed the Qing Clan to the edge, but they hadnât made a move.
The Lu ancestor, arcane dao immortal Qing Ruyan of the Panorama Pavilion, and the mysterious Wayfarer all supported her actions as a blatant form of payback for them being prevented from rescuing Lu Yun. Moreover, another powerful faction had shown its face to take Aoxueâs side.
The Skandha Range. Aoxue was the mistress of the Skandha Range!
Immortals following an unorthodox dao and otherkind cultivators joined in the fray, targeting not only the Qing Clan, but also the Feng Clan, the Exalted Immortal Sect, and even House Donglin in a show of savage violence.
A month-long blockade was a round of hearty face slaps and thorough humiliation to the Qing Clan. They were at their wits end in their search for a solution. In sheer fury, the clan listed Lu Yun as its foremost public enemy and issued a handsome bounty for his head. They then branded Qing Han as a clan traitor and exiled him.
The Feng Clan had even put aside their differences with the Qing Clan to form an alliance with them. Along with the Exalted Immortal Sect, the three factions sent their experts after Aoxue and defied the Skandha Range.
With his four hundred and eighty million lightning strikes, Lu Yun had killed, or severely injured, eighteen dao immortals and disintegrated fifteen hundred more golden and peerless immortals. Thatâd taken a heavy toll on the three factions.
However, they couldnât go after him, since heâd been missing for a year. Thus, they shifted their target to Aoxue and those dear to the Dusk governor in an attempt to force him to show his face.
Lu Yun frowned upon hearing his envoyâs report.
A year. Time had unwittingly flown by beneath the Dao Flowerâs power. Itâd taken Qing Han and the others a year to deduce the void realm and repair the path of cultivation. What Aoxue relayed next stunned Lu Yun even more.
Half a year ago, an ocean of blood spanning ten thousand leagues had crept into the southeast corner of Life Province, and nothing could survive there. The monsters emerging from the ocean devoured any living souls who dared approach.
Six dao immortals of the Nephrite court had ventured into the ocean, never to return. The spirit jade slips they left behind shattered as well, signifying their deaths. All six of them had died in the ocean.
âThe estuaryâs balance of yin and yang have been disrupted, returning the ocean of blood to the real world. No wonder the Door of Demise reactivated, and Huangqing and Ge Long were killed without warning!â Understanding dawned on Lu Yun.
The ocean of blood behind the bronze door was a feng shui layout fostered by the Ten Yins Estuary. Now that the layout had become the real deal, the other layouts set up by the estuary had come to life as well.
Lu Yun had thought the bronze door was just a byproduct of the layout, but no... it was the Door of Demise itself, built in the image of the Gates of Abyss! Hell had been destroyed, and someone wanted to recreate it. This thus was a corner of the new hell.
âThe ocean of blood is behind the bronze door. If we cross it, weâll be able to leave this place!â A sneer flashed over Lu Yunâs face. Recreate hell? As the overlord of the real hell, a counterfeit was absolutely nothing to him.
"To draw the patterns of mountains coiled,
âThose deathly cliffs with mysteries roiled.
âDanger shies if mountains hide,
âLayers of locks do heaven and earth ride."
Rumble.
The luopan burst into golden light as it rotated, showing how the room had changed again. A hidden path emerged beneath their feet, marking a winding way toward a bronze door.
Endless corpses crawled over the path that was interspersed with giant coffins and a disorienting maze. Green lanterns floated in the air, sickly pale ghost faces howling and snarling within.
The coiled mountains that Lu Yun had destroyed had reemerged as one, creating this path. What heâd feared the most had come to pass. The full power of the Door of Demise had been unleashed with the synergy of all four layers of coiled mountains.
However, he perked up when he noticed the Dao Flowers blooming and shielding his four companions. The monsters on the winding path scattered and fled when they sensed the power of the flowers.
âThe great dao protects us from all evils!â Mo Qitian laughed proudly. âWeâll protect you this time, senior brother Lu!â He stepped onto the path, then immediately scrambled back, shrieking in fear, âMommy, thereâs a ghost over there!â
âMan, thatâs embarrassing.â Zi Chen looked away.
Wu Tulong and Qing Han exchanged a glance, pretending they didnât know Mo Qitian.
âI mean it!â Mo Qitian said with a trembling voice. âItâs the ripped-mouth ghost that senior brother Lu dealt with before. Sheâs at the end of the path again!â
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