Necropolis Immortal

and malice!

“Our true spirits transformed into akasha ghosts instead of fading away and we occupied the immortal dao due to the remnants of our great dao.
Now you expel us from the immortal dao and want to erase us entirely! You want to build your glorious achievements off the backs of our pain and suffering!” The akasha ghost’s voice drifted in and out of the crowd’s ears.
“You abandoned us for this supposed immortal dao of all, but are we not also part of this all?!”

The despairing accusations were anguished shrieks from the bottom of tortured hearts, filing the hearts of everyone present with stifling misery.

“We just don’t want to die! We burn with hatred for how things have turned out! Do we deserve to die simply because we are great emperors and masters of a great dao beneath the heavens?!”

“The Flame Emperor isn’t here.” In human form, the little fox walked out of a dao palace with the Bell of Chaos over her head and the Scroll of Shepherding Immortals in her hand.
She calmly addressed the broken Witherdew palace.
“The Flame Emperor has gone off to seek out a chance at life for all of you.
It’s up to you now, whether you choose to fully disappear or continue to live on.”

“A chance at life?!” A shrill denouncement cried out from the palace.
“We’re already dead! How do we live on?! Do you really think that hell of human dao will resurrect us?! Impossible!! We’re orphans of the world and heavens! You’ve abandoned us and the world has abandoned us!”

An enormous akasha ghost rushed out from the dilapidated structure and grasped at the little fox with razor-sharp claws and piercingly keen power.

The little fox read a hint of familiarity from its eyes.

Humm—

The bell over her head shook violently and the scroll lashed outward, blasting the ghost back.

“Dijiang, who would’ve thought you’d turn into an akasha ghost from your trivial speck of resentment?” the little fox said coldly in midair.
“Do you think I’d make the same mistake twice?”

She recognized the origins of this particular ghost.
He was no great emperor, but the lingering resentment of a connate demon god—Dijiang!

Dijiang had once ambushed the little fox in the cosmos of the great wilderness and beaten her almost to death, seizing the Bell of Chaos from her.
After meeting with defeat once, she wouldn’t leave herself open again.

Dijiang’s actual target had been a fortress ship just now, not the little fox.
The constellation class ships could kill ordinary akasha ghosts, but couldn’t do anything to the big akasha ghosts.
However, the little fox had remained unmoved.
She’d known that she was the true target.
Indeed, the second it neared the ship, it suddenly turned around and shot at the little fox.

Acting decisively, she brought down the big akasha ghost with the bell and scroll and found it to be Dijiang!

After Lu Yun fatally wounded him with Rearbow in the skies of the world of celestials and Asura devoured his true spirit, that should’ve spelled the end of him.

But Dijiang refused to go out like that.
After obtaining the Bell of Chaos, he should’ve been the great demon god of the great wilderness, superior to even Leize! Unfortunately for him, he bumped into the Flame Emperor and was then eaten after his utter rout.

His enormous resentment lingered in the cosmos until the big akasha ghost appeared during the battle of Emperors Fall.
It collected all of the great emperors’ resentment and bundled them into the immortal dao when it was born, helping them become the akasha ghosts beneath the immortal dao.

Dijiang’s resentment was part of the harvest collected.
Though his great dao wasn’t part of the immortal dao, he, too, was delivered into the new dao.

Now that he saw the little fox, his old tricks were dusted off as he sought to grievously injure the little fox.
However, circumstances were different now.
She’d been protecting Lu Yun back then, but the ones on the ships today were academy disciples and… Lu Yun’s Infernum.

Even if they died, Lu Yun only needed to expend a few karmic fruits to resurrect them from the Tome of Life and Death.

Waving a hand, she clapped the scroll down over Dijiang.

“What does your life or death have to do with us?” the little fox snorted at Dijiang.
“Though these akasha ghosts were unwilling, their great dao still became part of the immortal dao and thus they have achieved a great deed for the heavens.
Lu Yun is willing to sacrifice himself and seek out a chance for them on account of this virtuous merit.

“But you? A connate demon god who happens to be a right bastard, one who made himself an enemy of life and colluded with the realm monsters.
Asura ate your great dao, so it’s vanished from the world.
You’re nothing but a cancerous tumor to the immortal dao.
What I should do is thoroughly wipe you out from existence!”

Dijiang’s expression remained both laughing and crying, but there was a clear sense of great terror permeating his thoughts.

The little fox lifted her head and looked at the first akasha ghost that’d spoken.
“Do you choose to fade away here or do you wish to continue living? Though you have done a great deed for the heavens and immortal dao, you have done nothing but endanger life and threaten this realm since the establishment of immortal dao.
Your wrongs have long cancelled out your merit and we are only enemies now.
There is nothing more just and proper than your death!” She delivered the last in ringing tones of righteousness.

She was stunningly beautiful and once the foremost beauty of the great wilderness.
Her current bearing elevated her to a most noble empress on high.

None of the akasha ghosts in Witherdew court dared say a word.
Their loyalties lay with the chaos creatures, who also determined their life or death.
Therefore, they didn’t dare express any opinions.

“What about me?” the origin divine suddenly spoke.
“I… am also just a cancerous tumor to your realm.”

The little fox immediately understood the situation at hand.
He was the one who ruled over all of the akasha ghosts here.

“If you can lead these once great emperors back to the world, you will also achieve a great deed of boundless virtue.
The Flame Emperor left a ray of hope for those connate demon gods before.
He’s not the type to be utterly ruthless,” she responded calmly.