Necropolis Immortal

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“We can leave the rest of this in her capable hands.”

Although Qing Yu hadn’t incorporated the flower into her body, she’d refined it completely with the power of the heavenly palace, making the flower essentially a replica of hers.

“Once it devours this growing star core, the flower will turn into a real sun and illuminate the heavenly palace and kingdom of hell!” Qing Yu’s excited voice rang from the flower.
Instead of taking the star core, she wanted to use it as fertilizer for the Emperor Sunflower, thereby evolving the flower into a real sun.

“I’ll leave this to you then, and if it’s possible…” Lu Yun’s lips twisted into a smirk.

“If it’s possible, I’ll also collect the peerless treasure of pure yin and its counterpart on the other side of the tomb!” Qing Yu was so in tune with Lu Yun that she could anticipate his every thought.

“Birds of a feather flock together indeed,” grumbled the demon sovereign.
“They’re a perfect pair of robbers and thieves.”

……

The star core hung high in the sky, its scorching heat and pure yang energy sealed tightly to itself.
Beneath it was a vast ocean with a shoreline beyond any of their sights.
Its black waters were the dreadful connate kui water, which contained boundless yin energy that contaminated the ocean.

The priest of flame shuddered at the sight and almost reflexively summoned the Fire Altar, but Ashu interrupted her.

“The Fire Altar is a treasure of pure yang and fire.
Its appearance will result in backlash from the ocean, and then we’ll have to face the frontal barrage of a connate-grade peerless treasure.”

Shudder crawling down her spine, she quickly put the altar away.
Lu Yun summoned a great fortress ship to the ocean with a wave of his hand.

Bam!

A loud bang sounded from beneath the ship as something large seemed to slam into it.
The ship that was five kilometers long shook violently and didn’t settle down until Lu Yun hastily activated its formations.

A fish with a single horn on its head leapt out of the water, summoning a great wave with its motion before disappearing beneath the waves.
Violent eddies and undulations broke through the peaceful surface of the ocean.

“It’s a kun!” Ashu said in shock, having caught a glimpse of the creature.
“There’s a living kun here!”

Lu Yun paused.
“A kunpeng?”

“No.
A kun! A pureblood kun fish!” Ashu took a deep breath.
“A long long time ago, someone attempted and succeeded in splitting the kunpung bloodline in half.
Thus, kun fish and peng rocs were born.”

Lu Yun was struck speechless with the unexpected answer, and it was the demon sovereign who broke the silence with a dumbfounded question, “Do you mean the pengs we see today are divine beasts derived from half of a kunpeng?”

“That’s right, and kuns and pengs met with very different fates after their forced separation.
Upon their emergence, pengs were recorded into the great dao by heaven and earth as divine beasts, while kuns suffered from a great natural flaw that prevented them from surviving in the world.
They fell into the underworld and ended up as decayed or zombified versions of themselves.” Ashu stared at the retreating kuns and murmured, “And yet here it is, a living, breathing kun.

“Capture it!” he suddenly raised his voice.
“There must be great secrets on the kun that enable it to survive here, ones involving creation itself! If we catch it, we may be able to peek into the mysteries of creation!”