Necropolis Immortal

esigned laugh and followed Wahuang.

“Arbiter bears too much killing intent.
If she’s sent into the blood sea, she may very well become the world’s most dangerous, crazed fiend bent on murder.
Only sites blessed with the most magnanimous energy of the earth can counter her bloodthirsty nature.

“Mount Buzhou is the origin of the great wilderness.
It serves as a pillar for the cosmos above and a doorway to the netherdark.
Nurtured here is the purest of earthly energy, Yinglong was born here as well,” Wahuang explained as she walked.

“Eternal is mild-tempered and personable.
It will be difficult for someone like her to survive in the great wilderness.
Therefore, she must go to the blood sea and inherit its vicious violence and killing intent.
Only then she’ll become a vicious god of slaughter for whom nothing is off limits.”

“Will the connate demon gods really go extinct in the future?” Lu Yun asked.

Wahuang answered with a question of her own.
“Have you encountered any connate demon gods in your time?”

“In my time?” Lu Yun shook his head.
“I am too weak to see the cosmos.”

The world of immortals was a complicated place, much more so than the great wilderness.
Here in the wilderness, any sentient beings, even the lowliest ones, knew about connate demon gods as the greatest power in the world, rivalling figures such as Celestial Emperor Taiyi.
They also knew about the existence of certain creators in their time.

In the world of immortals, on the other hand, such truths were only known to those who had reached a certain height in their cultivation.

Lu Yun had once thought that immortals were the most powerful beings in the world of immortals, with the nine celestial emperors placed at the very top.
As he grew stronger and stronger, however, he learned from what he heard and saw.
Still, it felt like he could never see the sky and never glean the deepest truths of the world.

Had connate demon gods really gone extinct in his time? Had realm monsters really been erased?

Lu Yun suddenly couldn’t be certain of what was and wasn’t in the world of immortals.

Wahuang fell silent as well.
She hadn’t been to the future and hadn’t seen the world of immortals with her own eyes.
Although Fuxi had told her about how things would develop from their time, his version of the story might not be entirely accurate.

……

A ball of terrifyingly powerful life energy resided at the heart of Mount Buzhou, where a mighty divine beast was to be born.

“There are five cardinal directions between heaven and earth—east, west, south, north, and center.” Wahuang stood before the ball of concentrated energy.
“Azure Dragon of the east, White Tiger of the west, Vermilion Bird of the south, and Black Tortoise of the north have all been born, each ruling over a cardinal direction… The god of the center is the only one who remains unborn.”

“Moat Snake!” Lu Yun voiced his realization.

“That’s right, Moat Snake.” Wahuang nodded.
“It should’ve been born as the lord of the central world, but my parents, Leize the connate divine dragon and Huaxu the connate divine snake, sealed it away.

“They did it for her.” She summoned Carmine Arbiter’s egg with a wave of her hand.

“She was to be the first connate god of the netherdark and its ruler, responsible for establishing the cycle of reincarnation,” murmured Wahuang.
“Unfortunately, her fortuitous opportunity was claimed by the Nether River.
Mastery over the rules of the world is her compensation.
She will be born into the body of the Moat Snake, but with her own soul.”

“What about the original Moat Snake?” Lu Yun frowned.
“Won’t this be unfair to them?”

Carmine Arbiter’s chance of life had been claimed by the Nether River, but now, wasn’t she going to do the same to Moat Snake?

“The original Moat Snake?” Wahuang blinked.
“You just killed him.”