“You want to kill me with just that?” Though the Sea Lord’s expression was grave, contempt marked his tones.
“Of course not, just the tree isn’t enough,” Lu Yun nodded. “But I do have what is needed to kill you.”
He manifested a meter-long piece of withered wood with a flip of his hand. It looked very ordinary and nondescript, its surface covered in so many cracks that it looked like it would shatter at any second.
The Sea Lord screamed when he saw the wood.
“What!! What is that doing in your hand?! No wonder a bunch of ants like you dared scheme against me!!” He went berserk the second he saw it and dispersed as massive waves, trying to flee in every possible direction. The mighty Sea Lord didn’t even have courage to do battle when he saw the withered wood; running away as fast as possible was the only thought on his mind.
“Heavens above, what’re you doing with that thing??” Jian Bu’er and Dongfang Mo yelped as well, but they didn’t react as exaggeratedly as the Sea Lord. Only the color drained from their faces.
“A corpse… the corpse of the tree spirit… a corpse that bears the endless resentment of the World Tree is in your hands.” Dongfang Mo was as white as a sheet. He finally understood why Lu Yun had suggested this plan and had been so highly confident that they’d be able to defeat the Sea Lord. The tree spirit hailed from the original Hongmeng and was the divine tree that’d supported the entire third realm. When its carcass inexplicably appeared out of the blue one day, the original emperor had understood what was to come in the future.
Despite being exiled into time, the wood frequently reappeared at various periods. Even the Sea Lord and powerhouses from various locales of the unknown expanses knew of it—a sign of how terrifying it was.
“No, no, it’s changed from the Thunderstruck Wood to a piece of regular withered wood. The terrifying resentment imbuing it has vanished.” Jian Bu’er quickly discovered something odd about the item in front of them. The Sea Lord also paused and rematerialized, his face flickering darkly through various expressions.
The new Immortal Myriadtree had formed a boundary with the power of the Six Royals, sealing off the area completely. Immortal dao reigned supreme within and all other great daos were silent—this was a world of pure immortal dao.
As infinite as the Sea Lord was, he was also segregated from Myriadsea World by the six rays of immortal light. Weakened by at least ninety percent in this world of pure immortal dao, he couldn’t break through its constraints.
“You’re right, I should kill you… Thankfully, it’s not too late to snuff out a mere World Manifest like you!” The Sea Lord called upon the dao of the sea in his body and charged Lu Yun with a punch. “I’ll exile this corpse back into time after I kill you. Only time will subdue this demonic thing!”
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Radiance of six different colors rose from Lu Yun’s side when the fist drew near him; six flames appeared at the same time and circled around the young man. The Sea Lord’s fist left as quickly as it came and the endless waves he’d manifested around him were vaporized the second they formed.
The Sea Lord reeled back with shock; six hellfires burned quietly on the withered wood in Lu Yun’s hands.
As it were, Jian Bu’er, Dongfang Mo, and the Demonic Vine were all bait—the true hunter was Lu Yun. The Tome of Life and Death had refined the boundless resentment on the wood, leaving it the perfect host for hellfire.
Hellfire’s strongest capabilities were now available to him when he called upon the six hellfires through the withered wood. Slowly, the world of immortal dao turned into one of hellfire. The Sea Lord grit his teeth and furiously released his dao of the sea, trying to evade the omnipresent flames.
Hellfire’s innate ability was to counter dead entities, but when it was released to its fullest capacity, the strength that it exploded with was sufficient to destroy everything.
Everywhere it passed through was hell.
……
“Hot damn, hellfire eh? So this is the legendary hellfire,” Jian Bu’er muttered. “He’s turned that terrifying demonic wood into the root for hellfire. It’s said that hellfire is rootless, but not anymore, it seems.”
“If he can take care of the Sea Lord himself, what does he want us for?” The Demonic Vine was baffled and confused. She’d been ready to put on a great show in front of Jian Bu’er, but the weakest among them had been enough to resolve the problem?
“We’re bait, of course,” Dongfang Mo answered haltingly. “If we weren’t here and had undertaken all this ourselves, would the Sea Lord attack us with his core essence?
“But the kid’s subdued the five hells and created a sixth one himself… he’s manifested the theoretical hell of order! If he’d cultivated hell dao and accessed the sequence of hell to turn Myriadsea World into a world of hell dao sequence, then…”
“Wherever he stepped would be hell,” Jian Bu’er finished for him.
“But instead, immortal dao has become one with hell dao. No, wait, he’s melded his hell dao into immortal dao and made it one of the daos beneath immortal dao!” Dongfang Mo realized with shock. “No wonder his new immortal dao is so frightening and my strength would grow more than tenfold after I changed the foundations of immortal dao and set foot on the path of the new one….
“This dao of hell can absolutely dominate immortal dao and conquer the Endless Planes…”
Dongfang Mo and Jian Bu’er fell silent while the vine looked on curiously.
……
Hell dao!
Lu Yun’s core strength came from hell dao. After the Tome of Life and Death conquered and obtained the Hadal Hell, hell dao took root in Lu Yun’s body. Whether it was the death arts or hellfire, all were a part of hell dao.
Now that the six hells were complete and fully formed, Lu Yun’s dao reached a realm of great perfection. This was his dao, one that he’d formed step by painstaking step. Six hellfires circulated around him—combined into one black flame that split into six pillars of flame to surround the Sea Lord.
Although hell’s existence was a known factor, as were hellfire and the Tome of Life and Death to some, there had never been hell dao.
“Other than the death arts from the Tome of Life and Death, I’ve never derived any combat arts that belong solely to hell dao. You’re the perfect target to practice the combat arts of hell on!”
