“Eh, forget it, I’ll stop teasing you. If I curse you to death, Lu Yun will use that as an excuse to smack me to death.” As part of his earlier calculations, the Curse King had also derived how likely it was for him to kill Lu Yun.
The probability had been zero.
Lu Yun stood an eighty percent chance of killing him with one palm strike. The twenty percent left to the Curse King hadn’t been the chance of counterattack, but the chance of him slinking away.
“Done!” Lu Yun stilled his movements with a smile.
“What did you set up?” the Curse King quickly asked.
“A hell cannon!” Lu Yun roared with laughter. “The things that your old rival Dao King created in the world of immortals.”
The weapons of war in the world of immortals. They were the perfect amalgamation between formation and equipment dao, and their creator was the Dao King.
After the great war of immortals, immortal dao declined and those of the world of immortals didn’t have any way of protecting themselves. The Dao King stepped forward to create many things that the world lacked, and the weapons of war had been one of his numerous innovations.
Lu Yun’s crystal cannons were modified from those weapons, and he further adapted them into purple crystal cannons after arriving in the Hongmeng. They consumed purple crystals of the third realm in their new form, so when he was present in the Abyssal Hell, he naturally adjusted them to become hell cannons.
Hell cannons drew upon the energy of the Abyssal Hell to condense into a blast that could be used against the tomb of the living!
“Stand back, I’m going to fire it. That will definitely attract attention from the Corpse Refiners. If they come, curse them all to death. Leave no one alive!” Lu Yun turned halfway back to the Curse King.
“…hold on, I need a little more time. My arrangements aren’t that comprehensive yet!” the Curse King hastily said when he heard Lu Yun. This was no time to talk tough.
Haidong Lin was already brandishing his bident. “Relax, you guys also have me!”
The Curse King ignored him and deployed another layer of his grand curse, ensuring that it operated at maximum power. Lu Yun also took the opportunity to recalibrate his hell cannons once more.
The crystal and purple crystal cannons were the integration of formation and equipment dao, but in this locale, Lu Yun didn’t have time to spare for refining weapons. One was exposed in the process as well, so he opted to set up a layout of hell cannons instead.
It was a complete formation layout that perfectly unified formations and feng shui. The power of the Abyssal Hell utilized Lu Yun’s body as a conduit and surged into the hell cannon.
“If I can create a furnace of hell, then I’ll be able to fire the hell cannon even when it’s not physically located in hell.” Sudden inspiration struck the young man; the Curse King signaled that he was ready before Lu Yun could follow that line of thought further.
“You can begin.” The Curse King’s voice was strained—a sign that he was striving mightily to contain his grand curse and not have it erupt ahead of time.
“Alright,” Lu Yun nodded. He displayed the complete hell cannon layout with a wave of his hand, turning it from a layout into a bonafide weapon.
Boom—
The cannon fired without any warning, spewing forth gray abyssal hellfire that had been condensed to an extreme. It bombarded the tomb of the living beneath them, shaking all of the Abyssal Hell and yang tomb on the other side.
Lu Yun’s eyes shot wide open in the next second.
There seemed to be an invisible layer of protection around the tomb of the living—it blocked the hellfire from the cannon! Meanwhile, zombies hidden in the ground around the tomb were obliterated by the terrible aftershock. But with the tomb of the living untouched, it was only a matter of time before a steady stream of zombie farms appeared again. They would endlessly absorb the bodies buried around them and turn them into zombies. Even the dead in the yang tomb would eventually find their way to the yin tomb and become zombies.
A helpless Lu Yun stood in the void, this was the last thing he expected!
“How is this possible? How can there be something in the Abyssal Hell that its hellfire can’t consume?” he murmured.
While he remained lost in thought, Haidong Lin and the Curse King were fully alert. The Corpse Refiners detected something amiss as soon as the hell cannon fired and rushed from the yang tomb. Three silver battle zombies descended from the air and dove at the trio.
“You came, Jiangchen Ge!” the Curse King roared with laughter. He formed a hand seal and activated the curses he’d laid in the surroundings. The formidable curses took the form of fire and blazed in the void.
“Chu Xingran, Curse King!” laughed one of the silver zombies. “Do you think we don’t know the happenings of the fourth realm just because we focus our efforts on the world of immortals in the Land of Reincarnation? We know every bit of your background!”
Hummm.
Jiangchen Ge’s battle zombie opened its arms and released silver curtains of light that formed silver bat wings. When they unfurled, they dispersed the fire from the Curse King’s grand curse. The other two zombies followed suit and banished the horrific curse from the vicinity in less than three breaths.
His failure backlashed onto him and the Curse King spat out a mouthful of blood before flying backward.
“Chu Xingran, you fled to the Land of Reincarnation to run away from your betrothal to the miss of the Dafeng Clan. You broke the miss’ heart, so I will take you alive today and bring you back to the Dafengs!” Jiangchen Ge declared self-righteously. His battle zombie took one step forward and loomed over the Curse King.
A cold sneer played on the latter’s lips and he backhanded the zombie across the face, sending it flying.
“You fell for it, Jiangchen Ge.” The Curse King stabilized his body and wiped away the blood at the corners of his mouth, his lips forming an eerie smile.
Fear suddenly appeared on the faces of Jiangchen Ge’s battle zombie and his two companions.
“What, what is going on? I…” Jiangchen Ge stared incredulously at his hands. Somehow, the battle zombie had become his primary body, and his primary body in the yang tomb had turned into a puddle of bloody water!
“Did you really think that three silver zombies is all that it takes to foil my curse?” the Curse King cackled through grit teeth.
That might’ve been the case prior to Lu Yun teaching him formula dao. The three battle zombies would’ve exorcised his curse, killed Lu Yun and Haidong Lin, and taken the Curse King back to complete his wedding to the Dafeng miss.
But now that the Curse King knew formula dao and had identified the flaws in his grand curse, he’d increased its might by more than ten times in its last second of activation. Its terrifying capabilities destroyed the primary bodies of the three inhabiting the zombies and turned their battle zombies into their bodies!
“Don’t waste time chattering, kill them!” shouted Haidong Lin when he saw that the Curse King wanted to continue gloating.
The latter started and activated the grand curse with another backhand, reducing the three battle zombies to ash.
“Our matter is complete, what about you?” The Curse King turned around and sniffed at Lu Yun staring off into space in the air.
“Those three silver zombies were just a distraction, more people are coming.” Lu Yun gently swung his head around. “Haidong Lin, I’m going to craft four hell cannons in the void and give their command over to you. Don’t let anyone near the tomb of the living.”
He drifted to the ground, not causing a ruckus since all of the zombies on the ground had died to the first cannon blast.
“And what will you be doing?” the Curse King frowned.
“This tomb of the living is unusual. We can’t destroy it from the outside, so I’m going to take a look inside.” He hopped into the tomb without further ado. He met no resistance or defenses, as if hell cannons would have no issue with it, despite reality to the contrary.
“Now what do we do?” Haidong Lin blinked at the Curse King.
“…what else can we do? We do as the brat says!”
The void trembled as more battle zombies from the yang tomb arrived.
etvolare’s Thoughts
Lu Yun’s got two useful henchmen, eh?
