Necropolis Immortal
chapter-1699-30041322

“Do you know what I mean?” the Curse King’s voice trembled.

“Are you saying… that there’s more than one great personage buried here, that there’s four?” Lu Yun’s eyes widened. “That the Corpse Refiners might create four zombie kings?!”

“Yes!” the man nodded. “But I don’t know if they’re only scheming after this one or all four tomb owners.”

“Probably just one,” Lu Yun thought for a moment. “The world of sequence is too important. If they refine all four heavyweights, they’ll be attacked by everyone else with designs on the world. Refining only one won’t impact the greater picture.

“But even so, they must be stopped. It looks like they’re refining the tomb owner so they can seize the world of sequence.”

The Corpse Refiners might also continue their villainy after they claimed the world and turn the other three into zombie kings. Lu Yun didn’t know what the outside world was like or what status the sect possessed, but he could guess that the four tomb owners who could manifest a world of sequence were certainly of earth-shattering importance.

There were many things he didn’t dare come to a conclusion about since he’d never been to the outside world. But currently, he felt no desire to visit. There were many things in the Land of Reincarnation that needed to be resolved, and there was no guarantee that the outside world was better than his current situation.

“Do you know the identities of the four tomb owners?” Haidong Lin asked.

“No,” the Curse King shook his head. “But I know that they have a close relationship, so there should be some connection between the four tombs.”

“Forget about that for now,” Lu Yun said to them. He walked up to the wreckage of the Karmic Tree and put it away. Although it was dead, it still represented great nourishment. The withered wood was the corpse of the divine tree and the Karmic Tree was one of its branches. They shared the same origin.

Most importantly, the withered wood had become a treasure of the Tome of Life and Death after the book had refined it. Lu Yun turned around and looked at the mountain-shaped rubble.

“Don’t move, Lu Yun!” The Curse King stopped him and pointed at the tombstone erected in front of the mountain. “Look, what do the mountain and tombstone together look like?”

“A burial mound!” Haidong Lin frowned in response before Lu Yun could answer. “It looks like someone’s burial mound… but why set up a burial mound here?”

“Anyone who can use Mount Tai as their burial mound will be far from ordinary, but there’s no resentment exuding from it. They must have been voluntarily buried inside!” the Curse King identified.

Bitterness and resentment were sure to develop when important personages were dumped under a pile of dirt. The burial mound would grow bigger from their reaction, but the collapsed mountain in front of them had remained the same size. In fact, it was even a little smaller due to the fact that it’d collapsed.

Lu Yun opened the Spectral Eye and swept it over the mound, his expression hitching with surprise.

“It seems… that someone’s tricked the Corpse Refiners,” he said after a long moment.

“Tricked the Corpse Refiners? What do you mean?” A baffled Haidong Lin asked while the Curse King mused over the scene.

“No wonder formula destiny told me that the problem could be solved if we came here first. I see, so I see. Someone moved the tomb owner to here and buried them in this nondescript burial mound. The tomb of the living is empty.” A smile floated onto Lu Yun’s face. “The Corpse Refiners can’t enter the yin tomb, so they don’t know what’s happened and think that the tomb owner is buried in the tomb of the living.

“But whoever set up the burial mound isn’t very well trained. He didn’t do the job properly and conceal it. If the Corpse Refiners ever make it into the yin tomb, they’ll immediately realize they’ve been tricked.”

“You’re right,” the Curse King nodded. “They’ve probably already sensed something’s off, so they should be looking for a way in.”

Although he’d never visited this place before, with his understanding of the sect, they wouldn’t be so easily hoodwinked. Additionally, it wasn’t completely impossible to enter the yin tomb. The three of them were inside as living proof. Add to that the one who’d set up the burial mound… it was certainly possible that the Corpse Refiners would find their way in too.

Lu Yun called upon the Dragonquake Scripture without another word, moving earthen veins around to set up a layout. The Abyssal Hell itself was a massive layout, so there were naturally earthen veins present. Ordinary folks would never detect or be able to use them, but Lu Yun could with the Dragonquake Scripture.

He set up a mirror layout to connect the burial mound to the tomb of the living. He would reflect the tomb owner into the tomb of the living to give the illusion that they were still buried within the tomb.

The owner’s name appeared in his Spectral Eye, but he couldn’t say it no matter how he tried. It promptly vanished from his mind when he thought about it.

In other words, he couldn’t say or remember the name.

Lu Yun had no idea who’d been so bold as to bury such a character in a pile of dirt. At the same time, if the person had tried to create a tomb here, his incompetence would’ve caused the two tombs to clash with each other and result in both being destroyed by the Abyssal Tomb.

Despite the less than favorable situation, it didn’t affect him modifying the tomb and burial mound. A mirror layout wasn’t difficult; only a few breaths was needed for its construction. As for how to accurately project the image, he called upon the layout of the Ancestry Bridge.

Ancestry Bridge was one that subsequent generations could use to accurately find the tombs of their ancestors, but the layout could also be used on the ancestor themself, with a bit of modification, to project their image to another location.

The process seemed complicated, but it took Lu Yun only a hundred breaths due to his pinpoint accurate calculations and the terrifying might of the Dragonquake Scripture.

The Curse King gaped at Lu Yun, abruptly realizing that he didn’t understand his enemy at all.

“This kind of person shouldn’t be buried in a burial mound… Mm, let me change the mound’s layout.” Glyphs extended from his foot when he stepped forward and changed the burial mound into a tomb. He then perfectly hid it within the Abyssal Tomb.

“No one will find it unless their mastery of the dao of burial is greater than mine. But if it is, then there’s nothing I can do about things.” A smile floated onto his face.

etvolare's Thoughts

There's always multiple parties in tombs man, schemes and counter schemes... Someone's gonna accidentally mess up someone else's plot.