Chapter 2019 – Maggots

Lu Yun didn’t know that a grand supreme had him in their sights. His current goal was to ascend to grand supreme and leave this place. At the same time, he wasn’t naive enough to think that no one would be coming for him after he killed a high supreme.

He was an indeterminable distance away from his previous location and had changed his form with the Shapeshifting death art. Lu Yun now walked this unknown world as a completely different being. After a series of calculations, he changed the ripples of his great dao to that of the man he’d just killed.

Although he neither cultivated the local great dao and nor knew the man’s cultivation methods, he changed into the man via Shapeshifting and also emulated the presence of the person’s great dao.

After the Tome of Life and Death transformed from an ancient bronze book into a bamboo scroll, its death arts further evolved. Shapeshifting could now emulate the specific aura of a great dao.

While Lu Yun didn’t know why the man wanted to kill him, the other didn’t turn into an Infernum upon his death. That was enough to demonstrate that he abhorred Lu Yun from the core essence of his being—abhorred outsiders.

If LU Yun didn’t want to be hated, he had to turn into a local.

“The spirit qi here is the most primitive example of qi and applicable to all sorts of great dao. Even the great dao here is wholly without attributes..” Lu Yun stood by the shore of a tiny lake and quietly perceived the heaven and earth around him. He was discovering that this world was natural and primitive, untouched by any great dao or order.

“Is this a world of sequence?” His eyes shot open with surprise. This world was remarkably similar to the Myriadsea World that he’d once visited. But that had been a fake world and one affected by many great daos.

This seemed to be a real.. prehistoric.. world of sequence unclaimed by any great dao or order. Any great dao and any sequence could coexist with the others here, including immortal dao.

Although there was no overarching great dao or order, he could see millions upon millions of great daos. They were incredibly strong—mightier than any Lu Yun had seen thus far. However, none of them occupied the world as its sole ruler.

In lieu of that, they could only.. exist here.

Indeed, just exist.

The phrase popped into Lu Yun’s mind for some reason. He was thinking of his previous conversation with Mo Yi and the Dao King, that everyone’s existence and the world they knew wasn’t real. That everything was the product of an incredibly powerful being that’d died in the nihil.

Tailong had also mentioned that there was a sword at the World Heart that was key to killing that venerated being. That they might come back to life if the sword was pulled out.

“Order is objective, but sequence is subjective. Heaven and earth can theoretically give birth to a variety of worlds of sequence, but someone needed to create it in that world..” The more Lu Yun thought about it, the more he felt that Mo Yi and the others were right. It also seemed that the world he was in was a real world.

“A real world, a real existence.! Is this a world opposing nonexistence and the nothing?” Lu Yun spread his arms out and took a deep breath. “But still, this place isn’t home no matter how good it is. I’m going home as soon as I ascend to grand supreme.”

A smile floated onto his face. Since formula dao could operate here, it could analyze everything about this world. If he could peer into their secrets, he would be able to turn his own world—the corpse of that unparalleled powerhouse—into a patch of real existence.

The caveat was that he needed to become a grand supreme first. He would have the right to seek the truth of his world only after that. Otherwise, all formula dao would be able to manage was just surface level information.

The tiny lake was a premier spot for cultivation. Qi was densely concentrated here and the ripples of great dao in the surroundings were uncommonly agitated. It was better than where he’d been before.

Lu Yun took a seat on the ground and silently operated the Method of Life and Death, entering a cultivation state.

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“That’s weird, there’s no sign of him.” When the black-robed woman returned to the scene of disaster, she found no traces of Lu Yun. Anxiety began to close in around her.

“That person is no fool. He won’t wait here for you to return after he committed murder.” The grand supreme in golden robes shook his head. “There is indeed the presence of an outsider here, but it vanishes later on. He must be skilled in some sort of presence concealment art.

“Go on back, I will notify my fellow daoists that an outsider has entered our world. This is not a good development—they are all maggots from the bodies of demons. The demons will soon follow them after they invade our world!” The grand supreme vanished on the spot.

This world was a real existence and countless outsiders had made their way here over endless eons. They’d all died very grisly deaths and their souls scattered upon the wind.

Their origins were the primary reason why. They were lives derived from corpses and thus carried the will of the one who’d died. Once they established themselves and flourished in this place, the terrifying existence might be reborn here and seek to claim the world.

Something similar had happened once before and this world paid an untold price to cleanse itself of the outsiders. After that, eliminating all outsiders became its ironclad law. Whether it was formidable heavyweights in the nothing or “maggots” from fallen powerhouses, they were hunted down without mercy as soon as they entered this world.

This patch of existence was objective and opposed the unending nonexistence, so it didn’t repel any form of life. It was the local inhabitants that expelled outsiders.

The news of the arrival of an outsider immediately spread through the region. This part of true existence was so vast that one grand supreme wasn’t able to spread the news too far. Of course, he also didn’t think that the outsider could get too far.

There were countless grand supremes, some peak grand supremes, and even an empyrean supreme on guard in nearby proximity. It would be too easy for them to locate an outsider.

Cultivators took to the sky like a horde of locusts and covered the skies. Powerful consciousnesses swept over a million kilometers as a looming pair of eyes opened in the void and honed in on everything within one hundred and fifty million kilometers.

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Lu Yun was already more than one hundred and fifty million kilometers away. In fact, he was ten times that distance.

However, he underestimated the resolution of the local inhabitants. When they failed to locate him within one hundred and fifty million kilometers, more and more eyes appeared in the void. They seemed bent on searching through every single corner of the world.