Chapter 2027 – Ramming a Tree

“Who is Yun Yi?” Lu Yun couldn’t help but ask.

“Yun Yi?” The Disordered Empyrean Supreme paused and her brows drew together in a frown. “She is the crown prince of the primordial heavenly court. If the primordial heavenly emperor had passed his throne onto Yun Yi, then perhaps the court would not have fallen.”

She paused, then chuckled ruefully. “No, it would still fall. Grandfather, father, and daughter built the primordial court so they could destroy it.”

Destroying the primordial heavenly court turned it into a seed through which the primordial world of immortals could be resurrected.

“I mean, what kind of people are they?” Lu Yun asked again.

“Them? The three?” The empyrean supreme blinked and shook her head. “I don’t know, they seem to have appeared out of thin air. My father was the strongest of the chief worlds in that age and not even the Plumed Empyrean Supreme was his match.

“But after they appeared, they swept through everything and became the rulers of the realm. They then began targeting the Infinite Deorc and other realms.”

The Disordered Empyrean Supreme rubbed her forehead. The chief worlds should’ve been a strong realm, but after the end of the Age of Mythology and seclusion of Leize and his family, the chief worlds gradually declined as it suffered attacks from the other realms.

The end of the Age of Mythology was marked by the destruction of the primordial world of immortals and the appearance of the burial mound.

“You mean that no one knows where Yun Yi, her father, and grandfather come from?” asked a startled Lu Yun.

“That’s right,” the empyrean supreme nodded.

“Very well then.” He didn’t pursue the line of questioning. For some reason, he felt that Yun Yi was closely related to the existence receiving sacrifices in the nihil. All would be answered if he traveled to the World Heart.

Establishing a faction wasn’t a tough ask for Lu Yun. He was the equivalent of the dao ancestor of the world of immortals. Although he’d given all of his accomplishments to Qing Yu and the little fox, that also meant he wasn’t limited by any legacy or heritage.

He knew what he had to do and what responsibilities he had to shoulder. It also seemed like he was the only one who could undertake this task.

The Disordered Empyrean Supreme?

Her thoughts were occupied by hell dao to the point of a demonic obsession. If it wasn’t for Lu Yun tempting her with the combined dao of the Firmament Prison, hell, and Ruina, she would likely break her oath right now and kill him for his dao.

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Lu Yun walked the world with a longsword on his back, the empyrean supreme behind him as a meek servant girl.

The mortal world wasn’t a world of cultivation. The humans there—dao forms and a race with the same bloodline as Lu Yun—existed in a very primitive state.

An altar, whether large or small, stood in the center of each tribe’s territory. The humans were ordinary beings, but they received power from sacrifice. Sacrificial goods were divided into various categories, the most minor being livestock and the major ones being war captives or even people from the same tribe.

As he made his way through the mortal world, Lu Yun discovered that humans relied so much on their altars that they bypassed all other potential avenues of growth. They were stuck in the developmental stage of prehistoric tribes and showed no signs of advancement.

It was a reflection of this world, one in which everything came too easily and too quickly. Wrapped in comfort and convenience, no one focused on self-improvement and thus hamstrung their own future.

The world was also too peaceful, so peaceful that its inhabitants couldn’t decline or die. It was like they lived in a giant farm and were fed sufficient nutrients to turn them into fat pigs. That went for both the lofty cultivators and the humans in the mortal world.

Lu Yun didn’t know who was keeping the livestock, but it certainly wasn’t the owner of the eyes of great dao. That so-called overseer.. Lu Yun was suddenly reminded of the light of sacrifice that’d led him here.

Cultivators could not intervene in the struggles of mortals. That was strictly forbidden. The person he’d first met in this world hadn’t lied to him, but Lu Yun loved breaking the rules and shattering prohibitions.

He sent out numerous feelers along the way and discovered that this was the territory of the Northern Sacred Palace. He was in the western quadrant of its domain, placing him close to the Western Sacred Palace and near a ribbon of land that came under neither sacred palace’s jurisdiction.

It was the perfect place for him. Formula dao told him that it’d take at least fifteen years for the eye of great dao to find him here.

That was sufficient time for him to become a grand supreme and establish his heritage. If he could meld his great dao’s heritage into heaven and earth, he would receive its protection and hide the Tome of Life and Death.

He first disguised himself as an ordinary human and infiltrated a small tribe called the Sacred Radiance. Morale was low and hearts fearful after they lost a crucial battle to an enemy tribe. Their enemy was even preparing to dismantle the tribe’s Sacred Radiance Altar.

The removal of an altar signaled the death of a tribe. All of its members would become slaves and possibly even less than slaves as sacrificial goods!

That was when Lu Yun made his move. He brute forced the situation around and chased the enemies out of Sacred Radiance territory.

With that, he became the tribe’s hero.

“Yun, how did you do that! How are you so strong? Our altar, our altar..” The tribe’s leader was a tall and strapping man. As bulky as he was, that was only when considered from the perspective of an ordinary person. What Lu Yun had demonstrated went beyond human strength.

But not too far outside human limits, the tribe could accept what he’d done.

With Lu Yun’s cultivation level, he could alter their memories with none the wiser. The young man named Yun had always been part of the tribe and his various feats from childhood readily came to mind.

“When I was young, I saw the strong gremlins in the mountains throw themselves against the trees. I copied them and found that my body became stronger and stronger, and so I also became stronger.” Lu Yun struck a pose like he was ready to ram a tree.

The leader brightened. “Ramming trees can make us stronger?”

“Yes!” Lu Yun smiled. “All of us worshiped the altars before, so I didn’t say anything. But now..”

The enemy had dismantled most of the tribe’s altar and it would take at least a year and a half to rebuild it. Sacred Radiance would be devoured by their neighbors in the meantime.

People were the best sacrifices. Without the protection of their altar, the tribe would soon become sacrificial goods.