Necropolis Immortal

“What are you doing?!” Duan Lin and Qiu Yu sprang up with alarm. They wanted to stop him, but found that everything was changing around them.

Their lively, biddable, and gentle ward turned ugly and repulsive.

“Tsk tsk tsk, that was too easy for you,” Xiangliu Yunge chuckled and slowly reached out a hand to catch Yushi Moli—Lu Yun’s blow. “I thought you would stay immersed in this world and your identity until you broke through the seal imposed by the sword of heaven and earth in your mind.”

“Motong,” Lu Yun intoned. “I would have that if you hadn’t appeared. I’d fully forget myself in this identity and would’ve seen it through to the end.”

He shook his head with a sigh, “But you are. And here I am. Are you here to kill me?”

His physical body was gone and he lacked immortal dao. The Tome of Life and Death had taken the power of reincarnation to Qing Yu and the little fox. However, Motong remained at her peak. She could crush Lu Yun with a single hand.

“No,” Motong shook her head with a chuckle. “It was your doing that helped me break away from the control of the will of nothing. You helped me regain my freedom.”

Lu Yun frowned. “Where are we?”

“The Origin Continent.” Nostalgia appeared in Motong’s eyes. “The little fellow that you’re borrowing is Yushi Moli. If you hadn’t happened upon the scene, he would grow up to be one of the legendary characters of this era and ultimately help that person comprehend subjectivity affecting objectivity. That would cause the disaster to happen.”

“That person?” Lu Yun blinked.

“The person lying in the ancient tomb,” Motong sighed. “My dao partner.”

Lu Yun pursed his lips without a word.

“He was the first one to be affected by the will of nothing, I am the second. When he died, he became responsible for destroying everything that shouldn’t appear in the nothing with the power of death.

“I am the second to be infected by the will of nothing. I became its spokesperson in the nothing. When you took control of a small part of it, you created a hole in its perfection. Thus, I was freed.”

“Is this Origin Continent the sole existence in the past?” Lu Yun asked. “Wasn’t it destroyed? How did I end up here?”

There was no concept of time in the nothing. Living beings existed in only the present and could not reverse time, much less change the past or future.

“It’s because you made the nothing imperfect that I was able to bring you here,” Motong answered. “We didn’t travel through space and time, but used the power of reincarnation to create a world of reincarnation. The Origin Continent was recreated within reincarnation so that you could truly become one of the living beings here—Yushi Moli. You became Yushi Mowang’s brother.”

“Mowang?!” Lu Yun’s eyes narrowed at the sudden mention of another name. “You don’t mean… that Mowang was the first being to affect objectivity, the one who was killed by the will of the nothing and his body summarily possessed?”

Motong nodded. “I… am Xiangliu Yunge. I met Yushi Mowang through Yushi Moli and ultimately became dao partners with him. Yushi Moli helped us reach the peak and become the strongest of the continent.” She sighed, “I’d wanted to have you become Yushi Moli so you could retrace his life, but have Lu Yun’s instincts stop everything from happening.

“But I underestimated you. Even though you were lost in this world and forgot yourself, your instincts constantly reminded you of what you should be doing. You… awoke the moment you saw me, didn’t you?”

Lu Yun nodded mutely. He’d started awakening the second he offered Lu Yun as a name to Xiangliu Yunge.

“And now? I ruined your plans, so what do you plan to do now?”

Motong sighed again after some thought. “The Origin Continent isn’t the first existence within the nothing. That belongs to an even vaster and more magnificent world in the past!

“That is where immortal dao truly arose and is where the mistress, Dao King, and God call home. It is the true world of immortal dao.”

Lu Yun shook and he looked at Motong with sudden comprehension.

“The mistress, Dao King, and God once spoke of a world of immortal dao in which civilization had reached its peak,” Motong said. “Where even the great daos and heavenly dao had materialized and possessed their own wills as they ruled over all. They were even able to destroy the will of nothing when it was born.”

In the current world, the heavenly dao was an objective rhythm without emotions, desires, or thoughts. But in that world of immortal dao, they’d taken human form and ruled the world as daos with thought.

How terrifying were those implications? All of life would be enslaved the second they possessed their own desires.

“In that case, how did that world end?” Lu Yun frowned.

“The mistress said that they self-destructed,” Motong laughed at herself. “A willingness to do battle is forever the instincts of the living… One of their powerhouses once said that, ‘Since we are invincible among the world, who do we fight if not heavenly dao?’

“And so, he led all beings to conquer the heavens. Heavenly dao and the great daos were torn asunder after that battle and life was made miserable.

“Thus was the will of nothing born again and the world destroyed. The nothing became an objective nothing.”

Lu Yun remained silent.

“You have the karmic repercussions of Yushi Moli on you now, and a tie with the will of nothing.”

Although Lu Yun had awoken ahead of time, her plans extended beyond Origin Continent. She was ready with another plan.

“What do you intend to do?” he asked, easily sensing her emotions. She’d opened her soul up to him. If he wished, he could read the memories of her soul and even eat it if he wanted to.

“I plan to send you to that world and use the power of reincarnation to have you experience three thousand cycles. Those cycles will wash away everything having to do with your current identity. You will go to that world with your karmic ties and take the heavenly dao for your master!

“You can control the nothing and the immortal dao here. You might be able to destroy the will of nothing on Mowang—but so long as the nothing exists and objectivity exists, the will of nothing will never end.

“Only a heavenly dao with its own thoughts can combat it. I hope that you will become the heavenly dao in that world and then return to safeguard ours.” Motong bit her lip. “If we don’t use the power of reincarnation to wash away the various marks of identity on you, that world’s heavenly dao will see you as a heretic and kill you. Since you carry the karmic ties of the future, the heavenly dao will immediately understand and accept you when it sees you…”

Lu Yun nodded. “This is the final way out that the mistress and others left, isn’t it?”

“…yes,” Motong nodded. “The method of nothing you grasp is tattered and incomplete. It is an opening to the previous path of reincarnation and the path of all hope.”

The cause was in the future and the effect was in the past.