Necropolis Immortal

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The akasha ghosts were too strong and he had no idea what they were planning in Witherdew Major.
Since he didn’t have the strength to provoke them yet, he would leave them alone for now.

“You didn’t come here just to collect their soul force, did you?” Violetgrave the sword shook gently, permitting the exit of Violetgrave the spirit dressed in a purple silk dress.

She was so mysterious that even Pangu, Hongjun, and God were unable to detect her existence.
Lu Yun had thought he’d find clues about Violetgrave in the great wilderness, but he’d only met an existence who possessed Nether Fire.

Perhaps that was the one who’d made the first transaction with Violetgrace.

“I’m here for the Ascension Pool.” Lu Yun frowned at the blood-drenched World Gates.
“There’s one last step to take to perfect the immortal dao, and that’s the ascension protocol.
If we connect our world to the others out there, other immortals in space will be able to ascend to our world.”

An ascension protocol had existed at the time of the immortal dao’s inception, allowing for denizens of the lower worlds to ascend to the world of immortals when they became immortals.
Every world in the multiverse could do so, even Earth.
But the ascension protocol had been destroyed in the great war a hundred thousand years ago and no further beings could travel to the world of immortals after it.

Lu Yun now wanted to rebuild it and reopen the passage of travel, truly perfecting the last details of the immortal dao.

“Ascension?” Violetgrave tilted her head at Lu Yun.
“Have you given thought to what the other worlds look like right now?”

Lu Yun fell silent, he knew what the sword was getting at.

“The immortals outside of our own are the guardians of their homes.
If they ascend to the world of immortals, who will remain to protect their world?”

Lu Yun remained silent.

“The moment the ascension protocol is reinstated is the moment of death for all beings in those ruined husks outside.” Curiosity flashed through Violetgrave’s eyes.
Lu Yun was sure to have already considered all of this, and he wasn’t the sort to disregard the lives of others either.

Everyone’s eyes—the celestial emperors, Yueshen, Ruyi, and Diexi—landed on him.
They, too, didn’t believe that Lu Yun would selfishly enhance the strength of their world with no thought given to anyone else.

“Is there anywhere else that’s more important than the world of immortals?” Lu Yun murmured as he looked at the bloody gates.
“In the time of the great wilderness, the realm monsters wanted to enter our world through the great wilderness.
The akasha ghosts now want to use our world to attack the ancestor planet and destroy the realm.”

“Hmm?” Eyebrows raised at this response.
This was Lu Yun’s explanation, but it seemed to also hint at his plans.

“I don’t want to sit back any longer and wait for others to attack us.
They’ll hover until your strength is exhausted and then send dead spirits to attack the world of immortals.
After that, they’ll descend onto the ancestor planet to destroy this realm. 

“Therefore, I’m taking the fight to them.
The ascension protocol goes both ways!” A cold sneer played at Lu Yun’s lips.
“Immortals of the lower worlds can move up to ours, and so can the armies of our world also utilize the protocol to visit the lower worlds!

“I’m shifting to the offensive and razing the nests of those dead spirits to fully grasp what they are.
How do the akasha ghosts control them, and can we locate the source of the yin spirits to dispel them once and for all?”

Though all of the planets outside of the world of immortals were dilapidated husks, there were still immortals grimly fighting for their home and desperately driving off the dead spirits.

With the Tome of Life and Death on him, Lu Yun controlled life and death.
He’d also forced the treasure into submission when visiting Fuxi’s tomb in the chaos, further consolidating his control over the book.
Perhaps he could restrain those terrifying yin spirits now and have them enter hell with their rationality restored?

If not, the lower worlds were still a good place to temper academy disciples.
The nine celestial emperors would be able to hold on for less than eighty more years.
It was both a short time, and a very long one.

If the Dao Academy and immortals of the world really wanted to develop into the realm’s powerhouses, they would have to experience struggles of life and death.
Apart from the tombs, there was no other place in the world of immortals that could offer such trials.

Tomb raiding was one thing, while battling death for one’s life was another.

Lu Yun had already decided that once the Ascension Pool was repaired and the protocol reinitiated, he would implement the next stage of his plan.
He would send the armies of the world of immortals into the lower worlds to help them fight off the dead spirits, and in doing so train enormous improvement into the armies.

“You’re quite a bold one.
Aren’t you afraid that the dead spirits or akasha ghosts will invade the world of immortals through the Ascension Portal?” Violetgrave patted Lu Yun’s shoulder with a smile.

She plainly approved of his plan.
The current world of immortals might win if they passively guarded the realm, but they would also probably end up like the world in the Primordial Era—the immortal dao severed and death of all immortals.

Besides, there were many more secrets about that war a hundred thousand years ago.
Lu Yun hadn’t been able to see the war clearly when he’d stood in the river of time.
He didn’t think that the truth was simply everything he knew right now.
There must be an even greater mastermind directing everything from the shadows.

He didn’t want to always be reacting to the enemy’s moves, it was time to proactively search and explore.