Chapter 89: Eyes

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Lu Yun was truly frightened out of his mind . For a fleeting second, he seemed to have glimpsed a pair of giant eyes floating in the center of the altar . They were crimson in color, and radiated a powerful evil presence .

They weren’t human, living creatures, or even zombies . They weren’t anything Lu Yun had seen before . Although the moment had been brief, seemingly a trick of light, he firmly believed what he’d seen . Wayfarer had turned into a pair of eyes just then!

Though they were a couple back in the day, Yuying decided not to be dao partners with Wayfarer at the last second . She must’ve discovered something!

Lu Yun took several steps back, his expression s.h.i.+fting through grim changes . He could read Yuying’s memories, but not her inner thoughts . Memories of Wayfarer were buried deep, and she’d even gone so far as to destroy her recollections of their breakup .

After her resurrection, she’d immediately burned the painting that Wayfarer had made for her . That wasn’t only to cut ties with her past, but also a sign that she didn’t wish to recall anything about the man .

Have the eyes become sentient? This was such a baffling situation . The Wayfarer in the abyss was blind; were these his eyes?

But that didn’t make any sense either . Though the Wayfarer in the abyss couldn’t see, his eyes were intact in their sockets . Besides, it was simply too far-fetched for one’s eyes to leave their owner and gain a mind of their own .

Wayfarer’s appearance became increasingly twisted .

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“Hand over the Portrait of Emptiness!” he shrieked at Lu Yun, a disorienting ray shooting from his eyes and into Lu Yun’s to seize the governor’s mind .

“h.e.l.l no!” h.e.l.lfire blazed in Lu Yun’s eyes and blocked the look as he retreated . There was something seriously wrong with this Wayfarer .

Suddenly, all of the monsters, including the zombies and the undead hags, lunged at Lu Yun under the man’s command . An undead hag stealthily crept up on the governor and almost killed him with a single bite .

Hum .

A bright crescent of sword energy careened out from behind Lu Yun and cut the monster down . Feinie emerged from the Gates of the Abyss with sword in hand, making seals with her free hand as she kept the monsters at bay with flashes of sword energy . The Formation Orb surged to envelop Lu Yun within the protection of a grand formation .

“You?! Impossible!” Wayfarer screamed with disbelief when he saw Feinie . “I killed you myself five thousand years ago! I saw your contamination by boundless resentment and transformation into an immortal ghost with my own eyes . How are you alive again?!”

“Nothing is impossible . ” With an impa.s.sive expression, Feinie snapped formations into existence with her fingers, pinning the monsters down . Recovering to the empyrean immortal realm had increased her strength by more than tenfold . She was able to tap into more of the combined Formation Orb’s power as well .

“Remember not to kill the zombies . ” Lu Yun noted the presence of the eerie monsters he still wasn’t able to deal with . Whoever killed the zombies would be turned into one of their kind by an unknown power .

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“Understood . ” Feinie nodded and set up a dozen trapping formations around the zombies instead of slaughtering them .

She suddenly realized something . “It’s not him that’s keeping the altar suppressed, sir, but the other way around . Removing the Portrait of Emptiness released him from the altar!”

“I see . ” Lu Yun nodded . “He was trying to coax me into handing the portrait over . That’s probably why he approached Yuying back in the day—her Panorama of Clarity . Strange, though, it’d be easy enough to take the panorama after Yuying’s death, but he didn’t . Why not?”

He couldn’t come up with an explanation for this . It couldn’t have been a coincidence that both the Portrait of Emptiness and the Profile of Harmony were placed in the same burial mound .

This Wayfarer must have been the man Miao had seen, the one that had placed the bronze outer-coffin in the layout of resurrection with the Profile of Harmony hidden in it .

Wayfarer slowly calmed down and his eyes grew increasingly brighter as he chanted softly, casting a strange art .

Bam! Bam! Bam!

The cavern trembled and shook . Something big was coming .

“What is that?” Lu Yun almost threw up when he saw what came walking—no, crawling out of the darkness .

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It was more than eighty yards in size and resembled an undead hag, but there was an additional head next to it that belonged to a corpsefish . A long fish tail trailed between its two legs . It looked like a chimera of an enormous undead hag and a corpsefish and reeked of a thick, pungent smell .

It was plain to see that the fish head and tail had forcefully been grafted onto the undead hag’s flesh . Lu Yun could even see rotten skin and white bones from where their body parts intersected .

Flanking it were countless undead hags and corpsefish that’d crawled ash.o.r.e, and the entourage rushed them with reckless abandon . The enormous monster instantly tore through the trapping formations Feinie had set up .

Hiss hiss hiss!

Making sounds like a snake, it broke another formation with its claws, releasing the zombies trapped within .

Feinie backed away . “It’s more powerful than the undead hag we encountered before . It can rival at least a peerless immortal!”

If she’d recovered to the golden or august immortal realm, she would’ve been able to kill the monster with her formations . But as an empyrean immortal, there were four cultivation levels between them; it was an enormous gap that even the complete Formation Orb couldn’t bridge .

“Kill them!” screamed Wayfarer .

The monster abruptly picked up speed and scuttled to Lu Yun’s side . The tentacles on top of the corpsefish’s head somehow circ.u.mvented the defensive formations and grabbed at the governor .

“Waughhhhhh!!!” An enormous roar interrupted the attack . Nine crimson shadows rushed out from behind Lu Yun and lunged at the monster . Yueshen had charged out of the Gates of the Abyss with the bloodcorpses .

“Hurry and seal the altar with your formations, Feinie!” the immortal ghost blurted out .

No matter how terrifying the bloodcorpses were, they were merely arcane immortals . The chimera, on the other hand, was one step higher as a peerless immortal . It easily scattered the nine bloodcorpses with a casual backhand .

Under Yueshen’s control, they regathered their forms and leaped at the monster, opening their mouths so that ghostface maggots could burrow into the monster’s body and slow it down .

“Don’t worry!” Yueshen used the opening to explain, “The altar is here to seal the abyss . It won’t sacrifice all of Dusk Province!”

“Alright!” The last of her concerns dispelled, Feinie sent the light of activation flaring throughout the Formation Orb . The sealing formation she’d been preparing clamped down on the altar, temporarily deactivating it .

“Not so fast!” Eyes bloodshot, Wayfarer lifted his arms and punched the formation, breaking it before it could bring its full power to bear . But at that moment, the altar stirred to full wakefulness, its black light surging and restraining Wayfarer .

“Not again!” he yelled . “Which b.a.s.t.a.r.d sealed me in this forsaken place when I was asleep?!”

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