Necropolis Immortal

He’d died countless times for her in the countless iterations of reincarnation, but this time, he was truly dead. He would never appear in front of her again.

A tiny ripple disturbed her long frozen heart, but it quickly vanished without a trace.

She felt no emotion, so although a person who’d protected her for life upon life had just died in front of her, only a tiny ripple marred her mindset.

……

Space and time recovered as a white flower blossomed gracefully over Lu Yun and Qing Yu’s head.

Everyone within the palace stared, tongue-tied, at the scene. They didn’t know what’d happened, why these two people had suddenly appeared, and why something similar to the presence of the heavenly dao had abruptly appeared over their head.

But emotion stirred in their hearts all the same. They seemed to see… hope.

Within Jingzhou City, Yuan Yi lifted her head and looked in the direction of the heavenly palace.

An enormous white flower blossomed there and illuminated the bleak landscape. What had been a dim and feeble sun also flared with dazzling radiance.

Greenery crept over the world at a pace visible to the naked eye.

“Lady Yuan Yi, I can feel the heavenly dao!” murmured a plainly dressed girl who stood next to Yuan Yi. She was the only disciple that Lu Yun had taken in this world—Wang Shu.

Wang Shu was a girl to begin with, but she’d been so thin and frail before that it was impossible to tell her gender. Not that Lu Yun had ever cared about that.

“Mmhmm.” Yuan Yi nodded, a smile gracing her face for the first time. She pointed at the greenery budding outside of the city. “Look, that is hope.”

……

Craaaaaack.

Cracks snaked through the world that was about to be made into a brick. It abruptly split open and the external shell like a sarcophagus dispersed.

Life flooded into the dead young man’s empty gaze and vitality infused his body. It reached through the void as he threw his head back with laughter and vanished where he stood.

“This is my world and she has come back to life. I will protect her with my own heart!” His voice echoed in the void while he himself fully disappeared into the nothing.

This was a refinery to craft bricks. There would be someone who came along to investigate why something had gone awry with this particular brick. The dead young man’s goal was to kill whoever came to investigate.

……

Everyone in the heavenly palace was on their knees and worshiping the two people in front of them. They could sense the ripples of heaven and earth, that the world was coming back to life. No matter who these two were, they were this world’s saviors.

“You…” Qingfeng flushed as she looked at Lu Yun and Qing Yu.

Lu Yun came back to his senses with a mournful sigh. The Dao King’s last words were correct. They should not disappoint themselves. They weren’t doing this for the Dao King, mistress, or all of life, but for themselves.

The world connected with Lu Yun the moment the Dao Flower bloomed. He knew that it was only a matter of time before the world of immortals broke through the void and his friends and family followed it to arrive in this world.

His task at the moment was to fashion this world into a true world of immortals so it could welcome his loved ones.

“We…” Qing Yu paused and looked at Lu Yun since she wasn’t familiar with this world.

“Much of this world has declined and requires revitalization. We need to shower immortal dao into every corner of this world and turn all of its inhabitants into cultivators!” Lu Yun held her hand and smiled at her. “From henceforth, immortal dao is the great dao of this world and all shall walk the path of immortality!

“This world is henceforth renamed to the world of immortals!”

The world of immortals! Lu Yun’s homeland!

“I am the Immortal Emperor and you are the Immortal Empress.” He smiled faintly.

Qing Yu nodded silently. Being the emperor and empress of this world wasn’t a matter of wielding power or basking in glory. It was a responsibility. Since her dao partner was willing to shoulder this burden, she would naturally keep him company.

“So it turns out that Saint Lu is a saint no matter where he goes,” she teased.

Lu Yun coughed awkwardly.

“Greetings to the Immortal Emperor! Greetings to the Immortal Empress!” Hundreds of powerhouses in the place called out.

They’d become part of immortal dao the moment the Dao Flower blossomed and their cultivation levels from blood and qi were spontaneously transmuted to levels of immortal dao. Since they were closest to the flower, the great dao’s rhythm melded into their bodies when the flower bloomed and transformed them from the very core of their essence.

Some immortal dao cultivation methods, combat arts, and dao methods even filtered into their minds via the great dao. This wasn’t the strength of the Dao Flower, but the Dao King.

He’d used his life essence to compel the flower before he died, directing it to force knowledge and power into these powerhouses and planting the seeds of immortal dao into their bodies.

Those in the palace could quickly assimilate into immortal dao, but the beings of the world beneath them could not. They had to walk the path of cultivation and find their way into immortal dao.

Lu Yun smiled at those in the hall. “You may now enter the world below and sow the seeds of immortal dao through the world of immortals!”

“Understood!” There were three hundred and sixty-five powerhouses in total, including Qingfeng. It was a special number that hearkened to the worlds. They were all immortals now, and the strongest of them were Supreme Immortals of Original Order.

Due to the Dao King’s efforts, the levels of immortal dao here were far stronger than those in the nothing. A Supreme Immortal of Original Order was many times stronger than the strongest in the nothing. They’d reached the true end of immortal dao!

The next stage after it would be Lu Yun’s cultivation level. While he’d yet to reach the realm of the subjective affecting the objective, he ranked among the strongest of the realm below it. He rivaled the dead young man he’d met before.

He was immortal dao now, and he was defined by the immortal dao’s cultivation levels. His level was that of immortal emperor.