“No, wait!” About to depart from the emperor’s tomb, Lu Yun suddenly screeched to a halt. “The divine spirit of the kidneys looked scary and all that jazz just now, but that was just a front! It shook all of the Central World when it was born five thousand years ago, but now it can’t even break out of an immortal emperor’s tomb? It’s all bluster and hot air, it’s trying to scare me off!”

He whirled back and opened the Spectral Eye to scan everything within five thousand kilometers. Though it couldn’t penetrate the water vapor formed by the connate yin water, it could still read if there was anything alive or dead there.

“The divine spirit formed by the kidneys is hovering between life and death, in a condition that is both dead and alive. Someone delivered a heavy...