The truth dawned on Lu Yun. They’d come here via the Road of the Dead and thus naturally arrived in the world of the dead due to its influence.

He wasn’t as powerful as the emperor’s daughter, Zhao Qing. If she were to sense the presence of the Tome of Life and Death on him, she’d certainly take it away by force. After all, this was someone who used a ghost king as a medium for fostering hellfire so that she could create a genuine hell, proof she possessed an uncommonly strong knowledge of hell.

Therefore, Lu Yun didn’t dare recklessly call upon the power of hell or the Tome of Life and Death in her presence.

Shortsword in hand, Diexi was locked in close quarters combat with the skeleton of the giant saurian dragon king. However, she was proving to be outmatched. Her illusion of blood and corpses...