Necropolis Immortal

clans, to be exact.

“Once upon a time, a madman cultivated the demonic method as a human and established the demonic dao.
Eventually, he was enthralled by the demonic dao and committed great atrocities.
I was the one tasked to kill him.

“However, the fiend cultivated a strange method that rendered him almost unkillable.
I couldn’t destroy him completely even after hacking him to pieces.

“In the end, I set up the sword formation and severed his body with the strength of my four swords.
The ancestors of the four clans volunteered their bodies to bury the fiend piecemeal in coffins to seal him.

“After that, the dragon, phoenix, qilin, and turtle clans were revered as the four auspicious divine spirits, and the four coffins sealed,” Ge Long told the tale at a measured pace.
“Unfortunately, the fiend’s demonic power was so great that he turned the coffins to evil, which then gave birth to the blood dragon, phoenix, qilin, and turtle.
The four blood demons wreaked havoc all over the world.

“The demon god who’s taken over the true spirit of the Exalted celestial emperor is the heir to the fiend once sealed in the coffins.”

Lu Yun listened quietly to Ge Long’s recounting.
The man spoke of a myth that had been long lost to history.
He was reminded of the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers layout in Dusk City that’d damaged the earthen vein under the province and destroyed its fortunes.

In fact, the layout had become tangible and attempted to devour Lu Yun, but the Tome of Life and Death within him emerged and subdued the layout.

The first time that Lu Yun had seen the true body of the Enneawrym Coffinbearers was in hell.
There, it’d transcended space to take the blood dragon that was Aoxue, but Lu Yun had stopped it.
That was when the Tome of Life and Death had truly tamed the coffin.

The four coffins were a collective.
Once the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers was tamed, the Nine-Phoenix Casket, Enneaqilin Coffinbiers, and Ninefooted Turtle Cist followed it into hell without protest.

“I’d already found myself again when Sir Lu Yun subdued the four coffins, so I refined them again and buried my four swords in them.
As for the corpse of the fiend once resting inside, I destroyed it with the power Empress Vastspace left in Vastspace Mountain.” Recalling something, Ge Long grinned brilliantly into the darkness at the edge of the kingdom of hell and added, “Oh, right, with your power as well.”

There, a faint white figure scowled ferociously.

Lu Yun nodded, remembering what had happened in Vastspace Mountain.
The four coffins had gathered and simultaneously opened their lids, allowing an enormous human skeleton to walk out.
That must have been the remains of the demonic fiend.

“Everything related to the four blood demons and the four coffins in the world of immortals is the fiend’s doing, including the curse of the Skandha Extinction Tomb within the Skandha Range.

“You must be careful, sir.
The fiend is very powerful.
Although his soul has scattered and his body decimated, his true spirit isn’t so easily destroyed.” Ge Long’s expression turned grave.
“When his body parts gathered in Vastspace Mountain, a chaos tribulation struck and destroyed Witherdew Major… The target of the tribulation was the fiend’s true spirit!”

“What?” Lu Yun started.

“The fiend’s true spirit wasn’t in the coffins, but in the altar at the Star Demon Sect.
Now that it’s been destroyed, the true spirit must have reincarnated.” Ge Long shook his head.
“If the fiend is allowed to grow, he’ll become a demon sovereign and break free of those from a hundred thousand years ago.”

The implications of his words were clear: The fiend hadn’t willingly committed his actions in the world of immortals or the business with the blood demons.
He’d been controlled.

Lu Yun could guess by whom he had been controlled—beings like the akasha ghosts and Lu Shenhou.
Those the immortal emperor referred to as the enemies.

“What about you?” Lu Yun asked, enunciating every word as he stared at “Ge Long”.
“You… aren’t the Ge Long I met at first, are you? You must be someone of great importance.
Why are you here? How did you become my follower? The name written in the book is Ge Long’s and not yours.”

“I…” Ge Long sighed.
“I am dead and I have always been here.
Once you arrived and became hell’s master, sir, I became your servant.
Ge Long was the first being you killed after your arrival in the world of immortals.
That is why I became Ge Long, similar to how you became the young governor of Dusk Province.

“Ge Long was no regular man, either.
He was a descendent of the primordial demon celestial master.
That gave me a demonic streak, which is, of course, how I am able to refine the coffins burying the fiend’s body and make them mine.”

Ge Long chuckled.
He’d become a living dead as soon as his name was written into the Tome of Life and Death.
He needed to constantly absorb yin energy and malice to regain his sense of self.
That was why he’d been wreathed in thick demonic energy during that time and formed the habit of throwing his head at anything that contained what he needed.