Chapter 1267: Immortal Minghui

"Those corpse puppets were originally Qu Yu's experimental subjects; they haven't rotted after a thousand years and even retain a bit of activity. The Ghost King used his cave dwelling as a nest and used evil ghosts to fill and drive the corpse puppets Qu Yu left behind." Dong Rui clicked his tongue twice, "Turning experimental waste into his own army—Ghost King Xuan Lu is quite talented."

Secondly, Qu Yu said in his last words that the "God-Descending Art" researched by the Heavenly Demons would definitely encounter a bottleneck.

Their clones could only descend into humans, not demons; this was an ironclad rule.

However, Immortals weren't easy to capture, and after being caught, they often had a trick of self-detonating their Primordial Spirit, capable of perishing together with the enemy. Unless by some coincidence of fate, the Heavenly Demons couldn't get their hands on many Immortal bodies.

That left only Immortal disciples, or what could be called practitioners, to be tried. But such "fleshly vessels" were often too fragile and couldn't bear the Heavenly Demons' powerful divine souls at all.

If the strength of the fleshly vessel didn't match the divine soul, it would collapse; this was also a basic rule.

Therefore, the applicable fleshly vessels the Heavenly Demons could find in the world were bound to be few and far between.

However—and here came the "however"—Qu Yu had discovered in his experiments that there was another way for Heavenly Demons to obtain non-human yet powerful and stable fleshly vessels.

This was a soul-injection that happened by mistake, and Qu Yu had actually succeeded!

He had personally completed the Heavenly Demon's experiment! *Cough*, this result made him very awkward.

He didn't know if he could replicate it a second time, because there was simply no time to experiment again.

At this time, the war between Immortals and Demons was nearing its end, and the Demons could not prevail; Qu Yu knew they were about to retreat. As long as the Heavenly Gap was completely closed, the Heavenly Demons wouldn't be able to cross the barrier between the two realms and enter the human world.

Therefore, the effect of the God-Descending Art would eventually manifest sooner or later.

After the excitement, he hurriedly killed all the witnesses present to silence them. But somehow, word still leaked out, and Heavenly Demons were searching the world for him.

Later, those accidents happened in the cave dwelling, and Miao Zhantian followed closely behind. This wasn't some minor Heavenly Demon; its arrival showed the importance the Heavenly Demon high command placed on Qu Yu's research results!

Qu Yu had no choice but to take all his life's achievements and heart's blood into the grave.

But he left this final letter to warn later generations, including the Great Return Sect, that although he had destroyed everything related to the experiments, it didn't mean the Heavenly Demons wouldn't find the direction in the future.

His success itself had already shown the Heavenly Demons the feasibility of the path.

To avoid a great catastrophe, the human world had to prepare early.

Qu Yu also warned that the extremely abundant spiritual energy of heaven and earth was also a great opportunity for the Heavenly Demons to make a comeback!

He left a final sigh in his last letter, that he had been too headstrong after all, and should have listened to his master's words earlier.

Regret came too late.

The three of them finished reading word for word, and after another quarter of an hour, the writing on the stone slab disappeared and wouldn't appear again no matter how they tried to trigger it.

This was a one-time message.

"That's it?" Not getting the predecessor's research results, Dong Rui was greatly dissatisfied, "What about the method?! It wasn't mentioned at all!"

What Qu Yu had hidden so preciously at the last moment of his life were just a few lines of message, or rather, a warning to Immortals and Immortal sects. Regarding the specific method of "Heavenly Demon Soul-Descending," he didn't mention a single word.

"Such a terrifying secret is best not left in the world; Qu Yu had a very clear head." He Lingchuan and Fu Liushan both felt it was only natural.

In order to keep this secret, Qu Yu would rather destroy his own Primordial Spirit, so naturally, not a single word could be leaked.

Dong Rui was still depressed: "Then why did he have to leave this last letter!"

"To show off." He Lingchuan also found it somewhat amusing, "Immortal Minghui knew such a secret shouldn't be discovered, but he had indeed researched it—unique and highly difficult. If he didn't show off a bit, he would feel uncomfortable."

I did it!

I can't explain how I did it, but I did it anyway, and I have to tell you! Ling Guang scratched the back of its head, looking at Immortal Minghui's remains: "No wonder he was so arrogant and cocky before he died. This Immortal is truly interesting."

The group exited the secret chamber, and the Ghost Ape moved several large stones from nearby to completely block the chamber door.

This counted as the completion of the burial, returning peace to Immortal Minghui.

While it was busy, He Lingchuan was lost in thought.

Immortal Minghui's warning sent a chill through his heart.

When Qu Yu passed away, he had no idea that the Heavenly Demons had released the Ten Directions Heavenly Net, attempting to leave a backdoor on the barrier between the two realms and trying to integrate into the Heavenly Dao to change the rules of the world. Therefore, the "God-Descending Art" he had experimented with must have had no connection to the Heavenly Luo Xing or the Great Fang Hu.

In other words, the path he found was different from Lady Mitian's.

Lady Mitian had borrowed the Great Fang Hu to transfer extraordinary power to General Hong without the fleshly vessel collapsing.

Other Heavenly Demons had no way to follow suit; they didn't have the Great Fang Hu.

He Lingchuan had also learned not long ago that the Heavenly Demons had been searching for the whereabouts of the Great Fang Hu precisely because they wanted to imitate Lady Mitian and project more power into the human world.

But Qu Yu's last words revealed another direction for the Heavenly Demons' efforts—

The possibility of successfully descending gods without borrowing the Great Fang Hu!

This was too terrifying.

Three thousand years ago, the human world had abundant spiritual energy and Immortals with boundless magic power, which was why they could drive the Heavenly Demons out.

Today, Immortals had basically disappeared, and Lingshan had hidden itself in the clouds. If the Heavenly Demons could bypass the barrier between the two realms and the obstruction of the Heavenly Luo Xing to descend again, who in the world could stop them?

Qu Yu had used his own life as the price to delay this massive catastrophe for three thousand years.

How much longer could it be delayed? No one knew.

To what extent had this research of the Heavenly Demons progressed? It was unknown.

But if Qu Yu could accidentally succeed, why couldn't the Heavenly Demons succeed by coincidence?

This sudden piece of information gave He Lingchuan an inexplicable sense of urgency.

He pondered for a long time and asked Fu Liushan:

"There should be many small gods building temples on the Flash Gold Plain?"

"There are quite a few; there are thirty or forty just in this vicinity. Do you want to pay them a visit?"

He Lingchuan gave an "Hmm": "I want to inquire about some information, but I don't want to be targeted by the gods. I'll have to carefully screen a few."

Now, he could go to the various small gods with questions.

With so many Heavenly Gods, if he tempted them with benefits, there would always be a few with loose lips.

Fu Liushan nodded: "Good, wait until I've inquired clearly, then I'll tell you in detail."

After the Ghost Ape finished its work, Dong Rui urged Fu Liushan to cast spells again, using the Acorn Men to explore the remaining parts of the underground palace.

Qu Yu's cave dwelling was very large and extended in all directions, and some old mechanisms hadn't been dismantled yet.

Fu Liushan, working for free, was so tired his eyelids were rolling back: "What exactly are you looking for?"

"The burial ground!"

"Isn't that Crystal Mountain enough for you to play with?"

"Save the best for last; find me the burial ground first, that is, the place where Immortal Minghui discarded the remains!" Dong Rui also needed to dispose of trash when doing his own experiments, so he understood the thought process of a biochemical fanatic very well.

He was particularly concerned about the number nine hundred and ninety-eight.

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