Chapter 246: Linglong Xianjun

Yes, a simplified version.

This was not strange. The real Zhoutian Xingdou Array possessed the terrifying power to shake the entire star sea.

This level of power, besides the Immortal King himself, no one could control.

This was the reason why existences at the end of the Immortal Monarch realm could suppress the current world.

Because in this world, there was almost no Immortal King-level power left. Even if there were, besides the Immortal King Sutras, they were all incomplete.

Like the water area at the bottom of the Xuanwu River, like the rotting corpse high above the sky here.

He contemplated for a moment and had some insights, but not many.

His Array Dao talent was indeed not very good, far inferior to his Martial Dao.

He looked at that rotting corpse and stepped through the air toward it. Platinum light separated the skull insect swarm, and some skull insects hit the platinum light, making crisp sounds.

Arriving beside the corpse, it was clearly rotting, yet it emitted a fragrance, making one feel relaxed and happy.

Platinum brilliance fell on the corpse, and the surging skull insects became a bit thinner, but it did not solve the fundamental problem.

Withdrawing his hand, the corpse of an Immortal King-level creature, even after death, was still an almost unsolvable existence.

His current physical body was already close to a fully-state law life, although he had not completed the resurrection of flesh and blood, it was far superior to the Immortal Body of Dizu Huangzun.

It could be said that without using the Time Law, he didn't even need to use the power of the Ten Directions Hegemony Record to have a chance to suppress Dizu Huangzun in his peak state.

But even so, compared to this Immortal King corpse, it was still much worse.

Realizing the resurrection of flesh and blood from law life was a leap in the level of life.

Looking at this corpse, he couldn't help but think of Huangtian Shenmu and took out the brass heart from the alien space.

From a sensory point of view, this brass heart was not a body of flesh and blood, but it was also completely different from law life.

Looking at it this way, Huangtian Shenmu and this mysterious Immortal King seemed to be walking different paths.

If one said the Immortal King was returning to oneself, then Huangtian Shenmu was moving toward a dead object.

But there was no doubt that these were two paths that were not inferior to each other, and both could reach the Immortal King level.

He looked at the nematode that was showing off its power in the skull insect swarm. At this time, the nematode's size had reached nearly ten meters, and its sharp teeth were stained with tiny red threads, which were being slowly absorbed.

That was an unknown thing growing from the brains of the skull insects.

Looking at it this way, the creature suppressed at the bottom of the river and this rotting Immortal King corpse should both be walking the Martial Dao, which was why they were devouring each other.

Were they seeking resurrection? Existences of the Immortal King level were simply too mysterious; no matter what situation appeared, it would not be surprising.

It was just that what he didn't expect was that the Immortal King, who had always been a majestic and bright image, would actually give birth to such terrifying and weird creatures after death.

Putting away the brass heart, he swung a claw, and the platinum brilliance turned into a giant hand, grasping the nematode into his hand.

He casually severed a branch and crushed it. Strange vitality dissipated, and the surrounding skull insects rushed toward that vitality like crazy.

Qin Jiang felt it silently. After devouring a large number of skull insects, the strange vitality contained in the nematode was also significantly clearer.

Grasping slightly, a drop of blood floated out and landed on Qin Jiang's palm.

At the same time, all the skull insects also rushed toward where Qin Jiang was, but they were all blocked by a platinum light shield. Cracks appeared under the impact, but they were repaired the next moment.

Although these skull insects could pose a fatal threat to the Sacred Domain level, for him, they were still much worse.

Feeling the blood bead in his hand, the nematode had devoured a huge amount of skull insects. This should be considered a combined product of the suppressed object and this rotting Immortal King corpse.

Although the combination of the two types of vitality seemed somewhat mixed, a strange feeling was clearer. "Dead vitality?"

Clearly bestowing life on the nematode creatures and those skull insects, yet it was also like the culprit that deprived them of life.

It was such a contradictory feeling.

If deduced in order, it was that this dead vitality, under some special circumstances, gave birth to nematodes and skull insects.

Afterward, because of the special nature of this vitality, it deprived the two types of insects of the possibility of continuing to multiply and evolve.

They could only live forever in a state of neither life nor death.

Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration crossed his heart. He grabbed a portion of the surrounding crazy skull insects and compressed them into a palm-sized small ball with the power of the Green Emperor Longevity Record.

Raising his hand to hold the small ball, he made a throwing motion.

"Whoosh!"

A green light shot toward the distance and disappeared at the end of the sky in the blink of an eye.

After a breath, a point of green light lit up at the end of the sky, and then cut through the skull insect tide and returned to Qin Jiang's hand.

The green light dissipated, and dense white sand slid down. The skull insects inside had already disappeared.

Nodding slightly, no wonder they couldn't be ground away, and couldn't escape a specific range.

They couldn't be ground away because they possessed the Immortal King's already dead vitality, and under special circumstances, manifested into a life form.

Fundamentally speaking, whether it was the nematode creatures or these skull insects, they did not possess the concept of life and death.

Since there was no life or death, what was there to talk about killing? And why couldn't they leave this specific area? Actually, it was the same as why the nematode creatures could survive here.

It was because there was a special field around this rotting Immortal King and the suppressed object at the bottom of the river. Only in this special field could they maintain their state of neither life nor death.

The reason they would crazily devour each other was likely that they were truly seeking the possibility of becoming a living creature.

Looking at it this way, the reason the Lingxuan Xianwang did not open that suppressed place back then was perhaps because he had long known that the suppressed thing was not a living creature.

The vitality it displayed was simply an illusion, so there was no need to deal with it at all.

As for why it needed to be opened when an Immortal King was in the world, it should be because even if that suppressed object was a dead object, even if it had no self-will, it had the ability to destroy everything below an Immortal King.

This was simply a troublesome thing similar to a source of plague. It was no wonder the Lingxuan Xianwang did not take action personally.

After all, an Immortal King who had the longest recorded stay in the human world and left behind a neutral Dao Land would not do such a thankless task.

Suddenly, he looked at the entrance of the vortex passage blocked by the skull insects, raised his hand to grasp the nematode outside the light barrier into a meatball the size of a dragon's eye, sealed it, and stuffed it into the alien space.

The moment the nematode disappeared, the rioting skull insect tide suddenly stilled, and then slowly flowed toward the sky.

It was only a few breaths of time, and it had recovered to its original appearance.

The sealed passage was revealed, covered with a layer of black ice, with flames burning inside.

The next moment, cracks appeared on the black ice, and the flames inside sprayed out from the cracks.

Bang! The black ice shattered, and a slender figure wearing a green dress walked in, a pair of eyes meeting Qin Jiang's.

"Immortal Monarch Qin? Why are you here?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 247 =====