Chapter 96: God and Demon Burial Ground! The Undead Curse!

Legend has it that many, many years ago, the Barren Land was not barren at all, but a fertile plain with rich soil, abundant resources, and countless races living together in peace.

But a catastrophe swept across this land, led by the God race and the Demon race, each commanding several powerful racial factions, and an earth-shattering war erupted here!

According to information passed down by word of mouth from the Orc ancestors, that battle blotted out the sky and sun, turned rivers into blood, and nearly shattered the heavens and earth; over ninety-nine percent of living beings died in that battle and were buried in this place!

From then on, this land had a new name: the Shenmo Guzhanchang!

Due to the impact of the war, the earth suffered massive destruction, and even after countless years, the living environment has never recovered and remains extremely harsh.

As time passed, the name Shenmo Guzhanchang was gradually forgotten, and people began to call this land the "Barren Land"!

If that were all, it would be fine.

But in that Great War of Gods and Demons, it was not only the living beings who resided there who died, but also countless warriors who participated in that war, as well as one god-level powerhouse each from the God race and the Demon race, whose remains were buried forever beneath this land.

As for the God and Demon Burial Ground mentioned by the tall Orcs, it is located to the south of the Orc Tribe; it is said that two gods fell there simultaneously, and although they perished together, their power remained, never dissipating, and continues to influence everything around it.

The obsessions of the two gods recovered a sliver of their former consciousness over the years, transforming into spirits of the dead; they still remembered their missions from when they were alive and summoned the remains of the dead buried beneath the earth, forming army after army of Undead, once again igniting war.

However, under normal circumstances, those "resurrected" Undead are influenced by those special powers and only move within a fixed range, which is to say, they only operate within the God and Demon Burial Ground and rarely leave it.

Moreover, those two lingering consciousnesses of the gods and demons do not exist permanently; every time they launch a war, it consumes their own power, and once the power is exhausted, they fall into slumber again, and the war in the God and Demon Burial Ground temporarily comes to an end.

Until those two lingering consciousnesses recover their power and wake up again to reignite the war of the dead, repeating the cycle, continuing for countless years!

Hearing that the Orc Tribe was surrounded by Undead, the high-ranking Orcs all arrived at the city wall, and looking at the vast expanse of white Undead outside, they all revealed expressions of astonishment.

"Chieftain, Priest, how could we dare to go to the God and Demon Burial Ground!"

It was just that the state of these Orcs was not very good; they were covered in wounds, their faces were pale, and their wounds were not only continuously bleeding but occasionally emitting wisps of white smoke, their life force extremely weak.

And the God and Demon Burial Ground had also become a forbidden land!

It was also a place that the Shouren were strictly forbidden from stepping foot in!

Because one hundred years ago, the Shouren were more powerful than they are today, and their territory occupied nearly half of the Barren Land, known as the Orc Kingdom.

This led to the disintegration of the Orc Kingdom, and the Orc Tribe here is a branch of Orcs that separated from the Orc Kingdom.

Who would have thought that the Orc King of that generation would be bewitched by monsters, ignore the ancestral teachings, and act willfully, leading the most elite tribesmen to break into the God and Demon Burial Ground in an attempt to find the method of immortality left behind by the gods and demons.

But the result was that the Orc King and tens of thousands of elite Shouren powerhouses remained in the God and Demon Burial Ground forever, and after death, they were transformed into Undead.

And that group of Orcs who encountered the Undead attack and luckily escaped back to the tribe were also brought up to the city wall.

Therefore, the Orcs have always been very fearful of the Undead; it is both passed down by word of mouth from their elders and engraved in their genes!

This is also why the Orcs dare to provoke anyone, but are only afraid of those Undead that can never be killed!

"Sapat, did you go to the God and Demon Burial Ground? How could you provoke so many Undead!"

And the Shouren are even cursed by the God and Demon Burial Ground, attacking each other, with war and chaos never ceasing.

Some Orcs were even acting as if they had gone mad, shouting and yelling, hitting people everywhere, and it took several Orc warriors working together to restrain them.

From a certain perspective, they have also achieved "immortality," and to this day they are still wandering and lingering in the God and Demon Burial Ground.

"I was just out hunting as I do every day, and when we were on our way back, we were suddenly attacked by a large group of Undead!"

The Orc known as Sapat endured the torture of severe pain and replied, "I don't know where these Undead came from either, it hurts so much!"

He had originally led two hundred Orcs out to perform a hunting mission; the hunt had originally ended successfully, and they had harvested a large batch of prey, but they were suddenly attacked by the Undead.

Because the number of Undead was simply too great, they were no match for them and had to retreat and flee.

Although he escaped back, half of his comrades had died, and only nearly one hundred Orcs survived to return.

But these returning Orcs were all in a very poor state.

Some Orcs appeared to have only minor injuries on the surface, yet they were weak and powerless; some had even gone mad; some had wounds that simply would not stop bleeding; and others had suddenly lost sensation in their bodies and had to be carried back by others.

"You don't know where the Undead popped out from?"

"And I see you only have such a tiny wound on your body, what are you faking pain for!"

"Do you think I will go easy on you just because you fake pain?"

The one speaking was the Chieftain of the Shouren, Runinuo, whose entire body was covered in robust muscles, standing over three meters tall, exuding an astonishing aura.

Even the Black Iron Realm Orc captain Sapat felt a huge sense of oppression in front of him.

"No, Chieftain, I am truly in pain, my whole body is in extreme pain, it has nothing to do with the wounds!"

"How would I dare to lie? Everything I said is true; if you don't believe me, you can ask the others!"

Sapat said with an innocent face, "The others are the same; they were fine before, but after fighting the Undead, they became like this. I suspect they were hit by the Undead's curse!"

"A curse??"

Upon hearing Sapat's words, the surrounding Orcs swarmed away, keeping far away from Sapat and the others, and even the few who were suppressing the mad Orcs let them go, leaving them to go mad everywhere.

"Priest, take a look at what is wrong with them!"

The Orc Chieftain Runinuo looked at a goat-bearded Orc standing to the side wearing a white robe.

"It looks like they have indeed been hit by the Undead's curse!"

"Let me try first!"

"If it truly is a curse from the God and Demon Burial Ground, this old man will be helpless!"

The Orc Priest revealed a grave expression.

His pair of murky eyes flashed with a sharp light as he raised the beast-bone scepter in his hand and tapped it onto Sapat's body.

A gentle green light spilled down, and Sapat let out a moan of relief; the pain in his body suddenly vanished in that instant.

(End of chapter)