Chapter 574: Inauspicious Corpse

Taboo characteristics, must not be spoken; to speak is to invite disaster.

As Li Heng spoke, he caused a tremor in this Core Land; the Void began to crack, and from those Rifts emerged a place of incomparably profound, seemingly Unknown Darkness.

A hand reached out from the Rift; this seemed to be a Taboo awakened from an Eternal slumber, or perhaps a corpse that had long been dead but had suddenly resurrected—extremely Inauspicious.

Li Heng's expression remained as usual, lost in thought.

No wonder it is called a Great Terror; it seems it has already reached beyond the Supreme, suspected to be in the Venerable Realm. Naturally, this is not something an ordinary Sacred, or even a Sacred Supreme, could deal with.

Boom!

As the Void Rift opened wider and wider, dense cracks spread throughout the surrounding Void. The Void now looked like a glass bottle covered in fractures, seemingly ready to shatter at a touch.

Li Heng grew impatient; if it wanted to come out, it should hurry up.

With a wave of his large hand, supreme power erupted, helping that so-called Great Terror pry open the Rift, eager for it to emerge. If others were to see this, they would likely think Li Heng was in league with this Great Terror, helping it return to the world—it was simply jaw-dropping.

Finally, with their combined efforts, the surrounding Void collapsed completely; apart from the orb of light at the center suspected to be the Reincarnation Core, everything else returned to nothingness and destruction.

It was a case of tearing the place apart the moment he arrived.

"Rein... car... nation..."

The whisper echoed all around, filled with endless doubt, dejection, and madness, trying to drill into Li Heng's ears; judging by the momentum, it was determined to take root and sprout in his heart, never giving up.

The movement of the Void collapsing faded, revealing a deeper level of nothingness; it seemed not to belong to the Void, yet it seemed to belong to it as well—it was indescribable, possessing a sense of the profoundest mystery.

But the next moment, this sense was broken.

A figure appeared before Li Heng's eyes.

Or rather, a corpse, human-shaped, its entire body cyan-black, its facial features covered in blood-red cracks resembling Dao wounds; its eye sockets were sunken as if lacking eyeballs, emitting black Qi like a surging tide.

Li Heng was somewhat surprised; was this Great Terror actually so normal?

One must know that this is a place where Calamities and monsters dwell, mostly in those unspeakable forms. Now, although a corpse had popped out of the Core Land, in terms of the degree of the Unknown, it was far lower than those Calamities and monsters.

Moreover, this corpse seemed to be relatively well-preserved; it even had hair. Judging by the long hair cascading over its shoulders like a waterfall, this corpse was a woman in life.

A woman who remained a corpse to this day and became a Great Terror?

Li Heng frowned.

He had once heard that when the Ten Thousand Worlds Great Reincarnation shattered in the past, a monumental figure fell; could this figure be the corpse before him? That legendary Lord of Reincarnation?

It is just unclear whether this Lord of Reincarnation was a Venerable in life, or if she became a Great Terror after death due to some kind of power infection, and thus achieved the Venerable Realm?

If it were the latter, that would be reasonable.

But if it were the former, it would mean the waters of the Calamities and monsters remain deep, very deep—so deep that even a Venerable could not resist, or even escape, and could only fall here in the end.

"....... Reincarnation......"

The corpse whispered again, filled with endless madness, reaching deep into the nether, spanning the past, present, and future; it was as if it were summoning souls, wanting to manifest everything—every person and object—that had been extinguished countless years ago.

But regardless, these few whispers were extremely dangerous.

Li Heng sensed the intensity.

He discovered that if he had not advanced to the Venerable Realm before coming to this Reincarnation Core Land, hearing this whisper would likely have caused him to fall, along with his avatar and his true self!

If he had not been able to use Source Power in time.

"Reincarnation!"

The whisper turned into a roar; seemingly because it realized its soul-summoning was of no use and everything had already passed, the corpse's aura began to erupt, its face showing a murderous look as it locked onto Li Heng.

"Fellow Daoist, this has nothing to do with me; you should know that."

Li Heng said very sincerely.

However, as the saying goes, the tiger has the intent to harm, but the man has no heart to harm the tiger. The next moment, the corpse had already lunged at Li Heng, arriving before him in an instant, its killing intent aimed directly at Li Heng's origin.

At this moment, Li Heng's aura had been locked; even across infinite space-time, it was as if it were right in front of him, unavoidable. The situation was like a bird in a cage—though it jumped about, it could not escape.

Since he could not escape, he could only block.

With a thought, an invisible light shield rose up, placing Li Heng in the Saint Realm of being indestructible through ten thousand calamities, colliding with the corpse's killing intent.

The light shield shattered in an instant, but the killing intent also returned empty-handed.

But the next moment, more and stronger killing intent materialized, sealing the four directions and six harmonies, then transforming into a monstrous tsunami, rushing toward Li Heng, intending to drown him within it.

Li Heng took a step forward, and his own status began to rise. Although his position seemed not to have changed, he now seemed to stand at the highest point, viewing this tsunami of killing intent as flat ground, walking upon it.

Hum~

A humming sound rang out, and the corpse disappeared again. But the next moment, a giant mouth capable of devouring the All-Heaven Multiverse, filled with endless Unknown Darkness, emerged, occupying Li Heng's field of vision and the surrounding Void, intending to swallow Li Heng in one gulp.

Li Heng raised his palm, and Chaos Sword Qi was unleashed, shattering laws and Reason, using the power to re-enact the earth, wind, water, and fire, and recreate the World to break open this giant mouth, avoiding the fate of being swallowed.

But in that split second, from his side, a cyan-black claw struck out; time and space were torn apart, Causality was thrown into chaos, leaving everything in an Unknown state, making it difficult for him to defend.

"Enough!"

Li Heng frowned.

This corpse, suspected to be the Lord of Reincarnation, this Great Terror, was truly troublesome enough. Its offensives were continuous, and it had locked onto his aura so tightly that he could not employ many of his methods.

The most critical point was that he had only recently ascended to the Venerable Realm, and his foundation was not yet very stable. If he were to fight this corpse, although he was confident he could win, it would certainly be a trade of injuries for life, which was not worth it. Since he had plenty of the most basic Source Power besides Golden Source Points, he could just use Source Power to deal with this corpse.

In any case, to completely eliminate this corpse, he would have to use Source Power anyway. Besides, why not use a cheat if you have one? With a thought, Source Power surged, instantly manifesting a Source Power Cage in the Void, directly trapping the corpse that had come to ambush him.

The corpse was trapped and went mad, its power erupting as it frantically struck the Source Power Cage; endless black Qi surged from those eye sockets, thick as liquid, trying to corrode the cage.

But the Source Power Cage remained unmoved.

Li Heng caught his breath.

This place was, after all, the home turf of the Calamity monsters and this corpse. Having to resist the external environment while dealing with the corpse's violent attacks, he was finding it somewhat strenuous.

"To make me feel troubled after death, who exactly are you?"

Li Heng spoke, his gaze profound, tracing back through space-time.