Chapter 213: The Extending God's corpse has been stolen!

Fang Xu's expression changed drastically.

Back then, I could survive in the Tilan Mountain Ruins thanks to the Human Fiend Clan's indispensable help.

Later, with the Human Fiend Clan's help, I gained many benefits in the Tilan Mountain Ruins.

The last time I came to the Tilan Mountain Ruins, I had planned to bring the Human Fiend Clan out of the ruin, but in my haste I forgot.

I never expected that this time, the Human Fiend Clan would suffer such heavy losses.

Damn the Extending God Sect!

How have these guys not been wiped out yet?

Seeing Human Fiend corpses scattered throughout the passageway ahead, Fang Xu's expression turned grim.

"Godson, this is..."

Shihuan looked at Fang Xu, puzzled, thinking Fang Xu was angry about the deaths of the Extending God Sect's followers.

"They are the Extending God Sect."

Fang Xu said.

"Extending God Sect?"

Zhongli Hui and several others exchanged glances.

"Is it a power founded by the Great Extending God?"

"Are they still active on this land of Three Mountains Island?"

Zhongli Hui said excitedly.

They now all know that Fang Xu is the inheritor of the Extending God.

And if the Extending God Sect is a power founded by the Extending God, finding them would be a huge boost for the Dark God Temple.

"They are a group of traitors."

Fang Xu's following words left everyone stunned.

"Traitors!?"

"In this ruin, originally many temple disciples brought by the Extending God from the Central Continent lived, but they likely all died at the hands of the Extending God Sect's followers."

After experiencing many things, Fang Xu could roughly figure out that all the circumstances in the Tilan Mountain Ruins were likely the doing of the Extending God Sect.

Back then, the Extending God led many disciples of the Dark God Temple to Three Mountains Island.

The original intention should have been to accumulate strength here and wait for the opportunity to return to the Central Continent.

But perhaps because the Extending God ultimately died, some disciples originally belonging to the Dark God Temple harbored wicked thoughts, wanting to leave the ruin and rule the Three Mountains Island continent.

But in the end, some unknown change occurred, resulting in their defeat at the hands of the Yu State's ancestors.

And before, many temple disciples likely lived on the upper layers of the ruin, but later they were all slain by the followers of the Extending God Sect.

"They have long wanted to capture me alive and obtain the true inheritance of the Extending God from me."

Fang Xu spoke again.

Upon hearing this, Zhongli Hui and the others' faces instantly turned cold.

The Extending God holds supreme status in the Dark God Temple, and so does his inheritor.

Now they actually heard that someone dares to target the Extending God's inheritor, and each of them felt murderous intent.

"Godson, how strong is the Extending God Sect?"

Zhongli Hui said.

Under Fang Xu's leadership, the members of the Dark God Temple temporarily withdrew to the land of Three Mountains Island.

After undergoing a sweeping reform, the temple lost a great deal of its power, its strength weakened, and it appeared somewhat disheveled.

But the Dark God Temple still possesses the strength to rival the two sects and two schools.

This so-called Extending God Sect, despite not venerating the Extending God, still dares to act in his name; in the minds of several temple elders, it has already been sentenced to death.

Fang Xu shook his head.

The exact strength of the Extending God Sect, he still does not know to this day.

Back then, he thought the Extending God Sect would be defeated by the ancestors of Li Cangwu, so its strength should not be strong, at least not possessing any Primordial Martial Realm experts.

But later, he discovered he was wrong.

The strength of the Extending God Sect absolutely exceeds his imagination.

However, Fang Xu now is not at all worried.

The Extending God Sect's strength might exceed his expectations, but it absolutely does not have the strength to contend with a God-Communion Realm expert.

Otherwise, back then it would certainly not have been defeated by the ancestors of Li Cangwu.

Moreover, the Dark God Temple now has five God-Communion Realm temple elders, and there are more than ten Dharma Appearance Realm experts; if they cannot wipe out the Extending God Sect, that would be strange.

The urgent priority is to first locate the headquarters of the Extending God Sect.

"Let's go check ahead."

Following the passageway, Fang Xu hurried forward.

He now urgently wants to confirm whether the Human Fiend Clan still has any survivors.

Whether Broken Horn is still alive.

The further they went, the more Human Fiend corpses there were.

Most of these Human Fiend corpses had their four limbs cut off and their bodies drained of blood.

Obviously, the Extending God Sect's gang of beasts prepares to use the Human Fiends' limbs and blood for some evil experiment.

In Fang Xu's view, the Extending God Sect's gang is a group of evil cultivator scientists.

Whether the so-called "God Blood" or cultivators like Yun Qing from back then who were transformed, they are all results of the Extending God Sect's experiments.

Following the passageway, everyone quickly arrived at a somewhat open area.

Here, Fang Xu finally discovered a living Human Fiend.

Seeing someone appear, this Human Fiend's eyes turned scarlet, and it attacked immediately.

Beside Fang Xu, Zhongli Hui immediately prepared to strike and kill it, but Fang Xu stopped him.

"Leave it to me."

He reached out and grabbed the Human Fiend's incoming fist, and Fang Xu pointed a finger at its forehead.

This Human Fiend immediately froze in place.

After a moment, the scarlet in its eyes gradually faded, restoring clarity.

"Roar!"

"Roar roar!"

After seeing clearly that the person before it was Fang Xu, this Human Fiend let out several excited howls, and tears even flashed in its eyes.

Fang Xu couldn't immediately understand what it was saying, so he only asked, "Where is Duanjiao?"

"Is he still alive?"

That Human Fiend immediately nodded frantically, then pointed to the passageway beside it.

"Alright, take me to see Duanjiao."

Under the guidance of this Human Fiend, Fang Xu quickly met Duanjiao and the surviving Human Fiend clan.

Seeing the mere hundred or so Human Fiends remaining before him, Fang Xu felt uneasy.

Know that at the peak of the Human Fiend clan in the past, they numbered nearly ten thousand, and the entire area as well as the Second Layer were their domain.

But now…

"Master."

Duanjiao came before Fang Xu with tearful eyes, excitedly kneeling on the ground.

He had become a Great Demon and could speak normally.

"Duanjiao, get up first." After helping Duanjiao to his feet, Fang Xu asked in a low voice, "What exactly happened?"

Duanjiao looked at the surviving clansmen behind him, gritted his teeth, and said, "It's those people from the Extending God Sect!"

"Two years ago, they began infiltrating the ruins."

"Following your orders, I had the clansmen hide."

"That bunch passed through the Second Layer, slaughtering all the native inhabitants of the layers behind, and then turned their sights on us."

"Over these two years, they have sent large numbers of people to sweep the Second Layer."

"The clansmen… the clansmen are almost all killed by them."

Fang Xu heard this and furrowed his brows.

He somewhat didn't understand why the Extending God Sect's people would massively capture and kill the native inhabitants of the Blue-lift Mountain Ruins.

Know that the Human Fiends of the Second Layer of the ruins, the Crimson Flame Winged Snakes of the Third Layer, etc., are not particularly strong.

It is absolutely not worth the Extending God Sect's people expending such a huge cost to capture and kill.

"Did they go to the Final Layer?" Fang Xu suddenly asked.

The Seventh Layer of the ruins is where the past incarnation of the Extending God resides; if the Extending God Sect's bunch went to the Seventh Layer, it would likely be detrimental to the Extending God.

Although the past incarnation of the Extending God possesses strength surpassing the God-Penetrating Realm, the true body of the Extending God is located in the Divine Palace at the center of the magma lake.

If the Extending God Sect's bunch is aiming for the true body of the Extending God, the situation would be dire.

Duanjiao shook his head: "We have been hiding in the Second Layer all along, unaware of the conditions of the lower layers."

After a moment's thought, Fang Xu immediately decided to bring the Human Fiend clan together to the Seventh Layer to take a look.

Along the way, as they passed through the Third and Fourth Layers, they discovered that everything here had been looted clean.

Even the Purification Pool that Fang Xu had previously discovered, along with the surrounding rare medicinal herbs, were swept clean by the Extending God Sect, not a single weed left.

Seeing this, Fang Xu instantly became angry.

This time, Fang Xu came to the Blue-lift Mountain Ruins, one of his purposes being the precious medicinal herbs here.

Know that when he initially came here with Chu Mu, Chu Mu only harvested a tiny portion of the medicinal herbs, leaving the vast majority behind.

Now it's fine—directly wiped clean by the Extending God Sect's people.

In this situation, Fang Xu need not think to know that the resources of the Fifth and Sixth Layers are likely completely gone as well.

"Go!"

Entering the Fifth Layer, then the Sixth Layer, Fang Xu indeed found that everything here had been looted clean, with nothing useful left at all.

Moreover, the Fox Women living in the Sixth Layer were all captured cleanly, and even the avatar of the Great Yin True Lord disappeared.

Seeing this, Fang Xu couldn't help but feel doubtful.

Just what means did those people of the Extending God Sect employ?

If there were a Dharma Appearance Realm expert among them, they could defeat the Fox Women, but the avatar of the Great Yin True Lord is absolutely not something a Dharma Appearance Realm could handle.

Could it be that the Great Yin True Lord did not take action?

That shouldn't be the case.

After strolling around the Sixth Layer, Fang Xu directly led everyone to the Seventh Layer.

Upon reaching the magma lake, Fang Xu suddenly noticed that the silhouettes of the lava giants in the magma lake had vanished!

"Not good!"

Fang Xu immediately flickered his form, rushing toward the Divine Palace at the center of the magma lake.

The protective shield on the Divine Palace had already vanished, and everyone followed him easily into the interior of the Divine Palace.

"Senior Extending God!"

"Senior Extending God!"

Fang Xu came to the Divine Hall and shouted directly.

But Yanshen's figure did not appear.

Beside him, Zhongli Hui and the others were also full of doubt.

They never imagined that Yanshen would encounter any mishap.

Fang Xu shouted a few times with no response, then went straight to the coffin in the rear hall of the Divine Hall.

Seeing the coffin lid cast aside before him, his heart instantly turned cold halfway.

He quickly stepped up to the coffin, took a look, and indeed found Yanshen's corpse missing.

"Divine Child, what happened?"

Seeing Fang Xu's expression somewhat off, Zhongli Hui hurried over.

"Yanshen Senior's corpse is gone," Fang Xu said with a somewhat dejected tone.

What!

Hearing this, everyone rushed to the coffin, saw it empty inside, and couldn't believe it.

"Divine Child, you didn't say there was a past incarnation of Yanshen guarding here?"

"Yanshen's past incarnation is absolutely not something a Divine Connection Realm powerhouse can handle!"

"Who exactly could have stolen his old man's corpse?"

Fang Xu shook his head; he also didn't know what exactly happened.

Yanshen's past incarnation could join forces with that mysterious powerful entity existing in the void to oppose the will of heaven and earth.

But such an existence, how could it allow someone to steal its true body?

Is the Yanshen Sect that strong?

"Divine Child, what is this?"

Then, at this moment, Qi Shaoyu's voice came.

She held an odd iron chain in her hand and looked at Fang Xu.

Fang Xu frowned slightly, quickly taking the iron chain from Qi Shaoyu's hand.

This thing feels very familiar!

I feel like I've seen it somewhere before.

Wait!

As he stroked the severed iron chain, Fang Xu suddenly thought of a figure!

The Funeral Bearer of the Vast Sea!

That one, behind whom lay seven-layer coffins burying the entire Heavenly Xuan Realm, is the mysterious Funeral Bearer!

The Funeral Bearer has such an iron chain on his body!

However, the Funeral Bearer has always roamed the Vast Sea; how could he come to Tilan Mountain?

Moreover, the Funeral Bearer came to the ruins of Tilan Mountain; is this the Yanshen Sect's doing, or did he himself discover something?

"Several Elders, do you know the Funeral Bearer of the Vast Sea?"

Fang Xu suddenly asked.

He now wants to clarify the Funeral Bearer's identity.

Funeral Bearer!?

Upon hearing that name, Zhongli Hui and the others' expressions suddenly changed.

"Does the Divine Child mean this iron chain belongs to the Funeral Bearer?"

Looking at Fang Xu, Zhongli Hui said solemnly.

Fang Xu nodded slightly.

He had observed the iron chain up close and had entered the seven-layer stone coffin, able to confirm this iron chain is from the Funeral Bearer's body.

Seeing him nod, Zhongli Hui and the others' faces turned ashen.

"That Yanshen, old man, is probably... more ominous than auspicious."

He sighed deeply, Zhongli Hui said: "The Funeral Bearer is a taboo-like existence; no one knows what he actually is."

"Divine Child should know, a Divine Connection Realm cultivator ignites divine flame within his body."

"And when the divine flame extinguishes, it signifies the fall of a Divine Connection Realm powerhouse."

"However, generally a Dharma Appearance Realm powerhouse, after falling, leaves behind a means for their divine soul to seize a body or reincarnate."

Fang Xu nodded slightly; he had already understood these matters.

But what does this have to do with the Funeral Bearer?

Zhongli Hui continued: "To us Divine Connection Realm powerhouses, death is not the most terrifying."

"Because in battles of the same level, our divine souls have ways to escape."

"But once the divine soul leaves the flesh, the radiance of the divine flame will attract the gaze of the Funeral Bearer."

"Once targeted by the Funeral Bearer, even a god cannot escape."

And this too!?

Fang Xu said somewhat startled: "Isn't the Funeral Bearer always active in the Vast Sea?"

Zhongli Hui shook his head: "Not so."

"Or perhaps one could say, the Funeral Bearer may not be just one."

Fang Xu, hearing this, his expression turned solemn.

He has witnessed the Funeral Bearer's strength; when he first encountered a Dharma Appearance Realm expert's pursuit in the Vast Sea.

A Dharma Appearance Realm expert, before the Funeral Bearer, has no power to retaliate.

If it is really the Funeral Bearer taking action, then the Derived God might truly have more misfortune than fortune.

No wonder the Derived God, after death, hid his soul and corpse in the deepest part of the remains.

He only dared to appear with his past body.

It seems he is afraid of being watched by the Funeral Bearer.

But the main problem now is how the Funeral Bearer discovered this place.

Could the Derived God Sect possibly have a means to guide or control the Funeral Bearer?

Carrying this doubt, everyone left the Tilan Shan remains.

The Derived God is gone, everything inside the remains has been looted clean, and this remains has completely lost its value.

At the remains' gate, Fang Xu looked at the iron chain in his hand, and a surge of impulse welled up in his heart.

"Several Elders, help me guard the Dharma."

After saying that, he immediately sat cross-legged on the ground, his hands merely gripping that section of the iron chain.

Hum!

A strange energy surged out from within his body!

Seeing this, Xuanji in the crowd was greatly startled!

"Heaven-Praying Technique!"

"The Divine Son actually intends to use the Heaven-Praying Technique to deduce the Funeral Bearer's footsteps!"

"Divine Son, no!"

The mystery of the Funeral Bearer is no longer something he at his level can spy upon.

Fang Xu rashly attempts to use the Heaven-Praying Technique to spy on the Funeral Bearer, undoubtedly seeking his own death!

But now the Heaven-Praying Technique has been activated, Fang Xu's body has also gained a trace of divinity, and various terrifying auras have followed closely with the activation of the Heaven-Praying Technique!

He now wants to stop, but it's already too late! (End of chapter)