Chapter 251: Lord of the Corpse Forest, Boundless Corpse Kingdom

Yang Xianlin and the other Nascent Soul True Monarchs did not know what lay deep within the Corpse Tide, but they keenly sensed that something was wrong with the two Great Ability True Monarchs, and they were immediately shocked:

"Two True Monarchs, what has happened!?"

The two True Monarchs, Lingjian and Zhuhuo, withdrew their Divine Sense in time; there was no major harm, but their expressions were unprecedentedly grave, murderous, and even fearful:

"The situation is not good."

"Leading this Corpse Tide, in addition to the Corpse Bone Heavenly Demon Maiden and the Star River Sect Supreme Elder, there is an additional unknown existence."

"This corpse rides a throne of bones, its aura is monstrous, and even the two great Heavenly Corpse Kings, the Corpse Bone Heavenly Demon Maiden and the Star River Sect Supreme Elder, serve at its sides."

What?

All the Nascent Soul True Monarchs were startled, and Yang Xianlin's expression changed drastically:

"Two great Heavenly Corpse Kings serving at its sides? Could it be that a Heavenly Corpse Emperor has arrived!? How could this be!?"

A Heavenly Corpse Emperor is an existence at the level of a Return to Void Great Ability; wherever it passes, the land is dead for a thousand miles, devouring Heaven and Earth. No amount of cultivators can resist such an existence; only the intervention of the Immortal Alliance's Return to Void Great Abilities can contend with it.

The catastrophe has raged for two thousand years. Now, the Corpse Demon side occupies the two continents of Dongxuan and Beihao. Aside from the first Return to Void Great Ability from the Yuhua Sect, there are four other existences at the Heavenly Corpse Emperor level.

Among these four, one was transformed into a Corpse Emperor after being attacked by the Yuhua Sect's Heavenly Corpse Emperor, causing its corpse Qi and evil power to mutate; the remaining two evolved from the Heavenly Corpse King or even Heavenly Corpse level.

However, years ago, these few Heavenly Corpse Emperors personally led Corpse Tides to invade. The Immortal Alliance's Return to Void Great Abilities struck fiercely, the two sides fought until the sun and moon were extinguished and mountains and rivers collapsed, and they finally succeeded in heavily wounding and repelling them.

Roughly estimating, there has not been an existence at the Heavenly Corpse Emperor level on the land of Xiyanzhou for at least three or four hundred years. What bad luck did they have today to run into one?

Regarding the horror of the several True Monarchs, True Monarch Lingjian and True Monarch Zhuhuo shook their heads and said in a deep voice:

"That Corpse Demon is not a Heavenly Corpse Emperor; it is still within the category of a Heavenly Corpse King, but it belongs to a high-level Heavenly Corpse King, comparable to a late-stage Transformation Deity cultivator. Zhuhuo and I have almost no chance of winning two against three."

"The only plan now is for the two of us to go ahead and lure this monster away to contain it, then notify the other True Monarchs of the Immortal Alliance to come and support us; only then will there be hope of repelling it."

"Yang Xianlin, send a message to the Immortal Alliance immediately! We will take the first step!"

Having said this, the two True Monarchs transformed into rainbow light, piercing straight into the depths of the Corpse Tide like a sharp blade. The several True Monarchs were all shocked and seemed to want to go forward to assist, but Yang Xianlin raised his hand to stop them and shouted in a deep voice:

"Even if we go forward, we will be of no help in a battle at the True Monarch level; instead, we will hold the two True Monarchs back. What we must do is notify reinforcements and guard the defensive line so they have no worries behind them!"

"If the two True Monarchs cannot contain it, we need not fight to the death; we will preserve our effective strength and retreat in advance!"

Although high-level cultivators possess Heaven's End Talismans to contact the Immortal Alliance at any time, and there are teleportation Dharma Arrays set up between the main Immortal Cities from the inner regions to the defensive borders, allowing the arriving Transformation Deity True Monarchs to arrive in a very short time, even the shortest time, after accounting for delays in every link, would take at least two or three hours or even longer. Whether they can withstand this wave of impact during this period is truly an unknown.

The True Monarchs naturally understood this principle and immediately began to use Divine Sense voice transmission to notify the cultivators of their respective Immortal Cities, causing the cultivators on the Flying Boats to change color one after another:

"What? Another Heavenly Corpse King?"

"This is bad. We only have two True Monarchs here. What should we do now?"

"The two True Monarchs have already gone to contain it; we just need to guard our own defensive line. As for the rest, we must leave it to fate."

The situation suddenly seemed to become exceptionally severe. On the Flying Boats, whether they were Foundation Establishment or Golden Core cultivators, their expressions became incomparably solemn, as if facing a formidable enemy.

On the Longshan Immortal City Flying Boat, everyone's expressions were also tense. Although they were extremely curious about the collision between the two True Monarchs and the three Heavenly Corpse Kings, they did not dare to release their Divine Sense to investigate.

After all, the Divine Sense detection range of a Golden Core cultivator is only about a hundred miles. This vast Corpse Tide's death Qi and corpse Qi are overwhelming; if an ordinary Golden Core cultivator's Divine Sense were to be contaminated, it could be said to be self-destructing their Dao foundation.

Including Lu Yuan, all restrained their curiosity and did not use Supernatural Power means to watch the battle, but remained on the Flying Boat, ready for battle.

And at the same time.

The two True Monarchs had already passed through the hundred-mile torrent of the Corpse Tide and were rapidly approaching the throne of bones they had previously detected with their Divine Sense.

To their surprise, before they approached, the flying Corpse Demons that covered the sky and sun seemed to have received an order, hissing and making way for a path that led directly to the throne of bones in the middle of the Corpse Demon frenzy.

The enemy was unusually powerful; True Monarch Lingjian and True Monarch Zhuhuo naturally would not approach rashly, merely stopping in the void a few miles away, observing from afar.

The mysterious man sitting on the throne of bones had skin as pale as snow, merely looking into the distance with an intrigued gaze, while the Corpse Bone Heavenly Demon Maiden beside him let out a cackling laugh:

"You two old dogs, weren't you very happy chasing us yesterday? Now that Lord Shi Mingkong has arrived, let's see how you can still be arrogant!"

Shi Mingkong?

Scanning the man on the throne, True Monarch Lingjian narrowed his eyes and sent a Divine Sense transmission:

"You were surely not nobodies before you died; do you dare to report your origins?"

The man on the throne had a cruel and bloodthirsty, non-human luster flowing in his eyes, and his voice sounded like thousands of wronged souls whispering in the void:

"For this seat, the past is gone and need not be mentioned. Your cultivation is not bad; you are very suitable to be this seat's nourishment."

True Monarch Zhuhuo's fiery red eyebrows stood up, and he scolded:

"Arrogant! You evil things are nothing but evil desires and wicked thoughts born from the corpses of cultivators. The Heavenly principles are clear, the universe is vast; sooner or later, you will be wiped out by us!"

"Wiped out?"

Shi Mingkong let out an evil, crazy laugh that shook the heavens:

"Just by relying on you, and those few Return to Void Virtual Immortals who are already old and frail? You ignorant creatures have no idea what kind of existence you are facing. Even those few Virtual Immortals are suffering from the Mourning Death Curse because they disturbed the Lord of the Corpse Forest, and they dare not appear again. Do you dare to speak such wild words?"

What?

There seemed to be a huge secret in the other party's words. True Monarch Lingjian and True Monarch Zhuhuo's expressions changed slightly:

"The Lord of the Corpse Forest—are you referring to the first Heavenly Corpse King of the Dongxuan Continent?"

"And what is the Mourning Death Curse?" On the throne of bones, Shi Mingkong sneered:

"Ignorant and pitiful creatures, so you know nothing at all. Is it because your Virtual Immortals dare not mention this to you?"

After all, they were figures at the True Monarch level; the two True Monarchs instantly captured important information from the few words and shouted in shock:

"The Lord of the Corpse Forest you speak of—could it be the source within that Primordial Cave Heaven Secret Realm that caused the Yuhua Sect's Return to Void Great Ability and even most of its high-level members to turn into Corpse Demons!?"

As early as eight hundred years ago, Return to Void Great Abilities from the three continents had joined forces to go to the Dongxuan Continent to investigate the source of the catastrophe.

In that exploration, only Return to Void Great Abilities were present; even Transformation Deity True Monarchs were not qualified to go. The news they finally obtained was that after countless obstructions by Corpse Demons, the few Great Abilities did indeed roughly determine the location of that Primordial Cave Heaven Secret Realm, but the result was that the Yuhua Sect's Heavenly Corpse Emperor, and even two other Heavenly Corpse Emperors, blocked them, and they failed to truly enter it to uncover the mystery of the catastrophe.

And thinking about it carefully, since that exploration, those few Return to Void Great Abilities who returned had completely retired behind the scenes and rarely appeared in public, and the high-level members of the Immortal Alliance did not think much of it.

True Monarch Lingjian and True Monarch Zhuhuo, in their brief exchange with this Shi Mingkong, realized that things did not seem so simple!

Facing their questioning.

Shi Mingkong revealed a playful smile:

"The Lord of the Corpse Forest, who governs death, is the greatest existence between Heaven and Earth. The meaning of our existence is to offer up hundreds of millions of living beings, create a boundless Corpse Kingdom, and awaken this supreme existence."

"Among the myriad living beings, you two should also be existences of a very high order, yet you do not even know these things. It seems those few Void Immortals of yours are intentionally keeping things from you. Since that is the case, why not stay behind and let this seat properly instruct you?"

As his voice fell, rolling black Qi surged up behind him like a tsunami, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a seven-headed giant snake several miles long, truly capable of blotting out the sky and sun with its monstrous, terrifying ferocity.

The moment the seven-headed giant snake appeared, it spat out streams of black light, sweeping across the firmament like a world-ending flood. The two Heavenly Monarchs, having long been prepared, had no intention of fighting the three Heavenly Corpse Kings within the Corpse Tide; they immediately wrapped themselves in immortal light and fled at high speed, wanting to lure the opponent out of the Corpse Tide.

However, unexpectedly, their figures flashed dozens of miles away in an instant, waiting for the three Heavenly Corpse Kings to pursue, only to find that Shi Mingkong on the Bone Throne was merely watching them with indifference, and only the Bone Heavenly Corpse Enchantress and another Heavenly Corpse had chased after them.

Shi Mingkong seemed not to care about the two Transformation God experts at all; the condensed seven-headed black snake still existed between Heaven and Earth, and not only did it have no intention of pursuing, but it also carried the throne and commanded the Corpse Tide to surge toward the defense line of Beiling Immortal City at an unimaginable speed.

"The situation is not good!"

"This demon seems to want to personally lead the Corpse Tide to assault the defense line, and even destroy the Immortal City."

"Stop him!"

Realizing in an instant that the Heavenly Corpse King on the throne would not be so easily lured away and contained, the two Heavenly Monarchs exchanged Divine Sense, then immediately turned back and swept rapidly toward Shi Mingkong.

Inconceivably, facing the counterattack of the two Heavenly Monarchs, the pursuing Bone Heavenly Corpse Enchantress and the Heavenly Corpse King of the Star River Sect instead let out strange, cackling laughs and dodged aside, allowing the opponents to attack Shi Mingkong.

Lingjian Tianjun pointed his fingers together to form a sword, and a sword whistle like the cry of a dragon or phoenix pierced the horizon from afar; thousands of rays of spiritual light converged and surged into a thousand-foot-tall shocking Sword Qi, piercing the firmament.

The Sword Qi filled the sky and covered the earth, a full hundred feet in size. This sword strike sliced open ten thousand acres of air and broke through the clouds in the sky. Even from dozens or hundreds of miles away, it still made one's hair stand on end. It was truly like a vast Heavenly River rolling down, swallowing ten thousand miles, flowing through eternity!

At the same time, Zhuhuo Tianjun cast a Dharma seal, and infinite light and flames condensed at his fingertips, then transformed into a brilliant, dazzling sun of ten thousand rays, appearing right there.

The great sun illuminated the sky, and the Yang Qi and fierce flames in the void immediately surged and raged like a landslide or tsunami, spreading in all directions, inconceivably burning the sky within several miles into a blood-colored sea of earth-fire. The dazzling firelight shot in all directions, illuminating a radius of a hundred miles in a deep red, like a hell of flames, causing the heavens and earth to change color.

Even the other two Heavenly Corpse Kings, who seemed to be watching from the sidelines, felt only a blinding red fire before their eyes, and a scorching heat that seemed to boil the sea and burn the sky all around them. They seemed to be in a boundless sea of fire; apart from light and heat, nothing in the world existed, directions were indistinguishable, and up and down were hard to discern...

The Sword Qi Heavenly River and the great sun of fierce flames both carried a terrifying momentum that shook the heavens and earth, falling toward the ground below like a rising sun falling from the sky, descending upon the earth in a magnificent and wondrous scene.

Before the falling sun arrived, the many Corpse Demons that had been running rampant were already torn to pieces amidst sharp, shrill wails, turning into charred remains. With the two Heavenly Monarchs exerting their full strength, this Supernatural Power, which possessed the might to destroy the world, was enough to make them lose their souls even if they were just slightly closer, let alone being hit head-on.

And facing such an offensive.

On the Bone Throne, Shi Mingkong's expression was nonchalant, and the massive, mountain-like seven-headed black snake behind him roared and met the attack.

The seven-headed giant snake still faced the sky in anger, roaring and whistling toward the heavens. The sound resonated through the heavens and earth, causing the clouds to roll and the earth and stones to crack, shaking the ground and mountains.

Its seven giant mouths opened, each spitting out torrents of black, purple, brown, or green, which intertwined like the most violent tsunami, forming thousands of giant whirlpools amidst wails that sounded like the mourning of a thousand souls.

The three-sided colorful brilliance collided violently, followed by a thunderous roar. The heavens, earth, and void for hundreds of miles around trembled and wailed crazily. Everywhere, brilliance flickered and vanished, and all phenomena collapsed. A vast, boundless aura of destruction enveloped the entire world. If the void had been like a calm, ripple-less sea surface, it was now like the ocean in a storm, twisting, undulating, vibrating, and shaking everywhere, with angry waves soaring to the sky and whirlpools lurking beneath!

Boom.

The soaring firelight, accompanied by the crazily swaying, scorching flames and Sword Qi, instantly swallowed the massive form of the seven-headed giant snake. The shockwave and vibrations spread wildly in all directions. Lava fire waves rolled, and countless sparks and heat currents sprayed from the place where the scorching sun fell in all directions, like a volcanic eruption. The golden, scorching flames blossomed into flowers of flowing gold as they fell, dazzling and eye-catching. Thousands of Corpse Demons, even those at the Corpse King level, were completely incinerated and disappeared the moment they touched the flames containing the extremely intense solar Yang Qi, their bodies and spirits destroyed.

Amidst the hissing that resounded through the clouds and contained an incomparably angry intent, the seven-headed giant snake had five of its heads completely destroyed by the two Heavenly Monarchs, turning it into a wounded, crazed giant beast. It rolled and roared in the torrent of firelight and Sword Qi, and every tumble caused the earth to shake violently, bringing up waves of lava and causing scorching, monstrous flames to overflow crazily.

"Not bad, not bad."

Facing this scene, Shi Mingkong did not move at all on the throne, but instead clapped his hands and laughed loudly:

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"This Corpse Qi Nether Snake is, after all, a Dharma Image condensed from one-fifth of my power. That you could break it in one blow is worthy of commendation!"