Chapter 407: Corpse Clan Heavenly Pride

Ye Wuque and Geshu Wenyue no longer lingered at the outer rim of the star, their two Dark Shadows turning into lightning that tore through starlight, plunging headlong into the Xu Wu Xing Hai, whose vast depths are composed of billions of stars.

Upon entering the interior of the Xu Wu Xing Hai, the sensation changed instantly.

From the outer periphery, the Xu Wu Xing Hai, though vast, resembled a magnificent scroll.

But only when truly within it could one feel the omnipresent crushing pressure and chaotic Dao Rule.

The waves are not illusion; they are a real, undeniable torrent of stars!

Each wave, when it rises, is carried by thousands of stars of varying sizes, dragging chaotic gravity, shattered Dao Rule, and raging energy, roaring and trampling like a primeval ferocious beast.

Even with Ye Wuque and Geshu Wenyue's cultivation, they would not dare to be directly struck by a stellar torrent of this scale; they must find gaps to thread through, or rely on agile body techniques to evade.

Those slowly rotating vortices are even more dangerous, emitting terrifying devouring force that even light cannot escape; floating star fragments, meteoroids, and even unlucky beings that venture too close are ruthlessly pulled in, vanished without a ripple.

The air was filled with a discordant ancient aura: various radiations and energies emitted by the stars themselves, fragments of Dao Rule left from shattered Tiandao, murderous intent lingering from Primordial Era battlefields, and occasionally faint, garbled ramblings and roars that seemed to come from the far side of time and space, unsettling the mind.

The starlight glittered, yet danger lurked everywhere.

Both, with profound cultivation and steadfast resolve, still maintained extremely high speed and vigilance in such an environment.

Geshu Wenyue seemed quite familiar with the Xu Wu Xing Hai, made some preparations, and now took out a blurry map to guide the way, choosing a relatively smooth yet far from safe route.

Along the way, they saw more beings from other branches.

Some formed groups of three to five, forming a Battle Formation, cautiously exploring regions of the Xu Wu Xing Hai that emitted strange fluctuations, seeking opportunities.

Others moved hastily, clearly goal‑oriented, heading straight for the entrance of the Ultimate Main Road, unwilling to linger in the Xu Wu Xing Hai.

There were also unlucky ones who inadvertently triggered a hidden spacetime trap or set off a broken killing formation, turning to ash amid harrowing screams and the flash of energy explosions.

Intense battles were also not lacking.

Thousands of miles ahead of them, they once witnessed a brief yet brutal melee.

One side comprised several beings with luminous wings on their backs and holy light swirling around them; the other side consisted of a few demonic beings exuding dark aura, with curved horns on their heads.

Both sides seemed to clash over a piece of crimson metal drifting out from the depths of the Xu Wu Xing Hai, radiating scorching waves; divine arts collided, demonic light and holy light intertwined, and in the end the demonic side paid the price of two deaths and one injury, snatching the metal and fleeing in panic, while the holy beings departed with resentment and pain.

The cruel law of the Star Sky Ancient Path has already begun to show its trace in this Xu Wu Xing Hai.

Ye Wuque and Geshu Wenyue paid no heed to these side events; their goal was to cross the Xu Wu Xing Hai as quickly as possible and reach the first gate.

At their speed, traversing this vast Xu Wu Xing Hai would not take long.

According to Geshu Wenyue's estimate, in a few more hours they could reach the Other Shore at the opposite end of the Xu Wu Xing Hai, that is, the stable Star Domain edge where the first gate of the Ultimate Main Road, the Chulin Gate, lies.

However, just as they were about to completely leave the most chaotic, most dangerous deep surge zone of the Xu Wu Xing Hai, they could already clearly sense the massive, stable, order‑filled law fluctuations belonging to the Chulin Gate ahead.

A sudden anomaly erupted!

Boom!

Bang!

Crack!

A surge of violent, dense energy explosions and divine‑art collisions rippled, interlaced with angry shouts, pained groans, and… a horribly repulsive, eerie screech filled with Dead Silence and decay, emanating from a relatively calm region of the Xu Wu Xing Hai ahead to the left.

That region was not naturally formed.

Faintly visible were several relatively small ancient stars emitting dim spiritual light, arranged in a peculiar formation, guarding a central floating… broken temple silhouette suspended in the Void.

The temple silhouette was extremely vague, as if it could vanish at any moment, yet its once‑grand outline—flying eaves, interlocking brackets, spiraling columns—could still be discerned, though most had collapsed, leaving only broken walls and ruins.

Around the temple, faint twisted Space ripples undulated, clearly indicating a still‑unstable or soon‑to‑vanish Ancient Ruins projection!

Such Ruins projections are not uncommon in the Xu Wu Xing Hai.

They may be spacetime reflections of a shattered lost world, or residual images of an ancient master's Dao Hall reflected by the Xu Wu Xing Hai's laws.

Although mostly illusory, they sometimes accompany genuine treasure fragments, Dao Rule insights, or even fragmented inheritances, thus frequently attracting seekers' contention.

At this moment, near the broken temple silhouette, dazzling light flickered erratically, energy surged, clearly indicating an intense battle.

Ye Wuque and Geshu Wenyue did not wish to get involved; contests for opportunity are commonplace on the Star Sky Ancient Path.

But the instant their Divine Sense subconsciously swept the battlefield and discerned the auras of the combatants,

Ye Wuque's eyes, usually as calm as a deep pool, suddenly flashed with a chilling, bone‑piercing… killing intent!

One side of the combat consisted of only five individuals, all young men and women, their auras upright and fierce.

They now stood back‑to‑back, forming a small Battle Formation, struggling to hold, each wounded, their auras waning, the formation's light shield trembling on the verge of collapse, clearly at the end of its strength.

Encircling them were eight eerie Dark Shadows shrouded in dense gray‑black Corpse Qi!

They were the Corpse Clan Heavenly Pride that had emerged earlier from the Other Shore branch exit!

The eight Corpse Clan members did not launch a full assault; instead, like cats toying with prey, they leisurely activated Corpse Qi divine arts, forming rotting tentacles, snarling ghost claws, or bone spears dripping black pus, continuously striking and draining the defenses of the five Dark Cultivators.

Their eerie green Soul Fire leapt in their eye sockets, emitting a shrill, mocking laugh, full of cruelty and jest.

"Hey… struggle, suffer, despair… you lowly Nine Heavens Ten Earths ants…"

A taller Corpse Clan Heavenly Pride, its Corpse Qi the most intense, let out a hoarse, grating voice; he raised his hand and waved, conjuring a massive skeletal phantom assembled from countless pale bones, opening its maw to spew corrosive green Corpse Fire into the Void.

"For countless ages… haven't you always been like this? Trampled by my great Other Shore World, barely scraping by… heh…"

Another Corpse Clan member, his tone full of contempt and mockery.

He snapped his fingers; a jet‑black, foul‑smelling Corpse Water arrow, like a poisonous snake, darted toward the formation's weak spot, forcing a Nine Heavens female cultivator to expend massive mana to intercept, her complexion paling further.

"This time… on this Star Sky Ancient Path, on this Ultimate Main Road… you lucky crawling insects, you shall be utterly annihilated! Under the Burial Heaven Plan, you all will become nourishment for our growth! Ha ha ha…"

The shrill laughter echoed through the Xu Wu Xing Hai.

The five Nine Heavens Dark Cultivators' faces were ghastly pale, their eyes filled with anger and humiliation, but even more with profound helplessness and despair.

They had once set foot on the Star Sky Ancient Path and were once the soaring Heavenly Prides in their own worlds and sects, yet against this powerful, cunning, numerically superior Corpse Clan, the gap was simply too vast.