C915 Underground Universe
C915 Underground Universe
The Sect Master of the Corpse Sect had become the person controlled by Ling Xiao. Naturally, that Corpse Devil had submitted to Ling Xiao as well.
The Corpse Devil had the strength of a Saint. Although it was weaker than an ordinary Saint, it was absolutely invincible under the half-step Saint realm.
The Fourth Rank Sect had such an existence, it was truly unexpected. It was worthy of being called the strongest branch sect under the Black Devil Sect.
Everyone had been cleaned up. There were only about fifty people left in the Xiao Ao Palace, and nearly half of them had died. Such losses were pretty good compared to what they had suffered.
Grandma Ming Feng's body was penetrated by the Corpse Devil. Fortunately, she had the life spring liquid given by Ling Xiao. Otherwise, she would definitely die.
Everyone gathered around Ling Xiao, quietly waiting for Ling Xiao's next step.
Ling Xiao's external injuries were not big, but his internal injuries were severely injured. It would take some time for him to recover.
When his injuries recovered to seven or eight levels, Ling Xiao left.
He had already retracted his half-dragon body. He felt that he was like a demon, greatly ruining his image.
He was wondering if he should really get a dragon pearl and consume it. It would be much better to transform into a dragon than that half-dragon.
The reason why he rejected Old Dragon King back then was because he didn't want to become a True Dragon Clan or be trapped in the Dragon Palace forever.
However, now that he thought about it, transforming into a dragon was much better than his previous appearance. After all, he had become a true dragon, and he was still in human form. At the most dangerous moment, he would just need to display his dragon body.
"Forget it. Let's talk about this later. I don't want to be controlled by those old dragons." Ling Xiao shook his head lightly and threw this thought to the back of his mind.
Ling Xiao walked to the place where the Corpse Devil broke out of the ground.
Waves of corpse energy spread out unceasingly. Countless nether winds howled, like the cries of vengeful souls, making people feel terrified.
The Innate Yin Wind Bead in Ling Xiao's sea of consciousness pulsated even more violently, having a very strong desire to devour.
"I wonder what kind of thing can allow the Corpse Devil to exist here forever. Absorbing corpse energy must be a great evil thing!" Ling Xiao's brows furrowed slightly as he muttered.
He hesitated for a moment, but still jumped down towards the bottomless pit.
Corpse Qi was lingering in the pit. The aura made one's life force slow down. If a Celestial Sovereign jumped into the pit, he would most likely die.
The corpse Qi could cause great harm to others, but to Ling Xiao, it was just a great tonic.
The Innate Yin Wind Bead absorbed it very quickly.
Ling Xiao ignored it and let it absorb on its own. He looked around, looking for the secret of this place.
When the Corpse Devil broke out of the ground just now, a lot of mud and stones fell down from the ground. Ling Xiao used his senses to clean up the mud and rotten corpses in front of him.
Suddenly, a hole appeared in front of Ling Xiao.
To be exact, that hole... He was only standing in the place where the Corpse Devil was buried, and the cave was close to this place.
"What is this place? It's actually built here?" Ling Xiao asked the Sect Master of the Corpse Sect above the deep pit.
The Sect Master of the Corpse Sect was at the Profound Monarch of Middle Rank realm, and its name was Buried Star. It was a very unlucky name.
Buried Star replied, "This is a forbidden area of our sect. We only know that Lord Corpse Devil is buried here. I don't know anything else.
"This is strange. He doesn't even know about this Sect Master. Let me see what exactly it is." Ling Xiao muttered to himself in confusion. Then, he strode into the cave.
This place was also filled with a lot of dense corpse Qi. Waves of Yin Qi followed along.
"The Yin Qi is so heavy!" Ling Xiao frowned and said.
He was surrounded by a glow of luck that lit up everything in the cave.
He found out that this was a tomb. A large golden coffin was placed in the center.
This large coffin was carved with dragons and phoenixes, all of them forged from pure gold, appearing extremely noble.
Beside this golden coffin stood two undying corpses.
Ling Xiao was shocked when he saw these two corpses. They were dressed the same as the Corpse Devil outside. They held Holy Artifacts and Long Spears in their hands, as if they were protecting this golden coffin.
Just as Ling Xiao was about to retreat, he discovered that the two undying corpses didn't move at all. He couldn't help but stop.
Ling Xiao asked Buried Star how many medicinal Corpse Devils his sect refined in total. Buried Star replied that he only refined one. That was ten thousand years ago, and it had cost them a great deal of manpower and resources to refine it.
After confirming that these two Corpse Devils had not been refined into Ling Xiaos, Ling Xiao finally calmed down a little. Otherwise, if both Corpse Devils came out at the same time, even if he had a few lives, it would not be enough for them to kill him.
"Could it be that the Corpse Devil was dug out from here?" Ling Xiao went up to check with doubt.
Normally, it was only possible to maintain the immortality of the body after reaching the Holy Emperor realm. Otherwise, who would be able to withstand the corrosion of time by consuming some kind of spiritual object that could preserve the immortality of the body before death?
The closer one got to the golden coffin, the more the Innate Yin Wind Bead in Ling Xiao's sea of consciousness jumped.
However, just as Ling Xiao was about a meter away from the golden coffin, countless dark green corpse Qi suddenly appeared on the ground. The corpse Qi actually transformed into a ferocious beast from another world, roaring towards Ling Xiao.
Its speed and momentum were no less than the attack of a half-step saint-level master.
Ling Xiao didn't even have the chance to react before he was sent flying far away by the powerful corpse Qi. His entire body was embedded in the mud, and he was heavily injured. Moreover, he was corroded by the terrifying corpse Qi.
Puff!
Ling Xiao's injuries had yet to fully recover, and he was struck by another heavy blow. He spat out blood on the spot.
A large amount of corpse energy kept devouring his life force. Luckily, he had the Innate Yin Wind Bead to immediately devour, or else he would have died on the spot.
Ling Xiao had no choice but to consume medicinal Healing Pills to recover his injuries.
This time, when he carefully observed, he shockingly discovered that under the golden coffin was actually carved with numerous sealing Array Patterns. That strike just now precisely touched this medicinal Array Pattern.
"There is actually a rank eight formation. No wonder the ancestor of the Corpse Sect didn't allow any descendants to enter this place. It would be great if Fraud Tian was here. He would definitely be able to break the formation. What should I do?" Ling Xiao looked troubled.
Even so, he did not leave. He began to observe his surroundings. He found something on a stone wall.
So this was the tomb of a Royal Clan's Marquis, the Marquis King of the Jiang Clan. He still wanted to rise up and restore his dynasty even after ten to twenty thousand years after the upheaval of the ancient era.
Unfortunately, that was an era of darkness and slaughter. Although heroes could appear in chaotic times, it was also a place where heroes were buried.
In the end, the Jiang family's royal family still failed. This golden coffin was precisely the Jiang family's king who had died in the chaotic battle. And this was the place where he had buried his corpse.
This place had been deliberately set up by their descendants to gather extreme yin energy, protecting his body from being disturbed by others.
As for why there was so much corpse Qi here, it must have been discovered by the seniors of the Corpse Sect. When they were refining medicinal Corpse Devils, they had also set up a formation to gather it. Corpse Qi was a type of Yin Qi, and this had also caused the cave to change.
"So it's the descendant of King Jiang!" Ling Xiao said to himself.
Ling Xiao had obtained the inheritance of Duke Zhan's memory in the War Abyss, so he knew a lot about ancient things. King Jiang was one of the vassals under the Jin Clan Dynasty.
Back then, when the royal families took advantage of the chaos to kill the Jin Clan Dynasty, King Jiang's bloodline was loyal to the Jin Clan. It was rare that they didn't take the opportunity to betray them.
In his memories, King Jiang's bloodline also cultivated the Indestructible Golden Body Technique. It was a powerful body-tempering defensive technique, second only to the Ancient Emperor Divine Arts. When cultivated to great completion, one's body would be immortal, comparable to medicinal Holy Artifacts.
Although this cultivation technique wasn't comparable to the Ancient Emperor Divine Arts, it didn't need the imperial bloodline to cultivate like the Ancient Emperor Divine Arts. It was just that all metal-attribute martial artists could cultivate it.
Ling Xiao had the Ancient Emperor Divine Arts, so he naturally didn't wish for the Indestructible Golden Body Technique to be so rare. However, he naturally wouldn't let go of such a high-level cultivation technique. Even if he didn't cultivate it, he could still pass it on to others to cultivate. For example, Cai Xiayue, Ye Yunfeng...
When Ling Xiao arrived in front of Shi Wei, his golden fist flashed and knocked Shi Wei down, revealing the secret behind it.
An ancient scroll immediately appeared in front of him.
Ling Xiao unceremoniously put it away. This was the complete technique of the Indestructible Golden Body Technique, and it was placed here together.
"These two golden bodies aren't bad either. In the future, when my soul leaves my body to cultivate clones, they will be my best substitute bodies." Ling Xiao also put away the two corpses that looked like Corpse Devils.
They held Holy Artifacts in their hands, and wore Holy Artifacts and armor. Obtaining any one of them was enough to make one go wild with joy.
That senior from the Corpse Sect actually didn't touch these two corpses. Presumably, he still wanted to keep them until the future to refine medicinal Corpse Devils.
Unfortunately, refining one was already sufficient to deplete them too much. He had to care about this and let them stay here!
This was only Ling Xiao's guess. He did not know the truth.
Now that the golden coffin was in front of him, the greatest burial item was also among them. Ling Xiao did not want to give up, searching everywhere for medicinal Array Eyes.
However, he was definitely not Xuan Yao, and his understanding of formations wasn't deep. He had touched the Array Pattern many times, and all of them had been injured by the corpse energy. If it wasn't because his physical body was strong enough and he was still alive, would he still be alive?
"Dammit! If Fraud Tian was here, things would have been much easier!" Ling Xiao cursed in his heart.
The Innate Yin Wind Bead in his sea of consciousness was still jumping nonstop. He had a feeling that he could not wait to go out.
"Come out and see if you can break this array!" Ling Xiao did not let the Innate Yin Wind Bead out.
The Innate Yin Wind Bead drilled out of his sea of consciousness. After absorbing a large amount of death energy, its color had become much darker and its size had also become a small circle larger than before.
It released circles of deathly aura, giving off a feeling that no one was close to it. All of the surrounding corpse aura had been absorbed by it.
After absorbing all of the surrounding corpse Qi, it flew towards the golden coffin.
Bang!
No matter what it was, it was only a few meters away from the golden coffin. Immediately, countless corpse auras exploded out.
However, the Innate Yin Wind Bead was the source of the corpse Qi. No matter how strong the corpse Qi was, it was just fertilizer.
The Innate Yin Wind Bead stopped on the array, allowing the corpse energy to blast over. It absorbed as much as it could, as if it was a bottomless pit.
It was also at this moment that there was finally a change in the golden coffin.