Chapter 42: Corpse King

  In the depths of the withered mountain range, a vast canyon, where the light is extremely dim. In the valley, black clouds and fog are entwined and drifting between the mountains, with fierce gusts of wind howling. The ground is filled with a dull grayness, covered in white bones, with skeletal remains piled up into numerous large and small bone mountains. Many of the white bones are blown by the gloomy wind, constantly trembling and making a "whirring" sound, sending shivers down one's spine...

  Crunch

  These bones have been piled up for years, and when stepped on, they make a piercing cracking sound.

  Ji Tian looked at the innocent Mo Long with some annoyance and said: "This is what you call a good place, it's just like this wasteland."

  Ji Tian's current cultivation realm has broken through to Lian Shen Hua Xu, but he doesn't have enough spiritual energy. His cultivation is still at the Lian Qi Hua Shen realm. He needs to absorb sufficient spiritual energy. Mo Long Xian said that the mountain cave where it previously lived can lead to a strange place with intense soul power fluctuations, but Ji Tian's cultivation isn't high enough and he can't enter.

  Ji Tian gained insight into his own unclear cultivation level through the refinement of the nine-headed lion. There are three major levels in the world: those who cultivate truth, cultivating techniques and refining their self for longevity, cultivating earthly immortals, known as immortals but not truly being one; those who cultivate immortality, either by transforming their physical body into a true immortal or by cultivating their soul to become a god with divine powers, but still having dependencies and unable to roam freely; and those who cultivate the Tao, pursuing the Heavenly Way, seeking infinite origins and power.

  The level of the earth fairy before achieving the immortal Tao can be divided into several steps: refining essence to transform qi, refining qi to transform spirit, refining spirit to transform void, and refining void to enter the Tao.

  The demon dragon innocently sent out its divine sense and wailed, "Master, I remember this place being very clean, without so many withered bones."

  The demon dragon spat out its own dragon flames to burn the withered bones, and the black flames spread out. At the same time, it used its bony tail to strike the white bones.

  "Crack......" Countless white bones floated into mid-air and fell in all directions.

  Ji Tian looked at it with a nonchalant expression in his heart, and with a light wave of his palm, a gigantic palm swept towards the white bones that filled the sky.

  Many of the white bones instantly turned into bone powder.

  The demon dragon quickly scurried out to find its own cave for cultivation. The cave was winding, mostly naturally formed, and connected all the way to the bottom.

  "Hooooo..."

  The demon dragon rushed out of the cave and said: "So many corpses, all broken and tattered, how terrifying!"

  Ji Tian burst into anger: "You're also a ghost, what's there to fear about a corpse?"

  The demon dragon said helplessly: "There is a Corpse King inside. I destroyed those small corpse monsters and provoked the Corpse King."

  The corpse king slowly emerged from the mountain cave, with a foul odor emanating from his body and yellow corpse water flowing from him. He let out a mighty roar, causing the surrounding mountains to tremble.

  The Corpse King stretched out a ghostly claw and attacked the magic dragon, which quickly dodged to the side. The force struck a mountain peak behind it, causing rocks to fly through the air and sand to fill the sky. With a deafening "rumble", the summit of the mountain collapsed.

  Ji Tian's heart was secretly shocked, he hadn't expected that a physical body could be so powerful, perhaps he should seize the opportunity to discard his own corpse.

  He then shot up into the air, his empty eyes emitting two beams of crimson light that continuously scanned the surroundings. However, his reaction was still sluggish and his consciousness had not fully awakened yet.

  Saw a primordial spirit ghost floating in front of oneself, a mournful and piercing wail.

  "Why did you disturb our rest."

  Ji Tian didn't even glance at his opponent, a phantom palm rose from behind and swooped towards the Corpse King.

  That corpse king burst forth from his palm, advancing left and right, leaving no escape, letting out a string of fierce roars.

  "You also dare to question me."

  "Even you can't beat him, how pathetic."

  The demon dragon lowered its head and said with a low growl: "His corpse water can corrode my bones, so I'm afraid."

  "Rather stand and die than kneel and live, you decide for yourself."

  The corpse king's right arm suddenly turned into a mass of corpse water, merging into the illusory palm, and the entire palm kept emitting faint black smoke.

  Ji Tian was taken aback and said, "Able to corrode spiritual power." With a wave of his hand, a faint spatial blade appeared out of thin air in the sky, shaped like a flying knife, slashing towards Shi Wang's skull.

  Crack

  The skull of the Corpse King rolled into the cave.

  Ji Tian coldly laughed and said: "Do you still want to escape?" One of his hands formed a seal and struck towards the Corpse King's skull.

  That skull suddenly split into four or five pieces and turned into a puddle of dead water.

  At the same time, the corpse trapped by the palm turned into a puddle of water and sank deep into the ground.

  "Alas, 'to lure a tiger away from its mountain'!"

  The cave is winding and deep, with gusts of cold wind blowing from inside. There are wisps of gray mist overflowing, even at a distance, you can still feel a sense of oppression. On the ground, there are occasional appearances of withered white bones.

  In the depths, a bloody mist drifted, enveloped by an invisible force.

  "This is the formation that blocks your way"

  The demon dragon's heart still had a lingering fear as it threw out a segment of its remaining bones towards the blood mist. The bones were instantly swallowed by the blood mist and transformed into blood water.

  "This is a combination of blood energy and evil energy, with strong corrosive properties. This formation is to prevent the loss of evil energy, not much power."

  The demon dragon said: "How should it be broken"

  Ji Tian Dao said: "Just be careful not to get stained by this blood mist, a hint of murderous intent can dispel it."

  A black killing intent long sword formed in Ji Tian's hand, swinging his sword towards the blood mist in front of him.

  In an instant, the blood mist transformed into a blood snake and pounced on Ji Tian.

  "Slash" Ji Tian quickly swung out nine swords, cutting the Blood Snake into powder and turning it into wisps of smoke.

  The bottom of the cave was a massive pool of blood, with spiritual energy permeating it, forming bubble after bubble of blood that burst rapidly, spewing out bloody spiritual energy.

  Above the blood pool, there is a red stalactite, slowly dripping with red blood.

  "The dragon said with a quivering voice: 'These spiritual energies are too mixed up, there's too much blood energy, yin energy and killing energy.'"

  "Ah, this Blood Pool is a natural Spirit Gathering Array, borrowing the momentum of heaven and earth to refine the evil energy between heaven and earth. The yin energy becomes spiritual power... I don't know if someone has set it up again, but I can feel the power of the seal."

  A pool of blood rippled, and the corpse king who was beheaded by the silent heaven condensed a bloody corpse body, roaring continuously.

  "You've destroyed the Yellow Spring Corpse I worked so hard to cultivate. Are you going to completely annihilate me?"

  The demon dragon spoke with a gruesome grin: "My master has arrived, why haven't you paid your respects? Tell me all about the Blood Pool's secrets."

  "That corpse king roared: 'You want to obtain information about Lao Zu? Impossible.'"

  "Then I'll destroy you in the Refining Soul stage."

  "The Corpse King roared: 'You are strong, but in this Blood Pool, let's see what you can do to me.' Waves of bloody mist rose from the pool, mixed with a lot of yin energy. Instantly increasing the yin energy in this place."

  Jing Tian didn't mind, taking a step forward, he felt a chill run down his spine, as if the north wind was blowing snow on him.

  The whole body felt like it had fallen into an icy cave, the whole primordial spirit was not moving, and there was a feeling of being frozen.

  A blood mist condensed into a blood dragon, opening its mouth to devour the silent sky.

  Ji Tian felt a breath of dragon soul, perhaps this can improve the magic dragon's cultivation.

  "Silent Heaven roared: 'Demon Dragon, swallow this Blood Dragon, or you're not worthy of being called a dragon!'"

  The demon dragon is hesitating, that's corrosive blood water that can rot bones, how can I withstand it!

  Jian Tian's heart was filled with unprecedented despair, the demon dragon's will to fight had long been destroyed by Nan Can's soul, and it only knew how to hide and tremble.

  He let out a sigh and transmitted a method to refine his soul and increase his cultivation into the demon dragon's mind. If he didn't seize this opportunity, he would have no choice but to devour its soul instead.

  The demon dragon let out a loud roar, and even if he said so himself, he was already a skull that had cultivated his primordial spirit. Moreover, he was born with a strong heritage, but it had been constantly worn down by the damn seal of the pond water, making him timid and cautious everywhere.

  In the stillness of his heart, a stir occurred. The dragon was after all a proud creature, or else it wouldn't have become the ruler of the desolate expanse. It hoped that the demon dragon would be reborn, and although he treated it as a mount, it should also be a powerful mount, not a timid and weak one.

  This is a good opportunity for exercise.

  Cast a prohibition around yourself, protecting yourself from being tainted by the bloody mist.

  The dragon's aura continued to rise, and it felt that its domineering air, which shook the vast wilderness, had returned.

  The other party is just a controlled ghost, which can't be compared with oneself in the Immortal Transformation stage.

  The demon dragon wrapped its body in a cloud of magic, swung its tail and attacked the bloodthirsty dragon with sharp teeth and claws. The dragon's tail was as powerful as a thousand kilograms of gold, heavily smashing onto the blood dragon's head.

  The demon dragon felt its protective magic cloud rapidly dissipating as soon as it came into contact with the blood dragon, and with a ruthless determination, it heavily struck the blood dragon again.

  Suddenly blood and water poured down like rain, pouring into the blood pool.

  The demon dragon swallowed the soul of the blood dragon in one gulp and closed its eyes to refine it.

  The Corpse King was enraged, roaring, and many blood-colored spirits emerged from the Blood Pool. Each of them was a fierce beast in the Primordial Chaos before their death, all carrying a violent aura, full of murderous intent.

  That was the killing intent that had been accumulating in the long slaughter, deeply ingrained into his soul.

  A stir in the quiet heart, only a killing aura but no intention to kill, merely an empty form. These murderous auras should be of some help to one's own way of killing.

  Ji Tian opened his mouth and sucked in all the blood shadows that had not yet condensed into shape, swallowing them into his yuan Shen.

  His corpse-like face trembled with rage, and he spat out: "You... you devil!"

  Ji Tian discovered this murderous intent piercing through his soul, scene after scene unfolding in his mind.

  A savage beast with three heads and six arms, holding a corpse torn in half, with bloodstains at the corners of its mouth, let out a long howl towards the sky, only to be trampled into a meat paste by a gigantic foot, its dazed soul sucked into the sea of blood.

  A lion-like creature with four wings was pierced through its chest cavity by a pair of sharp claws and fell directly from the air.

  In the vast ocean, a strange fish with wings on its back was swallowed by a giant dragon.

  ……

  They all carry a murderous intent, and this murderous intent directly affects the quiet sky, making it feel that murderous intent in different killings and deaths.