Chapter 40: Joint Progress

  "Everyone, stop for now. It's noon, let's go in and take a look first, and then fight again if we must!" Just as Xiao Gu and Sheng Tian Wang were about to clash again, someone spoke up.

  The warriors stopped in their tracks and turned to look at the speaker.

  Xiao Gu and Sheng Tianwang also stopped their hands at the same time and looked over.

  A young powerhouse with an ethereal and elusive aura has arrived, his surroundings shrouded in a layer of intangible power that is hard to see through.

  His footsteps are light and agile, with a divine glow, faintly transcending the mundane, making people feel comfortable.

  "It's Xī Tiān Jiāo, it's Tiān Jiāo Wáng who has arrived," many people are boiling.

  This is also a strong man who was crowned king, from Piaomiao Pavilion, an extremely powerful master.

  "It turned out to be Brother Yu," Gu Changqing stepped forward. The Huanmie Pavilion and the Wangu Changqing Hall were on good terms, so it wasn't strange that the two knew each other.

  "Chang Qing has also arrived," Xū Tiān said with a faint smile, carrying an air of detachment.

  This great war ended in such an anticlimax. As he was leaving, Sheng Tianwang coldly said to Xiao Gu: "Insect, I'll take your life next time."

  "He," Xiao Gu punched out, this person was indeed arrogant to an unimaginable extent, opening his mouth was a threat, closing his mouth was a threat, and he didn't put Xiao Gu in his eyes at all.

  Under repeated persuasion from Virtuous Heavens, the two finally stopped fighting.

  Afterwards, Xiao Gu introduced Xing Wu Jin and Huang Jing Tian to everyone. Similarly, Gu Chang Qing also introduced Xu Tian Jiao to Xiao Gu and the others.

  Everyone agreed and entered together below. They were all at the level of a king's power, so they could naturally feel the faint threat from beneath the abyss!

  The sunlight at noon directly shot through and indeed dispersed some of the gloom, but even so, this eerie abyss still sent chills down one's spine.

  Finally, Xiao Gu and others followed other people into this place.

  This strange and eerie abyss is as deep as a myriad of zhang, straight up and down, the surrounding mountains are like chimneys, steep and extremely dangerous, the whole body is dark black, as if it had been stained with blood and then dried.

  According to what Xiao Gu had heard before, it was indeed because of the intense battles in the past that the blood of the strong had dyed it this color, and it would never fade.

  Of course, these were all dug out by the crowd from Lao Wang Ba with great difficulty. For this, Xing Wu Jin, Gu Chang Qing and others paid a not small price. Xiao Gu was speechless, but also powerless. This dead turtle was too shameless and mysterious.

  They plunged in, the wind whistling past their ears, rapidly descending, sweeping people's skin soaring, all kinds of dark clouds and evil spirits surging.

  There is a special scroll in existence, allowing people to temporarily enter a void.

  Xiao Gu carefully observed this place and found that all the rocks were dark red, ferocious and terrifying, with a fierce aura that pierced the sky.

  "It's getting bigger, but why is it spreading out more and more downwards?" Wu Tongtian exclaimed in surprise.

  Below, vaguely visible, mountains rise and fall, plains stretch out, as far as the eye can see, what is that valley, it looks like a vast continent.

  "In ancient times, this place was a battlefield..." Old Wang Ba said little.

  That year, too many people died in battle. The ancient battlefield was filled with a sea of blood, evil spirits soared into the sky, ghosts were seen during the day, and the clouds were gloomy and dismal, with wailing spirits and howling gods.

  Because too many people died in battle, this vast region almost became a place of human purgatory, where many strange things happened.

  Finally, an unknown supreme being of a certain era used great magical powers to grasp the entire land in one hand and refine it into this place.

  To utter these few words, Xutian Jiao paid out dozens of Lingguo.

  Before long, they landed on the ground, with an endless expanse in front of them. When they opened their divine eyes, they could see the scenery, but it was a bit dim.

  Everyone is trying to adapt to all this, and there are still many people here who were already in the area before, and they have not fled in a panic.

  "Someone!"

  They were shocked, with twenty or so people standing guard at the entrance, motionless, wearing ancient battle attire, like corpses.

  "What is this, the Guardian? It's really Hell" Xiao Gu and others were shocked. Previously, they had obtained two words "Hell" from Lao Wang Ba, which made people sweat behind their backs.

  Some people plucked up their courage and moved forward, only to find that these were all corpses that had already died, although they looked lifelike, but there was no sign of life.

  Knowing that they were not living creatures, the crowd began to move forward, one by one, rushing past these ancient corpses. A few powerful overlords did not move, nor did Xiao Gu and others.

  Ah!

  At this moment, someone suddenly let out a mournful cry. Under everyone's incredulous gaze, one of the corpses moved. He took a step forward and with his ancient long spear, lifted a person high up before tearing them into five pieces.

  Someone just tried to remove the weapons from these ancient corpses, but didn't expect this disaster.

  This stirred up the hornet's nest, and twenty or so ancient corpses moved in unison, their long spears striking as one, killing dozens of people with a single blow.

  Xiao Gu's back was drenched with cold sweat. Such a bizarre situation was unheard of, unseen before. Was this a case of corpse transformation?

  Uniform steps, reminiscent of the armies in the mortal realm. Only those who have undergone the most rigorous training can achieve such uniformity and naturalness; otherwise, even a powerful cultivator cannot accomplish this.

  Fortunately, these ancient corpses were not powerful, had no life fluctuations, and moved slightly slowly. Many cultivators overcame their fears and joined forces to quickly slaughter them all.

  It was strange that after these corpse soldiers died, along with their weapons and armor, they all turned into flying ash, without leaving anything behind.

  Breaking through this place, the crowd continued to move forward, and Xiao Gu and others also set off. Although it was strange, they had no choice but to move forward. Fortunately, there was Lao Wang Ba around, Xiao Gu didn't believe that at the last moment, he wouldn't speak up either.

  Then they walked into the vast and endless battlefield, really like a continent, boundless, endless, without end.

  Here is desolate and terrifying, without a sign of life, with barren land stretching for thousands of miles.

  Proceeding dozens of miles ahead, Xiao Gu's eyes gleamed with divine power as he gazed forward. It was like a desolate wilderness at dusk, shrouded in strips of dark mist, eerily quiet and ominous.

  Such a thrilling place is really hair-raising.

  Soon they saw a large number of tombs, each one as big as a small hill, grand and magnificent, some were frightening.

  "When I looked up, I thought it was a mountain range. I didn't expect it to be ancient tombs!" Gu Changqing exclaimed in surprise.

  It's indeed a bit scary here, Xiao Gu shut his mouth and didn't dare say more.

  They proceeded cautiously and finally entered a vast open area where there were corpses everywhere, perhaps they should be called fossils now because they had become stone-like.

  It's hard to imagine how long these skeletons have been dead and turned into fossils.

  At a glance, it stretches beyond the horizon, and this is only one corner of the ancient battlefield. It's hard to imagine how many people died here back then.

  "Boom!"

  Suddenly, a terrifying aura burst forth from the front, cold and intimidating, so powerful that even they felt their entire body turn icy, as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

  What's going on? Everyone furrowed their brows, as if the person who had gone ahead had touched something that shouldn't be touched, and suddenly erupted with such a terrifying aura.

  Xiao Gu and others quickly sneaked up, hoping to get close and observe carefully.

  "What's that... The Xiao Gu changed color, it was extremely shocking, staring blankly ahead, unable to say a word."

  Others couldn't see anything, but they all felt a fierce aura, as if millions of lives were wailing, and a pack of ferocious beasts was rushing across the land.

  Is this the legendary ghost? Xiao Gu was stunned.

  He saw an incredible scene, row after row of dark soldiers in neat formation, wearing ancient attire, some holding iron spears and others rusty war pikes, marching forward from the front, taking big strides, numbering tens of thousands, heading towards the endless distance ahead.

  Kid, what did you see? Old Wang Ba discovered something was off.

  Here, only Xiao Gu could see everything in front of him clearly, while others, even Old Wang Ba, couldn't discover anything, they just instinctively felt an unimaginable eerie aura.

  Xiao Gu snapped back to reality, seeing everyone staring at him, and couldn't help but take a deep breath, striking out with a branding iron, presenting everything before the crowd.

  What's this? This is no good! Old Wang is a damned ghost!

  Before anyone could ask him anything, they heard his strange cry.

  Run! In the moment when everyone had no reaction, old Wang Ba disappeared from the spot and ran to only a black dot in the blink of an eye.

  The rest of the people didn't know what happened, but they also fled in a hurry. The old turtle king was very clear that since it had escaped, the crowd naturally didn't want to stay behind.