Starting from the two realms, cultivating immortality by taming beasts

Chapter 587 Desperate Escape

The outer perimeter of the Heavenly Corpse Cave.

Unlike the misty, miasma-filled land, the interior of the stone gate is a completely different world.

The cave walls near the stone gate are all made of green jade, and the green jade walls are covered with vermilion soil, which is engraved with dense seal script.

Between the seal characters, one after another, tiny, pitch-black Gu worms opened their compound eyes, observing and scrutinizing the intruders.

This place is rather strange; it can suppress 60% of my divine sense perception.

Chen Beiwu scanned his surroundings, completely ignoring the gazes of the Gu worms around him.

Without him needing to take action, these low-level Gu worms would be annihilated by his vast Primordial True Qi as soon as they dared to approach within three zhang of him, turning to ashes completely.

Be careful.

With a divine reminder to the golden eggs, Chen Beiwu followed behind Li Xianzong and the other man, heading deeper into the Heavenly Corpse Cave.

"tread!"

"tread!"

"tread!"

After walking for a quarter of an hour, Li Xianzong suddenly stopped, looking at the broken stone tablet hidden in the darkness not far away, his eyes showing a look of apprehension.

Chen Beiwu's eyes flickered slightly as he followed Li Xianzong's gaze and discovered two lines of seal script inscribed on the stone tablet.

The seal script characters are blurred, but their meaning can still be roughly discerned.

This route is blocked!

Trespassers will be executed!

"A boring warning." Golden Egg yawned, looking unconcerned.

Of the ten ruins in the Southern Wilderness, at least nine will make a show of force and issue some deliberately mysterious warnings.

Could a mere, dilapidated stone tablet, devoid of any spiritual energy, possibly block their path?

"Why don't you go up and give it a try?" Chen Beiwu glanced at the golden egg.

Without saying a word, Jin Dan activated his Three Absolute True Qi Shift and instantly appeared near the stone tablet.

In an instant, the seal script on the jade cave wall lit up, causing the Gu worms in the crevices to flee frantically, revealing a narrow passage.

Inside the passage, a menacing serrated blade crashed down, aiming for the golden egg's neck.

"Clang!"

As sparks flew, the golden egg dragon's body stiffened slightly, and it turned its three heads to look behind it.

It was a creature three zhang tall, with a bluish-green body.

Its head is an inverted triangle with sharp mouthparts. Its four front legs are all ferocious bone knives twelve feet long. It exudes an incomparably sharp aura, comparable to a late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch.

"Oh no, it's a Thread-Cutting Gu!"

Emperor Li Xianzong exclaimed in surprise, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

The Line-Severing Gu is no ordinary creature; it is a special Gu worm that only True Monarch Elders of the Thousand Gu Sect can refine. It is extremely adept at attacking and ambushing, and can easily kill True Monarch Xuan Tong with a single blow.

"call out!"

The Thread-Cutting Gu's figure flickered, its foreleg bone blades wrapped in black and red demonic power, and it pierced towards the Golden Egg Dragon Eye with lightning speed.

The golden egg remained unmoved, casually slapping down with its claw as if crushing an ant.

boom!

The bone knife shattered, blood and flesh gushed out, and the menacing Thread-Cutting Gu retreated even faster, crashing heavily against the Jade Cave wall, its body shattered into pieces, turning into a pile of mud.

Seeing this, Chen Beiwu was not surprised at all. He activated the Jade Void Crimson Bright Seal and pressed down with one seal.

Sensing an overwhelming and terrifying crisis, the jade worm hidden in the mud suddenly let out a sharp hiss.

But in the face of the Jade Void Crimson Bright Seal, all resistance is meaningless.

Including the jade worms, almost a third of the green jade wall collapsed with a roar.

Something's not right!

The golden dragon's eyes narrowed as it noticed that the nearby jade wall seemed to possess a life force, but it instantly returned to normal, as if it had never collapsed. Only the Thread-Cutting Gu was dead beyond any doubt.

"Did you see it clearly?" Chen Beiwu glanced at the golden egg.

The golden egg nodded solemnly, not daring to be careless.

The reason was simple: on the wall of the Heavenly Corpse Cave, it sensed a power that surpassed even the Four Realms Demon Kings.

Although this power is minuscule and so faint as to be imperceptible, it is still enough to pose a deadly threat to it.

"That was just a wisp of corpse energy that the Heavenly Corpse King exhaled during his slumber," Chen Beiwu reminded him.

The Heavenly King, whose lineage spans tens of thousands of years, is no ordinary man!

The Thousand Gu Sect was destroyed because its descendants were incompetent.

However, if we go back 100,000 years, the Thousand Gu Sect was also a powerful immortal cultivation force with a Nascent Soul True Venerable in charge. Its foundation was not necessarily inferior to the Eight Desolate Sect, and it might even be superior. Yet now, it is unable to do anything about a Heavenly Corpse King that has broken free of its restraints.

Therefore, it can be seen that, in essence, the Heavenly Corpse King sleeping here is already extremely close to the level of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Even though Chen Beiwu's cultivation level was profound and his possession of many treasures, he would not underestimate such an existence.

The golden egg lowered its dragon head and obediently landed on Chen Beiwu's shoulder, revealing an apologetic expression.

"You, you."

Chen Beiwu shook his head and didn't mention the golden egg again.

Further words were useless. As his cultivation level increased, Jin Dan increasingly disregarded the powerful figures in the Southern Wilderness.

But it's not a bad thing that Golden Egg was able to learn from this experience and suppress its arrogance.

With this in mind, Chen Beiwu continued walking, heading deeper into the Heavenly Corpse Cave.

As powerful as the Heavenly Corpse King is, easily suppressing the Golden Egg, he is no match for the Azure Corpse Lord, and is almost certainly no match for him.

A quarter of an hour later, four figures appeared outside the Heavenly Corpse Cave and saw the blood, flesh, and rotten mud near the cave walls.

"This is a Thread-Severing Gu!" The thin cultivator's eyelids twitched, his expression revealing his surprise.

"Within the Xuan Yan territory, there are no more than a handful of Nascent Soul True Monarchs who can suppress the Thread-Cutting Gu so easily," Li Xingyuan sighed, becoming even more certain of his guess.

Judging from the traces left around him, he could tell that the Thread-Cutting Gu had been utterly defeated and was unable to put up any decent resistance.

Aside from the remnants of the Thousand Gu Sect, he couldn't think of any Xuan Yan expert who could accomplish this in such a short time.

"It may not be a remnant of the Thousand Gu Sect. There is the aura of a different kind of Chilong Demon King here," Tie Musheng said calmly.

"Sect Master, do you mean that an Outer Realm True Monarch has entered the Heavenly Corpse Cave?" another Nascent Soul True Monarch asked cautiously.

"The Thousand Gu Sect has a history of 120,000 years. Its forces are deeply entrenched, so it is not surprising that it has some connections with cultivators from other realms."

Tie Musheng chuckled softly, took a step forward, and disappeared from sight.

Seeing this scene, all the Nascent Soul True Monarchs present felt a chill in their hearts.

If the sect leader can smile and urge Xuan Tong to speed up the journey, then the fate of those remnants of the Thousand Gu Sect is destined to be tragic!

On the other side, with Li Xianzong leading the way using the Thousand-Sound Cicada, and Chen Beiwu using his overwhelming strength to suppress all obstacles along the way, they successfully arrived at the Heavenly Palace.

Deep inside the corpse cave.

What came into Chen Beiwu's view was a mossy path that was half silvery white and half withered.

"Hey!" (The stench of death is overwhelming!)

Schiller plucked a moss leaf and found it thick and fleshy, with veins like bones—it was the corpse-nourishing moss that fed on the aura of corpses.

After hesitating for a moment, Schiller dropped the corpse-nourishing moss he was holding.

This thing is incredibly abundant and of extremely high quality, comparable to a top-grade third-tier medicinal treasure. It is also a rare and unusual species among corpse-nurturing moss, but it is not enough to make it let go of its unease and put it into the Five Qi Yuan Forest behind it.

Tie Dan didn't mind and collected a large number of them.

The accumulated corpse energy over tens of thousands of years has almost made the corpse-nurturing moss here a spirit, making it perfectly suitable as an auxiliary medicine for refining golden-nature pills, allowing Master Wan'er's cultivation to increase rapidly.

Reaching the end of the mossy path, Chen Beiwu was suddenly greeted by a bright and clear view of a square tomb chamber.

It is a hundred feet long and wide, and about ten feet high. Its dome is funnel-shaped and inlaid with countless high-grade spirit stones, which are drawn into star maps, like an inverted galaxy, drawing on the power of the vast celestial bodies.

At each of the four corners of the tomb chamber stands a jade pillar connected to the dome. The jade pillars are bluish-white with a hint of gray, and the Four Holy Spirits painted on their surfaces are slightly bowed, looking lifeless and eerie.

In the center of the Four Sacred Spirits diagram, a purple-gold coffin stands suspended in mid-air, seemingly guided by the star map of the dome.

Chen Beiwu's eyes flickered, and he noticed a depression on the top of the purple-gold coffin, where a tiny jade egg lay.

The jade egg was about the size of a thumb, semi-transparent, and one could vaguely see a larva with its six legs curled up inside.

"Buzz!"

As the jade egg shimmered, the immense corpse energy within the purple-gold coffin surged forward along the tomb's restrictions.

"This Heavenly Cicada Life-Extending Gu is indeed difficult to obtain!"

Chen Beiwu narrowed his eyes slightly, knowing that the array inside the tomb was perfectly integrated, almost as one.

If he were to attempt to break the restrictions here with his powerful profound abilities, he would not only awaken the Heavenly Corpse King sleeping inside the purple-gold coffin, but also trigger the grand formation of the Heavenly Corpse Cave, causing unpredictable changes.

With the protection of a fifth-order Yuan Talisman and the ability to teleport through the Ten Directions Gate, Chen Beiwu was not afraid of the fifth-order Yuan Array of the Heavenly Corpse Cave. On the contrary, he was afraid that the Heavenly Cicada Gu would be affected and destroyed by the array.

"Remove the Heavenly Cicada Gu," Chen Beiwu ordered Li Xianzong.

"Thump!"

Li Xianzong immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, revealing a look of fear: "Please, Your Majesty, spare my life! My cultivation is shallow, merely at the Foundation Establishment stage. How could I possibly overcome the 'Ten Thousand Gu Sealing Corpse Transformation Yang Reversal Heaven Locking Yuan Array' and retrieve the Heavenly Cicada Gu?"

Jin Dan nodded, indicating that Li Xianzong, being only at the Foundation Establishment stage, indeed did not know how to break the formation. Even the Thousand Sound Gu residing in the latter's body was merely a casual experiment by the Supreme Elder of the Thousand Gu Sect.

Chen Beiwu was just trying it out casually, without much hope. He summoned the spirit of the artifact, the Heart Diamond, and let it observe the overall formation of the area.

"!!!"

Xinling stared wide-eyed, not wanting to speak.

Asking a fourth-order array spirit to break a fifth-order Yuan array is giving the young master far too much credit!

"Record as much of the formation, patterns, and diagrams here as you can; there's no need to try to break the formation," Chen Beiwu transmitted telepathically.

He has a talent for array formations. He wields a low-grade fire-type Yuan seal and can easily set up a fourth-order Xuan array, but he can't mess with a fifth-order Yuan array.

Fortunately, the fact that he and Xinling couldn't break the formation doesn't mean that the Nascent Soul True Monarch of the Thousand Gu Sect and the fifth-level Yuan Formation Master of the Immortal Alliance couldn't solve it either.

Upon hearing this, Xinling's expression relaxed.

Although recording the formation and its layout is a huge undertaking, requiring a long time to record even a single formation diagram, and making it almost impossible to observe the formation's fundamental symbols, it is still much better than the unrealistic attempt to break the formation.

As a precaution, while Xinling was recording, Chen Beiwu activated the Gate of Ten Directions, leaving an anchor point in the tomb chamber.

Someone's coming.

Aji suddenly looked up and gave a reminder.

Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Schiller, and Zhiling all turned their heads to look at the path behind them, but they didn't notice anything.

Five breaths later, Chen Beiwu's divine sense stirred slightly, and he finally sensed the aura of the person approaching from behind.

One Nascent Soul stage, two Nascent Soul stage stages, and one Nascent Soul stage completion.

As Chen Beiwu sensed it, he couldn't help but glance at Aji out of the corner of his eye.

The Creation Beast is truly extraordinary!

He had already mastered the Primordial Immortal Techniques, but in terms of divine sense perception alone, he was inferior to Aji.

Do you need me to take care of them?

Aji transmitted his thoughts telepathically.

"Why use a sledgehammer to crack a nut?" Chen Beiwu shook his head.

He could easily suppress four Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

Suddenly, Chen Beiwu raised an eyebrow, his eyes showing considerable surprise.

"Interesting. After noticing my presence, they chose to flee immediately. It seems that the Nascent Soul Perfection True Monarch is no ordinary person."

Upon hearing this, the golden egg blinked its dragon eyes, a look of confusion in them.

Isn't he just a Nascent Soul Perfection True Monarch who's afraid of death and doesn't even dare to fight? How can such a coward be praised by the Northern Martial Army!

Sensing the golden egg's thoughts, Chen Beiwu glanced at it.

The weak are like frogs at the bottom of a well, unaware of their own limitations, yet they try to compete with the heavens.

The strong are like dragons standing on the edge of an abyss, knowing the immensity of heaven and earth, assessing the situation and not striving for temporary dominance.

The person who came was 800 miles away. He sensed his own insignificance through the aura and decisively retreated. His strength was among the top in the Southern Wilderness.

"I see." Golden Egg suddenly realized.

A breath ago.

The Desolate Gu True Monarch suddenly stopped, causing the three Nascent Soul True Monarchs behind him to sharpen their gazes and look around warily.

What's going on? The Earthly Deficiency Gu is trembling with fear!

Tie Musheng became alert, closed his eyes and concentrated, urging his Xuan Tong to completely merge his divine sense with the Earth Deficiency Gu, so that they could mutually enhance each other.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

In that instant, he could clearly hear his heart pounding, and at the same time, he saw a figure in the tomb chamber at the end of the mossy path.

His aura was mediocre, merely at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. Logically speaking, a cultivator of this level wouldn't be worth Tie Musheng's attention.

However, Tie Musheng's mind was in harmony with the Earth Defect Gu, and he vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

The next instant, the figure seemed to sense something, and slightly turned its head, revealing a young face.

With sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, and a face as fair as jade, he wore a white robe and had an extremely unfamiliar appearance. He was not the famous Nascent Soul Peak True Monarch in the Xuan Yan territory.

The fear of the Earth Deprivation Gu is not fake!

Just then, Tie Musheng's eyes instinctively moved, and he saw the petite figure on the unfamiliar cultivator's shoulder.

Rumble!

The Ironwood Spirit Platform roared, and deep within its pupils appeared an elegant young beast with fluffy, cloud-like fur, jet-black down on its head and back, and down on its cheeks, chest, and limbs like freshly fallen snow.

The young beast slowly raised its head, revealing amber pupils. Its posture was noble and elegant, causing Tie Musheng's pupils to contract. The Earth Deficiency Gu deep in his dantian struggled wildly, emitting a violent roar, as if it had encountered a natural enemy.

"Run!"

"Run!"

The fear of the Earth-Deficiency Gu infected Tie Musheng, causing his face to turn pale suddenly.

"Sect Master, what's going on?"

Li Xingyuan noticed something was wrong and spoke in a low voice.

Tie Musheng did not answer. Instead, he bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood into his left palm.

"hiss!"

With the boost from the essence of blood, the Swift Gu in Tie Musheng's palm split into a phantom, tore through space, and disappeared instantly with the Desolate Gu True Monarch without even turning its head.

"???"

The three Nascent Soul True Monarchs stared in disbelief at the scene before their eyes, then felt a chill run down their spines.

Without a second thought, they immediately unleashed their profound abilities, sparing no expense to use their most treasured escape techniques, closely following their sect leader without any concealment.

The reason is simple: the existence that could cause the sect leader to lose his composure in such a way is definitely not something they can handle.

Now, whoever is even a step slower in escaping may perish!

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