Chapter 161: The Heavenly Corpse Sect!
“After this battle, the Sea Clan’s Mahayana cultivators will be halved. As long as I can help produce one Human Race Mahayana, the Sea Clan will definitely restrain their offensive.”
“By then, I will use my Primordial Spirit Body to prove the Ghost Immortal path, and with that, I won’t be hunted down by the Upper Realm’s Sea Clan.”
Lu Qingyang, carrying that peculiar ring, wandered across a plain.
He knew that after this battle, the entire Sea Clan calamity would soon end, and there would be no more danger.
All that remained was for a Human Race Mahayana to emerge and take up the burden.
However, while nurturing a Human Race Mahayana, he also needed to accumulate resources for himself.
After all, the resources required to ascend as a Ghost Immortal were many times greater than those needed for an ordinary Mahayana to advance to True Immortal.
“Let’s go. Nowadays, not one in a hundred sect lineages remains, but Secret Realms and ruins are countless.”
“With my fortune, I imagine I won’t have trouble finding cultivation resources.”
Lu Qingyang murmured softly, then transformed into a streak of light and vanished from the spot.
He controlled the ring, shuttling through one sect Secret Realm after another.
One day, he found the ruins of a Great Vehicle sect.
This sect was called the Heaven Corpse Sect, a demonic path sect from before the calamity, with profound foundations.
It had two Mahayana Venerables presiding over it.
However, because it was near the Shore of the East Sea, it was swiftly destroyed after the war between the two races began.
The two Mahayana cultivators had long since passed on.
Now, the Heaven Corpse Sect had become a stretch of ruins.
“Heh heh, sometimes things are just this ironic.”
“The demonic path sect that everyone curses became the first line of defense against the Sea Clan.”
“It’s fortunate those Sea Clan cultivators don’t cultivate demonic path techniques. Otherwise, they probably would have looted this place clean long ago.”
Lu Qingyang chuckled lightly, then manipulated the ring to enter the ruins.
At this moment, he did not rush to search for treasures. Instead, he carefully investigated first.
After all, the Heaven Corpse Sect was a demonic path Great Vehicle sect. Though it had declined,
whatever was preserved here was certainly extremely precious.
He needed to search slowly.
“Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!”
Soon, on a stone wall deep within the ruins, he discovered a strange formation.
“Judging by its position and appearance, it looks like a formation for the sect’s treasure vault. I just don’t know what’s inside.”
Lu Qingyang frowned slightly.
He carefully observed the surrounding environment, and after finally confirming there was no danger, he began to dismantle the formation.
Though he had lost his physical body, with his Primordial Spirit and spiritual power, breaking the formation was no effort at all.
It took him half an incense stick’s time to break the formation.
But as the formation dissolved, what appeared before his eyes was not any treasure, but swarms of Gold-Armored Corpse Puppets!
“Roar!”
“Roar!”
“Roar!”
…
One Gold-Armored Corpse Puppet after another let out wave after wave of roars.
Their eyes were crimson, emitting a cold, fierce light that looked quite terrifying.
However, Lu Qingyang had no physical body, so these corpse puppets could not find a target to attack.
They merely wandered in place.
“These are Gold-Armored Corpse Puppets comparable to the Nascent Soul stage?”
Lu Qingyang frowned slightly.
Because he had a Pseudo-Immortal Corpse in reality, he had always had some research into the Corpse Puppet Dao.
He could sense that these Gold-Armored Corpse Puppets were not weak.
But merely Nascent Soul level was of no great use.
“Ah, right. I’ve heard this Heaven Corpse Sect has a secret treasure that can refine extremely high-grade corpse puppets.”
“If I can find it, wouldn’t I be able to bring it back and refine that Pseudo-Immortal!”
Lu Qingyang thought to himself.
If Return to True could truly solve this problem for him, then this trip would not have been in vain!
If the Chaotian Sect could possess a Pseudo-Immortal level corpse puppet, then the last weak point in the Prison Dragon Realm would be filled!
“Search!”
With that thought, Lu Qingyang controlled the ring and sped toward the depths of the Heaven Corpse Sect.
At the same time, within the ruins of the Heaven Corpse Sect.
A ragged youth was rummaging through piles of rubble, searching for something.
His frame was thin, his face ordinary. Though his clothes were tattered, his eyes were exceptionally bright, as if they could see through all things in the world.
He kept searching, as if looking for something.
Suddenly, his footsteps paused, and a look of delight appeared on his face. “Here!”
His right hand shot out, grabbing a broken tile. With a forceful pull, a palm-sized jade slip appeared in his hand.
“Eh! This is…”
The jade slip shimmered with a strange luster, clearly no ordinary object!
“This must be one of those cultivation technique jade slips the Immortal Masters use!”
“If I can learn the technique inside, then I’ll be an Immortal Master too!”
“Then I can avenge my parents.”
As he thought this, the youth’s expression gradually grew sorrowful.
But after a moment, it turned into motivation. The youth clenched his fists, planning to search for a few more useful items.
Yet before he could move his feet, a roar, half-human and half-beast, suddenly resounded across the heavens.
“Awooo!”
That sound seemed to come from the Nine Nether Abyss, filled with eerie terror.
Immediately after, a dark shadow appeared behind the youth, radiating monstrous killing intent.
“What is that thing!”
The youth whirled around. When he saw clearly that it was a massive Gold-Armored Zombie, he was scared senseless.
In that instant, only one word remained in his mind: Run!
Unfortunately, it was already too late.
“Boom!”
The Gold-Armored Zombie opened its mouth and spat out a black mist.
That black mist instantly transformed into a pitch-black chain, which ruthlessly bound the youth’s body.
The youth’s body was immediately dragged rapidly toward the Gold-Armored Zombie.
“No!”
The youth struggled with all his might, but the black mist’s power was too strong. He could not break free at all.
Those reeking, disgusting corpse jaws drew closer and closer.
It looked as though he was about to be dragged into the Gold-Armored Zombie’s mouth.
But at this critical moment, a streak of spiritual light suddenly descended from the sky.
“Crack, crack…”
That spiritual light instantly enveloped the Gold-Armored Zombie, then shattered it to pieces.
The youth was thus saved, falling to the ground.
“Wh-which Senior saved me? Please show yourself!”
The youth, still shaken, hurriedly stood up and bowed respectfully.
He looked around, but failed to discover anything.
This left him even more puzzled. Could that Senior have already left?
But that spiritual light just now was real. It couldn’t be wrong.
Yet there was no figure before his eyes.
And as he puzzled over this, he suddenly noticed that not far away, something seemed to be glowing.
“Hm? What’s that? Could it be left behind by the Senior who just saved me?”
The youth’s eyes lit up.
He hurried over, and found it was actually a strangely styled ring.
“Eh, what is this thing? It can actually glow on its own?”
“It doesn’t look like an ordinary object either?”
The youth was delighted.
He carefully picked up the ring and put it on his finger, wanting to examine it closely.
But the moment the ring slipped onto his finger, it emitted a blinding light.
That light was like a ray, shining upon a ruin ahead.
As if guiding him, telling the youth there was something good over there…