Chapter 130 - The Mutation of Life and Death
In the underground tomb.
In the two big coffins of the biggest stone chamber, the two Sky corpses slowly sat up. A flow of fierce and brutal corpse Qi spread out through the entirety of the underground tomb.
These two Sky corpses were a man and a woman. Both were in their forties, and their complexions were extremely pale and there were wrinkles all over their bodies.
The two Sky corpses were in the Nirvana realm, and the corpse Qi, which was wafting around their bodies, gave chills to anyone who saw it.
The sky corpses sat up, their pale grey eyes slowly rolled around, and they looked at Shi Yan while sitting inside the coffin.
The male Sky corpse slowly stood up, opened his mouth, and breathed out a white light made of corpse Qi.
The white light flew out and exploded in front of him. It split up into tiny streaks of light and shot towards the coffins in the nearby stone chambers.
Those white lights seemed to have awakened the corpse slaves inside the coffins. Once a coffin was shot with the white light, strange sounds started coming from inside.
Soon, many corpse slaves jumped out of the coffins. Some of them were stiff, while others had more fluid movements, but they all came towards Shi Yan.
The seven corpse slaves that were awakened first were now already standing in front of Shi Yan.
Shi Yan's eyes were cold and grim. His whole body was filled with the negative energies of violence, fear, madness, and slaughter. White mist wreathed his entire body, giving off a very evil feeling.
The corpse slaves came forward and surrounded Shi Yan, but three of them were being cautious.
Those three corpse slaves were probably only refined recently, and were probably only in the Human realm before they died. When they moved, their joints made creaking and cracking sounds, as if the bones were still not completely refined. They should not have reached a hundred years of age yet.
The other four corpse slaves also seemed to be scared of the aura of negative energies around Shi Yan's body, but they still slowly moved forward.
These four corpse slaves have a stronger corpse Qi on them. When they moved, there were no noises from their joints, and their speed was a whole lot faster.
With a cold expression, Shi Yan determined that these four corpse slaves should be Earth corpses that were refined for over a hundred years. Their limbs were no longer stiff, and they knew how to use some of their martial skills from when they were alive.
"Puchi!"
Behind him, the sound of a sharp weapon piercing into flesh suddenly resounded.
Shi Yan turned around and saw that Xia Xinyan's little dagger had already pierced through the throat of a Corpse Sect disciple. That person's eyes were filled with unwillingness as he fell down on his back.
After that person died, all the Profound Qi in his body scattered and flowed into Shi Yan's body.
Including this guy, by this moment Shi Yan had already absorbed the Profound Qi of three Disaster realm warriors. Those negative powers, mixed with hate and unwillingness, all went into Shi Yan's meridians.
Right at this moment.
Three Corpse Sect disciples became blood-red because of the grinding power of the Gravitational Field. They were slowly dying.
The Two Earth realm warriors from Yin Yang Wonderland were also separately constrained by Gravitational Fields. The red and white lights on their bodies swirled around, defending against the grinding power in the Field. Although they were constrained, they were still not hurt as they kept using the red and white light to fight against the grinding power in the Field.
After Merging Yin power, Profound Qi, and negative energies, the power of the Gravitational Fields had become astonishing. The two Earth realm warriors were completely restrained. They would never be able to break through the constraints of the Gravitational Fields.
The seven corpse slaves that first came up did not immediately attack. They only surrounded Shi Yan and Xia Xinyan.
Shi Yan and Xia Xinyan stood shoulder to shoulder, their expressions were serious. As they watched more and more corpse slave walk out of the stone chambers, their hearts slowly sank.
This underground tomb went a couple dozens of meters deep into the earth, and the tomb was covered with corpse Qi. Corpse Qi was an extremely evil power, and it could even cut off the divine consciousness.
Because of this barrier of corpse Qi, all the fluctuations of Profound Qi in here were very well concealed.Thus, Li Zhuang, Ju Yueru, and other Corpse Sect people above the ground, hadn't sensed the abnormality here, they still kept discussing important matters.
"We're in danger this time." Xia Xinyan's voice was cold, "One Sky corpse is already enough to kill us, not to mention that there are so many corpse slaves present too."
All the corpse slaves slowly came up, one by one. In a short moment, there were already almost a hundred corpse slaves surrounding Shi Yan and Xia Xinyan.
The three Corpse Sect disciples under the grinding power of Gravitational Field were finally dead, with their eyes rolling back into their heads.
Afterward, their Profound Qi quickly entered into Shi Yan's body, and all the meridians in Shi Yan's body started to tingle.
"Hang on! If we can hold up for half a day, I'll be able to recover your martial spirit!" Shi Yan roared.
"What?" Xia Xinyan was shocked, "Do you have some sort of medicine?"
"No." Shi Yan shook his head, "Believe me! As long as we can hold for half a day, I really have a way to recover your martial spirit!"
In the Dark Forest, he already verified the abilities of the exotic powers in his body on Di Yalan and Mu Yudie. The exotic powers could not only enhance his martial spirit and Profound Qi, it could also help others awaken and recover their martial spirits.
When Mu Yudie's Music martial spirit was heavily injured and all the meridians in her body were shattered. But with the help of that exotic power, she quickly recovered. If that exotic power could recover Music martial spirit, then, naturally, it could also recover Xia Xinyan's Reincarnation martial spirit.
As long as the meridians in his body could transform the Profound Qi and let it flow back into his body, then he could use that exotic power and help Xia Xinyan recover her original strength.
Time! He only needed time!
Xia Xinyan was surprised inside. She didn't know what methods Shi Yan had, but she chose to believe in him. She said: "Alright, I'll try my best."
Then the green ring on her finger suddenly threw out a ripple of glowing green light.
Fist-sized silver balls quickly appeared, glistening in her palm. Once the silver balls appeared, Xia Xinyan immediately thrust her arm out and threw them at the surrounding corpse slaves.
"Boom, boom! Boom, boom, boom!"
In the underground tomb, several explosions occurred. All of those silver balls were glistening with a silver light, and once they fell on the ground, they immediately burst open, blowing many corpse slaves into many pieces.
Once, the explosion spread to the mortal slaves who were under a hundred years in age, their bodies also split open. They couldn't defend against the power of the silver balls at all.
The Earth corpses, older than a hundred years, had very firm bodies. Under the explosion of the silver balls, their entire bodies were charred, but they were not badly hurt.
Those two Sky corpses were still unmoved in those giant coffins, but they started to scream simultaneously.
Dozens of Mortal corpses and Earth corpses, suddenly, turned crazy, under the screams of the Sky corpses. Together, they all menacingly threw themselves towards Shi Yan.
Shi Yan's expression was cold. The Gravitational Fields that killed the three Corpse Sect disciples suddenly moved and quickly appeared in front of him.
Ten Mortal and Earth corpses sprinted forward and ran into the invisible Field. They were constrained by the crushing power of the Fields, which had a ferocious force inside. They couldn't get out of the Field.
Taking a deep breath, Shi Yan's body petrified, and his expression became fierce. He secretly performed his Finger Spear and headed into the group of corpse slaves.
"Boom, boom, boom! Bang, bang, bang!"
Shi Yan rampaged into the group of corpse slaves. Using the strength in his body after petrification, he crazily bombarded a lot of corpse slaves.
His body was petrified, and he was also in the Rampage state. At this moment Shi Yan's power was skyrocketing. The evil power in his body was like a wild whirlwind, such that his blows actually sent all those corpse slaves flying out.
The Mortal corpses were all blown into the air by Shi Yan's attacks, they couldn't defend against Shi Yan's fierce force.
The hundred-year-old Earth corpses had bodies as hard as iron. Under Shi Yan's rampaging attacks, they were blown into the air, but then they would quickly stand back up, and, again, storm towards him in waves.
The bodies of Earth corpses were extremely hard. In the chest and stomach areas of some Earth corpses even had naturally formed corpse armor. The corpse armor was made of corpse Qi, and was extremely solid. Even Shi Yan's finger spear couldn't pierce through it.
Most Earth corpses were Disaster realm warriors during their lifetimes, and they were already able to use 100% of the power from their lifetime. Under the raging attacks of Shi Yan, the Earth corpses were completely fine, they would stand back up and fiercely storm towards Shi Yan again and again.
Two of the Earth corpses were like spirit snakes. They appeared from the crowd of Mortal corpses and, with creepy strange steps, they would suddenly appear and strike at Shi Yan from behind.
In palms of the Earth corpses, a sharp bone material knife suddenly appeared. That sharp knife rushed out of their palms, and forcefully stabbed into Shi Yan's back.
"Bang!"
Shi Yan's heart felt a stinging sensation. Against the sharp bone knife, Shi Yan's petrified body could still hold up, but it was still a bit too much for him to handle.
One after another, more and more Earth corpses started using the martial skills from their lifetimes. They circulated corpse Qi, as opposed to Profound Qi, and formed various pale grey light beams, shooting them at Shi Yan from all directions.
"Boom, boom!"
In the crowd of corpse slaves, it was finally too much for Shi Yan. Shaken, he started to back up under these attacks.
Xia Xinyan wore a bright red set of armor. The armor glimmered with scorching firelight and had a very complex, yet rustic, pattern. In the pattern, there were traces of red light shining, like streaks of fire.
Glimmering firelight rippled from the armor. Xia Xinyan stood there, unmoving, but the corpse slaves rarely attacked her, as if they were very afraid of the firelight on her armor.
"Come to my side!" Xia Xinyan exclaimed.
Shi Yan's expression was ferocious. In the midst of corpse slaves, he suddenly clenched his teeth and performed the Seal of Life and Death.
Pieces of hand seals quickly appeared in his palms. One hand with Life Seals, and the other with Death Seals. The fourteen seals didn't merge together, instead, they separated into two different directions and rushed out.
"Rumble!"
The seven Life Seals shot out, and the corpse slaves, that were hit, exploded into pieces They couldn't resist the attack of even a single Life Seal.
The seven Death Seals shot out, and fell on the corpse slaves. Those corpse slaves were fine, and continued to storm forward.
Shi Yan was both delighted and surprised.
The surprise was that the Death Seals had no effect on these dead beings. The delight was that the power of the Life Seals on the corpse slaves was ridiculously strong. They actually shattered the Earth corpses in one blow.
The Life Seals contained vigorous amounts of vitality. The strange vitality in the Life Seals seemed to be the nemesis of these dead beings!
Once touched by the Life Seals, whether it be the Mortal corpses or the Earth corpses, their bodies would all immediately shatter. The Life Seals seemed to have stirred the devastating emotions in the bodies of the corpse slaves. The lifeless corpse slaves couldn't handle a single blow from the Life Seals.
"Boom, boom!"
Shi Yan looked inspired, he gave up on using the Death Seals, and continuously struck out with the Life Seals.
All the Mortal corpses and Earth corpses were torn to pieces once they were touched by the Life Seals.
At this moment, the two sky corpses flew out of their coffins. A feeling of excitement flashed across their pale grey eyes.
Once they came over, they quickly pushed away the surrounding corpse slaves. Puffing their chests, they directly faced the two sets of Life Seals that Shi Yan sent out.
"Boom, boom, boom~~"
The fourteen Life Seals separately fell onto the two bodies.
Unexpectedly, the two Sky corpses did not burst apart from the inside. The fourteen Life Seals sank into the bodies of the two Sky corpses and glowed inside their bodies, slowly shifting into the minds of the two Sky corpses.
"Whirr!"
In the minds of the two Sky corpses, there was suddenly a strange sound. Life projections, the Life Seals clearly appeared on the skulls of the two Sky corpses. The brains of the Sky corpses seemed to shift around in a peculiar trend.
A gust of strange life force slowly grew inside the minds of the two Sky corpses. These two Sky corpses, which had been dead for thousands of years, seemed to have regained some of their life.
——This 'life' was completely different from a human's!
Shi Yan was stunned, he blankly watched the mutation occur in the two Sky corpses, not knowing what had happened.
Then, at this moment, the Blood Vein Ring on his finger also suddenly put off a series of colorful lights.
Chapter 131 Controlling the corpses
The Blood Vein Ring had strange lights rippling from it, which looked like characters of some ancient language.
A bright light came out from the Blood Vein Ring, bathing the surrounding area in an evil and ancient aura.
Numerous ancient characters swam around the Blood Vein Ring, like fish.
Suddenly the ancient characters in the front touched the Sky corpses.
A surprising thing happened!
The ancient characters got attached on the Sky corpses, gradually moving towards their heads, then burrowing inside.
More and more ancient letters touched the two Sky corpses.
The ancient characters seemed to have come to life and were speedily penetrating into the Sky corpses heads. The seven life seals merged into their heads and gave the Sky corpses an almost lifelike appearance.
Seals appeared in the two Sky corpses' eyes.
Those were the life seals from before!
One after another, life seals floated across the Sky corpses' eyes, as if giving them life.
The two Sky corpses stood still while emitting a bright light from the crowns of their heads.
Human expressions showed up on the faces of the Sky corpses.
The two Sky corpses appeared to be in a quiet confusion.
Soon, the Sky corpses' abnormality disappeared and the life seals dissipated from their eyes.
Shi Yan had a serious look on his face as he gazed at two Sky corpses in surprise.
The light on the Blood Vein Ring faded, but the ring had established some sort of connection with the two Sky corpses.
Shi Yan injected his spirit power in the Blood Vein Ring, and, surprisingly, found that he could sense the presence of the two Sky corpses and could feel their moods very clearly.
The whole process of Sky corpses regaining their consciousness was quite short.
"Shi Yan, what… what is it?" Xia Xinyan, who was in her red armor, looked at the Sky corpses, disbelief on her face, "There seems to be life force coming from the two Sky corpses. How could this be?"
"Life force? What does that mean?" Shi Yan frowned.
"Only a 10,000 years old corpse King can form a consciousness and acquire life force." Xia Xinyan kept shaking her head in confusion, "These two Sky corpses can't acquire consciousness in such a short amount of time! No way!"
"Only a corpse King can form a consciousness and come to life?" Shi Yan was shocked.
Xia Xinyan nodded with certainty, "We can't escape this time. We can't win against the Sky corpses. Since they have regained life, they are more powerful."
Shi Yan's expression changed as he became alert.
The two Sky corpses were standing in confusion. After a long while, they looked at Shi Yan, their eyes shining with the life seals.
Shi Yan was astonished.
As the two Sky corpses looked at him, his Blood Vein Ring started resonating with two streams of odd waves, which came from the two Sky corpse!
The two streams of waves seemed friendly to Shi Yan, as if asking about something.
The two Sky corpses were asking him what to do.
Gazing at the two Sky corpse's eyes, and feeling the odd waves in the Blood Vein Ring, Shi Yan realized the abnormality.
"Control the other corpse slaves!"
Shi Yan took a deep breath, and formed some spirit power into a wave in his mind and sent it to the Blood Vein Ring.
The life seals in the two Sky corpses suddenly lit up.
The two Sky corpses screamed together.
One after another, the Mortal and Earth corpses left Shi Yan and Xia Xinyan and gathered around the Sky corpses.
With the screams of the Sky corpses, a wave of strange energy spread throughout the grave, making all the Mortal corpses and Earth corpses obedient.
In the Underground grave.
Dozens of coffins were opened by the corpse slaves lying in them. All the corpse slaves came out and gathered around the two Sky corpses.
Xia Xinyan looked pale, and sighed, "We will die this time."
"Xinyan, do you think it's dishonorable to die with me?" Shi Yan turned back and smiled brightly.
Xia Xinyan was surprised, "You truly care about such a thing at this crucial moment?"
"Tell me, do you think I'm unworthy?" Shi Yan was insistent.
"No, you are naughty, but you are interesting as well." In the grave, which was covered with corpse slaves, Xia Xinyan paused and said, "I don't think much, but I will certainly regret it a bit."
"Regret?" Shi Yan smiled, "It's ok. Live on and you can always make up for the regret. I will give you the opportunity to live on."
"Kill them!"
Shi Yan suddenly pointed to the two Earth Realm warriors. The gravitational field disappeared and the two warriors fell down.
Xia Xinyan couldn't understand Shi Yan.
The next moment, the two Sky corpses howled again.
Nearly a hundred corpse slaves rushed up, moving away from Shi Yan and Xia Xinyan, and jumping onto the two Earth Realm warriors.
Xia Xinyan covered her mouth in surprise as she couldn't believe her eyes.
...
At the headquarters of the Corpse Sect, the Corpse Palace.
On the palace wall were engravings of all sorts of corpse slaves, on which lay many small characters. White light flew from the characters to the corpse slaves.
Many coffins were placed in the palace, and on each of them sat an elder of the Corpse Sect.
Those elders sat on the coffins, which was sending out an odd air that went into the Presbyteries. The presbyteries were either training cross-legged or watching the letters on the corpse slaves and remembering them by heart.
In the Corpse Sect, presbyteries who had made contributions would have the opportunity to stay in the Corpse Palace for three, five, or seven days.
An odd energy was emitted by every coffin in the Corpse Palace, which was beneficial to the Corpse Sect presbyteries' practice. Even three or five days could benefit them a lot.
They would try to remember the small characters on the wall of the Corpse Palace.
To obtain some days in the Corpse Palace, the Corpse Sect encouraged the presbyteries to make contributions to the sect.
On one of the coffins.
A gloomy old man with white hair suddenly spouted out a mouthful of blood.
"Presbytery Yin Hai, what happened?" From the underground cavern of the Corpse Palace, came a hoarse sound.
The gloomy old man wiped away the blood and said, "My lord, my two Sky corpses are out of my control. My corpse soul in the two Sky corpses broke, our connection got weaker and weaker, and they even showed hatred to me!"
"Presbytery Yin Hai, are you crazy? Sky corpses don't have life, how can they hate you? You think your Sky corpses are comparable to my corpse King?" The voice coming from the underground was filled with disdain.
"Forgive me, my lord. I don't dare talk shit." Yin Hai was frightened and kneeled down on the coffin, "I mean it! Really! The two Sky corpses hate me now! Though they are a long distance away, I can feel it clearly!"
"How many years have you refined those two Sky corpses?"
"2,350 years." Yin Hai stayed on his knees and spoke politely, "20 years ago, the lord bestowed me with two Sky corpses, who were at the Second Sky of Nirvana Realm."
"Sky corpses of 2,350 years! They shouldn't have consciousnesses." That person paused, and said indifferently, "You buried them at which Burial site?"
"No.93 burial site." Yin Hai replied politely.
"No.93." The patriarch of the Corpse Sect paused and said, "I will send a message to ask about the situation there. You go and check if there is a problem."
"Yes my lord."
No.93 burial site.
That Earth-realm warrior, who was with Li Zhuang and Sui Yueru earlier, suddenly felt his bell ringing.
That guy's expression shifted and he showed fear as he closed his eyes and grasped that bell.
10 seconds later.
That man suddenly stood up in surprise,"Something has happened to the Sky corpses!"
"Guo Qi, what's up?" Li Zhuang was surprised.
"I got a message from our headquarters that two Sky corpses, of presbytery Yin Hai, are out of control. The lord has asked me to go down and check." This Corpse Sect warrior named Guo Qi suddenly began to blow a whistle.
The whistle resounded across the island.
Upon hearing the whistle, all the disciples of the Corpse Sect were frightened and ran to the central stone tower.
"Let's go and have a look." Guo Qi promptly jumped down from the stone tower and moved to enter the grave.
Li Zhuang and Ju Yue Ru looked at each other and jumped down from the stone tower.
"No need. We will come up." From the underground grave came Shi Yan's lazy voice.