However, Tianxie Ziyin quickly regained her composure and said, “You, a mere bug, want to become the master of an Ancient Blood Corpse? You truly dare to think such things. This King admires your courage.”
Yang Che was already accustomed to Tianxie Ziyin’s criticisms, so he didn’t care.
He merely said calmly, “Zi Yin, I’m serious. I faintly feel that one of these blood coffins is my Ancient Blood Corpse from my previous life. The reason I wanted to go down and investigate just now was because of this extremely strange feeling.”
Seeing Yang Che speak with such conviction, Tianxie Ziyin was silent for a moment, then said, “Really?”
“How could I speak nonsense about such an important matter?” Yang Che said with utmost solemnity.
Tianxie Ziyin: “Then can you sense which blood coffin it is? And where it’s located?”
Yang Che nodded and said, “Of course. It’s not in the central area, but among the blood coffins right next to the central area.”
“Yang Che, you must sense it clearly. This King tells you, the hundred blood coffins in the central area are King-Level Ancient Blood Corpses. Radiating outwards from them are Spirit Rank, General Rank, and Soldier Rank, in order. Are you sure it’s right next to the King-Level Ancient Blood Corpses in the central area?”
Yang Che didn’t hesitate and nodded firmly.
“Good, then Cultivate here for half a month. Once this King can possess you, we’ll go down and investigate.”
“Understood.”
Yang Che sat cross-legged and immediately entered a state of Cultivation.
According to what Tianxie Ziyin had said before, after Foundation Establishment, he had to Cultivate two Dantians and two Cultivation Techniques simultaneously.
Not only that, he also had to continue Cultivating the Heaven and Earth Chaos Art.
As a result, his Cultivation progress would naturally be incredibly slow.
But among those of the same rank, excluding Magical Artifacts, Spirit Talismans, Spirit Beasts, and other external forces that could be utilized, Yang Che would absolutely crush other Cultivators of the same rank.
However, achieving Core Formation was still incredibly difficult.
Due to the principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint of Mutated Immortal Roots, relatively speaking, Mutated Dual Immortal Roots presented the most arduous path.
As for the truly chosen ones with the legendary Mutated Triple Immortal Roots or Quadruple Immortal Roots, they could almost Cultivate without any Bottleneck all the way to Nascent Soul Stage Great Perfection.
For Yang Che, he had to successfully form Golden Cores in both Dantians before he could continue Cultivating.
And when the two Golden Cores condensed simultaneously, the bizarre mutual consumption of the Mutated Dual Immortal Roots, that is, the principle of mutual restraint, would reappear.
If it were in the ancient Cultivation era, with enough Heaven and Earth Spirit Milk and the help of a Cultivation Grandmaster, this consumption could be completely offset.
However, now, Spiritual Qi is incredibly thin, and Heaven and Earth Spirit Milk has long since disappeared. The hope of a Mutated Dual Immortal Root successfully forming a Golden Core is truly slim.
However, Yang Che was not discouraged. After all, when he couldn't achieve Foundation Establishment initially, the situation was almost the same as now, and he still succeeded in Foundation Establishment in the end.
…
Half a month later.
“Let’s go, we can go down and investigate.”
Finally, when Tianxie Ziyin spoke, Yang Che immediately got up and walked to the end of the broken path.
“Zi Yin, is there really no way to completely destroy these General Rank and above Ancient Blood Corpses?” Yang Che stopped and suddenly asked.
“They can be destroyed, but not completely. Any successfully refined Ancient Blood Corpse, except for the Soldier Rank, has existed for countless years.
As long as their blood doesn't perish, they can slumber for endless years. In the era I belonged to, the Ancient Corpse Sect was a top-tier great sect, ruling a special spiritual domain in the Upper Realm for countless tens of thousands of years.”
Hearing the mention of the ‘Upper Realm’ again, Yang Che immediately asked, “The Upper Realm, is that the world you mentioned where the ‘Immortal Gate’ exists?”
Tianxie Ziyin said, “That’s right. Cultivators who wish to Ascend to Immortality must enter the Upper Realm and find the location of the Immortal Gate to have a chance at Ascension. However, these things are too far removed from you. Knowing them now is meaningless.”
Yang Che silently committed it to memory, then returned to the topic of ‘Ancient Blood Corpses’ and continued to ask, “Zi Yin, according to you, these slumbering Ancient Blood Corpses cannot be destroyed and can only wait for them to awaken and harm the entire Cultivation World?”
“Hmph, if this King wasn’t from this era and didn’t understand some ancient Restrictions, do you think the people in the current Cultivation World could discover this ancient Restriction?
Even if they fortunately discovered it, it’s highly probable they wouldn’t be able to enter this place at all. And once they forcibly break the Restriction, these Ancient Blood Corpses will awaken prematurely.”
“Actually, if possible, this King would rather let these Ancient Blood Corpses awaken prematurely. If they were to awaken after absorbing enough fresh blood, that would be extremely terrifying. Especially those hundred ‘King-Level’ Ancient Blood Corpses, if they awaken at their normal time, this world might cease to exist.”
“But what does that have to do with us? Yang Che, the Spiritual Qi in this world is no longer sufficient to sustain itself for much longer. A hundred years? A thousand years? Who knows, but there will eventually be a day of destruction.”
Tianxie Ziyin told Yang Che a lot, but no matter how much she said, she remained as heartless and cold as ever.
After listening to Tianxie Ziyin, Yang Che pretty much understood the terrifying nature of these ‘Ancient Blood Corpses’.
He leaped down the broken path, landing among the blood coffins.
Yang Che felt the intense cold and bloody Qi. If a Cultivator below Foundation Establishment were here, they would likely faint and collapse instantly.
The strange sensation in his heart also became increasingly strong after he entered this cluster of blood coffins.
Yang Che quickly discovered that moving through the blood coffins was impossible.
The inexplicable, strange power fluctuations made him feel an extremely dangerous premonition.
After thinking for a moment, he took out his Dunjxing Shuo and flew directly from mid-air to that area.
“Could it be that I really am the Reincarnation of the original owner of some Spirit-Level Ancient Blood Corpse?” Yang Che was extremely puzzled.
Because of this strange sensation, Yang Che naturally wanted to get to the bottom of it.
Soon, Yang Che found the blood coffin that was giving him an increasingly strong sensation.
He floated down and stood before the blood coffin.
The blood coffin was entirely crimson, with blood mist surging around it.
However, the concentration of blood mist was clearly much weaker than that of the so-called King-Level Ancient Blood Corpses in the central area.
“Open the coffin.” Tianxie Ziyin said coldly.
Seeing that Yang Che didn’t move, she added, “Don’t worry, no matter what happens, as long as this King possesses you, we can quickly leave this place.”
Yang Che’s heart settled.
He stepped forward, his magical power surging, and directly flipped open the coffin lid.
A blood corpse, entirely crimson, suddenly opened its hollow eyes and stood directly from the coffin.
This blood corpse was tall and imposing.
It wore a strange, high-plumed black crown on its head and peculiar glowing cloud boots on its feet.
Its eyes stared blankly around.
When it clearly saw Yang Che in front of it, the confusion in the blood corpse’s eyes gradually faded.
It was replaced by a bloodthirsty greed and killing intent.
‘Roar!’ A strange shriek emanated from the blood corpse’s mouth.
At the same time, a blood arrow spurted out, sprinkling onto the mysterious power fluctuations between the countless blood coffins.
‘Rumble!’
Except for the hundred blood coffins in the central area, which remained motionless, all the other blood coffins in this cold underground cavern began to vibrate.
In an instant, blood mist permeated the air in the cavern.
Countless blood coffin lids were flung open, and the ground shook violently.
“Yang Che, you were wrong. You are not the Reincarnation of the original owner of some Ancient Blood Corpse; that Luo Jian, whom this King destroyed earlier, is.”
“What? That Luo Jian is?” Yang Che was astonished.
Tianxie Ziyin said, “The scissors Luo Jian used were refined with his spirit and blood essence, containing Luo Jian’s life soul and blood essence. Although you put it into your Storage Pouch, at such a close distance, this Ancient Blood Corpse still vaguely sensed the spirit essence, thus mistakenly sending you the sensation.”
Although Yang Che was surprised, he quickly regained his composure.
Being confirmed that he wasn't the Reincarnation of the Ancient Blood Corpse's original owner was actually a huge weight off his mind.
Tianxie Ziyin said, “This is interesting now. Whether it’s your Jiang Country or other Immortal Countries, they are all about to face great changes.”
Yang Che had already stepped onto the Dunjxing Shuo and flown towards the broken path.
However, after completing its ‘call,’ the blood corpse wearing the high-plumed black crown quickly locked its gaze on Yang Che.
It slapped its blood coffin, and the strange glowing cloud boots on its feet flashed with a bloody light. In the blink of an eye, it had already caught up to Yang Che.