bookcurios Chapter 1685
Chapter 1685
The Northern Underworld Immortal Palace continued its downward plunge through the chaotic sea, but the violent impact of the surrounding chaotic waters suddenly ceased at a certain moment.
Chen Xuan felt a chill run down his spine and subconsciously spread out his divine sense over a radius of 40,000 li—that divine sense was like an invisible whip that instantly pierced through the turbid seawater and stretched straight down to the seabed.
The scene before them suddenly became clear: above was still the churning, inky black, chaotic seawater, while below lay a clearly defined water barrier.
The seawater within the barrier was so clear it was almost transparent, yet it also had a somber, dark color, so still it was completely undisturbed, like solidified obsidian.
His divine sense pierced through the barrier, and the scene at the bottom of the Chaos Sea instantly crashed into Chen Xuan's mind.
The seabed was covered with countless floating corpses, piled up like mountains. Some were still in the posture of wielding swords, while others had ferocious faces as if they were suffering from severe pain. The surface of the corpses still had dried dark gold bloodstains, and even the folds of the clothes from the ancient immortal era were clearly visible.
At the farthest point of the Corpse Mountain, a verdant jade branch stands quietly, its leaves shimmering with a faint glow, standing out starkly against the deathly still seabed.
"Little Tower, look." Chen Xuan shared what he saw with the little tower in his Purple Mansion.
As soon as he finished speaking, the small tower transformed into a streak of light and rushed out of the immortal palace.
It was merely a broken fragment of its physical form, devoid of any life force. When it crossed that clearly defined boundary, it didn't even stir up a ripple, falling straight into the still waters of the ocean floor.
"Boy, stop right now!" Little Tower's voice suddenly boomed in my mind, "Don't let the Immortal Mansion in! Once you're in, these ancient immortal Gu corpses will immediately swarm you!"
Chen Xuan's heart stopped abruptly, and he abruptly severed the spiritual power in his immortal abode.
The Northern Underworld Immortal Abode trembled violently at the confluence of the two watercourses before finally coming to a stop, its hull just a few feet above the still water below.
He stood frozen in place, not daring to even breathe, his divine sense scanning downwards once more—
The floating corpses at the top layer exuded a mixed aura, mostly from the Void Reversal Realm and Celestial Immortal Realm, with occasional emanations of the pressure from the Celestial God Realm.
Further down, the auras of the True Immortal Realm and True God Realm lie dormant like deep thunder.
At the very bottom of the mountain of corpses, the auras of the Immortal King Realm and the God King Realm were almost solidified, and some of them were even stronger than the God King Realm, causing his divine sense to feel a slight sting.
Cold sweat instantly seeped from his forehead and slid down his cheeks.
Chen Xuan secretly rejoiced – if the little tower hadn't gone to scout ahead, and he hadn't rushed in with his immortal abode, he would probably have been torn to pieces by the millions of floating corpses by now.
He dared not even imagine how he, with his limited cultivation, could possibly contend against a group of corpses that had once been gods and immortals.
Moreover, as Little Tower said, the Chaos Sea has developed its own will, and if any outsider makes any unusual move, it will control these floating corpses to attack.
By then, let alone finding the Chaos Dao Fruit or refining the Chaos Immortal Qi, even leaving alive will be a pipe dream.
Chen Xuan held his breath and waited. Before long, the small tower shrank to the size of a fingernail, rushed out from the still water below, passed through the barrier, and returned to the immortal mansion.
"How is it?" Chen Xuan asked hurriedly.
Xiao Ta's voice was filled with unprecedented excitement: "Kid, this is truly an incredible stroke of luck!"
It paused, then its tone became more composed. "I've investigated all these floating corpses. Their consciousness has long since dissipated. They only have their almost immortal divine bodies left here, submitting to the will of the chaotic sea like the most devout believers, becoming tools of its manipulation."
"To put it bluntly, the strength or weakness of these floating corpses depends entirely on how you define them—"
"The weakness lies in the fact that the soul and will have long since dissipated. The great Dao that he comprehended in his lifetime, even the eternal Dao that could shake the heavens and the earth, can no longer be mobilized even a trace."
"Its strength lies in the fact that it has been submerged in the chaotic sea for half an era, and has long been tempered by the seawater into an indestructible body."
This chaotic seawater is most adept at refining corpses and bones, capable of polishing flesh to an absurd degree, comparable to the chaotic crystals embedded in the seabed.