Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Forty miles into the ground, in an enclosed underground palace placed a headless, golden corpse with a beating heart!
If Lu Li had not found this uncanny thing in person, he would never believe it. Even though he had not had a clear view, he was absolutely sure that what he sensed was the truth.
From the corpse came a surge of energy that was 10 times as horrifying as that of the Dragon Demon. Lu Li felt he was an infant being surrounded by the energy of a frenetic lion.
He was chilled to the bones, and his hair was standing on its root. From the depth of his soul came through fear of fatal danger. At the moment… he felt a bit numb, and he could not even move.
Why was there an enclosed underground palace here? What was the reason for the headless corpse to be here? How come the corpse was so large? It was evident that the corpse’s head was cut off, and this person had died. Why was its heart still beating? How come its body was so threatening?
There were too many questions…
Lu Li did not have the time to think. The only thing he wanted to do was to run away because he feared that he would never have the chance to get out again.
“Hiss, hiss~”
He bit forcefully at his own tongue. The pain woke him up from a frozen state. He worked up the courage and fled upward quickly.
One thousand feet, three thousand feet!
When that chilling feeling around him vanished, Lu Li finally could breathe. He took out the Bead of Life and sped up. In the time for a few breaths, he had dashed out from the tunnel.
“Phew, phew~”
As soon as he came out, he crawled on the ground while breathing heavily. He was covered in cold sweat, and his heart was still fluttering with fear as if he had just escaped from the netherworld.
“Saint Lord, what is it?”
Ke Mang was still up here, checking. Seeing Lu Li, Ke Mang hurried over and asked, frightened. As a powerful warrior, Lu Li rarely acted like this. What did he experience?
“Seal this tunnel, now!”
Lu Li took another deep breath and added, “No, not just this tunnel. Seal this entire area, quickly!”
“Yes!”
Ke Mang did not ask more questions. Something huge must have happened or else Lu Li would not be so serious. Ke Mang hurried to build a layer Inhibition Formation across this entire area with a radius of two miles.
Lu Li had been monitoring with psychic power. When Ke Mang’s formation was finished and nothing strange came out from underground, Lu Li was finally relieved.
“Put down more seals!”
Lu Li knew that he could build one hundred more layers of seals, but they would not stop the headless corpse if he decided to come out. Even so, he would feel safer.
Ke Mang did as he was told. He built several layers of seals before he stopped and asked, “Saint Lord, what is… down there?”
“I’ll tell you later. Move!”
Lu Li flew up and Ke Mang followed. The former flew toward the palace. Patriarch of Law Enforcement was startled to see Lu Li in this state and asked, “What has happened?”
“Under the Path of Rising Dragons…”
Lu Li told them what he saw down there. Patriarch of Law Enforcement and Ke Mang felt chills in their body after they heard Lu Li’s experience.
“A headless corpse one thousand feet in length? Golden in color? Wings? Are you sure that body is a human’s not a beast’s?”
Patriarch of Law Enforcement’s eyes was wide open. Lu Li was certain. “It is a human’s corpse. He does not have the breath of a beast and apart from the wings, everything else of him is of a human being. You know… after a beast dies, it will change back to its beast form. I think that the body is a human’s. No… it is not a corpse. I can clearly feel that his heart was still beating, rhythmically!”
“Rhythm?”
Speaking of this, Lu Li remembered the strange movement he felt in the Path of Rising Dragons. That movement was rhythmic as well, and it seemed that it had originated from the underground. Could it be that… the pulse in the ground in the Path of Rising Dragons came from the headless corpse?
Very likely!
The more he thought about it, the more Lu Li was convinced of this idea. The heartbeat of the headless corpse had resonated in the Path of Rising Dragons. Its heartbeat must have contained some strange rhythm, which was why to study Profound Meanings was easy in the Path of Rising Dragons.
“A corpse of such a large size? The heart is still beating when there is no head? More powerful than the Dragon Demon? Is that… an immortal’s corpse?”
Patriarch of Law Enforcement muttered, but Ke Mang did not buy this idea. He asked, “How can an immortal’s dead body appear in the mortal world, the Paleo-beast Realm?”
“Master of Fairy Fox, get in here!”
Lu Li had no answer to these questions himself. He shouted and Master of Fairy Fox came in. “Is there a species among your paleo-beasts that is golden in color with a length of one thousand feet and wings, ten times more powerful than the Dragon Demon?” Lu Li asked.
“How is that possible?”
Master of Fairy Fox shook her head. “Master, that spiritual beast of yours is at the middle stage of Mythical Creature-to-be. Something 10 times as strong should be a real immortal. During the peak period of the paleo-beasts, some did become an immortal but that was in the ancient times, two million years ago. Also… I have never heard of something fitting your description, my master.”
“I found a body underneath the Path of Rising Dragons!”
Given that Master of Fairy Fox was his spiritual beast, Lu Li felt it was okay to tell her. Therefore, he informed her about his findings and asked her to analyze it based on the situation of the Paleo-beast Realm.
“Headless corpse!”
Master of Fairy Fox was scared. Her pretty eyes were filled with terror, and she was turning a bit pale. The thought that something this horrifying was not far from them made her fidget.
“That is not one of the paleo-beasts!”
After thinking for a moment, Master of Fairy Fox answered with certainty, “Beasts like us always turn back to our beast form upon death. Master, you mentioned that this one’s head was cut off so he must be dead. Therefore, it is unlikely that he was a beast. No beast of such a form ever appeared at the Paleo-beast Realm. Besides… the strongest of the paleo-beasts was the 14th Master of Silver Dragon, at the later stage as a Mythical Creature-to-be. Even so, that Master of Silver Dragon was far weaker than this headless corpse which must be an immortal.”
“Yes!”
Patriarch of Law Enforcement and Ke Mang nodded in agreement. This headless corpse was 10 times stronger than the Dragon Demon. When this person was alive, he must be one hundred times more powerful than the Dragon Demon. He must be an immortal.
The thing was…
How did this headless corpse of an immortal come to the Paleo-beast Realm? With his heart still beating, was he dead or not? What should they do about this headless corpse?
“Wait a minute!”
Master of Fairy Fox thought of something. “I think there is a story told amongst us. It was three hundred thousand years ago. Back then, the Silver Dragons were not living on the Mountain of Dragons. They only moved here later on. It was… the 14th Master of Silver Dragon that ordered that move. At that time, the Silver Dragons fought ferociously over the Mountain of Dragons with two other species. Is that when… the headless corpse appeared?”
