Chapter 424 - 422: Heavenly Punishment

Chapter 424: Chapter 422: Heavenly Punishment

A two-thousand-year-old corpse,

suddenly opened its eyes,

and began to move.

It wasn’t just Qiu Kunsheng and the other Corpse Refining Sect disciples.

Even Wei Yuting, who had hidden further back, and Shen Changchuan, currently concealed in the shadows, felt a chill shoot up from the soles of their feet!

Just thinking about it for a moment

was enough to feel the sheer terror of the situation!

If this mysterious female corpse was the most treasured inheritance of the Corpse Refining Sect,

having spent two thousand years with them.

If she wasn’t dead,

then that meant for two millennia, generation after generation of the Corpse Refining Sect, including a long line of Divine Travel Realm experts, had all failed to realize she was alive.

This would make her an unimaginably terrifying Great Power, perhaps even surpassing the legendary Master Profound Pill!

But if she was dead,

then it was even more terrifying!

A corpse over two thousand years old had reanimated, suddenly coming back to life!

What a bizarre and horrifying event.

Anyone present would have felt their skin crawl!

Under the immense terror,

no one dared to make a sound.

They even held their breath, afraid to make the slightest noise!

At that moment,

RIP!

The sound of tearing cloth echoed.

With a light swipe from the white-robed female corpse,

the Silver Armored Corpse, whose strength was no less than Qiu Kunsheng’s and at least at the Soul Emergence Eighth Layer Late Stage, was easily torn in two like a piece of paper!

Her face was expressionless.

Her pure black pupils seemed to glance over everyone present.

She made no other movements.

Her entire figure then ascended as if she had lost all weight.

Above, in the sky,

wind and clouds suddenly howled, and oppressive dark clouds from an unknown source instantly enveloped the entire sky above the Secret Realm.

Streaks of thunder and lightning danced wildly across the high heavens.

A boundless heavenly might descended.

The heavens...

were enraged!

At that moment,

everyone within the Secret Realm Ruins was forced to the ground. An immense, invisible pressure, like Tai Mountain crashing down, pressed them all into the dirt!

Just then,

the mysterious female corpse’s figure had already flown high into the air.

CRACK!

In the sky above her,

a patch of empty space shattered like a mirror,

revealing a dark void behind it.

It was as if a bottomless Dark Abyss had appeared, leading to some unknown, dark chasm in the heavens!

At the same time,

ten thousand bolts of Thunder burst forth from the sky,

surging toward the mysterious female corpse like a world-ending flood.

The terror was so intense that the mere light they emanated felt like it could suppress and shatter a person’s Divine Soul!

However,

this terrifying Thunder,

froze in place the moment it came within a thousand feet of the mysterious female corpse.

It was as if that sliver of Time and space had been frozen solid!

The heavenly retribution of Thunder, something that would likely make even a Master Profound Pill flinch, was held motionless in space, unable to budge!

The figure of the mysterious female corpse

then gradually faded into the dark void and vanished.

The patch of space began to mend itself.

Aside from the terrifying Thunder frozen around it, everything disappeared, as if nothing had ever happened.

In the sky above,

furious thunder boomed, shaking the heavens and the earth.

The terrifying divine might

caused the entire Secret Realm Ruins to tremble.

After a long while,

the dreadful heavenly might finally dissipated.

...

The terrifying heavenly punishment departed.

After a good while,

the people who had been crushed to the ground by the heavenly might managed to struggle back to their feet.

But even Qiu Kunsheng

was left with lingering fear from the terrifying wrath of the heavens, his legs unable to stop trembling.

It was unclear if it was the backlash from his Lifebound Corpse Refinement being casually torn apart,

or the damage caused by the terrifying heavenly wrath,

but his face was now as pale as paper, and a trickle of blood escaped the corner of his mouth.

"How is this possible? What in the world just happened?!"

Qiu Kunsheng was in a daze,

muttering to himself nonstop.

The scene from before had been too great a shock for him!

The ancient corpse, an heirloom of the Sect for two thousand years, had suddenly come to life.

For anyone else,

this would be impossible to accept!

’Could it be... that we searched the wrong place?’

’No! That’s impossible!’

’The tracking talisman was made from the residual aura left behind by that thing back then. An aura from the same source can’t be wrong!’

’Besides, the description of her appearance is identical to the records in the Sect’s archives!’

’There can’t be that many coincidences in this world!’

No matter how unwilling Qiu Kunsheng was to accept it,

the facts told him

that for some unknown reason, the ancient corpse their Sect had passed down for two thousand years had come to life!

This was undoubtedly a terrifying scene for anyone, especially for the disciples of the Corpse Refining Sect.

Judging by the heaven-shaking, earth-shattering phenomenon that occurred when she left,

there was no doubt

that she was an unimaginably powerful figure who could reach the heavens!

So, during the time she was dead, or rather, "asleep," did she know that her body was being used as a Cultivation material by the people of their Corpse Refining Sect?

If she knew,

would she come back for revenge?

At this very moment,

both Qiu Kunsheng and the other Corpse Refining Sect disciples couldn’t help but feel utterly lost and panicked!

A sense of impending doom, that death could arrive at any moment, rose in their hearts!

At this point,

Qiu Kunsheng recovered slightly from his earlier terror,

and thought of something more,

which gave him an even bigger headache!

’Now we’re in trouble!’

Qiu Kunsheng’s expression gradually darkened, becoming incredibly grim.

Because he had thought of something—

how was he going to explain this to the Supreme Ancestor when he returned to the Mountain Gate?!

The Supreme Ancestor

had always been someone who only cared about results, not the process.

Even if this mission failed because of an unfathomable and terrifying event,

and it was in no way his fault, with everyone here as a witness,

Qiu Kunsheng was certain

that even so,

when he returned to the Mountain Gate,

he would absolutely not have an easy time returning empty-handed!

’Damn it! How could an accident like this happen?!’

’Damn the heavens, and damn that old fossil!’

Thinking of this, Qiu Kunsheng’s face grew even uglier.

He couldn’t help but curse furiously in his heart.

Not only had this trip yielded nothing, but his own Lifebound Silver Armored Corpse had also been torn apart, and he would have to face the Supreme Ancestor’s wrath when he got back.

The losses were simply catastrophic!

Staring at the Silver Armored Corpse on the ground not far away, torn in two and now completely lifeless,

Qiu Kunsheng’s heart was bleeding.

He had to remember,

this Lifebound Silver Armored Corpse was as strong as he was. He had spent countless Heavenly and Earthly Treasures to cultivate it to the Soul Emergence Eighth Layer.

But now,

with a single light swipe from that ancient corpse, it was gone.

All of it, gone!

His combat strength

had been cut by more than half!

To start over and refine another Silver Armored Corpse like this one... he didn’t even know how much Time and energy it would take!

Tragic!

Utterly, devastatingly tragic!

A wave of frustration welled up in Qiu Kunsheng’s chest.

After stewing in his anger for a while,

Qiu Kunsheng walked over, preparing to retrieve the remains of his Lifebound Silver Armored Corpse.

Just then,

BOOM!

A powerful fluctuation of Spiritual Qi suddenly erupted from behind him!

At the same instant,

a series of miserable screams rang out from behind.