Chapter 577: Path Of Death (1/2)
Chapter 577: Path Of Death
Cowards would wet their pants while treading on this path, but Li Qiye remained calm and relaxed as if it was a stroll in his own garden.
After reaching a certain depth, the mist slowly emitted a terrifying aura of death. One’s skin would start to sizzle when met with this aura, and one’s muscles would quickly age until they became dozens or even hundreds of years older.
If they tried to block it with blood energy, then no matter how powerful this blood energy might be, it would still be withered by this powerful death aura. This corruption wouldn’t stop until the person died.
Li Qiye felt this corrosive death aura and murmured: “Countless eras have passed, yet your death aura is still here. It seems that you are still not dead, what a relief.”
Li Qiye carefully took out the lamp with the flicking fire in the center that seemed as if it would go out at any time. This little black flame seemed to be the death aura’s nemesis. When the aura tried to approach Li Qiye, it would instantly be burnt away by the flame.
After sizzling noises arose, the aura was burnt by the flame into little patches of smoke. Li Qiye went even deeper inside and the aura, no matter how powerful, couldn’t come close to him due to the black flame of the lamp.
The corpses that paved the path became fewer, but they were even more powerful than before. Prior to this, there were heaven-defying big shots, but Li Qiye didn’t know them because people of that level couldn’t enter his sight.
However, as he walked deeper inside, Li Qiye noticed a few characters among these fewer corpses.
An old man was lying on the path and had been dead for who knew how long. Although he was being corroded by the death aura, his corpse was not yet corrupted and decayed.
“All-Heaven Monarch, why didn’t you just stay in the Stone Medicine World? Why run here to die?” Li Qiye looked at the corpse and muttered to himself.
He walked a bit further and saw a skeleton holding a stone bowl which triggered another response: “Endless Longevity Alchemy Emperor, did you come here to find an Immortal Medicine for everlasting life? What a shame… The Endless Longevity Bowl, such a supreme treasure was robbed of its divine intent by the death aura.
“Glorious True God — how arrogant was this little brat in the past? So after you lost to that brat Min Ren, you ran here… It must have been because you wanted that heaven-suppressing item to defeat Min Ren…
“Autumn Goddess, what a pity. The number one beauty of the Charming Spirit Race in the past; countless prodigies of the nine worlds swooned over your incomparable allure. However, no matter how pretty you might have been, you are nothing but a corpse now.”
Along the way, Li Qiye recognized several famous people from the past. A few of them were his acquaintances when he was the Dark Crow, but all of these invincible existences eventually died inside the path of death.
Outsiders’ hearts would stop if they heard the names of these characters. Among them were unbeatable Imperial Princes, unparalleled True Gods, and number one beauties. 1
No one knew how long Li Qiye had been walking for, but there were fewer and fewer corpses as the death aura became stronger. Eventually, Li Qiye followed a trail the length of a small bridge.
After making it through this trial, he arrived at a plain. This plain was even more terrifying with its thick death aura.
Red glares flashed inside this thick aura. With a closer look, one would find that these red glares belonged to invincible characters. They seemed like living people, but they were actually all corpses.
These corpses looked just like True Gods with invincible divine lights surrounding their bodies. Legendary masters would quiver in front of them while even eternal existences would feel dread. 2
Some of the corpses also resembled Godkings. Three of them wore crowns that were also True Treasures — real Godking crowns. The number of Godking crowns could be counted on one’s hand in this world, but there were actually three right in front of him.
If others were here, they would understand why even Godkings died on the path of death. It was not just the corrosion of the death aura, they would also have to face a bunch of corpses as powerful as gods.
Li Qiye remained undeterred against these deity-like corpses despite the fact that the death aura coming from them could completely crush him. He quickly said: “The ninety-nine divine ghosts, so you guys really were here.”
Right when the ninety-nine ghosts wanted to rush forward, Li Qiye took out a wooden ruler and raised it up high: “The Ghost’s Origin Ancestral Key is here! Ninety-nine divine ghosts, stand down!”
The ninety-nine ghosts could tear Li Qiye limb from limb at any moment, but at this time, all of them stopped and gazed at the key with their red eyes.
Li Qiye obtained this key back at the Eastern Hundred Cities, but the world didn’t know of its effect.
The ghosts continued to stare at the key while standing completely still.