Chapter 664: Rampaging Corpse Demons (1/2)

As the demon fetus arrived in the world, demonic energy swept through the Exalted Divine Tombs, transforming every inch of the ground into a demonic land. Every corpse buried in the tombs was spontaneously demonized and crawled out as the living dead, replete with ringing shrieks and wails.

Shadowy figures emerged from the dark and converged upon the immortals, ghastly howls and screams echoing through the air. Every formation and layout in the mausoleum was destroyed within seconds, including the space-restriction formation.

“Run, run!” yelled an immortal as he soared into the air and shot back to where he’d entered the tombs.

Snap!

A snake-like creature whipped through the air in a red blur, swallowing the fleeing immortal in a single gulp. Their compatriot’s swift demise chilled everyone to the bones. Lu Yun had seen such a snake before—within the Ichor Bog outside the tomb. So the creatures had entered the tomb after the birth of the demon fetus!

“How, how did everything turn out like this?” Appalled, the Exalted celestial emperor looked on with an ashen face. Didn’t they have another three to four days until the demon fetus was born?

Why had the timeline shifted up? By now, the Exalted Divine Tombs were fully corrupted and reeked with the miasma of a demonic land.

“S-senior brother Yin mentioned that Ge Yanxia was trying to accelerate the birth of the fetus through different methods,” Qing Yu sighed faintly.

“You, you can do s-something about this, can’t you?” babbled the celestial emperor. “You can kill that demon fetus even now… What about the Ninth Heaven’s Demon-Destroying Patriarch? He’ll be able to deal with it if he’s willing to!”

The corpse demons had surrounded the group of the living and were poised to attack.

“He can’t just do that.” Lin Xuan opened his thick archive again. “The patriarch can only be summoned every forty-nine days. That’s right—he isn’t a living soul, but a heroic spirit summoned by a particular method.”

Despair wrapped tightly around everyone while the celestial emperor overflowed with regret. If he’d been a little more decisive earlier and taken everyone to where the demon fetus really was, they would’ve accomplished their mission already.

So this was how it felt to reap what he’d sown. Only now did he resonate with the mindset of the previous nine celestial emperors, but all was too late now.

Screeching, the dreadful corpse demons picked up momentum in a forward charge. As they were demonized zombies, they were more powerful than regular zombies. Even now, a couple of them might’ve been manageable, but absolutely not when they were gathered in the tens of thousands. Even the Exalted celestial emperor felt helpless against them.

Demonic howls could still be heard echoing from the heart of the tomb; something seemed to be fighting the newly born spirit. Yin Qingran had said that Qi Hai was there, and the group of Destiny City disciples must have arrived as well.

“Go! We kill our way to the land that seals the demon fetus and rendezvous with Senior Qi Hai. We may still stand a chance then, but all of us will die if the situation remains as it is now!”

The Exalted celestial emperor’s command shone as a guiding beacon into the gloom of desperation. Roaring in unison, the less than ten thousand survivors rushed toward the demon. The Exalted Chart sparkled radiantly above the celestial emperor’s head, and the heavenly mandate of Exalted Major shimmered to life as it sent the despairing immortals through the darkness like a glowing lance. Any others still struggling in the murk reconvened with them as soon as they saw the light.

The real Yin Qingran was also among them.

Neither Qing Yu nor Lu Yun followed the group, and the latter transformed back into himself.

“What should we do?” Qing Yu turned to Lu Yun worriedly.

She knew nothing could stop him from leaving, if he wanted to. The Path of Ingress could transcend space and take them away immediately, now that the strange restriction was gone. However, she also knew Lu Yun would never leave like this.

He might resent immortals for their greed and lack of integrity, but he would also never allow the demon to run free through the world.

“Let’s go find the treasure Ge Long mentioned,” Lu Yun said after a pensive pause. “If it’s as powerful as he said, it should be able to kill the demon! Where’s Yueshen? Where’s she gone off to?”