Chapter 1037: Corpses (1/2)

The further in he went, the heavier the cold air became. Soon enough, it grew difficult for Lu Yun to remain on his feet.

“If this really does belong to a realm monster… then it’s a seriously horrifying one.” He used great effort to prevent himself from summoning hellfire.

Thankfully, he’d grown enough from his battle with the three-headed lizard that while his cultivation hadn’t improved, he was indeed more than ten times stronger than before. He only needed to make a few adjustments before his body adapted to the new temperature.

“If it wasn’t for the trial beforehand, I probably would’ve already frozen to death by now.” He was suddenly feeling grateful toward the lizard.

If it wasn’t for the chimera lookalike, he would have no idea how to evaluate and improve himself.

The path beneath his feet started to blur as the end of the bloody way was in sight. An enormous Blood Sea came into view, frothily scarlet and bubbling with a pungent stench.

Lu Yun paused by the boundless waters and stared dumbly at it.

“This is… the real Blood Sea? The Blood Sea that was once in the human dao hell has somehow ended up here!” He took a deep breath, absolutely certain that the scarlet depths in front of him was the Blood Sea that’d once stood in human hell!

It’d vanished mysteriously when human hell had been destroyed. Though a new portion had formed in the world of immortals, it was form without substance as it didn’t belong to hell.

He saw the genuine article in front of him now. It was impossible that Lu Yun was mistaken, because he’d once seen it in the great wilderness!

“How… why? Why is the Blood Sea here?” At a loss, he looked around blankly.

It was still frigid and much colder compared to the outside world. However, he could wholly ignore the temperature now.

The blood path plainly extended from the Blood Sea. Those who’d entered the tomb earlier had all been swallowed by its depths, their lives traded for the path from its waters.

“That’s…” Lu Yun’s eyes suddenly widened with recognition. The air over the Blood Sea was also bright scarlet. A dense crowd of things that resembled blood-red gems were embedded in the air, too many to be counted.

“Realm monsters! Those are realm monsters!” he gasped with shock.

Those things that looked like jellyfish were the true form of the realm monsters, but these ones were all dead. The arctic nature of the surroundings came from their corpses.

Lu Yun’s head ran numb with awful realization. There were too many realm monsters in the air—at least tens of millions! Each of them represented a dead world or a realm on par with one.

“How is this possible? Are they all transformed from dead worlds?” he murmured to himself.

“No, these realm monsters don’t come from dead worlds,” a melodious female voice rang by his ears.

Lu Yun turned around to see a young girl dressed in short, downy yellow robes. She’d appeared at some time and lacking any other species indicators, appeared to be human.