135: A graveyard? A beast's den!
The awakened Vicious Beast noticed the movement beneath its feet. It lowered its head, and its two rotten, yellowed eyeballs stared at the back of the Shānxiāo Clan Leader.
Seemingly realizing that the ant beneath its feet had woken it up, the Skeletal Vicious Beast lifted its foot and stomped down on the Shānxiāo Clan Leader.
"Boom!"
The thick, sturdy bone crashed down directly, and the terrifying force stirred up a fierce gust of wind, the Qi wave surging and sweeping outwards!
The Shānxiāo Clan Leader sped up, barely dodging the strike, but was still shaken by the aftershock, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.
His eyes were filled with terror; he threw all thoughts of Opportunity out of his mind, focusing entirely on how to survive.
Seeing that it failed to kill the Shānxiāo Clan Leader, the revived Corpse Skeletal Vicious Beast subconsciously followed.
Muffled footsteps continuously sounded, and the Corpse Skeletal Vicious Beast's speed gradually increased, constantly closing the distance between itself and the Shānxiāo Clan Leader.
The direction the Shānxiāo Clan Leader fled happened to be the area where Bronze Bull was located, effectively leading the Corpse Skeletal Vicious Beast straight there.
"Damn it! Don't come over here!"
Bronze Bull's expression changed drastically, and he roared loudly.
But at this moment of life and death, how could the Old Shānxiāo care? He only wanted to quickly drag other Demon Cultivators into the mess to share the aggression.
"Run!"
Seeing this, Bronze Bull's gaze sharpened. He casually took an object from his Storage Pouch and flung it toward the Old Shānxiāo.
*Whoosh.*
A sharp whistling sound rang out.
The Old Shānxiāo hurriedly dodged, but this delayed him slightly.
It was this very delay that caused him to enter the attack range of the Corpse Skeletal Vicious Beast once more.
"Boom!"
The thick leg bone smashed down fiercely.
"Go!" Seeing the effect, Bronze Bull dared not delay and led his subordinates toward the depths.
However.
Right at this moment.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Several more muffled cracking sounds came, and several Bloody Hills not far away split open with huge cracks, the corpses within awakening from their slumber.
"We can't leave! We must deal with them, or their movements might attract even more!"
An Elder suddenly roared out.
Hearing this, the Demon Cultivators stopped in their tracks one after another.
"It looks like this place is a graveyard. These Bloody Hills contain corpses and bones. If we wake them all up, none of us will make it back alive!" Red Maiden restrained her charm, her expression grave.
"What should we do?" the Elder with Goat Horns asked nervously.
Bronze Bull said in a deep voice, "We must join forces. No matter how powerful they were when they were alive, they are dead now. Are you saying we can't eliminate them even by working together!?"
After a brief moment of panic and helplessness, they finally regained their composure.
After a brief discussion, all the Demon Cultivators reached a consensus: first, clear out these corpses, and only then discuss searching for Opportunities.
After confirming their plan, Bronze Bull and the other Demon Alliance Elders simultaneously turned around, leading their Greater Demons to charge toward the roaring Corpse Skeletal Vicious Beasts not far away... "Patter!"
Xu Qing looked at the bloody pebbles rolling beside him, a hint of doubt flashing in his vertical pupils.
"The Yin Qi is so heavy."
He used his Spiritual Eyes to observe his surroundings and found that this bloody world was filled with Malevolent Yin Qi.
Places with such extremely heavy Yin Qi, besides certain natural Dangerous Areas, seem to only be... A flash of inspiration crossed Xu Qing's mind, and he thought of a place.
Graveyard!
The strange phenomenon of the Blood Pool appeared in his mind, and seeing the Yin Qi in this world, he immediately had a guess.
However, he was not yet certain.
Xu Qing chose a direction and hurried toward the area where the Yin Qi was denser.
Before long.
In front of a Bloody Hill, Xu Qing stopped, his gaze fixed on a dark, large hole in the middle of the hill.
In the sight of his Spiritual Eyes, the black hole before him was spewing out rolling Yin Qi, like a fountain of Yin Qi.
"This is..."
Xu Qing surveyed the surrounding hills, and the more he looked, the more they resembled grave mounds.
After pondering for a moment, he decided to go inside and investigate.
The Blue Light enveloping Xu Qing's body grew denser. His Light Generation technique was pushed to the extreme, and wisps of firelight overflowed from the corner of his mouth, driving the surrounding Yin Qi several Zhang away.
After preparing, the Green Snake swayed its body and drilled directly into the black hole.
Dense Yin Qi washed over Xu Qing's body. The Chilling Qi attempted to corrode his flesh and blood, but the Blue Light blocked it entirely.
Xu Qing increased his speed, continuously penetrating deeper into the hill.
A moment later.
Xu Qing's vision suddenly cleared. There was a massive cavern inside the Bloody Hill, and the faint Blue Light shone out, illuminating the gigantic figure crouching within the cavern.
"What... what the hell is this?"
A whisper of astonishment echoed inside the Bloody Hill.
Inside the hill, a Corpse/Skeleton lay seated!
Xu Qing looked at the enormous creature before him, sizing up its shape.
It was a hundred Zhang long, with pale yellow bones, and its back was covered with spikes several Zhang long. Three heads hung from its neck, layers of rotten flesh clung to the bones, and a pool of foul-smelling yellow liquid accumulated on the ground.
Although Xu Qing had intensively studied knowledge about Demon Cultivators, he still couldn't identify what kind of creature this was.
"Is this place really a graveyard?"
"Then don't the surrounding Bloody Hills also contain corpses?"
Thinking of the number of hills he had seen earlier, Xu Qing couldn't help but be surprised.
The Giant Beast before him had been dead for many years, but judging by the aura it left behind, it must have been a Greater Demon with heaven-reaching cultivation during its life. Its Cultivation Level definitely wouldn't be less than six thousand years!
If every Bloody Hill contained such a Corpse/Skeleton, just how many Greater Demons were buried here!?
Who buried them here?
How could so many Greater Demons die all at once?
Xu Qing gazed at the sight before him, and the guess in his heart was largely confirmed.
"Could this be the Hundred Beasts Tomb that the Old Dragon King mentioned?"
An underground space near the Crimson Blood Cave containing numerous Yao Beast corpses—other than the Demon Alliance's Hundred Beasts Tomb, there seemed to be no other possibility.
How did the Blood Pool of the Crimson Blood Cave become related to the Hundred Beasts Tomb?
Xu Qing realized the Old Dragon King was right: the water here was deep. The Alliance Leader of the Demon Alliance probably knew something.
"After I go back, I need to think about the Demon Alliance situation."
Xu Qing murmured softly, preparing to turn and leave.
Suddenly.
His body paused, and his angular head turned back, his vertical pupils looking toward the corpse's two heads.
"Click!"
Visibly, those two massive heads trembled slightly.
This was inside the hill, deep within the tomb; there couldn't possibly be any wind.
That is to say, the corpse moved by itself!
Immediately after.
"Click... Click... Click..."
A series of light sounds rang out, the joints of the Corpse/Skeleton began to tremble, and the massive body looked like it was struggling to stand up.
After a moment of surprise, Xu Qing's gaze suddenly turned fierce.
"Dead is dead! Stop playing tricks!"
In the next moment.
A dark light shone in his golden vertical pupils, and the Soul Seizing power capable of stirring up Nether Ghost Spirits suddenly erupted!