Chapter 363: The Bizarre Corpse Realm, Undying
With a snap of his finger, a flash of white light appeared.
Skill: Skeletal Fangs!
2000 white sharp fangs shot out, turning the charging corpse into a pincushion.
Its already tattered body was instantly shattered into pieces.
Lin Moyu asked in a deep voice, "How did we end up here?"
Dongfang Yao was clearly panicked, "I don’t know either."
Lin Moyu coughed lightly, "Don’t panic, think carefully, first tell me, what is the Corpse Realm?"
Since they had already arrived here, there was no need to dwell on how they got here.
First, he needed to understand what exactly the Corpse Realm was.
Two more corpses charged over, moving faster than the previous one.
This time, Lin Moyu got a clearer look. The charging corpses had an appearance almost identical to humans, but their bodies were completely rotten, with holes everywhere.
Any ordinary person would have been dead.
Yet despite their state, they were still not dead, charging over with raspy howls at a rapid speed.
The Skeletal Fangs erupted, completely shattering the two corpses.
But they still didn’t die. Even if only a head remained, it would still be opening its mouth, howling non-stop.
The stench of rot grew heavier, and Lin Moyu frowned as he looked at Dongfang Yao.
Dongfang Yao said urgently, "This is the Corpse Realm, but I don’t know why we ended up here."
Lin Moyu cut her off, "I know this is the Corpse Realm, calm down and explain it clearly."
Dongfang Yao tried to calm herself, but her trembling body betrayed her unease. Ignoring the foul stench, Dongfang Yao took a deep breath.
"The Corpse Realm is an ancient small world. A long time ago, a great battle broke out here."
"The battle shattered this world, and at that time, someone used a terrifying skill."
"This skill caused a mutation in the entire world, turning all the people in that world into corpses."
"Enough!" Lin Moyu growled, interrupting Dongfang Yao again. "I’m not asking about the origin of the Corpse Realm, I’m asking what we need to be wary of here, what dangers there are."
Dongfang Yao was startled and quickly said, "I don’t know much about the Corpse Realm. I only know that we must not be bitten by the corpses, or else we’ll be infected by the plague and turn into corpses ourselves."
At that moment, a thunderous roar echoed in the sky, and a purple lightning bolt tore through the ground.
Lin Moyu was stunned to see that the lightning was purple, and even emitted a faint white glow, extremely bizarre.
Then raindrops began falling from the sky.
The rain not only failed to wash away the stench of rot, but instead made the smell even stronger.
A ball of white light flashed, and Lin Moyu’s skeletal armor suddenly lit up.
"This water is not right!"
Lin Moyu was alarmed. The rainwater was both acidic and foul-smelling, with a strong corrosive nature that activated his skeletal armor.
Ah!
A scream rang out nearby. The rainwater had fallen on Dongfang Yao, clearly injuring her as well.
Dongfang Yao summoned a shield, holding it over her head as an umbrella to block the rainwater.
The rainwater hit the shield, emitting plumes of smoke, and the shield was visibly corroding at a rapid pace.
"A knight?"
Lin Moyu noticed Dongfang Yao’s profession for the first time, but upon closer inspection, she didn’t seem to be a knight.
Dongfang Yao was not a knight.
A knight’s shield was not used in this manner.
Lin Moyu was now quite familiar with knights, having encountered various knight professions.
He pondered in his mind but could not find a profession that matched Dongfang Yao’s.
The shield was rapidly corroding and would not last much longer.
Dongfang Yao’s face showed urgency and fear.
At that moment, she suddenly received a party invitation from Lin Moyu, which she accepted without hesitation.
Then, with a snap of Lin Moyu’s finger, Dongfang Yao’s body flashed with white light, and his skeletal armor shone, shielding her from the rain.
"Thank you, thank you!" Dongfang Yao expressed her gratitude to Lin Moyu.
If not for him, she might not have been able to endure.
Although she had more shields in her storage space, who knew how long this rain would last.
Lin Moyu asked, "What else do you know about the Corpse Realm?"
Dongfang Yao said, "My level is not high enough, and I don’t have enough information. All I know is that the Corpse Realm is extremely dangerous, and it will be very difficult to leave."
"My father once told me that the reason our Dongfang family became the rulers of the Divine Summer Empire was not because we were powerful."
"It was because our Dongfang family was tasked with guarding the Corpse Realm."
"Even before the Divine Summer Empire was founded, the Corpse Realm already existed. Once, the corpses from the Corpse Realm tried to invade our human world."
"At that time, an ancestor of our Dongfang family sacrificed himself to block the corpses, buying enough time for our people."
"Since then, guarding the Corpse Realm has become the responsibility of our Dongfang family. After the Divine Summer Empire was established, our Dongfang family became the rulers."
After listening, Lin Moyu took out the Abyss Teleportation Stone.
The Abyss Teleportation Stone had dimmed and lost its function.
There were only two possibilities for the Abyss Teleportation Stone to lose its function:
One was that the Corpse Realm was enveloped by an extremely powerful barrier or formation, blocking all teleportation items.
The second was that the Corpse Realm was extremely far away from the Abyss, beyond the transmission stone’s limit.
After all, the Abyss Teleportation Stone had limited energy and range.
Based on the time it took to teleport from the palace to here, both possibilities were plausible.
The corrosive rainwater pounded the ground, but the three shattered corpses from earlier showed no signs of damage.
In fact, Lin Moyu saw that they were growing under the rain’s erosion.
Three heads were opening their mouths wide, drinking the acidic, foul-smelling rainwater.
Their bodies were slowly regenerating from the rainwater.
In no time, new rotten flesh had grown below their necks.
This sight was bone-chilling, and Dongfang Yao let out another scream.
After all, she was a girl, and such a sight was terrifying.
"Should we leave this place?" Dongfang Yao asked, her heart trembling at the gruesome scene.
"Leave? Where to? Which direction?" Lin Moyu questioned.
The surroundings were pitch-black and foul-smelling, with no indication of which way to go.
Dongfang Yao said, "Head towards the center. I remember there is a secret realm at the center of the Corpse Realm, with a teleportation array that can return us to the human world."
"Why didn’t you say so earlier?" Lin Moyu asked.
Dongfang Yao was a bit embarrassed, "I was scared earlier, so I forgot."
Lin Moyu didn’t dwell on it and continued, "Then how do we get to the center?"
Dongfang Yao shook her head, "I don’t know..."
Well, saying that was as good as not saying anything.
Not knowing the direction or the size of the Corpse Realm, finding the center would not be easy.
Since that was the case, Lin Moyu didn’t rush to move either.
For now, this place was still relatively safe, so he needed to figure things out first.
Careful planning was necessary when facing such a bizarre world.
Lin Moyu didn’t move, and Dongfang Yao didn’t dare move either.
She huddled tightly next to Lin Moyu, their skeletal armor almost clinging together.
He sent out a detection skill, but the information it returned was simple.
[Low-level Corpse]
[Level: 5]
Apart from the name and level, there was no other information.
Lin Moyu summoned a skeletal berserker warrior.
The skeletal berserker warrior walked through the acidic, foul-smelling corrosive rain towards the corpse.
It deliberately extended its foot towards the corpse’s mouth.
The corpse immediately bit down on the skeletal bone.
Lin Moyu carefully sensed that the skeletal berserker warrior had taken a minuscule amount of damage.
This corpse’s attack power was very weak, likely not exceeding 100 strength.
This attack power was even weaker than the damage from the rain.
The skeletal berserker warrior raised its axe and slammed it down on the corpse’s head.
With a bang, the head was split in half.
There was no blood, as if a piece of wood had been split open.
But bizarrely, the split corpse’s mouth was still moving.
And under the rain, it showed signs of regenerating.
"Unkillable?"
Lin Moyu’s heart stirred, and the skeletal berserker warrior put the two halves of the head back together.
After a while, the head actually regenerated and rejoined.
The only difference was a crack on the head, like a scar left by the skeletal berserker warrior’s axe, looking extremely bizarre.
Dongfang Yao had already closed her eyes in fright, unable to bear watching.
She didn’t understand why Lin Moyu was doing this.
After doing all this, Lin Moyu had the skeletal berserker warrior raise its axe again and smash the corpse’s head into a pulp.
This time, it used the back of the axe, truly reducing it to a mushy mess.
Then, he gathered the mushy mess back together.
To Lin Moyu’s shock, the mushy mess was actually regenerating in the rain.
Dongfang Yao was so frightened that she couldn’t speak, tightly huddled behind Lin Moyu.