Chapter 119

Chapter 119: Beyond Forbidden Land

Up in the sky, the sea of purple light was constantly colliding with the black array formation. Neither of the two had sentience, but there seemed to be an intrinsic difference in nature that made them unable to coexist.

Just like the six cultivators battling it out in the fish skull.

Ding Xiaohai’s sword danced through the air, causing flowers of sword light powered by the Sea Transforming Scripture to blossom one after another. Each sword flower contained a terrifying killing intent.

He even pulled out a talisman treasure, combining it with his spells to create a small area similar to the sea. Although the sea corpse fighting Ding Xiaohai was powerful, it was unable to secure a firm advantage.

However, sea corpses wielded heterogeneity and corpse poison as sharp weapons. Coupled with their innate ferocity, Ding Xiaohai gradually seemed to be suppressed. Nevertheless, he still had trump cards to play.

As for the captain, the spear in his hand was like a dragon as it swept through the air. Not only was it extremely fast, it was also full of variations, sometimes sweeping wide and sometimes thrusting straight. Looking carefully, it was almost as if he was carving or embroidering as he circled the cultivator of the sea corpse race.

He was clearly at ease, and his free hand that didn’t hold the spear wasn’t even occupied with casting spells. Instead, it held an apple, which he would occasionally lift to his mouth and take a bite from. He even had the spare energy to cheer for Ding Xiaohai.

“Go, Senior Brother Ding! Senior Brother Ding is mighty, come one, you can do it!”

“Vice cap-” After cheering for Ding Xiaohai, the captain was about to cheer for Xu Qing as well, but when he glanced over, his eyes suddenly widened. His mouth fell open and he almost dropped his apple.

Xu Qing, holding a dagger in his hand, was so fast that he turned into a series of afterimages. He continuously slashed at that sea corpse cultivator and scattered packet after packet of poison powder.

He seemed to be testing his poisons.

As his dagger slashed out, the sea corpse cultivator lost piece after piece of flesh and blood, and soon, even its bones were exposed. The ground where they fought was full of green blood.

Despite the shocking sight of the green blood, Xu Qing remained completely expressionless as he continued to cut.

Actually, Xu Qing wasn’t originally planning to fight this way. However, the sea corpse cultivator didn’t seem to feel pain, and most of his poisons were useless against it.

Even if he sliced its neck, the sea corpse didn’t flinch at all. In fact, it attacked even more madly, as if it was fine receiving critical injuries as long as that meant killing Xu Qing. Its eyes shone red with madness, and it looked like it wanted to eat Xu Qing alive.

At the same time, spell fluctuations appeared on it. However, what was powering those spells wasn’t spiritual energy, but heterogeneity. Ghost faces made of black mist appeared around the sea corpse and rushed toward Xu Qing.

Xu Qing wasn’t afraid of heterogeneity, but he also didn’t want to expose his immunity. Thus, he immediately dodged and even pulled out a defensive talisman treasure. However, a frown appeared on his face.

He discovered that all the injuries didn’t seem to affect his opponent much, if at all. An even stronger killing intent erupted from Xu Qing’s body, and he swiftly stabbed his dagger at the sea corpse’s head.

A red light flashed through the sea corpse cultivator’s eyes, and it suddenly raised its right hand to receive the attack.

A crunch echoed as the dagger got stuck in the sea corpse cultivator’s bones. The sea corpse cultivator ignored the wound and suddenly bit down on Xu Qing.

A sharp light flashed through Xu Qing’s eyes. He didn’t dodge at all, instead smashing his head toward the opponent.

With a bang, the sea corpse’s jaw collapsed, its teeth shattered, and half of its head was instantly destroyed under the vicious blow. Xu Qing immediately ripped out the dagger and slashed again, cutting off his opponent’s arm and then slicing its belly open.

Rotting viscera and corpse liquid flowed out, giving off a nasty stench. This injury finally caused the sea corpse cultivator to reveal a hint of panic in his eyes. And it was also this scene that fell into the captain’s vision, causing him to almost drop his apple out of shock.

It wasn’t that sea corpses had no emotions, but rather their emotions were relatively simple. However, no matter how simple they were, the feeling of impending death was the same for everyone.

Faced with this terrifying feeling, the sea corpse didn’t want to fight anymore and began to retreat. But how could it be so easy to escape from Xu Qing?

With a tap of his feet, he immediately appeared next to the retreating sea corpse. His dagger flashed, and countless water droplets appeared, blocking off all escape routes.

The sea corpse became more and more panicked. The Seven Blood Pupils disciple in front of it gave off an extremely strange feeling, especially since its heterogeneity seemed to do nothing. According to its knowledge of the world, something like this was simply impossible.

Although there were blessed descendants in some powerful races who didn’t have any heterogeneity in their bodies, that didn’t mean that they weren’t afraid of heterogeneity at all. If they were tossed into a forbidden area, they would be invaded by the heterogeneity there all the same.

But when heterogeneity tried to invade this Seven Blood Pupils disciple, it seemed to just disappear, as if it had been swallowed into the abyss.

Moreover, even the corpse poison that the sea corpse race had always been proud of was useless in front of this person. On the contrary, it was the other party’s poison that caused the sea corpse to feel uneasy.

Plus, sea corpses had powerful bodies that didn’t fear pain. However, this person’s body seemed even stronger.

But most of all… the sea corpse clan’s racial characteristics allowed them to possess recovery power that far exceeded other races. However… the sea corpse felt that in terms of recovery, it was actually inferior to its opponent.

“What kind of freak is this?”

A fierce red light flashed through the sea corpse cultivator’s eyes, and it moved to retreat again. Unfortunately, Xu Qing had already arrived, and the ground soon filled with green blood alongside the slashing of the dagger.

After a while, Xu Qing’s dagger crumbled due to the corrosion of heterogeneity and corpse poison. The sea corpse cultivator seized the opportunity and jumped away, but a cold black light pierced through its chest an instant later. It was the black skewer.

As soon as it pierced the sea corpse cultivator’s chest, the skewer’s artifact spirit exploded forth with power, and fluctuations of the Foundation Establishment Realm broke out. With a bang, the sea corpse cultivator’s body, which had already been half destroyed and riddled with holes, directly exploded, scattering chunks of flesh and blood all over the place.

A moment later, the black skewer flew back into Xu Qing’s hands. All the bloodstains on it had already disappeared, as if they had been absorbed.

To the side, the captain glanced at the chunks of flesh and blood on the ground, then at the black skewer in Xu Qing’s hand, before realizing that Xu Qing was looking back at him. Feeling that he had lost face, he quickly turned his spear into a stream of water that rushed toward his opponent.

Upon making contact, the water immediately emitted an astonishing cold energy and turned into ice, instantly sealing the captain’s sea corpse opponent inside an icy lump.

The lump of ice was so cold that it seemed to even freeze the soul.

Xu Qing’s pupils contracted. He could feel a faint sense of danger coming from the lump of ice. Clearly, this wasn’t any ordinary ice; it must have been imbued with some sort of unknown power.

“Look, Xu Qing, when you kill people, you should be artistic, not just rely on brute force.”

The captain cleared his throat and took a bite of the apple with a smug look on his face. He stepped forward and tapped on the ice lump, causing cracking sounds to ring out as the lump of ice shattered – of course, taking the sea corpse cultivator inside along with it.

This scene made Xu Qing even more vigilant. A sea corpse cultivator at the peak of Qi Condensation was much stronger than a human of the same realm. Being able to kill such a cultivator so easily only proved that… the captain was even stronger.

“Oh, in my humble opinion, your spells can be improved, too. You should try adding your poison into your water droplets, that should make them even stronger.” The captain glanced at the ground around Xu Qing and spoke.

Hearing these words, Xu Qing fell into deep thought. He felt that the captain’s words made sense, so he gave a solemn nod.

Having re-established his prestige in front of Xu Qing, the captain smiled with satisfaction.

“Let’s go, we’ve got to head over quickly. If we’re late, that kid Zhang San might be gone already.” The captain ran straight toward the eye socket of the city. As for Ding Xiaohai, he didn’t pay him any more attention.

Xu Qing didn’t care about Ding Xiaohai either. As he followed the captain, he replayed the captain’s attack in his mind and thought about his own shortcomings, as well as the captain’s advice.

When they were about to enter the eye socket, Xu Qing suddenly opened his mouth and asked a question.

“Captain, the sea corpse race… are they corpses?”

It was rare for Xu Qing to take the initiative to ask a question. The captain’s eyes immediately lit up, and after glancing at Xu Qing, he coughed and spoke lightly.

“The answer to your question costs…”

Xu Qing tossed over a large apple, bigger than the one he’d eaten in front of the captain earlier. The captain paused and muttered under his breath before accepting the apple and taking a bite.

“Alright, since you’re a member of my team, I’ll tell you. Members of the sea corpse race are all reanimated corpses, and their existence itself is very strange. Their race is headquartered in a place at the edge of the ninth forbidden land. Oh, do you know what a forbidden land is?” The captain looked at Xu Qing.

“Forbidden area?” Xu Qing asked.

“The place God looks at turns into a forbidden area. But have you ever thought about… what if God looks at a forbidden area?” The captain’s expression was full of deep meaning.

Xu Qing’s mind immediately started whirling. He had never wondered about this before.

“When God looks at a forbidden area, the heterogeneity there will be enriched again and cross a certain limit. When that happens… a forbidden land is born. And the difference between a forbidden area and a forbidden land is huge.” The captain took another bite of the apple and continued to speak.

“In a forbidden area, there’s mostly mutated beasts or eerie existences, but in a forbidden land… new, sentient races can be born!”

“According to the records of Seven Blood Pupils, there are at least fifteen forbidden lands in this worlds. Some of them have races that are known to the outside world, while some are shrouded in mystery.”

“On the Endless Sea, there’s a forbidden land called Corpse Forbidden. The sea corpse race was born on the edge of that forbidden land. Actually, our South Phoenix Continent also has a forbidden land.”

“It’s the Phoenix Forbidden.”

“You must have heard that Phoenix Forbidden is ruled by a sovereign named Flame Phoenix Yanhuang. Yanhuang belongs to the top tier of divinity lifeforms in this world. Although he’s completely different from God, to a certain extent, he can be considered a similar existence.”

“And Yanhuang was born in the forbidden land.”

Listening to the captain’s words, Xu Qing felt powerful waves surge in his mind. Another layer of mystery seemed to have been lifted from the world.

“Then… what if God opens His eyes and looks at a forbidden land?” Xu Qing suddenly asked.

The captain fell silent. Soon, they reached the deep pit where the fish skeleton’s eye socket was, and just as they jumped down, his voice rang out faintly.

“Throughout the ages, there have been a total of four records of God looking at a forbidden land.”

“I don’t know what exact changes take place when that happens, but I do know that such a place is no longer called ‘forbidden land’.”

“Instead, it’s called… god’s domain.”

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