Chapter 123 Dream of the Mortal World: Waaah~ Xiao Ze, I'm scared!
"Elder Yi, with your divine sense, can you clearly observe the general situation of this forest?" Yun Ze continued to ask.
In his mind, after pondering for a long time, Ilex uttered a faint voice, "The depths of this forest seem to be filled with some kind of mist. Although it's the aura of death, its energy intensity far surpasses that of the few powerful figures I've seen in this world. Even the dean you mentioned, his cultivation cannot compare to the energy of this death aura."
Yun Ze, "!!!"
What did this mean?
Jing Hongchen's strength had reached level ninety-four. Considering the level of a Soul Master, he could completely fight against a level ninety-eight Super Douluo.
Yet, the energy fluctuations of such a top-tier expert on the continent were far inferior to the mist energy deep within this Death Forest!
The limit? Or even
a god?!
Besides the Seagod Island from ten thousand years ago, the Slaughter City where the Asura inheritance is located, the Angel Clan from ten thousand years ago, the two fallen god-level dragon kings at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and the Qiankun Asking Love Valley and Dragon Valley, there seem to be no other places where gods have fallen or inherited their legacy.
If what Ilex said is true, then the origin of this Death Forest is truly terrifying to contemplate.
"Xiao Ze, what's wrong?" Meng Hongchen asked softly beside Yun Ze. Yun Ze came back to his senses and smiled slightly at her, "It's nothing, let's keep going."
Although Meng Hongchen was a little puzzled, she chose not to ask any further questions.
The group of five continued forward, and the further they went, the more strange things Yun Ze discovered.
Further in, the swamp beneath their feet was filled with a corrosive power, constantly eroding the ice surface he had condensed from ice elements.
Yunze's ice attribute was at its peak; even Soul Masters several realms higher than him would find it difficult to suppress him in terms of attribute. Yet, this swamp was so strange that even his ice element could be eroded. Yunze quickly told
Elder Wang, Elder Sun, and Elder Jiang what he had discovered. The three elders were silent for a moment after listening before Elder Wang slowly spoke, "Speaking of which, I recall something. It's said that a powerful evil Soul Master was hunted here. The lowest of those pursued were at the Soul Douluo realm, but only one emerged. Moreover, this person had lost all his cultivation, was mentally unstable, and his body was completely mangled."
Elder Sun added, "I've also heard of this. Not only that, but others have entered the Death Forest afterward, but none have returned. Because of this series of strange events, no one has been to this forest for countless years."
Hearing this, Meng Hongchen leaned closer to Yunze, who then took her small hand.
"Xiao Ze."
"Don't worry, I'm here." Yun Ze smiled slightly. He wasn't nervous at all, because only he knew that the Demon Spirit King, who had been secretly following them, had gone ahead to scout, and the special mark it left on him was still establishing a connection.
This meant that, at least up ahead, the Demon Spirit King hadn't encountered any danger that left her helpless.
As the group ventured deeper, the cultivation levels of the surrounding soul beasts increased significantly; thousand-year-old soul beasts were now quite common.
Moreover, these soul beasts all shared a common phenomenon: their bodies seemed to have mutated, covered in what appeared to be rusty scales and rotting flesh, making them look extremely ferocious!
"Eek~"
Suddenly, Meng Hongchen beside him tightened her grip on Yun Ze's arm.
Yun Ze looked to the side and saw a terrifying-looking soul beast approaching them.
This soul beast wasn't beast-shaped, but rather more like a humanoid form, or perhaps similar to the undead skeleton warriors Yun Ze had seen in anime in his previous life.
Beneath the rotting flesh were stark white bones, and it held a strangely shaped weapon in its hand, resembling a sword, but with an extremely curved blade.
"Seniors, has the Empire recorded any soul beasts like this?" Yun Ze couldn't help but ask. The elders squinted at the soul beast for a moment, then shook their heads.
Indeed, there exist undiscovered and unrecorded soul beasts on the continent. Yun Ze nodded, raised his other hand, and brought two fingers together. As extremely cold energy gathered at his fingertips, a sword beam suddenly burst forth, heading straight for the soul beast.
Just as the icy sword energy was about to strike the soul beast, it suddenly raised its strange longsword with incredible speed. A flash of cold light appeared, and it directly collided with Yun Ze's sword energy.
"Hmm?"
Yun Ze was very familiar with the power of his Dragon Snow Sword Finger. With the addition of sword intent, even a Soul King would be instantly pierced through.
This soul beast only had four or five thousand years of soul power fluctuations. Although a hole appeared on the strangely shaped longsword, it didn't seem to cause it much damage!
"The death aura around it is actually protecting its body on its own?" Yun Ze became interested upon seeing this.
He gently patted Meng Hongchen's shoulder, and the latter obediently released Yunze's arm. Yunze exchanged glances with the three elders, and with a surge of icy power in his hand, he formed a long, dark ice sword.
At the same time, Yunze's snow-white hair grew rapidly, reaching his back before stopping. His azure eyes transformed into vertical pupils like dragon eyes, giving him an extremely majestic appearance.
His toes lightly touched the ice surface, and Yunze's figure moved with incredible grace and beauty, yet its practicality was equally impressive.
His movement technique was naturally his self-created "Treading Snow Without a Trace," a skill whose mastery had continuously improved as Yunze's spiritual power increased. Originally, Yunze could only cover about twenty or thirty meters with a single step, which was the limit of his movement technique. Now, however, he had reached nearly forty meters, and his speed was even faster and more difficult to detect.
The soul beast was already less than fifty meters away from Yunze, and with Yunze's movement technique, the distance between them instantly closed to within Yunze's most comfortable attack range.
Yunze, sword in hand, unleashed a horizontal slash, a strike amplified by his soul power and sword intent, making it incredibly powerful!
Whoosh—
Boom!
With the impact of the sword energy, the soul beast's body was instantly blasted to pieces, countless rotting pieces of flesh and bones falling into the swamp and slowly sinking to the bottom.
As Yunze sheathed his sword, he channeled his soul power, instantly freezing the swamp beneath his feet.
However, Yunze quickly noticed something amiss.
The once calm swamp was now constantly bubbling up from below, and moments later, countless pieces of flesh and bones reassembled, transforming back into the shape of the soul beast. "It can actually resurrect? That's cheating!" Yunze couldn't help but mutter. In his mind, Ilex's voice rang out again, "It's the problem with this swamp. The active energy within it has condensed these corpse fragments together, making it appear as if it's resurrected, but in reality, it has lost its self-awareness. This soul beast now only retains its instincts from its previous life."
"I see."
Yunze nodded, but even so, without consciousness, it's still a kind of resurrection.
If what Ilex said is true, then all the soul beasts in this forest could be resurrected and reborn through these swamps.
Holy crap!
"It has very similar characteristics to the undead creatures I command in my necromancy. Undead creatures also only retain their instincts from their previous life and can also be resurrected using the energy of necromancers. But even on the Holy Demon Continent, the number of necromancers is extremely rare. I only know of a handful, and besides myself, the rest are already dead,"
Ilex said slowly.
After listening, Yunze became even more curious about this forest.
However, he didn't intend to risk it based on his curiosity. Aside from the fact that Meng Hongchen was in great danger, and considering that Elder Jiang, Elder Sun, and Elder Wang were not related to him, he didn't want his curiosity to put these three elders in unknown danger.
"As long as it doesn't touch these swamps, it shouldn't revive, right?"
"Yes, these swamps are like energy, a medium for revival," Ilex replied.
"That's good then." Yunze said, his right hand slashing out again, another sword aura blasting across the sky, shattering the newly revived soul beast's body into pieces.
Yunze didn't stop after the slash; the power of ice element swirled around him, instantly enveloping the soul beast's shattered body, turning its fragmented flesh into ice shards, and then gathering them beside him.
"Its bones contain a trace of necromantic energy, which can be used as a means of casting necromancy. But this body has already been repeatedly shattered by you; if you forcibly summon undead creatures, their strength will definitely not be as great as before," Ilex said.
Yunze didn't seem to care much. If these soul beasts could resurrect infinitely, they would be quite a headache. But if they couldn't, they were useless.
"However,"
he said, raising the strange longsword he'd taken from the soul beast after its death in his left hand. The sword appeared to be made from a special kind of bone, and it also contained a very strong aura of the undead.
"This sword could be used as one of the materials for crafting magical weapons, but one piece alone is definitely not enough. The resulting magical weapon would likely be about the same power as the original Ferocious Soul Carving Blade," Ilex said.
"How many more do you think we need?" Yunze couldn't help but ask.
Electrolux thought for a moment, "The level of your magical weapon must match your talent and strength. With your talent, you have a very high chance of becoming a god in the future, so this magical weapon must be crafted in the direction of a divine artifact. Of course, it doesn't mean you have to get a divine artifact magical weapon right now, but the foundation definitely can't be weak."
"I estimate that you'll need at least a hundred pieces of materials similar to the one in your hand."
Yunze was speechless.
A hundred pieces.
"Alright, for the sake of magical weapons, and for the sake of becoming a powerful necromancer, I refuse to believe that we can't get a hundred pieces of such materials here!" Yunze gritted his teeth.
Once again using his movement technique, Yunze landed beside Meng Hongchen and said to the group, "From now on, unless absolutely necessary, try to avoid fighting. Seniors, do you roughly know the distribution of the Necromancer's Black Gold here?"
After hearing Yunze's words, Jiang Lao and the other two exchanged glances, pondered for a moment, and then Wang Lao spoke up, "I remember there was once a book in the hall containing information about the Death Forest. There should be a small Necromancer's Black Gold mine in the west. It is said that in addition to Necromancer's Black Gold, there are countless soul beast skeletons there, but they cannot be resurrected like before."
Yunze nodded, "Then let's head west."
As he spoke, Yunze and the Demon Spirit King also communicated using their branding.
"Demon Spirit, have you found anything over there?"
"Not yet. Besides the soul beasts, there's just a swamp. Oh, by the way, young master, about a bit further in from where you are, there's a mountain of corpses. But I felt something was off about it, so I didn't go any closer." "
A mountain of corpses?"
"Yes, there are many soul beast corpses piled up there, forming a small mountain. I took a look, and these soul beasts must have been dead for a long time. I just don't know why they died together. Could it be that something there is attracting them to their deaths?" Demon Spirit King replied.
Yunze paused for a moment. "Elder Yi, can you locate the place the demon spirit mentioned?"
"Hmm..."
As Ilex fell silent, he suddenly exclaimed, "This is... Necromancer's Gold? Necromancer's Gold actually exists in this world?!"
"Necromancer's Gold?" Yunze was taken aback. The bead that Ilex had transformed into trembled slightly. "That's right. If you consider the Living Gold you possess as a special metal condensed from life energy, then Necromancer's Gold is a special metal formed from the condensation of death energy. I've only heard of Necromancer's Gold, but I've never seen it before. I never expected to find something like it in this world! It's a treasure completely comparable to Living Gold!"
Comparable to Living Gold? This shows just how rare and energy-rich Necromancer's Gold is.
Although there might be considerable danger there, Yunze silently memorized the location.
He didn't intend to immediately head towards the mountain of corpses mentioned by the Demon King. Instead, he ordered the Demon King to retreat as well, and to first scout the west.
The group continued their journey, heading west according to the location noted by Elder Wang.
(End of Chapter)
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