551: The Bone Emperor?

"What kind of place is inside here?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Lingyun pondered for a moment, her peerlessly beautiful face showing a trace of solemnity.

"Our White Fox Clan possesses an Innate Divine Ability that allows us to perceive the Qi of Yin and Yang and connect with the spirits of life and death. This White Bone Forest is a forbidden land! It seems to be a place for nurturing corpses, yet also like a place for nurturing souls, but I haven't detected any special corpses or remnant souls within."

"Could it be that the thing inside has already awakened?"

Lin Ye was momentarily stunned, clearly not expecting the White Fox Clan to possess such a miraculous Innate Divine Ability.

Nurturing corpses and souls?

Lin Ye's brows furrowed tightly.

Logically speaking, those remnants of the Spirit Clan shouldn't be doing something like this. After all, they have nothing to nurture; apart from those few remnants, the rest of the Spirit Clan were slaughtered by him to the last.

Even if those rotten corpses could revive, it would only be because of the peculiarities of this place and the continuous wisp of aura spreading from the Spirit Clan's gate.

"Let's go in and take a look."

To figure out what happened here, seeing it for oneself was naturally the best way.

Lin Ye slowly walked deeper into the White Bone Forest, with Xiang Tiange and Cheng Dezhu naturally following.

Bai Lingyun only pondered briefly before following as well.

The group continued advancing through the White Bone Forest. The surrounding dense white bones were growing at a visibly rapid pace, an extremely eerie sight.

The intermittent sounds of fighting and the scent of blood in the air also proved that slaughter was everywhere here.

The aura emanating from the White Bone Forest seemed capable of stirring the killing intent within people.

Lin Ye, who was already walking the Dao of Slaughter, was naturally unaffected. Xiang Tiange, possessing the Absolute King Body and proving his Dao through strength, was also unaffected.

Bai Lingyun possessed an Innate Divine Ability that allowed her to shield herself from the killing intent.

The only one prone to losing himself, Cheng Dezhu, was protected by the remnants of Confucian Qi within his body from his past as a Disciple of the Confucian Dao, directly resisting these external killing intentions.

The four of them pressed forward and soon arrived at a clearing. It was filled with blood and bones, severed limbs and broken arms everywhere, clearly the site of a major battle not long ago.

"What is that thing?!"

Sharp-eyed Cheng Dezhu seemed to have spotted something. He jogged over to a corpse, only to see the mangled body being gradually absorbed by a white bone.

Seeing this, Lin Ye narrowed his eyes slightly.

He walked over to a white bone tree, reached out, and placed his hand on it.

"As I thought..."

Seeing Lin Ye's action, Bai Lingyun clearly guessed something too. Her beautiful eyes turned cold as she formed hand seals.

*Hum...*

A phantom image of a white fox materialized behind her. The phantom swayed its fluffy, large tail, its slender eyes gleaming with brilliant light.

A moment later, the phantom dissipated, and Bai Lingyun took a few steps back.

She stared at the White Bone Forest before her with a horrified expression.

"No wonder... no wonder I couldn't detect the remnant souls or corpses nourished by this forbidden land. It turns out this entire White Bone Forest is the thing being nourished!!!"

Hearing this, both Xiang Tiange and Cheng Dezhu were stunned.

It must be known that this Blood Road only opened during great epochs.

That meant this white bone-like being had remained in this forbidden land for numerous epochs!

What kind of being could it have been in life?!

After pondering for a moment, a strange smile suddenly appeared on Lin Ye's face.

He transformed his hands into sword fingers.

*Hum...*

As brilliant sword radiance manifested, it illuminated the gloomy earth around them.

*Swoosh!!!*

A sound of tearing through the air rang out as a massive sword radiance directly slashed towards the White Bone Forest before them.

*Boom!!!*

The entire White Bone Forest shook violently. With a crisp *crack*, a white bone tree directly in front was severed by the sword radiance, and black blood gushed from the broken ground.

As if the tree had come to life.

*Rumble!!!*

The entire White Bone Forest began to tremble, as if something was about to emerge from the ground.

Lin Ye paid no heed to the shaking forest, instead fixing his gaze on the severed white bone. Moments later, the broken white bone tree vanished, leaving a deep pit in the ground.

Without a word, he leaped straight into the deep pit.

The other three followed closely behind.

*Swoosh!*

After Lin Ye entered the pit, it felt like a bottomless black hole. He fell straight down, not knowing how long he descended before finally landing on solid ground.

The moment Cheng Dezhu hit the ground, he spoke, still shaken: "What kind of damned place is this? The ground is covered in plasma! Disgusting!"

*Hum...*

Lin Ye casually swung out a sword light. Its power wasn't strong, but it remained suspended in the Void Realm above, like a lamp igniting the darkness, fully illuminating the surroundings.

Seeing the scene around them, they couldn't help but suck in a cold breath.

Surrounding them was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, with the bodies of countless races all gathered here.

Moreover, some of the weathered skeletons bore traces left behind, clearly belonging to beings from epochs long past.

So many corpses used to nurture a body?

Lin Ye wasn't startled by this scene. Instead, he walked straight towards the depths of the corpse mountain. Before long, he saw what was hidden behind it!

It was a massive white skeleton. Its skull alone was the size of a mountain. At that moment, the ribs of the skeleton extended upwards, branching out into countless offshoots.

The White Bone Forest outside was evolved from this thing's ribs.

"This is... the aura of an emperor? A deceased Heavenly God?!"

Sensing the wisp of emperor's aura emanating from the white skeleton, the large, fluffy tail behind Bai Lingyun stood straight up.

A deceased Heavenly God, turned to white bones after death, still absorbing the Qi and blood of countless races to nourish itself, yet not a single shred of flesh grew on the bones.

But within the skeleton's ribcage, a heart beat incessantly.

"What is it trying to do? Is it dead or not?!"

Cheng Dezhu walked forward, carefully observing the heart. Moments later, he stood there, utterly dumbfounded.

*Boom!!!*

At that very moment, Xiang Tiange appeared before Cheng Dezhu. Violet Qi and blood surged as he kicked Cheng Dezhu, sending him flying.

Cheng Dezhu, who had fallen to the ground, regained his senses, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

A segment of white bone appeared right where he had been standing dumbfounded. Had he remained there, he would likely have been impaled!

Just looking at the corpses of the countless races made his potential fate clear.

Xiang Tiange's eyes were fixed intently on the white skeleton. The violet Qi and blood on his body boiled, as if he intended to shatter it directly, but he knew he couldn't.

After all, these were the remains of a Heavenly God.