5: Chapter 5 Corpse Core Fusion Coffin - Law Enhancement

"Right now is the Ferocious Beast Great Calamity; billions of beings are falling, and resentment fills the sky. If I can absorb all of this resentment..."

As the thought arose, Jiang Chen's heart jolted. As the Zombie Ancestor, the first zombie in heaven and earth, he was born with the ability to devour resentment for cultivation. Furthermore, this method was free of disasters and tribulations, with no worry of backlash.

What was most abundant in Honghuang? Naturally, it was living beings. Every life, whether strong or weak, would accumulate resentment throughout its existence. Especially at the moment of death, when the soul dissipated, that resentment was as vast as a sea.

"No wonder the Heavenly Dao does not tolerate zombies—this path of cultivation can be called defying the heavens!" Jiang Chen murmured softly.

Imagine, every period of time in Honghuang, a Great Calamity would break out: the Ferocious Beasts running rampant, the struggle between the three clans, the Lich War, the Investiture of the Gods...

With every catastrophe, countless beings would die and their souls would be extinguished. How terrifying was the resentment released!

Jiang Chen estimated in his heart that the total amount of resentment produced by just one Ferocious Beast Great Calamity would be enough to help him step into the Primordial Realm!

"While the Heavenly Dao has not yet awakened, I must attain the Dao as quickly as possible!" His heart tightened. It was currently only the Fifth Epoch of Honghuang, and the Heavenly Dao was still gestating. However, by the Ninth Epoch, the Heavenly Dao would surely awaken.

At that time, the order of heaven and earth would be re-established, and all those who transcended its control would face the liquidation of the Heavenly Dao!

In other words, once the Ninth Epoch arrived, Jiang Chen would certainly not be tolerated by the Heavenly Dao and would find it hard to escape the calamity of suppression.

"But before that, I need to establish my own foundation first." He whispered to himself, his gaze casting toward the boundless sea of blood below, a plan already in mind.

Immediately, he dove into the depths of the blood sea. This place was a dark red, filled with a fierce and ominous aura. Resentment surged like a tide; if an ordinary being stepped foot here, they would be eroded and assimilated in an instant.

But for Jiang Chen, this was a sacred land for cultivation, like returning home.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, his gaze locked onto the core of the blood sea—a Twelve-Grade Red Lotus floated quietly, its entire body flowing with crimson flames.

Jiang Chen's eyes lit up, and he immediately flew over, staring at the lotus platform.

"karmic fire red lotus!"

It was indeed this item. Transformed from a red lotus seed of the chaos green lotus, it was one of the Four Chaos Treasures, ranked as a top-grade innate spiritual treasure.

"Hmm? There's something else below?" He looked closely and discovered that beneath the red lotus, there were actually two unformed weapon prototypes, vaguely visible in the shape of swords.

Between the two swords, a purple-red orb of light glowed slightly, vibrating as if it were alive.

A sharp light flashed in Jiang Chen's eyes, and realization dawned in his heart: "Could these be the Yuantu and avici swords?"

"In that case, this orb of light... must be Daoist Minghe?"

As if sensing the gaze, the purple-red orb of light shrank and trembled, sending out a weak divine sense:

"Don't... don't kill me..."

Hearing this, Jiang Chen chuckled and shook his head: "Rest assured, we were born from the same source; I will not take your life."

Having said that, he reached out to take the karmic fire red lotus and said to the Minghe who was still gestating: "You already have two companion treasures. This lotus belongs to me; do you have any objections?"

How could Minghe dare to speak in opposition? His life was in another's hands; disobedience was a dead end.

"At least you're sensible." The corner of Jiang Chen's mouth curled slightly.

After putting away the red lotus, he continued deeper, reaching the very bottom of the blood sea. Before him was a expanse of deep red soil, exuding an ancient and vast aura.

This place was named 'Samsara Underworld Soil'; it was the origin of the blood sea and also the origin of the place of reincarnation.

During the former Lich Great Calamity, Hou Tu used this soil to open the Netherworld.

Jiang Chen stood upon the Underworld Soil and suddenly cut open his chest, forcing out six drops of heart's blood.

The moment the heart's blood sank into the soil, his whole body shook violently. With a solemn expression, he chanted an obscure incantation and finally roared at the sky:

"Awaken! My clansmen!"

"Awaken! My clansmen!"

Rumble—

With a long cry, the entire sea of blood turned upside down.

Blood waves soared to the sky, winds and clouds reversed, and the firmament was dyed crimson. Billions of tons of seawater condensed into a storm, sweeping across the eight directions.

In an instant, more than half of Western Honghuang was in turmoil. Countless beings looked up in horror toward the extreme west.

A hundred years ago, the bronze coffin appeared, and the blood sea first showed strange phenomena.

Today, the blood sea moved again, the heavens wept blood, and it shook the four seas and eight directions!

Shen Ni, Hongjun, and the others, who had just withdrawn from the blood sea, witnessed the terrifying sight in the sky, and their expressions changed drastically.

"Something has happened in the blood sea again!"

“Hiss—I feel a terrifying aura awakening!”

"What on earth is Jiang Chen doing to make the entire blood sea churn so restlessly!"

The Innate Demon God looked solemn, and Ancestor Hongjun's eyelids twitched wildly as stormy waves rose in the lake of his heart.

"That is... the aura of the Samsara Underworld Soil!" he exclaimed in shock.

"What a Jiang Chen, to dare meddle with the Samsara Underworld Soil! On the day the Heavenly Dao recovers, a great calamity will surely descend upon you!"

At the same time, Shen Ni and the Four Great Fierce Beast Kings stood in the air, gazing toward the blood sea, their faces filled with shock.

"My Emperor, this Jiang Chen is wild and hard to tame. If left unchecked, I fear he will become a major threat to our Ferocious Beast Clan!" the Chaos King spoke in a low voice.

Shen Ni remained silent; how could he not understand this logic in his heart? But Jiang Chen's combat power was heavenly. Even though he was the Emperor of the Ferocious Beasts, he was powerless to suppress him.

"But he is proud and disdainful of depending on others; he should not join forces with the Innate Demon God," Shen Ni said slowly.

"For now, we can only try to make contact. Even if we cannot form an alliance, we need to ease the relationship."

His mood was extremely complex—he had just been heavily injured by Jiang Chen earlier, yet later, because Jiang Chen restrained the various Magic Gods, he was spared from being besieged.

Toward Jiang Chen, he felt both hatred and admiration. He desperately wanted to recruit him but suffered from a lack of strength.

"I must repair my origin injuries as soon as possible and step into the Daluo Golden Immortal realm!" he swore in his heart. The injuries from this battle were extremely deep; normally, it would take a whole Great Calamity to heal.

However, the Ferocious Beast Clan had no time to wait. The Innate Demon God would surely take advantage of his weakness to launch an all-out offensive.

Deep in the blood sea—

Crack!

The blood-red Samsara Underworld Soil suddenly split open into a ten-thousand-foot abyss, and countless figures crawled out from underground. They were pale all over, devoid of life, with blood-red eyes without pupils. Their faces were twisted and hideous, and their bodies were shrouded in overwhelming resentment.

Roar—

Roar—

Roar—

Thousands upon thousands of zombies stood upon the Underworld Soil, roaring at the sky. Their sharp shrieks tore through the air, shaking the eight directions.

Crash—

The sea of blood surged wildly, giant waves hitting the sky as if they were going to flood the firmament. Heaven and earth changed color.

All living beings in Western Honghuang trembled at the sound, their faces turning pale and their souls nearly freezing.

Hongjun and the other Innate Demon God had ashen faces.

"He is actually creating a new race!" the Qilin Ancestor said in a heavy voice.

Previously, they had already experienced the strength of Jiang Chen's physical body, which was impervious to ten thousand techniques. Even the light of laws could not truly harm him in the slightest.

Just then, a vast and boundless World-Extinguishing Heavenly Tribulation suddenly appeared above the blood sea, with dark clouds pressing down and lightning faintly visible.

Seeing this, Hongjun and the others all changed expression and gasped in unison!

"Hiss—even heaven and earth are wary of this newborn race!"

Beneath the blood sea, Jiang Chen seemed to sense it. He suddenly burst out of the water, looking up at the tribulation cloud that was black-red and contained a destructive aura.

"Hmph! Wanting to stop my clansmen from appearing in this world? Wishful thinking!" He gave a cold shout, and a bronze ancient coffin appeared in his hand.

"If your true body descended, I might have some reservations, but now it is just a sliver of a remnant thought. What can you do to me!"

Immediately, he summoned another pitch-black bead—the chaos corpse pill, which evolved from half a chaos bead and was actually a half-step Chaos Supreme Treasure.

In an instant, the chaos corpse pill fused into the bronze coffin. The aura of the entire coffin surged, its color turning into the color of chaos, and its surface was covered with dense divine law patterns. In addition to the original Law of Devouring, a mysterious and unfathomable power that stood above all beings was added—the Law of Space-Time!