Chapter 319: Corpses Deep Underground
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Near the exit of the space-travel passage in the strange mountain village, three elite military teams were sent flying by the terrifying shock wave, and it took them a long time to regroup.
It was clear how destructive the giant’s attack was. The shock wave caused by it almost destroyed everything in its path. Even the members in the elite teams, who could all use the internal force, could not withstand it.
“Captain Li, Captain Wang, how’s the situation?”
A bald officer turned towards the people who had arrived. There were three team members beside him.
The bald officer was supposed to be wearing a military cap, but at that moment, they had just experienced a shock wave that was even more terrifying than a nuclear explosion. He could not care less about such a trivial matter.
The other two teams were in a similar situation.
“I can’t believe it. We were more than 10 to 20 kilometers away from the battlefield.”
The man in a buzz cut, Captain Li, gazed out at the battlefield filled with yellow sand and said in a low voice, “However, a member of my team was sent flying by the impact wave and crashed into a mountain even though he had internal force to protect himself. He sustained a few fractures.”
Internal force was equivalent to a layer of skin with a strong defense. It would not be an exaggeration to describe it as a superhuman power.
Furthermore, the elite teams were not in the middle of the battlefield. They had only encountered a shockwave that was many times weaker.
The middle-aged man, Captain Wang, smiled bitterly. “Two of my team members, Xiao Zhang and Xiao He, were standing at the top of the mountain and looking into the distance to investigate the situation. They were sent flying into the sky by the shock wave and fell to the ground.
If the two of them were unlucky, and their legs were broken. They won’t be able to participate in the rest of the mission.”
Captain Wang’s tone was filled with helplessness. As the captain, he could not have expected such a situation. He had treated their position as a safe distance from the battle.
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The three elite teams’ captains only met for a short discussion. In the end, the team member who had sustained fractures was assigned to escort the team members who had broken their legs back.
Then, the teams split up and started to carry out their investigation.
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In the middle of the pit, Chen Yiming and the spiritual figure were discussing countermeasures.
Only a few minutes had passed, and he had returned to his normal size. His injuries had already healed, and the scabs from his wounds had automatically fallen off. His skin had returned to its original state.
The only difference was that he had changed into a brand new pair of underwear. His original pair had exploded because the timing was too sudden for him to change out of them.
According to the spiritual figure, all the power of the treants had been gathered and fused together to reach an unknown depth underground.
He could not reach this depth with his spiritual power, so he did not know what was going on.
Chen Yiming muttered, “We were lucky that the first Sword Aura storm attack went so smoothly. From the looks of it, the treants gathered most of their power underground.
As for going as deep as the tree roots did, perhaps conventional digging methods won’t work at all.”
The gravity on the surface of the otherworld was 10 times that of the blue planet. The pressure deep underground would only be greater, and it might even reach an unimaginable level.
In that case, he could only rely on himself to find the energy mines if they existed.
The spiritual figure suggested that he could transform into a drill and follow the traces left behind by the tree roots to open a path and personally enter the depths of the ground.
Chen Yiming thought about it but couldn’t think of a better idea.
The mysterious symbols on the vines were closely related to the power of nature. This was what Chen Yiming had roughly sensed.
In other words, all the treants were undoubtedly above the master realm, and were stronger than him and the spiritual figure.
If the treants still needed to go all out, it meant that there was a terrifying danger underlying it.
Chen Yiming could only comfort himself. “This isn’t cowardice. It’s about safety. The spiritual figure can be revived, but if the main body dies, I’m dead.”
After deciding on the excavation plan, Chen Yiming and the spiritual figure used their spiritual power to scan the area and confirm the position that was at the center of the treants’ roots previously.
It was located half a kilometer away from the exit of the space-travel passage.
“Boom!”
The spiritual figure changed to the form of a drill and spun rapidly, creating a small Sword Aura storm. Immediately after, it pierced deep into the ground, leaving behind a large and deep hole.
At the same time, the ground began to shake, not just once or twice, but with a continuous tremor.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
The dull sound of drums echoed throughout the Gobi Desert. The range it spread to was not just a few kilometers, but dozens of kilometers. It could be felt even from hundreds of kilometers away.
At this moment, be it the creatures from the otherworld hiding in the sand or the elite team that was carrying out an investigation, they were all terrified.
They all thought that the battle had ended, but who knew that something else would happen?
The creatures from the otherworld did not dare to move easily and buried their bodies underground. The elite team, on the other hand, was on a mission similar to a suicide mission, so they could only suppress their fear and continue forward.
…
10 minutes later.
The figure in his mind: The remains of a tree root were discovered at a depth of three kilometers. The root seemed to have undergone some kind of mutation. It suddenly attacked and was killed by the Sword Aura.
“Mutation?”
After Chen Yiming received the news, he thought about the huge number of treants that could gather a huge amount of life force and suddenly had a bad feeling.
Half an hour later.
The figure in his mind: Starting from 10 kilometers deep, there is a strange power in the air. It is extremely invasive. Perhaps it is the cause for the mutation of the tree root seen earlier.
“Invasive?”
Chen Yiming narrowed his eyes when he received the second message.
At this moment, his hope towards the possibility of the energy mines existing had already decreased greatly. Instead, his vigilance towards unknown dangers had increased greatly.
In the next hour, the figure in his mind did not discover anything else,other than the strange, ghostly voices that surrounded the underground space.
Chen Yiming paced back and forth hesitantly. He could only use the fact that risk and opportunity often co-existed to comfort himself.
More than two hours later, the spiritual figure had already reached a depth of 40 to 50 kilometers underground, and the terrifying pressure was starting to become unbearable.
Suddenly, the spiritual figure broke through the soil and landed in an empty area. However, before it could use its spiritual power to investigate, a killing intent appeared from the darkness.
Countless creatures that looked like ghosts charged over from all directions with strange weapons in their hands, letting out strange cries.
At the same time, an invisible force appeared, countless times stronger than before.
The spiritual figure pressed its palms together and countless Sword Auras erupted from all over its body. It only had time to inform Chen Yiming that there was a mysterious space underground before its figure was drowned out.
In the underground space, the Sword Aura continued to kill the attacking ghost creatures, but there was an endless stream of ghosts coming in to replenish their numbers.
At first, the Sword Aura storm instantly created a safe area hundreds of meters wide. After that, the area was continuously closed in by the ghosts until it was only a little more than 10 meters wide.
The spiritual figure finally heaved a sigh of relief.
The rapid recovery ability of the Undying Body talent was displayed at this moment. As long as it was not completely defenseless, there was no need to consider retreating immediately.
With a sweep of its spiritual power, the situation in the mysterious underground space was relayed to Chen Yiming by the spiritual figure.
Mysterious space?
Ghosts?
A corpse that was 10,000 meters long?
Essence energy?
Chen Yiming held his breath and paced around with his hands behind his back.
The information from the spiritual figure was too unbelievable, completely exceeding his expectations.
According to the description by the spiritual figure, a 10,000-meter-long corpse was lying in the mysterious underground space.
The reason why it was surrounded after breaking out of the ground was because the commotion caused by burrowing into the ground was too big. Countless ghosts were woken up and waiting for the intruder to appear.
In addition, the essence energy and ghosts came from the corpse. The essence energy was similar to the substance that existed in the outside world that was used for cultivation. However, the density was so high that it was in the form of a mist, and was not something that the outside world could compare to.
At this thought, Chen Yiming couldn’t help but mutter to himself, “What kind of world is the otherworld? Why is there such a terrifying corpse buried deep underground?”
At the same time, he immediately communicated with the spiritual figure: Hang in there.
Then, he transformed into a 100-meter-tall giant and mobilized the power of nature to form a large shovel. He picked up the shovel and started to dig.
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“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
With the enhancement from the Giant Talent and the Undying Body Talent, his stamina was endless. There was no such thing as exhaustion.
Without the ability to use the Sword Aura, he could only use the simplest and most direct method to try to dig a path down. In addition, he had the thought of bringing out the 10,000-meter-long corpse.
The creatures from the otherworld within a radius of 100 kilometers and the human reconnaissance teams felt the ground shake, and started to tremble again.
Furthermore, unlike the spiritual figure, which used its skills to go deep underground, Chen Yiming used pure strength.
Not only did it cause an even greater commotion, but the soil in his way was also directly turned into nothingness by the energy that erupted from his body. However, his digging speed was far inferior to the spiritual figure.
An hour later, he reached the depth that the spiritual figure had taken 10 minutes to reach.
Some of the ghosts that had mutated from the remains tried to attack Chen Yiming, but they were melted by the scorching energy that was emitted from his body.
Two hours… three hours…
The spiritual figure suddenly sent back the news that the ghosts had retreated.
“…”
Chen Yiming looked at the tunnel around him and suddenly felt exhausted.
If he had known that the Sword Aura could restrain the spirits, and that the ghosts would fail to break through at the start, he would not have been so anxious.
However, he suddenly recalled that there were too many examples of people who had failed because they hesitated and could not make up their minds. It was best to avoid any regrets in the future, so he started to dig again.
In the end, after half a day, Chen Yiming finally dug through to the mysterious underground space.
“Bang!”
The 100-meter-tall giant landed heavily on the ground. A muffled sound like a mountain collapsing echoed throughout the entire space. A large number of ghosts and monsters were alarmed by the commotion under his feet and appeared.
“Eh?”
Chen Yiming raised his foot and stomped on the ground again, turning dozens of ghosts into dust.
Not only did the other ghosts not counterattack, but they also let out screams and fled into the darkness.
Chen Yiming couldn’t be bothered with them. He released his spiritual power to investigate his surroundings. The spiritual figure was floating not far away, and under his feet was the 10,000-meter-long corpse.
Other than the fact that the corpse did not have any living aura, it was completely preserved. There were no injuries on it, and he could not help but suspect that it was only pretending to be dead.
The fur on the corpse was abnormally thick. The long and dense black fur almost made Chen Yiming not notice the skin underneath.
Its skin was engraved with dense mysterious symbols, which gave off a grayish-white aura of death. However, one could not take their eyes off it.
“Gasp! Mysterious symbols!” Chen Yiming was stunned.
This was different from the mysterious symbols that appeared when the treants attacked. Although the skin of the corpse did not glow, the pattern was much stronger and more complete. It seemed like it could be used for further investigation.
This way, the value of this corpse was immeasurable.
He suppressed his joy and planned to clean up the remaining ghosts in the underground space together with the spiritual figure.
…
A portion of the ghosts in the underground space had already been killed by the spiritual figure. Now that Chen Yiming, a powerful reinforcement, had arrived, there was no way for them to put up an effective resistance.
In the end, most of the ghosts were killed by the Sword Aura. Chen Yiming could only reminisce in his heart. “Although the powerful Sword Aura has left me, at least I used to have it.”
After figuring out the actual situation of the ghosts, the Sword Aura killed them the moment it came into contact with them, wiping out a large number of ghosts at once. On the other hand, Chen Yiming could only use his fists to attack. His speed of killing the enemies was much slower.
The mysterious underground space was two to three times larger than the corpse. Chen Yiming walked around, but he still couldn’t be sure what it looked like. In any case, he didn’t find anything special about it.
He returned to the corpse. The limbs of the corpse were a little human-like, but their thickness was not of the correct proportion. From its size, it was similar to a large version of a chimpanzee.
He couldn’t care less about anything else. The dense essence energy in the air was too tempting. Chen Yiming sat cross-legged and started to absorb it crazily.
The essence energy that was so dense that it appeared to be in the form of a mist was drawn to his side and eventually used up by the system.
Chen Yiming
Talent: Undying Body — Level 2, Giant —?? Level 1
Level: Master Realm
Physique: Basic Undying Giant Body
Sword Spirit
Talent: Swordsmanship ?— Level 4
Level: Master Realm
Physique: Intermediate Sword Body
Skill Points: 17,853
“More than 10,000 Skill Points!”
Chen Yiming’s breathing became heavier than ever. At this moment, nothing held his attention more than this number. No matter how beautiful or attractive a woman was, it wouldn’t work.
He looked at the corpse at his feet again, and his eyes flashed. What he felt towards it now was hard to describe, but at least he no longer thought it was ugly.
“The essence is being emitted from the corpse. I wonder how much is left in the actual body?”
When this thought appeared, he walked straight to one of the corpse’s wrists.
The thickness of its wrist was about the same as his wrist in the giant form. He went up and kicked it, trying to use brute force to open a hole.
The next moment.
“Ah!”
Chen Yiming clutched his foot and fell to the ground. “F*ck! It hurts.”
The mysterious symbol at the point of impact flickered, and the foot he had used to kick the corpse disappeared from the ankle down.
After rolling around in pain for a few minutes, new flesh quickly regenerated. Chen Yiming’s missing foot had completely regrown. He stood up and stomped the ground angrily.
In the end, he did not dare to attack the corpse again.
After calming down, Chen Yiming suddenly recalled the strange power that had appeared from 10 kilometers underground.
The strange power was now confirmed to have the same aura as the ghosts in the underground space.
The ghosts and essence energy came from the corpse. Then, could there be similar corpses elsewhere in the otherworld?
A bold guess appeared in Chen Yiming’s mind. Could it be that the cultivation environment in the otherworld was created by countless such corpses?
If that was really the case, he would have to keep a low profile even if he broke through to a higher level before figuring it out.
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