Chapter 749: Chapter 712: The Giant of Ten Thousand Corpses
This youthful cultivator from the Defense Institute, who had a face full of righteousness, was surprisingly a spy from the Five Elders Organization.
Never would he have thought that he, himself had previously been part of an operation to capture the spies from the Five Elders Organization…
This revelation made everything seem absurd.
Having casually left behind these words and an [Ethereal Stone Matriarch], he quickly departed without attracting anyone’s attention.
Xu Bai calmly secured the Stone Mother that was packed full.
After inspecting it, the types and quantities of the supplies contained within indeed matched his requests to a tee.
“In this respect, the Five Elders Organization does have several merits. At the very least, they’re more reliable than the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals,” Xu Bai muttered to himself.
Despite complications, he had finally procured the Reality Seducing Fruit that he needed.
But Xu Bai could not leave Tianliang State yet.
As the instigator of a chain of cases caused by Wang Qiu Po that had not officially closed, he had a duty to continue cooperating with the investigation.
However, at this moment, the majority of the public’s attention was focused on settling scores with Wang Qiu Po’s old faction and the fierce competition for the now-vacant positions. He was temporarily forgotten and left in peace.
Meanwhile, within the vast White Mist.
“What happened? When I checked yesterday, there were only five Dissociation Discs left. Why has the number gone back up to six?” While swiftly soaring through the fog in the ship of truth, Huang Fusong suddenly exclaimed in astonishment.
“Could it be that we’ve entered some bizarre mystical realm again, and time has gone back to a day ago?” Dong Fangyao’s face changed dramatically.
Li Fan was silent for a moment before saying somewhat helplessly, “It’s probably due to the impact of Wang Qiu Po’s case. Among the four who exchanged for the Dissociation Disc, one of them must be related to Wang Qiu Po. Suspected of being a spy, an Immortal Alliance’s treasure like the Dissociation Disc would naturally not be allowed to stay in his possession. It must have been reclaimed.”
The three had recently emerged from the mystical realm and restored communication with the Tianxuan Mirror, so they were aware of this major incident that had recently occurred within the Immortal Alliance.
Upon hearing this, Dong Fang and Huang Fu came to realization.
“Brother Li, your mind is indeed faster,” Dong Fangyao chuckled.
Huang Fusong let out a small breath of relief, “I was worried that we wouldn’t be able to get the Dissociation Disc due to our progress. Now that an additional one has appeared out of nowhere, we should be safe.”
All three simultaneously focused their gaze on their Qingxuan Points.
“36,000 points.”
Based on their previous experience, they only needed to complete one or two more explorations of the mystical realm to accumulate the remaining 14,000 points.
“Now, even in the most remote areas within the White Mist, you can occasionally see the figures of cultivators. The entire Alliance of Thousands of Immortals seems to have swarmed in, which is truly outrageous! The map of the explored areas we have is basically useless now,” Dong Fangyao complained.
“Yeah, luckily Brother Li has amazing skills and can hear strange sounds from the mystical realms within the White Mist,” Huang Fusong remarked, glancing at Li Fan without a trace.
“By the way, Brother Li, could you describe what kind of sounds you heard?” Huang Fusong asked tentatively.
Li Fan sneered internally and was about to answer.
“Celes…”
“Tial Doc…”
The ghostly voice echoed again in Li Fan’s ears.
“There’s a mystical realm nearby.” Li Fan, who had gradually grown accustomed to this, felt no fear but instead paused the speeding Ship of Truth to concentrate on discerning the direction of the sound.
However, something seemed different this time.
Because the wailing that sounded like “Celestial Doctor” was getting louder and louder.
As if…
A mystical realm was rapidly approaching!
Li Fan’s expression changed instantly, and he rapidly expanded his Divine Sense outwards into the White Mist, attempting to understand the situation around him.
But the White Mist was as deep as a clear pond, without a single ripple.
He had no idea where the danger was coming from.
“Celes…”
“Tial Doctor!”
The furious and resentful voice became clearer and louder.
It could be distinctly heard as the words “Celestial Doctor.”
Coming from all directions, it was as if countless ancient beasts who had lost their sanity were roaring as they closely approached.
The sound was already causing pain in Li Fan’s ears.
He glanced at Huang Fu and Dong Fang by his side.
He noticed that even after this, they seemed not to have heard the horrifying noise.
“Does something seem odd about the surroundings?” Dong Fangyao, being more aware, suddenly asked.
“Go!”
The sense of crisis that suddenly surged in his heart was becoming increasingly intense. Li Fan made a decisive decision.
The Ship of Truth sped up massively in an attempt to break through the mist.
Just then, a massive hand suddenly stretched out from beneath the White Mist.
Its five fingers curled, forming a cage, aiming to capture the Ship of Truth within its grasp.
“What on earth is this thing?” Huang Fusong’s face instantly changed. While letting out a scream, he acted quickly.
He threw out an apricot-yellow formation flag, which swiftly met the giant palm.
The formation flag exploded, turning into strands of yellow ropes, binding the giant palm and causing it to momentarily pause.
“Hurry up and leave!”
Huang Fusong immediately shouted out in panic.
Li Fan didn’t wait for him to finish speaking before he had already started operating the Ship of Truth at full strength, aiming to quickly leave the scene in the opposite direction.
It’s not surprising the three of them had no intention to fight. The palm that had suddenly appeared was too shocking.
Li Fan had once seen the severed hand of the Ancient Heavenly Venerable at the Eternal Immortal Fortress outside the Roaring Abyss.
But even the shock from the Ancient Heavenly Venerable’s palm was far less than what they had just seen!
Because the so-called palm was actually made up of the corpses of cultivators, stacked and stitched together.
In that fleeting glimpse, Li Fan could even see their distorted bodies and faces, and the eerie black threads that held their bodies together!
What made Li Fan even more horrified was that although there was no sign of life remaining in these cultivators, their mouths were still opening and closing, emitting screams as if from the depths of hell.
“Celes!”
“Tial Doctor!”
The giant hand, momentarily trapped by Huang Fusong’s [Thousands of Threads and Vines Formation], was suddenly freed by another hand that emerged from the depths of the White Mist.
Violently, the yellow threads were torn apart.
The three of them could now clearly see the enormous arm formed from countless connected and combined corpses, ghastly and immense.
It was as if a giant corpse was hidden within the White Mist, watching and pursuing them.
“Could the Immortal Alliance’s [Heavens’ Rupture Cannon] have been to deal with this thing?” Dong Fangyao roared, his voice trembling a bit.
He gritted his teeth and flung a punch at the giant corpse behind him.
A black rift tore open like a sword, it was the divine technique that Dong Fangyao had understood in the Great Vortex of Realm Rending.
Yet, this attack, capable of causing minor rends in space, failed to even slightly halt the movements of the Corpse Giant upon impact.
The bodies of the cultivators that made up the giant’s body shattered under the black marks, only for other bodies to wriggle out from the pile of corpses to replace them.
This terrifying scene sent chills down the spines of Huang Fu and Dong Fang.