At the edge of the Life Oasis, endless terrifying figures manifested.
There were strange beasts with ox horns, scorpion bodies, and snake tails.
Some had wings sprouting from their ribs, dog heads on human bodies, yet wore divine halos.
Others resembled apes but with tiger heads.
And so on, each one a rare and fearsome living being rarely seen in the world, like God Demons, their auras terrifying, all roaring at the sky, their figures towering and unattainable, causing hearts to tremble.
This scene was as if ancient God Demons had been resurrected, earth-shattering, shaking the heavens, the infinite void continuously shattering apart, making hearts quiver.
It could be seen that on the edge of the Life Oasis, there were massive mountain peaks as deep as abysses and as lofty as mountain ranges, each one so enormous, like a hundred thousand great mountains, all pitch black as ink, carrying a gloomy, malevolent aura.
God Demon Burial Ground!
Undoubtedly, this was a terrifying God Demon Burial Ground. Countless God Demons were buried here, the experts who once followed the ancient Great Emperors into battle, interred in this place. Over time, it had become a fearsome burial ground, surrounding the Life Oasis like stars guarding the moon.
Those God Demon phantoms had manifested from within the God Demon Burial Ground.
And the Life Oasis was precisely the extraordinary place nurtured within the God Demon Burial Ground.
"Is this the trial one must pass to enter the Life Oasis?"
Ye Chen murmured softly. Many powerful experts were blocked outside the Life Oasis. Those countless God Demon phantoms contained extremely fearsome power. Not long ago, a fifth-level Heaven's Pride Great Power had tried to force his way in, yet in merely an instant, he was torn to shreds by the God Demon phantoms surrounding the oasis, his flesh and blood reduced to dust—a shocking sight.
Clearly, even to enter the Life Oasis, sufficient strength was required.
Yet, countless experts still attempted to charge in.
The dozen or so imperial clans and Immortal Clans closest to this region bore the brunt first. The two great empires from the Mythical Emperor Domain also charged over, all led by Divine Kings, directly displaying supreme strength.
Even the God Demon phantoms were no match. In life, their strongest were only at the Divine King realm. Now, they were merely a wisp of will remaining after death. How could they withstand true Divine King figures? They were directly and forcefully shattered, entire swathes of God Demon phantoms annihilated.
Their only advantage was their sheer numbers. At the slightest provocation, hundreds or thousands of God Demon phantoms would charge over, even stirring the residual law fragments of this mythical ruin site, rushing over en masse, transforming into a net of destructive laws that blotted out the sky and covered the earth.
This place was simply an unimaginable land of destruction.
"Hmph, even if they were truly resurrected, we would not fear them, let alone mere wisps of will lingering in the world after death. How dare they cause trouble? Seeking death!"
The Divine Kings from the dozen or so imperial clans, Immortal Clans, and empires all snorted coldly. Standing within the Nine Tribulations domain, they possessed absolute power that reigned supreme over all. Divine King majesty erupted, each one like a great sun in the sky, radiating boundless light.
Divine King domains unfurled, and behind them, phantom images of Divine King inner worlds manifested. They employed absolute Divine King-level power, compressing the surrounding space.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The assembled Divine Kings displayed world-shaking Divine King might, shattering the God Demon phantoms, each forcefully opening a passage through the encirclement of phantoms, leading directly to the innermost Life Oasis.
It didn't take long at all. One powerful imperial clan and Immortal Clan after another descended upon the Life Oasis.
Among them was the Alchemy Emperor Clan, led by the Emperor's Daughter and a Divine King, with numerous Alchemy Emperor Clan Heaven's Pride talents following behind. They even saw people like Dan Xian and Dan Yang.
This imperial clan focused on alchemy, so naturally, they were even more fervent about these medicinal treasures.
Boom!
On another side, Ye Chen and his group also broke through the God Demon phantoms and descended upon the Life Oasis.
An area of only about ten li in radius, yet it now simultaneously hosted many Divine King figures, with no shortage of Great Power Heaven's Prides. If this place weren't extraordinary enough, it would have been instantly annihilated and shattered.
However, before they could truly begin collecting the many medicinal treasures on the Life Oasis, a mysterious being suddenly appeared on the oasis.
It was a person covered in rot, humanoid in shape, but with wings on its back. One half were feathered wings, the other half were sinister bat wings, several of each, though most were rotten, revealing bone, and some wings had completely rotted away.
The mysterious being had lost half its head, leaving only the left half with eye, ear, mouth, and nose. The right half of the skull was simply gone. Yet, from the remaining half-skull, one could tell it had been a rather handsome man, only his face was pale and bloodless, lips bluish-black, eyes dull, hair withered and yellow, carrying a sinister air.
It wore tattered armor and rode a hunched, rotting old horse, with many parts even revealing stark white bone, as if it had crawled out of a grave.
Yet when this mysterious person appeared, though the half-missing face did not open its mouth, a voice echoed forth: "This is a Forbidden Land. Leave at once!"
"Hmph, what Forbidden Land? Scram!"
One of the Great Power-level Heaven's Prides directly snorted coldly. Without another word, he swept a wave of laws over, submerging the mysterious being wearing the tattered battle armor.
Yet that fearsome law power, enough to shatter lands spanning thousands of li, vanished without a sound when it reached the mysterious being, as if swallowed.
The next moment, the mysterious being's voice sounded again: "Those who profane the rules of the Forbidden Land shall die!"
Whoosh!
A gleam shot forth from those lifeless, fish-like eyes, impossibly fast, instantly striking that Great Power-level Heaven's Pride.
Pfft!
Visible to the naked eye, the Great Power-level Heaven's Pride let out a fierce scream. His body suddenly began to melt at a visible rate, flesh rotting, revealing stark white bone. Internal organs and intestines appeared, continuously spreading throughout his body as it rotted.
Yet even with all his might, the Great Power-level Heaven's Pride could not resist. His body continued to rapidly rot and dissolve. In just a few breaths, over half had rotted away.
The Divine King of that imperial clan also slightly changed expression, directly unleashing a powerful Divine King law that enveloped the Great Power-level Heaven's Pride's entire body, seeking to help him expel this eerie force.
But with a *whoosh*, the Divine King law directly transformed into a burst of brilliant flame, then gradually turned black, actually burning out completely. Along with it burned that Great Power-level Heaven's Pride.
In the end, everything dissipated, leaving only a scattering of ashes drifting between heaven and earth.
The Great Power-level Heaven's Pride had fallen!
"Curse!"
Beside him, the Corpse Devouring Insect Emperor spoke. Despite its usually playful and cheeky nature, at this moment its face was grim.
Curse was a special type of law power, quite sinister and malevolent.
No one had expected the mysterious being in the Life Oasis to actually master such an eerie law power as Curse force.
Regarding Curse force, Ye Chen also had considerable authority to speak. In the past, when he contended with the Great Power tribulation, blocking the five alien Emperors from crossing realms, and finally the five alien Emperors returned empty-handed, they had cast an Emperor's Curse upon Ye Chen, nearly killing him.
Although that Emperor's Curse was now eliminated, he deeply understood the eeriness of this kind of Curse force.
"Daring to kill a Heaven's Pride of my imperial clan? You have some skill. But so what if it's a Curse? You will still die!"
That Great Power Heaven's Pride belonged to the Yang Clan of the imperial clans. The Yang Clan Divine King naturally would not let it go. A great banner appeared in his hand. With a mere shake, a terrifying, indescribably immense gale arose from nowhere, carrying a biting, destructive force, rushing toward the mysterious being clad in tatters.
The mysterious being riding the rotting old horse merely extended a similarly bluish-purple-black withered finger, like a dead tree branch, and pointed out a streak of black light. It collided with the Divine King gale, and both sides vanished without a sound, with no fluctuations whatsoever.
This scene was astonishing.
Then, the next moment, the mysterious being attacked again.
In its hand appeared a war bow. It looked like the skull of some fearsome living being, extremely ferocious, pitch-black demon bone, with eight great horns pointing skyward. Four slender threads of unknown material connected opposing horns, converging at a central point.
The mysterious being suddenly produced a white bone arrow in its hand, nocking it on the black bone great bow.
The mysterious being fiercely drew this bow, which seemed even larger than its own body, instantly forming a full moon shape. With it as the center, an extremely fearsome hurricane arose from nowhere. Endless residual law fragments rapidly surged over, and one terrifying God Demon phantom after another flew past, quickly merging into the bone arrow.
From the eight great horns, wisps of black substance seeped into the white bone arrow. Before long, it was completely dyed pitch black as ink, exuding a fearsome malevolence and a kind of power that made hearts pound with terror.
Boom!
The mysterious being released the bone arrow. With a deafening roar, heaven and earth shook. The black bone arrow shot forth like lightning, like a demonic dragon traversing the sky, appearing as it cut through the air, reaching an extreme speed. It then shot toward the Yang Clan Divine King.
The Yang Clan Divine King immediately changed color. He sensed a terrifying threat. Immediately, he brandished that Divine King great banner. With a rumbling like heaven collapsing and earth splitting, seas drying and rocks crumbling, boundless destructive gales carrying swathes of Divine King runes rushed forth, colliding with the black bone arrow.
Yet wherever the black bone arrow passed, it moved like a black hole lightning bolt. All the destructive gales and Divine King runes were swallowed. Not only could they not block it, but conversely, they made the black bone arrow's power even more terrifying.
Before long, the black bone arrow shot before the Yang Clan Divine King, violently colliding with that great banner, exploding completely.
The Yang Clan Divine King's figure was sent flying backward, blood continuously spraying from his body. That Divine King great banner also snapped, half of it destroyed. It was his Divine King Dao Weapon. Suffering backlash, he still managed to preserve his life because of it.
That black bone arrow also shattered along with it.
Yet before one wave subsided, another arose. A second black bone arrow had been shot out at some unknown time. Before the Yang Clan Divine King could react, the black bone arrow directly pierced through his forehead, penetrating his glabella Muddy Pellet Palace. Faintly visible, even his soul infant was pierced through.
Ssss—
No terrifying explosion sounded. There was only the faint noise of flesh rotting.
A generation's Yang Clan Divine King, before he could truly display his peerless Divine King majesty, had completely rotted and perished here.
The mysterious being, holding its bow and riding its horse, shot down a Divine King as if slaughtering a dog!