Just as that Demon Capital Perfected Demigod wanted to flee into the distance, the middle-aged man's fist had already struck his back.
Although it was just a simple punch, in the eyes of all who saw it, this single blow seemed to interpret all the finest, most profound principles of every supreme fist technique in the world. Especially for those creatures who had cultivated high-level fist techniques, they all felt in that moment that their own cultivation was far, far inferior to a casual punch delivered by the divine corpse; their fist arts were seemingly not even worth dog excrement in comparison.
With a bang, that Demon Capital Perfected Demigod's body was directly shattered, transformed into a bloody mist that scattered with the wind, vanishing without a trace.
"How terrifying!"
Witnessing this, all creatures felt their scalps turn numb. A Perfected Demigod had been instantly killed just like that, with no power to resist whatsoever.
Moreover, that eighteen-layered purple pagoda was a Deity-level treasure left behind by an ancient Great Demon Deity of the Demon Capital. Even though these Demigods couldn't unleash its true power, it was now sent flying with a single punch, showcasing the terror of this divine corpse.
Then, before anyone could react, the middle-aged man with tightly closed eyes—who seemed devoid of any lifeforce—had arrived in front of another Demigod expert with a bizarre speed.
This was a Perfected Demigod expert from the Great Netherworld, also one of the strongest fighters who had diligently attacked the crystal coffin earlier.
Boom...
The middle-aged man once again waved his stiff arm and threw a punch.
"Save me, quickly!"
This Great Netherworld Demigod only felt a terrifying energy pinning him down completely. Not only could he not resist, even moving a muscle was incredibly difficult. In his panic, he cried out loudly.
With another bang, a single fist blasted his head apart, completely obliterating even his Soul Body.
Another Perfected Demigod instantly killed!
Next, this middle-aged man, with his eyes tightly closed and lacking vitality, kept moving with bizarre and rapid speed. Each movement resulted in the instant death of a Demigod.
The divine corpse's body seemed utterly rigid; its legs barely bent at all. Every movement of its body was straight and rigid, fully resembling a zombie.
After the divine corpse killed five or six Demigods in a row, the remaining Demigods were thoroughly panicked. They all began to understand that even if they possessed Deity-level treasures, they stood no chance against this divine corpse.
Because the two or three Perfected Demigods killed by it earlier did hold Deity-level treasures, but these divine treasures were useless, knocked aside by a single punch.
"Run for it!"
Someone, no one knew who first, shouted this, and then all the Demigods began fleeing desperately. Following them, those Heavenly Immortals positioned farther away also started turning and escaping in a flurry.
However, the divine corpse didn't seem willing to let those fleeing Demigods go. With astonishing speed, it kept catching up to one Demigod after another, killing each with a single devastating punch.
By this time, Ye Yunfei no longer dared to stay put. He immediately activated his Space Teleportation Token and teleported into the distance.
Behind him, one miserable scream after another rang out continuously!
"Did you notice? It seems all the Demigods that corpse has killed so far are ones who attacked its coffin earlier!" Hun Lao transmitted his voice to Ye Yunfei.
"I noticed that too," Ye Yunfei nodded.
All the Demigods slain by the divine corpse thus far were indeed those who had joined in besieging the crystal coffin earlier.
Soon, the previously lively stretch of void now held not a single living creature. Roughly over twenty Demigods had been killed on the spot by that divine corpse.
The other beings had long fled far away and were still desperately escaping, believing the farther, the better.
After all, those Perfected Demigods wielding Deity-level treasures had all been casually killed with a single punch. Who else would dare to face that divine corpse?
By this point, Ye Yunfei had also left that area of void far behind.
"So terrifying! Fortunately, you didn't attack earlier, or we'd be in trouble now," Hun Lao said to Ye Yunfei.
"I've seen the power of divine corpses back in the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds. Why would I foolishly provoke one so easily?" Ye Yunfei replied with a smile.
"Let's go quickly, the farther the better. That divine corpse was awakened from its coffin by those fools. Although it's killed so many Demigods, who knows if its anger has subsided. If it gets agitated and chases us, that would be disastrous. None of us are a match for it!" The Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm, remembering the terrifying scene of the divine corpse slaughtering those Demigods, still felt his scalp crawling. He hurriedly urged Ye Yunfei.
"That's right. That divine corpse is too terrifying. We should leave quickly, best to have no contact with it whatsoever!" Hun Lao also nodded.
Ye Yunfei activated his Space Teleportation Token once more, teleporting into the distance.
However, at that very moment, within that void where the crystal coffin had been, the divine corpse's gaze suddenly turned towards Ye Yunfei's direction.
"The aura of an old acquaintance..."
The divine corpse said softly.
Then its stiff body charged violently towards Ye Yunfei's location.
At that moment, Ye Yunfei's body was enveloped by teleportation energy, continuously traversing through time and space, teleporting forward.
Yet before Ye Yunfei could even react, he discovered a figure suddenly appearing ahead of him.
Then an energy terrifying to the extreme flooded the heavens and earth, instantly extinguishing all the teleportation energy around Ye Yunfei. Ye Yunfei's body fell out of the teleportation channel.
"Not good! It's that divine corpse! It actually came for you!" Hun Lao shouted first.
"How can this be? We didn't provoke or offend it at all! Why did it actively come for you?" The Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm was also startled and couldn't help but cry out.
"Never mind that! Escape quickly! The few of us combined are definitely not its opponent!" Hun Lao yelled.
Ye Yunfei turned and fled, directly activating his Space Teleportation Token, wanting to teleport away again.
However, in the next moment, Ye Yunfei found his body immobilized. The surrounding space was as solid as iron, embedding his body in place.
Then the divine corpse appeared before Ye Yunfei, eyes tightly closed, not moving at all.
"Esteemed Senior, I never provoked you. I didn't attack you, nor did I attack your guardians. May I ask why you have come for me?" Ye Yunfei struggled fruitlessly, finding himself completely unable to move, and grew somewhat anxious as he called out.
The divine corpse faced Ye Yunfei motionlessly, simply standing there.
"Don't panic just yet. He didn't attack you immediately. Perhaps he isn't here to kill you. Let's first clarify his intentions," Hun Lao, seeing the middle-aged man's action, transmitted his voice to Ye Yunfei.
Right at this moment, the middle-aged man suddenly raised his stiff arm, opened his rigid palm, and made a grasping motion in the air towards Ye Yunfei.
To his astonishment, Ye Yunfei watched as a phantom-like figure actually flew out from within his body. It was the form of an elderly man.
This elderly figure landed before the middle-aged man and then gradually solidified from its phantom state.
When this elder's form first flew out from Ye Yunfei's body, it was extremely illusory, almost invisible to the naked eye.
But now, it had become incredibly solid, seemingly no different from a real flesh-and-blood body.
"Yuan Lao, it's been a long time. I didn't expect a trace of your Soul Power to remain within the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds..."
The middle-aged man looked at the elder and spoke softly, as if immersed in memories of the past.
"I understand! It seems this divine corpse knew a certain Deity from the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds in its lifetime. A very faint remnant of that Deity's Soul Power was absorbed by that Yin Seed. You refined the Yin Seed, so this faint trace of Soul Power remained within your body. That divine corpse definitely sensed this aura of Soul Power, which is why it came and intercepted you."
Seeing this scene before him, Hun Lao could not help but suddenly realize.
"That should be the reason," Ye Yunfei also nodded.
"Quick, use this chance to escape! This divine corpse is too terrifying. I think the farther we get, the better!" the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm said to Ye Yunfei.
"I want to leave too, but I can't move!" Ye Yunfei said with a bitter smile.
"Let's combine our strength and see if we can break this spatial seal!" Hun Lao said.
Then Ye Yunfei, Hun Lao, Hu Miao, and the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm all exerted their spatial energy and spatial martial skills, attempting to break the sealing power of the space where Ye Yunfei's body was. However, after several attempts, there was no effect whatsoever.
This space was like a sheet of iron, with Ye Yunfei's body embedded within it, utterly incapable of moving even a fraction.
"This is terrible! It seems this divine corpse has no intention of letting you go! We might all be finished!" the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm said with a despondent expression.
"It's the Former Emperor's aura! He is over there. Let's go quickly!"
At this moment, a group of people dressed in ancient clothing suddenly appeared in the distance. They were carrying a crystal coffin and hurrying over.
Ye Yunfei recognized at a glance that this crystal coffin was the very same one that had held this divine corpse earlier.
"The Former Emperor is indeed here!"
That group of beings looked from afar at the middle-aged man, overjoyed, and rushed over. They then one by one knelt down around him.
"We respectfully welcome the return of our Former Emperor's remains!"
A man dressed in a dragon robe and wearing a golden crown, looking like an emperor, knelt at the forefront and led the loud cry.
The others behind him followed suit.
"Who is that kid? He seems to have been sealed by our Former Emperor!"
Someone then noticed Ye Yunfei.
"No need to ask. This kid must have participated in attacking our Former Emperor's remains earlier, which is why our Former Emperor has come for him and will kill him!"
One tall man covered in armor, looking like a great general, glared at Ye Yunfei with angry eyes.
This general then walked towards Ye Yunfei, raised a heavy broadsword, and swung it towards him.
At this moment, Ye Yunfei's body was sealed and utterly unable to resist. He couldn't help but inwardly lament his predicament.
Just as that broadsword whistled towards Ye Yunfei, an inexplicable energy suddenly blocked the blade, stopping it dead in its tracks.
"The Former Emperor commands you to stop!"
The man wearing the dragon robe hastily called out.
"I obey the Former Emperor's command!"
The general was startled and immediately sheathed his broadsword, kneeling back down in respect.
Right then, the divine corpse let out a faint sigh. Then, carrying the elder with him, he rose up and finally returned to the crystal coffin, its lid closing shut once more.
"Our Former Emperor's remains have returned to the Crystal Royal Coffin! We shall now all escort the Former Emperor back to the Ancestral City!"
The dragon-robed man stood up and said with excitement.
Several ministers then rushed to the surroundings of the crystal coffin and lifted it up.
The group formed a protective circle around the crystal coffin and began marching magnificently into the distance. None of them paid further attention to Ye Yunfei.
"Former Emperor? Does that mean this divine corpse was the emperor of a certain dynasty in his lifetime?"
Witnessing this scene, Ye Yunfei felt somewhat astonished.
At this moment, Ye Yunfei suddenly realized his body could move again. The spatial seal around him had vanished.
"Thank heavens, that divine corpse didn't attack us. It seems in his lifetime, he must have been a Deity of clear principles, one who distinguished friend from foe!"
The Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm, feeling like he had just narrowly escaped death, breathed a sigh of relief and exclaimed.
"What are the identities of those people? Each seems powerful, especially that dragon-robed man—he's an exceptionally formidable Perfected Demigod!"
Ye Yunfei watched those beings rapidly departing in the distance and the crystal coffin being venerated in their midst, filled with curiosity.
"In consideration for bringing Yuan Lao's trace of Soul Power to me, I gift you this set of the Chaos Burial Art. Though your Geomancy Technique is still weak, you should be able to comprehend it."
Right then, a majestic voice resounded within Ye Yunfei's soul sea. Immediately after, an immense amount of information imbued with Soul Power appeared within Ye Yunfei's soul sea.
Both surprised and delighted, Ye Yunfei focused his perception and discovered it was an incredibly high-level Geomancy Technique technique! And most likely, it was the highest-level Geomancy Technique technique he had encountered to date!
"Thank you deeply for the gift of this art, Esteemed Senior!"
Overwhelmed with pleasant surprise, Ye Yunfei immediately offered a deep, respectful bow in the direction the crystal coffin had departed and spoke these words clearly.
"What happened?" Hun Lao, the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm, and Hu Miao, seeing Ye Yunfei's actions, were all very curious and immediately asked.
Ye Yunfei explained the situation.
"So it seems the divine corpse harbored no ill will towards you. Instead, he bestowed a Geomancy Technique technique upon you. Had I known that, I wouldn't have trembled with fear earlier!" the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkwrim complained.
"Even if you knew he wasn't going to kill you, standing before such a terrifying divine corpse, you would still be afraid," Hu Miao said with a laugh.