Half a day later, having bid farewell to the Heaven-Brow Snow Lady, Wei Tu followed the route from his memories and once again arrived at the underground palace within the Sunken Corpse Badlands.
Unlike his nervousness during the previous two explorations, now that he was an Integrated Body Great Talent, entering this place was as easy as reaching into a bag for something.
The Spirit Zombie Law surrounding the Sunken Corpse Badlands scattered like wolves encountering a tiger the instant he descended, not daring to touch even a fraction of his edge.
He opened the small silver door hidden deep within a pavilion in the underground palace.
After a brief teleportation, Wei Tu arrived at the depths of the underground palace, at one of the Five Great Perilous Grounds—the Bloodletting Grounds.
However, in but an instant, after sweeping his divine sense over the surroundings a few times, then flicking a thread of mana from his fingertip toward a certain spot and uttering, "Break"—the illusion before him swiftly shattered. The Bloodletting Grounds, which had resembled a lake of blood, rapidly shrank into a blood pool only a hundred zhang across.
The remaining four Great Perilous Grounds—the Furnace Chamber, Skinning Grotto, Evisceration Chamber, and Corpse-Nurturing Cave—likewise emerged before his eyes after shrinking one by one.
These Five Great Perilous Grounds covered roughly ten thousand zhang and were arranged according to the Five Elements positions... At their center stood the Corpse Pavilion, rumored to contain Spirit Zombie Master's buried corpse.
Yet Wei Tu did not hurriedly head for the Corpse Pavilion or search the interiors of the Five Great Perilous Grounds. Instead, he carefully examined with his divine sense the formation patterns engraved deep within these Five Great Perilous Grounds.
That was right! These Five Great Perilous Grounds were the key and secret