"He wasn't dead? How was that possible?"
Mu Qingyun and the others were stunned, crying out in disbelief, "There was clearly no life force in his body. How could he still be alive?"
Across the All Heavens and Myriad Realms, among the countless living beings, regardless of what form of life they took—
As long as they were alive, they possessed life force. This was a law of heaven and earth, unchangeable.
Even zombies, said to have leapt beyond the Three Realms and escaped the Five Elements, actually possessed life force. It was merely that a zombie's life force was strange, concealed beneath the deathly aura around its body, making it difficult for ordinary people to detect.
Yet this corpse before them was entirely different. They could not sense even the slightest trace of life force.
"Could it be hidden too well, beyond our ability to detect?"
Xue Shanshan said in a low voice.
"No, he was truly dead."
Lin Baichuan shook his head and chuckled. "However, his obsession remained, and it has even formed a Divine Thought..."
"Divine Thought!"
Mu Qingyun and the others froze, their expressions changing one after another.
As the foremost prodigies of their respective forces—and with Mu Qingyun and the others even being Holy Sons and Saintesses of Saint-grade Forces—they naturally knew very well what a Divine Thought was.
It was a special existence born after a mighty being beyond the Heavenly Position Secret Realm died, when certain obsessions refused to fade.
It could be said that a Divine Thought was not a living creature, but merely a certain kind of obsession.
It was one of the most bizarre and mystical things in heaven and earth.
However, Divine Thoughts had always existed only in legend. After all, not every being beyond the Heavenly Position Secret