After eating and drinking their fill, the three walked shoulder to shoulder through the Burial Region. It was vast and full of duality. At first glance, it looked like an immortal paradise, yet upon closer inspection, it was gloomy and terrifying.
Take this patch of grass, for instance. Its green was lush and vivid, but beneath it lay stark white bones. Or those mountains, beautiful as paintings, which were made entirely of bones. The mountain where they had just sat drinking had actually been the skeletal remains of an ancient ferocious beast.
Ahead lay a green lake. Through its jade ripples, they could still see faces turned upward beneath the water. Those, too, were corpses left behind from the Ancient Battlefield.
These ancient remains all carried incomparable energy. Thus, every blade of grass, every tree, the water, and even the air here were cultivation resources. Cultivating here yielded twice the result with half the effort.
Of course, without an insider to guide them, outsiders would find it impossible to take even a single step here. One careless move, and even a blade of grass could take their lives.
At the summit of the southwestern mountain range, a Giant Sword was plunged into a mountaintop. Though they were still hundreds of miles away, a terrifying killing intent had already swept toward them.
"Under every sword, there is a dead spirit. Is that right?" Lin Su asked.
"Yes! Especially swords like this. The dead spirits beneath them are no ordinary dead spirits. Once pulled out, they may unleash a sea of blood and a storm of slaughter. There are nine such swords in the Burial Region, sealing the Nine Great Battle Spirits from a thousand years ago."
"How powerful are the Nine Great Battle Spirits?"
Jun Tianxia said, "The cultivation of battle