Looking at the mysterious Burial Abyss, deathly silent before him, Li Qingyun felt both rueful and emotional.
Back then, he had finally waited for an opportunity, revived the Eternal Soul Corpse, and seized the chance to let it escape this land of burial pits.
That had been the dead breaking free from fate.
Now, as he returned here once more, it was the living throwing themselves into a land of death.
He stood before a somewhat familiar "small door." It was as though the door had opened out of thin air upon a dark barrier. Beyond it lay nothing but dark, dead silence, along with ancient bronze coffins floating everywhere.
Every ancient bronze coffin held a deceased Great Thousand Heaven Master.
From the information Li Qingyun had obtained from the Abyss Clan, he naturally knew that the Wild Mayfly Land where his Shangqing Heaven avatar was located was merely one of the sources supplying Heaven Master corpses to this Great Burial Pit.
With a casual glance into the dark silence, he had already "seen" several thousand ancient bronze coffins. Who knew how many more lay buried in the darkness beyond them.
At his Shangqing Heaven avatar's location, fallen Heaven Master corpses flowed into the Heaven Corpse Sea. Broken and useless remains were left to rot in the seawater, turning into Yellow Corpse Water, a horrifying pollution feared throughout the heavens.
More or less intact Heaven Master corpses, meanwhile, were wrapped in bronze chains by the Abyss Elder guarding the Burial Abyss entrance there, interred in ancient coffins, and dragged into the Great Burial Pit for preservation.
Once placed in an ancient bronze coffin, the corpse would be forcibly stripped of its Heaven Master status by the coffin's seal, transformed into an ordinary human form—a "Soul Corpse" much like a zombie.