Upon entering the Forest of Bones again, they found that all the trees outside had become completely bare, with rotten leaves covering the ground. If the Forest of Bones had seemed gloomy before, now all that remained was decay.
They passed through the Front Hall and Central Courtyard before arriving at the Back Forest surrounded by dead trees. From far away, everyone could already see the enormous, terrifying body of the Corpse King, Long You.
But when they actually reached it, Yaoshi Yuan still couldn't help being shaken.
It was huge!
A rough estimate put the Corpse King at around two zhang tall. If they approached to attack, they would have to crane their necks to see its head. Its hands and feet were as thick as several corpses piled together. This wasn't an exaggeration, but a simple statement of fact: its entire body was made up of countless corpses.
They couldn't tell from a distance, but once they drew near, they could see that its entire surface was covered in dried corpses. Yet it didn't look particularly horrifying, because most of the corpses had already fused into it, making it look like a tombstone built with many corpses mixed into it.
Yes, rather than calling it a living creature, it would be more accurate to call it a tombstone.
But with a body like that...
"Actually, our progress over the past two days was extremely smooth." Bore said, "A Demon King this enormous would obviously be very clumsy when moving and attacking, and that was indeed the case. Although it could launch sweeping attacks over a wide area and even shockwave attacks, they were all within the range of what we could dodge. We could also leave the Back Forest directly, and it wouldn't chase us out."
"Even though