Cao E felt that the Earth Immortal's eyes before her were like deep pools. At their "bottom" shone a brilliant purple light. His gaze was hollow, utterly lifeless, yet two-foot-long arcs of lightning burst from his eyes. Even merely looking at them made her feel as if she'd been struck by lightning, her whole body numb and aching. She couldn't circulate her inner landscape or connect with Heaven and Earth.
An Earth Immortal's remains, fallen for tens of thousands of years and without a Grandmaster's Primordial Spirit to control them, had actually opened their eyes on their own?
A corpse coming back to life?
Cao E's body was numb and aching, and she couldn't move. Countless thoughts raced through her mind, bringing to mind the legends of many corpse kings and Ghost Kings.
If an obsession proved impossible to relinquish, then, given the right circumstances, a Dharma Body corpse whose flesh remained imperishable could very well come back to life. It might even regain its intelligence, become wholly unrelated to its previous life, and turn into a brand-new being. They said this had inspired ancient mighty figures, and that several paths to enduring after death had evolved from it.
Of course, no one had ever succeeded to this day!
"The door is open, the door is open..." The Purple Thunder Earth Immortal spoke in a deep, hoarse voice, rotten and unpleasant, ancient and distant, as if he had crossed ten thousand years and waited for ten thousand years!
Had his obsession truly not faded?
The thought had only just arisen in Cao E's mind when she saw the Purple Thunder Earth Immortal suddenly plunge downward, burrowing into the depths of the Ice Eye!
In a treasure trove set apart as its own world, icy water rose to a person's