A vast, wordless terror rose from the depths of his heart. Though it was only a severed hand, when Lu Ye gazed at it, it was as if he could see a glimpse of its owner through it.
That was an existence he could not possibly contend against at present, a powerhouse beyond even the reach of Divine Sea Realm masters.
His mind suffered a tremendous shock. Had Lu Ye's will not been strong enough, he might have lost all fighting spirit in an instant.
He no longer dared to be careless. Steadying his mind by force, he poured all his Spiritual Power into the long saber in his hand and thrust forward!
All along, the cultivators of Peerless Continent had never understood why such a strange race as the Corpse Race had emerged in this land.
No one knew the reason, but everything had an origin. Before the Heavenly Change, Peerless Continent had never had anything like the Corpse Race.
Now, the cultivators of Peerless Continent knew only one thing: the Corpse Fiend had been the first of the Corpse Race!
He had once been an ordinary disciple of Heavenly Saint Hall. Back when he was still human, he had achieved nothing particularly remarkable, nor had his cultivation been especially high. Yet after the Heavenly Change, he became one of the Corpse Race, then spread the Corpse Calamity from Heavenly Saint Hall across Peerless Continent, creating the Human Race's present plight.
On the road to Mount Sumeru with Pang Huanyin, Lu Ye had spoken at length with Pang Huanyin and Old Xiao about many matters, including what had caused the Corpse Fiend to become one of the Corpse Race. How exactly he had transformed was no longer possible to verify. Perhaps only he himself knew.
But at this moment,