Most of these low-ranking corpse demons were at the Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment level. With little intelligence, they acted entirely on instinct and fear of higher-ranking corpse demons.
Li Yunjing swept past them like a ghost, and they noticed nothing.
After traveling roughly seven or eight hundred li, he began to encounter corpse demons more frequently. There were more "buildings," too, and they looked somewhat more "orderly."
He began seeing camp-like walls built from enormous bones and black metal, topped with "torches" made from the skulls of unknown creatures, burning with eerie green phosphorescent flames.
Corpse demon "soldiers" with some obvious intelligence, clad in tattered armor and carrying bone or stone weapons, patrolled inside and outside the walls.
Most of these corpse demon soldiers were around the golden core stage, though he occasionally spotted one or two "minor leaders" with auras at the nascent soul early stage.
Li Yunjing did not disturb them. Like an invisible streak of lightning, he slipped through the shadows, avoided several areas with obvious detection fluctuations, and quietly crossed the outer defenses into the heart of the lair.
The ground here was more level, seemingly having undergone "repairs."
The buildings were also more "magnificent."
Though by surface standards, they were still crude and barbaric, their aesthetics steeped in death and bloodshed.
Enormous "palaces" and "fortresses" built from the bones of various creatures stood scattered throughout the area. Glowing crystals or organs immersed in green solutions were embedded in their walls, giving off uncanny light.
The air was thick with an even stronger stench of corpses, blood, and a peculiar pungent odor resembling embalming fluid.
Many corpse demons bustled about within.
Some carried enormous bones still bearing flesh; some ground ores that emitted a fluorescent glow; others stood before enormous "furnaces" made from bone and