An Elder at Home is a Treasure

The illusion within the cave had vanished, and both Lin Cheng and Little Black fell somewhat silent.

Before long, man and cat worked together to lift Sun Yuantao's corpse. Now that Lin Cheng had stepped into the Heavenly Rank, his strength had increased by far more than just a little. Together with Little Black, he slowly carried Sun Yuantao's body out of the cave.

Though this corpse had been dead for a long time, strangely enough, it could not be stored in the system space like an ordinary object. As for other storage treasures, that was even more impossible—perhaps because of the inner world.

As for the system space, Lin Cheng was not sure. Perhaps he was still too weak, or perhaps it could only store items related to the system, subject to certain restrictions.

There was even less need to mention ordinary storage treasures. Unless they could withstand the impact of an entire world, anything else was useless talk.

A man and a cat carried a corpse out of the cave, only to find that they were still amid that desolate, uninhabited range of snowy mountains. Lin Cheng silently sensed the surroundings and discovered that within several hundred thousand li, there was not a single living creature.

This also confirmed something for Lin Cheng: everything they had encountered before had indeed been an illusion.

"The area within several hundred thousand li is all under the influence of my master's corpse. While such influence is insignificant to an Immortal Emperor, to ordinary living beings, it is an irresistible disaster. And this is only a dead Immortal Emperor. If an Immortal Emperor were alive, a single thought could effortlessly spread their power across an entire continent. Another thought could wipe out every living creature on that continent, turning it completely into