Back at the Gods and Demons Burial Ground, many cultivators still guarded the stone gate, driving off alien races that tried to approach.
Jiang Yun walked slowly inside, cleared away the shattered rock and seals around the Demon Well, then lifted the earth to expose everything within.
Blood had soaked the demonic soil through. It was like a gate to Hell had opened: corpses of alien races lay piled densely inside the Demon Well.
Millions of years had passed, yet the bodies remained, dripping with blood and radiating considerable power. They looked as though only ten thousand years had gone by.
Some decaying corpses were as vast as mountains. Standing atop heaps of bodies, they had developed intelligence and were no weaker than ordinary Great Saints.
The moment they appeared, they released deathly energy that surged toward the heavens and attacked Jiang Yun's group.
The force of thousands of Saints and Saint Kings annihilated them in an instant.
Had Jiang Yun's group not come prepared to open the Demon Well, the Heavenly Venerable's seal would eventually have failed. A catastrophe would have followed, leaving the Human Race Ancient Road strewn with suffering.
"A few drops of Immortal Liquid appeared after all!"
Beyond the blood-soaked earth and corpses amassed over millions of years, Jiang Yun used his Divine Eye to spot Five-Colored Immortal Liquid deep in the Demon Well. Dao Venerable had not failed completely.
Inside a crust of bloody mud in one corner lay more than a dozen drops. Each formed a separate, crystal-clear sphere, like a treasure of an Ancient God.
The liquid gave off a rich fragrance. A single breath loosened his muscles and bones; it felt as though his skeleton was shifting, heralding an impending transformation.
"Dao Venerable's method may not have succeeded entirely, but he obtained