The immortal light great dao unfurled, carrying Lu Chen and Ye Fan across the star river to a desolate land.
They had discovered this place while investigating the two forbidden zones and came here after dealing with the matter of Burial Heaven Island.
Vast, boundless banks of mist lay before them, gray and heavy as leaden clouds. They pressed down so hard that the fabric of space cracked, blotting out the sun, moon, and stars.
"This stuff is rather terrifying!"
Ye Fan frowned. Wherever the gray mist enveloped swathes of stars, it devoured them outright, draining their essence and leaving only dust.
"This... seems to be the corpse aura of an Emperor's Way figure," Lu Chen said, sweeping his powerful divine sense through the gray mist.
An aura lingered within the mist, bearing a trace of an Ancient Emperor's presence, as though it had been left behind by an Ancient Emperor's dao transformation.
Even after death, an Emperor's Way expert's body would ordinarily remain imperishable through countless tribulations. If the body could no longer be preserved, it would dissipate through dao transformation. A rotting corpse at that level was almost unheard of.
But when things reached their utmost extreme, they reversed course. There were always exceptions.
"Could this be that place, with the corpse aura left by the Undying Heavenly Emperor?"
Lu Chen suddenly recalled that the Undying Heavenly Emperor seemed to have left something like this behind.
The two walked forward. At their current level, nothing beneath heaven could bar their way, not even something left by the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
The gray mist was eerie and terrifying. Anyone else would have been unable to remain here for long. The closer they drew to its core, the more alarming it became. It could certainly reduce even a Quasi-Emperor to