Nothing Left But Bones

So, the group headed towards the Big Dipper Empire.

A few days later.

The Big Dipper Empire was in sight.

"Sir, beyond this mass grave ahead is the border of the Big Dipper Empire," Zhang Jin said, pointing to a hill covered in weeds and emitting a chilling wind.

The Big Dipper Empire and the Moon Worship Empire often clashed at the border.

Almost all those buried here were warriors of the Big Dipper Empire who had died in battle.

The hill was vast, with endless rows of graves.

Calling it a mass grave was an understatement; it was a land of tombs, with continuous hills stretching as far as the eye could see.

Lu Yiping nodded.

"Let's go."

The war chariot flew into the sky above the mass grave, moving slowly.

It was already late at night.

A chilling wind swept through the mass grave, sounding like the wails of ghosts, utterly terrifying.

The faint-hearted would likely have their legs turn to jelly just hearing the ghost-like wind.

This place was where warriors of the Big Dipper Empire had been buried for years. The sheer number of them meant the yin energy here had reached an astonishing level.

Let alone mortals, even cultivators who had reached the Foundation Establishment stage would fall gravely ill if this yin energy invaded their bodies.

The war chariot flew on.

The chilling wind grew stronger.

Silence reigned all around.

Suddenly, a tomb on the ground cracked open, and a figure, exuding an astonishing amount of corpse energy, shot up and violently attacked the war chariot.

Zhang Jin didn't even make a move; his divine power surged.

Space trembled, and the figure was sent hurtling backward.

The attacker was a corpse with a pale face, hollow eyes, and clad in tattered armor. It completely disintegrated under Zhang Jin's divine power.

These were the Living Dead.

Disciples of sects that practiced evil arts would come here to use secret techniques to refine recently buried warriors of the Big Dipper Empire into Living Dead.

These disciples would then control the Living Dead to attack any experts passing through the mass grave, robbing them of spirit stones, elixirs, and herbs after killing them.

They would even refine the victims into Living Dead themselves.

Living Dead bore some resemblance to the corpses found on the Battlefield of the Gods.

However, the corpses on the Battlefield of the Gods were monsters born from countless years of absorbing death energy, possessing intelligence. These Living Dead lacked intelligence, and their death energy was far inferior to that of the corpses on the Battlefield of the Gods.

The war chariot continued without stopping.

The Living Dead became more numerous.

But no matter how many there were, they were all scattered and shattered before they could even approach the war chariot.

An hour later.

The war chariot had traversed the mass grave.

Ahead lay a stretch of open, mountainous terrain.

However, shortly after Lu Yiping and his companions entered the mountainous area, they heard an angry shout from behind: "Stop right there!"

Immediately, several figures shot through the air, blocking the war chariot.

Leading them was a shapely woman with phoenix eyes and a cherry mouth. She was quite attractive, but she exuded a murderous aura, and a faint black light flickered between her brows, clearly indicating she practiced an evil, malevolent art.

Behind her followed four men.

All five wore purple robes with a sinister white bone embroidered on the cuffs.

This was the mark of the White Bone Sect.

The White Bone Sect was a significant power in the Big Dipper Empire, its strength comparable to the Thunder Sparrow Sword Sect.

"Did you kill my Living Dead?!" Miao Yan glared at Lu Yiping and his group.

The Living Dead in the mass grave were the result of her considerable effort and time, numbering tens of thousands. She hadn't expected them all to be annihilated today.

The Dragon Horn Golden Ox stared at her and grinned, "That's right, we killed them. Seeing how angry you are, do you expect us to compensate you?"

"Since you killed them, then die!" a White Bone Sect expert behind Miao Yan roared, swinging a large hammer that flew out and descended upon the Dragon Horn Golden Ox.

The experts of the White Bone Sect were ruthless and bloodthirsty, often slaughtering an entire family over a minor disagreement.

In the Hengyuan Plane, realms below the God Realm were divided into ten stages. Above the God Realm were early, middle, late, and peak late stages.

This White Bone Sect expert was at the seventh stage of the Life-Seizing Realm.

The seventh stage of the Life-Seizing Realm was much stronger than Xiao Yuan, the Xiao Family elder who had previously tried to snatch Lu Yiping's Crimson Flame Sword. Xiao Yuan was only at the first stage of the Life-Seizing Realm.

The Dragon Horn Golden Ox didn't make a move either. Zhang Jin raised a hand and pointed, sending a surge of finger force that blasted the White Bone Sect expert away. Mid-air, the expert exploded into pieces as he flew.

Blood rained down.

"What?!" Miao Yan and the others' faces changed.

Zhang Jin coldly eyed the White Bone Sect members. "Make another move, and you'll all die!"

An enraged White Bone Sect expert was about to step forward when Miao Yan stopped him.

Her voice grim, she asked Lu Yiping, "Which sect are you from?"

Lu Yiping couldn't be bothered to answer.

"Let's go."

The war chariot slowly departed.

Miao Yan was so angry her face turned green.

Especially seeing the young man in the blue shirt casually playing with a tiny golden bird, not even glancing at her. His demeanor made her furious.

"Senior Sister, Junior Brother Chen's remains are nowhere to be found. What do we do?" a White Bone Sect expert asked, looking at the bloodstains on the ground with a grim expression.

Miao Yan's eyes turned cold as she watched the departing war chariot. "Let's go back and report to Master first!"

The group broke through the air and left.

A short while later, the war chariot arrived at the border of the Big Dipper Empire.

Lu Yiping and the others didn't give the incident with the White Bone Sect another thought.

The border wall of the Big Dipper Empire was ten zhang high and several meters thick. Various attack and defense formations were carved onto the city walls.

At the city gate, teams of disciples and experts from various families were being inspected before entering the city.

After entering the Big Dipper Empire's border, Lu Yiping and his group crossed numerous cities. Several days later, they arrived at the Big Dipper Empire's imperial capital.

As the capital of the Divine Martial Continent's foremost empire, the Big Dipper imperial capital was vast, stretching as far as the eye could see. Lu Yiping and his group drove in, and a sense of grand prosperity washed over them.

The city streets were a crisscross of roads, bustling with traffic. Various sounds filled their ears as disciples and experts from all sorts of families shuttled back and forth endlessly.

"Young Master!" Suddenly, a voice filled with surprise rang out.

Lu Yiping looked over and saw Lu Peng.

Besides Lu Peng, there were also Lu Xiaoyu, Song Ning, the Sect Master of the Thunder Palace Sword Sect, and a group of experts from the Thunder Palace Sword Sect.