The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 798 798 Corpse Tide Crisis_1

Not long after, Shen Mo was horrified to find that it was not only the Imperial Mausoleum that had undergone changes.

All corpses that had not completely rotted or been refined by other Mechanic Path cultivators—whether they were cultivators or demonic beasts in life—had all been reanimated and crawled out from the ground!

He had no idea how far back the 'history' projected by the Evil Spirit reached, but the bodies surging towards the Spirit Deer Mountain Range included ancient remains from seventy to eighty thousand years prior. Throughout the years, countless powerful Mechanic Path practitioners had been born and fallen on this land. Even if the majority of these powerful beings had decomposed or been refined after death, an astronomical number of corpses had survived, buried beneath the ground.

As time passed, unrotten corpses from even more distant areas also kept flowing in, converging into a horrifying flood of reanimated bodies.

They possessed no gnosis and were not Corpse Spirits. Lacking the slightest instinct of living beings, they couldn't be startled away by aura alone. Their sole 'obsession' was to charge into the sundered forbidden land and disrupt Lady Yu's refinement process!

Corpses that had possessed Divine Bridge Realm cultivation in life naturally couldn't maintain their peak strength after death. In a one-on-one situation, Shen Mo could repel them even without using the Soul Generals Array.

But there were simply too many of these reanimated corpses!

The sky above the Spirit Deer Mountain Range teemed with more powerful reanimated corpses, so dense it resembled a locust plague. An endless tide of corpses also swarmed the ground. Shen Mo's five senses and spiritual sense couldn't perceive an end to them; further in the distance, countless plumes of corpse Qi miasma spread out, and bodies shimmering with various faint lights were converging.

What troubled Shen Mo even more was that these corpses of past cultivators and demonic beasts, whether tattered or intact, ancient or recent, were impossible for outsiders like them to truly destroy.

Even if the weakest reanimated corpse was struck down, it would recover instantly, continually surging towards the deep valley!

This forced him to use another trump card. He used seven Dao swords—Tianshu, Tianxuan, and Tianji among them—to lay out The Big Dipper Array, protecting the small world Lady Yu was refining, which had been sundered from the Spirit Deer Mountain Range.

Using Soul Generals to operate the God Slaying Array placed too great a burden on Shen Mo. The meticulous control of Soul Generals needed to power the Creation Array was extremely mentally taxing. In his current condition, he lacked the strength to maintain it for long, and it was unsuitable for his present state.

Moreover, the Silver-haired Child and the other two had received his message and were about to rush to the Spirit Deer Mountain Range. He didn't want to reveal the existence of the Class V Demon Soul General and the God Slaying Array in front of them!

The Big Dipper Array, on the other hand, possessed sufficient defensive and offensive power to deal with these reanimated corpses, and its Mana consumption and mental strain were not excessive.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK…

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CHING! CHING!

Boundless sword Qi permeated the space between heaven and earth. It struck these reanimated corpses, producing a cacophony of harsh sounds: the rending of bamboo and wood, the cleaving of gold and iron, and the heavy impact on gemstones. These varied noises arose because the reanimated corpses were constituted of different materials, each reacting uniquely under the assault of the sword Qi.

But without exception, not a single reanimated corpse broke through the rigorous defense of The Big Dipper Array; all were utterly destroyed.

However, in the blink of an eye, these corpses recovered. As they continued to accumulate, they almost besieged the entire Sword Array, pressing in so tightly that they constantly impeded its function and drained its power. So much so that the seven Big Dipper Dao Swords were beginning to struggle under the strain!

HUM!

Shen Mo, already in his Three-headed Six-armed form, swung his Taiyi Sword freely, unleashing Universe Sword Qi. He continuously cast the Constellations Palm, repelling and suppressing tens of thousands of reanimated corpses around him. Then, he unleashed a Fairyland Sword Qi, sweeping them all into his Sword Zone. He detained them within, refraining from killing them to prevent their endless "resurrection"!

However, the Sword Zone was not a cave paradise. Its internal size and capacity were limited.

Furthermore, among the reanimated corpses collected within, many were powerful entities that continuously attacked the spatial barriers, attempting to break free from the small, independent space. After he had drawn in several hundred thousand corpses of Mechanic Path cultivators and demonic beasts, the Sword Zone reached its capacity!

This can't go on like this. My own condition, the Big Dipper Array, and the Sword Zone will all collapse under this ceaseless attrition! Shen Mo surveyed the seemingly endless tide of reanimated corpses swarming from all directions, his expression exceptionally grim.

Just then, the Silver-haired Child, Kang Haoxiu, and Qin Zhen finally arrived at the Spirit Deer Mountain Range.

Through prior communication, Shen Mo had already informed them of the unfolding situation. Without him needing to say much, the three of them immediately activated their magic treasures and talismans, unleashing fierce offensive techniques as they plunged into the tide of corpses!

Those who could cultivate to the Divine Bridge Realm and still dared to venture into a True Immortal's cave mansion, like the Silver-haired Child and his companions, were not to be trifled with. Even with their strength suppressed, they unleashed formidable combat power by relying on their various trump cards. Like three immovable boulders, they withstood wave after wave of the reanimated corpse tide.

"You must guard Lady Yu's nascent forbidden land vigilantly! Don't let these reanimated corpses disrupt her refining process! I'm going to take the subdued reanimated corpses elsewhere..." Shen Mo urgently instructed them, then activated his Sword Escape Skill, swinging his Demon Slaying Sword outwards.

Soon after, his figure flashed with spirit light and vanished directly from the sky above the Spirit Deer Mountain Range. When he reappeared, he had teleported to the Demon Slaying Sword's location.

Repeatedly using the Sword Escape Skill, Shen Mo quickly reached an abyss nearly one hundred ten thousand feet deep, located some thirty-one thousand miles from the Spirit Deer Mountain Range.

「The next instant.」

He unleashed Fairyland Sword Qi, slicing open the overburdened Sword Zone.

RUMBLE!

Hundreds of thousands of reanimated corpses, in various states of decay and clad in diverse materials from their past lives, poured down like rain.

The weaker ones quickly piled up at the bottom of the abyss, forming a writhing mountain of corpses. Meanwhile, the stronger ones capable of flight attempted to attack Shen Mo. But Shen Mo merely employed defensive measures, launching no counterattack. After all, even if killed, they would "resurrect"; there was no point wasting Mana on them!

Given such a vast distance, even the strongest reanimated corpse, without a powerful Skill like Sword Escape, would need to fly for at least a day and a night.

As for the other reanimated corpses, some would be obstructed by the chasm's natural formations, lacking the strength to climb out. Others could fly, but even if they escaped the vast abyss, it would take them considerable time to return to the Spirit Deer Mountain Range.

In this way, the pressure faced by Shen Mo and the others could be greatly relieved!

Once all the reanimated corpses within the Sword Zone were cleared out, he once again used the Sword Escape Skill to return to the Spirit Deer Mountain Range. Rejoining the Silver-haired Child and the others, he continued to suppress and capture the corpses. Resplendent sword light shuttled back and forth, the cycle repeating endlessly. After half a day, the reanimated corpses had filled more than half of the immense abyss.

And the tide of reanimated corpses that had once blanketed the Spirit Deer Mountain Range was now noticeably sparser!