Nine Nether Heavenly Emperor
Chapter 599 - 589: The Legend of the Corpse Emperor

Chapter 599: Chapter 589: The Legend of the Corpse Emperor

Shi Feng had never heard of the Corpse Control Great Emperor, but the words "Corpse Control" did pique his interest.

He guessed that the multitude of Yin Corpses in this Sealing Land must have been left by the Corpse Control Great Emperor! And that servant who called himself Chu Haotian must be, in the eyes of the Chu Family, an ancestor who achieved the peak of Martial Arts.

Then, Shi Feng continued to read the text below.

"With the technique of Corpse Control, the master dominated the Eastern Domain, unrivaled! Even in the entire Tianheng Continent, he was a Martial Emperor to be reckoned with!"

"Under the master’s command was an Emperor Corpse. In pursuit of the Martial Arts zenith, the master suddenly had a crazy idea!"

"To absorb the power of the Emperor Corpse into oneself and make it one’s own! This act has never been attempted in the history of the Tianheng Continent. In the end, the master failed. Not only did he fail, but he also suffered the backlash of the Corpse Emperor’s power! He was gravely injured!"

"At that time, knowing he suffered from the Corpse Emperor’s power and had little time left, the master felt pity for all the people in the world. Fearing the disaster the Corpse Emperor might cause upon his death, he sealed the Corpse Emperor here, using the last of his strength. Not long after, my master, the one and only Supreme Martial Emperor and Corpse Control Great Emperor, truly fell."

"If you have arrived here, ahead of you lies the Corpse Emperor, sealed by my master. Whether you are a descendant of my Chu Family or a Martial Artist from elsewhere, if you see these words I have inscribed, turn back! Do not proceed further, lest you touch my master’s seal from that time and release the Corpse Emperor! Should the Corpse Emperor be unleashed, our Eastern Domain will surely be littered with corpses, remember! Remember!"

At this point, Shi Feng and Xueh Wuheng had finished reading the text on the stele.

"This Sealing Land actually contains a sealed Corpse Emperor!" Shi Feng exclaimed in surprise after finishing the reading.

For a Yin Corpse to reach the Emperor Realm was extremely difficult! Far more challenging than for a Human Warrior—something countless times more strenuous! Yet, they had not expected that such a powerful and unique existence would be sealed here!

"What do you think, Young Master Feng? Shall we continue forward?" Xueh Wuheng turned his head to ask Shi Feng after reading the words on the stele.

"Let’s go! Let’s go take a look!" Not to mention that direction, Shi Feng sensed even more Yin Corpses than before, and the Sacred Sword Fragment of the Bloodthirsty Sword was something he had to obtain no matter what!

"Good! Then today, I shall join you to witness the legendary Emperor-level Corpse! Haha!" Xueh Wuheng laughed heartily after hearing Shi Feng’s decision.

When Xueh Wuheng asked Shi Feng whether to proceed, it seemed that Xueh Wuheng had reservations about the Corpse Emperor mentioned on the stele. After all, it was an Emperor-level Corpse that had been sealed for so many years, and who could know if any changes had occurred in the Sealing Land over such a long time.

If they proceeded, and if they accidentally disturbed the seal on the Corpse Emperor, should it be released, the chances of them surviving were extremely slim.

Yet Xueh Wuheng, because Shi Feng wanted to continue forward, readily agreed to accompany him.

At this moment, Shi Feng felt increasingly satisfied with his disciple’s character, courage, and sense of loyalty!

"It seems if Qin Rufan had a keen eye for taking disciples, having encountered Wushuang before and now Xue Wuhen, it’s not like that kid Ling Yefeng, who took in that freak Ning Cheng!" Shi Feng muttered to himself.

Afterward, the two of them set their sights forward, and Shi Feng whispered, "Let’s go!"

Then, the two of them simultaneously shot towards the direction indicated by the stele, where the Corpse Emperor was said to reside.

"Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar!" Not long after Shi Feng and Xue Wuhen had taken flight, a series of shrill roars echoed from ahead. At that moment, Shi Feng and Xue Wuhen realized those were the strange cries of the Yin Corpses. Shortly after, another group of Yin Corpses came into view. As Shi Feng had anticipated, this group was even larger than the last—they estimated there were about fifteen hundred corpses!

"Congratulations!" Upon seeing the dense swarm of Yin Corpses, Xue Wuhen once again cracked a casual smile and congratulated Shi Feng.

As a member of the Nine Nether Lineage, Xue Wuhen naturally knew about the unmatched Array created by the Ancestor of the Netherworld—the Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses. He had never learned the Array, but he knew that his little martial uncle, having begun capturing Yin Corpses, must understand it!

With the Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses set with Yin Corpses, Xue Wuhen had a premonition that his little martial uncle’s power was about to advance another stage!

Seeing the swarm of Yin Corpses and hearing Xue Wuhen’s words, Shi Feng smiled as well and, with a swift movement, began to fly rapidly towards the mass of corpses!

While in flight, Shi Feng had already begun forming a series of handprints, releasing a stream of ghostly white runes that swirled around his body. These runes, twisting like ghostly white tadpoles, began to multiply, just as they had before.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!" The Yin Corpses, which were initially walking slowly as if they were listless zombies, suddenly became agitated upon sensing the presence of the living.

The cries of chaos and misery filled the heavens and earth. In the next moment, the corpses, drawing upon the Power of Earth, caused the ground itself to burst into violent upheaval, as if an earthquake were unfolding.

Just then, Shi Feng’s entire body was engulfed in the ghostly white runes. A large area of the Void began teeming with these runes, and at that moment, Shi Feng’s voice resonated through the Void, "Go!"

With the command, those dense ghostly white runes shot towards the throng of Yin Corpses, cascading through the sky like a hail of ghostly white ice, violently sweeping over the swarm of corpses.

The mass of ghostly white runes quickly engulfed the swarm of Yin Corpses. The cries became increasingly piercing—a sound more terrible with each cry!

However, it didn’t take long for the dense ghostly white runes that had consumed the corpses to fade away; in truth, the runes had already been infused into the bodies of the Yin Corpses. This group of corpses was easily subdued and came under the control of Shi Feng!

After subduing the group of Yin Corpses, Shi Feng sensed them and counted a total of 1,522 corpses. Together with the 1,077 he had previously subdued, excluding the super-grade ones from Black Evil, Shi Feng now commanded a force of 2,599 Yin Corpses!

However, within this newly subdued group, Shi Feng sensed they were all of Fourth-stage King Rank, without any exceeding that rank like the Black Evil ones before.

Out of 2,599 Yin Corpses, only one had surpassed the Fourth-stage King Rank and ascended to the Fifth-stage Imperial Level. This made it clear how extraordinarily rare it was for ordinary Yin Corpses to exceed the Fourth-stage King Rank—it was defying the heavens!