The ground beneath their feet was soft and wet, with countless corpses and ashes piled up into a small hill, surrounded by wisps of black mist, and tightly bound by chains.

In the surrounding darkness, countless chains extended from the pile of corpses at their feet into the distance, with dark rays of light flowing slowly along the chains and into the mountain of corpses below.

"Is this inside the giant beast?" The woman in purple had a vague idea. She chose one of the chains and flew forward along it.

The murmurs began again, filling the darkness with an aura of death, evil, blood, and decay.

The golden core in front of him could illuminate a square of ten feet, and the range of his divine sense was compressed, so he flew cautiously.

There is no spiritual energy here, let alone divine energy; one can only rely on the accumulation of one's daily cultivation.

After the sword light passed, the place seemed to quiet down, with only the sound of the chains swaying gently, but no sound could be heard.

About fifteen minutes later, Zi Yi saw the end of the chain, which was a skeleton embedded in a wall of flesh and blood.

The deep red wall of flesh, exuding a putrid stench, slowly writhed. With each writh, the skeleton swayed, and a faint, almost invisible golden light, carried by the black energy condensing within the flesh, was transported along the iron chain towards the center.

Looking at the skeleton again, its eyes were closed, its face was pale and gray, its lips were black, and its features were still vaguely recognizable, but its body had completely merged with the wall of flesh and blood.

The woman in purple raised her hand and unleashed a wisp of immortal energy that disappeared into the corpse.

Suddenly, the skeleton's eyes widened, its crimson pupils emitting a red glow, and it opened its mouth to exhale a crimson, evil aura that rushed straight towards the purple-clad man's face.

Not too close, the woman in purple dodged to the side, but to her surprise, the skeleton seemed to come alive, letting out roars and struggling desperately inside the wall of flesh, as if trying to break free of its restraints.

Using her fingers as knives, the woman in purple swiftly peeled the flesh away from the wall of flesh.

There was no blood inside the flesh wall; after it was peeled away, it emitted waves of deathly aura.

The ripped bones fell with a shrill cry, causing the chains to shake violently.

The wall of flesh twitched and throbbed rapidly. Before long, a new skeleton appeared and took its place.

The woman in purple narrowed her eyes and, without holding back this time, cleaved the newly appeared corpse into dust with a single palm strike.

The fleshy wall contracted for a moment, then condensed into a new skeleton at an even faster speed than before.

The woman in purple withdrew her hand and flew to the side along the wall of flesh and blood.

Soon, he discovered that no matter which direction he flew, he would always see the same scene as before.

To his astonishment, among these skeletons were familiar faces from hundreds of thousands of years ago.

"The Jadeite Immortal? Immortal Wu Peng? Immortal Jin Yu? Half-Immortal Ao Ying?..." As more and more immortals came to be recognized, the woman in purple's heart sank to the bottom. "The secret method contributed by the Zerg is to use the bodies of immortals as sacrifices and their souls to prevent the birth of monsters?"

The woman in purple turned and retreated, returning to the top of the mountain of corpses in the middle.

The chains in the air began to move automatically without any wind, and gusts of foul wind gradually rose from below, carrying with them countless corpses that had fallen while bound by the chains.

The corpses seemed to come alive, their eyes fixed on the woman in purple, their limbs melting at a visible speed.

Eat him!

"Eat him quickly!"

"I'm so hungry!"

"Life is death, and death is life..."

"Stay with us!"

"Together!"

Countless words intertwined, finally coalescing into those three words, deafeningly powerful—"Stay!"

The wailing and howling of ghosts rose from all around, from beneath one's feet, and even from the mouths of countless heads amidst the mountain of corpses.

The woman in purple looked up at the sky and saw that the entrance cleaved open by the giant sword was gradually shrinking and closing in.

With a thought, he formed a hand seal, his expression devoid of joy or sorrow, his eyes calm and undisturbed. "Sealed for hundreds of thousands of years, it's time to end it. The living are indifferent, the dead are fearless. You're right about one thing: life is death, and death is life. Life and death are but a cycle. If I die, you are not allowed to be born again!"

The golden core shone brightly, enveloping the purple-clad figure. The giant sword above the beast suddenly transformed into several streams of light, plunging into the bottom of the pit.

"No—!" Yuehua was paying close attention to the commotion here. Seeing the giant sword disappear, she instantly arrived above the forbidden area of ​​Suixu Mountain.

Bai Xuan paused for a moment, then slapped the monster in front of him away, instantly arriving at Suixu Mountain.

At this moment, the giant beast at the bottom of the pit closed its eyes and gradually fell silent.

The surrounding restrictions flashed with light and gradually disappeared.

The lake lords, who had been overturned and were lying on the ground around him, each had blood at the corner of their mouths and were sitting there recuperating.

"Where is Ziyi?" Yuehua asked anxiously.

"The Immortal Venerable, he, he..."

The lake lords looked down, their expressions filled with grief.

"Impossible! I must save her!" Yuehua's immortal aura surged, and she struck out with her palm towards the bottom of the pit.

Before the palm strike could touch the giant beast, a sudden burst of light shone from the bottom of the pit, causing the earth to shake violently.

The giant beast's exposed head was pierced by beams of golden light like sieves, causing it to let out a painful wail. It opened its mouth and spewed out a thick stream of black gas, almost knocking Yuehua and Baixuan over.

"Purple robes..."

Bai Xuan was utterly shocked, Yuehua's eyes were filled with despair, and the lake lords surrounding them forgot how to react.

As Xiang Wan explored the secrets of the divine throne with Bai Siyuan, her waist ornament suddenly swayed, and then the oval jade pendant cracked open in the middle.

“Master…” Xiang Wan looked at the jade pendant in her hand, and tears streamed down her face without warning.

"What's wrong with you?" Bai Siyuan asked when he noticed Xiang Wan suddenly stop moving.

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