Chapter 197 The Reincarnation Monument
"If I could swallow the entire Thunder Swamp whole, that would be awesome!"
Li Ming felt he needed a powerful cultivation technique to devour everything in heaven and earth.
Starting with a Kun, all equipment comes from swallowing.
He couldn't help but recall a classic line.
It seemed he needed to keep an eye out for techniques of that level; it would save a lot of trouble.
Eating them one by one was too tedious.
Swallowing an entire forbidden area in one gulp—wouldn't that be exciting?Simple and convenient.
The village elder's brow furrowed, staring at Li Ming as if he'd seen a ghost, and said, "What are you talking about? You want to eat Thunder Swamp?"
"Hahaha..." Li Ming gave a perfunctory smile, "Let's not talk about that now. Let's continue deeper in and see where there are any more Dao Domain divine beasts?"
He led the way, rushing deeper into Thunder Swamp.
But to his disappointment, he didn't encounter any more Dao Domain divine beasts.
Below the Dao Domain, Li Ming had tried eating them, but they had no effect. It seemed only those who reached the Dao Domain could generate Dao patterns.
Without any Dao Domain beings, he had no choice but to investigate the reason for the forbidden area's revival.
They continued their journey, arriving deep within the forbidden land of Lei Ze.
The interior was completely different from the outside; the air was murky, the atmosphere as if from the distant primordial era, creating a sense of oppression and unease.
"Divine beasts!" Li Ming, with his sharp eyes, spotted two groups of divine beasts tens of thousands of miles away.
One group consisted of Azure Cats, the other of Ring Dogs.
The Azure Cats, like tigers, had wings and a "King" character etched on their foreheads.
If Li Ming hadn't been well-versed in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, he would have mistaken them for tigers.
The Ring Dogs were also divine beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, with a peculiar appearance and formidable fighting power; legend says their roars could shatter the nine heavens, and they were quite warlike.
"Judging from your expression, are you going over there?" Shao Siming asked.
"They're all experts in the Dao realm. If they fight, I can just go and collect the corpses. You guys wait here, don't move." Li Ming drew a circle, enclosing them within it.
"The forbidden area is unpredictable. No matter what happens, don't leave the circle. Wait for me to come back."
Li Ming took a few steps, then turned back and added another circle outside the first one.
"Remember not to leave these two circles, remember!"
Li Ming warned repeatedly before slipping away.
He wanted to watch the fight between the Azure Cats and the Ringed Dogs.
Cats and dogs have always been mortal enemies, and it seems even divine beasts are no exception. A fight is inevitable. Six Ringed Dogs and eight Azure Cats were fiercely exchanging insults. They were
arguing about territory. The Azure Cats said the Ringed Dogs had crossed the line and would die if they didn't leave
. The Ringed Dogs said the Azure Cats had crossed the line and would die if they didn't leave.
The two groups of divine beasts started exchanging insults and curses, but both sides were wary and dared not fight.
Li Ming was so anxious he wanted to turn into a dog and run over to encourage
them to fight.
Half an hour later,
the Azure Dogs and Ringed Dogs were still exchanging insults, like trolls, only daring to insult but not to fight.
This must be what online trolls are like.
Li Ming, thinking they wouldn't fight, was about to leave when the sky suddenly tore open, the sound of birdsong echoed, and the heavens were filled with golden light, more dazzling than the sun.
Squinting, Li Ming saw what it was: a colossal bird that blotted out the sky.
"A Golden-Winged Roc," Li Ming exclaimed in surprise.
He remembered that Wu Xiao's Hundred Bird Pavilion had a divine bird, the Golden-Winged Roc, but compared to this one, it was on a completely different level.
This Golden-Winged Roc's feathers shone with golden light, like suns, bathed in golden light, entwined with laws, and condensing Dao patterns. With a flap of its wings, the heavens shattered.
So powerful.
This was the strongest being Li Ming had ever seen. He had a feeling he couldn't withstand a single blow from it.
"Always making noise, die!"
the Golden-Winged Roc roared angrily, its wings trembling, shattering the void, darkening the heavens and earth, soaring ten thousand miles into the sky, tearing through the heavens, and then the sky fell.
The gray cat and the ringed dog tried to escape, but bathed in the golden light of the Golden-Winged Roc, they were unable to move.
The sky seemed to fall, Dao patterns swirling around them, laws flowing.
The gray cat and the ringed dog's pupils contracted, their bodies frozen, unable to run. Their barks and cries echoed through the heavens, but to no avail.
With a single strike, the gray cat and the ringed dog, both at the Dao realm, were half-crippled.
The gray cat and the ringed dog tried to escape.
The Golden-Winged Roc descended from the sky, its wings transforming into sharp blades, slashing down.
"Pfft..."
"Pfft pfft..."
The six gray cats and the ringed dog were like chicks, utterly powerless, dying instantly, their blood flowing on the ground.
This Golden-Winged Roc is incredibly powerful.
Li Ming cowered behind a boulder, afraid to move. The oppressive force was truly overwhelming; the Golden-Winged Roc's strength definitely surpassed the first realm of the Dao.
"The Heavenly Venerable realm is so weak, no, it's the bird that's so strong! It can even shatter divine essence and soul, killing it on the spot."
Li Ming felt a higher realm opening up to him.
After the Golden-Winged Roc left, Li Ming dragged away the six ringed dogs and eight grey cats.
He skillfully set up a barbecue grill.
Two hours later.
"Dao Runes: 24/1296000."
"I got 14 free Dao Runes. I only have 24 Dao Runes in total. The speed is a bit slow." Li Ming stared at the changes in the Dao Runes in his body, feeling that he was still a long way from breaking through to the Heavenly Venerable realm.
"I need to think of a way to speed up the acquisition of Dao Runes."
Li Ming walked around thinking of a way, and soon ran back. He saw that the village chief, Shao Siming, and Huang Muyu were still in the circle. "We need to eat more divine beasts."
"???" Three question marks appeared on their heads. They felt that Li Ming had long forgotten the purpose of his trip to the Thunder Swamp Forbidden Land.
"I misspoke earlier. Let's continue to investigate the reason for the resurgence of the Forbidden Land."
...
Two days later.
They themselves didn't know their exact location in the Thunder Swamp, only that the environment was eerie, and the lightning above carried a cold and ominous aura.
"It's too terrifying here, stay close to me."
Li Ming was prepared to run away if anything seemed amiss.
"Where is this place? Is it still Leize?"
Huang Muyu's forehead was covered in cold sweat, which streamed down her cheeks. She suddenly felt incredibly cold.
Shao Siming suddenly grabbed the Left Prime Minister's hand. She was also terrified; although her face was veiled, she still felt uneasy.
"It's eerie...it feels like we're in a graveyard." Shao Siming's palms began to sweat, her chest heaving. She was trembling with fear.
"Ding-a-ling...ding-a-ling...ding-ding..."
Suddenly, a terrifying melody rang out.
Shao Siming and Huang Muyu were so frightened they almost clung to each other. As Wu Xiao's Right and Left Prime Ministers, they were worldly-wise, but usually only active in Dongsheng. They
had never witnessed anything like this before.
The village elder, barely maintaining her composure, looked around and asked, "Who is playing this music? It's so eerie..."
Li Ming shook his head, unsure, his divine sense spreading out to investigate.
"Don't touch me!" Shao Siming trembled twice in fright, saying, "This place is scary enough, Granny, please don't touch me if you don't have to."
The village chief said, "Who touched you?"
Shao Siming trembled all over, her voice filled with fear, "If you didn't touch me, then who touched my waist?"
Huang Muyu said, "It wasn't me."
The three of them immediately looked at Li Ming.
However, Li Ming kept a certain distance from Shao Siming, so his hand couldn't reach her. The three of them immediately felt a chill run down their spines, their faces turning pale.
"Li Ming, can you help me see who's touching me?" Shao Siming was so anxious that she was almost crying. There might be a fifth person here. "Please don't scare me like this."
She was already worried.
She was certain that there was something on her, but she didn't know what it was.
Li Ming scanned her with his divine sense and said helplessly, "There's nothing on you. Don't scare yourself."
Shao Siming still didn't believe him: "Really nothing?"
"Really nothing." Li Ming shook his head. "Don't always scare yourself. Be brave."
Shao Siming blushed and didn't speak.
The environment here was truly eerie, perhaps psychological, making her extremely nervous.
But the further they went, the more gloomy the environment became.
The ground was covered in white bones.
Piles of bones were scattered haphazardly across the ground,
a truly horrifying sight.
At this moment, Li Ming finally traced the source of the sound: a graveyard.
Countless graves, with white lanterns hanging around the perimeter.
The white lanterns swayed in the wind,
emitting a mournful sound.
The sound was coming from inside the lanterns, which contained bell-like objects that tinkled in the wind.
The white bones, the graveyard, the white lanterns, and the eerie environment—
it was undeniable that Li Ming felt a chill run down his spine.
By now, the three women were clinging to each other's arms, trembling violently; they were genuinely afraid.
"Why is there such a sinister scene in the Thunder Swamp Forbidden Land? Something's not right. The Thunder Swamp within the Forbidden Land should purify all things; there shouldn't be an area shrouded in ghostly energy!"Li Ming found it increasingly absurd.
This had deviated from his understanding of Lei Ze.
No.
It should be that his understanding of Lei Ze was insufficient.
"How could there be so many graves in Lei Ze?" the village elder asked, trembling. "What kind of ghosts are buried down there?"
"This place is definitely not simple. There might be something terrifying buried down there. We should be careful."
Shao Siming blinked her big eyes and looked at Li Ming, saying, "Why don't we retreat? This place is too eerie."
"We're already here. What's there to be afraid of? I don't believe anything beyond our comprehension could appear here." Li Ming was unconvinced and stood tall.
"If you provoke me, I'll blow up even the graves." Li Ming was not afraid at all.
Suddenly, a voice came from inside the graveyard.
"It's dry. Be careful with fire..."
"Holy crap."
Li Ming gasped in fright, his whole body turning ice-cold.
The three women huddled together in fear. This place was already eerie, and then this voice suddenly appeared. This was outrageous.
"Don't move. I'll go and see who's playing tricks." Li Ming said.
"No, let's go together." They all followed, already afraid; if Li Ming escaped again, they'd be terrified.
"Dry weather, be careful with fire..."
The voice continued from within the graveyard, a man's voice, fading into the distance.
Li Ming entered the graveyard and walked forward.
A chilling aura immediately enveloped him, sending shivers down his spine.
The graves hissed, as if something was about to emerge from the soil.
"Dry weather, be careful with fire..."
"No, the sound is getting fainter. No, we have to speed up; we can't dawdle like this." Li Ming used his divine power, carrying them away.
But no matter how fast he moved, the sound grew fainter.
"This is illogical. At my speed, I should be able to travel tens of millions of miles. How can I not even catch up with a sound..." Li Ming found it very strange.
Li Ming stopped, wanting to observe his surroundings.
Holy crap
. Good heavens.
They were still in the same place.
White lanterns jingled all around the graveyard.
They hadn't moved an inch; they were stuck in the same spot, as if they'd never moved at all. This was truly absurd.
"Are we trapped in a ghost wall?" a man beside Li Ming asked.
"I don't know, this is definitely a bit inhuman. No, I have to try again." Li Ming stared ahead. "I refuse to believe we can't catch someone. You guys follow closely..."
Suddenly, Li Ming felt something was wrong. The voice he'd just heard sounded like a man's.
Weren't there only three women with him?
How could it be a man's voice?
What the hell was that talking to him?
Li Ming gasped.
Looking to his side, he saw a skeleton grinning at him, a really happy grin.
It was reaching out to grab Li Ming's neck.
"Go to hell!" Li Ming punched out, his divine power surging, blasting the skeleton to pieces. "You scared me."
After killing the skeleton, Li Ming's divine sense spread out completely across the graveyard, trying to find the old woman and the others, but he couldn't find them.
But the graves here also cracked open one by one, and bloody hands emerged from them.
"Hiss..."
A ghostly wail echoed.
"Give me back my child's life!"
"My child, my child..."
"Playing tricks."
Li Ming threw a punch, overturning the place. With a burst of power, he mobilized the power of heaven and earth, turning the graveyard into ruins.
Then he soared into the sky, his divine sense quickly spreading out, and soon locked onto the village elder, Shao Siming, and Huang Muyu Nu, far, far away.
Swoosh.
He dashed away.
However, what Li Ming didn't know was that the moment he left, the graveyard returned to normal.
...
Li Ming came to the village elder and said, "Why did you run so far away?"
"You scared me to death." The village elder trembled and said, "Didn't you bring us here? But you suddenly disappeared."
After hearing their description of what had happened, Li Ming felt even more uneasy.
“There really is something wrong here.” Li Ming looked back at the graveyard he had just destroyed, which had now been restored to its original state. What level of power was this that allowed it to recover?
It had the same level of functionality as the houses in the retirement village.
Li Ming suddenly felt a headache coming on.
This Thunder Swamp Forbidden Land was truly extraordinary.
The environment here was even more eerie and terrifying. The color of the ground began to change, and the environment of the graveyard also changed again. It was no longer small graves, but large graves.
The graves were piled very high.
He had a feeling that something particularly terrifying was buried inside.
“Grandma, there’s something ahead.” Shao Siming pointed to the dark stone in front of him.
“I see it.” The village elder said, “Let’s go take a look.”
Li Ming went along with her.
It was a black stone tablet, covered with moss, with two words written on it: “Reincarnation.”
Apart from these two words, there were no other words.
“Reincarnation.” Li Ming stared at the stone tablet, his thoughts wandering far into the distance. Something that could bear the words “reincarnation” must be extraordinary, and must contain something terrifying.
"Could this be a cycle of reincarnation?" The village elder gazed at the stone. "Does reincarnation really exist?"
"When a person dies, their light goes out; death is death. There can't be reincarnation," said Huang Muyu.
"I don't believe in reincarnation anyway," said Shao Siming.
It was something utterly ethereal.
"We need to get out of here quickly."
Li Ming had a bad feeling. This place was truly terrifying, unimaginably terrifying, far beyond what they could currently comprehend.
He and the women continued their journey.
Several days later, they finally left this place, emerging into a completely different environment. Thunderstorms raged across the sky, and the eerie atmosphere was gone.
They looked back in unison, but the terrifying landscape behind them was nowhere to be seen.
The entire area had vanished.
They exchanged bewildered glances, unsure what to say.
It felt like a dream, as if the scene had suddenly disappeared.
Just as Li Ming was about to ponder this, golden light flashed before his eyes, golden flames erupted, and he and the three women vanished instantly, traversing the void and reappearing tens of thousands of miles away.
The spot where he had just stood had been reduced to ruins by an iron rod.
A gigantic monkey stood there, a terrifying aura constantly surrounding it, dragging a massive iron rod in its hand, the rod like a pillar supporting the sky.
The monkey was about to strike the void with its rod.
Boom.
Space collapsed.
"This is the monkey I saw," the village elder said, pointing at the monkey. "This is the same monkey I saw last time."
The village elder recognized the monkey.
Black mist swirled around the monkey, its killing intent palpable, and dark red divine power surged within it.
It relentlessly pounded its wings towards the sky.
"What is she doing?" Shao Siming asked.
"There's a Golden-Winged Roc in the sky," Li Ming saw clearly; the Golden-Winged Roc was hidden in the void.
Under the monkey's relentless bombardment, the sky shattered.
The Golden-Winged Roc blotted out the sun, staring intently at the monkey.
"Long-Armed Ape, you're courting death!" The Golden-Winged Roc's wings transformed into blades, slashing down.
"Roar!" The monkey struck again, its pillar of heaven exploding forth with a deafening boom that echoed through the nine heavens.
"It's actually the Long-Armed Ape!"
Li Ming exclaimed in surprise. Legend had it that this was one of the Four Chaotic Monkeys.
Extremely powerful, capable of grasping the sun and moon, shrinking mountains, discerning fortune and misfortune, manipulating the universe.
Transcending the Six Paths.
So powerful!
The Golden-Winged Roc and the Long-Armed Ape clashed, the thunderous roar making the Thunder Swamp feel as if it were about to be overturned.
Li Ming retreated again and again, encountering numerous divine beasts at the Heavenly Venerable level along the way. They all fled, but some couldn't escape and were caught in the blast of power,
instantly killed.
Li Ming's eyes lit up.
(End of Chapter)
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