Chapter 783, Not in Jiu Zhou

Translator: Jon

Translation Checker: Silavin

 

“What?” Feng Rulie was perplexed upon hearing that, but the next moment, the Void Glyph descended and engulfed everyone.

 

People were heard screaming and shrieking, and they were gripped by a sense of weightlessness.

 

If Lu Ye had to describe the experience of using the Teleportation Ward he set up, it was like stepping into an abyss and falling downward with no end in sight.

 

Now, the feeling of using this Teleportation Ward was even more intense.

 

Besides feeling like one had fallen into a bottomless abyss, there seemed to be an invisible force pulling him down from the bottom, which intensified the anxiety of not being able to step on solid ground. At one moment he felt like he was crushed, and the next moment he felt like he had been elongated.

 

During the entire process, their rankings in the Fight for Supremacy were meaningless.

 

Their Spiritual Powers seemed to have been sealed within their bodies. They could only let the invisible force do whatever it wanted.

 

What they saw was extremely strange. The border between time and space seemed to have been blurred.

 

Just as the colossal Teleportation Ward that covered a radius of 1,000 kilometres was activated, a message within Lu Ye’s heart exploded.

 

A dazzling light broke out. When one looked at it from afar, it was as if a Sun had fallen into this mountain range. Certainly, such a phenomenon caught the attention of countless cultivators.

 

In just ten breaths of time, the light that was as bright as the Sun disappeared. At the same time, the rich and pure World Spiritual Qi that covered a radius of 1,000 kilometres was also gone.

 

When some cultivators arrived at this place to look into the matter, there were no traces left. Soon, the incident became a strange tale.

 

…

 

The dim Sunlight shone on the ground. The entire world looked like a mirror that was covered in dust, making everything look turbid.

 

On a withered old tree, several bony crows looked down with bloodshot eyes. Suddenly, as if detecting something, these crows shot into the sky as their caws faded.

 

The Void contorted and ripples spread. As that happened, a figure seemed to be emerging from the ripples.

 

In just a few breaths of time, the figure turned from virtual to solid as he finally arrived at this world.

 

The ripples dissipated, and the person fell uncontrollably from the sky. He kept writhing in mid-air until he crashed into the ground and became immovable.

 

Upon impact, Ying Wuji started seeing Stars. Ever since he started cultivating, he had never come across an incident as strange as this.

 

He followed the calling and headed to the nameless peak. In the end, nine people gathered in the same place. Before they could figure out what was going on, a Teleportation Ward formed by the peaks and mountain ranges appeared, after which the Ward was activated.

 

He had no idea how long the teleportation process took, but he appeared in this place when it ended.

 

His Spiritual Power was a mess, so he was unable to activate it. After he fell from the sky, it wasn’t as painful as he had imagined. It seemed that he had crashed into something soft.

 

Instead of feeling lucky, he was anxious. He didn’t know where he was or whether there was any danger around. His most important task was to summon his Spiritual Power so that he would be able to protect himself even if he ran into danger.

 

He closed his eyes and ran his cultivation method. A moment later, he finally had some control over his Spiritual Power, and his senses were restored.

 

The next instant, he caught a whiff of a pungent smell, which supposedly came from corpses that hadn’t been handled for a few days.

 

There were corpses around him, and it had been quite a while since they passed away.

 

Ying Wuji immediately came to this conclusion. He wasn’t flustered, though. As a Cloud River Realm Master, he had killed many people before, so why would he be afraid of corpses?

 

Some high-pitched caws were heard as the crows flapped their wings and returned. They landed on a withered branch and looked down at Ying Wuji. They stared fervently and fixedly at him with their reddened eyes.

 

Ying Wuji opened his eyes and saw those bony crows. He was so exasperated that he almost had the urge to laugh. Were these birds waiting to feast on him because they thought he was dying?

 

Presently, he was rapidly recovering. The teleportation process made his Spiritual Power a mess and numbed his senses, but he wasn’t injured. Moreover, even if he couldn’t activate his Spiritual Power, it was impossible for these crows to kill him.

 

However, a doubt soon rose in his heart. There were supposed to be corpses around him. Since these crows were so skinny, why didn’t they gnaw at the corpses? He vaguely felt that something was off.

 

A moment later, he almost recovered. As such, he quickly got to his feet and flicked his fingers, casting some air blasts at the crows. After venting his anger, he scanned his surroundings.

 

What he saw startled him. That was because a turbid Sun hung high in the sky. It was as if the Sun was covered in a thick layer of dust. It didn’t radiate a dazzling light. Instead, it was more like a candlelight that flickered in the wind.

 

Was it the Sun? Ying Wuji was rooted to the spot.

 

As far as he was concerned, even a sinking Sun at dusk was more radiant than this.

 

Furthermore, judging from the Sun’s position, it was supposed to be morning when the Sun was the brightest. It wasn’t supposed to look like this. The Sun looked like an old, frail person whose days were numbered.

 

Suddenly, a horrifying idea sprang into Ying Wuji’s mind. On the nameless peak, when the colossal Teleportation Ward was formed, they were understandably flustered, but at the same time, they were wondering where the Teleportation Ward would send them.

 

Ying Wuji naturally had some speculation as well. He felt that the Teleportation Ward would send them to a Hidden Realm. That was a common way of entering a Hidden Realm. It was just that the Teleportation Ward this time was more magnificent than usual.

 

Ever since Ying Wuji started cultivating, he had visited quite some Hidden Realms. Regardless of how different the Hidden Realms were from Jiu Zhou, the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars would never change. That was because the Hidden Realms were located in Jiu Zhou.

 

However, this place was vastly different from any Hidden Realms he had visited before.

 

He quickly tapped on his Battlefield Imprint, but his expression soon changed drastically. His Battlefield Imprint had no reaction!

 

This was something that had never happened before. One had to know that Battlefield Imprints were basically granted by the Heavens. In Jiu Zhou, whether one was a cultivator from a Sect or an independent cultivator, his entire cultivation life could never be separated from the Battlefield Imprint.

 

A cultivator could look at his own information and contact his friends and relatives through the Battlefield Imprint. He could also use it to indirectly judge if a person was dead.

 

As long as one was in Jiu Zhou, the Battlefield Imprint would never be invalid.

 

But now, Ying Wuji’s Battlefield Imprint wasn’t reactive, and the Sun in the sky looked strange. As he recalled the gigantic Teleportation Ward that covered a radius of 1,000 kilometres, the horrifying idea in his mind became clearer.

 

He still found it inconceivable, but when he had eliminated all that was impossible, then whatever remained, however improbable, must be the truth.

 

“Is this place…” Ying Wuji was flabbergasted, and his mind was a mess. “Not in Jiu Zhou?”

 

If he wasn’t in Jiu Zhou, where was he? He forced himself to calm down and placated himself that his speculation might be wrong.

 

To stop himself from falling into wild thoughts, he hurriedly looked around to scan his surroundings. Soon, he confirmed that he was in a mass grave.

 

Wherever he looked, he could see many broken and deformed corpses. Their clothing styles varied. Some looked like businessmen while some looked like beggars. There were also corpses that looked like they were cultivators when they were alive.

 

The air was filled with the pungent smell of corpses. He had fallen from the sky but didn’t feel much pain. It wasn’t that his physique was robust or that his senses were a mess. It was just that he had crashed into a corpse.

 

He took a look and estimated that there were probably 8,000 to 10,000 corpses on this burial site. Even someone like Ying Wuji felt a crawling sensation on his scalp. He wondered what had happened that caused so many casualties.

 

Also, where were the others? The Heavens had gathered a total of nine people. Since he was here, where were the rest?

 

After giving it some thought, he realised that considering the size of the Teleportation Ward, they must’ve been sent to a faraway place. It was only natural that they were separated from each other when they arrived.

 

He could confirm that even if there was a deviation, they wouldn’t be too far away from him. He would surely find them in nearby places.

 

He had to find them as soon as he could, and the differences between the Grand Sky Coalition and Thousand Demon Ridge were no longer important.

 

If things were just as he had speculated, they were in a perilous situation. Only when they set aside their differences and worked together would they find a way out.

 

After making up his mind, he was ready to activate his Spiritual Power and shoot into the sky.

 

All of a sudden, he felt something cold clutching his ankle. He subconsciously looked down and saw a rotten hand grabbing his ankle. There was also a head whose eyes were staring at him.

 

As their eyes met, Ying Wuji felt all his bodily hair standing on end. He felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

 

Suddenly, the head opened its mouth and growled while spouting some turbid Corpse Qi. An unsuspecting Ying Wuji was covered in the breath.

 

He instinctively wielded his machete and slashed it across the head. Then, he flew away, still reeling from the shock.

 

Some rustling noise was suddenly heard in this quiet burial site. The corpses that had been lying there for a long time seemed to have been resurrected as they stared fixedly at him. Every standing corpse exuded terrible Corpse Qi.

 

Some broken corpses slowly crawled towards him using only their hands.

 

“Ah!” Regardless of how seasoned and sedate Ying Wuji was, he couldn’t help but exclaim at this moment.

 

He had never heard of or seen dead people coming back to life before. He quickly shot into the sky to stay away from this strange place.