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Chapter 418: Chapter 239: The Undead Race Great Monarch’s Contribution

On the ugly, terrifying body of the nearly hundred-meter-tall Giant Corpse Ice Ape, Death Qi congealed into a chain that coiled around and pierced through its form. As this abnormal power sustained its reanimation, the creature tilted its head to the sky and shot a beam of dark light at Gu Zheng.

Dark Death Light!

A silent, annihilating beam of light!

WHOOSH—BOOM!

Space was pierced, violently torn apart, creating a straight corridor through it.

At the end of that corridor was Gu Zheng.

However, the moment the Giant Corpse Ice Ape tilted its head, Gu Zheng had already teleported away, leaving only an afterimage in his original position.

This afterimage was pierced through the chest and abdomen by the death light, and then its entire body was instantly annihilated.

It turned into nothingness!

If his real body had been hit, the result would have been much the same.

Because Gu Zheng sensed a dense Death Qi within it—a type of Dark Power completely antithetical to living beings, which even his Domain couldn’t block.

Of course, if he had activated his Five Elements Domain, its cycle of generation and restriction might have prevented the Dark Death Light from piercing through.

Yin Reaches Yang!

The Undead Race Great Monarch had used this exact Secret Technique to create the Giant Corpse Ice Ape.

The ultimate Death Qi had given rise to a bizarre Vitality.

To fuse more than twenty Ice Ape corpses together and create such a malevolent existence... one could only say the Undead Race Great Monarch had planned this long in advance.

The reason Gu Zheng hadn’t stopped it earlier was that he had captured a sliver of an opportunity to break through to the True Body Realm.

Of course, he was still in the second stage of the King’s Body, a long way from the true True Body Realm.

Therefore, the opportunity he’d captured actually pointed toward the third stage of the King’s Body: Seeking Truth!

’Yin Reaches Yang? Death Qi, Vitality, a cycle of life and death?’

Witnessing the birth of the Giant Corpse Ice Ape with his own eyes set off a brilliant shower of sparks in Gu Zheng’s mind.

The path to his breakthrough, which had eluded him until now, was finally becoming clear.

"ROOOOAR—!"

The deafening roar slammed into the space, creating tangible ripples.

After its beam of death light annihilated the afterimage, the Giant Corpse Ice Ape quickly realized something was wrong.

Or rather, the Undead Race Great Monarch hiding inside the Giant Corpse Ice Ape’s body sensed the abnormality.

’Gu Zheng is at the King’s Body Realm. How could he die so easily, without even having time to raise his Domain?’

’Impossible.’

Sure enough, Gu Zheng’s true body appeared in the air several hundred meters away, above the ice.

More than ten of the eyes embedded all over the Giant Corpse Ice Ape’s body spotted Gu Zheng from behind.

"You... can’t escape!"

A hoarse voice echoed through the air.

WHOOSH—BOOM!

The Giant Corpse Ice Ape charged, breaking the sound barrier with a tremendous sonic boom as it lunged toward Gu Zheng’s position.

VMMMM!!

A second Dark Death Light was unleashed without any warning.

It moved at extreme speed, and after being fired, it didn’t vanish in an instant. Instead, it maintained its momentum, sweeping horizontally toward Gu Zheng.

SWISH~

Gu Zheng dodged, leaving a series of afterimages in his wake.

The death light moved with him, annihilating one afterimage after another!

With each afterimage it destroyed, the beam of Dark Death Light dimmed and shrank slightly.

The space swept by the black light simply vanished, revealing a void, though it quickly recovered.

But the terrifying power of this force still made the hearts of Bo Xiang, Bo Ai, and the other Three-Eyed Race People pound with fear.

"Since... since when did the Ice Apes have such a terrifying ability?"

"It’s not the Ice Apes, it’s that Undead Race Demon Fiend!"

"Right, the two from the Undead Race that the Master injured and pursued in here... we never found them. It seems this one has controlled the Ice Apes and turned them into its slaves."

"Do you think you can even call what the Ice Apes are now ’slaves’? It didn’t even spare their corpses after they died. This thing from the Undead Race is worse than the most monstrous beast."

"Um, with the Ice Ape like this... can the Master handle it?"

"Is that even a question?!"

"..."

BOOM!!

As the few Three-Eyed Race People were talking, a tremendous explosion suddenly erupted.

Just as the Dark Death Light shrank to the thinness of a thread, countless beams of radiant light descended swiftly from the sky, surrounding the Giant Corpse Ice Ape like a goddess scattering flowers. As the creature tried to teleport away, the beams pierced it from front to back and sliced it from side to side, dicing the Giant Corpse Ice Ape’s massive, mountain-of-flesh body into pieces and detonating it on the spot.

The masses of Death Qi and Vitality gathered within the Giant Corpse Ice Ape’s body exploded violently, blasting a massive crater tens of meters deep into the ice.

Countless shards of ice and debris, along with the dissipating Dark Death Light, were annihilated into nothingness amidst the thunderous blast.

Beneath the shower of ice dust, a chaotic ball of black mist shot hastily into the distance.

"SWISH!"

His figure flickered, tearing through space to appear directly in the fleeing Undead Race Great Monarch’s path.

Gu Zheng, wielding the Heaven-piercing Halberd, brought it down in a cleaving strike.

TCHH-TCHH-TCHH!

One after another, beams of radiant light infused with the Power of Silent Extinction sealed the space around the Undead Race Great Monarch, trapping it before closing in for the kill.

VMM~

The void trembled, sending out vast ripples.

Within the black mist that was the Undead Race Great Monarch, red light surged and a green glow blossomed. Forcibly resisting the encirclement of the radiant beams, the black mist first scattered into smaller clusters. The green glow spun rapidly, depleting itself as it tried to break out from a corner.

However...

CRACKLE...

BOOM! BOOM!

Amidst peals of thunder, Gu Zheng directly raised his Silent Extinction Thunder Realm, enveloping the Undead Race Great Monarch.

"ROAR—!!"

Silent Thunderbolts erupted, trapping the Undead Race Great Monarch inside and beginning to annihilate it. The intense pain made the Great Monarch howl in agony.

"Mercy! Mercy—!!"

The hoarse pleas for mercy rang out within the Silent Extinction Thunder Realm, and though they were quickly annihilated, Gu Zheng still heard them.

’Begging for mercy now?’

’Too late.’

Gu Zheng pushed the Silent Extinction Thunder Realm, unleashing one Silent Thunderbolt after another. They shattered the black mist, pulverized the green glow, and caused the surging red light to dim.

The Undead Race Great Monarch shrieked ceaselessly as it converted its surging Death Qi into Vitality, stimulating the red light to flare.

Seeing this, Gu Zheng slowed the Silent Thunderbolts. He didn’t increase the power of the strikes, maintaining their original intensity to allow the Undead Race Great Monarch to barely hang on, continuing to convert Death Qi to Vitality and struggle.

Gu Zheng clearly sensed this process of turning death into life, studying it intently.

And so, the path to the third stage of the King’s Body grew ever more solid.

Once the green glow within the Silent Extinction Thunder Realm was completely annihilated, the black mist had dissipated inch by inch, and the vigorous red light within was extinguished—its Cold Yin Vitality forcibly collapsing into faint, silver-black strands of light invisible to the naked eye—Gu Zheng halted the operation of his Silent Extinction Thunder Realm, dismissed the Domain, and performed Spirit Capturing.

[Demon Points +899]

Along with this small harvest of Demon Points, Gu Zheng fully comprehended the path of "Seeking Truth."

Life and death!

Gu Zheng didn’t know what path others comprehended for the third stage of the King’s Body, but what he had grasped was life and death!

Between life and death lies great terror.

The transformation from death to life, at first glance, seems to subvert the very existence of life.

But the cycle of life and death is also one of life’s rules—or rather, a Law!

Life is often accompanied by death.

The absence of either one would cause a major problem.

The Dao of Life and Death was a great Dao that pointed directly to the origin.

By comprehending life and death, he was undoubtedly one step closer to breaking through to the True Body Realm.

...

"Bo Xiang, Bo Ai, clean up the scene."

Calming his mind, Gu Zheng sent a telepathic message to Bo Xiang, Bo Ai, and the other Three-Eyed Race People at the mouth of the cave.

Then, his figure flickered, and he tore through the sky, rushing toward the territory of the Two-Eared Race.

There was still one more Undead Race Great Monarch to deal with.

It was highly likely the latter would attack the Two-Eared Race in an attempt to slaughter them.

Because the Two-Eared Race had the largest population.

...

SWOOSH!

SWOOSH~

He tore through the air, flying at extreme speed.

When he arrived above the territory of the Two-Eared Race, Gu Zheng saw, just as he’d expected, more than twenty Tier 3 Ice Apes attacking the Two-Eared Race’s caves.

Without attacking immediately, Gu Zheng activated his Eyes of Golden Flame, and using them in conjunction with his Five Orifice Divine Techniques, he scanned the twenty-plus Ice Apes.

He quickly found his target.

The second Undead Race Great Monarch!

This one, just like the previous Undead Race Great Monarch, was hiding inside the body of an Ice Ape over thirty meters tall, its Death Qi suppressed to a minimum.

But under his Eyes of Golden Flame, it could not escape detection.

SWOOSH~!

With a single flash, Gu Zheng tore through space and appeared above the possessed Ice Ape’s head. His Silent Extinction Thunder Realm opened almost simultaneously, enveloping and swallowing both the Ice Ape and the Undead Race Great Monarch within it!