bioinnovel Chapter 500 The Corpse of the Spirit Emperor
Chapter 500 The Corpse of the Spirit Emperor
As the current emperor, Lin Hanzhou was all too familiar with the aura of an emperor.
Even when a true emperor has suppressed all his power, his every move will naturally exude a "Daoist charm" that is in harmony with the myriad principles of heaven and earth.
It's a sense of fulfillment that comes after a leap in one's level of life.
However, the middle-aged man in front of us, dressed in a dark black imperial robe, had no "Daoist aura" at all!
Not only did he lack any Daoist aura, but his eyes also lacked any of the vitality a living person should possess. They were empty, lifeless eyes.
Although the blood and qi in his body were as turbulent as the sea, they lacked the agility to be governed by his soul.
Although his attack was fierce, he did not use any extreme laws or supernatural techniques. He relied entirely on the physical instincts of the Great Emperor's body to savagely charge forward!
This feeling is like having a supercar's shell and engine, but no driver inside, and being haphazardly controlled by an extremely poor-quality autopilot program!
"This strange state, resembling neither emperor nor not emperor, possessing a body but no soul..."
Lin Hanzhou looked at the black-robed emperor who was still slowly struggling in the quagmire of time, and frantically searched through the vast number of ancient books he had collected from the forbidden areas and ancient traditions of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths over the past five thousand years.
Soon, an extremely ancient word suddenly jumped out from the depths of his memory.
"The Emperor's Corpse is sentient?!"
Lin Hanzhou's pupils contracted sharply.
Among the ancient secrets of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, there exists an extremely rare and terrifying phenomenon that can even be said to defy the natural order of things.
When a great emperor falls, if his body is not completely destroyed and happens to be buried in some place that contains extraordinary blessings.
So, after a long period of time, even hundreds of thousands of years, it has settled.
The body of this emperor, which was originally dead, will, by chance, combine with certain strange energies in the world to give birth to a brand new intelligence!
This is the legendary Emperor Corpse Spirit Communication!
However, this kind of spiritual communication is definitely not the resurrection of the original emperor!
This newly born intelligence is like a newborn baby that has just taken over this invincible body.
It will not inherit any of the original emperor's memories from his previous life, nor will it inherit those amazing supernatural powers and insights into the laws.
It only has the physical stats of an emperor, but possesses only a beastly killing instinct!
For the original emperor, this was undoubtedly an extremely tragic form of posthumous blasphemy.
No wonder.
Lin Hanzhou took a deep breath of the dim yellow mist, and at this moment all the clues finally connected perfectly.
"No wonder I haven't seen any more emperor corpses from the 224th step to the 400th step. It turns out they weren't 'eaten' by anything, but rather, over the long years, nourished by this rich immortal energy... they all gained sentience!"
Lin Hanzhou glanced at the endless void ahead, where the remnants of the staircase floated.
"Those emperors who once ventured to the Immortal Path, upon reaching this four-hundredth step and seeing the Immortal Path severed, either died in despair here, or they forcibly jumped, attempting to cross the void, ultimately exhausting their life force and dying on those stair remnants."
"Countless years have passed, and their eternally immortal imperial bodies have absorbed enough immortal energy to give birth to new intelligence, transforming into the 'Spiritual Imperial Corpses' that now only know how to kill based on instinct! They have become the most dangerous wanderers on this broken immortal path!"
Having figured all this out, Lin Hanzhou's gaze towards the man in black robes before him held less hostility and more a sense of sorrow and awe that belonged to a fellow traveler.
In life, he recklessly pursued immortality, but after death, he became a mindless walking corpse, wandering alone before this precipice.
How cruel is this path to immortality!
"roar--!!!"
Just as Lin Hanzhou was briefly lost in thought, the black-robed, spirit-possessed emperor corpse trapped in the [Local Time Swamp] seemed to finally sense the invisible force binding it.
Suddenly, an extremely violent crimson light burst forth from its empty, dead fish eyes!
Although it had no memories or supernatural powers from its previous life, its real emperor body, driven by its beast-like instincts, unleashed a devastating physical force!
"Click...click..."
Faced with absolute power, even the time law that Lin Hanzhou casually set up produced a crisp sound like shattering glass!
The spirit emperor's corpse actually managed to break free from the constraints of the time swamp by expanding its pure physical body. Its huge, dark black fist once again smashed fiercely toward Lin Hanzhou's face with terrifying power that could tear through the void!
"What monstrous physical strength! No wonder he was a great emperor who made it this far!"
A glint flashed in Lin Hanzhou's eyes.
He still did not get up despite the violent punch.
If it were before, he might have needed to use the laws to withstand it, but now, having just tempered his body under the extreme high pressure of the 400th step, he wanted to find a sandbag to test the upper limit of his current physique!
"Well done!"
Instead of retreating, Lin Hanzhou advanced, sitting cross-legged in place, his right fist clenched tightly as well.
The Emperor's blood and qi within his body, like a raging sea, suddenly erupted. A faint layer of immortal runes shimmered on the surface of his fist as he met the fist of the Spirit Emperor Corpse head-on with it!
"Thump—!!!"
Two fists, one large and one small, collided in a pure physical collision at the edge of the four hundredth step!
The terrifying shockwave from the collision was like a miniature cosmic explosion, instantly clearing away the dim yellow mist within a hundred-foot radius!
That is, the indestructible golden staircase remained unmoved under this pressure.
"Thump thump thump..."
The black-robed spirit emperor's corpse, carrying the momentum of its charge, was actually shaken back several steps by Lin Hanzhou's terrifying power under this punch!
Each step created a visible white sonic boom cloud in the void!
Lin Hanzhou remained seated cross-legged, his body not even swaying.
Sit down!