Watching the burning corpse before him, a being who had possessed late Heavenly rank strength in life, though now devoid of all life and energy, the flames on its body persisted.
Li Xiaotian withdrew his divine sense from the corpse, his gaze unusual. The body was dead beyond death.
Yet, within its bloodline, there was a power of the Great Dao, it was this power that sustained the perpetual flame.
“Invincible means!” Li Xiaotian whispered.
He understood why those beings in the God Realm called themselves the God Clan. Because to ordinary people, invincible powerhouses were gods.
Furthermore, descendants of invincible powerhouses, due to the invincible bloodline flowing within them, were outrageously strong at the same realm.
Much like the invincible families in the Nine Provinces World.
This burning corpse was clearly a descendant of an invincible being.
Moreover, Li Xiaotian could infer from this that the strength of this invincible powerhouse was terrifying, far surpassing his own.
For a moment, Li Xiaotian was utterly shocked. How powerful was the God Realm?
The God Realm had myriad races, did that mean there were tens of thousands of invincible powerhouses?
But then he shook his head. Tens of thousands of invincible powerhouses, that was too exaggerated. If the God Realm truly possessed such strength, the Nine Provinces World would likely have never been able to defeat the God Realm's enemies back then.
A thought stirred in Li Xiaotian’s mind. He collected the corpse. There was a power of the Great Dao within the body, which he could research at his leisure later.
With this plan in mind, Li Xiaotian lingered in the sea of corpses for a while, selecting a few more bodies to store in the Dragon King Hall.
These were all descendants of the invincible.
It was worth mentioning that among them was also a giant corpse, thousands of feet tall.
It was from the ancient god clan, which brought Li Xiaotian some pleasant surprise, an unexpected gain.
When he had observed the sleeping ancient god in Barbarian Province, he had discovered its formidable physique, far surpassing his own.
And this ancient god corpse he had obtained now could be used to study the physique of the ancient god clan, to see if it could provide some inspiration for improving his own physique.
“Boom!”
Unknowingly, Li Xiaotian had arrived in the depths of the sea of corpses. Suddenly, a terrifying pressure rushed towards him.
Even with Li Xiaotian's current strength, he was forced back a step due to momentary carelessness.
The depths of the sea of corpses was a vacuum zone. There stood a majestic figure.
He had long hair cascading over his shoulders, wielding a long sword. Terrifying battle intent and pressure emanated from him, preventing the corpses in the sea of corpses from approaching.
He was human!
An invincible powerhouse!
And at this moment, he was dead, like the surrounding corpses, filled with a sense of death, and his body contained not a trace of energy.
But even though he was dead and his body lacked energy, he was an invincible powerhouse, and his body was the body of an invincible powerhouse.
It was a kind of inherent aura, a unique pressure of the strong.
Li Xiaotian’s face was filled with shock, and then a pang of sorrow flashed through his heart.
He was shocked by the other’s power, and saddened that he was human.
It was imaginable that this invincible powerhouse before him must have been a senior who had fought his way out of the Nine Provinces back then, but now, he was dead, having died protecting the Nine Provinces.
Li Xiaotian’s body trembled. All this time, he had only known about the grievances between the God Realm and the Nine Provinces from Tongtian Sword Master and others, and it hadn’t moved him much.
But now, seeing a fallen invincible powerhouse, he understood.
An invincible powerhouse, a being that could be considered immortal and indestructible, had died fighting to protect the Nine Provinces World.
This illustrated how immense the threat from the ancient God Realm was to the Nine Provinces. If the Nine Provinces did not resist with all their might, humanity would face eternal enslavement, eternal domestication, and possibly even extinction.
This was a hatred that should be etched into their very bones!
Li Xiaotian endured the pressure and moved to stand before the figure.
It was a middle-aged man, his eyes filled with battle intent, a resolute forward-moving determination, and a will to die without regret.
Even though he was dead, he still stood in the void, facing the unknown with surging killing intent.
“Senior.” Li Xiaotian whispered, his heart filled with immense grief.
He was not an unfeeling person. Although countless eons separated him from these ancient figures, he understood that without the sacrifices of these seniors, he would not be where he was today.
“Senior, I will take you home,” Li Xiaotian said, and turned to carry the middle-aged man’s corpse on his back.
Instantly, he felt as if he were carrying a mountain, his body filled with immense pressure.
Li Xiaotian gritted his teeth and moved forward, his heart filled with rage and killing intent.
The God Realm! The God Realm!
One day, I will slaughter my way into the God Realm and avenge the fallen seniors of the Nine Provinces!
Li Xiaotian understood that the strength of the God Realm must be terrifying beyond his imagination.
This was because the middle-aged man he carried showed no physical wounds, yet he was dead.
This could only mean that his opponent at the time was extremely powerful, so powerful that they could kill an invincible being without resorting to physical attacks.
After all, in the Nine Provinces World, the invincible were beings of immortality and indestructibility. Even Heavenly rank powerhouses found it difficult to kill, let alone the invincible.
The reason Li Xiaotian had killed Qiong back then was because he had devoured him, giving him no chance to recover.
If Li Xiaotian had not possessed the power of devouring, it would have taken him considerable effort to kill Qiong.
Invincible powerhouses were hard to destroy.
But now, Li Xiaotian had discovered a dead invincible powerhouse, a senior who had died protecting the Nine Provinces.
Li Xiaotian moved forward silently, a strong sense of crisis and urgency rising within him.
He knew that one day in the future, he would face the enemies of the God Realm.
The Nine Provinces was not safe, but rather constantly on the verge of destruction.
For the next period of time, Li Xiaotian found nothing else of note.
“Big Brother!!!”
When Li Xiaotian met Tongtian Sword Master, upon seeing the middle-aged man on Li Xiaotian’s back, Tongtian Sword Master’s expression changed drastically.
“Big Brother!”
Tongtian Sword Master’s eyes immediately turned red. He had naturally sensed that the middle-aged man was dead.
“Ahhh! Why? Why?!”
Tongtian Sword Master’s eyes shed tears of blood, and he roared madly, a terrifying killing aura spreading for thousands of miles.
“Senior, please accept my condolences,” Li Xiaotian comforted, unsure of what else to say.
He could empathize with Tongtian Sword Master’s pain.
“Why? Why did you die? You promised me you would return alive!”
Tongtian Sword Master cried, completely losing the dignity of a supreme powerhouse at this moment, appearing like a child.
In ancient times, he had been seriously injured because of his big brother and was unable to participate in the battle. He had desperately focused on recovering himself, with the hope of one day breaking through to the invincible realm and then accompanying his big brother in battle.
Now he was invincible, but the person he had been waiting for was dead.
Li Xiaotian handed the middle-aged man’s corpse to Tongtian Sword Master, then moved away from a distance.
Terrifying sword intent erupted in the void of the universe. Tongtian Sword Master roared to the sky, his killing intent boiling.
Seeing this scene, Li Xiaotian also felt a pang of sadness. One must understand that given Tongtian Sword Master’s status,
his complete loss of composure in front of him could only signify the immense blow the middle-aged man’s corpse had dealt to Tongtian Sword Master.