"No matter what, we cannot be careless."
Hearing Chen Hui mention the evil cultivator's cave dwelling, Qin Xuan tightened his grip on the Myriad Transformations Divine Artifact.
This place was where they were teleported from the Kunlun Immortal Mountain, and it was bound to be more perilous than a mere evil cultivator's cave dwelling.
He could not even deal with a single evil cultivator at the Dao Integration stage. If he wasn't careful here, he might truly die without a burial place.
Fortunately, as they walked, they did not find as many corpses and deathly aura as in the evil cultivator's cave dwelling.
There was only a faint glimmer of light and a seemingly endless road.
"Could it be an illusion array?"
Stopping, Qin Xuan and Chen Hui both tried to find the core of the supposed illusion array. Then, a familiar call echoed from further down the road.
"No, this way!"
Informing Chen Hui, Qin Xuan headed directly towards the direction of the sensed call.
Seeing this, Chen Hui quickly followed.
After traversing a path of tens of miles, the two finally arrived at an open space.
"Is that... a person?!"
The moment they entered the open space, Qin Xuan and Chen Hui were immediately drawn to several figures several thousand meters away.
They arrived in an instant, only to discover that despite no obvious abnormalities, these individuals had no life force, having clearly died.
It was only because their cultivation was too high in life that their physical bodies remained incorrupt, making them appear as normal people from a distance.
"There are actually corpses!"
Seeing these well-preserved corpses, Qin Xuan and Chen Hui exchanged glances.
Chen Hui understood Qin Xuan's meaning and slowly said, "From the Golden Core stage onwards, cultivators' physical bodies begin to transcend the mortal realm, progressing towards an immortal physique.
After subsequent cultivation, until the Void Return stage, when the Nascent Soul and the physical body fully merge to achieve Dao Integration, the physical body truly transforms into an immortal body and remains incorrupt after death."
"So, these people were at least at the Dao Integration stage?"
"That's right."
With corpses at the Dao Integration level lying here, Qin Xuan's expression became somber.
His inner voice still could not be used in this place, and he could not ascertain what had happened before based on other things on the corpses.
Therefore, after a brief inspection, he dug a large pit and laid the cultivators to rest.
However, soon after, he and Chen Hui discovered more corpses.
And this time, the number of corpses was greater than before.
"Their expressions are astonished, their pupils dilated. Did these people encounter something terrifying before they died?"
Compared to the previous corpses, these had more expressive countenances.
And according to Chen Hui's explanation that Dao Integration stage bodies were incorruptible, it meant that these cultivators' current appearances were their true states at the moment of their deaths.
But what could cause cultivators at or above the Dao Integration stage to feel fear?
After all, they were great cultivators whose spirits and bodies were united. With a little more cultivation and surviving the heavenly tribulation, they would truly become immortals.
What kind of existence could frighten such individuals?
Disaster? A monster? Or perhaps, a stronger cultivator?
Filled with questions, Qin Xuan buried these cultivators one by one.
There is an ancient saying in the Dragon Country: "Rest in peace when buried." Although they had never met, Qin Xuan was willing to do what he could.
Following the sensed direction further inward, Qin Xuan and Chen Hui encountered more and more corpses.
The appearances and expressions of these corpses varied, making it impossible to determine what they had experienced.
However, based on the specific condition of the corpses, Qin Xuan could confirm that the higher they went, the higher the cultivation level of the deceased in life.
This was because the initial corpses, although their bodies were incorrupt, appeared completely devoid of life.
The further in they went, the more lifelike the corpses became.
Until finally, the corpses even began to emit a faint glow!
Neither of them had ever seen such a phenomenon.
But based on the characteristic of having unusual radiance, it was very similar to the immortals who had attained enlightenment and become immortals in the ancient legends of the Dragon Country.
"What exactly happened here?"
"Even immortals who could survive the lightning tribulation met their end here!"
"And judging by the expressions of these immortals, they must have experienced something particularly infuriating before their deaths."
"It's just that they couldn't intervene in such matters, which is why they gritted their teeth and died with resentment."
Hearing Chen Hui's question, Qin Xuan gently shook his head.
After a moment of contemplation, he fixed his gaze on the distant front.
"With only the current clues, it's impossible to deduce what these people went through."
"But I have a premonition that all these people died because of the same event."
"There's no time to waste, let's keep moving forward."
"If I'm not mistaken, the answer to this question lies at the very depths of this place."
Having wasted too much time, Qin Xuan could no longer afford to meticulously handle the situation.
Casually blasting out a huge pit, Qin Xuan buried all the immortal corpses found here together.
Circulating his spiritual energy, Qin Xuan, with Chen Hui back in the bone ring, moved forward.
Finally, after walking tens of thousands of miles, they arrived at a massive "graveyard."
There, corpses covered in a radiant glow lay scattered everywhere, strewn about.
Among them were not only human cultivators but also demon cultivators, devil cultivators, and others.
Even more terrifyingly, on top of this graveyard, several colossal corpses stood in a circle.
Those corpses were towering, their heights so immense that one could not see their tops.
Qin Xuan and Chen Hui, just by standing before these corpses, could feel an intense pressure!
If these cultivators had not been dead for an unknown amount of time, their imposing aura having long since dissipated, the two of them would likely have been unable to move and would have been crushed into meat paste by the terrifying pressure!
"Terrifying, too terrifying!"
"Could it be that these colossal corpses are the giant deities or saints from the legends of the Dragon Country?"
Forcefully channeling his energy to withstand the immense pressure, Qin Xuan slowly moved forward, wanting to investigate the colossal corpses up close.
However, Chen Hui, due to the pressure emanating from the depths of his soul, was suppressed to the point of immobility and could only communicate with Qin Xuan with difficulty.
"Perhaps, they are giants."
"It is rumored that saints transcend all things, and a casual strike can destroy a galaxy."
"Although these giant corpses are imposing, they are not enough to obliterate fragile cultivators like us."
"It seems that a certain giant race is more plausible."
"Indeed."
Qin Xuan agreed with Chen Hui's reasoning.
But the closer he got to these corpses, the faster his heart beat.
Because from these corpses, he felt a faint aura from the river of time.
It was something that transcended the world and existed independently of time.
He could not describe the strange feeling, but he knew with certainty that the corpses before him were undoubtedly the so-called bodies of saints.
Even if they were not, their cultivation level would not be much lower than those saints!
And just as he was about to look upwards along the corpses for other clues, a familiar voice suddenly drifted down from above his head.
"Xuan'er, come to me quickly!"