Chapter 835: Demonic Taint
They were monsters called "Reapers."
Each hollow, colossal head swayed erratically, seemingly sensing the living beings nearby.
Beneath their twisted heads, there were no necks or limbs as a normal creature should possess; only scythe-like tentacles swirled everywhere.
"Each one possesses an aura nearing the Transcendent God stage..."
After Wei Wuya and the others swept them with their divine sense, they arrived at a shocking conclusion.
"This..."
There were barely over twenty Transcendent Gods present, yet this initial wave of Reapers alone numbered more than ten, and who knew how many more monsters would descend afterward.
Not to mention, in the midst of it all, there was also the Bai Daoist, watching covetously.
For a moment, a thousand thoughts tangled in their minds.
The silver orb continuously emitted waves of warmth, making one instinctively want to embrace it.
"Good Corpse, Evil Corpse, and this one is..." For some reason, descriptions of "Slaying the Three Corpses" from a collection of supernatural tales he had read years ago kept surfacing and cycling in Wei Wuya's mind.
"The dark gate is the Evil Corpse, carrying his malicious thoughts.
The silver orb of light is the Good Corpse, carrying his benevolent thoughts.
What exactly does the White-eyed Avatar carry...?"
Transcendent God cultivators had excellent control over their memories; by all rights, they should hardly forget anything about themselves. Yet, specifically concerning this collection on Slaying the Three Corpses, his memory remained persistently vague.
"That is the Non-Corpse," Yu Ye Zhenjun by his side softly answered Wei Wuya's internal question.
"The Non-Corpse?"
"For this Bai Daoist's method of Slaying the Three Corpses, the core essence of all three corpses is the same obsession."
"What obsession?" The crowd communicated via divine sense, retreating as they fought, enduring the torrential downpour of Spirit Stones as they flew towards the Nine Heavens Astral Qi layer, attempting a strategic withdrawal before planning their next move.
All curious gazes converged on Yu Ye Zhenjun, awaiting his reply.
"To end this involuted world," he continued.
"..."
"The Evil Corpse chose the method of slaughter, exterminating all living beings.
Since all problems stem from the existence of life, then by annihilating them all, the problems will naturally disappear.
"..."
"No wonder it was filled with the True Intent of Slaughter and Destruction.
Is this the enemy of all living beings?"
"It's pure destruction... truly a madman, not solving the problems, but only solving the people who create the problems."
"The Non-Corpse chose the Dao method: infinite extension.
If the growth of living space and resources cannot keep pace with the swelling numbers of cultivators and desires, then create a world that can expand infinitely, a world vast enough to contain all the desires in the world.
"..."
"This... is it possible?"
"Human desires are never satisfied; even if he were a True Immortal, he could never succeed."
"Then what about the Good Corpse?"
"The Good Corpse chose the method of control: regulating everything.
"The primary contradiction has always been distribution..."
"Wait, I have a question."
"I do too..."
"That is... why... why do you know so much?! What is your relationship with this Bai Daoist?!"
Yu Ye Zhenjun was the Grand Elder of the Purple Profound Sect, another Transcendent God sect in Southern Cliff Province, and his background and trajectory were not mysterious. By all logic, he couldn't possibly know so much classified information belonging to an outsider from beyond the heavens.
"Because I... am him."
At that moment, Yu Ye Zhenjun's eyes suddenly shimmered with silver light, and a wave of silver energy surged outwards from him, rushing in all directions.
"Danger!"
"Disperse!"
No one even needed to speak; these battle-hardened great cultivators reacted instantly.
"Now I am him too."
"And me."
...
"Run... quickly... everything... is... fake..." Ji Xuan De, the Grand Elder of the Sunfire Palace, who had fallen further behind, had most of his body already tainted by the silver light. Yet, in his last few seconds of clear consciousness, he left Wei Wuya with a long, enigmatic message.
"Everything is fake?" Only after escaping with his life did Wei Wuya have time to ponder the last words Ji Xuan De had left.
At this moment, of the more than twenty Transcendent Gods and over a hundred Nascent Souls, only eight Transcendent Gods and twelve Nascent Souls remained. The rest had all been swallowed by the silver light.
"Sovereign of the Demon-Slaying Sect, what are your plans?" Among those who had miraculously survived, the one with the highest cultivation was the Sovereign of the Demon-Slaying Sect, a late Transcendent God stage cultivator.
"Gather the strength of the Five Continents and fight the demonic taint to the death!" He did not seem frightened by what had just happened; instead, he was still full of confidence, as if he had some hidden cards.
The crowd flew high into the Nine Heavens and looked into the distance with their divine sense, still faintly discerning the center of the recent Spirit Stone rain, where black and silver were distinctly separated, continuously expanding outwards, while white was nowhere to be seen.
"From the current situation, our primary enemies are the Black Demonic Taint and the Silver Demonic Taint. The Black Demonic Taint aims to destroy everything, and the Silver Demonic Taint aims to control everything..."
They still clearly remembered the intelligence Yu Ye Zhenjun had just provided, though they had no idea what his situation was now.
"There are a total of eighteen demonic monsters; that black gate seems unable to transmit any new Transcendent God-level monsters," reported a Nascent Soul cultivator with a special investigative method.
"Eighteen Transcendent God-level monsters. If we can gather the strength of the Yuan Yang Realm and rouse those old monsters in secluded cultivation, we should be able to gather fifty Transcendent Gods..."
"But what about the Silver Demonic Taint?" In the eyes of many high-ranking cultivators, the Black Demonic Taint, which proclaimed to destroy everything, posed less of a threat. The Silver Demonic Taint, on the other hand, had taken away over ten fellow cultivators in just one outburst.
The Yuan Yang Realm had not seen double-digit casualties among Transcendent God cultivators in a single instance for who knew how many years. For them, who stood high above, this Silver Demonic Taint was the true, deep-seated concern.
"There's no need to worry about the Silver Demonic Taint; it won't erupt again in a way that can endanger Nascent Soul and Transcendent God cultivators," Wei Wuya suddenly declared at this moment.
"Elder Wei, why do you say that?"
"This information was left by our sect's Grand Elder, Ji Xuan De, before he was completely tainted by the demonic corruption."
"So, our enemies are those more than ten former comrades?"
"Precisely."
"That Bai Daoist's Non-Corpse seems to hold no hostility towards us. Moreover, judging from Yu Ye Zhenjun's explanation just now, although the Non-Corpse's philosophy is impractical, it is at least harmless to us and to this world. Should we consider cooperation...?"
"But how can we contact it?"
"We can't."
"..."
"I have a method," the Sovereign of the Demon-Slaying Sect replied, an unexpected answer.
"Sovereign of Demon-Slaying, you actually have a way to contact it?"
When they were just tainted by the silver light, a few Transcendent God True Lords whose demonic corruption was less severe not only managed to break free through sheer force of will but also obtained some valuable intelligence about this Bai Daoist from the silver demonic taint itself.
The Sovereign of the Demon-Slaying Sect was one of those who had escaped the demonic corruption.
"The information within the silver light recorded that no matter where we are, as long as we seal our six senses and then attempt to comprehend the Heavenly Dao, we will have a chance to enter the world created by the Non-Corpse.
Its name is:
The Land of White."
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