Chapter 915

"Start the countdown!"

After Supreme Mu Shen finished speaking, an Ascendant God flew over and took out an hourglass the size of a small hill. He suspended it in the void and started the countdown.

"Go in!"

The Ascendant Gods of the various sectors focused their eyes and immediately ordered the contestants around them.

They had also heard about the content of the trial. In addition to survival, they had to plunder enough Divine Cores to advance to the top 100. Otherwise, they would be eliminated.

"Senior, should we join forces?"

A young man in the crowd hurriedly asked You Long.

His combat strength was average among the crowd, comparable to the Dragon Emperor and the others. After witnessing the previous Gold Sector audition, the first thing that came to his mind was to form an alliance.

In that case, their survival and hunting Divine Cores would be greatly improved. He had tasted the benefits of forming an alliance.

The others' eyes glowed as they looked at Su Ping and Dias.

If they were to form an alliance, the two of them would be very useful.

Dias sneered at the young man's words. He despised alliances the most. He had always remembered a saying since he was a kid: beasts walk alone, while ants gather in groups. He didn't want to team up with ants.

You Long shook his head. "Forming an alliance is up to fate. You'll be separated once you enter the Ruins of Deities. The territory in the Ruins of Deities is vast. You may not run into each other after five days. Besides, your enemies won't be the other contestants, but the weirdness of the place itself …"

Weirdness?

Everyone felt a tingling sensation on their scalps. What could it be that a Heavenly Lord would address as weirdness?

"Let's go. Do your best to hunt for God Cores or survive," You Long said.

Everyone was a little nervous when they heard him say this, but since things had already come to this, they could only brace themselves and face the difficulties.

"Brothers, there are immortal corpses walking in the Ruins of Deities. The God Cores are inside them. Be careful and remember to attack the mark on the immortal corpses' foreheads. Only by destroying the mark can you destroy the immortal corpses," You Long said to Su Ping and Dias.

The two of them were stunned for a moment before they understood and nodded.

"Let's compete again this time!"

Dias turned to Su Ping with the desire to fight in his eyes.

He didn't fight Su Ping head-on when he climbed the Heaven Road Mountain. He didn't think he was weaker than Su Ping. After all, Su Ping had a top-tier divine body. He couldn't imagine how much weaker he could be.

Su Ping was still not convinced. "Ten?" Su Ping asked with a smile.

"In your dreams!"

Dias was a bit angry that Su Ping was rubbing salt in his wounds again. He had been careless when Su Ping pretended to be weak, giving Su Ping a chance to slap him in the face.

He wasn't going to do that now.

"Hmph. Let's see who can kill more." Dias snorted.

Su Ping smiled but didn't reply.

You Long looked at the "quarrelsome quarrelsome" pair with a smile. He didn't stop them. It was a good thing to have the heart to compete. They would also help each other and compete for the title of god.

Soon, the participants from all the Sectors began to enter the vortex one after another.

They looked like a swarm of locusts.

Su Ping and Dias also entered the vortex at the same time.

Su Ping's line of sight shifted, and a thick aura of divine energy hit him in the face. It was only after a while that Su Ping slowly saw the scene in front of him. It was a wasteland.

The ground was scorched black and cracked. There were also huge pits that looked like the paw prints of some giant beast.

Su Ping looked around and saw a dilapidated village in the distance. He immediately flew over.

"The air here is filled with divine energy. It really is a Divinity Realm."

"It's a pity that the divine energy is a bit thin, and there's also some decaying aura of death mixed in. This place must have suffered from the flames of war. What did they fight against?"

Su Ping flew into the air and observed along the way. He didn't see any living beings nearby.

Soon, he saw the dilapidated village. All that was left of the buildings were dirt, and a few dilapidated houses were on the verge of collapse.

"My senses have been compressed. The gravity here is different from the outside world. It feels familiar." Su Ping checked his body's condition. He gazed into the distance and saw the vague outline of a city in front of the village.

Luckily, his physical vision wasn't affected. He could see far away.

When he transferred the Golden Crow's divine energy to his eyes, his vision was enhanced by several times. He was like an eagle's eye that was a thousand times stronger. He could see the fine dust particles from five kilometers away and the blurry outline from dozens of kilometers away.

"Huh?"

All of a sudden, Su Ping sensed danger. His heart skipped a beat and he looked in a certain direction.

There was a figure standing beside a dry well in the dilapidated village.

The person was wearing ragged clothes and had his back to Su Ping. The person seemed to be in a daze.

However, Su Ping noticed that the person's skin was dark purple, as if he had been poisoned. His skin was wrinkled, not like a normal person's.

All of a sudden, the person seemed to have noticed something. He turned around.

Su Ping's pupils contracted the moment they made eye contact.

The figure's face had actually festered, and his chest had also split open. There was a terrifying laceration that tore apart his ribs and chest. The organs inside had all shriveled up.

A normal person would have died from such a serious injury.

All of a sudden, Su Ping remembered the Walking Immortal's Corpse that Brother Youlong had warned him about.

Whoosh!

While Su Ping was still in a state of shock, the person flashed away. When he reappeared, he was already in front of Su Ping, roaring and pouncing at him.

Su Ping's expression changed. He couldn't sense the person's aura at all. He hurriedly punched.

Bang!

Su Ping's golden fist landed squarely on the immortal's corpse's cracked chest, as if he had punched a stone. The immortal's corpse didn't even try to dodge.

Su Ping's fist penetrated the immortal's corpse and turned the air behind him into liquid.

However, the immortal's corpse didn't seem to be affected by such a violent punch. He pounced on Su Ping and grabbed his arm. The immortal's corpse's fingernails were purple and as sharp as blades.

Su Ping didn't dare to let the immortal's corpse scratch him. He quickly summoned the Golden Crow Flames on his arm. The temperature was so high that the immortal's corpse began to burn. The Golden Crow's flames were known as the Eternal Flame, which could burn forever.

To Su Ping's surprise, the immortal's corpse was still able to attack, as if it didn't feel any pain.

Su Ping remembered what Brother You Long had said. He looked at the immortal's forehead at once. Indeed, there was something flashing as the Divine Flames were burning.

It was a seal!

Su Ping gathered the laws on his fingertip and stabbed at the immortal's corpse.

The immortal's corpse was fast, but it didn't have any finesse. Su Ping's fingertip pierced through the seal as he dodged.

With a ka sound, it was as if something had shattered. That divine imprint flickered and suddenly erupted with powerful light before shattering.

The immortal's corpse immediately stopped moving. Then, it slowly fell to the ground.

The immortal's corpse fell to the ground of the village. The Divine Flames spread out and turned the rocks on the ground into magma.

Su Ping waved his hand and absorbed the Divine Flames. Then, he looked at the scorched body in surprise.

This body was clearly dead, but the corpse could still move. Was this the strange thing that Senior Brother You Long had mentioned?

All of a sudden, Su Ping noticed that there was a wisp of Divine Energy seeping out from the corpse's chest. He opened the corpse and cut open the chest with his fingertip, revealing a dazzling golden object. It was the God Core, the heart of the body.

"So, I have to fight against such a creature if I want to make it to the Top 100, right?"

Su Ping became solemn.

It had been easy for him to finish off the immortal's corpse, but the immortal's corpse was too strange. It would appear without a sound and no one could detect it. Also, it would be difficult for him to escape once he was entangled with the immortal's corpse.

Su Ping picked up the God Core and studied it for a moment. He tried to cut it open, but the God Core was so hard that cutting it open would only damage it.

Su Ping put away the God Core and examined the corpse. All of a sudden, he had an idea. He extracted some of the blood, teeth, and nails from the corpse. He planned to find a living creature to test if there were any toxins in those things.

With that done, Su Ping left the village and flew forward.

Along the way, he kept an eye on the surroundings. Those immortal's corpses were hard to detect and he had to rely on his naked eyes. It would be a pleasant surprise if the immortal's corpse noticed him and teleported over.

Soon, Su Ping saw a beast moving slowly outside the village.

The beast was more than thirty meters tall, as high as a nine-story building. It was covered in wounds. Many bite marks could be seen and some of the broken skin had already dried up.

Suddenly, the giant beast stopped. In the next moment, its body flashed, and it tore through space and disappeared.

Su Ping was startled. He quickly looked around.

But after waiting for a few seconds, no giant beasts appeared beside him. Suddenly, there was a loud explosion in the distance.

Su Ping looked in the direction of the sound and saw a cloud of dust rising. He was alarmed. It seemed that the beast had sensed the presence of a contestant.

Just like the immortal's corpse, the beast was also a Creepy Corpse.

Su Ping looked at the battle. He thought for a moment and decided not to go over.

Since the trial was about survival and hunting, he didn't have to deal with the other geniuses. He didn't want to do anything to them, either.

If he kicked the other geniuses out, he could still make it to the Top 100. That being said, it was a cruel method. Su Ping wanted to give the geniuses who had been cultivating so hard some experience.

Su Ping turned around and went to the other side.

Not long after, he arrived above a city.

This city was in ruins. The sturdy walls outside were already broken, as if some giant creature had broken in, creating an enormous gap.

Su Ping looked around. He saw many people standing on the streets, motionless like wooden stakes. It was quite a creepy sight.

His heart skipped a beat, and he immediately slowed down, lowering his speed as he quietly approached.

The city was dangerous but it was also a good place to hunt for Divine Cores.

Su Ping flew close to the ground. When he reached the city wall, he saw seven or eight people standing there. They were wearing broken armor and most of them were seriously injured. Some of their faces were torn off, some of their necks were broken, and some of their necks were exposed. Some of their arms were missing and there was a hole in their chests.

In the outside world, these people would be dead beyond belief.

Su Ping observed from afar for a few minutes. All of a sudden, he picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the other side of the city wall.

Bang.

The stone smashed into the wall.

The people standing there seemed to have sensed something. They trembled a bit but soon, the sound disappeared and the city returned to normal.

It seems that I can't use sound to attract and gather them together. That makes sense. If I rely on sound alone, it will rain. If it rains, those Creepy Corpses will be very busy …

Su Ping chuckled at the thought of that.

If I just go over like this, the moment the battle starts, all the Immortal's Corpses in the city will lunge at me. Also, they will flash over. That's scary.

Su Ping's eyes flickered. It wasn't difficult to deal with the Immortal's Corpses, but he wouldn't be able to deal with a swarm of them.

All of a sudden, he remembered the Little Skeleton.

Whoosh!

The Little Skeleton was summoned.

The Little Skeleton raised its head and looked at Su Ping in confusion.

Su Ping told the Little Skeleton to go and attract the Creepy Corpses.

They were all corpses, and the Little Skeleton was a real "mummy." He wondered if the Creepy Corpses would notice it.

The Little Skeleton gradually understood Su Ping's message. It turned its head and almost fell off its neck. It looked at the Creepy Corpses on the city wall.

The next moment, its figure flickered and appeared several thousand meters away. Then, it flickered continuously.

Soon, the Little Skeleton slowly released a wisp of his aura from a place several thousand meters away from the city wall.

The Creepy Corpses on the city wall suddenly moved. They turned around and looked at the Little Skeleton. The next second, the Creepy Corpses disappeared at the same time and reappeared next to the Little Skeleton, pouncing at it.

The Little Skeleton was obviously scared as well. Its bones were shaking. The next second, it flashed away and ran toward Su Ping.

The Creepy Corpses followed the Little Skeleton. Every time the Little Skeleton flashed out, the Creepy Corpses would follow.

When the distance between them was close enough, Su Ping, who was hiding in the sky, suddenly made a move. He exerted all his strength at once. He had to finish the battle as soon as possible, lest more Mysterious Corpses would be attracted by the battle.

Bang!

Su Ping condensed a sword aura and stabbed at the forehead of one of the Creepy Corpses.

However, the Creepy Corpse seemed to have sensed it. It raised its head and looked at Su Ping with its white eyes. The Creepy Corpse raised its hand and smashed the sword aura. Then, a powerful aura burst out from the Creepy Corpse and it swept its claws at Su Ping.

The void was shattered. The Creepy Corpse's arm shattered the tertiary space and instantly reached Su Ping.

Su Ping was slightly shocked. That Creepy Corpse was extremely horrifying; it was probably a Star Lord!

To Su Ping's relief, the Creepy Corpse didn't use the power of faith, or he wouldn't have been able to resist its dimensional attacks. He would have had to rely on the purple bracelet his master had given him.

This thing doesn't have a mind, and its attacks are brutal. It doesn't have any secret techniques, but it has the power of a Star Lord. It's ten times stronger than a Star Lord!

Su Ping's eyes were suddenly filled with fighting spirit. He wondered if he could suppress such a Star Lord with his current strength.

Whoosh!

The Inferno Dragon suddenly appeared and merged with Su Ping. Then, Su Ping asked the Little Skeleton to distract the other Creepy Corpses while he charged at the Star Lord.

(End of this chapter)