Chapter 917

Inside the Divine Ruins.

Outside the ruined city, a figure quietly approached, accompanied by a little skeleton. This little skeleton was sneakily looking around, scouting ahead.

"Those weird corpses all have different combat abilities. The armored ones seem to be city guards with Star Lords. The other corpses are mostly at the Star State. I don't see many Fate State corpses, probably because their level is too low to resist the control of the weird power and they've been corrupted."

Su Ping had gained experience after hunting more than thirty weird corpses in a row.

He soon found his way into the city and asked the Little Skeleton to lead the way.

The desolate city was in ruins, having gone through a great battle. Su Ping noticed that there were weird corpses standing in some of the buildings, which were the most dangerous and difficult to detect. They didn't have the aura of a living being; they were just inanimate objects, just like buildings, rocks, and flowers.

"Blood!"

Su Ping had plenty of hunting experience; he had already found an easy way to hunt them. Those weird corpses were dangerous, but they were less intelligent than wild beasts, so it wasn't hard to hunt them down.

He would find something that attracted them and lure them into a trap. That was the most primitive hunting method, simple but effective.

Su Ping smeared his blood on the Little Skeleton Soldier that the Little Skeleton had summoned. The Little Skeleton Soldier wobbled forward. The Little Skeleton Soldier's blood immediately attracted the weird corpses in the buildings. The Little Skeleton Soldier flashed over and smashed the Little Skeleton Soldier that was wobbling.

However, the next second, another Little Skeleton Soldier walked out from the distance. It was stained with the aura that Su Ping had deliberately released.

The weird corpse flashed over and killed the Little Skeleton Soldier.

The Little Skeleton Soldiers crawled out and pulled the weird corpses out. When there were no weird corpses around, Su Ping would show up and drag the weird corpses into the deep space to finish them off.

The number of God Cores Su Ping had accumulated was increasing as he hunted.

And this area was gradually being cleared out.

With the place Su Ping had entered as a semicircle, many weird corpses were lured out and killed.

"Huh?"

All of a sudden, Su Ping was alarmed. He saw a weird corpse standing on top of a dilapidated building not far away.

The weird corpse's armor was broken. It stood there quietly, as if it had been standing there for thousands of years.

Su Ping sensed danger from the weird corpse. His hair stood on end. He couldn't help but narrow his eyes. He stepped back quickly and quietly.

That weird corpse was definitely horrifying. It could be an Ascendant rank zombie.

Even without the Ascendant rank skill, the zombie's physical strength alone was enough to crush him.

Su Ping went around the zombie and went on to explore other places. He didn't try to test the zombie's strength because it wasn't necessary. That was the reality. Dying once would be the end of it. When he returned to the cultivation sites, he would have plenty of chances to fight against those Ascended Gods or even more horrifying ones.

Still, that kind of fight was pointless. Being killed in an instant wouldn't help him improve at all.

Soon, Su Ping had cleared out ninety percent of the city. What made him frown was that there wasn't the slightest sign of life in the city. It was a dead city. There weren't even any living beasts or rats!

"Maybe there are no living creatures in this world," Su Ping said to himself.

He left the city and went to other places.

After crossing the city, there was a desolate plain. Aside from the strange corpses, there were also some strange divine beasts and some Abyssal Insect corpses.

Su Ping had collected more than three thousand God Cores after hunting on the plain.

There was a river beyond the plain, but the river was not flowing. It was as dark as ink, like a piece of frozen ice. However, when Su Ping threw a stone into the river, the stone would splash and ripple. Soon, the ripples would settle down and everything would return to the dead silence.

Su Ping did the same thing and used the Little Skeleton to explore the way.

Soon, a horrifying creature crawled out of the river and charged toward the Little Skeleton. It was a beast from the river area.

Su Ping lured the beast out and ambushed it.

Su Ping had killed more than twenty God Cores in the river area before he was able to lure out anything else. He flew over the river and continued forward, looking for weird corpses.

Time flew by.

Su Ping soon found another city after the river. Those cities were adjacent to each other and they were also in ruins. Su Ping also cleaned them up carefully.

Su Ping would not let his guard down after seeing that horrifying zombie. After all, if he were to alarm an Ascendant State zombie, he would have to rely on the Soul God Armor his master had given him to save his life.

The second city was even more damaged. Su Ping didn't run into many weird corpses. He killed more than eighteen hundred of them and cleared out the city. The remaining areas were dangerous. He didn't dare to approach them and moved on to the next city.

…

"Nine thousand!"

By the time he reached the fifth city, Su Ping had almost accumulated ten thousand God Cores.

He thought he was hunting fast. After all, those weird corpses were hard to deal with. Apart from luring them out, he had to kill them quickly.

Su Ping was almost surrounded by the weird corpses. Those weird corpses would reach him in an instant, which scared him out of his wits. He had already found out that the weird corpses' sharp teeth and nails had traces of a dark aura. Once the dark aura came into contact with flesh and blood, it would quickly infect the victim.

Since Su Ping had been scratched during the fight, he cut off the scratches.

Luckily, given his current rank and his control over his body, it was easy for him to regrow a severed arm.

"This is …"

All of a sudden, Su Ping saw a mountain in the middle of the city.

The mountain had been destroyed. The top of the mountain was smashed, as if it had been broken by some violent force. There were several large pits at the foot of the mountain and some buildings had been reduced to ruins.

For some reason, Su Ping had a strange feeling the moment he saw the mountain.

It was as if his memories were overlapping. The mountain in front of him gave him a sense of déjà vu, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

"Huh?"

Soon, Su Ping noticed that there were many weird corpses standing still at the top of the mountain.

He told the Little Skeleton to summon the Little Skeleton Soldiers at once to lure them out.

Soon, the weird corpses standing in the pits were lured out and Su Ping killed them.

Those weird corpses were severely injured. Some of their faces were blurred as if they had been smashed by something. Some of them were badly mutilated, with their arms and chests broken. They must have gone through unimaginably fierce battles when they were alive.

Su Ping became more and more solemn as he hunted.

Those weird corpses had all been gods when they were alive.

What had happened in the Ruins of Divinity to make those gods fight so fiercely?

He thought of Fairy Bi's master, the Immortal King Mu. What was behind the sky that he had blocked?

The weird corpses on the mountain were all very strong, and there were eight Star Lords among them. Su Ping was quite alarmed. That mountain had obviously been a sacred ground, which was why so many powerful gods had gathered there.

Su Ping slowly approached the edge of the mountain after killing a dozen of them. The Little Skeleton Soldiers kept moving forward.

Suddenly, a weird corpse dashed out.

The strange corpse arrived in a flash and crushed him to death. Then, it stood on the spot without moving.

Su Ping found that the weird corpse was well preserved. The other weird corpses' skin was dark, wrinkled, and covered in dust. The dust seemed to have melted with their bodies and formed a layer of rock armor. However, this weird corpse was quite clean and slim. Its hair was still fluttering in the breeze.

Su Ping's hair stood on end. That weird corpse was even more horrifying than the one he had met earlier.

"Retreat!"

Su Ping made a prompt decision and quickly retreated.

All of a sudden, he saw the Creepy Corpse move. But it didn't teleport to him. Instead, the Creepy Corpse turned around and faced Su Ping's direction.

Su Ping saw the weird corpse's face. There was some dust on its face, but it was much cleaner than the other weird corpses. There were two fatal holes on its throat, chest, and heart.

On his forehead, there was a Divine Mark that was extremely hot and shining with intense light.

Su Ping saw its face. It was a beautiful face. Even though it was covered in dust, it was still hard to conceal its flawless beauty.

But the expression on its face was numb and lifeless.

"Huh?"

All of a sudden, Su Ping's heart skipped a beat. For some reason, he had a familiar feeling.

He had never seen this face before. He didn't know it.

However, that pair of dark, lifeless eyes that seemed to be staring at something gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity. It was as if he had seen her somewhere before!

"Who is it?"

Su Ping wondered. Had he seen her in some cultivation site?

But he remembered that he had been to only a few cultivation sites and this girl didn't seem to be one of them.

Even if it wasn't a cultivation site, Su Ping wouldn't have seen many beautiful girls in other cultivation sites. After all, his main target was the beasts.

As he retreated, the face and the slender figure became more and more distant and blurry. Su Ping had a feeling that the woman was staring at him as well.

But the weird corpse was dead.

If it had been staring at him, it would have charged at him.

Who is she?

Su Ping was at a loss. He didn't stop until the figure was no longer visible. He stood on top of a dilapidated building and frowned. All of a sudden, he remembered the system and asked the system.

The system didn't answer him for a long time.

Su Ping felt helpless. He gave up on the idea of going back to investigate.

It wasn't worth it to take the risk to go back just because of a feeling of familiarity.

"Strange. Given my current rank and acuity, my senses can't be wrong. If I feel danger, then there must be danger. If I feel a sense of familiarity, then I must have seen her somewhere before."

Su Ping frowned. He couldn't figure it out.

A long while later, he decided to put the matter aside and finish the trial first.

Su Ping left the city and went on killing his way.

…

"Your little disciple is quite dangerous. He almost ran into that Creepy Corpse that was close to the Venerable Rank."

In the Hall of Supremacy, the old man chuckled and said to the Supreme Divine King.

The Supreme Divine King was relieved to see that Su Ping was far away. He would be ashamed if Su Ping were to be eliminated early. Besides, the Soul God Armor he gave Su Ping might not be able to last long against that Creepy Corpse. He would have to ask Supreme Mu Shen to save his disciple.

The Supreme Divine King frowned and said, "That Creepy Corpse seems to have a mind of its own."

In the image, the Creepy Corpse was still gazing in the direction Su Ping had left, not moving an inch.

Supreme Mu Shen also frowned in surprise. He had refined the Ruins of Divinity and suppressed the Venerable Rank Creepy Corpse inside. He had fought against it and found that it had indeed developed intelligence, but it was primitive and bloodthirsty. However, that Creepy Corpse had clearly sensed Su Ping's presence and yet it had let him go?

"Strange. What's the secret of this little guy?" Supreme Mu Shen was curious about Su Ping.

There was no record of a rare Divine Body in the Federation, and there was such a strange thing. This little guy definitely had a huge secret.

"Mu Shen, did you control the Creepy Corpse and deliberately let him go?"

A supreme asked Supreme Mu Shen with a smile, but there was a hint of dissatisfaction in his voice.

Supreme Mu Shen raised his eyebrows and said casually, "Not really."

Just three words were enough to explain his attitude and answer.

The questioning supreme raised his eyebrows, but he didn't say anything else. After all, since Supreme Mu Shen had already said so, it meant that he wasn't the one who did it.

"This little guy is very experienced in hunting. He's bold and careful. He's indeed a promising talent. He's currently the first one in hunting Divine Cores. Some of the others have already suffered. He's reckless enough."

"Haha, are you talking about the little guy that reincarnated from the bird? He thinks his Phoenix Flames of Devastation can destroy everything, but he doesn't know that it's an incurable Ancient Corpse Poison!"

"I think he's good. He's a bit reckless, but he has a fiery temper. He might be able to carve out a path of his own," a supreme said calmly.

The other supreme beings smiled and didn't say anything. They couldn't be wrong. It was indeed possible, but everyone had different levels of appreciation, so there was no need to argue.

"How are you going to compete with these little guys after they finish the trial?"

"I heard that you plan to send them to the Void Battlefield to train? That place isn't a joke. If something happens, we might not be able to save them. "

Now that the trial was more than half over, they had a rough idea of the level and performance of these little guys.

Supreme Mu Shen said calmly, "How can they be tempered without experiencing wind and rain? It's time to let them see the true face of the universe in advance. They should be in awe of heaven and earth and the universe!"

"But I think these little guys are decisive in killing. They aren't babies in swaddling clothes," a supreme retorted.

Supreme Mu Shen said, "They only kill demonic beasts, which are the enemies of the human race. The things in the Void Battlefield aren't demonic beasts."

"Is there any difference? It's just that their appearance and aura are different. As long as they have seen blood, their hearts will be the same!"

"I agree with Supreme Mu Shen's arrangement. The Void Battlefield hasn't been very peaceful recently. These little guys originally planned to go there to train and sharpen themselves after the end of the competition, which is a good thing for them. It's just that this matter has been brought forward. Now that the universe is about to overlap, we should tighten up many processes."