There was no such thing as a proper burial for dead corpses.
The only way to get rid of them was to kill them all. Even if doing so would increase the resentment in Spirit City, they had no choice but to do so.
"Although your Third Highness doesn't follow the rules, no matter how I look at it, it feels like someone's doing this behind the scenes."
The Fox Empress, Su Qingyan, stepped forward, her hands gently stirring the air.
As she waved her hand, one could vaguely see pieces of viscous liquid being stirred by her hand, creating ripples in the air.
This was resentment, resentment that was on the verge of condensing into liquid.
"The resentment here is so thick that it's almost terrifying. If it were just to burn corpses and plunder treasures, the resentment wouldn't be so thick. It seems someone's deliberately nurturing this resentment. "
"I know that," snorted Emperor Bi 'an.
At this moment, he blamed the Third Highness in his heart. This was inevitable!
Regardless of whether or not someone was deliberately nurturing this resentment, if the Third Highness did as he'd ordered and buried all the dead in the city, the resentment would dissipate.
The resentment in the city would also dissipate. No matter how intentional the people behind it were, the resentment would not be born again.
After all, the corpses were already dead. This resentment was nothing more than the last vestiges of their energy.
The Four Directions Palace had made a grave mistake, and he couldn't shirk this responsibility. But he absolutely couldn't spare the mastermind behind this, either.
No matter how grave the Third Highness's dead subordinates were, he couldn't spare them.
Whether they were killed or tortured was up to him.
That person had dared drain their souls dry, and the Third Highness's fate was unknown. This was an intolerable provocation to Bi 'an!
Whoosh.
A streak of starlight streaked through the sky. Ye Rong, the Lord of the Big Dipper, landed beside the emperors.
"You've finished observing the stars?" asked Chao Feng.
"The other party was very cautious. Even though I deployed the stars, I wasn't able to find any traces of him," said Ye Rong. "However, I can roughly guess that these corpses are soulless. That person must've drained their souls. If I'm not mistaken, he's a corpse cultivator!"
"A corpse refiner?" asked Su Qingyan.
The emperors narrowed their eyes. Cultivators were divided into several types: the demonic dao, the yao dao, and the divine dao.
These were all relatively normal cultivation methods, and they were also the mainstream cultivation methods of the God, Yao, and Demon Races.
However, amongst the myriad of cultivation methods, there was one known as the Evil Dao. It was the Corpse Refiner Empress Su Qingyan had mentioned, the Corpse Dao.
These people usually refined corpses and controlled them to fight.
The dead are the most important.
Whether it was the Divine Clan, the Demon Clan, or the Demon Clan, they all despised this kind of people who could not let the dead rest in peace!
"He picked a good place."
Xuan Ji smiled coldly. For corpse refiners, the closest Spirit City was naturally a good place to go.
Countless people had died in the city, and there was no lack of rulers among them. They were excellent refining materials for corpse refiners. If an ordinary Corpse Refiner were to encounter such a situation, they would be overjoyed.
"Auntie, I don't understand."
Pu Jingwan suddenly scratched her head. The great emperors present all knew she was one of Ye Zichen's subordinates. After arriving in Spirit City, her cultivation was similar to theirs, so they naturally called her over.
"Go on," said Ye Rong.
"In truth, I've heard a little about corpse refiners. They refine corpse puppets to raise their cultivation or use them for their own purposes. But based on the current situation, it seems this corpse refiner hasn't used any of the corpses here, "said Pu Jingwan.
"There are over a hundred million cultivators in Spirit City, and tens of millions have died. Do we see a million reanimated corpses? "asked Ye Rong.
Pu Jingwan shook her head.
"In that case, who can say for sure whether or not he's actually using the corpses? Besides, he was able to display his skills in such a vast corpse field, and he even abducted the Four Directions Palace's Third Highness and sucked the souls of his subordinates dry. How could he be mediocre? It's highly likely he's already picked out all the high-quality materials, "said Ye Rong.
"You're right. Then why is he nurturing so much resentment?" asked Pu Jingwan.
"The Corpse Refiner King." Ye Rong's expression grew solemn. "Refining a corpse king is different from refining ordinary corpse puppets. It requires an enormous amount of resentment to sustain it. The only way he's doing this is to refine a corpse king. Corpse kings require a lot of materials, so unless something unexpected happens …. "
When Ye Rong finished speaking, the Great Emperors understood.
The Four Directions Palace was a peak-level faction of the God Realm, and its leader was Grand Emperor Bi 'an, someone who caused the Three Realms to look askance at him. He was the person closest to the Three Emperors, second only to the Three Emperors.
Someone who wanted to kill him?
Was he looking to die?
If this corpse refiner had once formed a grudge against the Four Directions Palace, then why was it that everyone else in the Four Directions Palace had their souls sucked dry? Why was the Third Highness the only one who had been abducted?
Was he trying to blackmail him?
No!
Although Bi 'an doted on the Four Directions Palace's Third Highness, he wasn't important enough to threaten Bi' an.
Given all these circumstances, the possibility that he'd survived ….
Could it be that this corpse refiner wanted to use the Four Directions Palace's Third Highness' body as a vessel to refine a corpse king?
"He's a corpse refiner who can refine corpse kings. Do you remember him?" asked Su Qingyan.
"Which corpse refiner would expose himself to us? The God, Yao, and Demon Races have only produced a few in tens of thousands of years, and they've all been killed," said Great Emperor Chao Feng. "However, one corpse refiner did survive. After all this time, perhaps he's reached the stage where he can refine a corpse king."
"Who?" asked Ye Rong.
Ye Rong hadn't been in the God Realm for long, so there were some secrets she didn't know.
The others, however, had stayed in the God Realm for a long time. As soon as Chao Feng mentioned it, Bi 'an, Xuan Ji, and Su Qingyan frowned.
"Are you talking about him?" Bi 'an frowned.
Chao Feng said nothing, but nodded. Ye Rong glanced at Xuan Ji, and a transmission appeared in her mind.
When she heard the contents of the transmission, Ye Rong's expression froze.
Time passed.
Everything had happened so suddenly that not many people from the Four Directions Palace had arrived.
It took them half a day to wipe out all the walking corpses in Spirit City.
Corpses littered the ground, covering the entirety of Spirit City. Even the Great Emperors felt a stab of pain in their hearts from the overflowing resentment.
This place had become hell on earth!
"Prime Minister Turtle!"
Bi 'an called out. An old man with a turtle shell on his back appeared from the ground. He was Bi' an's trusted aide for ten thousand years, the Prime Minister Turtle, second only to the Four Directions Palace.
He'd summoned Bi 'an because he wanted to send him out to investigate the corpse refiner's identity.
But then …
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