The Divine Martial Stars - Chapter 709

Chapter 709 Heavenly Fox Secret Realm · Resentful Spirits

Swoosh!

A broadsword flashed.

A giant Fiery Bull fell to the ground.

Blood spurted out.

Li Mu gasped heavily, feeling exhausted.

The Heavenly Fox Secret Realm was more dangerous than he had imagined.

He was standing on a hill surrounded by the huge dead bodies of Fiery Bulls. There were hundreds of them, all of which were killed by him just now.

This type of ancient demonic bulls had already gone extinct in the outside world, but they existed and lived in groups inside the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm. They were naturally aggressive towards all the creatures that intruded on their territory. Li Mu was unlucky. After entering the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm using his token, he happened to be in the territory of Fiery Bulls, so he had a fierce battle against these beasts. Despite his high cultivation level, he was exhausted.

Fiery Bulls were not the creatures at the top of the food chain in the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm, but they were already so difficult to deal with. Li Mu felt that he had to reevaluate the danger level of the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm.

“The horns, teeth, hooves, and stomach of Fiery Bulls are all very good raw materials for runic alchemy, so they are highly sought after in the outside world.”

In Li Mu’s hand was a jade medallion.

It contained detailed records of various precious treasures and the values of various ferocious ancient beasts in the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm, as well as detailed descriptions of some forbidden areas and taboos, the dangers and flaws of living creatures in the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm, and methods of escape under various extreme circumstances.

Li Mu got the information on Fiery Bulls from this jade medallion.

Based on the information, he came to know that in nature, the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm did not belong to the Heavenly Fox Clan in the first place. The Heavenly Fox Clan took possession of the hyperspace channel leading to this secret realm and could make the tokens for entering it. That was why there were the words “Heavenly Fox” in its name.

However, such a great fortune made others jealous. The other great powers did not want the Heavenly Fox Clan to take complete control of the right to use this secret realm. They joined hands and exerted influence on the Heavenly Fox Clan. Through open strife and veiled struggles, both sides made concessions, and the other clans and powers won some quotas for entering the secret realm.

This time, the Heavenly Fox Clan took the opportunity of competition between the Heavenly Legends and assigned those quotas to some Heavenly Legends, thus making a name for itself.

The other large clans did not care much about that, because most of the top 100 Heavenly Legends were their people.

Li Mu was lucky enough to get the opportunity to enter the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm.

Should he live in the past, no matter how famous he was in the Ziwei Star Zone, he would never have a chance to enter the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm if he was not from a well-known family or a large clan. Moreover, it would be very difficult for him to enter any other smaller secret realm, not to mention the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm.

Just as in the case of some ancient countries on the Earth, aristocratic families controlled the assignment of opportunities, official positions, and social statuses.

It was the same in the Star River.

The law of the jungle was an eternal rule in this world.

Li Mu put away the jade medallion, found the dead body of the king of Fiery Bulls, cut off some rare materials from its body, and put them away.

He gave up on the idea of taking some rare materials from the dead bodies of other Fiery Bulls and left.

Because doing that would take him too much time.

He had to hurry up and find the Soul-replenishing Heavenly Herb.

That was his first goal of entering the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm.

Li Mu flew like a jet of light through the sky holding this broadsword.

The Heavenly Fox Secret Realm was vast and boundless. The mountains were precipitous, and the rivers were flowing wildly. Although it was abundant with Spiritual Qi, dangers were everywhere. It was definitely not a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, but instead it was more like a place with barren mountains and unruly waters.

Poisonous gases and miasmas pervaded the air in its depth.

If a general-level expert inhaled the poisonous air, his cultivation would come to naught and he would turn into a skeleton in an instant.

Li Mu had to be careful.

When he flew over high mountains, he saw large piles of white bones.

The hills of white bones were glistening like snow patches under the sunlight.

Li Mu had no idea how many creatures had died here.

Some skeletons looked just like those of ancient giants. A single skeleton could be as tall as a white hill or wall. Even though those giant ancient beasts had been dead for thousands of years, there still seemed to be a trace of fierce spiritual force attached to their skeletons without memory or spiritual intelligence. When other living creatures passed by, that trace of spiritual force would suddenly turn into the phantom of a fierce totem, as if it wanted to devour them. That was extremely terrifying.

Li Mu cautiously avoided them.

According to the information contained in that jade medallion like a guide book, the places where white bones piled up like mountains were absolute forbidden areas for living creatures. The dead creatures had turned into resentful spirits residing in those mountains of bones. Once any living creatures got close, the resentful souls would spring up to attack the living creatures and devour their flesh and blood.

Those resentful souls were desperately thirsty for the flesh and blood of living creatures.

Li Mu would occasionally fly over a hill of bones at a low altitude.

Countless translucent monsters and fierce beasts roared furiously as they rushed out of the hill of white bones and soared into the sky. They were all over the sky, rushing madly at Li Mu like carnivorous ants. It was an extremely horrifying scene.

Fortunately, they could survive only when they were attached to the skeletons. Once they were far enough from the skeletons, they would disappear instantly.

Therefore, when Li Mu flew a certain distance using his Somersault Cloud skill, those fierce beasts roared and returned to the hill of bones unwillingly. They went back into the skeletons and waited for the next prey to pass by.

In the blink of an eye, a day had passed.

“Oh my God, that’s…”

As Li Mu flew through the air standing on his broadsword, he suddenly saw a high mountain of bones at the end of the distant horizon. It was hundreds of thousands of meters high. From the distance, it looked like an ancient glacier that linked the sky and the earth and a giant white pillar supporting the sky.

All kinds of hill-like giant skeletons, which were thousands of meters long, were much more terrifying than those of Tyrannosaurus rexes. Li Mu didn’t know what giant prehistoric creatures left behind those skeletons. Even though they were tens of thousands of meters away from him, he could still feel the strong, violent, and fierce vibes coming at him like surging waves.

He examined that white pillar with his Third Eye and found that it was multi-colored, and all kinds of monsters were screaming and swirling in them.

Red clouds were rolling above the top of the pillar.

There was an incomparably powerful vengeful spirit in there. Its aura was much stronger than that of a king-level master. Li Mu had no idea what it was.

He dared not get close to it. He directly flew away on his broadsword without hesitation.

Apart from those areas with white skeletons, there were other places where many ferocious ancient beasts resided.

Li Mu saw countless horrifying scenes when he flew on his broadsword.

A Nine-winged Phoenix flew through the sky like a cloud, leading all kinds of birds like a majestic king. However, when it flew over an ocean, a gigantic demonic shark jumped out of the water, caught it, and then dragged it into the eye of the sea.

Blood dyed the entire water red.

He also saw a giant ape. It was tens of thousands of meters tall, giving off a fierce aura. While it was chasing a Two-winged Demonic Wolf, a gigantic mouth suddenly came out of the clouds and bit it.

The next moment, something more terrifying happened. A huge bird appeared in the transparent air and directly swallowed the clouds in the sky. The unknown creature with a gigantic mouth in the clouds disappeared in an instant.

The huge bird flapped its wings leisurely. Its figure gradually faded away and finally disappeared without a trace.

Li Mu broke out in a cold sweat.

In that instant, the giant bird caught sight of him and even turned around to look.

However, it ignored him, perhaps because it thought that he was not big enough to eat.

“Damn it. This world is so dangerous.”

Li Mu suddenly felt that he was lucky to remain unscathed when he was flying through the sky freely. Except for the Fiery Bulls, he had not encountered any other creatures.

“I have underestimated the danger level of this place.”

He thought for a moment and took out the Armor Pill that Bi Yan, the Green Fox God, sent to him. He swallowed and activated it. A suit of soft blue armor appeared to cover his body. Like that huge bird, he slowly faded away into the air and concealed his aura to avoid attracting the attention of other fierce beasts.

Half a day later.

Except for the dangers that Li Mu encountered, he did not meet any other Heavenly Legend.

“That’s not right. Although I have great strength, I’m still in such a mess and almost died several times. What about other Heavenly Legends? The top 20 super Heavenly Legends may get themselves out of trouble relying on their high cultivation levels and some secret treasures. However, the other eighty Heavenly Legends will get killed easily if they come to this place.”

As Li Mu pondered, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

“Now that the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm is such a dangerous place, why are the Heavenly Legends below the 20th rank so desperate to enter?

“Aren’t they afraid of dying?

“What exactly went wrong?”

Some questions popped into Li Mu’s mind, but he couldn’t figure them out in a while.

He had no choice but to focus on finding the Soul-replenishing Heavenly Herb.

“According to the information, the Soul-replenishing Heavenly Herb grows at the periphery of the forbidden area with large and small hills of bones. It is a magic herb that grows in the place where the atmospheres of life and death gather. It has the power of Yin and Yang and can balance life and death, so it can repair a broken soul… In this case, I have to take a risk.”

Li Mu flew over the ocean again and returned to the place where he had been.

He would definitely not dare to get close to that towering pillar of white bones.

In the end, he found an area where a relatively small hill of bones was standing. He walked slowly to the foot of the hill and began to look for the magic herbs in a jungle.

He had read Dong Guo’s book about the Soul-replenishing Heavenly Herb many times, so he knew the appearance of this magic herb very well.

However, to his disappointment, he did not find it.

Fortunately, he did not disturb the resentful spirits in this area.

In the next day and night, Li Mu searched the peripheries of more than twenty areas with hills of bones, but he didn’t find the Soul-replenishing Heavenly Herb.

“Maybe it’s because there is not enough Yin Qi in these areas with small hills of bones.”

Li Mu hesitated.

He felt that he might have to take the risk of heading to the forbidden areas with larger, more dangerous hills of bones to look for the magic herb.

No matter how difficult it was, he had to save the Machete Loli.

Li Mu made up his mind, ready to set out.

Just then, he suddenly saw five light beams streaking through the sky.

“Help! Is there anyone who can help us…” Panicked shouts came from the light beams.