Hu Yuan fell through a sensation of weightlessness, the roar of blood rushing in his ears. The moment his feet touched the ground, the stench of decaying corpses rushed at him. He abruptly opened his eyes to see mountains of gray-white corpses beneath him. Layer upon layer of rotting bodies maintained combat stances, and the black mist overflowing from their eye sockets converged into a river, flowing toward the giant bronze furnace at the center—the Hunyuan Creation Furnace.
"This is the Sea of Extinction..." Hongxia's voice trembled as her fingertips grazed the chess pieces, the starlight from the star map barely holding back the erosion of the corpse qi. "Every single corpse here is a casualty of the ancient war... Their spiritual senses are trapped here forever, turned into nourishment for the Demon Abyss..."
The massive Hunyuan Creation Furnace at the center stood fully ten zhang high, its body carved with twisted "spirit-swallowing patterns." Nine chains extended from the top of the furnace into the void, and strung along each chain were dozens of Nascent Soul Stage cultivators—all puppet cultivators refined using "Heart-Piercing Nails." Those Nascent Souls had vacant eyes, and their mouths still hung open in the painful distortion of having their spiritual senses forcibly ripped away. The black blood seeping from the base of the furnace converged into a river, upon which floated fully undigested remnant souls. They clawed vainly at the furnace walls, making the harsh…
Chapter 322