Time continued to advance. A woman stepped through the air on a flying sword and quietly landed beside the demonic coffin.
Luosa felt a shock in his heart when he saw her. This was none other than the woman who had almost caused his death when he was trying to divine the future earlier! The future he had previously glimpsed was already ten thousand years away, so just how long had this woman actually lived?
Compared to the last time he saw her, she still looked somewhat youthful at this moment, and she did not give Luosa that feeling of driving him mad. Refusing to dwell on it any longer, Luosa quietly watched the time reverse.
She looked at the demonic coffin with a look of disdain. That dismissive gaze was as though she were looking at an ant, and the slight curl of her lips was filled with mockery, as if she were laughing at the sheer absurdity of the Heavenly Emperor's wild ambitions.
She took a purple gemstone from her mustard seed ring, and as she chanted incantations, it transformed into thirty-six rays of light that flashed through the air, converging above the demonic coffin to form a profound and wondrous array.
Without lingering for even a moment after finishing all this, she summoned her flying sword and flew away through the sky. Luosa's divination stopped right there; this was the truth behind the dissolution of the Heavenly Emperor's soul!
Luosa broke out in a cold sweat. It was not just because the Heavenly Emperor was being targeted even before his resurrection, but also out of sheer terror toward that old woman who had lived for ten thousand years. The fact that he had recklessly divined her earlier and not died was purely a matter of having a tough life.
Once again, he began to divine the Three Calamities and Six Disasters. The first to appear was still a human disaster. A slender, graceful figure suddenly materialized, shifting from blurred to clear. The moment her face emerged, Luosa immediately stopped his divination.
It was her!
Luosa cursed inwardly. The very first human disaster waiting for him after emerging from the coffin was a hundred-thousand-year-old old hag! Someone who could live that long must at least be an old monster at the Tribulation Crossing Realm, belonging to the upper echelon of bigwigs anywhere in the Taixuan Realm!
Even if he could get past this human disaster, what kind of ghosts would the remaining three calamities and five disasters be? His current level of divination could not get past this hundred-thousand-year-old old hag, so he simply could not continue divining.
Luosa knew very well that he was still far too weak right now. However, his true battle against the Three Calamities and Six Disasters would take place ten thousand years later, and he was confident that by then, he would possess the strength to face everything!
Time passed swiftly. Through the continuous reinforcement of the Taixuan God-Refining, Luosa's soul finally underwent a qualitative change, cultivating a powerful ability known as divine sense.
Although Luosa was still unable to break free from the shackles of the demonic coffin at present, he could clearly "see" everything outside the coffin. This was the most basic application of his divine sense.
He now had a sensation of his soul leaving his body. His divine sense began to expand outward, feeding back all the surrounding scenery to him. The feeling was as wondrous as watching a holographic projection.
The expansion range of his divine sense was limited by the strength of Luosa's soul. At this moment, it could only cover a radius of one hundred meters around the demonic coffin; any attempt to expand further was beyond his current capabilities. Luosa retracted his divine sense to inspect his infiltration into the Demonic Zombie Body, feeling the incomparably terrifying energy contained within it.
The Heavenly Emperor's desire to seek revenge against that mighty being was no pipe dream. This demonic zombie power was terrifying beyond measure—destroying the world could happen in a single thought. By the time the Demonic Zombie Body continued to enhance itself for another ten thousand years, it was hard for even Luosa to imagine just how powerful it would become.
Sensing the feedback information from the Demonic Zombie Body, Luosa discovered another problem. While his soul was undoubtedly strong enough to control the body, how was he supposed to control the power of the demonic zombie?
Right now, he was like a top-tier scholar whose academic prowess was unmatched, only to be suddenly handed an atomic bomb to go pick a fight, completely clueless about how to use it.
Never mind whether this atomic bomb might blow him to smithereens; once he lost control of it, everything around him would be blasted into ruins. This was definitely not a situation Luosa wanted to see.
Luosa temporarily suspended his cultivation of the Taixuan God-Refining and once again deduced the altered future, letting countless images flash past as he searched for a method to control the Demonic Zombie Body.
Finally, a book appeared in the future visions, titled *Encyclopedia of Common Problems for Cultivators*. Luosa's expression immediately darkened. Are you telling me that a body losing control is considered a problem not even worth mentioning?
Luosa was truly speechless. Flipping through its contents, he immediately made a discovery: a body losing control was indeed merely a common problem, as cultivators whose power grew too rapidly and went berserk were a frequent occurrence in the cultivation world.
There were roughly two ways to solve this situation. The first was relatively simple: take a pill called the Body-Harmonizing Pill to improve the coordination between the body and the soul. However, Luosa did not have any Body-Harmonizing Pills, so this option was directly ruled out.
The other method seemed rather absurd: fusing one's soul and physical body into one, and then separating the soul once reaching the Deity Transformation Stage. However, this method had a major drawback—if the physical body was injured, the soul would also suffer damage.
Although this method indeed existed, no one in the cultivation world actually used it, because the Body-Harmonizing Pill was a very low-grade pill that even rogue cultivators could afford.
Luosa was utterly speechless. The Body-Harmonizing Pill was clearly a dime-a-dozen item, yet to control his own body, he was forced to use the second method. Still, the Demonic Zombie Body was immensely formidable, so he wasn't too worried about kicking the bucket before reaching the Deity Transformation Stage.
The method of soul-body fusion was not complicated. With Luosa's current comprehension, he learned it the moment he saw it, and before long, he had completely integrated his soul into the Demonic Zombie Body.
At that instant, Luosa felt as though his soul weighed as much as a mountain, and boundless power flooded his entire consciousness. In that moment, he felt invincible under the heavens. As for that human disaster, the hundred-thousand-year-old old hag—the moment they met, he would just give her a couple of solid punches and send her packing to the netherworld.
Yet Luosa knew very well that this was merely an illusion born from his very first contact with power. He had yet to tap into the true might of the demonic zombie; if he went out there relying solely on fists and kicks, that old hag would seal him away on the spot in a matter of minutes.
After preliminarily mastering the power of his body, Luosa once again divined the future to search for cultivation methods. Unfortunately, after searching for a long time, he gained nothing. Left with no other choice, he could only resume the Taixuan Soul-Refining to raise the strength of his soul.
At this time, Luosa received another pleasant surprise. Because his soul was now fused with the Demonic Zombie Body, the Taixuan Soul-Refining could not only absorb the origin energy of heaven and earth, but even absorb the yin energy and demonic Qi within the Devil's Den!
The Devil's Den was not a product of the Taixuan Realm, but a small world that had fallen from beyond the heavens. Although it was not as vast as the Taixuan Realm, it was still a genuine world. If Luosa could gain control over the Devil's Den, then all the demonic creatures living within it would become his subordinates.
Even if the Heavenly Emperor's million-strong army learned that Luosa had usurped the body, they would no longer be able to resist his will. He could even mobilize the power of the Devil's Den to make that million-strong army even stronger!
The moment he thought about how all this was precious wealth left behind by his predecessor, Luosa threw himself into cultivation with reckless abandon. This would be the foundation upon which he would establish himself in the Taixuan Realm in the future, and the Devil's Den would become his base camp.
When Luosa became the master of the Devil's Den, his divine sense was already able to spread to every single corner of it. A land area of a full eighty million square kilometers left Luosa in utter amazement. If a small world was already this enormous, then just how vast and boundless must the Taixuan Realm be?
Luosa shook his head slightly. Ten thousand years had already passed; another ninety thousand years, and it would be the time for his emergence!