Chapter 1102: Digging Up the Ancestral Grave

Chu Feng held his head high and clasped his hands behind his back. "Alright," he said, "I, Ji Dade, the world's strongest geologist, who possesses immense talent and vast knowledge, will lead you to conquer this corpse-nurturing ground and make you soar!"

"Brother De, please honor us with your presence and suppress that evil Nine Heavens Yin Corpse!" Gu Chenhai said, not fearing a bit of flattery, for he genuinely wished to enter that mountain range and claim it for himself.

"Is there a greater evil than you?" Chu Feng retorted, curling his lip.

Gu Chenhai immediately gave a dry laugh, claiming he was different.

"Don't worry," Chu Feng said nonchalantly, "I guarantee you'll get to 'eat' Taiwu's wife."

The donkey demon, listening nearby, felt something was off. Why did it sound so strange?

Gu Chenhai was also speechless. They were clearly going to consume great nourishing treasures, but why did it sound like an illicit affair?

Chu Feng looked at the stone coffin. "What's wrong?" he asked. "Aren't you just coveting Taiwu's wife? Come on, I'll help you dig up her grave!"

Gu Chenhai was dumbfounded.

Mount You, located in the western region of Qingzhou, was shrouded in Yin energy all year round. It was not a benevolent place, and few people ever set foot there.

In this area, the terrain was pristine, with dense ancient forests.

There were also large stretches of prehistoric battlefields, where no blade of grass grew. Black mist billowed, and the wails of ghosts and gods could be clearly heard.

These were undying obsessions, festering in the Yin land, impossible to extinguish.

Mount You, adjacent to vast ancient battlefields, drew in immense amounts of baleful Yin energy, irrigating the surrounding mountain ranges and causing them to be perpetually covered in thick fog.

Chu Feng arrived. After careful observation, his pupils couldn't help but contract slightly. This terrain was even more chilling than he had imagined; it was indeed an excellent place for nurturing corpses.

"There was originally a fallen Yin Mansion here!" he concluded.

Nine Nether Specters originated from places like Yin Mansions, which were special locations producing various baleful Yin energies, earth spirits, and demons. Legends claimed they connected to the Nine Hells, linked to the Underworld, and bordered the Path of Reincarnation.

"Oh, this place is indeed strange, it looks familiar," Gu Chenhai remarked. Although he was inside the stone coffin, he seemed unaffected and could still perceive his surroundings.

Once a Yin Mansion formed, it was very difficult for it to disappear. They were formed from mountains of corpses, oceans of blood, and the accumulation of countless beings.

Undoubtedly, this place bordered several prehistoric battlefields, which was the reason for the formation of the Yin Mansion.

Mount You was cold, desolate, and eerie. It wasn't particularly tall, but its aura was grand and extremely daunting. It was a mountain range that evoked a sense of suffocation.

Not a blade of grass grew there. As the Yin mist churned, it made breathing difficult and caused a stinging sensation on the skin.

"I remember now! This is the Yin Mansion that the Martial Lunatic abolished back then!" Gu Chenhai gasped.

"What? A Yin Mansion can be abolished and even erased?" Chu Feng asked, greatly astonished.

Gu Chenhai said, "Generally speaking, it's impossible. But the Martial Lunatic is no ordinary person; apart from my elder brother, almost no one can suppress him. Back then, he went completely insane here and fought the Yin Mansion to the bitter end, ultimately battling for dozens of days and completely leveling this place!"

Chu Feng fell into a trance. No matter how much he hated this lineage, he had to admit that the Martial Lunatic was truly abnormal.

What kind of place was a Yin Mansion? Once formed, it was considered to have received the recognition of the Grand World's rules in the Yang realm, a domain partly protected by the Great Dao, making it very difficult to destroy.

"I vaguely heard that back then, the Martial Lunatic wanted to refine a supreme treasure weapon. Beneath this Yin Mansion was a special mine, and he wanted to excavate it to obtain raw materials."

Upon hearing this, what more could Chu Feng say? Having strength simply meant being willful!

He spent six or seven days wandering here, constantly calculating and deducing, and occasionally measuring the terrain, studying how to break through.

It was evident that Taiwu had invited an expert to set up arrangements here, with a field array that shook the heavens, forming a vast, mist-shrouded corpse-nurturing ground.

"This old bastard says one thing and does another," Chu Feng sneered. "He kills Yin spirits on sight, and his disciples also engage in frenzied slaughter, yet he himself is nurturing corpses here, delusional enough to think he can revive his wife using Yin family methods!"

He grew increasingly disgusted with Taiwu. This renowned Heavenly Venerate of the Yang realm was utterly vicious. To set up such a terrain, it would undoubtedly require the sacrifice of countless living beings' blood to formally activate it.

The most top-tier corpse-nurturing grounds were not easily established successfully!

This terrain was very difficult to breach. Even with Chu Feng's current mastery of field arrays, his brows were deeply furrowed. It took him half a month of research before he finally saw some hope.

However, if he were to force his way in like this, it would likely still be extremely perilous, even a near-death experience.

"It seems the person Taiwu invited is no simple individual!" Chu Feng sighed softly.

However, he had a trump card: the Reincarnation Earth and the stone coffin. With these two items, he had even entered the foremost famous mountain in the world, so this place wouldn't be a problem.

"It seems I still need to diligently study field arrays!" Chu Feng hoped that one day, he wouldn't rely on treasures but could enter and exit all dangerous lands in the Yang realm with his own abilities.

"Donkey, you wait outside. There's no fortune for you here," Chu Feng said, intending to let the donkey demon go.

"No, bring it along. Haven't you heard that black donkey hooves ward off evil?" Gu Chenhai objected.

Hearing this, the donkey demon's temper flared. With two clangs, it directly kicked the stone coffin twice, then said, "Brat, brat, *you* are the evil spirit. Now that Grandpa's hoof has stepped on you, how does it feel?"

"You idiotic donkey, how dare you provoke this old man!" Gu Chenhai roared in fury.

Chu Feng said, "Alright, stop arguing, let's all go in together!"

"Hee-haw, hee-haw, I don't want to go in!" The donkey demon procrastinated, truly unwilling to enter this eerie, broken place.

However, there was no room for discussion on this matter. Primarily, Chu Feng thought about it, fearing that if it wandered outside alone, it might fall into the hands of Taiwu's lineage, and then everything would be exposed.

Finally, under Gu Chenhai's instruction, the donkey demon learned the secret art of changing size, which demon races were supposed to know.

Both the donkey demon and the Heaven Gold Stone Coffin transformed to palm size. Chu Feng thoroughly covered them with Reincarnation Earth, sealing them completely. Still feeling it wasn't safe enough, Chu Feng decisively used the stone coffin.

Anyway, Reincarnation Earth naturally countered Nine Nether Specters. After completely covering the stone coffin, he couldn't sense anything anymore.

As for the donkey, Chu Feng knocked it unconscious with a slap, saving trouble, and threw them both into the stone jar.

Finally, Chu Feng used field arrays, Reincarnation Earth, and the stone jar to enter Mount You's underground.

Chu Feng felt a chill. During the traversal, if he hadn't had the supreme treasure stone jar, serious problems would indeed have arisen. The safe path he had deduced had hidden dangers!

Fortunately, the stone coffin could withstand immense pressure without breaking. Along the way, they had close calls but no real danger, finally reaching their destination!

Completely unlike the imagined scene of scattered corpses and blood flowing like rivers, beneath Mount You lay a grand, magnificent, and majestic underground palace.

The ground was not uneven; it was meticulously leveled and spacious. With jade palaces and ornate painted beams, it was even better than the residences of many noble families on the surface.

Pavilions, stone arch bridges, lakes, and springs – everything was present.

However, all the artifacts and water bodies emitted Yin energy. This was due to the refinement of countless Yin spirits; everything was steeped in blood!

The lakes and other water bodies were liquids formed from concentrated baleful Yin energy.

This area was still dangerous, a veritable perilous land, requiring cautious approach.

"Taiwu, that bastard, is truly ruthless!" Chu Feng mused. "He set up at least nine layers of super large field arrays along the way, enough to guard against Heavenly Venerates!"

Chu Feng exhaled a long breath, finally having entered. It was relatively safer now.

With these field arrays, it was practically like a Heavenly Venerate guarding the tomb!

He released Gu Chenhai, helping him uncover some of the Reincarnation Earth, then patted the donkey demon awake, telling it not to yell indiscriminately.

Gulp!

Gu Chenhai was drooling. The nearby lakes, small bridges, flowing streams, and springs within the pavilions were all formed from baleful Yin energy. They were all great tonics for him.

It was bubbling with joy, saying, "What a wonderful place! To consume thirty thousand catties of baleful Yin energy daily, one wouldn't mind staying a tomb dweller forever."

Then, the stone coffin bounced, rushing towards the stone arch bridge, ready to drink its fill.

"Be careful!" Chu Feng warned him, but after a glance, he saw that the area had no special field arrays and was relatively safe.

Half of the stone coffin sank into the astonishingly Yin baleful water beneath the bridge. Gu Chenhai repeatedly exclaimed his delight; these were indeed Yin-attributed essences, great tonics for him.

However, something startling occurred!

A pale hand suddenly appeared in the water, grabbing the stone coffin and pulling it down forcefully!

Next, a gnawing sound emerged from the stone coffin, making one's teeth ache.

It was too sudden. The face of a corpse ghost emerged, its eyes bleeding, its body swollen from being submerged. It embraced the stone coffin, dragging it underwater and constantly biting it.

On the other side, a monster covered in fish scales appeared, with a ferocious appearance, a pale human face with blood flowing from its seven orifices. It possessed a fish body and was also gnawing at the stone coffin.

"Ah, I—!!!" Gu Chenhai shrieked, "They're all bloody Divine Kings!"

Behind them, the donkey demon was quite straightforward; it simply fainted from fright.

Chu Feng also immediately hid in the stone jar. This damned place! He had thought that after passing the most dangerous field array zone, they would be fine, but he hadn't expected such fierce ghosts to still be present.

For a moment, waves churned in the water, and Yin mist surged skyward.

Gu Chenhai cursed incessantly and howled non-stop, only calming down after a long time.

The stone coffin leaped out onto the bank, stained with blood.

"This damned place! I almost became someone else's snack!" Gu Chenhai fumed.

Behind it, four terrifying corpses floated in the water. All had the faces of fierce ghosts, looking horrifying, with some parts of their bodies appearing ghastly pale from being submerged.

"Old Gu, you're really something, taking on four Divine Kings by yourself!" Chu Feng praised.

Gu Chenhai said, "What 'Divine Kings' nonsense! Even if they were that level of creature in life, can they be the same after death? They only have instincts left and don't know how to use various killing moves or profound arts."

"You're truly humble," Chu Feng chuckled.

Then, he kicked the useless donkey demon awake. "I was still counting on your black donkey hooves to ward off evil," he said, "but look at you!"

"My rank isn't high enough!" the donkey demon, that imbecile, argued self-righteously. "Once I become a divine donkey, I can suppress this grand tomb with a single kick!"

Along the rest of the way, they proceeded cautiously, stopping and starting. They dared not enter any place with water, for inside were creatures, all of whom had been Divine Kings in life!

"Taiwu, that bastard, is truly vicious!" Chu Feng mused. "To create these tomb-guarding beasts, he actually killed dozens of Divine Kings, all live sacrifices!"

This tomb was very large. Moreover, Chu Feng had to decipher field arrays along the way, so it took a long time; they moved slowly for a full seven days and seven nights.

On the eighth day, they finally thoroughly explored the underground palace and found Taiwu's family ancestral tomb.

Taiwu's family tomb was quite conventional, situated amidst an open expanse of palaces. Chu Feng's gaze was cold; he wished he could level it all immediately.

In another direction, there was a special grand tomb, which belonged to Taiwu's companion. All the Yin energy converged there, with black mist obscuring everything, making it incredibly eerie and terrifying.

"Don't tell me he's really cultivated a Nine Heavens Yin Corpse!" Chu Feng halted, warning both Gu Chenhai and the donkey demon to be careful.

"Let me see... Hmm, it hasn't fully formed yet, no problem. This Nine Heavens Yin Corpse hasn't revived at all!" Gu Chenhai said, displaying his professionalism. He was truly "clear" and thoroughly understood creatures in his field.

"Are you sure?" Chu Feng asked, expressing doubt.

Gu Chenhai was displeased and said, "Every art has its specialty. You are an excellent geologist, but please do not doubt that I am an exceptionally talented paleobiologist!"

"Nonsense, you're a paleocorpsologist, aren't you?" the donkey demon exposed him.

"Shut up, you idiotic donkey!" Gu Chenhai reprimanded.

Taiwu's companion's grand tomb was very special. Around it, there were four blood pools, located in the four cardinal directions. Yin energy gushed forth, and bloody light surged, nourishing the main tomb.

The donkey demon only glanced at it before leaping high and kicking its heels. It cried out, "Old Gu, there's something in these pools, hurry and go fight them!"

Chu Feng was also surprised to see this. If not for the Reincarnation Earth smeared on their bodies, their bodies would have been torn apart or even exploded by the suppressive baleful energy.

In the first pool was a bloody human head. This... was a Heavenly Venerate?!

The second pool contained half a bird's body. Although it was half-rotted, it still showcased its formidable power from life, emitting terrifying baleful energy. This was a Phoenix.

The third and fourth pools also contained incomplete remains, all ferocious, emitting baleful energy no weaker than that of a deceased Heavenly Venerate, their bodies already decayed.

"They were Heavenly Venerates in life?!" Chu Feng was shocked. Was Taiwu that powerful? Had he once killed four Heavenly Venerates?!

"These are remains from prehistoric battlefields," Gu Chenhai explained. "Taiwu actually found four incomplete corpses, used them to construct four blood pools, and connected them to the nearby ancient battlefields to nourish the main tomb's occupant!"

Gu Chenhai was indeed extraordinary. When it came to matters concerning corpses, he understood them thoroughly and made relevant deductions.

"Indeed, these four pools are connected to areas rich in baleful Yin energy; they must be ancient battlefields!" Chu Feng nodded.

"This is a supreme land of fortune!" Gu Chenhai exclaimed. "If I cultivated here for ten years and then refined and consumed these Heavenly Venerate-level remains, my strength would undoubtedly skyrocket!"

Then, it declared quite resolutely that it wouldn't leave and wanted to stay here permanently.

"Brother De, you absolutely must come back here to pick me up then!" Gu Chenhai exclaimed. "I plan to cultivate in seclusion here for a while! Don't worry, I'll definitely dig up Taiwu's family ancestral tomb completely, and I'll also retrieve his wife's corpse. Even though I don't know why you hate him so much, this old man is willing to exact revenge for you!"

Chu Feng thought for a moment and said, "Alright!"

Then, he glanced at the donkey demon and said, "You stay here and keep it company!"

Hearing this, the donkey demon nearly wet itself, thoroughly terrified. It quickly cried out, "Big Brother, Master, Papa, please take me with you!"

It would rather die than be with a bunch of corpses. Furthermore, it worried that Gu Chenhai might exact personal revenge and eat it!

"What the hell are you calling me?" Chu Feng said, kicking it. This donkey was too spineless, completely devoid of integrity, and excessively afraid of death.

"Just take me with you, you can make me call you anything!"

"Scram, you imbecile!" Chu Feng said, kicking it away.

He was indeed leaving. Leaving this place to a Nine Nether Specter, he estimated it would turn this place completely upside down.

As for him, he was going to deal with the living members of Taiwu's lineage, and head to the Immortal Cave to seize the fortune of several core inheritors!