Long Chen continued forward, feeling the death qi growing denser until it seemed to make his very soul quiver. As he pressed on, he saw more corpses scattered about, but what shocked him the most was that some of them still had flesh on their bones. These bodies exuded powerful life energy, as if they had just died.3

When Long Chen approached those corpses, he found that they seemed to be supported by a formation. Death qi bubbled out of them while they absorbed life energy from the air. Following the grooves of blood running along the ground, Long Chen ventured deeper into the darkness. Along the...9