Chapter 725: 403
"What's going on?!"
Corpse Bride sensed the changes within the Imperial Mausoleum, "Why didn't those tomb robbers follow the route I provided? Did they avoid the Earth Fiend Corpses?"
To Corpse Bride, Earth Fiend Corpses were nothing, mere cannon fodder that could be turned to dust in the flick of a finger.
But there weren't so many Earth Fiend Corpses in the entire Underground Palace. She had only brought a dozen or so. The Earth Fiend Corpses placed at the entrance were specially prepared as a show of force, intended to kill a few intruders.
"What's going on now?"
Corpse Bride couldn't accept such a turn of events, "I left them a way out because I didn't want the game to end so quickly, but why do they seem to know there's a secret passage there in advance?"
"Subordinate does not know."
Standing in front of Corpse Bride was a monster with a sturdy body, but a face as ferocious as evil ghosts, the Heavenly Gang Zombie King.
"You don't know?"
Corpse Bride stood up and walked straight up to the Heavenly Gang Zombie King, the terrifying might she radiated almost made him crumble.
The Master of Miracles couldn't descend, so the body Corpse Bride was using belonged to an ancient Empress that was buried here. Although revived, strength-wise, she hadn't even reached Extraordinary Level.
Her only advantage was that her body was exceedingly prestigious and almost no different from a common person.
This was also the reason Corpse Bride chose to manipulate it as her vessel to walk this world. Otherwise, if she really had to possess the body of the Zombie King, it was so ugly she might as well have conceded defeat.
"Please, my master, calm your wrath!"
The Heavenly Gang Zombie King knelt on both knees. He could lift a hand and destroy the body that Corpse Bride was using, but how could he dare to strike at his own master?
He was one of Corpse Bride's Miracle Citizens, not a lowly insect of this world.
When Corpse Bride invaded this world, she had sent him out, a powerful citizen of the Eastern Sea Nation with Heroic Level combat power.
But due to the suppression of Plane Laws, the Heavenly Gang Zombie King could only use Quasi-Heroic Strength at most. Any higher, and he feared it would cause permanent damage to this plane.
"Calm my wrath?"
Corpse Bride furiously exclaimed, "That asshole from Fengdu actually dares to plot against me! He lured me into triggering the Miracle Battle, and I still thought I had outsmarted him, like a complete clown! This is outrageous!!"
"No, this is cheating, he definitely broke the rules!"
As Corpse Bride thought this, she hurriedly contacted Bailuo, but Bailuo had already received the judgement from the two Female Emperors, "Sorry, East Sea King, they think there is no issue."
"What?"
Corpse Bride, "This? This can't be counted like this, his cheating is so obvious."
"I lack experience and cannot judge whether Fengdu's advance preparations are permissible," said Bailuo, "However, both Female Emperors unanimously believe that he hasn't broken any rules."
"This..."
Bailuo lacked experience, which Corpse Bride was well aware of, and she didn't expect Bailuo to help her cheat.
The true role of Bailuo was to maintain the safety of the Miracle Battles. For example, if the Heavenly Gang Zombie King were killed, Bailuo would definitely exert Miracle Power to preserve his soul consciousness, allowing him to resurrect in Miracle World.
Similarly, the Female Sword Emperor, Empress of the East, Corpse Bride, and even Fengdu would protect him.
The Infinite Power of the five Masters of Miracles, if they were to protect someone and still encounter problems, it would only prove that all five of them were worthless, even worse than trash.
"Fine then, I, I accept it."
Corpse Bride's real body was still in Miracle World. Here, she was only a Ganoderma Corpse Princess. She clenched her fists tightly, her nails digging into her flesh, reflecting her anger, 'Damn you, Fengdu, not only did you not let me win, but you also plotted against me. This is far from over between us!'
Given Fengdu's intelligence, coupled with his advance preparations, Corpse Bride felt that she definitely couldn't win this time.
"I can't win, but I won't make it easy for you either!"
The Corpse Bride commanded the Heavenly Gang Zombie King, "I don't care what method you use, kill all those thieves for me, kill them all!!"
Because of the incident at Fengdu, the Corpse Bride was now like a young lady in a fit of rage; she was truly angry.
"So, just killing them all will suffice?"
"Don't make me say it twice; are you an idiot too?"
The Corpse Bride moved closer to the Heavenly Gang Zombie King. Despite one being a young and beautiful woman and the other a zombie fiercer than evil ghosts, the one shivering with fear wasn't the former.
"Yes! Your subordinate understands!"
"Please rest assured," said the Heavenly Gang Zombie King as he quickly stood up and respectfully took his leave, "I will not let a single one of those intruders leave alive."
"Phew~~"
"That was really dangerous."
A group of people moved through the Underground Palace; they had already memorized the layout of the palace like the back of their hands.
They couldn't be more clear on where the traps were and which areas were off-limits.
"Our goal is the main tomb at the very end."
Old Black Dog explained to everyone as they walked, "The entire Imperial Mausoleum is divided into eighteen sections, and seventeen of those are mere distractions."
"I have to say, I've never seen such a style of construction before."
Old Black Dog was also a Feng Shui master with generations of geomancers in his lineage, but even they hadn't studied this kind of Imperial Mausoleum much.
If it weren't for the map obtained by Daoist Lin, even Old Black Dog might have met his end here.
"The one who gave me the map wasn't a mortal."
Daoist Lin said, "It was one of our ancestors from Maoshan who got it from an official in that office."
"Speaking of which."
Yunxiao asked, "I have practiced Taoism for many years, yet I have never heard of any such official. Isn't the Underworld Administration under the Yama Kings' control? Where did this official come from?"
"I'm not quite sure either," Daoist Lin also had his doubts before coming, but since the ancestors didn't elaborate, he felt it wasn't his place to question, "As for matters of ghosts and deities, we mortals should not inquire too much."
"Ghosts and deities, huh?"
Yunxiao and the others didn't know that what they referred to as 'deities' were actually more like powerful beings from different worlds.
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Indeed, the Nether Dimension is also a dimension, a realm for the world beyond death and the destination of souls.
But the Nether Dimension isn't the only one; in Miracle World, the number of Nether Dimensions is innumerable, and each one is controlled by its own Lord of the Underworld (Dimensional Sovereign), managing the cycle of life and death within their territory.
In Miracle World, not many Kings wield the Power of Reincarnation. Like Fengdu, there are no more than ten in total.
Compared to the countless Nether Dimensions, the Lords of Reincarnation in Miracle World are the true gods.
This world originally belonged to a Nether Dimension, but Fengdu intervened ahead of time, conquered it, and took complete control.
Therefore, the souls of Daoist Lin's ancestors were naturally claimed by Fengdu.
When there's an order from above, the minions below dare not disobey.
However, such secrets were definitely beyond the scope of knowledge for those present, given their status and perspective.
Even Yunxiao, who had some understanding of different dimensions, wouldn't know that there were so many, let alone that the Nether Dimensions controlling reincarnation were also a type of dimension.