Chapter 1437

Translator: Transn Editor: Transn

The Bridge of Life and Death

Zhuowen stretched out his right hand and touched the surface of the tombstone. He felt a bone-chilling coldness coming from his palm. Zhuowen felt a chill in his body and even in the depths of his soul.

"The Law of Death?"

Zhuowen murmured. His eyes were filled with awe. The Law of Death was definitely a terrifying law.

In this world, who didn't die?

Even Saints who had the same lifespan as the Heavens and Earth would die if the Heavens and Earth collapsed.

As long as one was alive, they would eventually walk towards death. That was an inevitable process.

"It's not impossible to become a member of the Kingdom of Death. However, I want to become your King. As long as you submit to me, I will become a member of your Kingdom of Death."

Zhuo Wen leaped up and stood on top of the tombstone. He looked down at the mountain of bones and the countless skeletons. His voice resounded like thunder.

Silence!

At this moment, the entire burial ground fell into silence. The surging skeletons all stopped moving and looked at the young man standing on the tombstone.

"If you want to become our King, the King of Death, you have to die once. Do you dare?"

An ancient figure slowly walked out from the foot of the mountain of bones. This figure was also a skeleton, but this skeleton was golden in color. His body was stooped, like the skeleton of an old man. Although he walked with a stagger, he was extremely determined.

The moment the golden skeleton walked over, the skeletons who weren't afraid of death lowered their heads and retreated to the side, making a path. This path led to the top of the mountain.

The golden skeleton walked very slowly. He walked up step by step until he was in front of the Palace of Ice and Fire.

The golden skeleton raised his head. In his hollow eyes, there was a pair of golden flames. He stared at Zhuowen and opened his mouth as if he was smiling. He said, "Young man, aren't you going to invite me to the top of the mountain?"

Zhuowen narrowed his eyes. The aura of the golden skeleton was very vast. It gave Zhuowen a sense of danger.

"It's the skeleton of a Saintly Being. There was a Saintly Being who died in the second forbidden area?" The Mountain God murmured in surprise.

"A Saintly Body?

But the aura on this golden skeleton seems to be even more vast than that Leng Xing and Hao Zhi! "Zhuowen said doubtfully.

"It's a Great Completion Holy Body. Generally speaking, those who can attain a Great Completion Holy Body will become Mountain Gods. Could he be …"

The Mountain God seemed to have thought of something, and his voice suddenly stopped.

"Who is he?" Zhuowen asked.

"Hehe, so it's Lhos. This should be a strand of your soul, right? It seems that you've become the new Mountain God of the Eighteenth Mountain. No wonder I thought so highly of you back then."

The golden skeleton's gaze suddenly landed on Zhuowen's clothes. Its indifferent voice reverberated endlessly like an echo.

"He was the previous God of the Eighteenth Mountain, Lao Si. He once guided me in the cultivation of the Holy Body. He could be considered as half a teacher to me. However, a hundred years ago, he risked everything and entered the Nineteenth Mountain in search of opportunities. Since then, there has been no news of him. I didn't expect him to enter the second forbidden area and leave behind only a skeleton."

As Lhos spoke, he shook his head and sighed.

"The previous God of the Eighteenth Mountain?" Zhuowen asked curiously.

"Yes, Lhos is right. I was the previous God of the Eighteenth Mountain, Lao Si. Unfortunately, I broke through the first forbidden area and entered the second. In the end, I fell here. The law of this forbidden area is something that people from the Upper Realm can't touch at all. Once they touch it, they will die." Lao Si sighed softly.

"What?

Senior Lao Si, are you saying that cultivators from the Upper Realm will never be able to successfully comprehend the law? "

Lhos's eyes were filled with shock. In fact, when he was in the first forbidden area, he had already felt something. He had also followed Zhuowen and the Long Xiaotian to comprehend the barren law. However, in the end, he had gained nothing. He was even confused.

This was also the reason why Lhos had planned to follow Zhuowen into the second forbidden area.

Subconsciously, he thought that the barren law of the first forbidden area might not be suitable for him. Perhaps he could comprehend the law of the second forbidden area. However, Lao Si's words had hit the nail on the head.

Lhos looked at Lao Si, who had turned into a skeleton, with a complicated gaze. He knew that Lao Si's mentality was similar to his before. He had worked hard to break into the first forbidden area, only to find that he could not comprehend the barren law.

Therefore, he had entered the second forbidden area with a fluke heart, fantasizing that he might be able to successfully comprehend the law of the second forbidden area. However, in the end, he had fallen here and become a member of the burial ground.

"However, I am very curious. How did this kid with a Quasi-Holy Body enter the second forbidden area? This is a bit of a miracle." Lao Si looked at Zhuowen with some surprise.

"Senior Lao Si, this kid is the 27nd successor of the Azure Dragon Hall. He has already obtained the barren law of the first forbidden area. This time, he came to obtain the death law of the second forbidden area," Lhos said with some reverence.

After all, Lao Si was half his teacher. Even if he had turned into a skeleton and his strength had been greatly reduced, he still respected the former.

"Successor?"

Lao Si's eyes suddenly burst with light. He laughed and said, "I didn't expect you to be a successor. Since the first successor, no successor from the outside world has successfully entered the second forbidden area. You are the first. Perhaps you can really master the death law."

"What is your name?" Lao Si asked.

"My name is Zhuowen!" Zhuowen replied.

"Zhuowen, if you can grasp the Laws of Death, then you will be the benefactor of this burial ground. These skeletons are all creatures that died under the power of the Laws of Death. Furthermore, because of the Laws of Death, their souls cannot be reincarnated. They can only exist here for all eternity. That is simply torture."

"However, if you can master the death law, then you can remove the curse of death and release all the dead here."

Lao Si suddenly bowed and said very humbly, "Zhuowen, I hope you can help us. We are just victims of the death tombstones."

"Help us!"

"…"

In the burial ground, countless skeletons knelt on one knee, their voices full of reverence.

They had been trapped in the burial ground for too long. They wanted to be free. They no longer wanted to experience the feeling of living a life worse than death.

"I came here for the death law. Even if you didn't ask, I would have done it."

Zhuowen waved his right hand and took back the Icefire Palace. He did not feel any hostility from Lao Si. Moreover, the latter was the former eighteenth mountain god, so he let down his guard.

Lao Si slowly walked to Zhuowen's side and said gratefully, "Zhuowen, thank you very much. Whether you succeed or fail, we are all very grateful to you."

"Senior Lao Si, you have come into contact with the death law. If I want to comprehend this law, what do I have to do?"

The death law was very strange. Zhuowen could only feel the surrounding death qi, but he could not feel the power of the death law.

"The power of the law is in the death tombstones. If you want to feel it, you have to touch the death imprint with your hand."

"Back then, I came into contact with the death imprint, and then directly fell into my current undead appearance."

Lao Si's voice was somewhat bitter as he continued, "Although you are an inheritor, you have to be careful when touching the death imprint. The death law has the ability to summon the dead to become undead, but it also has the power to make the living lose their vitality and fall into death."

"I see. Then I'll give it a try!"

Zhuowen pondered for a moment, then immediately walked to the death tombstones. He stretched out his right hand and placed it on the death imprint in the center of the tombstones.

"This power?"

Zhuowen's pupils shrank. He could clearly feel a strong sense of death wrapping around his body and penetrating deep into his soul. Then, his vision turned black, and he lost consciousness.

At this moment, Zhuowen still maintained the posture of his right hand touching the death imprint. His eyes were closed and he was motionless.

"What's wrong with Zhuowen?"

The Mountain God, who was on his lapel, was shocked and looked at the golden skeleton in confusion.

"Lhos, don't worry. Now Zhuowen should be trapped in the death tombstone space. There is the real death law there. When I first entered, I was repelled by the death law there."

"The death law is definitely much more terrifying than the desolation law in the first forbidden area. In the first forbidden area, the desolation law couldn't do anything to me with the tenacity of my great success Divine Body. However, the death law directly turned me into an undead that is neither human nor ghost."

The golden skeleton's eyes flickered, and his expression was full of loneliness. Obviously, he was still brooding about dying under the death law.

"I hope Zhuowen can truly master the death law. If he fails, he can only become a member of this burial ground." Lao Si sighed softly.

"I hope so!" Lhos shrank in Zhuowen's lapel and said worriedly.

…

Zhuo Wen slowly opened his eyes. Soon after, he discovered that he was in a dark space. In the air above this dark space, there was a huge skull floating in the air.

The skull hung high in the sky and emitted a lustrous brilliance, bringing a trace of light to the dark space.

"This is … What happened to me?"

Suddenly, Zhuo Wen abruptly discovered that his hands and feet were actually white bones. His original flesh was gone, and when he swung them, they emitted crisp creaking sounds.

"I turned into a skeleton?" Zhuowen said to himself in horror.

However, he quickly calmed down. He looked around and found that there was nothing but darkness around him.

"There is a bridge over there?"

Suddenly, Zhuowen's gaze stopped in the northeast direction. There was a long bridge over there, and under the long bridge was a stream.

"Let's go and take a look!"

Zhuowen quickly walked toward the long bridge. However, he found that after turning into a skeleton, his movements were extremely stiff and his footsteps became very slow.

It took him about four hours to reach the long bridge.

"Life and Death Bridge, life or death. You have to choose life or death!"