Chapter 497

Following the silver skeleton's roar, a powerful sound wave swept out like a gale. Wherever it passed, silver-white and bronze-green skeletons drilled out of the ground. The range was tens of thousands of kilometers.

The silver-white skeletons that woke up also roared at the sky, looking like they were calling for friends. In an instant, the range of tens of thousands of kilometers began to expand rapidly.

"The third bad news is that an idiot just woke up the ancient remains buried underground. Now, because of that ancient remains, a large number of other remains have woken up. I reckon that it won't be long before the remains that still have the will to fight wake up."

Neptune warned Gu Ding and the others after seeing the scene just now.

"Ancient remains? Those guys have been dead for many years. Weren't their souls absorbed by the wraiths? The remains still have consciousness? "Gu Ding did not understand. In the distance, Lilliath also raised a similar question.

"The souls of these remains have indeed dissipated, but their will to fight has not. A strong will to fight can also drive the body to fight. Over time, it can even condense a new consciousness and gain wisdom. "

"It is said that on a battlefield in ancient times, there was a giant ape that broke into the human camp alone and slaughtered wantonly. The massacre lasted for forty-nine days and millions of human powerhouses were slaughtered. In the end, it was suppressed by a Buddhist powerhouse. People suspected that the giant ape had taken some special medicine, so they sent doctors to examine it and found that the giant ape had died forty-eight days ago. What supported it to continue fighting was its strong will to fight. After it was suppressed, the giant ape did not die. Instead, it spent five hundred years to give birth to a new consciousness. Its strength declined sharply, and that was why it was exiled by the Buddhist powerhouse. "

"After giving birth to a new consciousness, why did its strength decline sharply?" Gu Ding asked curiously.

"The birth of a new consciousness comes at the cost of the destruction of the old remnant consciousness. The moment the new consciousness is born, the old consciousness completely disappears. Therefore, the new consciousness can't inherit the original consciousness. It can't use many moves and divine powers, and its strength will naturally decline, "Neptune explained patiently.

"If he doesn't give birth to a new consciousness, will he always be that strong?" Gu Ding could not help but ask.

"That won't happen. Once you die, no matter how strong your will to fight is, no matter how complete your remaining consciousness is, there will come a day when it dissipates. If he doesn't nurture a new consciousness, his strength will weaken day by day until one day he becomes a real skeleton. Other than being dug out and put into a museum for exhibition, there's no other use for it. "

"This is also one of the biggest differences between physical body cultivators and energy body cultivators. The treatment after death is completely different. Once energy-type cultivators perished, their bodies would disintegrate into energy fragments and slowly turn into energy particles before returning to the Cosmic Sea. But for fleshly body cultivators, if they are not disturbed by the external environment, the decay of their bodies will be very slow, and their bones can be preserved almost forever. "

Neptune's explanation finally made Gu Ding understand why these skeletons had the same combat power as living creatures.

"Based on the current situation, more and more skeletons will awaken, and they will be influenced by their fighting will. They will definitely be extremely combative. If they encountered any outsiders, they would definitely kill them without mercy. However, fortunately, only Bronze and Silver-level skeletons have awakened so far. Liliath and the others should be able to handle it. "

"I understand. Ask Mi Ke and Lili to try to avoid the places where the skeletons are hiding, especially Mi Ke. She will be killed instantly if she encounters these guys." Gu Ding was not worried about himself. He was most worried about Mi Ke. He had expected the appearance of local monsters from the beginning, but he did not expect them to be so strong. The weakest of these skeletons had a Bronze-level cultivation, and their combat effectiveness was comparable to a Higher Deity. With Mi Ke's current strength, she would not be able to stand firm in these ruins. "Give me the shortest route. I have to get there as soon as possible."

"The shortest route will definitely lead to encountering these skeletal warriors …" Neptune said hesitantly.

"It doesn't matter. Silver-level ancient powerhouses were not a threat to me when they were alive, let alone when they're dead. It'll be a waste of time if we go around in circles. " Gu Ding said nonchalantly. He was prepared to use violence to open a path and strive to find Mi Ke as soon as possible.

"Alright then." Knowing what Gu Ding was thinking, Neptune did not say much. He brought up the route and projected it to the side.

Gu Ding only took one glance before he immediately chose a direction and ran away.

After running less than five hundred kilometers, Neptune suddenly said, "There's a group of skeletal warriors about fifty kilometers ahead. There are two Silver-level and twenty-three Bronze-level. They've already discovered you."

"Their detection range is so large?!" Gu Ding raised his eyebrows.

"It's normal. The spatial stability of the Cosmic Sea in ancient times was much higher than it is now. In the ancient battlefield, they are considered local residents and have long since adapted to the suppression of detection abilities in this environment. "

Not long after, Gu Ding did not even need to use his detection ability to see these guys from afar. This was because these guys' bodies were too conspicuous. There were more than twenty bronze-green bronze skeletons, each of them thousands of meters tall, like a mountain. As for the two big guys that reflected the silver light, they were more than ten thousand meters tall. They were like towering mountains.

The two huge silver skeletons had clearly seen Gu Ding's location. Their empty eye sockets looked toward Gu Ding, and with a few strides, they rushed toward Gu Ding. The remaining twenty or so Bronze-level skeletons also rushed up from behind.

Gu Ding did not slow down at all. His Emperor Body of Nature and Rage Attack were fully activated. At the same time, he entered the Shura Armageddon state and rushed toward the two huge silver skeletons.

The two huge silver skeletons rushed at the front and almost simultaneously grabbed Gu Ding's position from two different directions.

Gu Ding was as small as an ant in front of the two huge skeletons. The Black God Source around his body flowed erratically, and his sleeves automatically fluttered in the absence of wind. His fists carried the Black God Source and punched out. However, compared to the two huge hands that were like mountains, his fists were so weak that it was as if they were nothing.

"Boom!" "Boom!"

Two consecutive explosions rang out. It was the sound of Gu Ding's fists colliding with the two silver-white skeletons' giant claws.

Gu Ding felt that his arms were a little numb. He quickly discovered that there were only slight cracks on the two skeletons' phalanges, and they were still far from being smashed into pieces. Moreover, his attack only made the two silver skeletons take a step back.

At this time, the group of bronze skeletons also surrounded him. Gu Ding pulled his hand back, and the originally black God Source turned into black devouring flames. With a wave of his hand, the black flames in the center of his palm spewed out wildly and quickly covered the surroundings. The black flames were like living creatures that kept climbing around.

Before the skeletons could pounce on him, the black flames engulfed all twenty-three bronze-green skeletons like a prairie fire.

The skeletons suddenly let out shrill screams and kept slapping their bodies, trying to extinguish the flames. A few of them even fell to the ground and rolled around, causing the surroundings to shake.

Hundreds of kilometers away, a young man soon heard the deafening explosion and the subsequent screams. He quickly hid behind a boulder and looked toward the source of the sound, but he could not see anything because he was too far away.

However, he could not help but murmur in a low voice, "Gu Ding is probably the only one who could cause such a big commotion."

He did not know that his casual guess was actually the correct answer.

The screams did not last long before they became weaker and eventually disappeared. The huge bronze-green skeletons slowly softened under the burning of the devouring flames, turning into pools of liquid energy that were quickly absorbed by the devouring flames.

Gu Ding suddenly found a strange energy flowing into his body, causing his Emperor Body of Nature to automatically enter a state of cultivation.

"What's going on?" Gu Ding was puzzled.

"The bone marrow is the largest hematopoietic factory in the body of flesh and blood, so the bones also contain a large amount of vitality energy. The devouring flames just now directly refined these bones and absorbed all of their vitality energy, "Neptune explained. The communication between the two of them was countless times faster than in the real world, so it would not affect Gu Ding's battle.

Seeing that the bronze skeletons were taken care of by the devouring flames in just a few seconds, and that his Emperor Body of Nature had automatically entered a state of cultivation, Gu Ding's gaze immediately fell on the two silver skeletons.

The two skeletons did not seem to know what fear was, and they swung their palms at Gu Ding again.

Gu Ding's figure flashed, and the black flames gushed out again, wrapping the two big guys in a moment.

"It's no use. The physical strength of these guys is above a five-star extreme deity. With the current power of your flames, it will take at least seven or eight years to completely refine these two big guys." Neptune only glanced at the shallow burn marks left on the two skeletons and calculated the approximate time Gu Ding would need to completely refine them.

Gu Ding naturally did not doubt what Neptune said because he also saw that the two huge skeletons did not seem to feel the damage caused by the black flames on their bodies and continued to attack him.

"These two big guys have really thick skin!" Gu Ding could not help but curse. He had no more time to waste. Without hesitation, he punched the two giant claws with both fists again.

"Sky Burning Blaze!"

With a low roar, all five energy nodes in Gu Ding's body exploded, and the black God Source instantly surged out in an even more violent manner than before. It flowed along Gu Ding's fists and hit the two palms.