# Chapter 1429: The Sinister Skeleton
"Come out!" At this moment, his palm transformed into pitch-black demonic flames, just like when he had once ripped out the Jade Emperor's heart. The demon fire refined everything. With a cracking sound, his hand directly broke through the ancient tree's giant roots, plunging straight into the place where the destiny fragment lay.
"Whoosh!" A surging power descended. Lin Feng pulled out the destiny fragment and immediately stored it away. Spatial energy rippled, and his body abruptly vanished from where he stood.
"Ssshh, sshh..."
Dazzling golden wings slashed down from the sky, like a golden heavenly river pouring down, cutting through everything. Lin Feng let out a long breath, cold sweat dripping from his body. These bastards had people with Imperial Artifacts. Fortunately, he also had plenty of good items on him, such as the Jade Emperor Palace and the Supreme Sacred Artifact. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had any chance of seizing the destiny fragment.
Moreover, the destiny fragment that skeleton had guided him to seemed relatively easy to obtain. The destiny fragment on that living corpse and the one belonging to that woman were much harder to get. This skeleton was very mysterious, as if it knew this space extremely well. If an ordinary person passed through this jungle, they would never discover a destiny fragment containing Law power.
"Kill!" The Golden-Winged Great Roc's murderous intent soared to the heavens. Its golden wings slashed toward Lin Feng, its entire massive body shooting at him like a sharp sword.
"Death Curse!" Lin Feng held the Curse Scepter and shouted coldly. Instantly, the power of the Death Curse spread toward the opponent. The Golden-Winged Great Roc wrapped itself tightly in its wings. Death qi spread, and it seemed to forget about attacking Lin Feng.
Its physical body and speed were both formidable, especially with that Imperial Artifact wing, making it terrifyingly powerful. But after all, its cultivation level was limited. Although as a divine bird demon beast its life force was also surging, it still couldn't withstand the power of the Death Curse. If it didn't protect itself well, it would be cursed to death.
Lin Feng took a step forward, as fast as lightning. Holding the vast palace in his hand, he suddenly smashed it down from the sky.
With a thunderous boom, the Golden-Winged Great Roc's massive body was slammed heavily into the ground. Its golden body tore through the earth, sinking into the depths.
"Die, die, die!" Lin Feng held the Curse Scepter in his left hand, his eyes filled entirely with death intent, erupting wildly as if trying to kill the Golden-Winged Great Roc.
"Ah... ssshh!" The Golden-Winged Great Roc roared furiously. One wing swept through the void, tearing up and flipping the entire ground. Dust flew everywhere. Its body shot into the sky, appearing ten thousand meters away in an instant. Its wings spread wide, death qi still clinging to its body. Its golden eyes stared at Lin Feng coldly and eerily. The power of the Death Curse seeped in everywhere, truly capable of killing it, even with the Imperial Artifact being useless. It was just like the living corpse's Death Law—it could only resist this power by wrapping itself tightly. If the others hadn't cooperated with it, it wouldn't have been able to kill that living corpse at all.
"Feather-brain bird, weren't you so arrogant? I'm waiting here for you to kill me!" Lin Feng mocked, deliberately trying to provoke the Golden-Winged Great Roc. The Roc Demon let out a long screech, and endless golden light shot toward Lin Feng. Lin Feng extended his hand forward, and the palace appeared again. The Roc Demon simply couldn't do anything to Lin Feng.
"Screech!" The Roc Demon's body charged into the nine heavens, looking down at Lin Feng from above, arrogant and fierce. "Lin Feng, I, Roc Demon, will definitely kill you!"
"Without that Imperial Artifact, you're no different from a crow in front of me. Kill if you want, torture if you want. What right do you have to shout? Get lost!" Lin Feng looked up, his voice filled with endless contempt. This enraged the Roc Demon into another furious screech. Its body circled in the void, murderous intent filling heaven and earth. Then it rolled away, vanishing in an instant, its speed terrifyingly fast.
Watching the Roc Demon leave, Lin Feng's Death Demon Eye swept over the other people in the void. His footsteps suddenly strode toward a Seventh Layer of Sovereign Martial Realm cultivator, and he roared: "Death, Curse!"
With a single shout, endless curse power spread out, as if descending on the opponent from nothingness. In an instant, death qi enveloped him, his life force gradually drying up, as if he were about to die.
"Die, die, die!" Lin Feng roared three times in succession. That person's body had no more life force. Although he was a Sovereign Lord, his life force wasn't as surging as the divine bird Roc's, and he had no Imperial Artifact to resist. Facing Lin Feng's Curse Scepter and Death Curse technique, he was directly cursed to death.
When Lin Feng's gaze fell on the other people in the void, they all instantly fled, distancing themselves from Lin Feng. This guy was a death plague god, capable of bringing death in an instant, taking people's lives. The power of death was too terrifying. They had already experienced it when escaping from that living corpse.
This guy had actually cultivated Death Essence to a very powerful level and was skilled in death curses. Being an enemy of someone like this was too dangerous.
Lin Feng glanced at the fleeing figures but didn't pursue them. Killing one to warn a hundred was enough. He only needed to drive them away. Those unwilling to leave were all coveting the destiny fragment on him, so of course he had to drive them off. If they didn't leave, he would kill them, completely cutting off their thoughts of snatching it.
Seeing no more figures in the void, Lin Feng flickered and descended beside the black-robed skeleton in the distance. His eyes were filled with deep confusion. What kind of existence was guiding him from behind, and through a skeleton?
"Woo woo!" The skeleton made whimpering sounds at Lin Feng, then slowly turned around, facing another direction, as if wanting to take him somewhere else.
Lin Feng moved his mind, and the great sword appeared. The skeleton indeed stepped onto the great sword, guiding Lin Feng forward.
"It actually really knows where there are destiny fragments, and is guiding me there again!" Lin Feng's heart trembled. This mysterious space was full of strangeness everywhere. Suddenly, a skeleton controlled by someone appeared, guiding him to find destiny fragments. He had just obtained one, so clearly the other party was very familiar with this ancient battlefield.
But since this skeleton was taking him to find destiny fragments, he certainly wouldn't be polite. Destiny fragments contained Law power and were supreme treasures, especially for those old monsters stuck at the Ninth Layer of Sovereign Martial Realm. If they knew where there were destiny fragments, they would risk their lives for them. Moreover, they were the keys to Holy City Central Continent. Who would complain about having too many destiny fragments?
Lin Feng used the great sword to carry the skeleton as he flew through the air, shuttling over this ancient battlefield. Below was a ruined world, with no traces of treasures or Imperial Artifacts. After all, they weren't the first batch to enter. Treasures like Imperial Artifacts were too conspicuous and easily discovered and taken. But destiny fragments were very mysterious. Destiny fragments containing Law power could nurture life, like the living corpse, that woman, and that demon tree.
He wondered what kind of place this skeleton was taking him to this time. Perhaps there would also be life forms nurtured there, blocking his way.
This time, the black-robed skeleton took Lin Feng to a place resembling the Cloud Sea Mountain Range, and guided him into an ancient forest. This forest was where Black Wind Ridge was located.
Lin Feng remained silent, flying on his sword without speaking. In fact, he couldn't communicate with the black-robed skeleton anyway. The two of them kept going deeper into this forest when the skeleton suddenly made a whimpering sound. Lin Feng stopped, and the great sword hovered in the air.
"Woo woo!" The black-robed skeleton's body drifted over to a giant tree, making Lin Feng pause. Another ancient tree?
Moreover, this ancient tree was different from the one before. It had no life force, looking like a withered tree, dead and lifeless. It didn't seem like a place where a destiny fragment containing Law power would exist.
"Are you sure there's a destiny fragment here?" Lin Feng asked the black-robed skeleton. The skeleton kept nodding.
"Alright, move aside!" Lin Feng said. He held a ball of demon fire in his hand again. The skeleton flew to the side, and then Lin Feng's demon fire descended on that giant ancient tree. However, to Lin Feng's surprise, the demon fire burned for a moment before dissipating into nothing. That ancient tree remained perfectly intact, not burned at all.
"Illusory!" Lin Feng's expression stiffened. Illusion Law?
No, this wasn't an illusion. It was real, giving him a familiar feeling.
"It's 'A World Away,' yes, that's the feeling of 'A World Away'!" Lin Feng's heart trembled. This was Void power. This ancient tree and his current location weren't in the same space. That's why the demon fire couldn't burn it at all. It was like 'A World Away'—he seemed close to it, yet could never approach it, because they weren't in the same space. It was the power of Void.
"Void Law power, is it? This ancient tree has another world within!" Lin Feng's demon fire disappeared, and then he stepped toward the ancient tree, reaching out his hand. Sure enough, his hand couldn't touch anything. This ancient tree was illusory, with Void Law power imbued in it.
"Where is the destiny fragment? How can I get it?" Lin Feng murmured. Void Law. Thinking of this, Space Essence began to emanate from his body, the power of Void. Suddenly, on the ancient tree, a kind of matching power seemed to guide him, very familiar.
Lin Feng stepped forward, and he actually stepped directly into the ancient tree, disappearing in an instant, vanishing into thin air.
Seeing Lin Feng's figure disappear, the black-robed skeleton's eerie eyes seemed to show a hint of human emotion, as if it were smiling. Whimpering sounds came out. Wrapped in its robe, its body slowly drifted away, heading into the distance, not bothering to pay any more attention to Lin Feng, who had entered the ancient tree.
PS: 555 flowers, such a harmonious number. Brothers, let's march toward 600!
[Thanks to Dream Flower Youth for tipping 588 Zonglang coins, thank you.]