【Dungeon Notification: You are all students of the same university's paranormal club. This time, you organized a trip for all members to explore an abandoned mine shaft. However, you accidentally awakened a specter hidden deep within the mine!】
【Run!】
【It is very dangerous here!】
【Please be extremely careful. They will be watching you from the shadows. Do not give them an opportunity, otherwise...】
【Main Quest: Survive for one day, find the path of survival.】
【Novice Benefit: Did you hear that? Someone is calling you.】
【Note: Novice benefits are only available for a player's first three specter dungeons.】
Zuo Lin'an saw the dungeon notification as well.
It had to be said that the premise of a battle royale was incredibly simple.
It only required a single sentence.
As for what rules the specters in the mine followed or what their method of execution was, it didn't matter. Even whether the specter items that appeared fit the storyline was completely irrelevant.
How convenient.
Zuo Lin'an thought to himself.
However... his Withered Forest and Barren Mountains dungeon didn't seem particularly suited for a similar battle royale scenario.
After all, it lacked an underground space, and an open-air battle royale didn't seem quite right either.
Just as he expected the players to discuss the newly appeared dungeon notification, he noticed the atmosphere here was very strange. No one spoke, and it was dead silent.
He exchanged a subtle look with Fang Tang, also sensing that something was amiss.
Although they didn't know what was going on, neither was foolish enough to speak first. Instead, they continued to wait in silence.
The space they were in was relatively spacious, but that was only compared to the narrow tunnels of the mine.
With twenty-two people gathered here, it indeed looked somewhat crowded.
Logically, they should be wasting no time analyzing the dungeon notification to find clues and escape as quickly as possible.
Yet they...
Several minutes passed, but no one in the room spoke, and no one left. Everyone stood in place.
It was as if... they were waiting for something?
Zuo Lin'an observed closely. He noticed that although the players weren't moving, they were highly alert to their surroundings.
This was likely to prevent any sudden specter attacks.
But more than that, they seemed to be guarding against the other players around them.
After all, there were too many people now, and the distance between them had shrunk to an uncomfortable degree.
After another two minutes, there was finally some movement.
The man standing closest to the kerosene lamp turned around.
Zuo Lin'an immediately noticed the man's skin, which had a distinct grayish-blue tint. His eyes were also a pure dark red.
He certainly didn't look like an ordinary person.
Just then, a woman's voice suddenly came from a corner on the other side.
“I knew it! Your aura felt completely off. So you really walk the path of corpse refining. And looking at you, did you actually refine your own body into a corpse?”
“What a ruthless character!”
Her voice was extremely soft, like a gentle breeze brushing against one's face.
“A ruthless person like you surely isn't a nobody. Why don't you introduce yourself? Perhaps we've all heard of your prestigious name.”
As soon as she spoke, the other players around them also turned their gazes toward the man.
Hearing this, the corpse-refining man merely cast an indifferent glance at her before looking away.
“Heh.”
He sneered.
“You're talking so much just to confirm whether I'm from the Celestial Corpse Sect. If I am, you'll find a way to torture me to extract our sect's corpse-refining secret art.”
The woman slowly raised her hand, slightly obscuring the smile on her face.
“It seems you are.”
The corpse-refining man laughed openly.
“I am indeed. But so what?”
“We are currently in a specter dungeon. Do you dare to lay a hand on me?”
The woman had a pure temperament and a sweet voice, yet she was relentless.
“As long as we can capture you, the subsequent interrogation won't be an issue. After all, we only need to keep you alive. As for how you live, that doesn't matter.”
She pointed to a man on the other side.
“Judging by the clothes this big brother is wearing, he should be an expert in the path of Gu. When the time comes, we can just have him implant a Gu insect in you to keep you alive until the end of the dungeon, right?”
“What does everyone think?”
“I'm sure you all want the Celestial Corpse Sect's corpse-refining secret art, don't you?”
Many of the players present knew that the Celestial Corpse Sect had already reached the limit and the peak in the path of corpse refining, to the point where they could no longer surpass themselves.
That was why they had paved a new path and begun refining their own bodies.
This was to break through their limits and increase their strength.
This was a new generation of corpse refining developed by the current sect master of the Celestial Corpse Sect.
They say there is only a thin line between a genius and a madman, and this saying fit that sect master perfectly.
What's more, he had actually succeeded in creating this new corpse-refining method!
Although it seemed bloody and cruel, the secret art was used on oneself, so no one accused them of being inhumane.
They just thought that anyone who refined themselves into a corpse was completely insane.
However, just a few years ago, members of the major families behind the Joint Auction accidentally captured a disciple of the Celestial Corpse Sect and tortured him to extract some information about the sect.
After all, the location of the auction was a black market.
And one of the black market's specialties was information.
They naturally wanted information on the highly mysterious Celestial Corpse Sect.
Yet this interrogation revealed just how formidable this new corpse-refining secret art was!
It was said that after cultivating this method, one's body could obtain a constitution and abilities identical to a refined corpse. Furthermore, by continuously refining it with rare materials, one could grow progressively stronger.
What surprised them the most was that doing so would not damage one's lifespan.
To put it in simpler terms, it made them a living refined corpse.
However, their interrogation had been too brutal. Coupled with the disciple's refusal to disclose any more sect information, he had taken advantage of their inattention to trigger a secret restriction on his body with a thread of his mind, blowing himself up.
The person was dead, but the information that had already been extracted remained.
As people continuously purchased information on the Celestial Corpse Sect, and with the black market secretly fueling the flames, news of the sect creating a new corpse-refining secret art quickly spread.
Not only people from their own country, but even those from other nations desperately desired it.
They traveled in groups, hoping to seize it for themselves.
Unfortunately, however, it was not that simple.
Although the Celestial Corpse Sect was a reclusive sect whose members rarely appeared in public, that did not mean they were helpless prey to be slaughtered at will.
One had to remember that the Celestial Corpse Sect had reached the absolute limit of traditional corpse refining and could no longer surpass themselves, which was why the sect master had created the new corpse-refining secret art.
To put it plainly, the Celestial Corpse Sect was incredibly powerful!
Almost every disciple possessed at least two high-quality refined corpses of exceptional strength.
Coupled with their own cultivation of the new corpse-refining secret art, their defense and physical strength far surpassed those of ordinary cultivators.
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