Chapter 1670: Light Eater

“What should we do?”

Ye Qing narrowed his eyes. The ancient corpse was very powerful. If they could control her, she would be of great use to them.

Besides that, she came from the God Demon Ancient Ruins. The secrets of the God Demon Ancient Ruins might be hidden on her person. That was a great opportunity as well.

“It’s doable.”

Feng Qingyou nodded. If you find a coin on the floor, you pick it up. There was no reason to leave it there.

It was at this moment the corpse suddenly looked straight at Ye Qing as if she had sensed him. Her eyes flickered with violence and killing intent.

The next moment, the corpse turned away and ran.

“What... didn’t they say that her mind is gone?”

Ye Qing rubbed his nose. He thought for sure that the corpse would charge them like a mindless zombie or something. In reality, she had turned tail and ran like a rabbit. Where is your shame as an ancient corpse from the God Demon Ancient Ruins, girl?

Obviously, Ye Qing wasn’t going to allow her to escape just like that. In one step, he flowed in the six places and appeared above the corpse in the blink of an eye. Then, he clenched his fists and punched.

Buzz!

His fist was still in the air, but his intent had already reached its target. The yellow sand within a radius of three hundred meters caved to form a gigantic fist print.

“Roar!”

The corpse’s back was bent, and its face was contorted after taking the full brunt of Ye Qing’s punch. It roared loudly before throwing a punch of her own with all her might.

Her vigor filled the firmaments, and her fist intent conjured a charging army into existence.

The army was composed of heavenly soldiers and generals, and the horses were dragon-blooded sky horses.

The army roared as they charged forward fearlessly in formation.

The gallop of ten thousand horses shook heaven and earth as they descended from above.

Rumble rumble rumble!

The charge was so powerful it felt as if it would trample the earth and flatten the firmaments.

“Well met!”

Ye Qing’s eyes lit up as he pointed his fist downward. His intent immediately fell like the sun and moon.

“The Deep Sea of Fist Art: Sun Moon Impetus”

Sun and moon shone in the same sky and punched right through the charging army. Then, it clashed against the ancient corpse’s fist.

Thump!

The resulting impact sounded like a heavenly gong was struck. A powerful shockwave washed out from the point of impact and kicked countless yellow sand into the air. When the force reached its peak, it abruptly exploded and kicked up sand hundreds of meters above the ground.

Amidst the tidal waves of yellow sand, Ye Qing and the ancient corpse moved everywhere while punching and kicking each other. At first glance, it looked like they were just trading blows like a weakest warrior would. There were neither complex variations nor profound techniques in their movement. They weren’t using Magia or spells either. In reality, each punch moved the earth and shook the mountains, each exchange of palm or finger threw up tsunamis and waves, and each exchange was so deadly that a single mistake could sound the other party’s demise.

To be honest, Ye Qing had not encountered such a pure and powerful fist intent in a very, very long time. That was why he could not help but want to fight them as a pure physical warrior and only with his fist arts. He did not use any mental art, secret art or Magia.

Ye Qing had learned a lot of fist arts at this point. At the beginning, he learned Divide and Break Through. Later, he learned the Cloud Vaporization Style. Today, he had learned the seven impetuses of the Deep Sea of Fist Art. He showed off all of them while adding all sorts of variations to his skills.

The corpse was no less to him. She used whatever fist art that felt best to her and never stuck to a specific style or technique. Sometimes, her fists were straightforward and direct. Sometimes, they were light and erratic. Sometimes, they were tricky and difficult to predict. Sometimes, they were grandiose and forceful. If there was one thing common about her techniques, it was that they were all powerful enough to create miracles.

For a time, the duo were completely engrossed in their fight.

The battle would not end in one day. Ye Qing fought the corpse from morning to night, then from night to sunrise. In fact, the battle lasted six days and nights before the corpse finally ran out of stamina and could not fight any longer.

Although Ye Qing spent six days and nights fighting, their journey wasn’t delayed. An observer would notice that Ye Qing was controlling the pace of the battle and ensuring that they were traveling north the entire time they were fighting.

After he drained every ounce of stamina from the corpse, Ye Qing surrendered her to Feng Qingyou and returned to the horse carriage. Then, he entered meditation to digest everything he had learned and gained in the past six days and nights.

Since both Ye Qing and Feng Qingyou were busy, the task of driving the horse carriage naturally fell on Qiwa.

They did not have the habit of raising idle pets.

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. When the yellow sand beneath their feet had turned into crushed stones, and a pair of massive peaks rose out of the ground, they had finally passed through the Desert Sea.

At the same time, Ye Qing opened his eyes and looked at the two mountains.

“Is this the Night Mountains?”

The two mountains were so tall that their peaks were hidden in the clouds, and they looked steep and treacherous.

What was strange was that both mountains were pitch black in color. The rocks, the plants, the soil were all black. Even the sky was pitch black in color. Not a speck of light could be found anywhere.

It was daytime right now, and still he couldn’t see a speck of light. It was as if the sunlight was absorbed by some sort of mysterious power after they got close to the Night Mountains.

There was a deep, dark valley at the center of the two mountains. This was the Night Valley.

They must pass through the Night Valley if they wished to make it to Bei Yuan.

The reason the Night Mountains and Night Valley were black as night and completely devoid of light was because a special Stranger was living there. It was called the Light Eater.

A Light Eater was a Phenomenon-class Stranger. It was shaped like a worm but did not have eyes, noses, or ears. It only had a mouth. Its whole body was pitch black. It could fly in the air or crawl on the ground.

As the name implied, the Light Eater fed on light. It was extremely sensitive toward light and would consume all light in its vicinity. The Light Eater was a social Stranger, so numerous Light Eaters usually gathered in one place. A small group of Light Eaters numbered in the thousands. A big group was literally innumerable. That was why a place where the Light Eaters resided was usually pitch black.

The Night Mountains and the Night Valley were the places containing the most amount of Light Eaters bar none.

It was because the soil of the Night Mountains contained some sort of special substance, and this special substance was a necessity for the Light Eaters to survive. That was why so many Light Eaters lived here.

Because of this, the biggest problem one faced when passing through the Night Valley was the Light Eaters.

Sure, the Light Eater was only a Phenomenon-class Stranger. Sure, it was less than an ant compared to Ye Qing, Feng Qingyou, and even the Ancient-class Stranger, the Water Demon Ape.

However, the amount of Light Eaters living in this place was innumerable. Not only that, kill one of them, and all of them would chase you to the ends of the earth.

Besides that, the Light Eater boasted exceptionally sharp teeth that could chew through rocks and soil like grass. They could even chew through a warrior’s astral qi.

Therefore, as strong as they were, they weren’t willing to risk the Light Eaters’ wrath.

Assuming the Night Valley was short, then it wasn’t impossible for them to force their way through.

Unfortunately, the Night Valley was very long, and the Night Mountains themselves were riddled with holes created by the constant feeding of the Light Eaters. Many of these holes were linked to the Night Valley, so trying to navigate the Night Valley was like trying to navigate through a swiss cheese. It was incredibly difficult to tell which path was the correct path to Bei Yuan.

Combined with the fact that the Night Valley was constantly shrouded in darkness, and it was all too easy for someone to accidentally enter the wrong passage and get lost.

That was why crossing the Night Valley was no easy task even excluding the threat of the Light Eaters.