People belonging to the four divine kingdoms knew everything about the corpses in those coffins. They had spent years investigating them thoroughly in order to control the corpses.
It wasn't an easy task, learning the corpses' nas and retaining them. Given the nas weren't hard to rember, fusing their souls with the corpses caused the corpses to instinctively reject them.
And being interrogated by the girl who was sealed in the stone pillar would cause the mories in their souls to beco confused, making it hard for them to rember the nas of the corpses.
War King Wind had once succeeded in saying the correct na. But he couldn't rember how he had managed to do it and his success had been the only one in all these years.
When the masters of the Soul Sea Realm opened the coffin, they saw a thin old man lying within it. This man was Henk Feng, the one they had spoken of.
War King Wind's soul entered the old man's corpse through his mouth.
Not long after, his soul rged with Henk's corpse and controlled it such that it slowly climbed out of the coffin.
But the corpse seed to be rejecting War King Wind's soul rather strongly. As War King Wind controlled the corpse, trying to make it walk, it staggered like a drunken man and involuntarily moved towards the stone pillar.
The following monts were most crucial. Only by saying the right na of the corpse could he escape control of the girl in the pillar. Since Scott had already failed, they thought that the chances of War King Wind succeeding were slim.
As expected, the corpse's face twisted under the girl's interrogation, as if in pain. It shook severely, trying and failing to speak out the na, “Henk Feng.”
He ended up facing the sa fate as Scott. The soul was forcefully ejected out by the mysterious girl in the pillar.
War King Wind was dejected and it showed on his face. But he didn't go to the twelfth floor to choose a corpse, like Scott had done. Instead, he fell into deep thought, wanting to try once again.
But War Emperor York and Turner were in no hurry to give it a try. They walked around the coffins and tried to think of a good solution.
In the past, the people of the four divine kingdoms couldn't take even a single step into the Feather Emperor Secret Land, the Divine Emperor Secret Land and the Mysterious Dream Secret Land, let alone the Heavenly Stellar Secret Land. After years of scouting, they gradually found ways of entering the first three secret lands. If they could find a way to easily obtain the corpses of the ancient warriors at the top floor, they would be able to explore the whole Heavenly Stellar Secret Land so day.
But the four divine kingdoms hadn't co up with any thod to solve this problem.
Zen frowned as he watched the three emperors hesitate.
As Turner had pointed out, this was indeed a matter of nas. If they could clearly say the right nas of the corpses in front of the girl, they would be able to obtain the corpses.
Was it really that difficult to speak out a few words?
War King Wind and Scott had repeatedly morized the nas. It was impossible for them to forget the nas and there were others on the sidelines who constantly reminded them. But despite all that, they had failed to say the right nas.
“Nas!”
An idea suddenly occurred to Zen, and his eyes flashed with excitent. He walked up to a coffin.
“Thad, do you also want to give it a try?” Turner asked.
Most Soul Sea Realm masters also looked at Zen. Although his cultivation base wasn't high, his abilities couldn't be asured with common sense. Maybe he could think up a good solution.
As this thought crossed their minds, they beca excited. One of them said to Zen, “The owner of this coffin is called Federico Feng. He was the most powerful warrior among the Dragon Lineage Humans. According to the information we've got, he was born with superhuman strength.”
“Federico Feng... Federico Feng...” Zen repeated the na twice to himself.
“Shall we help you open the coffin now?” another warrior at the Soul Sea Realm asked.
“Please wait a mont,” Zen replied. He did not choose to open the coffin and occupy Federico's corpse directly. Instead, he returned to the side of the stone pillar.
“What is Thad trying to do?”
“I'm not sure. I don't understand...”
“It looks like he wants to carve sothing on the stone pillar. Could it be that he wants to carve the na of the corpse on it? But that will not work!”
The powerful warriors at the Soul Sea Realm had left no stone unturned in order to occupy the corpses on that floor. So of them had tried to carve the nas on the pillar before. But they hadn't been able to rember the nas irrespective of whether others whispered the nas to them or whether the nas were carved into the wall.
Standing beside the stone pillar, Zen stretched out a finger and transford it into a sharp shape. With a light wave of his finger, he began to carve words onto the stone pillar.
He was carving the na 'Federico Feng' on the pillar, but indirectly. He was using the letters that spelt the na.
The nas of the Dragon Lineage Human were still written in the human language. Zen believed that even if he couldn't rember the na directly, he could at least record the words by spelling them out.
Zen carved the letters one by one onto the stone pillar. He then returned to coffin and smiled as he said, “Alright, I'm ready now!”
The Soul Sea Realm warriors were surprised at Zen's actions but didn't say anything. They wanted to see if Zen's plan would succeed. If it worked, they could follow suit afterwards.
So they broke the rune on the coffin and opened it.
The coffin was a little longer than the others. It revealed a burly man lying within it, two huge gold axes lying beside the body.
Without any hesitation, Zen took his space ring from his finger and placed it beside the coffin. The space ring was very important to him, which was why he had taken it with his soul instead of leaving it with his body.
Once the preparations had been made, Zen's soul rushed towards the burly man's corpse. He opened the burly man's mouth like the others had done and entered the corpse through the mouth.
Soon, his soul settled in so that it felt like it had reached the body's brain. But the mont he tried to rge his soul into the corpse, he felt a strong force of expulsion.
Usually, warriors had to destroy their opponents' souls if they wanted to steal their body shells.
This warrior called Federico had died many years ago. His soul had already disappeared or had entered Samsara. This ant that Zen wasn't stealing his body shell but was simply obtaining his corpse.
However, when a warrior cultivated to such a high level, an unchangeable power still remained within his body even if he had been dead for many years.
And because of this, even if so powerful warriors passed away in the wilderness, no wild beasts would dare approach their corpses.
The powerful repelling force within the corpse was driving Zen's soul out of it. If it had been an ordinary Fighting Soul, it might have been instantly driven out of the corpse's brain.
That was why most Soul Sea Realm warriors of the four divine kingdoms had chosen the corpses of the eleventh and twelfth floors. They knew that it was too difficult for their souls to obtain the corpses of the thirteen floor.
Zen's soul was much stronger than that of a normal Soul Sea Realm warrior and even the four emperors, not to ntion that he had fused with the will of the great world. His soul ignored the repulsive force and directly occupied the brain.
However, even though his soul had rged with the brain, he was still unable to control the corpse. He had to wait for the Soul Core's power to spread and fuse with the corpse.
Streams of grey light surged through the man's body. After a few seconds, Zen gradually regained so of his senses, finally feeling his limbs again. He soon felt that he could control this corpse as his own.
“Get up!”
Zen tried to rise from the coffin. But it was a little harder than he thought. As he made to stand up, he tottered unsteadily on his feet and fell back into the coffin.
Although Zen's movents looked funny, no one laughed at him. With his current age and cultivation base, it was his pride and joy to be able to obtain this corpse.
Few monts later, Zen jumped up smoothly to his feet. His burly body was like a steel tower as he firmly stood on the ground. His eyes were the size of saucers as he opened them and looked around.
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