Chapter 195 (1/2)

Several hundred miles outside of Canglan City, a black-robed old man from the Zuoqiu family was gazing at the stars in the sky in an attempt to deduce the reason for the frequent unnatural phenomena lately. Suddenly, he detected a weak cry for help coming from the Changyin Mountain Range.

“Oh no! Ze’er is in trouble!” He instantly transformed into a swift light and tore through the air.

The man was Zuoqiu Ming, the Head of the Zuoqiu family who possessed Nascent Soul Realm cultivation.

Right then, in the depths of the Changyin Mountain Range, Zuoqiu Ze was being pinned in the sky as if he couldn’t move at all. He depended on his rapidly fading consciousness to activate all the seal talismans and treasures that he carried to blast the decayed corpse behind him.

Following an ear-splitting explosion, the decayed corpse remained in its original position. Not even repeated spells or magic treasures and seal talismans imbued with Nascent Soul Realm power were able to harm the corpse. Its seemingly frail body was unexpectedly indestructible.

Zuoqiu Ze’s pupils gradually lost its splendour, but not its fright. His skin slowly darkened and caved in until he completely turned into a withered corpse. His soul and vital essence were all absorbed by the decayed corpse.

In the distance, Xiao Chen felt cold sweat trailing down his back as he watched what happened. He had planned on using this unknown existence to severely injure Zuoqiu Ze and then take advantage of that moment to kill and steal the latter’s Spiritual Meridians. He never imagined this decayed corpse to be so powerful as to directly ingest Zuoqiu Ze’s soul.

Under the glittering moon and stars, the flesh of the decayed corpse began to slowly but surely coming together. However, tried as it may, the growth was unable to fill the gaping hole in the corpse’s chest. Suddenly, it whipped its head around and shot an unfathomable look in the direction of the boulder that Xiao Chen was hiding behind.

“D*mn it, it noticed us!” Xiao Chen escaped as quickly as lightning, pulling Murong Xian’er with him. However, they hadn’t gone more than ten feet when a shadow stopped them. It was the decayed corpse.

“Argh!” Murong Xian’er was so terrified by the decayed corpse’s frightening appearance that she screeched. Xiao Chen hastily pulled her behind him and then stared coolly at the decayed corpse.

He had witnessed the eerie process of the corpse ingesting Zuoqiu Ze’s soul earlier. Thus, he was prepared to use his Heaven’s Talisman. Even if the Devil’s Three Turns might not be enough to hurt the decayed corpse, he could at least win some time for Xian’er to escape.

Suddenly, the decayed corpse opened its mouth to speak. “Hehe. Don’t be afraid, young friend. I’m Yu Yangzi. I hold no ill will toward you.” Its voice didn’t sound as hollow as it did earlier. It sounded just like the voice of an elderly man.

Xiao Chen’s heart jolted with surprise. “So it isn’t a Corpse Puppet?” He thought that this person had been refined into a Corpse Ghost while alive but later gained spiritual consciousness and betrayed its owner. From the look of things now, this wasn’t the truth.

“Please pardon my rudeness in asking this question, but what creature are you now, Senior?”

Xiao Chen wouldn’t let down his guard just because this living corpse said he held no malicious intentions. He discovered that this was a place of mystery and sinister energy, filled with coldness and darkness all year round. This corpse was likely using the cold energy of this place to reconstruct his physical form.

Yu Yangzi sighed. “Do you know of the Corpse Refinery Sect?”

“Corpse Refinery Sect?”

Xiao Chen frowned, having heard Fengxi mention about it. The Corpse Refinery Sect was one of the four main devil’s sects of the Archean Eon. It operated in utter mystery and its disciples were most skilled in refining living humans into Corpse Puppets and making the corpses do their bidding. It was a sect of great ruthless and cruelty.

However, the Corpse Refinery Sect had returned to its birthplace and remained in seclusion for many years. Many of the younger generation in the Violet Manor didn’t know about them. Xiao Chen wouldn’t understand this so well if he hadn’t heard of Corpse Puppets before.

Yu Yangzi nodded, a grim look suddenly coloring his pupils. “I was just an independent cultivator living on Guiling Mountain 300 years ago. When I heard that the Corpse Refinery Sect has been going around harming the innocent, I killed a total of 78 disciples of this devil’s sect. However, the Sect Leader possessed incredible cultivation. I fought him for seven whole days and we eventually ended up on this deep into this mountain…”

He couldn’t help shaking his head and sighing as if he was recalling a terribly painful memory. Xiao Chen didn’t know which part of his story was real. He narrowed his eyes and asked, “What happened next?”