Chapter 270: Bag of Corpse Refinement (2/2)

He couldn’t even see his attacker.

He attempted to channel the Cauldron of Invincible Constitution, but his inner energy was scattered whenever he gathered some.

“Rrrawl!!” The zombified Li Wushang broke free of the Dusk River and rushed to his master, emitting powerful howls.

Xuanxi threw up a mouthful of blood. Li Wushang had broken through the river with raw power alone!

Rattle rattle rattle!

A black chain flew through the sky before Li Wushang could draw close, the shackle at the end clamping onto him. He snarled and struggled, but to no avail. The chain pulled a faint soul out of the zombie’s body, immediately halting its movements. The soul looked just like Li Wushang, and he bore a smile of immense relief. Finally, he could be at peace.

Swoosh!

The soul disappeared, and Li Wushang’s giant body keeled over lifelessly.

“How is that possible?! That chain....” Jiangchen Wushang struggled to wrap his mind around what he’d just witnessed, his face overtaken with disbelief. Had his strongest battle zombie really been taken down so easily?

Bam!

A giant foot dropped down from the sky and smashed him with a stomp, interrupting his train of thought.

“Nothing is impossible,” Lu Yun said coolly. A trace of black fire was dissipating from his new three-hundred-meter-tall body. It was the first display of his new death art: Size Manipulation!

When he’d absorbed the goodwill received for guarding the Dao Flower, it propelled him to refined spirit realm. It’d also completely healed him and granted him a new death art. With that, he could change his size at will, altering his body to be the tiniest particle of dust, so small that even the consciousness couldn’t detect him, or to tower like a giant and rear into the sky.

That was how Lu Yun had caught Jiangchen Wushang off guard and attacked the man out of left field. The man was too powerful. Though he was only a peak transformed spirit cultivator, he could beat back both Huangqing and Aoxue at the same time. It was clear that he was stronger than Lu Yun and would come out ahead in a direct toe-to-toe confrontation.

“Give that here!” He quickly shrunk to his regular size, a foot still on Jiangchen Wushang’s back to pin his opponent down. Reaching down, he yanked the golden cauldron from Jiangchen Wushang’s body, accompanied by a loud rumble of thunder.

“Ahhhh!” Jiangchen Wushang flailed desperately, trying to stop Lu Yun from taking the cauldron from him, but the circulation of his inner energy was disrupted by the foot pinning him down. He couldn’t break free. He could only watch as Lu Yun extracted the treasure from his body.

Hum.

The hovering Bag of Corpse Refinement shot out a beam of corrupting light, and the skeletal fortress ship started moving as well. Its giant hull scuttled toward Lu Yun, trying to save its master, but—

Wham!

The heavily damaged ship trembled and hurtled backward. Under Lu Qingshuang’s steering, her fortress ship had knocked the skeletal ship away. At the same time, a black and white orb shimmering with gray radiance slammed into the sack. It was the Formation Orb!

Lu Yun’s ascension had called upon the power of the Tome of Life and Death. Not only had Ge Long been resurrected, but so had the recently fallen Feinie. She unleashed the orb’s power in a vicious swipe at the sack.

Boom!

The sack fell to the ground, leaking corpse energy everywhere.

“Waugh waugh waugh!!” Piercing howls and guttural screams came from the sack as nearly a thousand zombies crawled out and lunged at Lu Yun, hands curved into claws and teeth bared.

“Young master!”

“Miss!”

“My disciple!” Eyes shot open so wide that their corners threatened to split. The newly-revealed zombies were all genius cultivators who’d recently gone missing from Dusk Province! Many were top geniuses who’d earned great fame during the governor reselection tournament!

With the path of cultivation restored, it was only a matter of time before these people would’ve entered the void realm. Many had thought it was Lu Yun who’d imprisoned the geniuses, since rumors flew thick in recent times that the young governor was arresting cultivators left and right.

Now the truth was revealed! They’d all been refined into zombies!

“Corpse Refiners!” shrieked an old man. “The Jiangchen Clan! The Soaring Wing Sect will not permit you to coexist beneath the same sky!!”

“I’ll kill you!!” A mass of enraged, howling immortals charged the Jiangchen immortals with reckless abandon.