409: Chapter 20 Ghost Soul 409: Chapter 20 Ghost Soul “Fight ten of them?”
Duan Zhao’s voice rippled through the rainy night of Tailing.
Wu Yin couldn’t help but laugh out loud as he sized up the young man carrying a heavy sword, his eyes brimming with mockery.
Did this kid think he was Xie Xuanyi?
Even if it were Xie Xuanyi, at the Initial Cave Heaven stage, he couldn’t achieve such a feat!
“If you manage to kill two, that’s considered passing.”
Xie Xuanyi patted the young man on the shoulder and said softly, “After we get back, I’ll record one merit for you.”
“Kill two?”
Duan Zhao took a deep breath, raised his hand to grasp the hilt of his heavy sword, and his gaze swept over the figures in black robes on the mountain top, a flash of killing intent in his eyes.
Boom!
The rocks on the mountain shattered.
The young man in green carrying the heavy sword actually took the initiative to attack, stepping on the cliffs of Tailing like a fierce cheetah!
“Where does this fool come from, oblivious to the vastness of the heavens and earth.”
Huai Ting, standing on the mountaintop, looked down at the Cave Heaven youth charging at him, expressionless as he extended a palm.
Dark luster surged in the center of his palm as formless Tao Rules tumbled forth from the void.
The next moment,
the clouds above Tailing cracked open, and a thick sword qi fell like thunder, plummeting directly towards Huai Ting’s position!
“?”
Huai Ting furrowed his brow and drifted backward.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
The cloud canopy at the summit dispersed, and streaks of sword qi rained down frantically, turning the ground into a Sword Pond, sword intent scattering violently in all directions, forcing Huai Ting and Cang Yin to dodge and move back, separating them from the ten Cave Heaven Evil Cultivators behind them.
Tailing was thus divided into two battlefields.
Duan Zhao successfully broke into the encirclement of the ten Cave Heaven Evil Cultivators, like a wolf among sheep, as his heavy sword chopped and hacked with righteous energy.
Several Evil Cultivators prepared to counterattack, but they struggled against the young man as the hilt of his sword was plastered with Taoist Thunder Talismans.
Each strike was accompanied by dazzling lightning resonance!
The battle at Tailing tonight was a minor scene for Xie Xuanyi.
But Duan Zhao, after all, was only a “child.” To ensure he was completely safe, Xie Xuanyi had prepared in advance.
For this battle, he crafted hundreds of Thunder Talismans, which Duan Zhao attached to his sword and carried on his person.
That was also why Xie Xuanyi felt at ease letting him confront those ten Cave Heaven Evil Cultivators.
The schemers of the Southern Border feared thunder more than anything else.
With Duan Zhao’s Vajra body, his defense was astonishing; together with the Thunder Talismans, it equated to double insurance.
And that wasn’t all.
At that moment, the summit of Tailing was enveloped in Xie Xuanyi’s Divine Thought, turning the area within a hundred yards into a pool of Sword Energy.
This battle
was a “life-and-death fight” meticulously orchestrated by Xie Xuanyi.
Duan Zhao only needed to fight desperately.
The rest, someone else would handle for him.
…
…
Halfway up Tailing.
Rolling clouds torn apart by sword qi, heavy rain fell, and lightning flashed by.
Three Quasi-Yin God Realm Evil Cultivators hovered in the air, their robes fluttering wildly.
They noticed the Sword Energy Pool atop the mountain but none took action to disturb this balance.
Inside the Southern Border Evil Sect, competition was fierce.
Life-and-death struggles were a daily occurrence.
The mission to head north to the Imperial City for negotiations was extremely dangerous.
If the Cave Heaven Cultivators who accompanied the three envoys died, it simply meant they were ordinary and fated as such…
If ten couldn’t take down one, it would be better for them all to perish in this desolate wilderness!
Moreover, all three could tell that the Sword Energy Pool covering the mountain top was controlled by Xie Zhen’s Divine Thought.
Daring to be so presumptuous as to use Divine Thought to control the Cave Heaven Battlefield against one to three.
The three Quasi-Yin Gods were curious to see the extent of Xie Zhen’s Divine Thought cultivation and how long he could sustain it amidst the depletion of the Sword Pond.
“The two Daoist friends, there’s no need for action for now.”
Wu Yin extended an arm, calmly speaking, “Allow Wu to probe the reality of this Xie Zhen.”
“Wu Left Envoy…
do be extremely careful,” Huai Ting narrowed his eyes and solemnly reminded with a murmur before silently moving back several yards.
He had no intention of making a move initially, and Wu Yin’s words were more than welcome.
This was a battle to the death.
If Xie Zhen dared to come, it meant he truly had some means.
Whoever went first now might risk annihilation.
“…”
Cang Yin remained silent but chose to watch from the side.
However, she pulled out the ancient zither from under her robe and positioned it upright in the rain, producing fragmented, incomplete notes.
Wu Yin sat cross-legged in midair, hands joined once again.
The Heavenly Puppet Sect was best at the Corpse Refining Technique.
Wu Yin’s master, the notorious “Mo Taoist,” was said to have refined five Yin God Realm Heavenly Corpses!
In a battle of the same realm, if it was close combat, cultivators of the Heavenly Puppet Sect would definitely be at a disadvantage.
It was the same principle that prevented Sword Cultivators from engaging in melee combat.
However…
With distance, it was another matter.
Once a Cave Heaven Evil Cultivator’s Grotto Heaven was activated, there would be a continuous stream of living corpses flying out!
“Xie Zhen, have you ever experienced the Ghost Cave Heaven of the Heavenly Puppet Sect?”
Red light flared in the pupils of Wu Yin’s eyes.
As his words rang out, a fiery red glow ignited in his lower abdomen, and strands of rain converged toward him.
This crimson light seemed like a bottomless abyss, lighting up as if to dye everything red within several miles!
“Ghost Cave Heaven…”
Huai Ting’s expression grew serious.
The “Way” of Mo Taoist, known as Ghost Soul, capable of reforging five Yin God Heavenly Corpses, proved the potency of this Cave Heaven.
Da Sui Sword Palace specialized in Artifact Control, and the Taoist sects in Qi Control.
The Heavenly Puppet Sect took a different path, directly Controlling People, refining the dead into cadavers, incorporating Mechanical Techniques, and taking them into their Cave Heaven…
As the master of the Cave Heaven advanced in realm, the living corpses cultivated within the Cave Heaven with blood qi would also increase in realm!
It was said that the “Heavenly Corpses” in Mo Taoist’s Grotto Heaven could move independently of the Cave Heaven, without restriction by distance.
Merely hearing about it suggested it was comparable to the Taoist sect’s supreme mystical ability, “Body Separation.”