Chapter 145: Martial Stiffness

  Ye Chen furrowed his brow, the two green lights gave off an evil feeling, filled with malice and ferocity, and also carried a numbing power, making his hands and feet go soft. However, he was after all someone who had grasped the intent of the sword, immune to all evil, cutting down emptiness, and instantly let out a cold hum, severing his connection with the green lights.

  Clang!

  The coffin lid suddenly flew open, and a figure stood up from inside.

  "Cut!"

  Leaf dust eyes quick hands, one sword cut out.

  Clang!

  There was a splatter of blood, but this sharp sword couldn't cut through his opponent's body.

  Ahh!

  A figure let out a wolf-like howl, knees popping up, and swiftly pounced on Ye Chen like lightning. His arms contracted and expanded, shooting straight out, resembling two swift knives.

  The room was very dark, with no light source. Relying on his strong spiritual power, Ye Chen still captured the other's appearance and physique. It wasn't noticeable at first glance, but as soon as he looked closely, he was startled. This wasn't a human, it was clearly a zombie with black hair and a withered, shriveled body that emitted a metallic luster. A pair of green eyes had lost all human emotion, leaving only cruelty, eeriness, bloodthirstiness, and ruthlessness - all the evil things in the world could be seen within them.

  The zombie's movements were a bit stiff, but the burst of speed was quite fast. Ye Chen's body tilted to the side and shifted ten meters away.

  The next moment, the hard wall was pierced and torn apart, the zombie's head tilted to one side, its evil green eyeballs fixed tightly on Ye Chen.

  Ye Chen was naturally not polite, Yun Yin Jian swung in succession, two sharp sword auras burst out, one left and one right shot towards the zombie's eyes. Since he grasped the sword intent, his attack speed and destructive power had greatly increased, compared to the early stage of Bao Yuan realm martial artists, they were not inferior at all.

  This zombie was quite capable, and in a very short period of time, it could still react. Its withered skull slightly tilted backwards, avoiding the sword energy on its left side. As for the other sword energy, due to the movement of the target, it did not hit the eye but instead cut into its cheek.

  A few sparks flew out of Mars, and a small slit was torn open on the zombie's cheek.

  "What kind of zombie is this, where even sword energy can't recreate it?" Ye Chen had just seen it clearly, when the sword energy cut through the opponent's cheek, there was a flash of green light that neutralized most of the attack power.

  Ahh!

  The zombie, dazed and confused from the sword's energy, opened its foul-smelling and terrifyingly large mouth without hesitation, spewing a ball of green light towards Ye Chen.

  The wall was instantly corroded, and the green airflow made people feel nauseous.

  Ye Chen was forced out of the room and back into the ancient luxurious hall, where he saw Lin Yue and Yin Wuqing, their opponents were also zombies.

  "What bad luck, to actually run into a zombie here." Lin Yue's sleeve had a torn mark, his clothes were slightly disheveled. Earlier when he entered the room, seeing that there was nothing inside, he directly opened the coffin lid. Who knew that suddenly a zombie would pounce out from within, its two arms almost piercing through his chest. If not for him having activated a defensive technique beforehand, it would have been a disaster."

  Ye Chen raised an eyebrow, "Wu Jiao?"

  Yin emotionlessly explained: "In specific situations, when a martial artist dies, their true energy does not disperse and mixes with the corpse's energy. After a long time, it can achieve the effect of an indestructible body. However, if a living person comes to this place at that time, the abundant blood and energy will cause the martial artist's corpse to undergo a strange transformation, becoming a bloodthirsty killer known as a 'Wu Jiang'. A Wu Jiang has boundless strength, is impervious to swords and guns, and in terms of physical prowess, is three times more powerful than a same-level demonic beast. If I'm not mistaken, the three Wu Jiangs before us were originally early-stage Bao Yuan realm martial artists who became Wu Jiangs after their transformation, making them fifth-level Wu Jiangs. However, since they have only recently undergone this change, they are still unable to freely manipulate the corpse energy within their bodies."

  Lin Yue nodded and said, "It's said that one of the 108 great ghosts of the Jiuyou Sect in those years, Shi Gui Dao Ren, was actually a Wujie. However, he was different from ordinary Wujies because for some special reason, he regained his spiritual intelligence. He was more cunning and sinister than humans, which made him even more terrifying. What's more frightening is that as someone who used to be a Wujie, he could turn living warriors into Wujies, which he called Jiazhi. From high to low, they were respectively Tiejiazi, Tongjiazi, Yinjiazi, and Jinjiazi."

  "Corpse Ghost Daoist is a Wujie?" Ye Chen had never heard of it before, but he had heard of the Copper Corpse. When they helped the Ling family complete the task in the Bloody Forest, they encountered the ghost guards under the Corpse Ghost Daoist, one of whom threatened to refine him into a Copper Corpse, presumably that's what Wujie is!

  "A zombie has emerged, be careful not to get hurt by it, otherwise you will be infected with corpse poison."

  Lin Yue spoke at the same time, his clothes fluttering without wind, and a fist fiercely burst out, the fierce fist force transformed into a large cauldron, suppressing the martial zombie in the middle.

  Ouch!

  The true energy of the room was as heavy as a giant tripod, directly pressing Wu Jiang into the ground, unable to climb out for a while, and letting out a series of stern whistles.

  "Demon Earth Slash!"

  Yin emotionless true energy converged inward, not emitting, forming a serrated dark purple light wheel at the palm edge position, body like lightning, fiercely slashing onto another head Wu's neck position.

  This palm was too sharp and overbearing, and it directly sent Wu Jian flying out, heavily smashing him into the wall. A crack appeared on his neck, but no blood flowed out.

  Ahh!

  The last warrior sprang up on one knee and charged straight at Ye Chen, who stood still with Cloud Hidden Sword in hand.

  "The one I've been waiting for is you, shocking clouds infinitely."

  Ye Chen raised his right hand high with the Yun Yin sword, a true energy poured into the body of the sword, and the strong sword momentum made the surrounding air flow rapidly rotating, rushing non-stop.

  "Cut!"

  One sword slashed out, the thick and unmatched sword energy was like a giant pair of scissors, cutting through the air, accurately hitting the martial artist's chest to neck area.

  Hmph!

  Flesh and blood splattered everywhere, Wu Jiang's chest was torn open with a deep gash that almost reached his bones, his hard body suddenly lifted off the ground and heavily smashed into a stone pillar.

  The stone pillar collapsed, and Wu Jiang's body was crushed under the giant rock.

  The true energy of the great tripod shook back and forth ceaselessly. Lin Yue bitterly smiled, saying: "It's no good! Although these few Corpse Warriors can't freely manipulate corpse energy yet, their defense and strength are both at the fifth level of Corpse Warrior rank. Wanting to resolve this in a short amount of time is fundamentally impossible; we can only barely suppress and repel them."

  Yin spoke coldly, "The ferocity of a Wu Jiang is beyond what ordinary people can imagine. A seventh-level Wu Jiang that our Man Mo Sect has been nurturing once killed a Star Extreme Realm initial-stage warrior."

  The Man Demon Sect's warm and nurturing of Wu Jian is well-known, but Yin Wuqing doesn't fear trouble coming from his mouth. Moreover, the overall strength of the Man Demon Sect is above that of the Evil Blood Sect, making it one of the top-tier seven-grade sects, not comparable to ordinary seven-grade sects.

  Looking at the martial corpse emerging from the pile of rocks, Ye Chen felt a sense of helplessness for the first time and hesitated about whether to use his ultimate move, Refine Heart Sword. After some thought, he decided not to use it, as this was not a life-or-death moment, and there was no need to reveal his trump card. Moreover, he could be certain that Lin Yue and Yin Wuqing also had their own trump cards that they hadn't used yet, in order to leave themselves with some leeway.

  Moreover, even using the Heart Refining Sword might not necessarily be able to kill Wu Jiang, at most it would only heavily injure him. If used multiple times, it would consume too much of his vital energy, which would be extremely unwise.

  "Boom!"

  On the other side, Lin Yue couldn't hold back Wu Jia's corpse, so he made a swift decision and used his secret method to explode the True Qi Cauldron.

  A fierce explosion shook the hall violently, with fist-sized rocks falling from above and several crystal lamps going out.

  That zombie who had just climbed up was involuntarily thrown out and landed beside the corpse of a sect disciple.

  Ka cha ka cha!

  A shocking scene unfolded, the zombie stretched out its hand and tore off the corpse's arm, stuffed it into its mouth and started chewing, blood splashing everywhere, the scraping sound of sharp teeth echoing throughout the entire hall.

  The other two-headed corpse also attracted past, grabbed a corpse gnawing.

  Yin Wuqing's expression changed, "Don't let them eat enough flesh and blood. Once they have the energy of qi and blood to support their power, they will become genuine fifth-grade wu jiang, just like warriors, who can stimulate corpse energy to attack enemies, greatly increasing their lethality."

  "Kill!"

  While speaking, Yin Wuqing had already killed his way over, with patches of yellow bean-sized, faintly visible black scales floating on his pale skin, more eerie and terrifying than Wujie, like a human-shaped killing machine.

  Bang!

  The outermost zombie was flung out as soon as it touched him, and was punched and kicked in mid-air, crying out in pain with a series of shrill howls.

  "Two Cauldrons Compete for Supremacy!"

  Lin Yue sensed the severity of the situation and burst out with a cyan aura, shooting up into the sky. He then swiftly clasped his hands together.

  Rumble!

  Two room-sized giant tripods surrounded the Wu Jiang who were enjoying their meal, with fierce collisions happening one after another, waves of shock spreading out in all directions, sweeping across the eight directions, tearing apart all the corpses around.

  Perhaps having chewed on a considerable number of corpses, this zombie's body emitted green airflow, protecting itself in the middle, but the compressive force of the two giant tripods colliding was enormous, the true energy mutually collided, superimposed, shook and crazily destroyed the zombie's body.

  "In that case, there's nothing left but to slowly wear down Wu Jian's defenses."

  Lian Xin's one sword move can't be used, Ye Chen still has a sword move, this sword move may not have the instant killing power of the Jing Yun Sword Technique, but after a long time of research, now it has a new use, let's try it on Wu Jiang first.

  At this point, Ye Chen's body was even more majestic and powerful, with a subtle aura of grandeur that seemed to contain the majesty of mountains.

  One step forward, Ye Chen's sword seemed slow but was actually fast as it chopped out.

  "Sword energy condenses into a mountain!"

  Boom!

  The massive sword energy not only sent Wu Lian flying, but also pinned him to the wall, unable to move. What's even more terrifying is that the sword energy didn't dissipate at this time, but instead began to rub up and down, continuously slashing at Wu Lian's chest, again and again, without stopping.

  "What is this sword move?"

  Watching the sword energy constantly eroding Wu Jian's defense, expanding the sword marks, Lin Yue widened his eyes and couldn't help but take a cold breath.

  Yin Wuqing also looked at Ye Chen with a surprised expression. If he had previously only acknowledged Ye Chen's strength and was unwilling to make an enemy of him, then now he truly did not want to be enemies with Ye Chen. He had thought that the other party had already exhausted all their tricks, but unexpectedly they still had many more hidden ultimate moves up their sleeve, and who knew if they had even more powerful ones in reserve.

  Don't underestimate him!

  This is Yin Wuqing's idea.

  The martial artist struggled violently, but the sword energy was like a mountain, pressing down on him and making it impossible for him to move. He could only wait to be slaughtered, without any way to resist.

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