Chapter 399 A Failed Sneak Attack
Sang You shook his head and chuckled:
"Stop being so cocky. It took the four of us to surround and stop him. If you were facing an enemy like that alone, even if you had the ability to win, what could you possibly do against him?"
The Earthly Fiend Sect excels at cultivating corpses, and the practice of cultivating corpses can be inherited by future generations.
From lowest to highest level, corpse refining is divided into white zombies, green zombies, black zombies, bronze zombies, moon zombies, and gold zombies.
The white zombie gets its name from its white fur covering its body. It is only equivalent to a cultivator in the Qi Refining stage, and when it is injured, it will ooze blackish-red fluid.
The green zombie is covered in green fur and will ooze green fluid when injured.
These two types of corpse refiners are afraid of fire-based magic and cannot be considered powerful.
Starting from the black zombie stage, the body fluids of the corpse will be refined into the heart, the body surface will become as hard as refined iron, and the weakness of fearing the burning of fierce fire will disappear.
Sangji's mastery of the corpse refinement technique has reached the perfect level of Black Zombie, and its defensive power is even stronger than that of a body cultivator at the perfect level of Chaoyuan.
Being able to master the Black Zombie means you've finally made it through.
If given the right opportunity, a corpse pill can be conceived within the body, and then cultivated to the level of a bronze zombie.
This type of corpse has a dull brass color and astonishing defensive capabilities, with greatly enhanced resistance to magic.
If the spell doesn't reach a certain level, it won't even be qualified to injure it.
Sangji grinned and said:
"Hehe, I wish I could control the bronze zombie someday."
"Stop dreaming! Your cultivation level isn't high enough to subdue the bronze zombie. Be careful you don't get eaten as a snack. Hurry up and collect your spoils!"
Several cultivators from the Earthly Fiend Sect quickly looted the cultivator's belongings, while the corpse was devoured by several refining corpses.
Then, they used earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic or technique) to leave.
In a sense, corpse refiners are demonic beasts cultivated by cultivators, and they are earth-elemental demonic beasts, so using earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of escape technique) is an instinct.
Sangji and his men appeared about five or six miles away from the ambush site. They excitedly gathered together, and now it was time for the most exciting moment: dividing the spoils.
They first erased the markings on the storage container and then poured out its contents.
It contains a large number of low-grade spirit stones and some spirit plants, but they are not of much value.
Sang You took out the Void Stone, then took out a yellow jade bottle and carefully poured out a drop of turbid yellow viscous liquid.
The viscous liquid dripped onto the cave stone, causing wisps of gray mist to rise.
Normally, once a cultivator refines a Void Stone, other cultivators cannot open it, not even Nascent Soul cultivators.
However, this is just a normal situation. Some spiritual objects can be used to erode the magical restrictions of the Void Stone, thereby causing its internal space to crack.
At this point, everything in the space will be expelled, and you will obtain what is inside.
Spiritual objects that can erode the restrictions of the Void Stone are extremely precious, and the bodily fluids of the Moon Corpse can do just that.
Sang You shook the jade bottle and said:
"The Moon Corpse Fluid is almost gone. We can only make three more batches before it runs out. Then we'll return to our sect."
The Moon Corpse Fluid was bestowed by Sang Chen, a Golden Core cultivator from the sect. Sang You and Sang Ji are Sang Chen's juniors.
Sangji laughed:
"There are only two targets left worth taking action against, which is enough."
Judging from their accents, those two outsiders at the Chaoyuan stage are from the Western Continent. They've been in Rongman Immortal City long enough; I guess they're cultivators here to absorb Qi, and they'll probably be leaving soon.”
The body fluid of the moon corpse is precious, so the targets they chose were mostly cultivators in the Chaoyuan stage who possessed Void Stones, as well as two Foundation Establishment stage cultivators with extremely rich fortunes.
Sang You nodded and instructed:
"We don't know how strong the outside cultivators are, so we should be careful. If they have the courage to cross the Kuangsha River to come here to absorb Qi, they must have some skills."
“Cousin, no matter how capable you are, can you defeat our four black zombies? Besides, my uncle gave me an Earth Divine Thunder Talisman! You can put your mind at ease.”
Sangji said with no small amount of pride, his face full of arrogance.
"That's good," Sang You said with a forced smile. A pang of jealousy flashed through his mind. His uncle had given the other a Golden Core level talisman for protection, but had given him nothing.
The following day, Ji An and his companion left the cave at dawn and completed the lease termination procedures.
Han Yan sold the pills she had refined over the past few days, obtaining more than two hundred mid-grade spirit stones and some spiritual herbs.
The two rode away on clouds, flying southwest. By evening, the Burial Yin Mountains had come into view.
As the sun was about to set, Ji An said:
"Senior sister, this area is open and the view is unobstructed. Why don't we set up camp here, rest for the night, and then explore the mountains?"
After flying for a day, my magical power was greatly depleted, and I was in poor condition, making it unsuitable for exploring dangerous places.
Han Yan readily agreed, saying:
"That's exactly right. If we camp too close to the Burial Yin Mountains, who knows what kind of monsters we might encounter at night?"
Monsters have very large territories, and some may even use the outer areas of the mountains as hunting grounds.
She wasn't afraid, she just didn't want to go through all that trouble.
The two landed, and as usual, Ji An summoned all his beasts.
The Golden-feathered Eagle, Golden-haired Bird, Blue Shell, and Big Yellow each guarded one of the four directions, while he also released the Golden-winged Bird.
Better safe than sorry; you can never be too careful when you're traveling.
He thought for a moment, then made a hand seal to release the power to turn the ground into steel.
Yellow spiritual light spread out, and the heavy, mountain-like Dharma power solidified the land into an "iron block".
The effect of turning the ground into steel can last for two hours, covering an area of hundreds of feet in radius.
The land of the Southern Continent is infested with poisonous insects. With this spell, the poisonous insects will suffocate inside.
Han Yan glanced at the fading crimson-gold sunset on the horizon and smiled:
"Junior brother, I'll take over the second half of the night shift tonight."
Previously, they took turns keeping watch during the latter half of the night.
"all right."
Ji An readily agreed, took out a black calming grass futon, and then gulped down a jar of green leaf wine, saying:
"I'd like to trouble you, Senior Sister, to protect me while I refine the spirit wine to restore my mana."
If possible, he hopes to maintain his physical condition at all times.
He began to operate the Wood Element chapter of the Five Elements Cycle Sutra, a chapter more suitable for refining Green Leaf Wine.
The spiritual light of the Liver Wood Palace shone brightly, and the spiritual wine in the body was quickly refined. The pale blue magic power flowed into the dantian like rain, and the stone tortoise tilted its head back and swallowed one-tenth of it.
A drop of Wood Element Spirit Liquid was simultaneously refined and channeled into the dantian. The azure flame within the Primordial Life Flame suddenly flickered, while the outer crimson flame grew slightly stronger.
A moment later, Ji An refined the spirit wine, and his mana recovered to 70%.
"Senior sister, you can rest now."
Han Yan nodded gently, sat down cross-legged, took out a mid-grade spirit stone, and absorbed its spiritual energy to refine it.
She was reluctant to use more extravagant methods to restore her spiritual power, so refining spirit stones was the best option.
The rosy clouds on the horizon turned dark red, then bluish-gray, and as the last glimmer of light disappeared, all the clouds merged into the night.
Not long after, a crescent moon rose in the eastern sky, a cold wind blew, and the branches and leaves of the nearby small trees swayed and rustled.
Ji An heard roars coming from afar, but he couldn't tell what kind of monsters they were.
He remained vigilant, carefully observing his surroundings.
His eyesight could maintain a range of about three miles even in the darkest night, so he wasn't worried about anything getting close.
Suddenly, he noticed a thin layer of mist drifting in from afar, and thought to himself:
"Why is this fog rising so early? Is it because we're close to the Burial Yin Mountains and have abundant water veins?"
However, he didn't care much, because it was quite normal for fog to rise at night in the Southern Continent.
Ji An turned his head left and right, his brows furrowing slightly. He looked back and immediately realized something was wrong.
At this moment, fog rose from all sides, but their area remained completely fog-free.
He immediately transmitted his voice:
"Senior sister, the situation is a bit strange. Fog is inexplicably drifting around us. I suspect there are enemies lurking in the shadows."
Normal fog would never be like this; it's clearly an encirclement!
He couldn't be sure if his judgment was true or false, but at this moment, he would rather be paranoid than actually be ambushed.
Han Yan immediately became alert. Since she had not opened the Wood Element Divine Palace, her eyesight was not enhanced, and she could not see the distant fog.
She immediately summoned a defensive puppet, and then summoned the supreme spiritual artifact, the Sun-Devouring Pearl.
The magical artifact rapidly ascended into the air and grew larger, then emitted a golden radiance, instantly illuminating the area as if a flare had been launched, making it as bright as day.
At that moment, she could see clearly that there was indeed a strange, pale gray mist in the distance, pressing in from all directions toward the center.
They are currently in the middle.
"Haha, you're quite alert! But your good luck ends here."
A mocking laugh came from the sky. Ji An immediately looked up and saw dark clouds rolling in from all directions.
Suddenly, he felt the earth tremble, as if something underground had collided, and the tremors continued.
"Aww!"
An eight-foot-long black zombie leaped out of the ground. It had just used earth-遁术 (earth-遁术 is a type of magic that allows one to escape from the earth) to launch a sneak attack, but instead crashed into the land that had been transformed into steel by the Earth-遁术.
As the first refined corpse appeared, Ji An saw several more refined corpses jump out from the ground.
"Junior brother, these are black-clad corpses; these people must be from the Earthly Fiend Sect!"
Han Yan said in shock and anger, she didn't shout stupid things like "Why did you ambush us?", she only knew that a fierce battle was coming.
However, her heart was pounding. She knew perfectly well what level the black zombie was, and there were several Earthly Fiend Sect cultivators watching her intently from the sky.
In other words, the two of them will face an attack from multiple cultivators at the Chaoyuan stage.
Sangji, hidden in the dark clouds, shouted:
"They actually cast a spell to defend the underground. Wouldn't it have been better to just get ambushed and die quickly? Why did they have to experience all the pain!"
He made a sudden sound the moment the light appeared, intending to attract the attention of his targets and make it easier for the alchemists to launch a sneak attack.
Unexpectedly, the target's defenses were so thorough; not only had they detected the fog in advance, but they had also cast spells to seal off the underground area.
The mist contains corpse poison, which, while not fatal to cultivators in the Rising Sun stage, can certainly reduce their combat effectiveness.
The moment the black corpse appeared, Ji An gave the order to his beast tamer to flee. The beast tamer was no match for the corpse and could only stay away.
His gaze pierced through the dark clouds and saw four enemies, one of whom was the same Earthly Fiend Sect cultivator who had checked his storage bag more than half a month ago.
What a small world!
(End of this chapter)
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