Chapter 221 - 219: Supreme Powerhouses of This Era!
The body regained vitality, and Song Changming first blocked the attack of the White-eyed Corpse Puppet. When the Blue Ice Bird approached again, he slashed out with a fire attribute blade Qi.
The Blue Ice Bird had half of its ice-crystal-like wing cut off and fell downwards.
But quickly, relying on the Fog Beast’s strong regeneration ability, the Blue Ice Bird grew new wings and flew back to the sky.
"Tsk, troublesome." Song Changming glanced at the Blue Ice Bird above and the White-eyed Corpse Puppet below.
With his usual strength, it seems it would take quite some time to kill these two things.
Song Changming didn’t want to drag it out. He pressed on his own hidden acupoints and performed the Blood Burst Secret Technique.
His entire body’s Qi blood surged explosively!
He felt as if he were a divine weapon just taken out from a furnace, or like a volcanic eruption.
The stronger the body, the more vigorous the Qi blood, the more astonishing the effect of the Blood Burst Secret Technique!
"A secret technique!" Ding Yanyun felt increasingly uneasy in the distance.
Song Changming weighed the Dragon Pattern Saber in his hand, which previously felt heavy, now felt as light as a hair.
He stepped forward and performed the Flying Thunder Technique, surrounded by flashing thunder light.
Then he bent his knees and exerted force, soaring into the air like riding clouds and mist, approaching the Blue Ice Bird.
The Blue Ice Bird, startled, tried to flap its wings to fly higher, but the next moment, Song Changming slashed, directly gutting the massive Blue Ice Bird.
The Blue Ice Bird let out a scream and crashed to the ground.
Song Changming flicked his wrist, shattering the frost covering the Dragon Pattern Saber.
At this moment, the White-eyed Corpse Puppet attacked again when Song Changming landed, before he could stabilize.
But this time, Song Changming returned a slash, sending the White-eyed Corpse Puppet flying.
Song Changming pivoted on his foot, slashing out three streams of Wind Dragon Blade Qi, thoroughly exterminating the Blue Ice Bird.
Just as the White-eyed Corpse Puppet was getting up, Song Changming, with surging Qi blood, had already closed in.
Fire God Saber Technique: Fire God Slash!
With one slash, endless flames made Song Changming appear like a fire god.
The White-eyed Corpse Puppet remained expressionless, and a slash met Song Changming’s upward cut.
In the clash of the two sabers, the result was the White-eyed Corpse Puppet instantly engulfed by Song Changming’s fire attribute blade Qi.
Bang!
Under the flame blade Qi, the White-eyed Corpse Puppet couldn’t withstand the giant strength attached to the Dragon Pattern Saber, its knees slammed into the ground.
With a booming sound, amidst the fire wave, Song Changming slowly walked out.
His right hand held the Dragon Pattern Saber, while his left hand held the White-eyed Corpse Puppet’s treasure saber.
On the other side, Ding Yanyun didn’t flee. He just stood there dumbfounded, looking at the completely destroyed White-eyed Corpse Puppet and Blue Ice Bird by Song Changming, still in disbelief.
Song Changming tossed the treasure saber he had just obtained.
Carrying force, the treasure saber gleamed like silver light, in a flash, pierced through Ding Yanyun’s torso, the blade lodged into the giant tree behind.
Song Changming ended the Blood Burst Secret Technique and approached, looking at Ding Yanyun.
"Who is that elder?"
But Ding Yanyun did not answer, only murmuring to himself: "To refine a stronger corpse puppet feels like being possessed...
It’s not uncommon for materials like me being backfired in the sect, so this isn’t embarrassing..."
Song Changming grew impatient hearing this, seeing Ding Yanyun delaying his answer, he simply raised his saber and killed him.
As for the elder who took his brother’s remains, he could look into it later.
Even if it was in the Ancient Abyss Country, it might be troublesome, but sooner or later, he would go to the Ancient Abyss Country to investigate this matter.
No matter how much time passes, he won’t neglect this issue.
Looking at the body of the Corpse Refining Sect member on the ground, he took the mist gold and money bag, and then looked at the rapidly decaying shell of the White-eyed Corpse Puppet. Song Changming let out a sigh.
The Blood Burst Secret Technique is powerful, but even such a brief battle consumes not little.
The secret technique itself can’t be used for extended periods, otherwise, the over-expenditure would be too severe.
Being forced to use the Blood Burst Secret Technique, this was already a fierce battle for him.
Song Changming couldn’t help but look up towards the top of the mountain.
The White-eyed Corpse Puppet in Ding Yanyun’s hand was extremely strong, but not mentioning the entire Corpse Refining Sect, even on this mountain, can the strength of this White-eyed Corpse Puppet rank at the top?
"My strength is still not enough..." Song Changming thought to himself.
In the vast Jianghu, he can be considered a top-tier expert, opponents worthy of his attention are hard to come by.
But in this battle of the Hidden Sect, in a high-level confrontation, he still felt the pressure and inadequacy.
Just as he was thinking this, suddenly two figures fell from the mountain peak to the middle of the mountain, and from there fought their way to Song Changming’s location.
One of the figures was actually a beautiful woman in purple clothes.
The woman wielded a longsword, and with every move she made, she emitted waves of purple light.
She drifted along, lightly tapping her toes on the branches of giant trees, resembling an earthly fairy as she seemed to float through the air.
The other figure moved like a fierce tiger descending a mountain, charging forward and chasing after the beautiful woman.
Song Changming saw clearly that the figure relentlessly pursuing her was a corpse puppet.
It wasn’t a Black-eyed Corpse Puppet, nor a White-eyed Corpse Puppet, but instead exuded a heavy, earthy yellow smoke, and its pupils were a dazzling golden, as if embedded with two golden gems.
Its appearance made Song Changming’s heart race.
This corpse puppet was definitely a more powerful existence than the White-eyed Corpse Puppet; just its momentary appearance caused an inexplicable sense of unease.
His intuition told him that this place was not safe for long!
As Song Changming was about to retreat, Su Yuehan caught a glimpse of the battlefield at the foot of the mountain not far away, immediately stopped her movement, and turned back like a purple butterfly fluttering down to deliver a palm strike towards the corpse puppet.
The Yellow-eyed Corpse Puppet suddenly leapt, charging straight at Su Yuehan.
Su Yuehan’s palm had not yet landed on the corpse puppet, but the force that emanated from her palm sent the Yellow-eyed Corpse Puppet, which had just charged into midair, crashing headfirst into the ground.
A thunderous noise was heard, and a huge palm imprint appeared on the ground.
The entire mountain shook violently!
"So powerful!" Song Changming was astonished.
Such inner qi cultivation was something he couldn’t match, even if flogging a horse to its limits.
Even a martial artist at the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining shouldn’t display such power and strength.
He estimated that, at the very least, it was a cultivation realm of the Fifth or even Sixth Layer of Qi Refining!
In the Qi Refining Realm, each layer is a world of difference!
Looking at the vast Da Han Martial Realm, this was the strength of an extremely powerful person, even definitely a leading figure on the Celestial List!
The Yellow-eyed Corpse Puppet rose from the large palm imprint, the golden light in its pupils growing even more intense. With a low roar, it lunged again at Su Yuehan.
Even though the corpse puppet had taken a heavy blow, there was no apparent damage to its body.
At most, the surrounding earthy yellow smoke became denser.
Song Changming observed that this Yellow-eyed Corpse Puppet seemed to have inherited little of its martial arts mastery from life, relying purely on its terrifyingly strong physical body, fighting almost instinctually.
Its strength, agility, and responsiveness were the most he had ever seen in a creature!
Even if Song Changming once again used the Blood Burst Secret Technique, in a state beyond his limits, he reckoned his body’s strength was still inferior to this corpse puppet.
This corpse puppet’s mere display of strength, the force bursting from its fists and feet, exceeded at least the level of ten thousand catties!
Fortunately, the woman’s inner qi was abundant enough to be its opponent.
With her profound inner qi cultivation and extremely exquisite martial arts mastery, she was actually able to suppress the corpse puppet’s counterattack, repeatedly blasting it into the ground.
One pit after another appeared on the mountain.
"Terrifying!" Song Changming muttered.
"Of course, it’s terrifying. One is a Yellow-eyed Corpse Puppet of the Corpse Refining Sect, and the other is the Vice Sect Leader of Wangyue Pavilion, Fairy Yuehan. Isn’t it terrifying..."
Just as Song Changming finished speaking, a sudden voice came unexpectedly from behind.
Startled, Song Changming instinctively slashed backward, and the sword qi cut straight through a few meters away, slicing through a giant tree.
The sword qi penetrated, targeting the figure hiding behind the giant tree.
Just as his sword qi was about to hit the figure, it suddenly vanished into thin air.
The figure remained unscathed.
"Brother Song, Brother Song, don’t be so aggressive. Do you still remember me?" The voice came again, with a hint of panic.
The giant tree toppled, and a person clutching his head in a slightly flustered manner ran out, seemingly afraid of being hit on the head by the falling tree.
Song Changming fixed his eyes.
"It’s you?!"
The person before him appeared fairly young, dressed like a scholar, carrying a wooden box on his back, and holding a short, thin black iron rod in his hand.
A faint, unusual energy fluctuated from it, indicating that this was no ordinary iron rod.
He clearly noticed earlier that the sword qi he had slashed was absorbed just after touching this iron rod.
The sword qi seemed to be absorbed by the iron rod, which was why this seemingly gentle scholar remained unscathed.
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