Corpse Burier: I Can Nourish Corpse

Because of Longteng Liyi, the ancestor of the Longteng Family, accepting the challenge, the entire West Mountain Floating Domain was shaken.

For a time, many Golden Core influences showed signs of unrest. According to the intelligence Lu Changyin gathered from the Dark Altar sub-branch, several late-stage Golden Core cultivators left their hidden cultivation lands and headed towards the western part of the West Mountain Floating Domain.

As for this great battle, Lin Yingyunshan set it on the highest peak of the West Mountain Floating Domain, the Phoenix Snow Celestial Peak, which is covered year-round with eternal ice, snow, and storms. Only Golden Core level can set foot there, and no one below late-stage Golden Core can stay long.

The time was set for three months later, at the end of the year. This battle is destined to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, but who will see the dawn of the new year and who will be buried atop the Phoenix Snow Celestial Peak, forever accompanied by the snow, remains unknown.

So for a while, opinions were divided, but in Wen Jiu’s view, perhaps Longteng Liyi from the Longteng Family had a greater chance of victory.

For no other reason.

Lin Yingyunshan’s intent to risk it all, though not as obvious as Sima Zhao’s intentions, was known to those in the Golden Core realm.

Without support, how could Longteng Liyi dare to accept?

Three months passed in the blink of an eye. The agreed battle had fermented over these three months, reaching a point where every Golden Core influence in the West Mountain Floating Domain had heard about it. Even in Donghua Immortal City, Golden Core cultivators were discussing it, and several Golden Core cultivators around Wen Jiu’s Mansion even made a special trip to Phoenix Snow Celestial Peak to watch the battle.

Of course.

With the battle causing such a stir, the Outer Path Hidden Demon Sect and the Domain Lord’s Mansion of the West Mountain Floating Domain also took action. According to Lu Changyin, the Outer Path Hidden Demon Sect intended to intervene in the battle, seemingly wanting to sway its outcome.

The Domain Lord’s Mansion of the West Mountain Floating Domain, due to increasingly fierce battles with the Outer Path Hidden Demon Sect in the Divine Fall Mountain Range, perhaps also due to residual issues from the Blood Phoenix Demon Monarch, only sent a late-stage Golden Core Spirit Suppressing Army to watch the battle.

Wen Jiu didn’t care about such matters. Even if Lin Yingyunshan lost, he felt nothing within.

A huge force standing in the West Mountain Floating Domain for two to three thousand years, if its strongest ancestor couldn’t make any progress and had no rising stars, would naturally decline.

Besides, he had no connection with the Qi Guang Sect, just acquaintances with the Wind and Cloud Immortal City Lord Pei Wuxing, who had some relationship with the Qi Guang Sect, and had met the ancestor Lin Yingyunshan and the newly advanced Golden Core Lin Langtian of the Qi Guang Sect.

So at most he would pay attention to what Lu Changyin mentioned, and the reason he cared was simply because of the Lu Family.

Very soon.

The pinnacle battle atop Phoenix Snow Celestial Peak began, and ten days later, Lu Changyin sent news.

As expected.

Lin Yingyunshan lost.

Longteng Liyi won.

The specific reason was that Longteng Liyi had refined and controlled the Jinhua Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder, one of the divine thunders. The Jinhua Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder, like the Jade Splendor Cyan Wood Divine Thunder encountered during the Three Corpses Tribulation, is a divine thunder, but Jinhua Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder is purer. Against other cultivators, it is relatively ordinary, just slightly stronger than the usual thunder punishment, not worthy of the divine thunder name. But in terms of slaying evil and breaking Heterodox Techniques and Demonic Evil Techniques, the Jinhua Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder is top-notch among divine thunders.

According to Lu Changyin, once the Jinhua Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder was unleashed, all of Lin Yingyunshan’s methods crumbled, and it also managed to drive back a late-stage Demon Core cultivator from the Dark Altar Lineage of the Outer Path Hidden Demon Sect who tried to disrupt the battle.

This battle propelled Longteng Liyi’s name throughout the entire West Mountain Floating Domain. With just that Jinhua Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder, even if he couldn’t be considered the number one late-stage Golden Core in the West Mountain Floating Domain, he was definitely among the top three.

The East Spring Undying Bone Corpse Qi containing the Jade Splendor Cyan Wood Divine Thunder couldn’t compare at all.

Because Longteng Liyi refined and controlled an intact Jinhua Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder, while East Spring Undying Bone fused with the remnants or fragments of the Jade Splendor Cyan Wood Divine Thunder, rather than a complete one.

However, East Spring Undying Bone had the Avoidance Technique of Soul Capture Postnatal Corpse Technique Divine Techniques, which would weaken the Jinhua Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder by thirty percent when it landed on the East Spring Undying Bone Body, so it meant little to East Spring Undying Bone.

Wen Jiu just listened as if hearing a story.

But it must be said that Longteng Liyi indeed had more fortune than Lin Yingyunshan. The ability to refine and control a complete divine thunder paralleled mastering Golden Core cultivation divine techniques, both extremely difficult and requiring great fortune.

It could be said Lin Yingyunshan did not die in vain.

The Qi Guang Sect’s defeat was also to be expected.

However, the Lu Family’s days ahead would not be comfortable, yet as long as it didn’t affect his monthly supply of Corpse Nourishing Blood and Essence, Wen Jiu did not care. If it did, then he would be forced to take drastic measures.

After all, the Five Ghosts were currently unable to control a late-stage Soul-Control Golden Core.

...

After a few more days.

As expected, the Longteng Family began their counterattack, yet their first target was not the Lu Family.

During this time, Wuxinming finally returned to Donghua Immortal City, and the first thing he did after returning was to pay a visit.

Unlike before, Wuxinming’s eyes had lost their luster, replaced by resignation and melancholy. Over the past three months, he had tried many methods, even attempted to escape.

But the methods were useless, and escaping only lengthened the karmic debt, which, magnified a hundred or thousand times through the Path of Humanity and Righteousness, crushed heavily on his back like a giant mountain.

The more he tried to flee, the heavier the mountain became.

He even felt it could break him at any moment.

Left with no choice, Wuxinming had to make a visit, reluctantly and painfully accepting this reality.

"Elder Wu."

Zhao Ming opened the door and quickly bowed.

After entering, the first thing Wuxinming did was drop to his knees with a thud, "Forgive me, Master He, I failed to recognize Mount Tai, failed to recognize Mount Tai."

In those days, he realized that even the Divine Storage Three Thousand Spiritless Yin Pills couldn’t make He Jiu owe him a favor.

What could He Jiu be hiding?

Zhao Ming, upon seeing this, was somewhat surprised. She had recently learned from others about her master’s true status—an evading Golden Core, of the lowest rank among Golden Core cultivators. But seeing Wuxinming kneeling, she was instantly delighted.

She guessed correctly.

Her master was indeed not what the outside world said.

People always said she was stupid.

Haha.

But in reality, she was quite clever.

When Wuxinming begged for mercy, Zhao Ming retreated to the side without daring to make a sound, after all, though he was humble before her master, to her he was still an unreachable Golden Core Zhenren, and presently the Zhao Family’s entire support.

"No more running?"

Unexpectedly.

Wen Jiu’s indifferent low voice inquired.

"No more running, no more running," Wuxinming hastily replied, "As long as you say the word, Wu Mou is willing to do anything."

"Want to repay your debt of gratitude, release the karmic burden?" Wen Jiu asked back.

Wuxinming nodded frantically.

Wen Jiu gestured for Zhao Ming to return to her room and then erected a sound insulation barrier between them, maintaining a detached expression, "But you’re just a common Golden Core from the One Heart Demon Sect, what do you have to repay my favor?"

"Master He..."

Wuxinming’s expression tensed.

Fear gradually filled his eyes, similar to when he escorted the Demonic Evil Qi for He Changyi and witnessed the Formless Demon Corpse.