Chapter 18

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Everyone in the Sword Control Sect, listen up!

“Leave a Nascent Soul Realm elder on each mountain peak. Then, lead five core disciples to set up a great formation and seal off each mountain peak.

“The rest of the disciples will follow me to the Black Cave Cliff. Tonight, we’ll slay the demons and devils!”

Zhang Qishan bellowed, his voice spreading throughout the entire Sword Control Sect.

As soon as he finished speaking, his figure flashed and disappeared from where he was. He turned into a streak of sword light and flew toward the Black Cave Cliff.

Meanwhile, streaks of light flew up and shot toward the Black Cave Cliff on the main peaks of the Sword Control Sect

The Nascent Soul Realm elders and their core disciples guarded the various peaks and used the light to set up their formation.

The spirit energy sword radiance from the various peaks of Qianyuan Mountain connected with each other and formed a sealing formation. The terrifying aura directly enveloped the entire Qianyuan Mountain.

All the elders and the disciples arrived at their respective positions at the first moment and formed an incomparably powerful sealing formation!

Black Cave Cliff.

The two black-robed men heard Zhang Qishan’s furious roar. Their expressions changed drastically, and their eyelids twitched wildly.

They had never thought that a formation would be set up on the Black Cave Cliff.

They had never even thought that the Sword Control Sect would move so quickly that the two of them did not even have the time to escape.

In less than ten breaths, Zhang Qishan had rushed to the Black Cave Cliff alone.

On the cliff.

Zhang Qishan rode his sword and hovered in the air. His divine sense swept out, and his gaze was as sharp as an eagle’s eyes as it quickly locked onto the two black-robed men at the bottom of the cliff.

When he sensed the black aura on their bodies, the condensed sword qi on Zhang Qishan’s body suddenly exploded.

“How dare you sneak into the forbidden area of the Sword Control Sect!

“Today, I’ll make sure you die!”

As Zhang Qishan roared, his cultivation of the late-stage Nascent Soul Realm exploded at this moment.

A huge sword-shaped white light with a terrifying pressure directly blew up countless sharp sword winds in the surroundings. The winds cut everything in the surroundings and dashed down the cliff.

“Hehe, Sect Leader Zhang, do you think that the two of us dare to sneak into the Sword Control Sect without any support?”

The tall and fat black-robed man said in a heavy voice. There was a trace of gloominess and coldness in the depths of his eyes.

Pop!

The two black-robed men looked at each other and simultaneously patted the black sack on their waists!

This sack was three times bigger than an ordinary storage bag. There was even a red talisman affixed to the sack.

As the two of them clapped, the red talisman on the rune flashed with an extremely evil red light.

The black sack began to expand and beat continuously like a black heart. The red light that appeared and disappeared resembled the blood vessels on the heart.

This sack gave off a bloodthirsty, violent, and cold aura.

It was as if a peerless evil creature from the abyss was about to revive from within.

Whoosh.

A gust of cold wind blew past.

A strange sound also came from within the bouncing black sack.

Creak, creak.

It was as if someone was grinding their teeth continuously, making one shudder in fear.

Suddenly.

Puff!

Like the sound of a balloon blowing, the black sack suddenly opened, spewing out a lot of cold black gas.

In the next moment, the black fog dispersed in all directions.

Two refined corpses with scarlet eyes, ferocious faces, and dark green skin appeared in the black gas.

Facing the huge white sword qi that was about to descend, the two refined corpses seemed to be threatened. They roared and opened their mouths.

Countless black, bloody, and filthy gas shot out toward the white sword light above with the shock wave from the roar.

Bang!

The white sword light from above was scattered by the red and black gas ripples in the air.

When the two collided, they did not gain any advantage and dispersed.

However, all of this ended within three breaths.

At this moment, all the cultivators of the Sword Control Sect rushed to the Black Cave Cliff and saw this earth-shaking scene.

On the cliff of the Black Cave Cliff.

Zhang Qishan glanced at the two corpses and then stared at the two black-robed men with an extremely cold expression.

“They are actually refined corpses? You demons deserve to die!”

Zhang Qishan roared and directly used his most powerful attack, the Great Void Condensing Sword!

Not far away.

When the elders who had just arrived heard his roar, their expressions immediately changed.

“Refined corpses?” Elder Chen of the Punishment Hall exhaled slowly.

“They’re from the Yin Corpse Sect!” Elder Xu of the Training Hall said with a firm and solemn expression after nodding.

At this moment, Wu Ye, who was following behind Elder Du, heard the conversation between the two elders.

He moved in front of Elder Du and asked in puzzlement, “Elder, what is a refined corpse? Is it used for controlling zombies?”

Elder Du glanced at Wu Ye and shook his head. “No. Zombies are the corpses of people after they die. The two are different.

“Corpse refinement is a kind of evil ancient sorcery that uses living people as materials! 

“This kind of evil sorcery can preserve the cultivators’ battle consciousness and even their spells to the greatest extent when they’re alive! These people are all living dead now!

“However, cultivating this kind of evil sorcery is extremely easy to suffer the wrath of heaven. These short-lived ghosts don’t live long.”

Wu Ye nodded as he grasped the point.

There were many things that he did not know in this cultivation world.

If he did not know the background of such evil ancient sorcery and fought recklessly, he would definitely suffer a great loss. Many things might not seem noticeable, but the damage caused would be huge.

There was one thing that Wu Ye did not quite understand.

He obtained a divination-related reward when he signed in at the building hall just now. What did divination have to do with these two corpse refiners?

Wu Ye thought for a moment and then asked, “Elder, since cultivating this evil sorcery has a great impact on their own bodies, why do they still cultivate it?”

Elder Du did not answer immediately. He only glanced at Zhang Qishan, who was still fighting with him. 

Sensing that the best time had not come yet, he explained again, “The people of the Yin Corpse Sect have been abandoned by the heavens, so naturally, they don’t care about these things. Moreover, they don’t only cultivate evil sorcery to refine corpses but also the Yin-Yang Feng Shui Technique.”

Hearing this, Wu Ye finally calmed down.

He now somewhat understood why he was able to obtain the Seven Stars in a Row

It was because both the feng shui technique and the divination technique were equipped with the fortune-telling technique.

One’s fate and future could all be predicted.

However, this also required a price!

The more information one wanted to know, the greater the price.

On the other hand, the price would be low if one had enough information.

Whether it was feng shui or divination techniques, if one wanted to improve, they would need a lot of practice.

In other words, it involved using one’s current lifespan in exchange for an uncertain opportunity in the future.

The higher the rank of the feng shui master and the divination master, the more accurate the result would be.

Nevertheless, many low-rank feng shui masters and divination masters were about to die before they reached the fifth grade because their lifespans were at most a few hundred years, which was not enough.

As for the Yin Corpse Sect, it was obvious that they took risks. If they succeeded, they would be able to live longer. Regardless of whether it was their cultivation realm or their feng shui techniques, they would be able to advance to a new level.

If they failed, they would become zombies in the corpse-raising sack of their fellow disciples or refined corpses!