Cultivation: I have an omnipotent land

Chapter 31 The Way of the Celestial Masters

The demonic corpse was perched atop a large tree, clutching a recently stolen carcass and seemingly sucking something from its mouth and nose. The carcass visibly withered and emaciated.

After consuming the corpse, the demonic corpse threw it away and turned its attention to the female corpse next to Jiang Tianshou. It swooped down and pounced on the female corpse.

The female corpse was originally incredibly strong, capable of easily capturing a grown man. However, after being pounced on by the demonic corpse, she was completely unable to move. Her long, blood-red fingernails pierced the demonic corpse's body, but couldn't even scratch its skin.

"Little Goose, let her go!" Jiang Tianshou panicked when he saw this. He manipulated the other corpses to surround her. He even disregarded the danger and rushed to the front of the demon corpse, shaking the bell in its ear.

This bell has a restraining effect on zombies; although it cannot control the demonic corpses, it makes them extremely irritable.

The demonic corpse roared, and fine green hairs sprouted from its skin. A powerful burst of corpse energy erupted, blasting all the corpses away.

Jiang Tianshou crashed heavily into the tree, but ignoring the pain, he immediately rushed towards the corpse of the woman in the bright red wedding dress and shielded her behind him.

"Little Goose, I'm sorry, it's my fault. This demonic corpse is actually a green zombie, I can't beat it... I can't protect you."

As the demonic corpse drew closer, despair filled Jiang Tianshou's eyes.

However, at that moment, a streak of cyan sword light flew over and struck the demon corpse in the chest. The demon corpse hurriedly grabbed the sword with both hands, took a few steps back, and then firmly held onto the flying sword.

However, following the flying sword came several fireballs the size of human heads, which exploded one after another on the demon corpse.

"What does 'green zombie' mean? Brother Jiang, can you tell me?" Xiao Ming came out from behind the tree.

"Young man, it's you!" Jiang Tianshou looked at the boy he had chatted with during the day in shock, and then thought of the magical attack just now.

"You are a cultivator!"

roar~

A roar came from within the flames, and more white gas was emitted from its body, forming a white mist on the ground, which covered the grass and trees with frost.

"You still haven't told me what a green zombie is?" Xiao Ming frowned and asked, looking at the unharmed demon corpse.

"This is a family mnemonic passed down through my ancestors. Ten years to become a zombie, sixty years to turn white, three sixty years to turn green, five hundred years to become a body of copper and iron, a thousand autumns to escape the heavens and earth, ten thousand kalpas to cultivate an incorruptible body."

"It means that under normal circumstances, a corpse needs to accumulate corpse energy in its body for ten years to become the most basic purple zombie. After a cycle of sixty years, white hair will grow on the zombie's body, which is the white zombie. After three cycles of sixty years, the white hair will turn green and become a green zombie. After five hundred years, it becomes a copper-skinned, iron-armored corpse that is impervious to water and fire. As for flying corpses with a thousand years of cultivation and even uncorrupted bones, they are legendary things."

"A green zombie that can only be formed over three cycles of sixty years, no wonder it's so extraordinary."

At this moment, the flames on the demonic corpse had been extinguished by the corpse's evil energy, and it roared as it pounced towards Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming opened his right hand, and a bright green pearl emitted a dazzling light.

A faint sound suddenly came from the ground, followed by tree roots and vines as thick as a wrist bursting out of the soil, coiling around the demon corpse's body like giant snakes. However, the demon corpse possessed immense strength, and it tore off these tree roots and vines one by one with brute force, but even more tree roots and vines grew out.

Seeing that brute force was ineffective, the demonic corpse changed its method, opening its mouth and spewing out a thick, foul-smelling yellow gas. The surrounding vegetation withered at a visible speed as soon as it came into contact with this foul-smelling yellow gas.

"Little Immortal Master, be careful! This is the aura of corpse evil, which is even more poisonous than corpse energy. Ordinary people will die if they come into contact with it." Jiang Tianshou was so frightened that he quickly covered his mouth and nose with his mask. The female corpse next to him trembled and actually began to breathe in the aura of corpse evil like a human.

"What should we do?" Xiao Ming quickly covered his mouth and nose. This corpse demon was indeed powerful; even a little bit of it made him feel nauseous and faint.

"As long as they haven't become bronze-skinned, iron-armored zombies, they are all afraid of fire, but ordinary flames can't harm them."

"Using fire is easy." Xiao Ming snapped his fingers, and a firebird quickly condensed above his head.

As his cultivation improved, his mastery of fire control techniques became more and more proficient. After refining a large amount of beast fire, the firebird he conjured through his magic actually possessed some of the power of a third-tier firebird.

The firebird let out a sharp cry, and waves of fire swept across the area. The surrounding corpse energy immediately diminished, and even the demonic corpses were filled with apprehension towards the firebird.

"Go~"

Xiao Ming pointed at the demonic corpse, and the firebird flapped its wings and swooped down. The demonic corpse was filled with fear and struggled to break free from the withered tree roots and vines, but it was too late. The firebird exploded on its body and burst into flames.

The demonic corpse, engulfed in flames, let out a painful roar, much like a human.

"It's done!" Jiang Tianshou shouted excitedly.

However, Xiao Ming suddenly felt a chill run down his spine as he realized that the demonic corpse was staring at him.

call out!

A black object suddenly spewed out of the demon corpse's mouth, and under the cover of darkness, it was almost invisible to the naked eye.

Boom!

With a clang of metal striking metal, a bronze shield appeared before Xiao Ming.

The black object crashed into the shield, and Xiao Ming felt a tremendous force strike him, causing him to stagger back several steps. Even the shield had a dent.

"What is that?" Xiao Ming looked at the black object that had fallen to the ground. It looked a bit like a three-inch-long black nail.

This gave Xiao Ming a lingering fear. Luckily, he had this shield artifact; otherwise, if he had been hit by it, he would have been seriously injured, if not killed.

Just then, three people, two men and a woman, suddenly rushed out of the woods. The man in the middle was at the front, holding a talisman and chanting incantations.

"My heart and Thor are one; I am Thor, and Thor is me, responding to my every command!"

Boom!

In the darkness, a bolt of lightning appeared out of nowhere, tearing through the darkness and striking the demonic corpse.

"This is lightning magic!" Xiao Ming was shocked. Who were these three people?

The demonic corpse before them had been struck by fire and lightning, and its aura had weakened. The three immediately took out red ropes and copper coin threads from their bodies and used the Three Talents Formation to firmly restrict the demonic corpse's movements.

"Fellow Daoist, I am a cultivator from the Celestial Master Temple of Qingmao Mountain. My master and I have been chasing this demonic corpse for many days. Please lend us your help." The middle-aged man at the head of the group said respectfully to Xiao Ming.

In terms of cultivation, he was already at the seventh level of Qi Refining. The two disciples beside him, a man and a woman, were weaker, at the third and fourth levels of Qi Refining respectively.

"No problem!" Xiao Ming looked at the restrained demonic corpse, his eyes revealing killing intent.

With a wave of his hand, the Azure Rainbow Sword returned to his face. Xiao Ming bit his finger and smeared the blood onto the sword.

Having absorbed its master's spiritual blood, the flying sword trembled continuously, and a touch of rainbow appeared in its azure light.

"cut!"

Xiao Ming pointed, and the flying sword transformed into a long rainbow and slashed out.

Even with its body forged from a century of zombie corpse energy, it was pierced by the flying sword. A large amount of corpse energy was violently ejected, and the arm quickly swelled up and then exploded, instantly filling the surrounding area with corpse energy.

"Fireball!"

Xiao Ming condensed several fireballs in succession, which exploded in the corpse mist, finally dispelling the corpse energy.

The demonic corpse and the three people had all disappeared.

Xiao Ming's flying sword also lost its connection.