The beauty with cloud-like hair and a swaying step revealed her head, laughing like silver bells: "Dear sir, sir, do you see? Flying Corpse, Undying Bone, one in the sky, one underground! You're just a block of stone that doesn't understand romance, standing there waiting to be beaten!"
The flower palanquin flew up, and a series of sinister spells rained down on Xu Qing like hailstones.
The Flying Corpse could use telekinesis, raising countless gravestones from the tomb mountain like ten thousand swords converging upon Xu Qing, alongside the years-old poison gas attacks nurtured by the Blissful Hugger.
It's unclear if it was because the Hugger had been in a vase for too long, eating, drinking, and sleeping inside it, but the release of corpse poison was overwhelming.
Additionally, Xu Qing felt the influence of techniques and powers similar to divine consciousness and mind control affecting him.
Like a superior imposing pressure on a subordinate in the zombie hierarchy.
Fortunately, Xu Qing was immune to most of these things. Even the Five Epidemic Ghosts specializing in plague couldn't do anything to him, let alone his own corpse poison.
Though Xu Qing appeared gloomy, his face was taut as if locked tight, he was clear in his mind as a mirror!
The Blissful Hugger in front seemed to be playfully hopping, unaware she was walking a tightrope in midair, with no room for error.
Xu Qing's body could withstand her a thousand or eight hundred rounds without issues, but if he spotted a single flaw...
He was determined to let this kite-flying Hugger know what a truly complete Zombie was.
When the flower palanquin laughed down over him again, Xu Qing's eyes suddenly sharpened. While appearing wide open, he simultaneously launched the Four-sided Lean Banner from his back, shooting straight into the sky!
The flower palanquin deftly dodged, and the cyan, red, and black banners missed, but only the yellow banner stuck on the palanquin beam, vibrating with a hum.
"Hehe, let's see you laugh!" Xu Qing chuckled ominously and disappeared in a flash!
Upon closer inspection, he had already mysteriously appeared above the flower palanquin, guided by that yellow banner.
Simultaneously, Xu Qing wielded the Ghost-slaying Treasure Sword, activating the corpse-splitting technique, surrounding the palanquin with eight zombie avatars identical to him!
The smug expression on the Blissful Hugger's beautiful face vanished instantly.
She was horrified and never expected this man to have such an earth-and-sky ability hidden.
Xu Qing didn't give the Blissful Hugger a second chance, his Ghost-slaying Treasure Sword filled with Evil Qi raised high, its blade pointing straight at the palanquin top!
The stance was vicious and decisive, like when the Ghost Law had thrown Blissful Hugger down from above, ruthless!
Where the sword fell, it carried the force of a thousand catties!
With a tremendous crash, the cloud palanquin shattered into pieces, with wooden fragments and red cloth fluttering through the sky, accompanied by the sound of breaking porcelain.
Now the smile shifted onto Xu Qing's face.
The Blissful Hugger who was just planted in a vase wasn't laughing anymore, without the vase, her body was exposed in the air, and the Heaven's Evil Qi carried by the Ghost-slaying Treasure Sword kept pushing her toward the mountaintop.
The second loud crash sounded, shrouded in smoke, the Blissful Hugger with a sword mark on her head, looked like an octopus, her organs tightly embedded in the solid tomb soil.
But the Flying Corpse refined into an Undying Bone, its survival ability was far beyond what one sword could eliminate.
The beauty's head, with the neck-bound 'octopus' body, still wasn't completely dead. She was like a crushed yet recovering slug, twisting her organs, convulsing her intestines, while her waterfall-like hair served as limbs pushing against the ground.
When she finally pulled her organs out of the tomb soil with a squishy sound, the Blissful Hugger frantically wriggled toward the headless corpse not far away, the Yin Corpse Sect's old Sect Master's remains!
And her speed was inexplicably fast, Xu Qing only saw the bloody entrails dragging on the ground, leaving a sticky, bloody trail.
The sound was even sickening to hear.
Xu Qing furrowed his brows, steadily landing on the top of the highest gravestone.
He coldly watched the thing on the ground crawl desperately, neither stopping it nor intimidating it with words.
Until he witnessed the heap of rotten meat crawling to the severed neck of the old Sect Master, watching the intestines stick to it like a living octopus.
When the beautiful head was seamlessly reconnection completed, the body of the Yin Corpse Sect's Sect Master was thoroughly occupied by the Blissful Hugger.
Xu Qing was amused in his heart, never expecting this Blissful Hugger still had this trick up her sleeve.
Originally, he was ready to give up on this seemingly Flying Corpse vase woman, but now she herself had found a host body to parasitize, completing her imperfect shell.
He just wondered if the Sutra of Salvation would accept such a remodeled second-hand corpse.
Compared to Xu Qing, who wore a strange smile, Fulou Zunzhe's expression was remarkably grim at this moment.
She had endured for hundreds of years, unwilling to take over the Yin Corpse Sect Master's aging body, even while residing inside a bottle every day.
Who would have thought that one day she would still have to make the worst plan.
Xu Qing glanced thoughtfully at Fulou Zunzhe, whose slender body was topped with a beautiful woman's head, and said, "No wonder the Yin Corpse Sect Master practiced both martial and Xuan Sect paths. If he had focused solely on the Xuan Sect's path, he might have lived longer. Now it seems you deliberately guided him into martial practices so you could snatch his body...."
Fulou Zunzhe's feet hit the ground, her body landed like a ghost on another stone tablet, and she said gloomily:
"Why are you so heartless, my lord? In my heart, there is only you. From the moment I saw you, everyone else's body became nothing more than rags, and only you were my perfect match."
"You destroyed this corpse-raising ground, but I am not angry. Because getting you is worth more than anything!"
When Xu Qing stared intently at her, nodding frequently, Fulou Zunzhe paused just as she was about to make her move, feeling puzzled, "Why are you looking at me like that, my lord?"
If she were still in the bottle and Xu Qing looked at her, it might mean he was infatuated and wanted to engage with her sexually.
But now that she's in an old and frail man's body, how could he show such a possessive gaze?
Xu Qing chuckled, "Why am I looking at you? Because you're not the only one who wants my body. I also want yours."
"..."
Fulou Zunzhe was even more puzzled—what is this guy's preference?
The old man's body is tough as matches, years of leathery skin, not to mention it's not been tempered, it's not even as soft as a woman's touch.
Surely it can't be a penchant for older men, but who would choose an old man for such things?
Fulou Zunzhe couldn't comprehend it, but she suppressed her sense of strangeness and suggested, "If only my lord gives up that body, I swear by the heavens that after possessing you, I will refine this old corpse into a Corpse Puppet, and it will follow me everywhere, never leaving my side...."
After hearing this, Xu Qing felt completely undone.
Fighting is one thing, but why include language so foul?
Fulou Zunzhe didn't know her words had offended Xu Qing. She only saw the young man in front of her put away the Ghost-slaying Treasure Sword, switching instead to a large Shouyang Axe.
"That axe..." Fulou Zunzhe recognized the erosive magic, but before she could finish speaking, Xu Qing had already raised the axe.
After mastering the Undying Bone, Xu Qing could stack the Heavenly Strength Axe Technique to the twenty-sixth level, not only surpassing the crucial twenty-fifth mark but also making further progress.
When the shadow of the axe covered the entire mountaintop, Fulou Zunzhe finally felt the true nature of Xu Qing.
"Undying Bone...how many Undying Bones have you refined?!"
Yet, the response to her question was a massive axe shadow carrying the force to split a mountain.
Rumble—
The sound of thunder resonated through the Yin Corpse Sect, shaking the entire burial mountain. When the dust finally cleared, a crack appeared at the top of the mountain, extending to its base before gradually disappearing.
Xu Qing put away the large axe and emerged from the dust.
As he approached the corpse riddled with blood-soaked cracks, he grimaced and said:
"Mumbling jibberish, better dead for peace."
Fulou Zunzhe's head clung to the Yin Corpse Sect Master in a twisted posture, her eyes still moving, while the Huangting's Undying Bone emitted powerful magical waves, repairing all the damage to her body.
"You can't kill me; I am the disciple of the female demon... you..."
Just as Fulou Zunzhe propped her body up for the next move, an irresistible large hand forced her back down.
Then, Fulou Zunzhe sensed an overwhelming authority from the void, tearing through all her defenses.
As easily as puncturing thin paper.
"You..."
Fulou Zunzhe's eyes widened, and then she scattered like foam, instantly falling silent.