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Novel: [The Primordial Law]
Volume 5: [Seeking Immortality in the Eastern Sea]
Volume 5 (Pinyin): [Dong Hai xun xian]
Chapter 93 (530): [Battle Corpse]
(93rd of Volume 5)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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The Silver Marsh Corpse Sea was the foremost Sea of Corpses in southern Yingzhou, even more dangerous and mysterious than the Rotten Marsh Corpse Sea ruled by the Giant Spirit Corpse King in the East Sea.
The Ancient Sects held it in deep dread.
The Silver Rain Corpse Poison was a powerful weapon of the Taiyin Sect, feared by Martial-Mystic Cultivators across the land, and intimately connected to the Silver Marsh Corpse Sea.
The Silver Rain Corpse Poison that had recently fallen from the sky had been refined by Luo Pingdan.
The rain contained his Psychic Radiance.
Thus, as the bell chimed, the corpse-transformed Martial-Mystic Cultivators, now puppets stripped of memory and thought by his overwhelming Psychic Power, surged madly toward the White Bone Warship.
"Boom!"
The corpse-transformed Martial-Mystic Cultivators were numerous, each possessing formidable cultivation.
Now living dead, they mobilized their Spiritual Qi and wielded spiritual artifacts with terrifying ferocity.
Even the great sects of the Lingxiao Realm might not possess so many Dao Seed Realm experts.
Li Weiyi remained calm, undaunted by the dire situation.
His Psychic Radiance fully merged with the formation platform, allowing him to quickly master the White Bone Warship's Defensive and Offensive Formations.
He channeled bolts of Thunder and Lightning that erupted from the Formation Light Veil.
"Bang!"
"Crack!"
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Each bolt of lightning hurled forth could obliterate dozens of corpse-transformed Martial-Mystic Cultivators, scores of Corpse Spirits, or vast swaths of fierce souls.
The battlefield, spanning several miles, resembled a clash between two supreme Psychic Masters.
One commanded the Dead Spirits, wielding an army of thousands.
The other defended from the warship, countering with formations.
A mile away, Luo Pingdan watched his Corpse Spirit and fierce soul armies dwindle, his gaze hardening.
He focused on the figure standing on the warship's bow formation platform - the one who had blocked his Psychic Power attack earlier.
With the White Bone Warship's formations fully activated, Luo Pingdan realized he couldn't directly attack Li Weiyi with Psychic Power again without first breaching the formations.
The Corpse Spirit and fierce soul armies were borrowed forces.
If their losses grew too great, he would face severe consequences.
He had initially expected to easily capture Lu Jingshen and An Zhiruo, never anticipating such an unexpected turn of events.
"Zhe!"
Having stabilized the situation, Li Weiyi unleashed the Purifying Heart, Dispelling Evil Secret Incantation .
He pointed a finger into the void, his voice booming like thunder across the battlefield as layers of energy radiated outward.
"Whoosh!"
As his fingertip touched the air like a ripple on water, Spiritual Light surged forth.
Wherever the Spiritual Light passed, corpse-transformed Martial-Mystic Cultivators on the warship collapsed one after another, their eyes snapping shut, their breathing barely audible.
They remained unconscious.
The corpse poison had infiltrated their bodies, merging with their blood and flesh.
A single burst of Spiritual Light couldn't neutralize it.
Outside the White Bone Warship's formation, the corpse-transformed Martial-Mystic Cultivators collapsed under the impact of the Spiritual Light's shockwave.
The Corpse Spirits, fierce souls, and Ghost-Faced Owls suffered grievous injuries.
Some shrieked in agony, others plummeted from the sky, and still others had their soul bodies shattered.
Lu Jingshen gathered the dozens of armored warriors and maids who hadn't been poisoned and transformed.
Using a high-grade Cosmic Pouch, he stored them all, preparing for a desperate breakout.
Witnessing this, he couldn't help but feel immense admiration.
He realized that "Patriarch Li" had not only attained Immortal Realm in the Martial-Mystic Dao but also possessed extraordinary mastery of Psychic Power.
Even before reaching the Lingxiao Realm, encountering such a prodigiously talented individual at random proved that the world truly harbored hidden dragons and crouching tigers.
"So Third Young Master Lu has brought a Holy Spiritual Master along! But this is merely a desperate struggle, the death throes of a cornered beast."
Luo Pingdan's thin lips parted, his eyes narrowed, and he slammed his Red Copper Staff heavily against the ground.
"Whoosh!"
Countless threads of light shot forth from the staff, extending for miles.
These threads pierced the bodies of the fallen corpse-transformed Martial-Mystic Cultivators, reawakening them and pulling them back to their feet.
The Holy Spiritual Master's power was on full display, a single figure capable of matching a thousand soldiers.
Simultaneously, black mist billowed from the ground behind Luo Pingdan, and a vortex appeared on the surface.
A tall, muscular humanoid Corpse Spirit crawled out of the earth, standing amidst the swirling darkness.
It towered a head taller than Luo Pingdan.
Its aura was overwhelmingly powerful, utterly distinct from ordinary Corpse Spirits and corpse-transformed Martial-Mystic Cultivators.
Lacking skin, its entire body was covered in inch-long metal plates.
A Dao Ruler-long crimson rune was etched across its chest, stretching from below its neck to its abdomen.
Within its chest cavity, five lung lobes glowed with green flames. The fiery light pierced through flesh and metal armor, illuminating its chest with an eerie brightness and intensifying the sinister glow of the crimson rune.
"Lingnu, break the White Bone Warship's Formation," Luo Pingdan ordered, tossing him a Thousand-Inscriptions Artifact greatsword.
The only thing Luo Pingdan and Xie Wumian feared was the White Bone Warship's Formation.
Thus, they avoided direct confrontation, relying on Corpse Spirits and fierce souls to breach the defenses.
They had chosen to strike within the Void Hazard Zone to prevent the warship from escaping.
The White Bone Warship was besieged by an endless tide of Yin Fiend Dead Spirits, their numbers seemingly inexhaustible.
The Defensive Formation grew increasingly dim.
"Patriarch Li, Luo Pingdan is no ordinary Holy Spiritual Master, and with the Corpse Ghoul army at his command, the White Bone Warship's Formation won't hold."
"They're after me. I'll break through to the west, drawing Luo Pingdan and Xie Wumian after me. Head south - that's the approximate direction of the Lingxiao Realm. The White Bone Warship was already heading that way."
Lu Jingshen had barely finished speaking when a deafening explosion shook the warship, nearly throwing him off his feet.
"Boom!"
Lingnu, the battle corpse with disheveled hair, cleaved through the Formation Light Veil with a single sword strike, splitting the White Bone Warship in two.
A sword qi ravine, over a mile long, scarred the ground.
Lu Jingshen activated his escape talisman, blasting away several Dao Seed Realm corpse-transformed martial cultivators.
He transformed into a streak of light, shooting westward while shouting, "Xie Wumian, Luo Pingdan! I know who hired the Taiyin Sect to ambush me here! This debt will be repaid!"
"Then Third Young Master Lu won't be leaving the Nether Realm of the Dead alive!"
The silver sand river surged after him, the earth trembling beneath its advance, the wind howling with icy fury.
"Third Young Master, go first. I'll cover your retreat."
An Zhiruo descended from the sky, wielding his Jade Ruyi.
With a sweeping strike, he unleashed a jade-colored sea of light. Countless scriptures floated within this luminous expanse, blocking the silver sand river's advance.
Xie Wumian's true silver form was forced into the open.
During the earlier clash, An Zhiruo had sustained severe injuries, yet his gaze remained unwavering, showing no trace of fear.
Lu Jingshen treated him as both teacher and father, obeying his every word and never regarding him as a mere retainer or household servant.
His true status far exceeded that of an "Honorary Guest Elder."
Thus, in times of peril, An Zhiruo was willing to lay down his life.
Luo Pingdan glanced at the "Holy Spiritual Master" fleeing in the opposite direction with a girl on his back.
Ultimately prioritizing his mission, he leaped onto the rooster's back.
Dense runes erupted from the Spirit Realm between his eyebrows, settling onto the rooster's feathers.
"Whoosh!"
The rooster, moving with astonishing speed, either ran or flew in pursuit of Lu Jingshen.
"Lingnu, eliminate that Holy Spiritual Master!" Luo Pingdan hurled a talisman that landed on the battle corpse, issuing the command.
His figure vanished into the depths of darkness.
Li Weiyi, empowered by a Divine Speed Talisman, had already covered a hundred miles in a short time.
Tang Wanzhou, at the peak of the Dao Seed Realm, could hold her own against the weakest Immortal Realm Martial-Mystic Cultivators, a talent said to appear only once every thousand years.
Yet, when faced with a First Realm expert like Yao Qingxuan, she was critically wounded in a single strike, leaving her with no choice but to flee for her life.
The Demon Child, hailed as the Young Celestial Emperor, stood no chance against Zuoqiu Ling at the peak of the Dao Seed Realm.
Neither Yao Qingxuan nor Zuoqiu Ling had even remotely reached the pinnacle of the First Realm.
Li Weiyi was confident he could defeat Tang Wanzhou at her peak, thanks to his Immortal Body and early Ninth Heaven Wind Mansion cultivation.
However, facing Zuoqiu Ling and Yao Qingxuan, he had no certainty whatsoever.
Xie Wumian, a Second Realm cultivator, possessed strength far surpassing that of Yao Qingxuan and Zuoqiu Ling.
Even An Zhiruo, who had lived for two centuries, was no match for him.
Luo Pingdan, who shared Xie Wumian's renown, couldn't be much weaker.
Against such formidable opponents, even self-preservation was a struggle.
How could he possibly help others?
The battle corpse pursuing him moved with terrifying speed, making it impossible for Li Weiyi to shake it off.
Even using the "Zhe" Secret Incantation proved futile, as the corpse's Talisman Light blocked the technique.
Li Weiyi glanced back.
The world was pitch-black, and he could no longer see the radiant auras of Xie Wumian, Luo Pingdan, An Zhiruo, or the others, nor sense their Qi signatures.
He abruptly stopped, turned, and channeled all his Spiritual Qi into the Governor's Robe.
"Awooo!"
The White Mist Dragon Soul, over a hundred meters long, vibrated the air as it bared its fangs and claws, coiling and spiraling forward to confront the battle corpse relentlessly pursuing it.
Even divided into three hundred fragments, the Flying Dragon's Dragon Soul still radiated the aura of the Heavenly Emperor, its Martial-Mystic might overwhelming.
With Li Weiyi's current Spiritual Qi reserves and the vastness of his Wind Mansion Ancestral Field, the Dragon Soul he summoned by expending a third of his Spiritual Qi possessed combat power comparable to some Immortal Realm Martial-Mystic Cultivators.
Its majestic aura altered the surrounding environment, summoning clouds and lightning.
Had a low-level Martial-Mystic Cultivator witnessed this scene from afar, they would have been awestruck, believing the Dragon God had descended upon the world.
The battle corpse's eyes were far from vacant; they burned with a fierce intensity.
Without flinching, it raised its sword and swung it in a powerful arc, colliding head-on with the Dragon Soul's head.
"Boom!"
The battle corpse staggered backward, dust billowing beneath its feet.
It had blocked the Dragon Soul's full-force strike and quickly regained its footing.
Bracing its arms, it forced the Dragon Soul into retreat, preparing to counterattack.
Li Weiyi soared from atop the Dragon Soul's head, his sword descending in a golden cascade that crashed upon the battle corpse's skull.
Li Weiyi had deduced that the battle corpse's unarmored head was its weak point.
"Thud!"
Ripples shimmered above the battle corpse's head as the ground shattered beneath its feet, creating a massive crater several dozen feet in diameter.
The crater floor was scorched black, crackling with electric arcs.
These arcs originated from the Yellow Dragon Sword, manifesting as Six-Jia Yang Thunder, a force capable of shattering demons and annihilating evil.
Li Weiyi's full-force strike felt like striking a divine mountain of metal.
The backlash sent searing pain through his fingers, threatening to shatter them.
Staring intently, he noticed a radiant golden glow emanating from the point where his sword had struck the battle corpse's skull.
It was the perfected Golden Bone!
"He blocked my strike with his skeletal defenses. Just how strong was his physical body? What cultivation realm did he reach in life?" Li Weiyi quickly regained his composure.
No matter how powerful he had been in life, he was now dead, reduced to a battle corpse.
The battle corpse instantly neutralized the Six-Jia Yang Thunder. A surge of dense Spiritual Qi erupted from its Ancestral Field, violently repelling both the Dragon Soul and Li Weiyi.
Recognizing the battle corpse's tactical awareness, Li Weiyi retreated, stepping onto the Yellow Dragon's luminous shadow to soar into the sky, narrowly avoiding the corpse's swift follow-up strike.
Mid-air, Yu'er asked anxiously, "Master, should we throw it?"
"Throw it," Li Weiyi replied.
The Prefectural Governor's Official Seal plummeted, slamming into the battle corpse's head with a resounding thud before crashing to the ground.
A perfect hit!
Contrary to Li Weiyi's expectations, the strike didn't harm the battle corpse in the slightest.
"As I thought... I can't rely on you completely..."
"Boom!"
Thunder roared and lightning flashed across the Sky.
The Purple Heaven Thunder Seal shot forth from the thunderclouds, unleashing the full power of a Myriad-Inscriptions Artifact.
It struck the battle corpse, cracking its metallic armor and burying half its body in the ground.
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END OF CHAPTER
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