Chapter 273

A few years ago, in the battle on Cima Mountain, the Corpse Demon showed off his prowess, destroying Jiemo, Old Man Zhou, Ye Guhong, and the five Wudang heroes. Eight masters besieged him, but they were unable to take his life.

However, in martial arts, there is a fine line between being good and being great. The Corpse Demon was able to fight eight people single-handedly, but that doesn’t mean he was eight times better than these people.

If we want to discuss it in detail, apart from the simple level of martial arts training, there are too many factors that affect performance in battle, such as martial arts style, the characteristics of the techniques, the environment and even the mentality.

It is like Crane Beak Old Man, whose palm techniques are simple and majestic, and whose palm power is cold and poisonous, which is much more difficult for Ye Kuhong to deal with than Ugly Monk.

But the ugly monk’s martial arts are all-encompassing. If they really fight to the death against the crane beak, it is still uncertain who will live or die.

The reason why the corpse demon is so powerful is that his body is made of iron and bone, which accounts for at least 70-80% of the reason.

Coupled with his profound skills and fierce moves, according to Ye Guhong, he has high attack power and thick blood, especially now that he has made up for his weakness in body movement, he can be said to have no shortcomings.

But now that Master Jie Jie is looming as the second-best in the martial arts world, she is no pushover.

The Emei school has a long and illustrious lineage, and Master Jie Jie is also a prodigy who has mastered the school’s kung fu. She lived in Wuyu back then and received much inspiration from Zhang Sanfeng, and has taken another big step forward on the hundred-foot pole. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Six Yang Ling Shu Jue she created is as strong as any ancestor.

In particular, after the battle on Ice and Fire Island, she was seriously injured in a joint scheme by the Dragon King and Lion King, and hid in the snowy region for more than a year to recover. However, she was also blessed by this disaster, and her body’s strength and power were completely rebuilt. Her bones are like those of a dragon, and her muscles are like jade. She has already reached a state that rivals her natural talents. Otherwise, how would she dare to single-handedly kill her way to the corpse demon’s lair?

Therefore, after only one exchange, the two immediately realized that their opponents were no longer the same as before. Although they were secretly alarmed, they had no fear. Instead, they both felt a sense of pride and thought at the same time: Such opponents are only interesting to kill!

Then they heard the corpse demon let out a strange cry, as he pressed his white-boned sword with his right hand and reached out with his left hand, grasping for the blade of the Sword of Destruction. The Sword of Destruction ignored him, and the two swords sank slightly. The corpse demon’s waist bent like a crescent moon, and his left leg kicked up behind him, his foot straight and pointed as he stomped on the corpse demon’s head.

If this move landed, no one would know if the corpse demon’s skull would be shattered, but in front of his disciples, the corpse demon, the grandmaster of Dayuan, would never let a woman step on his head. All you could hear was a strange cry, and he fell backwards in a somersault.

Without changing his technique, he performed a front flip, keeping up the chase. The twin swords were like shooting stars, and in an instant, more than ten swords were thrust out.

The corpse demon wielded his sword to fend off the attack, defending himself with all his strength. He kept retreating, falling back more than ten steps, before leaping up and landing on the throne of bones. He didn’t know that he had triggered some mechanism, but as soon as he did, several of the beautiful corpses on the throne popped up and pounced on Jie Jie.

When Jie Jie saw this, his brows furrowed and he felt nauseated. He quickly stopped and took a few steps back.

The two were sitting on the throne of bones, one high and the other standing proudly in the middle of the hall. It seemed that the fight just now was just a fantasy.

The corpse demon looked up and down at Jie Jie and said hoarsely, 鈥淚mpressive! Since I became accomplished, I have only thought that there is no more rival in the world, but I did not expect that you, a woman, can also compete with me.鈥�

Mie Jie said coldly, 鈥淵ou have cultivated an evil skill that makes you neither human nor ghost. If you are truly invincible, wouldn’t that be a shame for us?鈥�

The corpse demon shook his head and said, 鈥淵ou, a nun, have cultivated martial arts to such a level, how can you not understand? You say that I have cultivated an evil skill, but who determines what is evil and what is not? You must know that everything comes from chaos, there is no white or black, no good or evil. The truth of the world is only strength. My strength is greater than anyone else’s, I am righteous!

Mie Jie said disdainfully, 鈥淵ou have trained a good body into a corpse-like body, and you call yourself a corpse demon. What does the word demon mean? Do you want me to explain it to you?鈥�

The Corpse Demon laughed and said, 鈥淚 was born in the third year of Jiaxi in the Southern Song Dynasty. I am one hundred and ten years old this year. Mortals reach this age and become dry bones long ago. I can eat and sleep, and I can have sex with seven corpses at night. So why not call me the Corpse Immortal? Besides, do you think that the corpse is evil? All living things in the world will become corpses sooner or later. Ask yourself, is this the inevitable path for all living things in this world, is it right or evil?鈥�

He could not argue with the argument for destroying the disaster. After frowning for a moment, he suddenly said, 鈥淲udang Zhang Zhenren is now 102 years old, which is similar to your age, but he has white hair and a young face, like a fairy. If you are the righteous way, what is he? As the saying goes, the higher and the lower are compared, the difficult and the easy complement each other. The nature of things is born out of comparison. Zhang Zhenren and you are like the two sides of yin and yang. I look at Zhang Zhenren’s feet and see the glorious righteous way, so naturally you have taken the evil path without a doubt.鈥�

The corpse demon did not argue, frowned for a moment, and suddenly said, 鈥淚s Zhang Sanfeng’s martial arts truly higher than mine?鈥�

Mie Jie laughed loudly and shook his head, saying, 鈥淚f you can defeat the poor nun within twenty moves, then you may ask this question again, and perhaps you will not be ridiculed.鈥�

鈥淭wenty moves? Twenty moves…鈥�

The corpse demon tilted his head, muttered a few times, and revealed an expression of boundless admiration. Suddenly, he stared at Mie Jie and revealed a grim smile, saying, 鈥淥kay! I will give it a try.鈥�

After saying this, he let out a fierce howl, and with a whoosh, he rolled up his body, as if he were a bloody cloud, and pounced out. Mie Jie let out a clear whoosh, and with his left hand, he brandished the Sword of Annihilation, while with his right hand, he brandished the Sword of Tribulation, and in an instant, he cast a heavy shadow of swords.

However, the sound of clanging was as dense as a rainstorm, and the corpse demon floated back and forth almost without touching the ground, his sword and claws all coming out at once, fighting around Mie Jie.

His swordplay was devious and vicious, his clawplay unpredictable and fierce, like countless evil thunderclaps from the underworld, each move a lethal killer.

Mie Jie stared with wide eyes, his feet following the Four Directions Step, his swords flying around him as he guarded his door while also occasionally lashing out in counterattacks.

Both sides were extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye they had already fought ten moves.

Seeing that he could not defeat Jie, the corpse demon let out a strange roar and swung his arm with all his strength. His internal strength was everywhere, and the white bone sword instantly shattered into hundreds of pieces, like countless hail, and shot at Jie from all directions.

This change in tactics came so suddenly, and the pieces of bone were so dense and fierce, that Jie was taken by surprise and knew that it would be difficult to block. He slammed his foot on the ground and soared into the sky.

The corpse demon did not hesitate, and jumped up after Mie Jie, his claws like hooks of death, attacking with a sky full of claw shadows.

Mie Jie used her sword to cover her body, but heard two clanging sounds as the corpse demon forcibly grabbed the two sword bodies, and with all ten fingers exerting force at the same time, the two finely tempered swords were instantly twisted into a mess.

Mie Jie’s legs sprang up violently to the left and right, sending a gust of wind as she kicked out wildly. The corpse demon swung his arms to shake off the broken swords, twisting his body to dodge while trying to grab her feet.

Mie Jie knew that the corpse demon’s hard skills were amazing, so she didn’t dare let him grab her legs. She kicked her right leg diagonally, driving her body and causing her to land on her side.

The corpse demon originally thought that after destroying Mie Jie’s dual swords, she would definitely retreat, so he exhaled a burst of turbid qi and chased after her. Unexpectedly, after landing, Mie Jie did not retreat but advanced, using a set of graceful and ever-changing palm techniques. One after the other, the palm forces, either curved or straight, came at her head and face, and they were precisely the Emei’s supreme technique, the Phantom Snow Flying Cloud Palm.

In this palm technique, each of Mie Jie and Ye Guhong has reached a different realm. Ye Guhong, relying on the Tai Chi method, can suspend palm power in the air for a short period of time. Although Mie Jie does not have this ability, the palm power he sends out is dense and heavy, and the killing power is much greater than that of his disciple.

At this moment, he exploded with all his strength and instantly hit dozens of palms, which was similar to the corpse demon’s just shattering the bone sword.

The corpse demon pounced on him, and there was no time to dodge. He barely managed to dodge half of them, and the remaining palm powers cracked and popped as they struck all over his body.

鈥淭wenty moves!鈥�

The corpse demon suddenly exclaimed, his expression showing disbelief.

After twenty moves, not only had he failed to defeat Mie Jie, he had also been beaten up by him, leaving him in pain all over. If his body had not been as strong as iron, he would have been defeated.

Mie Jie shouted, 鈥淭his shows that you are truly worlds apart from Zhang Zhenren.鈥�

The corpse demon was stunned, and then he thought about his life-long martial arts journey.

The story of this corpse demon was extraordinary. Before the age of 30, he had already mastered many of the unique skills of the Xixia Yipintang. In the basement of the former imperial palace, he accidentally found three scrolls of 鈥淟ittle Formless Cult鈥� left by an unknown person. At the age of 40, he had achieved great success in his practice, devoted himself to tantra, and served the Yuan court. He had made countless meritorious contributions and was awarded many unique skills, among which the half-volume 鈥淚nnate Cult鈥� was even more precious to him.

Although it was difficult to master because the technique was incomplete, it allowed him to gain insight and create an eccentric path of 鈥渦sing a corpse to enter the Dao and reshape the innate鈥�.

The Corpse Demon is based on the Little Formless Technique, mixed with various evil kung fu techniques, and supplemented by left-wing methods such as eating corpse flesh and marrow, and absorbing corpse essence. He took many detours and suffered much hardship before he could cultivate a strange corpse body that is between life and death.

At the age of over a hundred, he became the Mongolian imperial master, and he always thought that his power was supreme and his martial arts skills were invincible. He had always been complacent, but today, after hearing what Mie Jie meant, he realised that not only was he inferior to his contemporary Zhang Sanfeng, but that the gap was even wider. He was at a loss for a moment.

His pair of scarlet corpse eyes also became more hideous.

His breathing gradually became rapid, and an indescribable feeling of indignation filled his chest and would not go away.

鈥淵ou lied to me!鈥�

The corpse demon’s aura grew stronger, and he stared at Mie Jie, grinding his teeth.

Mie Jie frowned and said, 鈥楴onsense! A poor nun does not tell lies.鈥�

The corpse demon shook his head.

鈥滻 don’t believe it… My spiritual power is astonishing, and I have walked the path that no one has walked before. Now, I only lack a mouthful of primordial air to reverse the creation of yin and yang and regenerate flesh and blood. Who in the world can rival me? What Zhang Sanfeng… Hmph, I will take your head and go to Mount Wudang to meet him!”

He muttered to himself, but did not notice that when he said, 鈥楻everse the creation of yin and yang and regenerate flesh and blood,鈥� a thought occurred to him. He remembered that when he passed through Changbai Mountain before, the old master Sun had said that half of the innate skill had fallen into the Ruyang Wangfu. At that time, he guessed that it was in the hands of the Corpse Demon. Now, listening to what he said, it turned out to be the case!

She had recovered from her serious injuries and her body was like new. She vaguely sensed that she had already realized the direction of the innate talent path. Now, listening to the corpse demon’s words, she realized that they were hinting at a different path leading to the same destination. She couldn’t help but think to herself: I wonder if this divine martial art is on him or hidden in this temple. Anyway, if I can obtain it, won’t it add to Emei’s heritage?

Although Zhou Zhixing has a copy of the 鈥淧rimal Force鈥�, this old man seems crazy. I understand that he would rather give it to Wudang than Emei. He probably has his own considerations, and with the pride of having defeated the apocalypse, naturally he will not ask for it from him.

She rarely used her brain, and was thinking of how to try to test him with her words, but she heard the corpse demon roar furiously and pounce again.

Mie Jie was unable to speak in time and had to fight first. He once again used the Illusionary Snow Flying Cloud Palm against the enemy. However, the corpse demon also used some unknown magical power. Streaks of green and purple gas overflowed from every pore of its body. In a moment, its entire body was enveloped in a layer of smoke. As soon as Mie Jie’s invisible palm power reached it, the green smoke and purple mist whirled rapidly around the corpse demon, dissipating most of the palm power. The remaining power fell on the corpse demon’s flesh, as if massaging it.

Mie Jie was secretly alarmed. She thought to herself, this corpse demon has a body of bronze skin and iron bones, which is already incredibly hard. I never expected that he also has such powerful martial arts skills. This kind of hard plus hard is like standing still, it is hard to kill him even if you don’t move. But what should I do?

However, she had been in battle for a long time and her heart was as strong as iron. Although she saw the corpse demon’s various powerful techniques emerging in an endless stream, she was not discouraged. Since palm power was ineffective, she simply used all the various supreme skills of Emei and started a battle with the corpse demon.

In this fierce battle, the two of them gave it their all, and after three hundred rounds of clanging and banging, it was still hard to tell who would win.

At this point, both of their nun hats had been knocked off, and white smoke was curling up from one bald head, while the dense fog surrounding the corpse demon had thinned to a light layer, showing that they were both extremely tired.

With their cultivation, it was not unusual for them to fight fiercely for thousands of moves, for days and nights on end, but what they were using were all powerful moves, so the consumption was doubled.

At this time, it was already gradually getting light outside, and the corpse demon heard the heavy breathing of the demon exterminator, and secretly rejoiced: This nun is already at the end of her strength. Although my internal strength has also been depleted by 80%, she is in my lair. If we continue to expend energy with her for a few moments, I will give the order for my disciples to go up and surround her and kill her. Even if we have to sacrifice dozens of our most capable disciples, we must exhaust her!

After all, he had never seen Zhang Sanfeng’s abilities. Seeing that the disaster-destroying demon was already one of the strongest enemies he had ever encountered, and that he would soon die at his hands, he was inexplicably excited, and his attack became more exuberant.

After fighting for another thirty or forty rounds, a cock crowed in the distance. The corpse demon thought to himself, 鈥淣ow!鈥� Suddenly he yelled, 鈥淲here are my disciples…鈥�

Before he could finish speaking, a clear voice shouted, 鈥淢aster, your disciple is here! Rest for a moment, and let your disciple kill this old devil!鈥�

A figure followed the voice and dashed into the hall, slapping the corpse demon in the face with a thunderous blow.

The corpse demon hurriedly blocked with his palm, and the two palms clashed. He felt that the opponent’s palm power was magnificent. If it were normal, he would not be afraid of him, but at the moment, his internal strength was almost depleted, so how could he block it? With a strange cry, he quickly retreated.

鈥淢aster, be careful!鈥�

The surrounding disciples shouted in unison, pouncing from all sides to block the person who suddenly attacked. The corpse demon then looked closely, identifying him for a moment, and gritted his teeth, saying, 鈥淵e Guhong! It really is you who has come to ruin my good deed again.”

Mie Jie cried out, 鈥楪uhong, this guy has thick skin and flesh, and is really hard to kill.鈥�

Ye Guhong said, 鈥業f that’s the case, Master, please wait a moment, I’ll be right back.鈥�

While he was talking, he used a move called 鈥楴o Rain in a Thick Cloud鈥� to send flying several Tibetan monks, and then twisted his body and dashed out of the temple.

The Corpse Demon shouted, 鈥滶mei brat, you come and go as you please? I will kill your master to set an example.鈥�

He then pointed at Mie Jie and said, 鈥淪he is no longer able to fight, quickly surround her and kill her!鈥�

Before the words had finished, Ye Guhong rolled back in, holding two thick bear-skin tubes in his hands, one black and one white. He threw the white tube to Mie Jie and took the black tube himself, flying towards the corpse demon. He stuck his right hand into the tube and raised it with the tube still attached, slashing down at the corpse demon’s head.

The corpse demon raised his left arm to block, and punched with his right hand. Ye Guhong didn’t even look, and the black light of the black leather tube in his right hand flashed. The bear skin suddenly split in two, revealing a large, dark knife.

However, there was no handle on the knife. Ye Guhong grabbed the back of the knife with one hand and chopped down. The corpse demon felt a chill in his heart and subconsciously dodged, only to hear a plop sound as a long arm fell to the ground.