All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 138 Corpse Worm Possession, High-Stakes Gamble!
For a moment, Mu Yuan couldn't help but regret his carelessness and arrogance.

bass! !

At this moment, Mu Yuan only wanted to escape from this place. He immediately unleashed his true energy and activated the Heavenly Centipede Blade with all his might.

clang! ! !
A terrifying blade of energy, over ten feet long, shot into the sky, annihilating all the golden silkworm worms around him. Even the Corpse Worm King, which possessed an indestructible body, was sent flying by the blade's light.

After successfully landing the attack, Mu Yuan used his movement technique to step onto a nearby tree trunk and soar into the sky. In mid-air, he took out a spare signal flare and was about to pull the fuse.

boom! !

Suddenly, a suppressed explosion came from the air, and a terrifying force appeared in his back.

Mu Yuan felt a sharp pain in his internal organs, his vision went black, and his body crashed through three large trees before falling into the bushes.

"You! I!" Mu Yuan stared at the golden figure on the tree trunk ahead, his face contorted, and spat out a mouthful of black blood.

Clearly, Zhou Qing's attack had caused him serious internal injuries.

"You really think this is your home? You can come and go as you please?"

Zhou Qing said coldly, his voice becoming low and hoarse under the blessing of the Corpse Worm Gu King's Vajra Body.

As he spoke, Zhou Qing struck out with his palm.

A golden handprint as tall as a person crashed down.

The mountain wind howled, and the air was compressed, producing bursts of popping sounds.

Unable to dodge in time, Mu Yuan raised the Heavenly Centipede Blade to retaliate.

Severely injured, his internal energy became increasingly stagnant and obscured within his body.

Even so, the blade energy released by the Heavenly Centipede Blade still managed to crack the golden handprint formed by divine power.

boom!
Mu Yuan was sent flying backward by the blow, and the Heavenly Centipede Blade fell to the ground with a clatter, its red light quickly dimming.

"Hmph!" Zhou Qing sneered as he looked at Mu Yuan, who was lying motionless on the ground, but did not go forward.

"Buzz!"

The golden silkworm worms, flying everywhere, swarmed forward.

"Ah!" Seeing that the Gu worms were about to engulf Mu Yuan's body, he did a somersault and suddenly flipped himself up. The Heavenly Centipede Blade that had fallen to the side also emitted a dazzling red light, releasing bursts of blade energy to kill the Golden Silkworm Gu worms.

Zhou Qing immediately withdrew from the Vajra Body state and stood aside, occasionally using his divine power to launch ranged attacks.

In less than a hundred breaths, Mu Yuan was dragged until he bled from all seven orifices, and died from his severe injuries and exhaustion.

"I hate it!! My dad must... must."

Before his death, Mu Yuan let out a furious roar of resentment.

However, before he could finish speaking, he breathed his last.

"stop!"

Seeing that the golden silkworm worms were about to swarm and devour Mu Yuan's corpse, Zhou Qing immediately ordered them to stop.

"hiss--!!"

Two mutated golden silkworm worms blocked the way, emitting sharp hissing sounds, which finally stopped the restless golden silkworm worms.

Then, these golden silkworm worms began to devour their dead brethren on the ground.

Zhou Qing stood on the tree trunk, listening to Mu Yuan's heartbeat stop and his breath cease completely, before leaping down.

He came to Mu Yuan's body and whispered in his ear:
"You're much better than I expected. It's a pity you were too careless. This is my home, not yours."

thump!
As soon as Zhou Qing finished speaking, Mu Yuan's body fell straight down.

Mu Yuan's strength was indeed much greater than he had expected.

It seems he won without even making a move, but he used all his trump cards in this battle, and nearly half of the thousands of golden silkworm worms were killed or injured.

Less than 20% of the true essence remained in the Yuanqiao (Primordial Aperture).

After all, controlling Gu worms in battle requires a continuous consumption of true energy.

However, the fighting style of the Gu Master is indeed disgusting; even Zhou Qing himself felt nauseous watching it.

He practically used the Golden Silkworm Gu to wear Mu Yuan down to death.

Only at the crucial final moment did he merge with the Corpse Worm King, using his indestructible body and divine power to deliver a fatal blow to Mu Yuan.

Apart from being a bit overconfident at the beginning, Mu Yuan didn't make any mistakes during the entire battle.

Zhou Qing waited patiently for the enemy to tire themselves out, while Mu Yuan, like a fool, plunged headlong into the trap.

"So this is the Heavenly Centipede Blade?"

Zhou Qing picked up the strangely shaped curved knife from beside Mu Yuan. The knife was about two feet long and had a distinct curve, like a crescent moon.

Without the infusion of true energy, the blade is entirely black, appearing as a single, seamless piece.

You have acquired a new divine weapon—the Heavenly Centipede Blade.

At this moment, lines of text appeared in Zhou Qing's field of vision.

[Divine Weapon: Heavenly Centipede Blade]

[Rank: Tier 2 (Fragmented)]

One of the three-tier Five Poison Divine Weapons, forged from refined meteorite iron that absorbed the essence of moonlight, plus the legs of a spirit-connected blood centipede that had cultivated for hundreds of years.
Extremely Yin and Evil, containing filthy toxins, once it enters the body, it takes root deep in the bone marrow, merging with the source of Qi and blood, and cannot be eradicated without a blood transfusion.

[Mastery Requirements: Master the Crescent Moon Blade Technique and develop two different blade stances]

[Control Effects: Blade Qi Release (Tier 1), Controlling Blades with Qi (Tier 2), Bloodlust and Spiritual Connection (Tier 3)]

"Second-tier! Incomplete?" Zhou Qing checked the information on the Heavenly Centipede Blade and suddenly discovered that the Heavenly Centipede Blade was actually a second-tier divine weapon.

Although it has the word "crippled" in its name, it is probably still stronger than a first-tier divine weapon.

More importantly, the description of the Heavenly Centipede Blade actually shows that it is one of the three-tier Five Poison Divine Weapons.

"The Heavenly Centipede Blade is one of a set of divine weapons!!"

Zhou Qing's eyes widened.

Moreover, in addition to a second-tier effect, the Heavenly Centipede Blade also has a third-tier effect.

This was something Zhou Qing hadn't anticipated at all.

No wonder Mu Yuan used the Heavenly Centipede Blade so easily, as if he were cutting melons and vegetables.

At the last moment, they almost cleaved his divine hand seal in two with a single strike.

"Fortunately, I didn't show myself directly at the beginning and confront Mu Yuan at his peak."

Zhou Qing couldn't help but feel a little glad that she had made that choice.

"Buzz!"

Suddenly, the curved blade in Zhou Qing's hand flashed red light and trembled violently.

A chilling aura surged forth, and even with divine power blocking it, he felt as if he were holding an ice block in his hand, the coldness piercing to the bone.

"Are you resisting me?" Zhou Qing's gaze sharpened.

He immediately released more divine power, suppressing the Heavenly Centipede Blade's resistance.

"Master the Crescent Moon Blade Technique and develop two different blade stances."

Zhou Qing looked at the requirements for wielding the Heavenly Centipede Blade and put the Heavenly Centipede Blade into the Wooden King Cauldron.

He then crouched down and began to search Mu Yuan's body.

Finally, Zhou Qing pulled a leather pouch from Mu Yuan's chest. "A leather pouch Gu?!" Zhou Qing's face lit up with joy. If Mu Yuan carried a leather pouch Gu, it meant that he most likely carried some valuable items with him.

Thinking of this, he immediately bit his finger and dripped blood onto the leather bag Gu, then poured his true essence into it.

Unexpectedly, the whole process went very smoothly.

The leather bag gu absorbed his blood and true essence, and opened directly.

Zhou Qing turned the leather bag over and gently poured out its contents.

“Crash~!”

With a clattering sound, the contents of the leather bag Gu were piled up into a small mountain.

This leather bag gu is much bigger than Zhou Qing's; the space inside is probably the size of two suitcases.

"Wow, they're so rich!"

Zhou Qing picked up the silver notes and then grabbed a bag of gold beans, weighing them in his hand.

All of these together amount to at least five thousand taels of silver.

Besides these, there were bottles and jars containing poisonous water, poisonous powder, and various kinds of pills.

There were four Lesser Rejuvenation Pills among them, worth two thousand taels of silver.

In addition, there are some pills that replenish qi and blood, with as many as a dozen or so.

The last few personal clothes.

"This is."

Zhou Qing found three secret manuals and a scroll in the inner pockets of the four pieces of clothing.

The Crescent Moon Knife Technique

Five Poison Palm

The Hundred Poisons Heart Sutra

The Corpse Refining Chronicles

Zhou Qing checked them one by one, her smile almost impossible to suppress.

The Crescent Moon Blade Technique is the key to mastering the Heavenly Centipede Blade.

Zhou Qing flipped through the sword technique manual, and the moves inside were more than ten times more exquisite than the Wind Slash he had learned before.

However, the first half of this manual was very worn from being read so many times, while the second half was noticeably newer.

"It seems Mu Yuan has only mastered half of the Crescent Moon Blade Technique. Yet, even half of it possesses such power!"

Zhou Qing closed the manual on the Crescent Moon Blade Technique. Such exquisite blade techniques could be studied slowly when he had time.

Then, he picked up the Five Poisons Divine Palm and the Hundred Poisons Heart Sutra to examine them.

The Five Poisons Palm is one of the Five Poisons Sect's signature martial arts, and it is even stronger than the White Cloud Palm Technique that Zhou Qing learned.

However, he had no intention of switching to another cultivation method, since he had already mastered the White Cloud Palm Technique to an unparalleled level and had also developed internal strength.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Qing picked up the Hundred Poisons Heart Sutra to examine it and discovered that it was an internal cultivation method that was used in conjunction with poison techniques.

Although Zhou Qing had no intention of practicing another internal skill, the Hundred Poisons Heart Sutra still contained more than a dozen recipes for refining poisons and making medicines, which he could use directly.

"The Corpse Refining Manual should be complete!!!"

Zhou Qing finally picked up the scroll, his eyes widening suddenly.

He had assumed this was the same as the Corpse Refining Manual he had obtained from Lin Tianzheng, but to his surprise, the scroll in front of him was actually the complete Corpse Refining Manual.

Iron corpse, bronze corpse, silver corpse, gold corpse.
And, a secret method for refining Fiend Corpses, comparable to a Grand Martial Master in the Blood Transformation Realm!
"To refine a fiendish corpse, one must obtain the complete body of a martial artist at the peak of the Bone Refining Realm, with the Blood Exchange Realm being ideal. This..."

After reading the requirements for refining a fiendish corpse, Zhou Qing's expression turned somewhat grim.

Not only is the process of refining a fiendish corpse cruel, but the most crucial point is that the materials required to refine a fiendish corpse must be at least those of a martial artist at the peak of the Bone Refining Realm.

And it has to be a complete corpse.

With that kind of strength, he's already a Blood Exchange Realm Grand Martial Master, so why would he need to go through the trouble of refining a fiendish corpse?

As for using a Blood Exchange Realm Grand Martial Master to refine a Fiend Corpse, Zhou Qing didn't even need to think about it.

"but."

Zhou Qing thought that since the Witch God Cult already had ready-made evil corpses, why should he bother?

"Huh? This is."

When Zhou Qing rolled up the scroll again, he suddenly noticed a palm-sized pattern on the back of the scroll. The color was very light, and it was hard to notice without careful observation.

He turned the scroll over and stared intently at it.

The pattern was crooked and distorted, and it looked somewhat like...
map!

At this moment, Zhou Qing noticed that there were a few small characters written on the edge of the map.

Enter through the Shengmen Gate in the southeast corner and exit through the Jingmen Gate in the due west direction.

"Could this be a map of the corpse hidden in Huanglong Mountain?! What is this incantation?" Zhou Qing's eyes widened, and he could hear his own heart pounding.

The mnemonic on this map might be the method for hiding the corpse.

"Could this be my chance to seize the Heavenly Fiend Corpse?"

Looking at Mu Yuan lying on the ground with black blood seeping from his mouth and nose, Zhou Qing suddenly had a startling idea.

He couldn't get close to the Heavenly Fiend Corpse, but someone else could.

Zhou Qing, who had originally planned to destroy the evidence, suddenly changed his mind.

Seeing that Mu Yuan's body was still warm, Zhou Qing quickly pinched his cheeks and pried his mouth open.

Whoosh!
The Corpse Worm King quickly shrank in size, turning into a black beetle the size of a thumb. It then crawled into Mu Yuan's mouth and finally burrowed into his brain.

A moment later, Mu Yuan, who had been dead, suddenly opened his bloodshot eyes.

Zhou Qing handed over the kettle, poured out some water, and used it to wash the black blood seeping from his face and ears before getting up.

"Mu Yuan!"

"What's the matter?"

Mu Yuan's voice was somewhat stiff and hoarse, sounding rather strange.

However, judging from his current disheveled appearance, it's somewhat understandable.

This is a big gamble!
As long as the Corpse Worm Gu King can get close to the Heavenly Fiend Corpse, it will have a way to enter its body and gain control.

Before the Heavenly Fiend Corpse reached its peak, none of the five spirit corpses had been refined, making them unclaimed.

Otherwise, with the corpse's strength comparable to a Blood Transformation Realm Grand Martial Master, it wouldn't need many people to guard it.

Although the Heavenly Fiend Corpse is almost certain to help him break through the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top, if it is successfully refined, then it will have nothing to do with Zhou Qing.

For him, obtaining just one of the spirit corpses would be like adding a trump card to his deck.

A single spirit corpse is stronger than an ordinary evil corpse. Moreover, if he obtains either the supreme wood spirit corpse or the supreme water spirit corpse, he can make the supreme wood spirit corpse cultivate the Green Wood Scripture and the supreme water spirit corpse cultivate the Azure Water Technique.

This is equivalent to a martial arts master at the Blood Exchange Realm with superb physical constitution cultivating internal energy.

Zhou Qing essentially gained a power bank that could replenish his true energy anytime, anywhere.

Gamble with the Corpse Worm King on the Heavenly Fiend Corpse
It's done!

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