Yuantian Pidao

Chapter 142: Kill Him

In the mountains and forests, a gentle breeze blew, bringing with it a silent sense of dread. Clad in hemp clothing, the Corpse Taoist, who had returned to the martial world, appeared before Gao Siyuan.

"The Corpse Daoist, it was you..."

Upon recognizing the person's identity, Gao Siyuan's murderous intent intensified.

Faced with Gao Siyuan, Jiang Chen, disguised as a corpse Taoist, remained indifferent, only secretly performing a magic incantation.

It was at this moment that the White Bone Sword rang out, and Gao Siyuan suddenly felt a deadly sense of crisis.

"not good···"

Realizing something was wrong, Gao Siyuan instinctively went to defend himself. At the same time, the White Bone Sword shattered, and the Blood Fiend True Flame, which had been suppressed for a long time, suddenly burst out from his body, surging like a wave and sweeping in all directions.

Caught off guard, Gao Siyuan's figure was instantly swallowed up.

Ah, his body was engulfed in blood and fire, as if his flesh and blood had been boiled to extract oil. Gao Siyuan felt extreme pain. To make matters worse, the cold energy within his body was also triggered at this moment and erupted again. In an instant, he was subjected to both ice and fire, which severely injured him.

"go!"

In extremely poor condition, Gao Siyuan mustered his last bit of inner energy, activated his magic to protect himself, and tore through the blood and fire. He fled into the depths of the mountains in a very disheveled state.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes slightly.

"The injuries were indeed extremely severe, but they might still have a backup plan..."

With a single thought, without moving his true body, Jiang Chen summoned his fighting corpse.

With a roar, corpse energy surged, black lightning crackled around its body, and a golden body with four arms materialized. The fighting corpse descended from the sky and chased after Gao Siyuan at an extremely fast speed.

Ahead, noticing the change behind him, Gao Siyuan's already pale face darkened further.

His condition was indeed extremely poor at the moment. He was first severely injured by the Mist Dragon, and then he was tricked by the Corpse Daoist. However, he was not truly powerless to fight back. If the Corpse Daoist dared to chase after him directly, he was confident that he could kill the Corpse Daoist in return.

"There's no other way, we have to deal with this zombie first..."

As the aura of death surged from behind, Gao Siyuan knew he had no other choice but to begin casting a spell.

At this moment, wisps of green energy flowed beneath his skin, resembling nimble little snakes, giving him a rather eerie appearance.

"Green Serpent Demon, go!"

His eyes were bloodshot as Gao Siyuan activated the Green Serpent Demon within his body.

With a hiss, the green snake hissed, and its malevolent aura entered the forest. In that instant, the trees within a radius of hundreds of meters seemed to come alive. Thick roots burst out of the ground, hissing like snakes, and sprouting eerie green scales as they strangled the fighting corpse.

Roaring, sensing danger, the Yin Absolute True Qi within its body erupted, and the Fighting Corpse pushed the Four-Armed Golden Body Technique to its limit, but it was of no use. In just a moment, it was bound. As more and more tree roots came strangling it, a huge vine ball took shape, and it quickly became still.

Seeing this scene from a short distance away, Jiang Chen knew that his caution was not wrong.

"it's time."

With his mind in turmoil, Jiang Chen's true form moved, taking off on the wind, and he quickly caught up with Gao Siyuan.

In fact, after activating the Azure Serpent Demon, Gao Siyuan did not try to escape again.

Seeing Jiang Chen catching up, a resolute look flashed across Gao Siyuan's aged face. Things had come to this point, and he had no other choice but to fight with his back against the wall. Today, he and Jiang Chen were destined to have only one of them survive.

"A hundred snakes strangle!"

Energizing his true energy, Gao Siyuan unleashed his final killing move. Although the Azure Serpent's Fiend had brought him extreme pain and eroded his lifespan, he had also gleaned some profound insights from his long struggle against this fiendish energy, which was the origin of the Hundred Serpents' Constriction Technique.

With a rumble, the Azure Serpent Demon stirred again, and hundreds of tree roots burst forth from the ground, growing to their fullest extent, and strangled Jiang Chen like giant serpents.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen neither dodged nor feared. With a flick of his sleeve, a flash of silver light appeared—it was the Crane Cry Immortal Needle.

With a whoosh, sword light flashed across the sky. Under Jiang Chen's control, the Crane Cry Immortal Needle became extremely agile, like a crane dancing among the snakes. Sometimes it extended its claws, sometimes it flapped its wings, and sometimes it gently pecked. Wherever it passed, the snakes formed from tree roots were all cut down without any power to resist.

Upon seeing this scene, Gao Siyuan's expression changed drastically.

Although his condition had plummeted to rock bottom and his true energy was nearly depleted, greatly reducing the power of this move, it was still more than enough to deal with a cultivator who had just completed the Qi Refining stage. The current turn of events was completely unexpected.

"How is that possible? Every strike of his sword precisely hit the wooden snake's weakest point, skillfully neutralizing the Green Serpent's aura..."

Having grasped the profound mystery of Jiang Chen's swordsmanship, Gao Siyuan felt a chill creeping into his heart.

"Who are you..."

Originally, Gao Siyuan thought he had a good understanding of the Corpse Daoist, but now, looking at him again, he felt that there was a fog of mystery hidden on the face full of pockmarks, making it impossible to see clearly or understand.

At the same time, with the sword moving at will, Jiang Chen effortlessly slashed down the wooden snake, experiencing an unprecedented sense of harmony.

With his total soul volume increased tenfold, plus that wisp of second-tier essence, his perception improved significantly compared to before. He even had a faint feeling of divine consciousness sprouting. Under these circumstances, his original method of controlling the sword with qi evolved into a kind of divine control of the sword. The sword moved with his will, perfectly harmonious and natural.

It was precisely because of this that he was able to easily and effortlessly neutralize Gao Siyuan's magic.

At this moment, Gao Siyuan, who was still unwilling to give up, forcibly squeezed out a burst of true energy and activated the Azure Phosphorous Poison Fire again. However, it was still useless. Neither the wooden snake nor the Azure Phosphorous Poison Fire was of any use in front of Jiang Chen's extremely agile sword light. It was just a matter of adding one more sword strike.

"It's time to end it."

Looking down at Gao Siyuan, who was still struggling in his death throes, Jiang Chen decided not to delay any longer.

The next instant, a clear crane's cry resounded through the sky. Gao Siyuan, who was already seriously injured and exhausted, suddenly felt dizzy. Then he saw a crane descend from the sky and gently peck at his brow. By the time he came to his senses, his life force had already begun to rapidly ebb away.

"Who are you..."

Even in death, Gao Siyuan remained doubtful about Jiang Chen's identity. In fact, as the crane's cry rang out, he had thought of Jiang Chen, the sect leader of Taiping Sect, but only for a fleeting moment. He did not believe that Jiang Chen, who had only recently achieved Qi Refining, would have such strength; this was not the way of cultivating immortality.

Jiang Chen naturally had no intention of answering his question.

"Thus, the threat posed by the Gao family can be considered initially resolved."

After confirming that Gao Siyuan was dead, Jiang Chen breathed a sigh of relief. Being targeted by a cultivator who had reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining was definitely not a good thing for him at the moment. He would not feel at ease if the other party was not dead. It was precisely for this reason that he was willing to take some risks to keep Gao Siyuan here.

However, just as Jiang Chen was about to approach Gao Siyuan's corpse, his powerful senses suddenly detected an anomaly, and he quickly withdrew. It was at this moment that the vines sprouted, and thorny poisonous vines grew out of Gao Siyuan's flesh and blood, like dancing snakes, trying to tear everything around them apart.

Upon seeing this scene, Jiang Chen's eyes flickered slightly.

"So you're going to let the enemy have it even if they die? That's ruthless. We need to be more vigilant against this kind of tactic in the future."

Seeing Gao Siyuan's physical body become food for the growth of thorns and poisonous vines, Jiang Chen's heart was stirred. If his perception had not been strong enough, he might have actually suffered a small loss this time.

With a whoosh, a flash of sword light slashed away all the thorns, captured Gao Siyuan's soul, and after a quick cleanup of the battlefield, Jiang Chen led the heavily injured fighting corpse away from the forest.

Gao Siyuan's move was not weak. If he hadn't deliberately held back, wanting to save more power to deal with Jiang Chen, he might have been killed in this battle against the corpse.

And so, Gao Siyuan, the creator of the Gao family's glory, the hero in the eyes of countless people, the head of the Gao family, fell and was buried quietly in this nameless mountain forest. He was famous in life, but died in obscurity.

(End of this chapter)