Ghost Immortal

Gao Feng stood at the foot of the mountain, blocking the prince's corpse demon.

The corpse demon abruptly stopped at the foot of the mountain, using its single arm to brace itself against the ground and steady itself.

Its blood-red eyes stared intently at Gao Feng, a look of astonishment at encountering its own kind on its face.

"Half-demon armored corpse? No, you still have the aura of ghostly flames on you. What exactly are you?" The corpse demon's voice was hoarse and urgent.

Gaofeng didn't answer; it was too lazy to say anything.

He tilted his head, his dark golden eyes fixed on the corpse blood gushing from the severed arm of the corpse demon, and let out a low whimper.

The sobbing wasn't a threat; it was hunger.

He had not eaten for several days.

The tiger bone that Li Feng left him before leaving had already been absorbed, and the armored corpse's instincts kept urging him to go out and find food.

But Li Feng's orders were to stay down the mountain and wait for further instructions, so he endured it.

Now, a corpse demon, severely injured and on the verge of death, exuding a strong corpse aura, is presented to you, like placing a large piece of fat meat next to a tiger that has been starving for three days.

Peak doesn't need to think at all; instinct will make the decisions for it.

His legs were slightly bent, and the hard bluestone slabs beneath his feet were cracked like a spider web.

The next instant, his figure vanished from the spot, leaving only a streak of iron-gray afterimage.

The corpse demon braced itself against the ground with its single arm, rolled to the left, and barely avoided Gao Feng's attack.

But its speed is much slower than in its prime, and Peak's fingernails grazed its back.

Five deep claw marks were left on its bluish-black skin.

The flesh at the edges of the claw marks was scorched by the ghostly fire, making a hissing sound. The corpse demon roared in pain and lost its balance, falling to the ground.

Gao Feng missed his first attack, but without pausing, he twisted his body forcefully in mid-air and reached for the corpse demon's chest with his right claw again.

This time the speed was even faster, so fast that the corpse demon had no time to dodge.

"Pfft!"

Five dark gold fingernails pierced through the corpse demon's back, pinning it directly to the ground.

The corpse demon's chest cavity was pierced by Gao Feng's claw. The sound of breaking ribs was like dry firewood being crushed by someone's foot. The broken bone fragments came out from the wound, their whiteness piercing through the bluish-black skin.

"ah!!!"

The corpse demon let out an even more agonizing scream than when the Four-Eyebrowed Taoist had severed its limbs.

It struggled desperately, frantically pounding its one arm on the ground, leaving deep palm prints on the bluestone slab.

But the power of the peak far exceeds its imagination.

After absorbing the essence of the tiger demon and the Netherworld Ghost Fire, the physical strength of this half-demon armored corpse is at least equivalent to that of a demon beast at the peak of Qi Refining.

In terms of arm strength alone, he could even crush monsters of the same level.

Gao Feng lowered his head, looking at the corpse demon he had pinned to the ground. His dark golden eyes showed no emotion, only pure hunger.

He raised his free left hand, grabbed the corpse demon's shoulder, and then pulled hard.

"Sizzle!"

The corpse demon's only remaining right arm was torn off entirely, and dark red corpse blood gushed out from the wound, splattering all over Gao Feng.

The corpse blood fell onto his scales, making a sizzling, corrosive sound.

The corpse demon lost its last arm and completely lost its ability to resist.

It could only watch helplessly as Gao Feng casually tossed aside the severed arm and then plunged his claws back into its abdomen.

This time, Gao Feng's claws found what he truly wanted inside the corpse demon's body.

Corpse pill.

The corpse core of a corpse demon is different from that of a zombie.

The corpse core of a zombie is a crystal formed from the resentment and corpse energy condensed before death. It is purely yin in nature and contains only corpse energy and resentment.

However, the Corpse Demon is a monster that is evolved from a zombie after it regains its intelligence.

Its corpse core contains not only corpse energy, but also demonic energy.

It is the essence of demonic power that it cultivated on its own after regaining its sentience.

Gao Feng gripped the corpse pill with his five fingers and pulled it outwards with force.

A fist-sized, dark red crystal was forcibly pulled out of the corpse demon's abdominal cavity.

The crystal has an irregular shape and its surface is covered with fine, vascular-like patterns that pulsate slightly, like a heart that is still beating.

Inside the crystal, two forces of different colors can be seen intertwined.

Dark red corpse energy, pale golden demonic energy.

The moment the corpse pill left its body, the corpse demon's body convulsed violently.

Its blood-red pupils quickly dimmed.

The bloodshot in his eyes receded like the tide, revealing the ashen whites beneath.

Its mouth was wide open, and a gurgling sound came from its throat.

Gao Feng ignored it.

He held the corpse pill up to his eyes, examined it for a moment, and then stuffed it directly into his mouth.

"Snap!"

He crushed the corpse pill with his fangs, and the corpse energy and demonic energy exploded at the same time, surging into its body.

The corpse energy sank into his dantian, merging with his own corpse energy, causing his corpse energy cultivation to rise steadily.

The peak undergoes drastic changes.

Dark gold patterns appeared on his originally iron-gray skin.

The lines spread outwards from the chest, quickly covering the entire body.

The shape of the stripes is somewhat similar to the tiger stripes on the tiger demon's body.

His already nearly nine-foot-tall frame grew even taller, breaking through the ten-foot mark.

The saying goes, "The higher the virtue, the greater the temptation." Reaching the height of one foot is equivalent to becoming a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

The muscles on his shoulders and back bulged, and the iron-gray scales were stretched open by the muscles, with dark golden light seeping out from the gaps between the scales.

The muscles in his arms and thighs bulged out, as if cast from molten iron, exuding explosive power.

The dark golden eyeball split open with a vertical slit, and a second pupil emerged from the slit—it was actually a pair of pupils!

In Taoist texts, double pupils are considered a supreme characteristic of extraordinary beings; only the most pure-blooded demons can possess them.

Even ordinary demons might not be able to open their double pupils after a thousand years of cultivation, but Gao Feng, with the dual nourishment of the tiger demon's essence and the corpse demon's energy, forcibly broke through this threshold.

As soon as his pupils opened, his perception of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth increased several times in an instant. No fluctuation of spiritual energy within a radius of a hundred feet could escape his perception.

The will-o'-the-wisps on his fingernails, which were originally only the size of candle flames, are now expanding at a visible speed, spreading along the base of his nails to the entire back of his hand.

The flames then spread from the forearms to the upper arms, eventually enveloping both arms in a ghostly green light.

Flames burned on his arm, but his scales showed no signs of burns.

The Netherworld Fire has completely recognized him as its master, just as it has recognized Li Feng as its master.

This is truly the fire moving with one's heart, the fire arriving wherever the intention goes.

After the corpse demon's core was taken, its broken body continued to twitch on the ground.

Its pupils were completely dark, but in its last moments of consciousness, it stared at Gao Feng and squeezed out a few indistinct syllables.

"You...you...Ba..."

The Ba is the pinnacle of the zombie evolution chain. Above the ordinary zombie is the jumping zombie, above the jumping zombie is the armored zombie, above the armored zombie is the bronze-armored zombie, and above the bronze-armored zombie is the Ba.

For an ordinary armored corpse to cultivate to the level of a demon, it would need to absorb yin energy for at least several hundred years and devour the essence and blood of countless fellow demons or cultivators.

But Gao Feng took a shortcut; he forced his way through by devouring beings stronger than himself.

First, the tiger demon's soul and tiger meat allowed him to jump directly from the peak of the spiritual root to the early stage of Qi refining.

Now, with the addition of the corpse core from the corpse demon and the original demonic energy, his cultivation level surged again, directly breaking through the ceiling of the Qi Refining stage and stepping half a step into a completely new realm.

"boom!"

The bluestone slabs at the foot of the peak were shattered by an invisible force.

Centered on his feet, spiderweb-like cracks spread outwards for ten feet in all directions.

The soil at the edge of the crack was shaken up by the force of the air, revealing the fresh yellow soil underneath.

Within his body, the corpse energy and demonic energy were colliding, merging, and transforming wildly.

The two forces were originally incompatible, but under the catalyst of the tiger demon's spirit, they were forcibly merged into a completely new power.

The aura of the demon.

The aura of the demon is completely different from the aura of the corpse and the aura of the monster.

The corpse's aura was cold and sinister, the demon's aura was fierce and malevolent, while the demon's aura was a domineering and scorching heat.

Legend has it that wherever the demon scurries, the land turns to scorched earth, because the demonic energy within its body can evaporate all moisture, turning everything in the world into barren soil.

Gao Feng's body emitted a hissing sound, and the temperature of his skin surface rose sharply.

The iron-gray scales were heated until they turned red-hot, and the edges of the scales even melted, with drops of molten iron dripping down the scales.

The molten iron that dripped onto the ground immediately burned out a fist-sized charred pit, from which white smoke still rose.

But his cultivation level was rising at an incredible speed.

The demonic power contained in the corpse core of the corpse demon was comparable to the entire cultivation of a peak Qi Refining cultivator. After Gao Feng absorbed and transformed all of this power, his cultivation directly broke through the bottleneck of the Qi Refining stage.

It's not the Foundation Establishment stage.

Corpse demons are not living beings, and their cultivation system is completely different from that of human cultivators.

Zombie evolution does not rely on the formation of the Golden Core or the Nascent Soul, but on the continuous transformation of the physical body.

The transformation from a jumping corpse to an armored corpse is the first physical metamorphosis.

The transformation from an iron-armored corpse to a bronze-armored corpse is the second metamorphosis.

The transformation from the bronze-armored corpse to the demon is the third and most crucial transformation.

At this moment, Gao Feng is experiencing a direct leap from an armored corpse to a demon.

The reason he was able to skip the stage of the bronze-armored corpse was that he not only had the corpse energy of the corpse demon, but also the demon soul of the tiger demon and the origin of the Netherworld Ghost Fire.

The combination of these three forces allowed him to skip the accumulation stage of the bronze-armored corpse and forcefully break through the threshold of the demon.

Gao Feng couldn't help but roar to the sky.

"roar!!!"

A whistling sound rose into the sky, shaking the mountains and forests.

The malevolent energy contained in the howl spread in all directions, causing the vegetation within a radius of thirty feet to wither and turn yellow at a visible speed, the moisture in the soil to evaporate instantly, and the ground to crack into countless small pieces.

Several wild rabbits hiding in the bushes collapsed to the ground after running only a few steps, their bodies quickly shriveling up and turning into mummified corpses.

This is the power of the demon.

The mere aura of evil spirits released during evolution is enough to evaporate all life force in the surrounding area.

When Master Si Mei and Li Feng reached the foot of the mountain, they witnessed this scene.

The patriarch of the Four-Eyebrow Taoist has exhausted most of his power, and the golden light on his body has dimmed considerably. The old Taoist phantom behind him is now only a semi-transparent outline.

The moment he saw Gao Feng, a look of surprise appeared on his face, and he became even more vigilant.