Ghost Immortal

As they were speaking, the other side had already attacked.

Li Feng did not dodge, nor did he even use his spiritual power to protect himself.

He stood there, letting Gu Zhenren's hand grip his neck, his expression remaining calm.

Upon closer inspection, Gu Zhenren's condition was even worse than Lei Jian had described.

His once lean body had become so thin that he was almost just a skeleton.

His skin was sallow and dry, clinging tightly to his bones.

His cheekbones and jawbone protrude sharply, his eye sockets are deep-set, and his eyes are bloodshot.

The Yin Sha Gu Qi within his body was in complete disarray, like muddy water churning and crashing through his meridians.

Li Feng could even smell the deathly aura emanating from him.

This is not the smell of a living person; only a dying person exudes this decaying, rotten odor.

"If I came here to kill you, you would be dead by now," Li Feng said calmly.

"You're choking me, but you can't even crush my Adam's apple. You know yourself that the Yin Sha Gu Qi in your body has already weakened. In ten days at most, you will die from exhaustion. Even if I don't do anything, you won't live long."

Gu Zhenren's pupils contracted slightly, and the fingers gripping Li Feng's neck twitched.

The fingernail pierced the skin on Li Feng's neck, and a thin stream of bright red blood trickled down his neck.

But Li Feng remained motionless, calmly looking into Gu Zhenren's eyes, gambling that the other party wouldn't kill him.

"Don't you want to know who's using you as a pawn?" Li Feng said calmly.

Gu Zhenren's breathing suddenly became heavy.

He stared intently at Li Feng, as if trying to read some flaw in Li Feng's eyes. But all he saw were a pair of clear, calm eyes, without fear, without guilt, only openness.

Gu Zhenren slowly released his grip, staggered back two steps, and leaned against the pile of rubble behind him, panting heavily.

This simple action exhausted him, causing his legs to buckle and he to collapse to the ground, his emaciated chest heaving violently.

His eyes widened immediately: "Who is that person? What else do you know?!"

Li Feng took out a rubbing from his sleeve and placed it in front of Gu Zhenren.

The young Taoist priest kneeling before the tomb, holding a pottery jar, appears particularly sorrowful in the dim light.

"The other party is named Zhang Xuanye. He is the personal disciple of Zhang Xuanqing, the former leader of the Zhengyi Sect, and also the husband of the female corpse you deeply love."

Gu Zhenren raised his head, his blood-red eyes staring at the rubbing.

His face showed shock, which instantly erupted into a raging fury.

He grabbed the rubbing with his withered fingers, his knuckles making a cracking sound, still unable to believe it.

"You're lying. If she were someone else's wife, why didn't she ever tell me?"

Li Feng said coldly, "Because she couldn't say it. She was pregnant with Zhang Xuanye's child when she died. The reason she died was because the transformation of the Phoenix bloodline was forcibly interrupted."

"To save her, Zhang Xuanye spent two hundred years setting up a large array covering a radius of a hundred miles, using the resentment of countless living people as sacrifices, all to complete the ritual of corpse liberation and immortality."

"As the Southern Frontier Great Shaman with the Lesser Yang and Greater Yin destiny, you are the one he chose to wield the blade. The resentment of the people you kill is all absorbed by the great formation. You think you are refining Gu, but in reality, you have been collecting offerings for Zhang Xuanye's Five Elements and Five Prisons from beginning to end."

"Once the last offering arrives, the great formation will be activated, and your soul will be extracted alive to become the final stepping stone for Zhang Xuanye's corpse liberation and ascension to immortality."

Gu Zhenren shifted his gaze from the rubbing to his withered hands.

These hands had killed countless people, yet he never felt he had killed the wrong person, because he always believed that everything he did was to resurrect the woman he deeply loved.

But now someone is telling him that everything he's done is a scheme by others, and all his efforts are just doing the work for someone else.

Gu Zhenren said coldly, "You wouldn't tell me this for no reason. Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

Li Feng smiled slightly.

"Let me first help you regulate the Yin Sha Gu Qi in your body. In your current state, you can hardly even walk, let alone take revenge."

As Li Feng spoke, he took out a small jade bottle from his pocket and poured out two vermilion pills.

"This is the Maoshan Sect's Heart Protection Pill. It cannot counteract the backlash of the Gu Qi, but it can temporarily protect your heart meridian, giving you enough strength to come with us."

Gu Zhenren took the pill and stuffed it into his mouth without even looking at it.

The pill melted instantly upon entering his mouth, and the gentle spiritual energy flowed down his throat into his internal organs, temporarily suppressing the violent Yin Sha Gu Qi within him.

A sliver of color returned to his face.

"You don't need to thank me, we're just business partners." Li Feng waved his hand, stood up, and patted the coal dust off his knees.

"What we need to do next is very simple. The core of the Five Elements Guiding Array that Zhang Xuanye set up at the foot of the Five Old Peaks is the place where he plans to complete his corpse liberation and become an immortal."

"We'll go straight to Five Old Peaks and smash his array core. Once the array core is destroyed, all the arrays he set up in Qingyan City will collapse, and his hundreds of years of planning will be in vain."

"He will definitely show up in person then, and you and we can take revenge together."

Master Gu suddenly asked, "What makes you think I would help you? Zhang Xuanye has used me for two hundred years, but the people I killed were still killed by me. Can the feud between me and your Maoshan Sect really be wiped clean?"

Li Feng said solemnly, "If Zhang Xuanye is not eliminated, your woman will never be able to be resurrected. Her soul is still in the Five Elements Guiding Array, being used by Zhang Xuanye as the core sacrifice for the Corpse-Dissolving Immortal."

"Only by breaking the great formation can you free her soul from Zhang Xuanye's control. As for the grudge between you and us, we can deal with it after we've dealt with Zhang Xuanye. If you want revenge then, I'm ready anytime."

Gu Zhenren sneered: "Fine, I'll do it with you."

Lei Jian and the Taoist priest with four eyebrows emerged from the dense forest, also surprised by Li Feng's abilities.

Li Feng walked up to the two men and explained, "Master, Senior Uncle, Master Gu is willing to cooperate with us. He knows how Zhang Xuanye's grand formation is set up."

After exchanging glances with Lei Jian, Master Si Mei nodded: "Since Junior Nephew Li Feng trusts you, I can temporarily lower my guard. But let me make this clear: if you make any unusual moves, I will show no mercy."

Gu Zhenren was too lazy to speak.

Walking along the road, Li Feng asked Gu Zhenren, "How many ghost Gu puppets do you have under your command?"

"You burned dozens of them at the crossroads last time, and there are still about forty or fifty left." Gu Zhenren answered crisply, clearly no longer holding back against Li Feng.

"The most powerful ones are the three ghost generals, all of whom have the combat power of the late stage of Qi Refining. However, their Gu cores are under my control. If I tell them to go east, they dare not go west."

Li Feng laughed and said, "That makes things easier. I've seen the terrain of the Five Old Peaks. It's a map from Senior Uncle Lei Jian. There's an abandoned ancient post road below the main peak, with cliffs on both sides and only one exit."

"If Zhang Xuanye is waiting for us at the heart of the formation, he will definitely take advantage of the terrain to set up an ambush along the post road."

Gu Zhenren smiled sinisterly: "You want me to set up the ghost Gu puppets on both sides of the post road exit, so that Zhang Xuanye can be caught like a turtle in a jar after he appears?"

Li Feng nodded. "Zhang Xuanye has lived for over two hundred years. Even if his cultivation level is low, he is still at the Foundation Establishment stage. If the five of us go head-to-head with him, we may not be able to gain the upper hand."

"But if we can use the Ghost Gu puppets to hold him back and create an opportunity for us to attack, our chances of winning will be much greater. Your Ghost Gu puppets are not afraid of death, and Zhang Xuanye will have to put in a lot of effort to kill them. This time is enough for Uncle-Master Lei Jian to set up a trapping formation, and it is also enough for me to find his core formation and destroy it."

Gu Zhenren chuckled eerily, "You're more ruthless than me, so why did you stray onto the right path?"

Li Feng's lips twitched. He had actually been a heretical cultivator at first.