Bai Yu used the Lingxu Step to flee, only to be struck down by Golden Dragon Abbot's hidden Buddhist prayer beads.
Although he had cultivated the Vajra Iron Shirt Skill and possessed tough skin and membranes, his bones had yet to be fully tempered.
Golden Dragon Abbot's prayer beads carried immense force, their power penetrating to the bone. Even Bai Yu felt his blood and qi roil.
Had it been anyone else, they would have died on the spot.
At that moment, Golden Dragon Abbot charged like a leopard, his speed no slower than Bai Yu's!
Clearly, he had cultivated a formidable movement technique as well.
Bai Yu's Lingxu Step made him as light as a swallow, while Golden Dragon Abbot moved with blazing speed.
Seeing Golden Dragon Abbot about to pounce, Bai Yu hurriedly drew a breath and leaped again.
Like a swallow skimming the water, he took several steps across the ground, rushed up the wall, and vaulted over it.
Golden Dragon Abbot reached the wall, only to see Bai Yu already leaping more than ten zhang away. Bai Yu stepped off a stone lion and shot away.
Just as Bai Yu was about to vanish into the darkness, Golden Dragon Abbot sneered.
"Where do you think you're running, brat? If I let you get away like this, I'll never eat meat again in this life."
As he spoke, he leaped fiercely, crossing more than ten zhang in a single bound and instantly closing the distance to Bai Yu!
He landed atop the stone lion, reached into his robes, and produced several hidden iron bodhi projectiles.
Just as he was about to leap again and throw the hidden weapons after Bai Yu, he suddenly heard a piercing whistle through the air.
"Something's wrong. There's a trap underfoot!"
From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of three crossbow bolts shooting up from below, aimed straight at his groin and lower abdomen.
The three bolts were swift and vicious, about to strike Golden Dragon Abbot!
He stomped fiercely, somehow halting his forward momentum as his body suddenly fell backward.
Two bolts grazed his robes and flew past.
The remaining one carved a gash into his thigh.
Golden Dragon Abbot broke out in a cold sweat.
If his reaction had been even a fraction slower, he would have suffered a deadly blow to the balls.
He could not help cursing under his breath.
Only then did he notice something was amiss.
Behind the stone lion, a repeating crossbow had been tied in place.
Before entering the funeral home, Bai Yu had already left himself a backup plan, tying the repeating crossbow behind the stone lion.
Its trigger mechanism had been placed atop the stone lion's head.
Bai Yu cultivated the Lingxu Step and was as light as a swallow, so stepping over the mechanism would not trigger it.
But when Golden Dragon Abbot stepped on it, it activated the trap.
Golden Dragon Abbot had been thoroughly played.
He cursed furiously.
"Damn it, this brat is fucking treacherous! Setting traps in the dark wasn't enough—he even used himself as bait. Good thing this Buddha reacted fast."
"Consider yourself lucky this time. If you fall into this Buddha's hands next time, you'll have a bitter fruit to eat."
Yet just then, Bai Yu's voice drifted over.
"The one who should be worried now is you."
Not only had he failed to seize the chance to flee, he had actually turned back.
Golden Dragon Abbot laughed loudly.
"Brat, there's a road to heaven and you refuse to take it; hell has no gate, yet you insist on barging in."
"If you had run, this Buddha truly wouldn't have had the time to look for you. Now that you've come back to deliver yourself to death, don't blame this Buddha."
Bai Yu remained utterly calm.
"Oh? Is that so? Why don't you look at your thigh?"
Golden Dragon Abbot stayed on guard as he glanced downward.
The wound on his thigh had already begun turning black, and the darkness was spreading toward the rest of his body!
"Damn it, the arrowhead was poisoned!"
As a king among cautious survivors, poisoning arrowheads was merely basic practice.
He wished he could coat every arrowhead with every poison he possessed.
Without ten or eight escape routes, how could Bai Yu have rashly entered the funeral home?
Bai Yu grabbed a dagger and charged at Golden Dragon Abbot without another word.
Golden Dragon Abbot's expression changed drastically.
With poison in his leg and an opponent whose strength was far from weak, the situation was far too unfavorable.
He drew a breath, turned, and ran.
With every step, the poison spread farther through his leg, and even a layer of black qi appeared on his face.
Even so, he did not dare pause for an instant and ran straight into the funeral home.
Suddenly, he stopped, pulled a bronze bell from his robes, and began shaking it while chanting an incantation.
Jingle, jingle...
Clear bell chimes rang out as a Bronze Armor Corpse came charging from the rear courtyard.
Golden Dragon Abbot pointed at Bai Yu.
"Bronze Armor Corpse slave, kill him for me!"
After saying that, he hurriedly took out all sorts of antidotes and poured them over the wound as though they cost nothing.
He also began circulating his inner power, trying to force the deadly poison out of his body.
As for Bai Yu, he was not worried in the slightest.
He knew the might of the Bronze Armor Corpse better than anyone. Dealing with a Fifth-Rank Martial Artist was as easy as turning over his hand.
Sure enough, the Bronze Armor Corpse let out a howl and blocked Bai Yu's path.
Its pair of claws were a full foot long, black as ink and incomparably sharp, stabbing straight for Bai Yu's heart.
Bai Yu was startled as well. He pushed the Lingxu Step to its limit and flashed to the side.
The Bronze Armor Corpse lunged at nothing, its claws piercing a stone pillar in the funeral home.
The bluestone pillar was pierced clean through as easily as cutting tofu.
The Bronze Armor Corpse pulled out its claws and pounced toward Bai Yu again.
Bai Yu focused with all his might and battled the Bronze Armor Corpse in a fierce tangle.
This Bronze Armor Corpse came and went like the wind, possessed boundless strength, and had claws comparable to divine weapons.
Most astonishingly, its entire body was bronze skin and iron bones. No matter how Bai Yu attacked, he could not injure it in the slightest.
Bai Yu now possessed monstrous strength of well over a thousand jin. A single punch could directly blast an ordinary Baleful Corpse apart.
Yet he could not even break through the Bronze Armor Corpse's defenses.
Fortunately, it was not very agile when turning, allowing Bai Yu to circle it with the Lingxu Step.
As Bai Yu tangled with the Bronze Armor Corpse, he glanced at Golden Dragon Abbot.
Golden Dragon Abbot had already forced out a mouthful of poisoned blood, and much of the black qi on his face had faded.
If this continued, he would recover before long.
Bai Yu grew anxious and pulled a Corpse Control Talisman from his robes.
Seizing the moment when the Bronze Armor Corpse turned around, he swiftly slapped it onto its forehead.
The Bronze Armor Corpse's body indeed stiffened, stopping in place.
But the next moment, the Corpse Control Talisman exploded with a bang. The Bronze Armor Corpse returned to normal and resumed hunting Bai Yu down.
A mocking smile rose at the corner of Golden Dragon Abbot's mouth.
A Corpse Control Talisman? It seemed this brat also knew some yin-yang arts.
Unfortunately, the Bronze Armor Corpse was no ordinary Baleful Corpse. To it, one Corpse Control Talisman was no more than a scratch to an itch.
He could not help sneering.
In just a little while, he would force out the poisoned blood and regain his fighting strength.
One Bronze Armor Corpse, plus Golden Dragon Abbot himself—this brat was dead for certain!
When the time came, he would skin and tendon this brat, then refine his body into a Baleful Corpse.
Yet at that moment, Bai Yu pulled out a stack of blood talismans.
If one Corpse Control Talisman was not enough, then he would use several more!
Swish, swish, swish! Bai Yu struck like lightning, slapping dozens of Corpse Control Talismans onto the Bronze Armor Corpse in a single breath.
The Bronze Armor Corpse was covered from head to toe in yellow talismans—and was directly suppressed!
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