Blood Shadow Ghost Mother

Zhang You and the Old Daoist reacted with extreme speed. By the time the attack arrived, they had already dodged aside.

"Blood Shadow Ghost Mother, what the hell are you trying to do, you old hag?!"

Seeing the old woman outside the door, leaning on a cane and radiating sinister energy from head to toe, the Old Daoist flew into a rage.

"Qingyuan Old Daoist, this has nothing to do with you. Get lost. I'm taking this little bastard's head today!"

Blood Shadow Ghost Mother was a short, shriveled old woman.

She was bent at the waist, with not a shred of flesh on her face—skin stretched over bones was the only way to describe her.

Her face was covered in wrinkles, more goosefleshed than gooseflesh itself.

Her eye sockets were deeply sunken, like the mouths of two bottomless abysses. Her eyeballs could no longer be seen.

Yet her hair was jet-black, glossy, and thick enough to make most balding people green with envy.

The clothes on her body had long since become tattered rags, exposing patches of darkened skin.

At that moment, she smashed her cane against the ground. Blood began to flow around the great hall, and dense footprints appeared within it.

"Old Daoist, this old hag is an evil cultivator, isn't she? Aren't you going to eliminate demons and defend the Dao?"

Zhang You stretched his limbs and rolled his neck, looking utterly casual.

"Wahaha! Eliminate demons? You little bastard truly don't know the height of heaven or the depth of earth. Ask him whether he dares! Whether he can!"

As if she had heard some tremendous joke, Blood Shadow Ghost Mother burst into laughter.

Then she added in a sinister voice, "Looks like you're just a brat whose feathers haven't even grown in yet. You just entered the cultivation world, didn't you?"

How could a man say he couldn't?

Zhang You looked blankly at the Old Daoist, as though saying, Aren't you going to say something and refute her?

"Old hag, don't think I'll be afraid of you just because your realm is higher than mine!"

The Old Daoist's expression turned ugly. He had not expected the old hag to slap him in the face in front of others, leaving him unable to save face.

But no matter how one looked at him, he was fierce in appearance but faint at heart.

"You should leave first. This old hag came for me. It has little to do with you!"

He had been worrying over the blue-white energy required for his eighth tempering. Since it had delivered itself to his doorstep, he would not stand on ceremony.

As Zhang You spoke, he stepped forward. Blood energy erupted from his body as he looked down imperiously at Blood Shadow Ghost Mother outside. "Come on. You sent blood shadows to kill me twice. I hadn't even come looking for you, yet you were the one who got impatient first!"

He had already sensed that Blood Shadow Ghost Mother was far stronger than the Headless Corpse Evil had been after transforming. Though he did not know whether he could handle her, there was no road left to retreat upon.

He licked his slightly dry lips, swept his gaze around the surroundings, and finally looked at Blood Shadow Ghost Mother.

These were all experience for tempering his body. He absolutely could not let them slip away!

"Off you go!"

Zhang You seized the opportunity and kicked the Old Daoist out of the great hall.

Blood Shadow Ghost Mother did not move, but the bloody footprints within the hall grew more and more numerous as they closed in on Zhang You.

"Four Symbols: White Tiger: Thunderclap!"

This move was exceptionally suited for wide-area attacks.

A sonic howl spread outward from Zhang You in an instant, carrying threads of electric arcs with it.

"Pop! Pop! Pop..."

"Gah..."

The sound of shattering soon rang out through the great hall, accompanied by one shrill scream after another.

After unleashing that move, Zhang You did not pause. He charged straight at Blood Shadow Ghost Mother.

Blood energy wrapped around his entire body, threaded with arcs of electricity. Holding nothing back, he shot out of the great hall like lightning.

"Bold indeed! But you will still die!"

When Blood Shadow Ghost Mother saw the blood shadows she had refined burst apart beneath Zhang You's single attack, she did not pay them much mind. Her eyes merely brimmed with dense killing intent as she stared fixedly at Zhang You rushing toward her.

Just as Zhang You was about to reach her, a blood spring suddenly appeared beneath her. Thick blood gushed from it in spurts.

With a lift of her hand, skulls emerged from the blood spring one after another. In the blink of an eye, there were already hundreds upon thousands of them.

"Blood Spring Ghost Skull!"

The skulls charged at Zhang You, gnashing their teeth and surging forward without fear, as though they would tear apart everything in their path.

"Four Symbols: White Tiger: Shatter Void!"

Zhang Lin's right hand formed a claw. The blood energy around his body gradually formed an enormous tiger claw several zhang tall, which slammed down upon the mass of skulls.

"Boom!"

After a tremendous blast, the two moves were evenly matched and directly canceled each other out in midair.

The tiger claw dissipated, while the cluster of skulls was pulled back into the blood spring.

"Old hag, die!"

Zhang Lin did not stop moving. He swung a palm at Blood Shadow Ghost Mother.

"Overestimating yourself!"

Blood Shadow Ghost Mother revealed a cold smile. Vast spiritual power had already been poured into her cane as she thrust it toward Zhang Lin.

"Crack!"

The blood energy wrapped around Zhang Lin's right hand was torn apart at once.

"Not good!"

He had not expected Blood Shadow Ghost Mother's attack to be so sharp and fierce. He hurriedly sent out a stream of blood energy with his left hand and exchanged a solid palm strike with her.

"Pfft!"

The cane still pierced an inch into his palm.

"Boom!"

Zhang Lin was then sent flying backward like a cannonball, smashing into the great hall.

From the moment Zhang Lin unleashed the sonic howl to when he exchanged moves with Blood Shadow Ghost Mother, everything had happened in the span of only a few breaths.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Zhang Lin pushed away the rubble covering him and stood up coughing.

He had known beforehand that Blood Shadow Ghost Mother was powerful, but he had not expected that he had still overestimated himself!

For now, he was no match for her!

"Not bad, not bad! I never expected that what you cultivated was Martial Arts! Hahaha! Heaven truly helps me!"

Blood Shadow Ghost Mother stared at Zhang Lin with shining eyes, her long tongue sweeping over her lips.

She had not expected this trip to yield such an enormous harvest.

Although she did not know how Zhang Lin had learned Martial Arts, she had no mind left to care. She still understood the principle that a man becomes guilty by possessing a jade.

If others learned that there was a Martial Arts cultivator here, it was uncertain whether she would even get a chance at him. Therefore, she could not possibly let Zhang Lin live.

A Martial Arts cultivator! What a rare breed!

Or rather, in this day and age, there was likely not a second one left in the world.

Such cultivators possessed blood energy as rich as that of superhumans. Every part of their bodies was a treasure. If she could devour him, not only could she extend her lifespan, but more importantly, she could break through her current realm and enter the Foundation Establishment stage.

"Looks like I can't leave you alive either!"

Thinking this, Blood Shadow Ghost Mother turned toward Qingyuan Old Daoist, dense killing intent erupting from her eyes.

"Blood Demon!"

She fired a talisman into the blood spring beneath her feet.

"Glug..."

A blood shadow three zhang tall soon emerged from the blood spring and advanced toward Qingyuan Old Daoist.

"Blood Shadow Ghost Mother, you're fucking courting death!"

Watching the Blood Demon press toward him, Qingyuan Old Daoist flew into a furious rage. This was truly a calamity falling from nowhere!

He quickly began battling the Blood Demon, not daring to hold back in the slightest.

"Wahaha! Be good and become this old woman's nourishment!"

Blood Shadow Ghost Mother turned back toward Zhang Lin.

Zhang Lin stood where he was without speaking, his eyes narrowed as he stared at Blood Shadow Ghost Mother.

The blood energy around his body had never dissipated, which also kept Blood Shadow Ghost Mother from acting rashly.

Zhang You was more than happy with this, because he had already absorbed dozens of strands of blue-white energy and had begun his eighth Great Body Tempering!

The blood shadows he had destroyed in the great hall earlier had been immensely valuable!

So he was not panicked at all!

Under Blood Shadow Ghost Mother's command, blood shadows once again packed the great hall and closed in on Zhang Lin.

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