Zhang Lin lifted a massive stone pillar that had already fallen behind him. It weighed at least ten thousand jin.
The blood energy around his body stretched out and wrapped around it.
From afar, it looked exactly like a fire poker, glowing an incomparably vivid red.
"Take this staff strike!"
He took a step back, leaned backward, and with blood energy surging all over his body, hurled it at the Corpse Giant.
Like an arrow loosed from the bowstring, it sped like the wind!
The force left two deep pits beneath his feet, while the stone floor cracked inch by inch.
He did not stop. His feet exerted force again.
"Bang!"
Zhang Lin shot forward, stepping onto the flying stone pillar in a single stride as he gathered strength once more!
The Corpse Giant had shattered the stone slabs before it and had already spotted the red light racing toward it.
It hurriedly intertwined its four arms in front of itself, fusing them into an enormous flesh shield!
The surface of the flesh shield was covered in scales and studded with bony barbs.
"Boom!"
They exchanged another clash.
The stone pillar collided with the flesh shield and began to fracture bit by bit.
The bony barbs on the flesh shield also began to shatter, while the scales were torn open and fell away in flakes.
In the end, the Corpse Giant was forced back over a hundred meters. It had managed to defend itself, but a huge hole had been punched through the flesh shield before it.
Before it could react, Zhang Lin had already charged through the hole.
"Four Symbols: White Tiger: Thunderclap!"
A sonic boom struck first, catching it completely off guard. Both heads buzzed, and it was briefly dazed.
"Four Symbols: White Tiger: Shatter Void Hundred Fists!"
Seizing the chance, Zhang Lin closed in before the Corpse Giant.
"Bang bang bang!"
He unleashed more than a hundred punches in one breath, every one landing solidly on the opponent's body.
Though the Corpse Giant's physical defenses were formidable, it still could not withstand this chain of attacks. Over a hundred bloody holes instantly appeared across its body.
No blood flowed out. Instead, thick green liquid oozed forth, carrying a foul stench.
Dense masses of maggots were visible within the bloody holes.
At that moment, the Corpse Giant came back to its senses!
The head with six eyes opened the bloody maw beneath its jaw and sprayed out a cloud of green mist. It swiftly spread through the surroundings, obscuring the nearby area.
The other, serpent-like head bared its fangs, flicked its tongue, and shot toward Zhang Lin.
The Corpse Giant's limbs and arms regenerated as well, reaching toward Zhang Lin again.
Relying on his powerful senses and stamina, Zhang Lin darted back and forth across the Corpse Giant's body, occasionally launching a few attacks.
He had already discovered that the Corpse Giant possessed astonishing regenerative abilities. Even severed limbs could regrow.
If he truly could not find its weakness, then once his blood energy was exhausted, he could only wait for death!
Just as he was distracted, the snake head struck.
It first spat out a poison arrow, cutting off Zhang Lin's route of retreat, then suddenly lashed out its tongue.
The tongue was densely covered in barbs.
"Sever!"
Zhang Lin poured a tremendous amount of blood energy into his right hand, forming a three-foot-long red gleam.
He instantly unleashed ten consecutive slashes at the snake tongue.
The snake tongue was severed into more than ten pieces at once.
As if it could not feel pain, the snake head spewed another cloud of black smoke from its mouth, accompanied by several slashes.
Zhang Lin turned and met them with several punches.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, the snake head bit down directly, engulfing Zhang Lin in the blink of an eye.
Its four long fangs could pierce through even an elephant in an instant.
With a small frame like Zhang Lin's, he would surely crunch like a crisp cracker!
Zhang Lin reacted with extreme speed. He grabbed two fangs with both hands and forcibly propped the snake's jaws open.
"Four Symbols: White Tiger: Thunderclap!"
He connected with the White Tiger within his Dantian.
The White Tiger opened its eyes, and its phantom spread outward, quickly enveloping Zhang Lin. A sound howl laced with lightning erupted.
It detonated directly inside the snake's mouth, inflicting damage far beyond anything it could have caused from outside!
The snake head exploded on the spot, and its long snake body vanished along with it. The Corpse Giant was left with only one head.
Zhang Lin was still atop the Corpse Giant's body.
Suddenly, he sensed a burst of red light. A vast evil aura poured from it, along with a faint, intermittent fluctuation of soul energy.
Zhang Lin leaped about and swiftly found the source by following the red light.
At that moment, red light burst from the Corpse Giant's chest, and the snake head actually began to reassemble bit by bit.
Seeing this, and recalling the red flesh orb he had seen earlier, Zhang Lin immediately understood what was happening.
The red light before him came from the red flesh orb, and that red flesh orb was the Corpse Giant's core.
As long as the red flesh orb remained intact, the Corpse Giant could be reborn endlessly!
The Corpse Giant seemed to notice Zhang Lin. Numerous tentacles emerged from its body, while its limbs and arms began moving once more, all surging toward Zhang Lin.
"Sever!"
This time, Zhang Lin condensed red gleams in both hands. He hacked through the tentacles all the way, even severing the Corpse Giant's limbs and arms, before charging at the red flesh orb!
"Whirlwind Slash!"
Zhang Lin struck in fury, spinning as he gouged toward the Corpse Giant's chest.
"Hm? I missed the target!"
Zhang Lin turned his head and discovered that the Corpse Giant was actually shrinking bit by bit, until it was human-sized.
"Bang!"
Zhang Lin landed, his expression grave as he stared at the shrunken Two-headed Corpse before him.
The corpse's snake head had already regrown, and the aura radiating from its body was even more powerful than in its giant form.
A red flesh orb was exposed on its chest, but bones protected it from all sides. Dense deathly energy still radiated from its body.
Suddenly, it raised an arm and pointed a finger at Zhang Lin, firing out a streak of green evil power.
"Crack!"
Zhang Lin threw a punch, but even the defenses strengthened by his own blood energy showed signs of breaking apart.
His heart tightened, and he hurriedly retreated, dodging it.
"Boom!"
A gigantic crater was blasted into the ground behind him, with smoke and dust scattering everywhere.
The human-sized Two-headed Corpse was very strong. Zhang Lin was not confident he could take it down quickly for now!
"Whoosh!"
The Two-headed Corpse vanished from where it stood.
"Four Symbols: White Tiger: Shatter Void Roundhouse Kick!"
Zhang Lin sensed a fierce attack coming at the back of his head. He redirected the blood energy throughout his body into his right leg and viciously whipped a kick behind him.
The two forces collided and separated at the first touch.
Neither could do anything to the other.
The Two-headed Corpse retreated more than a dozen steps, and one of its arms grew back once again.
"Have you found a way out? We can't deal with this thing in a short while!"
Zhang Lin also retreated several steps, backing up to the entrance of the main hall.
After fighting for so long, more than half of his blood energy had already been consumed. If this dragged on, who knew whether other evil entities would show up.
Though he dearly coveted the blue-white energy produced by killing the Two-headed Corpse, now was clearly not the best time.
"I haven't found any way out nearby! Of the paper cranes I sent out, only one has returned. Perhaps we can go take a look!"
Old Daoist Qingyuan held the sole remaining paper crane in his hand and sighed.
"Old Daoist, look over there!"
Zhang Lin patted the old Daoist's shoulder and pointed at the Buddha statue in the center of the main hall.
"How strange! Before you came over, I had just taken a look. The Buddha statue's head still hadn't appeared. How come now..."
The old Daoist turned to look at the Buddha statue's manifested head, and his scalp prickled!
"Perhaps it has something to do with that!"
Zhang Lin pointed at the Two-headed Corpse gradually approaching the main hall!
Suddenly, a sinister wind rose throughout the main hall!
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