Corpse Puppet's Ferocity!

"What are you doing?"

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't push me!"

The two Corpse Puppets charged out of the crowd. Along the way, the onlookers were shoved about by the Corpse Puppets, stumbling and falling backward, and a chorus of curses immediately erupted.

The two Corpse Puppets naturally paid no attention to this. They strode out of the crowd and entered the execution grounds.

"Hm? Someone really came to rescue the prisoner?"

Prefect Li Changshou was somewhat startled when he saw the two tall, broad-shouldered Corpse Puppets dressed in black robes. Had someone really been foolish enough to come and rescue the prisoner?

"C-could they be brothers from the gang?"

Tang Tianhao was stunned as well. He felt that members of the Six Peaks Gang might have come to save him. Yet even as he worried, he noticed that these two burly men in black robes were far too tall. Did the Six Peaks Gang really have such figures?

"Stop! Don't blame me for being rude if you take another step!"

The soldiers stationed at the execution grounds had long been watching their surroundings carefully. The moment the two Corpse Puppets entered the grounds, four or five men surrounded them. One of the soldiers issued a warning.

"These two fellows are strange! Be careful!"

An older soldier shouted a reminder. He sensed a terrifying pressure from the two tall, burly men in black robes before him, as if he were facing lions and tigers!

"Clang!"

The two Corpse Puppets said nothing and did not slow their steps in the slightest.

"Seize them!"

Seeing this, several soldiers' eyes flashed coldly. Anyone who forcibly barged into the execution grounds could reasonably be killed on the spot!

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Four or five soldiers swung their blades and swords, hacking at the two Corpse Puppets from all sides.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"

Yet hoarse, low growls came from the two Corpse Puppets' throats. They abruptly swept their arms sideways. Their thick, elongated arms were like iron rods, carrying the force of a thousand catties. Amid a chain of impacts, the four or five soldiers were sent flying two or three meters through the air!

The soldiers crashed to the ground and wailed miserably, feeling as though their bones had been broken.

"Th-that powerful? Does the Six Peaks Gang have experts like these?"

Tang Tianhao was shocked when he witnessed this. These soldiers were all elite troops of Lingyue City who had undergone training. Each one was at least as strong as an ordinary third-rate martial artist. Yet when four or five of them joined forces, they had been instantly beaten by the two men in black robes, rolling across the ground like gourds!

The two Corpse Puppets were unquestionably powerful, with bodies of steel and iron and immunity to blades and spears. Even Tang Jie had once been left at a loss when facing them.

"Hold nothing back! Kill them on the spot!"

Prefect Li Changshou, seated on the elevated platform, saw this scene and his expression darkened. He shouted furiously.

With Li Changshou personally overseeing the proceedings, someone still dared to come and rescue the prisoner. With so many people watching, he had to establish his authority and intimidate these petty criminals!

"Kill them!"

A squad of ten black-armored soldiers surrounded them. They held spears and thrust forward from various angles. These ten black-armored soldiers had trained together for years and coordinated with exceptional precision. Once ten spears stabbed in from different directions, anyone caught in their formation had no chance of dodging.

But in reality, the two Corpse Puppets did not dodge either!

"Clang, clang, clang, clang!"

Amid a succession of metallic collisions, all the spears stabbed into the Corpse Puppets' bodies, erupting in a ringing clash of metal. Most of the soldiers felt their arms jolt, as though they had stabbed an iron block. Some soldiers even missed their targets, and the metal spearheads scraped against the iron armor, bursting into a string of sparks.

After the volley of thrusts, the two Corpse Puppets were completely unharmed. However, the black robes they wore had been torn apart, revealing the thick iron armor beneath!

The two Corpse Puppets had been refined by Black Cliff. In life, they had been top-tier first-rate martial artists. After being refined into Corpse Puppets, they possessed boundless strength and bodies of steel and iron. Coupled with the heavy iron armor they wore, they were impervious to blades and spears. Even super-first-rate experts would find it difficult to injure them.

"Roar!"

The two Corpse Puppets roared and swung their iron fists at the surrounding soldiers.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

The fearless Corpse Puppets were ferocious beyond measure. Four punches sent three black-armored soldiers flying with blood spraying wildly from their mouths, the bones where they had been struck collapsing inward.

"Clang, clang!"

Although the remaining soldiers repeatedly thrust at the Corpse Puppets, the sharp spearheads could not pierce two-inch-thick metal armor. Even if they could penetrate it, the Corpse Puppets' muscles were no weaker than steel. With bodies of steel and iron, they were impervious to ordinary blades and swords!

The two Corpse Puppets beat the elite soldiers into staggering retreats, leaving them utterly routed.

"Damn it! Are these two monsters? How can they still be so agile while wearing such heavy armor?"

The soldiers were both shocked and furious. The heavy armor on the two Corpse Puppets was so burdensome that even a powerful martial artist would likely have difficulty walking after putting on a full set, let alone fighting such an intense battle!

"They're wearing iron armor! Use chains!"

At this moment, a middle-aged soldier shouted. He untied a chain as thick as a thumb from around his waist, gripped one end, and spun it several times. With a flick of his wrist, the chain shot out. Using a clever burst of force, he wrapped it around one Corpse Puppet's neck, then strained his arm and pulled it tight.

"Roar!"

The Corpse Puppet instantly flew into a rage. It seized the chain wrapped around its neck and yanked hard. The middle-aged soldier weighed at least a hundred and sixty or seventy catties, but his feet were pulled off the ground as he pitched forward, landing with his face covered in dust and his nose and eyes swollen.

"Quick! Take advantage of this!"

Taking advantage of the opening, the other black-armored soldiers threw out their chains one after another, wrapping them around the Corpse Puppet's arms. Three or five soldiers then seized each chain and pulled with all their might.

"Clatter, clatter, clatter!"

The chains stretched taut. Although the Corpse Puppet possessed boundless strength, it was difficult for it to break free after nearly ten soldiers had dragged it down with chains.

The other Corpse Puppet was subdued in the same manner.

"These two fellows... they don't seem to be human at all!"

The soldiers were utterly shaken. They could see that the faces beneath the Corpse Puppets' black robes were as pale as paper, without a trace of color, and that their eyes were crimson. They were clearly not normal humans, and their strength was absurdly great. Ten soldiers had needed to join forces just to barely suppress one.

Li Changshou also relaxed slightly at this sight. Even a first-rate martial artist would be stretched thin when facing several elite soldiers working together. Although the two Corpse Puppets had caused quite a commotion and injured more than ten people, they had ultimately still been subdued.

"As expected, it won't work?"

Tang Jie knitted his brows tightly amid the crowd. The two Corpse Puppets were so ferocious, yet they had been subdued after causing only a minor disturbance. Clearly, these elite soldiers were no mere paper tigers—they were true elites.

Moreover, several hundred elite soldiers guarded these execution grounds precisely to prevent anyone from rescuing the prisoner!

"Daoist Qing Song, those two men aren't normal humans... They seem to be Corpse Puppets."

The white-clothed maiden seated to Li Changshou's right spoke in great surprise. She had seen that the two black-robed men causing trouble were not human at all, and closely resembled Corpse Puppets.

"Yes, they're Corpse Puppets. The method of refining Corpse Puppets is a crooked and unorthodox art, a technique of the Corpse Refining Sect. It once flourished for a time, but later the Corpse Refining Sect was exterminated, and the art of refining corpses spread out among various evil cultivators. The two Corpse Puppets before us are merely two Iron Armored Corpses. They're still within the range that ordinary mortals can handle."

The burly Daoist addressed as Daoist Qing Song nodded slightly and explained the origins of the Corpse Puppets.

Daoist Qing Song then turned his gaze toward Li Changshou. "It seems a Qi refiner is coming to rescue the prisoner. These Corpse Puppets are under his control. Now that they've been subdued, he himself is hiding among the crowd. He may withdraw after realizing the difficulty."

"A cultivator? Tang Tianhao has ties to a cultivator as well?" Li Changshou was slightly surprised, but then smiled. "With the two Immortal Masters overseeing the proceedings, no cultivator is anything to fear."

Cultivators were also called Qi refiners. They possessed all sorts of extraordinary abilities, but in the end, they were still merely flesh and blood. Low-level cultivators likewise found it difficult to withstand an assault by large numbers of soldiers, let alone with Daoist Qing Song and the white-clothed maiden overseeing the proceedings. There was absolutely no room for failure!

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