"Not good!"
Zhu Yin Sheng had just set down a chess piece when he suddenly turned to look down the mountain and blurted out.
Across from him, Bai Shen's expression was also grim, as if he were struggling with something.
Seeing him like this, Zhu Yin Sheng asked strangely, "Don't tell me... you're thinking of going over there?"
"I spent more than a decade finding suitable candidates and refining those two bronze corpses..."
Bai Shen's voice was gloomy, thick with unwillingness.
Zhu Yin Sheng said with barely concealed schadenfreude, "With that level of power, it's already reached the Late Qi Refining stage."
Bai Shen nodded instinctively, then seemed to realize something. He abruptly raised his head and looked at Zhu Yin Sheng.
After a long silence, he asked, "You saw through it?"
Zhu Yin Sheng smiled. "Your technique for concealing your aura is quite unique. To me, you only feel like you're at Qi Cultivation Level 5, but..."
He stood up and stretched, then continued, "This old man has traveled far and wide for many years. I've picked up a few unique aura-reading techniques too."
After saying this, he gave Bai Shen a half-smile and walked toward the main gate.
"You're leaving?"
Bai Shen's expression turned ugly.
Zhu Yin Sheng grunted as he walked. "That aura of the Late Qi Refining stage isn't something those petty Rogue Cultivators can compare to. This old man isn't getting involved in this mess."
Bai Shen fell silent for a while. Just as Zhu Yin Sheng was about to step outside, he called out, "Three spirit stones!"
Zhu Yin Sheng stopped and turned around with a smile. "Five!"
"Deal!"
Though his heart ached, Bai Shen agreed to Zhu Yin Sheng's terms without hesitation.
Compared to the two bronze corpses, he could completely accept this price.
Down the mountain, as Kong Wu advanced, the two bronze corpses simultaneously retreated a step.
Unlike the stiff corpse demons, the faint traces of sentience within them kept issuing warnings.
The creature before them could threaten their lives.
Feng Yang's mouth fell open at the sight.
Constable Kong really was... capable of surprising him every moment... or perhaps startling him.
Looking at Kong Wu, who was clearly much stronger than before, he was filled with doubt.
Could Constable Kong have been hiding his true strength all along?
Surely he hadn't broken through and become stronger in the middle of battle, right?
What kind of cultivation method could make someone grow half a head taller upon breaking through?
Feeling the astonishing aura radiating from Kong Wu, Feng Yang remembered the senior disciples in his sect who were at the Late Qi Refining stage.
He silently backed away several steps.
The gap was simply too great.
Ahead, Kong Wu saw the two bronze corpses continually retreating, and displeasure appeared on his face.
Why were they retreating?
Come on, fight to your heart's content!
He raised the Evil-Slaying Saber in his hand, his thighs bending slightly...
Boom!
The ground cracked apart, and Kong Wu's figure shot forward.
The Evil-Slaying Saber slammed into one bronze corpse's chest. After a grating series of creaks, the bronze corpse was sent flying.
Kong Wu was startled. Just as he was about to deal with the other bronze corpse, he discovered that it had already retreated ten paces away.
"Aaagh~"
A roar that sounded neither human nor beast came from the bronze corpse that had been sent flying.
After rolling painfully across the ground several times, it rose to its feet.
The Evil-Slaying Saber had carved a long gash across its chest, from which green fluid seeped.
According to Kong Wu's plan, that slash should have split it in two.
However, the bronze corpse's physical toughness was far greater than that of a corpse demon, so the slash's effect was far weaker than expected.
Compared to the wound itself, the damage the Evil-Slaying Saber inflicted on the bronze corpse was even greater.
Kong Wu lowered his head and looked at the Evil-Slaying Saber in his hand.
Evil-Slaying Saber: A Zhanmadao empowered by special points and granted the "Evil-Slaying" attribute. It can be strengthened by slaying evil creatures. Special Attribute: Evil-Slaying (Deals greater damage to evil creatures. Slaying evil creatures grants Evil-Slaying Value; the higher the Evil-Slaying Value, the greater the additional damage.) Evil-Slaying Value: 9 points
After slaying several corpse demons, his Evil-Slaying Saber had also been enhanced.
He could clearly feel that, compared to before, the blade was heavier and sharper.
Yet even so, it still hadn't managed to cleave through a bronze corpse in one strike.
Then... he could only hack it several more times.
Kong Wu casually swung the Evil-Slaying Saber and looked at the bronze corpses gathered together. In an instant, he vanished from where he stood.
The next moment, Kong Wu appeared behind the bronze corpses. He raised the long saber and swept it across.
Clang!
With a deafening crash, the two bronze corpses raised both hands to block the slash, their bodies forced backward.
Hm?
Kong Wu looked at the Evil-Slaying Saber lodged in their forearms, unable to hide his surprise.
When he looked up, he saw that both bronze corpses' eyes had turned crimson, while a mass of cyan light continuously circulated through their arms.
The Attribute Panel in Kong Wu's eyes also changed.
Bronze Corpse—Bai Chun (Berserk State) Life: 159 Strength: 18 Skills: Bronze Skin, Berserk Technique, Asura Corpse Scripture (Incomplete) Bronze Corpse—Bai Yuan (Berserk State) Life: 89 Strength: 19.2 Skills: Bronze Skin, Berserk Technique, Asura Corpse Scripture (Incomplete)
Had they... used a skill?
Looking at the two bronze corpses, whose Strength attributes had risen considerably, Kong Wu lifted his foot and kicked them both away.
Berserk State?
Was it that Berserk Technique?
Watching the two bronze corpses roar incessantly, their last trace of sentience completely gone, Kong Wu guessed that the Berserk Technique had increased their Strength attributes.
The price was a reduction in intelligence, then?
The two bronze corpses, which had been retreating moments ago, immediately rose after being kicked away and charged over with furious roars.
As the two bronze corpses rushed toward him, Kong Wu's ears suddenly twitched, and he looked toward the mountain.
A Strength attribute of 20.9 had enhanced not only his power and speed but also his various senses considerably.
Thus, faint footsteps from nearly two kilometers away reached his ears.
Having read plenty of webnovels in his previous life, he already knew that monsters like these definitely had masters behind them.
And the rapidly approaching sound in the distance made him realize that the master of the two bronze corpses before him was drawing near.
He had to end this quickly.
Anyone capable of refining bronze corpses of this level was certainly no ordinary opponent.
If he turned and left now, he was fully confident he could escape.
However, he did not choose to flee. Instead, he raised the Evil-Slaying Saber and charged toward them at a speed exceeding that of the two bronze corpses.
Boom!
The two sides collided. The Evil-Slaying Saber hacked into one bronze corpse's neck and stuck halfway through.
The other bronze corpse clenched its arm into a fist and struck Kong Wu in the chest, yet it had no effect whatsoever.
Kong Wu's left fist sent the bronze corpse attacking him flying. Then he gripped the saber with both hands.
"Ah!!!"
With a furious roar, the veins on Kong Wu's neck bulged. His arms suddenly swelled, and the Evil-Slaying Saber changed direction, breaking through the obstruction diagonally upward and carving out a semicircle.
Half a head flew into the sky, while the bronze corpse before Kong Wu slumped limply to the side.
"Congratulations, you have slain 'Bronze Corpse—Bai Yuan'..."
"Add points!"
Before the system notification had finished, Kong Wu instantly assigned the points and charged straight toward the other bronze corpse.
"Stop!"
An exasperated shout came from the distance.
Kong Wu ignored it and brought the Evil-Slaying Saber down.
"Congratulations, you have slain 'Bronze Corpse—Bai Chun,' obtaining 2 free attribute points."
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