Huang Ming's Identity

Huang Ming was a powerful cultivator in the Body Integration Realm who had dispersed his cultivation and started over. He had roamed the cultivation world for over two thousand years, and this was the first time he had ever seen someone in the Golden Core Stage use a clone Technique Method.

Moreover, it's a clone Technique Method in this way.

Before Huang Ming could figure it out, the Qingfeng and Mingyue swords, like two dragons swimming in the East China Sea, roared in with a bloody storm.

Lu Yang wasn't sure if the zombie could regenerate after being cut in half again. Rather than gambling on something uncertain, he decided to directly attack Huang Ming.

He refused to believe that Huang Ming could recover like a zombie.

Huang Ming hurriedly manipulated the zombies to attack, while Lu Yang had his clone use the Dark Moon Sword to defend against the zombies, and he fought Huang Ming himself.

The two sides were once again deadlocked, but Huang Ming soon realized his disadvantage.

Lu Yang's mental strength was even stronger than his own, and his control over his clones was more precise. In the battle between the zombies and his clones, the zombies were forced into a series of defeats.

Once the clone wins, you'll face the predicament of fighting two opponents alone.

Lu Yang's soft laughter reached Huang Ming's ears, startling him so much that he broke out in a cold sweat.

"Don't you even understand the principle that you can't be distracted during a battle? Break!"

Lu Yang unleashed the Breaking Technique, his Sword Qi soaring into the sky and gushing forth, its brilliant Sword-Ray weaving like a curtain.

A crimson light barrier blocked Huang Ming's path. This was his strongest defensive move, but it was shattered in the face of Huang Ming's full-force "Break" technique. The crimson light barrier lasted only half a breath before being broken.

Pfft

Huang Ming tried to use the corpse-shifting technique again, but he was a step too slow, and his right shoulder was pierced through.

Huang Ming suffered a severe blow to his health and will need at least half a month of rest to recover.

Huang Ming took a Qi-restoring pill once during the battle, but even at the end, he still faced a situation where his spiritual energy was insufficient.

In contrast, Lu Yang did not take any pills to restore his spiritual power from beginning to end. This was due to both the power of the Invincible Pill and the fact that he ate tofu every day during his first cultivation.

Long-term consumption of tofu can regulate the balance of the five elements in cultivators, making them more enduring in battle.

"I admit defeat!" Huang Ming said through gritted teeth, forced to acknowledge his defeat and taking a pill to heal his injuries.

Lu Yang sheathed his sword, as if he hadn't been the one who had injured Huang Ming just now, and greeted him with a smile.

"Why did you decide to dissipate your cultivation and start over?"

Huang Ming sighed, "I was too impatient when I was young and didn't lay a good foundation. I was stuck in the Integrated Body Middle Stage and couldn't break through for a long time. This was a good opportunity to start over after dispersing my cultivation, so I reincarnated."

Lu Yang asked curiously, "Then why don't you join Five Great Immortal Sects? The immortal sects have abundant resources and are better than the Corpse Driving Sect, right?"

"It's not easy to enter the Immortal Sect. There are too many experts. Who knows who might discover our identities? On the contrary, you're quite bold. Not only did you infiltrate the Immortal Sect, but you're also so high-profile."

Huang Ming thought of Lu Yang's powerful spiritual strength and assumed that he was also a reincarnated cultivator.

He then asked, "Your clone Technique Method is so unique, yet I've never heard of it before, and there's no record of it in history. It must have been lost because there's no successor. Are you a cultivator from the Great Qian era?"

"No, I did not dissipate my cultivation and have to start over."

"Stop bragging. You think you can beat me if you're not rebuilding your cultivation from scratch? Here's what I'll say: I'm Venerable Huang Cen from the Great Yu Dynasty. What's your name? I might have heard of you before."

Lu Yang didn't answer, silently watching Huang Ming.

Huang Ming seemed to understand something as well.

Huang Ming: "..."

Lu Yang: "..."

"You're a cultivator from the Great Yu Dynasty!?"

"You really are a disciple of the Ask Dao Sect!?"

The two spoke in unison.

Lu Yang thought Huang Ming was some senior from the Corpse Driving Sect who had scattered his cultivation and was now rebuilding his cultivation, so he spoke in a rather casual tone. He never expected that Huang Ming was a cultivator from the Great Yu Dynasty.

Huang Ming was even more shocked than Lu Yang. The combat power that Lu Yang displayed was actually cultivated step by step without ever having to dissipate his power and start over. Even the Imperial Preceptor couldn't do that at this level!

Are geniuses of this era truly that terrifying?!

Meng Jingzhou realized the seriousness of the problem; Huang Ming was actually a cultivator from the Great Yu Dynasty.

Man Gu and Zhao Po were encountering ancient cultivators for the first time, and their reactions were not as strong as Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou's.

Huang Ming reacted quickly, his tone sinister, his eyes clouded with gloom, devoid of any smile, "Very well, as expected of a genius emerging from this great era, you've actually managed to force me into such a sorry state!"

"Since that's the case, then I can't let you live!"

"Originally, I planned to kill everyone who overheard our conversation after we finished talking, but now it seems you're going to die too!"

Huang Ming no longer concealed his murderous intent and used Secret Method to summon his companions.

"Fellow Daoist Meng, kill them all!"

"Lu Yang, be careful! An Integrated Body Realm Cultivator is on their way!"

The Immortal Fairy's reminder had barely faded when a powerful aura, like that of a towering mountain, descended upon the area.

A middle-aged man with mostly white hair appeared in the sky, completely ignoring Lu Yang and the others. He looked down at Huang Ming and revealed a mocking smile.

"Fellow Daoist Huang, why are you in such a sorry state?"

"If it were you, you would do the same!" Huang Ming said angrily. This Lu Yang's talent was terrifyingly high. Even he, Body Integration Realm of scattered cultivation, could not defeat him.

What would happen if he grew up like this?

It must be eradicated as soon as possible!

"Of course, of course," the ancient cultivator addressed as Fellow Daoist Meng laughed, adding that a few mere Golden Core cultivators could be wiped out with a flick of the finger.

"It's him!" The drowned ghost instinctively shouted upon sensing the familiar presence.

"He's the one who knocked me unconscious and brought me here from the East China Sea!"

Fellow Daoist Meng looked down and saw it was the drowned ghost, and chuckled softly.

"So it was that drowned ghost from the East Sea."

Lu Yang was shocked. This meant that the ghost plague in Hanshui City was caused by Fellow Daoist Meng, who captured ghosts from various places and threw them into Hanshui City. He just didn't know what they wanted to do!

Fellow Daoist Meng didn't look at the drowned ghost again; Nascent Soul Realm ghost wasn't worthy of his attention. "I'll help you kill these people and stage the crime scene, saying that you perished together with this drowned ghost. That way, you can stay in the Corpse Driving Sect. In return, you have to tell me where your treasure is hidden."

Huang Ming gritted his teeth, daring not to speak out in anger. This was blatant opportunism, but he was powerless to do anything about it.

"OK!"

"Haha, then thank you in advance for your generous gift, Fellow Daoist Huang!"

Having obtained what he desired, Fellow Daoist Meng no longer held back, staring at Lu Yang and the others as if they were already dead.

"Youngsters, I am kind-hearted. I will let you choose a way to die: to have your tendons and skin peeled off, to be refined into a human pill, or to be pierced by a hundred ghosts?"

Lu Yang and the others broke out in a cold sweat, their backs soaked with perspiration, especially Zhao Po, who had never seen anything like it before.

"So, what method of death do you want to choose?"

The sudden sound broke the deathly silence.

"Who!" Fellow Daoist Meng exclaimed in surprise, he hadn't even noticed when they arrived!

Boom--

Fellow Daoist Meng was struck by the five-colored light wheel, fell from the sky, coughed up blood, and a trace of fear flashed in his eyes.

With just that one strike, he could feel the difference in strength between himself and his opponent.

The newcomer was dressed in a blue robe, with his hands behind his back, speaking indifferently, and a five-colored halo behind his head, making him appear almost divine.

"The Sect Master of the Five Elements Sect, Qiu Jin'an."