The Extinction Yin Corpse Old Fiend's body sprang up as if jolted by lightning. In the blink of an eye, it completed its transformation into a corpse. A fine layer of gray corpse hair spread across his gaunt face, and his body rapidly swelled until he became a walking corpse nearly ten feet tall.
Lu Xiaotian blurred forward, his legs sweeping out like mountains as he struck at the Extinction Yin Corpse Old Fiend. Thud, thud! The two clashed hundreds of times in succession. Lu Xiaotian's legs seemed capable of whipping the air around them to pieces. During his decades in Pill King City, he had studied a great many cultivation arts modeled on demonic beasts, blending them into his Devouring Soul Art and Taihao Battle Body.
Apes, horses, monkeys, tigers, leopards, eagles, cranes, fish, turtles, deer, snakes, pythons, flood dragons, rhinos—Lu Xiaotian had dabbled in countless similar arts. Without cultivating an art modeled on a particular demonic beast, even swallowing that beast's spirit essence would only yield a fraction of its combat strength.
The arts of flood dragons and snakes were the first Lu Xiaotian had studied, and they also let him bring out their full combat strength more effectively.
The Extinction Yin Corpse Old Fiend swung his fanlike palm at Lu Xiaotian's leg. Lu Xiaotian's left leg went as boneless and supple as a snake's body, then suddenly bent and snapped into the fiend's chest. With a crash, the Extinction Old Fiend's enormous body slammed into a stone wall several yards away, leaving a huge, man-shaped crater in it.
Lu Xiaotian wasn't worried the old fiend would escape with an earth-escape technique. For one thing, the Extinction Yin Corpse Old Fiend wasn't an earth-element cultivator. For another, he practiced corpse-path arts, and the surrounding walls were solid rock,