Carrying Wine and Singing Long Songs

Volume 1: Carrying Wine and Singing Long Songs, Chapter 9: Those in the Qi Refining Stage Don't Count as Cultivators

"It seems like it wants to attack us!" Bai Qiuran replied, "However, it's strange. A Corpse Mother usually wouldn't be born in a mortal kingdom unless there was a massive loss of life. How could such a monster exist in this desolate, uninhabited mountain forest?"

"Go and finish off the main body of this Yao Mo."

Crack.

Bai Qiuran smiled.

Crack!

Tang Wei let out a sigh of relief.

"Just seeing an injustice and acting on it."

"What on earth is this thing?!"

"Just as I thought, the main body is down below."

"Lightning Seal."

Bai Qiuran said with a smile.

"I see it."

Bai Qiuran replied.

"Think about that later."

A ball of light appeared at his fingertip, illuminating the surrounding darkness and allowing Tang Wei to see the bones piled up like small hills on the ground.

Seeing the second Corpse Demon pounce again, Bai Qiuran raised his hand once more, but this time he didn't push his palm out; instead, he pressed two fingers together.

Bai Qiuran nodded.

After Tang Wei finished speaking, the body of the Corpse Mother, which was sitting atop the mountain of corpses, suddenly began to swell strangely. A distinct human-shaped imprint moved from its abdomen up along its esophagus, just like a snake encountering danger, suddenly vomiting out the prey it had just swallowed whole. The Corpse Mother also spat out an adult-sized corpse covered in unknown viscous fluid from its mouth.

The corpse rolled down the mountain of corpses, suddenly struggled to stand up, transformed into a Corpse Demon, and let out a roar at Bai Qiuran and Tang Wei.

Although her true identity hadn't been discovered by Bai Qiuran because of this accident, why did she feel so angry inside?

Bai Qiuran said this while pointing at the ball of light, turning and walking into the depths of the darkness.

"Is this enough?"

Looking at the bones on the ground and scanning the depths of the darkness with his Spiritual Sense, Bai Qiuran said, "Let's go, Brother Tang."

"If you hadn't come here, I'm afraid I would have died here."

He raised his hand and tossed the small ball of light he was holding at his fingertip into the sky. The ball of light slowly rose into mid-air, then released ten thousand rays of brilliance, like a small sun, illuminating the pitch-black, bottomless cave.

"This is enough. The Corpse Mother has been eliminated, so no new Corpse Demons will be born for a short time."

Tang Wei asked while covering his nose and retreating behind Bai Qiuran.

Bai Qiuran frowned with some disgust.

"I don't want to touch it either."

"It's fine."

"However, just how high is your cultivation? I feel like this Corpse Mother has already exceeded the strength of a Martial Arts Grandmaster, right? You were actually able to kill it and the Corpse Demons it produced in one blow. And why do you know so much about this kind of Yao Mo, which hasn't even been recorded in my family's archives?"

Treading over the bones covering the ground, in the flickering light, Bai Qiuran led Tang Wei forward in the direction of the Yao Mo's aura. Perhaps those few Corpse Demons from before were all of its combat power; along the way, although the atmosphere was eerie and terrifying, and the air was accompanied by an inescapable stench, no more Corpse Demons attacked them.

Tang Wei said, "If you keep grinding like this, will your True Qi still be enough?"

Tang Wei saw the Yao Mo struggling desperately in the flames, twisting its strange limbs and emitting a nauseating, peculiar screech. But a moment later, the sea of fire ruthlessly swallowed it, burning it and the mountain of corpses into ashes.

A silver lightning dragon shot out from his fingertip, accompanied by a roar and a loud noise. The pouncing Corpse Demon was pierced through the chest by this flash of lightning without any ability to resist. Then, the lightning, its momentum undiminished, slammed into the Corpse Mother sitting on the mountain of corpses.

"Does he have no limits?"

Tang Wei looked at him with a solemn expression for a few seconds, then suddenly chuckled and said, "You're lying. No matter what, you're just a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage. I can tell you don't have the True Essence that Cultivators possess. Mortals like us who use True Qi don't count as Cultivators in the eyes of those people. How could you possibly be from the Azure Nether Sword Sect?"

Tang Wei asked, her scalp tingling.

The area of this cave was much larger than the one that had collapsed earlier. Tang Wei estimated that it covered several thousand square meters. On the ground of this cave, there were dense piles of white bones, and on top of the bones, there were piles of corpses of unknown numbers of people.

Tang Wei asked again, "Bai Qiuran, who exactly are you, and where do you come from?"

"It's fine, as long as we eliminate the Corpse Demon and the Corpse Mother together."

A moment later, he sighed and said, "Forget it, if that's what you think, that's fine... There's no time to lose, I'll take you out first. I don't want to stay in this Corpse Bone Cave any longer."

Tang Wei gritted her teeth, clenched her fists tightly, and trembled all over.

"What if I said I am a cultivator of the Azure Nether Sword Sect?"

After walking for two minutes, Bai Qiuran stopped.

Tang Wei asked with trepidation.

However, Bai Qiuran clearly didn't notice her emotions. This man stood up slowly, patted the dust off his body, and then extended his finger.

Tang Wei felt a spasm in her stomach.

Under the illumination of the light, Tang Wei saw the full picture of this huge cave and couldn't help but gasp.

And in front of Tang Wei and Bai Qiuran, on a small mountain formed by corpses, a naked, ferocious-looking female corpse with a bloated belly was sitting on top. Its lower body had completely merged with the mountain of corpses, appearing to be absorbing the endless resentment and death energy within the mountain of corpses through this channel. Upon seeing Bai Qiuran and Tang Wei, the mouth and throat of this female corpse also began to squirm and swell.

The evil-warding power and high heat contained in the lightning triggered a massive explosion. The fire cloud from the explosion instantly ignited the entire mountain of corpses, wrapping the entire mountain along with the Corpse Mother in flames.

"Generally speaking, for self-preservation, a Corpse Mother can turn all the corpses within its range into Corpse Demons; those that are just bones don't count."

"Ah, this kind of thing."

Bai Qiuran pushed out a palm, and his vast True Qi transformed into powerful palm force, forming a golden energy that slammed into the Corpse Demon's body, shattering it to pieces. But just at this moment, the Corpse Mother over there spat out a new Corpse Demon.

"That wasn't its main body, just one of its components." Bai Qiuran explained as he walked, "You'll be able to see it in a few more steps. The one underground is its core."

"A monster born after a female corpse absorbs heavy yin energy and resentment. We generally call it a Corpse Mother, which is considered a higher-level individual of a Corpse Demon."

Knowing that the current situation was not the time to be angry, Tang Wei suppressed her anger, took a deep breath, and then asked, "Where are we going?"

Tang Wei hurriedly trotted to catch up with his pace and asked, "What do you mean? Weren't those few Corpse Demons Yao Mo?"

"However, there seem to be two more Corpse Demons buried in the soil outside the cave, which this beast prepared to block the door in reverse. I'll just deal with them together when we go out later."

"Thank you very much, Bai Qiuran."

But the Corpse Demon clearly wouldn't listen to his complaints. That corpse, covered in foul-smelling viscous fluid, had already pounced toward them at a speed exceeding the limits of a mortal.

Bai Qiuran's face darkened, but Tang Wei, who was chuckling in a particularly feminine posture, did not notice his expression.

"Then what should we do?"