The Corpse Sewing Secret Technique, the Heartless Green Turtle

The commotion and the scene at that moment

almost drew everyone's eyes, even the second-generation cultivators still fighting at Sunset Mountain, the Evil Cultivators of the Eternal Life Cult, and the Imperial Court's soldiers.

Everyone with a mind of their own turned to look.

There was no other reason: Yelü Tianzheng's words were simply too horrifying not to draw attention.

"What do you mean, they're all sewn onto his body?"

"Could it be that Yelü Tianzheng has sewn every high official in the provincial government, except Bao Hanzhang, onto himself?"

Ge Xian had thought his interpretation might be off.

But what happened next proved he had been right.

The moment the Skin Sac burned and melted, a true "colossus" appeared.

Yelü Tianzheng!

He had astonishingly transformed into a gigantic mound of flesh and blood, as vast as a mountain. Countless strange heads and limbs had been sewn onto it, and a pillar of mixed, chaotic qi shot into the sky. Its colors clashed and collided, and within it, the phantom forms of one Spirit God after another could faintly be seen.

At its center was Yelü Tianzheng, already transformed into a "half-man, half-snake."

After taking a few looks, everyone hurriedly turned away, not daring to look any longer.

The pollution was simply too complex and intense.

Ge Xian held out a little longer. Though his face was full of shock, he eventually looked away from that twisted, terrifying sight.

His earlier guess had become reality.

The heads were clearly those of "High Officials," though Ge Xian did not recognize them all.

But the few he did recognize were enough to confirm it.

"Jiangzhe Province's two Deputy Provincial Prime Ministers, Zhao Jin and Xie Tianxiang."

"Those two ranked just below Yelü Tianzheng and Bao Hanzhang. The Secret Manual recorded that they had each paid homage to the Heavenly Dog Spirit God and the War Disaster Spirit God."

"The former is easy enough to identify. It's the Heavenly Dog."

"Judging by Lord Xie's appearance, the latter must be the legendary Zhu Yan."

"Both had reached the Peak Mortal Transformation Realm and were still a little short of Spirit Connection. Of course, neither would ever get the chance now."

"They'd both met a horrible end. After Yelü Tianzheng killed them, he sewed them onto himself. Like the other officials, they'd become puppets—or, to put it another way, brand-new organs on Yelü Tianzheng's body."

"Looks like Yelü Tianzheng is cultivating a very new kind of immortality. I wonder who taught him."

Ge Xian wasn't the only one who saw the truth.

Every onlooker on the battlefield had more or less guessed it.

Bao Hanzhang, meanwhile, flew into a rage after his initial shock.

Unable to hold back, he roared:

"Yelü Tianzheng, you beast! Old Turtle! Green Turtle!"

"How dare you do such a thing? If your Vicious Habit had resurfaced, you could've gone to the Prime Minister for medicine! Why defect to the Eternal Life Cult?"

"If you were going to defect, fine—but why kill so many of your colleagues? Even if you used the Eternal Life Cult's Corpse Sewing Secret Technique to seize their power, how could you possibly digest it all?"

"What's the price?"

"How many more days can your soul endure before it splits apart?"

Bao Hanzhang's furious tirade shocked everyone on the battlefield even more.

Good heavens!

Not only had Yelü Tianzheng sold out all of Jiangzhe Province right under Bao Hanzhang's nose, he had quietly rounded up almost every senior official in the province, killed them, and sewn them onto his own body to use as wondrous organs.

One had to understand: every one of these High Officials had reached the Mortal Transformation Realm, and each had paid homage to a Spirit God with its own pedigree. Their Innate Divine Abilities were no weak things, either.

Now, they all belonged to Yelü Tianzheng.

He had gone from being a Celestial Pivot Prime Minister Spirit Demon to a so-called Legendary Grade Chimera.

In theory, with so many Mortal Transformation Corpses sewn into him, their demon qi, divine abilities, and bloodlines should have clashed with one another. He should have suffered Qi Deviation long ago.

But that hadn't happened. It was no doubt thanks to the exquisite Corpse Sewing Secret Technique of the Eternal Life Cult, as well as the fact that he had originally been a Celestial Pivot Prime Minister Spirit Demon. He understood the roots of the various ghosts and gods, so he could coordinate and arrange them, allowing them to fuse perfectly.

Ge Xian watched, marveling at the sight.

At the same time, he began to worry for Bao Hanzhang. His Political Ideology was nothing special, but even he knew that Bao Hanzhang faced not only an opportunity, but also a perilous predicament.

In truth, the danger outweighed the opportunity.

"The disaster here is far too great."

"The Imperial Court gave Bao Hanzhang command of the army precisely so he could keep Yelü Tianzheng in check. The situation has turned out this way, so Bao Hanzhang has failed completely."

"Simply putting down the rebellion won't be enough today. He also has to keep Yelü Tianzheng and the Eternal Life Cult here. Otherwise, the Imperial Court might think his Vicious Habit has resurfaced too—that he paid homage to the Straight and Curved Spirit God for nothing, and that his Curved Straight Divine Eyes ought to be gouged out."

"Of course, that's asking a lot of Bao Hanzhang. If anyone else had been handling this, they absolutely wouldn't have seen through it. But Yelü Tianzheng paid homage to the Myriad Laws Celestial Pivot Prime Minister. Not even Bao Hanzhang's background could be hidden from his innate ability to understand the Myriad Gods."

"Killing people, starting fires, selling out a province, sewing corpses onto himself—it was all child's play."

"Unfortunately, the Imperial Court won't listen to explanations. It only cares about the result."

These thoughts of Ge Xian's

also surfaced in Lord Bao's mind.

The rebellion had been put down!

But could he keep Yelü Tianzheng here?

Bao Hanzhang wasn't confident. At that moment, he was struggling just to hold his old foe in place. One former colleague after another pressed in, unleashing their Innate Divine Abilities against him. In mere moments, his Righteous Spirit Demon Body had been badly wounded.

Though he kept releasing Clarity Divine Fire, trying to set his colleagues free,

it was useless.

As soon as one was burned to a cinder, another colleague with a Manifested Spirit Demon Dharma Body pushed forward.

Before long, the one who had just been burned melted back to life.

The cycle repeated, and Bao Hanzhang fell straight onto the back foot.

If he hadn't summoned a meteor to break free in time, he might have been finished in Yelü Tianzheng's blood-soaked embrace.

Just then, Yelü Tianzheng's voice rang out across the battlefield once more.

Ge Xian had heard so much "dirt" about Yelü Tianzheng that he'd assumed this legendary Border Governor, this Royal Male Living Off Wife's Fortune, must have had a sharp, twisted temperament—and a voice to match.

Before, when he hadn't revealed his True Form, he'd sounded rather unhinged.

Ge Xian hadn't expected him to sound calm now that he'd revealed his Flesh and Blood Fused Body. His voice was even somewhat pleasant.

Rich and warm, it naturally inspired goodwill in those who heard it.

"Bao Hanzhang, Lord Bao, Brother Bao."

"You're far too stubborn. Things have come to this, and you're still asking questions you already know the answers to."

"And you'd have me ask for medicine? Heh. If the Imperial Court still had any medicine, would the world have fallen into such chaos? Would those Rebel Armies have seized the chance to rise?"

"If you get the chance, you can ask Tuotuo whether he has any way to help me suppress my Vicious Habit."

"Hmph. Not a single one."

"And as for my colleagues, we merely served at the same court. They weren't my sons or daughters, my father or mother. Killing them might even have been a form of release."

"Oh, right. You asked about the price?"

As he said that, Yelü Tianzheng, who had seemed as mild-mannered as a gentleman, suddenly changed.

It was as if he truly had "split personalities." His elegant face twisted in an instant, and a fierce blaze of fury surged through him.

That enormous mound of flesh writhed. Every limb stirred, and organs like fleshy wings and Membrane Wings flapped wildly. He tore himself up from the ground and chased after Bao Hanzhang, who was soaring through the air.

In an instant, the land below was almost completely dark.

Cover the Sky and Sun!

On that part of the battlefield, anyone who looked up saw nothing but writhing flesh, foul-smelling and terrifying.

Who could have imagined that a respected Celestial Pivot Prime Minister Spirit Demon, admired wherever he went, would become something like this?

The difference between the two Spirit Connection Realm Dharma Bodies was now clear—a case of a small shaman standing beside a great one.

Before, Bao Hanzhang had been able to keep Yelü Tianzheng pinned down. Now, he was in constant danger. Several times, Yelü Tianzheng had nearly managed to grab him, almost catching him in a "beauty-killing embrace" and drowning him in endless flesh or squeezing him to death.

All the while, Yelü Tianzheng roared in fury:

"The price?"

"I could have paid no price at all! The reward I got for selling out Jiangzhe Province was enough to let me absorb and refine all my colleagues without hindrance, and seize the power of the various Spirit Gods for myself."

"Not only did I cultivate the Corpse Sewing Secret Technique, I could have obtained the Spirit Desire Union Blood Seizing Divine Art, too! As long as I could produce the Red Pill Army, I'd have been able to step into the Manifestation Realm. I could have become the Eternal Life Cult's next High Priest. I'd have gained the cult's secret Spirit Desire Union Blood Seizing Divine Art, and I could have fucked that stinking woman to death, taking her Crimson Crow Bloodline, talent, and secret arts for myself!"

"The new bloodline I fathered in the future would have possessed the Crimson Crow Body. My Yelü Family would have become the Crimson Crow Imperial Clan!"

"But you ruined everything!"

"That stinking woman ran away, and my position as High Priest is gone! I was only one step away—just one step away!"

"Why? Why..."

Listening to those roars, Ge Xian felt an urge to quietly crawl back into the Vajra Bowl.

Thankfully, he was some distance from the battlefield, and Yelü Tianzheng was still entangled with Bao Hanzhang. Otherwise, if that Madwoman Yelü Yuyan figured out that he, Ge Huolang, had been the one to inform on him and exposed him, then the frenzied Yelü Tianzheng might come straight for him.

Fear aside, Ge Xian couldn't stop himself from grumbling:

"Secrets don't stay secrets if they aren't kept."

"This Old Green Turtle had risen to become a High Official, yet he didn't understand such a simple principle. When planning something this big, even if it involves your own daughter, you should keep most of the details from her. Especially when Yelü Yuyan is fearless and her soul has long since twisted into knots."

"If Yelü Yuyan knew, then her personal maid would know, and naturally I'd find out, too."

"And all I did was sell some information for a few benefits and a little goodwill. How could I have known it would lead to all this?"

"Luckily, everyone who knows I sold the information seems good at keeping their mouths shut. They won't expose me to the world."

"Sure, I'd earn a reputation if they did, but I'd also completely offend the Eternal Life Cult and the Yelü Family—and might even bring the Qingqiu Fox Clan down on me... Compared to all that trouble, who cares about a little fame?"

"For now, I can only hope Lord Bao comes through and keeps Yelü Tianzheng and the entire Yelü Family here for good, so they don't leave me with a sworn enemy."

As Ge Huolang muttered to himself, his eyes suddenly lit up.

Yelü Tianzheng still had an overwhelming advantage on the battlefield, but he didn't seem to realize that Bao Hanzhang had already lured him into a hit-and-run battle.

Because he had sewn the Mortal Transformation Corpses of so many officials into himself, Yelü Tianzheng was now stronger than Bao Hanzhang.

But his Demon Body was enormous, so he wasn't as fast.

Bao Hanzhang, on the other hand, had the Meteorite Spell, the Curved Straight Divine Eyes, the Clarity Divine Fire... and all sorts of other Innate Divine Abilities. He simply kept circling Yelü Tianzheng. It looked as if he were in constant danger and could lose at any moment.

But every time it mattered, he managed to evade.

For a time, the two were locked in another stalemate.

Of course, if they kept fighting without interference, Bao Hanzhang was bound to die.

But Ge Xian knew that in the end, only Yelü Tianzheng would be defeated.

Besides being led around in circles, Yelü Tianzheng's subordinates and Spirit Desire Blood Soldiers were being slaughtered. Their numbers were dwindling fast.

"This world has Spirit Connection Experts capable of shattering mountains, as well as extraordinary armies like the Red Pill Army and the Quanfeng Army."

"As long as the soldiers are numerous enough, the formation is strong enough, and the advance is fierce enough, the destructive force of a charge can kill even one of the former."

"Originally, both armies would have been wiped out by the Red Pill Army. Now, the situation has been reversed."

"Once Jiangzhe Province's garrison finishes wiping out the Eternal Life Cult's remnants, they can turn around and help Bao Hanzhang encircle and kill Yelü Tianzheng... Mm, what practiced command. Just a moment ago, he was facing mortal danger, and now he's already made a plan to draw Yelü Tianzheng away so the garrison can calmly slaughter the remaining soldiers."

"With Bao Hanzhang's ability, and Tuotuo's support, his career is likely to flourish."

"I've done the Bao Family a considerable favor. Does that mean I've just won myself another powerful backer?"

Thinking of this, Ge Xian couldn't help smiling again.

He once more felt sure he'd made the right choice, as if he could already see all sorts of benefits waving at him from the distance.

But soon, who knew what he'd spotted.

His naked Dragon Body shot upright out of the Vajra Bowl in fright. Looking toward the distant battlefield, he cursed:

"Fuck your mother, Old Green Turtle... So you were pretending to fall into the trap! Chasing Bao Hanzhang was a ruse; you were really pretending to flee and escape. How filthy, how treacherous!"

"How heartless! Your daughter and son-in-law are still trapped on the battlefield, with no way out!"

That's right!

What had left Ge Xian so flustered was what he was now witnessing with his own eyes.

Yelü Tianzheng, who had been twisted and frenzied, swearing he would kill Bao Hanzhang, had abandoned one of the organs made from a Mortal Transformation Corpse on his fleshly body and made it self-destruct to hold Bao Hanzhang back.

Meanwhile, he had taken advantage of his distance from the battlefield to suddenly transform into a dense cloud of blood and flee beyond Jiangzhe Province.

The flames burning around the blood cloud, the surging mist, and the "Membrane Wings" that had condensed out of flesh and blood made it clear that the man was about to burst into terrifying speed.

Everyone else on the battlefield!

Including the three key figures, Yelü Yuyan, Lu Hualong, and Li Wa.

At that moment, they were all stunned by Yelü Tianzheng's actions.

Especially Li Wa, who stood eight feet tall. The reason she had endured without fleeing and had even tried to capture Bai Fugui and Bao Mingjing was that she had placed her hopes in Yelü Tianzheng.

She had thought that, as someone the cult had chosen as a "Candidate High Priest" and the Provincial Prime Minister of the Dayuan Dynasty, he must have all sorts of divine abilities and methods. He might not be able to turn the tables, but surely it wouldn't be difficult for him to take them with him as he fled.

She never imagined he would stab them in the back like this.

After all, his beloved biological daughter and son-in-law were still right beside her.

So Li Wa turned in disbelief to look at Yelü Yuyan. Her usually cool voice trembled as she asked:

"Are you really his daughter?"