The Fourth Insight Eye

From the Falcon Spirit Monster's perspective, beneath the firelight, the swarm of Gu at the youth's feet churned like black waves.

Through the narrow gaps between the Gu, it could see that most of the bandits had died horribly, their bodies black and blue all over as Gu poison seeped into them.

"Save us..." Fourteen survivors writhed helplessly on the ground in agony.

The Falcon Spirit Monster's eagle eyes flickered as it stared at the youth holding the dreadful greatsword.

It had nowhere left to go and had no choice but to fight its way out. As for the fourteen men on the ground who had been implanted with Gu, it could barely save itself—how could it save them?

Its wings beat, sending a demon wind carrying feathers surging out.

"Whoosh, whoosh..." Its feathers shot toward the youth like steel darts.

The feathers flying toward Liu Feng slowed in his eyes. His shadow swayed beneath the flickering firelight, then he suddenly raised his sword and charged.

From the Falcon Spirit Monster's perspective, every feather it had launched seemed to follow a path planned in advance, yet they all missed the youth!

While the monster was still stunned, Liu Feng had already swept to within two zhang of it.

The skin on his face bulged, and his Compound Eyes abruptly opened.

The passage reflected in the Falcon Spirit Monster's eyes vanished in an instant, replaced by an image spliced together with the cave's exit. It seemed that all it had to do was take one step forward to escape!

"What kind of demonic art is this..."

With a splurt, the Spirit Monster's head flew into the air.

Liu Feng kept moving, rushing straight into the depths of the passage.

Behind him, the fourteen bandits writhed in unbearable pain, pounding their chests with both hands as if trying to crush the Gu insects burrowing inside them. The effort was clearly useless.

They had watched the Falcon Spirit Monster get its head chopped off. Apart from fear, all they felt was despair.

They had once slaughtered refugees and taken living people's blood essence to aid their two masters' cultivation. Who could have imagined that they would end up suffering such a miserable fate themselves?

"Creak, creak..."

By the time Liu Feng reached the Stone Chamber, a prison of vines had already formed there, winding around itself layer upon layer, inside and out.

Near the Stone Chamber's exit, two people had been separated from the rest by the vines. They were Zhu Li and Shen Yushu.

"Did you deal with them all?" Shen Yushu glanced over and asked calmly.

"I left fourteen alive and planted Gu in them."

After speaking, Liu Feng peered through a gap in the Vine Wood Sphere. The dim scene inside the Stone Chamber came into full view.

Two figures were colliding fiercely within. Fortunately, he had the Mind Eye Technique; otherwise, it would have been difficult to make out their fists and feet.

"Clang, clang, clang..."

The sounds weren't the muffled thuds of fists striking flesh, but the heavy clang of metal being hammered.

Li Si's condition was extremely strange. Her entire body gave off a medicinal scent as she unleashed the Gu poison and medicinal power that had accumulated inside her.

Most of the Gu poison had been sealed inside the Stone Chamber. As long as the Corpse Refiner's internal organs still held a spark of life, he couldn't escape being poisoned by Gu.

That was the Gu Master's ability: refining a martial artist into a half-dead Medicine Person, then pushing their battle strength to its peak in a short time—or even beyond it, as the powerful medicine seemed to drive their strength past its normal limit.

On top of that, the Medicine Person had been bolstered by Soldier Gu and Gu poison.

"Bang." The white-haired Corpse Refiner was sent flying, crashing into the vines as blood spilled from his mouth and nose.

His face was terrifying, fangs jutting past his lips. His body was black as iron, with patches of golden spots appearing across it.

"So there was another one. You three juniors will never see the dawn." The white-haired Corpse Refiner swept a cold gaze over Liu Feng.

"On the brink of death, and you're still mouthing off. Once the Medicine Slave beats you to death, I'll use your Blood Crystal to refine medicine."

"Hmph!"

The white-haired Corpse Refiner cut Shen Yushu off with a cold snort. Before Li Si could attack, he suddenly struck his own chest with a palm.

The Corpse Refiner seemed to have been greatly fortified. Blood-red light flared in his eyes, and Corpse Fire danced across his skin.

In the blink of an eye, frost spread from him across every vine.

"Clang." The white-haired Corpse Refiner met Li Si's palm with one of his own, using the force to retreat.

"Not enough." The white-haired Corpse Refiner struck his chest again.

A strange laugh, half agony and half exhilaration, came from the white-haired Corpse Refiner's mouth. The three of them saw even more Corpse Fire erupt across his body.

In the next instant, he clashed with Li Si again, and the fight had shifted from his disadvantage to an even match.

"Something's wrong. This doesn't look like he's stimulating his own blood essence. How could a Corpse Refiner improve this much all at once?" The smile vanished from Shen Yushu's lips, replaced by unease.

"He dared to say we were courting death even after seeing the Medicine Slave. Could he have some secret technique?" Zhu Li's expression also turned grave.

As the two watched in astonishment, the white-haired Corpse Refiner struck his chest a third time.

With a low growl, the white-haired Corpse Refiner sent Li Si flying, then wheeled around and slammed into the vines at the Stone Chamber's exit like a mad tiger.

"Crack, crack..." His iron-hard palms raked through the vines, breaking who knew how many.

Just as Shen Yushu and Zhu Li stared in horror, Li Si arrived in time and fought the white-haired Corpse Refiner again.

Behind them, Liu Feng's gaze was deep and still. His Zen Eye Technique focused on the white-haired Corpse Refiner's heart, one of his five internal organs.

After seeing the Walking Corpse Blood Crystal Shen Yushu had taken out, Liu Feng had found the Blood Crystal inside the Corpse Refiner at a glance.

It was a Blood Crystal larger and rounder than the one inside a perfected Walking Corpse. Strangely, a rhombus-shaped Blood Crystal was embedded in it as well.

The dark-red rhombus-shaped Blood Crystal radiated scarlet light. It had clearly surpassed the realm of ordinary blood, and was embedded in the Corpse Refiner's Blood Crystal like a little sword.

With the white-haired Corpse Refiner's three strikes, the Blood Crystal Dagger cracked apart bit by bit. Scarlet light poured into the Corpse Refiner's heart, then flowed from there throughout his body.

"That... whose blood is that? It definitely can't belong to the white-haired Corpse Refiner himself!" Liu Feng's gaze snapped away, his heart pounding with shock.

"Crack..." Another sweeping kick struck the Vine Wood Sphere, shattering most of the vines at the Stone Chamber's entrance.

Corpse Fire surged, bringing a bone-chilling frost with it.

Zhu Li and Shen Yushu felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar. Their instincts told them they had to retreat immediately, leaving Li Si to hold the Corpse Refiner off.

But if they abandoned the Medicine Slave, Li Si, how would they deal with the White Sun Sect's demonic cultivator?

If they didn't bring Eldest Senior Brother back, the Valley Master of Insect Valley— their master—would never let them off easily.

As the two hesitated, Liu Feng shouted, "Third Senior Brother, stop guiding him and let me take over the Medicine Slave!"

The two ahead of him brightened at his words. They had almost forgotten about the Evolution Pupil.

The Gu technique of the Exotic Gu, Evolution Pupil, was better suited to guiding the Medicine Slave. It was also why they had brought their new junior brother along on this trip.

"Bang." Air currents roiled inside the Stone Chamber.

As the white-haired Corpse Refiner once again struck his own chest with the back of his hand, all of Liu Feng's Compound Eyes opened.

Without Zhu Li or Shen Yushu noticing, Liu Feng was doing far more than using the Evolution Pupil's Gu technique.

"Buddha Eye Insight, the Fourth Insight Eye!"

At that moment, the Buddha Light on Liu Feng's spine scattered flecks of golden light. This was the first time he had used the Buddha's power.

The Fourth Insight Eye could see the finest details: meridians, qi, spiritual energy, Buddha power, corpse aura... nothing escaped its sight.

Liu Feng saw the paths along which the white-haired Corpse Refiner's corpse aura flowed. He also found three places where its flow stalled: behind his heart, below his throat, and inside his right leg. Those were his weaknesses.

The next moment, whether it was Zhu Li, Shen Yushu, or the white-haired Corpse Refiner, who had gone berserk—

A bizarre scene that no one could have predicted unfolded. The Medicine Slave, Li Si, reenacted what had once happened to Liu Feng!

Dozens of the white-haired Corpse Refiner's punches missed, as if something were deliberately steering him away.

Meanwhile, every one of the Medicine Slave Li Si's punches struck a vital spot. Her eight insect legs stabbed out in a blur like steel spears.

"Splurt..." With a strange sound, her insect legs pierced the white-haired Corpse Refiner's back.

She yanked them free, tearing out not only the Corpse Refiner's heart but also a round Blood Crystal.

Another dark-red rhombus-shaped Blood Crystal, like a little sword, was embedded in it, blazing with scarlet light. The two people outside the Stone Chamber stared in stunned silence.