"Good Corpse Incarnation?"
Hearing this, the figure in azure robes slowly turned around, revealing a handsome and extraordinary face carrying a faintly amused smile.
"So what if I'm an incarnation?"
Tongtian's Good Corpse smiled calmly, yet his voice carried an unrivaled domineering presence that looked down upon the world!
"Slaying you will be enough!"
"Did you really think that with your meager cultivation, you could deceive this Sage and successfully cross realms?"
Tongtian's Good Corpse shook his head, a trace of mockery flashing through his eyes. "If this Sage's disciple did not happen to need your demonic qi to refine treasures, how could this wretch like you have successfully crossed realms?!"
What?!
The moment those words were spoken!
The Outer-Realm Heavenly Devil Ancestor trembled all over, as if he had thought of something. His eyes filled with terror!
"Y-you did it on purpose?!"
"You've only figured it out now?"
Tongtian's Good Corpse chuckled and stopped wasting words.
"Very well. Let me show you what a Sage's methods are!"
With that, Tongtian's Good Corpse slowly raised his right hand and formed a sword finger.
He slashed remotely toward the enormous demonic claw attempting to tear apart space!
"Buzz!!!"
At that moment, there was no earth-shattering roar!
Nor was there any power capable of destroying heaven and earth!
There was only—
Countless strands of terrifying sword qi, pure to the extreme, as though they could sever all things!
The sword qi swept forth like a storm!
"No—!!!"
The Peak Quasi-Sage Outer-Realm Heavenly Devil Ancestor only had time to let out an incomparably shrill scream!
"Slash—!!"
That enormous demonic claw that covered the sky actually was cleanly severed beneath the countless sword qi!
"Ahhh! Tongtian! Just you wait!!"
From the other end of the spatial rift came the Heavenly Devil Ancestor's venomous roar!
However, before he could withdraw his arm!
The countless sword qi had already swept back, following the rift to kill their way through!
"Boom!!!"
An earth-shattering explosion sounded from the other end of the rift!
Then, everything fell silent.
That terrifying Peak Quasi-Sage pressure also vanished without a trace.
Clearly, he had suffered grievous injuries!
And fled in disgrace!
The entire star river fell deathly silent!
Everyone in the Heavenly River Navy, including Tiangang General and the Human Race-born Primordial Unity Grand Commander Wang Yu!
At this moment, all of them stood dumbfounded, shocked beyond measure!
"Th-this is... the might of a Sage?!"
Wang Yu trembled all over and muttered, "It was only... only a Good Corpse Incarnation!"
"Yet with a flick of his finger, he gravely wounded a terrifying great power at Peak Quasi-Sage?!"
Born of the Human Race and having risen from humble beginnings, Wang Yu finally truly understood at this moment just what kind of terrifying meaning the four words "disciple of a Sage" carried!
With such backing!
One truly could run rampant throughout the Primordial World!!
"Whew—"
Jiang Yun also let out a long breath, equally shaken in his heart!
This was a Sage!
A single Good Corpse possessed such immense might!
If the true body arrived in person, how terrifying would that be?!
Unlike the others, who were shaken and helpless!
Jiang Yun only felt that his heart in pursuit of the Dao had become firmer than ever at this moment!
"One day! I, too, will reach such a realm!!"
Suppressing the turmoil in his heart, Jiang Yun hurried forward and respectfully bowed to the figure in azure robes:
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"Disciple Jiang Yun thanks Ancestor-Master for saving my life!"
"Mm."
Tongtian's Good Corpse turned back and glanced at Jiang Yun.
When he saw Jiang Yun's Middle-stage Golden Immortal cultivation, as well as the deep mana foundation comparable to Daluo.
Unconcealed satisfaction and approval flashed through his eyes!
"Not bad."
Tongtian's Good Corpse nodded.
Then he pointed with one finger.
At the severed Heavenly Devil arm floating in the star river!
Buzz!
Endless sword qi wrapped around it!
The monstrous demonic intent belonging to a Peak Quasi-Sage was rapidly ground away and refined!
In but a moment!
The enormous arm had vanished completely, leaving behind only a mass of boundlessly pure and immense demonic qi devoid of even the slightest stray thought!
Its demonic qi was so pure that, to the Baleful Corpses, it was simply a rare supreme tonic in this world!
"Go on."
With a flick of Tongtian's Good Corpse's finger, that mass of pure demonic qi became a stream of light and landed steadily before Jiang Yun.
Only after finishing all this did Tongtian's Good Corpse's figure slowly fade and disappear into the star river.
"Thank you, Ancestor-Master!!"
Jiang Yun bowed once more in thanks.
This was the source demonic qi of a Peak Quasi-Sage great power!
With this demonic qi—
Jiang Yun's gaze turned toward the eighty-one Peak Taiyi Baleful Corpses!
"Pass down my command! The Heavenly River Navy will rest and reorganize on the spot!"
"All soldiers may refine the demonic qi according to their abilities. Do not act rashly!"
"Understood!!"
Jiang Yun himself also sat down cross-legged and began using the mass of pure demonic qi to refine the Baleful Corpses!
"Roar!!"
All eighty-one Baleful Corpses appeared at once, transforming into eighty-one terrifying black vortices as they began frantically absorbing the demonic qi!
Without end!
The demonic qi was like a sea!
And so, half a year passed in the blink of an eye!
When the final wisp of demonic qi had been completely absorbed!
"Boom!!!!"
Eighty-one incomparably terrifying auras erupted at once!
At that moment, all eighty-one Baleful Corpses opened their eyes together!
Baleful qi surged into the heavens! Demonic might overshadowed the world!
Their strength had broken through to Early Grand Unity Golden Immortal!
Eighty-one Baleful Corpses!
Eighty-one Daluo!
Not only that, even Jiang Yun's own cultivation had broken through to Late-stage Golden Immortal!
Having completed his breakthrough, Jiang Yun slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.
As the saying went, calamity and fortune went hand in hand. Though he had faced a Peak Quasi-Sage Outer-Realm Heavenly Devil this time!
He had also turned disaster into fortune and gained immensely!
Eighty-one Early Grand Unity Golden Immortal Baleful Corpses!
Late-stage Golden Immortal cultivation!
And the terrifying [Chaos-Reversing Nebula Grand Array]!
The current Jiang Yun might not yet be a player moving the pieces upon the Primordial World, but in terms of combat power alone, he could already be called a great power!
"Reporting to the Grand Commander!"
At that moment, Tiangang General stepped forward and reported gravely, "This subordinate carefully inspected that spatial rift just now and discovered signs that the gap in the Zhou Tian Star Dou Grand Array was deliberately damaged!"
"Oh?"
Jiang Yun's gaze darkened at those words.
Deliberately damaged?!
This Ancient Star River Grand Array was the first line of defense against the Outer-Realm Heavenly Devils, concerning the safety of countless living beings in the Primordial World!
Someone actually dared to tamper with it here?!
He immediately began secretly calculating with the Heavenly Derivation Art.
With Late-stage Golden Immortal cultivation, mana comparable to Daluo, three laws already initiated, and profound attainment in the Dao.
The might of his Heavenly Derivation Art was already vastly different from before!
Buzz!
It was as if countless Stars rose and perished in Jiang Yun's eyes, while the river of time flowed backward!
Within the unseen, he precisely caught a resentful, furious, yet incomparably familiar aura!
"So that's how it is—"
"Yuding Zhenren!!"
Jiang Yun slowly opened his eyes.
Good!
What a Clarifying Sect Golden Immortal!
What a Yuding Zhenren!
Previously, he had refrained from tearing apart all pretense out of consideration for the Clarifying Sect.
Yet today, Yuding Zhenren actually dared come to the Ancient Star River and commit such an act that endangered the Primordial World?!
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