The Shi Family party soon arrived at a stretch of barren stone mountains, where not a blade of grass grew.
But the mountains had been shrouded in rolling corpse qi, and the roars of corpse puppets occasionally echoed from within.
"Sure enough, it's those rats from the Blood Corpse Sect."
"Go! Follow me in and kill them! Today, we'll make sure none of them return!"
The old woman glared furiously and charged into the corpse qi first.
Shi Min and several Shi Family Great Ascension cultivators immediately followed.
Yet after they had ventured several dozen li into the corpse qi, streaks of ghostly light suddenly pierced through the black corpse qi and shot toward them.
"Careful!"
With a loud roar from the old woman, a three-foot-long sword suddenly appeared before her.
The sword traced winding arcs as it circled the group, shredding streak after streak of ghostly light.
Those ghostly lights were, astonishingly, tiny needles as fine as hairs. Though their movements were elusive and strange, they had not escaped the old woman's senses.
The long sword suddenly circled the Shi Family members once.
In an instant, a silver-white sword radiance condensed and spread in all directions.
The corpse qi between heaven and earth was immediately cleaved into upper and lower halves, while countless ghostly lights were shredded apart as well.
As the old woman attacked, the group did not halt. They continued pressing deeper inside.
A dark-yellow barrier faintly appeared ahead.
Around the barrier, hundreds—perhaps thousands—of corpse puppets surrounded it, clawing and biting at it relentlessly with their sharp talons and fangs.
Most of the corpse puppets were seventh rank, with a small number at eighth rank.
Their strength was not especially formidable, but there were simply too many of them. Moreover, corpse puppets possessed powerful fleshly bodies and