Sensing that something might have happened on the outskirts of the Immortal Tomb, Gu Chenfeng's heart gave a sudden jolt. He struck out, sweeping aside the Corpse Refining entities blocking his path, and sped forward.
Along the way, he encountered not only more Corpse Refining entities, but also cultivators fighting them in caves and passages.
These cultivators, who had been searching for treasures as usual, looked startled and bewildered by the sudden attacks. Clearly, they did not understand what was happening either.
Gu Chenfeng did not intervene in these battles and continued on his way.
As he passed another junction and stepped into a pitch-black passage,
sure enough, there was another cultivator fighting Corpse Refining entities inside.
This group of Corpse Refining entities had been transformed from eight Sub-Saints and one early-stage True Saint cultivator.
They were besieging a Sub-Saint cultivator.
Under such circumstances, this person should have been doomed.
Yet to Gu Chenfeng's surprise, this Sub-Saint cultivator held a copper-coin sword in one hand and a cinnabar brush in the other.
She drew talismans in midair with the cinnabar brush and activated the runes with the copper-coin sword, bombarding the Corpse Refining entities.
Single-handedly, she blasted the eight Sub-Saint Corpse Refining entities in all directions, sending blue smoke pouring from their bodies and preventing them from getting anywhere near her.
Only the True Saint Corpse Refining entity continued its frenzied, bloodthirsty assault, despite being repeatedly driven back by the runes she drew.
Though the cultivator kept activating runes to block it, her cultivation limited the speed at which she could circulate her power, forcing her to retreat step by step.
Just as she was about to be forced into a corner, the True Saint Corpse Refining entity swung an iron pestle and knocked her copper-coin sword aside.
It smashed