The Path to Immortality Begins with the Life-Extending Lamp

Chapter 58 Borrowing Life and Creating Rampant Destiny
A beam of light was thrown out, and before the silver-armored corpse could resist, a fist-sized hole appeared on its head. The old corpse struggled for a couple of moments before becoming unable to move again.

Li Qing looked around at the sea of ​​fire, picked up the life-extending paper lamp, and murmured a longevity-borrowing ghost song.

"The soul's threads entangle and fight to steal the heavenly spirits; holding a candle, I am filled with panic in the night."

"Stealing three inches of the fetal light, I borrow your lifespan to prolong your life!"

The flickering candlelight in the life-extending lamp was drawn from the armored corpse, the hairy corpse, and the charred corpse burned in the sea of ​​fire. The light was as thin as a spider's thread and could only be seen by the dying. This was the light of longevity!
The lifespans of many wandering corpses were severed, and the strands of life-extending light separated from the corpses, intertwining and swirling around the Southern Dipper Life-Extending Paper Lantern. After a few breaths, they slowly merged into the candle.

puff……

The combined light from dozens of walking corpses and a silver-armored corpse seemed to add a small amount of lamp oil, causing the life-extending candle flame in the lantern to flicker violently, and the cold white light to grow even stronger.

The five paper demons stood silently behind Li Qing, cold and aloof. The giant red dragon dodged the remaining fire and roamed around, watching the young man intently.

As each ray of longevity light was added, the magical restrictions within the life-extending paper lamp grew stronger, and its indescribable aura became increasingly concentrated.

Above the mountain stream, the canopy of corpse haze generated by the silver-armored corpse day and night has dissipated. Below, in the ancient trees, the ghost fire still flickers incessantly, as if it will not stop until it burns all the trees in the mountain.

Meanwhile, gusts of eerie wind and corpse haze began to rise from the west, north, and south. The haze, carried by the wind, resembled a high wall, determined to extinguish the ghostly fire in the forest.

Li Qing gazed intently at the haze of corpses that was beginning to collide with the forest fire.

There were at least three or four old corpses at the upper level of Qi Refining who were exhaling and exhaling corpse energy, which was why the corpse haze rolled in like a curtain.

Looking again at the main ridge of the Western Wilderness Burial Mountain, clusters of dark blue-green corpse-smoke clouds resembled large, open canopies, making the gloomy atmosphere of this corpse mountain even more severe.

It was only the hour of Yin (3-5 AM), and the sky was still dark.

Li Qing only took the silver-armored corpse on a whim to verify his own methods.

Clearly, Li Qing was satisfied with her performance.

At this moment, he no longer paid attention to the old corpse in the mountains that was beginning to spew out corpse haze on the large tomb in the distance.

Li Qing was too lazy to fight them for the time being. After deciding on the direction during the day, they would come one by one!

Then, drawing the paper scepter, they beheaded the group of corpses on the ground, took their teeth, and the man, the dragon, and the five scepters began to retreat...

This Western Wilderness Corpse Cave is teeming with countless walking corpses. Fortunately, he can use this time to freely absorb the lifespan energy of these corpses and perfect the magical restrictions of the Life-Extending Lamp.

The exquisite paper scepter in his hand had only nineteen magical restrictions; the life-extending spirit lamp had just developed its sixth and seventh magical restrictions, and the four-headed faceless paper scepter only had two magical restrictions, so its foundation was really shallow!
Although the paper sedan chair was powerful, with seventy-two magical restrictions, it was ultimately not meant for magical combat.

Perhaps, we should try refining that Ten Thousand Souls Banner that we obtained by chance?
They retreated to the southwestern outskirts.

It landed on the old grave on the ridge.

With a flick of his right hand, Li Qing scattered the densely packed spirit papers like butterflies, releasing the silver-armored corpse he was holding and tossing it to the ground.

"The Silver-Armored Corpse possesses all its talents in this silver armor covering its skin. Let's see if 'Peeling Skin into Paper' can take away this silver armor?"

Li Qing pondered to himself, then slightly flicked his finger. From the shadows behind him, the figure of the exquisite and arrogant master immediately paused, then slowly stepped forward.

The slender and exquisite woman simply raised her right hand, and the scattered pieces of paper were pasted onto the silver-armored corpse one by one, wrapping it up tightly.

As streams of yin energy circulated, the silver-armored corpse wrapped in the spirit paper began to undergo unknown changes...

And at this moment, in Ximang County.

At the four passes and camps surrounding the mountain of corpses, the soldiers had long since rested, but many of the generals and chief priests in the main camp were still unable to sleep. A series of thunderous roars echoed for most of the night from the southeast of the corpse cave, with flames shooting into the sky for a long time. It was unclear which unit possessed such fighting power!

The general of the Southwest Governor's Office looked up and gazed into the distance, surrounded by three or five chief priests. He saw that the front of the Western Barbarian territory had been reduced to a mottled expanse of scorched earth. The original large tombs had long since been uprooted. This was the result of two years of joint conquest by the Lin Yuan Imperial Guard and the Tian Nan Prefecture troops.

However, the price they paid for this was not small at all. Two generals of Tiannan Prefecture were seriously injured and forced to retreat, and a Zifu Academy official of the Imperial Guard Academy died. Even the Tiannan Imperial Guard Academy, which specializes in cultivating Dao soldiers and raising spirits, would have been unable to fill the gap in its Dao soldiers and spirits if many of its inner disciples had not started to turn to refining wandering corpse Dao soldiers!
There are too many old corpses in this morgue; it has become quite a place. Hundreds of years of free-range living have given rise to this ominous place.

How difficult it would be to completely destroy them!
Fortunately, the Yin Ancestor of Tiannan Temple and the Prefect of the Capital had suppressed and killed the Corpse King and Corpse General earlier, leaving the Corpse Cave unclaimed. Otherwise, a horde of corpses would have swept towards Tiannan.

Not long ago, Governor Wei sent a letter to his classmates at the Jiangnan-Hongdou Academy, requesting that someone from Qingqiu Mountain in Jinping Prefecture come. It is unknown when they will arrive.

The rumors about the demonic Taoist and fox spirit of Qingqiu are truly amazing!
Rumors also circulated that the Lan family of Fudu had suffered a misfortune. More than three hundred Tuolong warriors had just received their military orders at the governor's mansion. It seemed that things in Western Mang were about to get lively!

The generals and chief priests are currently working on reorganizing the camp, and having the fierce warriors of the Lan clan of the prefecture take the lead. This will free up a portion of the prefectural troops to ride tigers and bears and start clearing away the old graves from the outside. This will be much faster than attacking the mountain head-on...

Soon, the night gradually faded, and the morning mist began to rise.

Li Qing sat alone on the Broken Corpse Ridge, the Life-Extending Spirit Lamp casually hanging on a crooked tree, gazing at the corpse pit in the early morning.

In the hazy mist, there was not even the chirping of insects or the croaking of frogs on the entire mountain range. In the extreme stillness, only the occasional roar of corpses told of the terror of this mountain of corpses!
Click!

Suddenly, a cracking sound came from the silver-armored corpse wrapped in numerous spirit papers. The next instant, the Linglong Crazed Master, who had stood in front of the main ridge all night, raised her eyes and looked at Li Qing.

Peel off the skin to make paper, and you're done!
With Li Qing's instruction, the master stepped forward and tore off the spiritual paper wrapping the silver-armored corpse. The spiritual paper scattered all over the ground. At this moment, the spiritual energy on the paper had long since dissipated, and it was just like a piece of weathered old paper. As it fell to the ground, it began to decay and crack.

Among those spiritual papers, a three-foot-square sheet of exquisite silver paper was picked up by the Linglong Master.

This spirit paper is entirely silver and has two sides. One side resembles leather armor, with scales growing on it, while the other side is ordinary paper.

This extraordinary result immediately piqued Li Qing's interest. He took the spirit paper from the tyrant's hand and examined it closely.

This one... let's just call it a piece of paper for now!
Even when Li Qing used his tangible Xuan Yuan Gang Qi, he was unable to tear it apart, unlike the spiritual paper and demon paper that used to have flowing spiritual energy and spontaneous spiritual charm.

This paper armor is purely strong and flexible, like paper armor, and can almost be considered an unconventional spiritual material!
"Indeed, peeling skin to make paper, and making paper into a 'crow,' this exquisite paper 'crow' has the qualifications to become a 'crow's master."

However, the more this was the case, the more Li Qing needed to control the exquisite and arrogant master.

Whether it's Taoist soldiers or spirit-raising troops, both are just a bunch of wild soldiers. Naturally formed troops in the wild are definitely not as comprehensive as the Taoist soldiers carefully trained by Taoists from all directions.

That was nurtured with resources and time!

At this moment, Linglong Changzhu's gaze was fixed on Li Qing's right hand, as she wanted to refine this high-grade spirit paper into her first Changbing (a type of weapon).

But this piece of spirit paper is only about three feet in diameter; what kind of little thing could she possibly make from it? Isn't this a waste...?

To create the Armor God, one must collect other spiritual objects. Since one is going to refine it, one must refine a complete paper Armor God.

"There must be more than one armored corpse in this corpse pit. We need to find more armor paper to create a high-grade armored stag!"

Li Qing made a decision about the item, and with a flick of his right hand, he immediately put the paper into his storage gourd.

Looking around again, one sees the corpse energy condensing into dark blue canopies in the Western Wilderness Mountains, with each canopy of corpse energy forming a large tomb and an old corpse at the upper level of Qi Refining or even above, breathing in and out corpse energy.

Last night, the mountain stream below the Corpse Mountain was completely broken by Li Qing. Now that it is broad daylight, it is time to go there again.

Li Qing beckoned the lantern with his right hand, and all five paper figures were put into his sleeve in one go. He then called the candle and went to explore the Yin Land where the silver-armored corpse was born, to see what it was really like.

(End of this chapter)