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While Gu Fan made his move, the others were not idle either.

Chen Suzhen drew her Eight-Sided Water-Splitting Sword, its blade wreathed in mysterious water and yin lightning, and slashed it head-on at a monstrous corpse.

Li Fengyi's spear was engulfed in flames, and the tip of the spear repeatedly struck the corpses, igniting them into torches that emitted thick, ghastly green smoke.

"Be careful, it's corpse poison!" Li Fengyi shouted a warning immediately upon seeing this.

The corpse poison coalesced into smoke, spreading towards the center, while the remaining corpses remained unaffected, suffering no harm whatsoever from the poison.

Cai Xuan took out a jade-green feather fan and waved it gently, creating a gust of wind that dispersed the corpse poison. Along with the wind, a phantom image of a spirit cat flew out, its sharp claws landing on the Yin Corpse, leaving several wounds.

Wu Chengdao was even more direct. When his first strike failed to sever the corpse, his halberd immediately flashed with a blue light. He took a step and the ground trembled. The halberd dragged a gale and slashed at the corpse's neck, determined to separate its head from its body.

Unexpectedly, the corpse seemed to have gained sentience, stumbled and fell to the ground, burying itself in the sand.

The halberd struck the ground, creating a deep trench several dozen feet long, but the corpse disappeared without a trace, turning around and emerging from another spot.

He managed to evade this seemingly inevitable attack by using a strange escape technique.

Gu Fan used his divine sense to detect that on a mountaintop a hundred feet away, there were four demonic cultivators dressed in brown robes, each holding a bell. Each time they shook the demonic corpses, their movements would change. Relying on their sturdy corpses, they cooperated to hold back the group.

"Hiding its head and showing its tail!"

Gu Fan snorted coldly, casually swiped his hand on the spirit beast pouch, and Little Black landed on the ground, slightly stunned after taking in its surroundings.

But soon, Xiao Hei sensed Gu Fan's command through the spiritual contract, plunged into the ground and disappeared.

At the same time, a powerful flame erupted from Gu Fan's body, and a ten-zhang-tall divine general's image rose from the ground, raising one arm high, with a flaming spear gathering in his palm, which suddenly shot towards the mountain where the Yin Corpse Sect disciples were hiding.

"Boom!"

In an instant, a corner of the hilltop was cleaved off, and amidst the flying rocks, four Yin Corpse Sect disciples flew out covered in dust.

A short, stout young man, his face covered in dust, spat out a mouthful of sand and yelled, "Damn it, what bad luck! How come someone came down so quickly!"

They had all brought enough pills to restore their mana, and with the help of the Yin Corpse Sect's secret techniques to hide, they wouldn't be bothered by evil spirits. That's why they dared to enter ahead of time, but they didn't expect to run into a tough opponent right away.

"What should we do now? We can't hold them off for long. Are we just going to let them pass?" a middle-aged man with a pale face said.

"Let it go? Aren't you afraid the young master will turn you into a Yin Corpse?" The short, fat youth muttered, then continued, "The burst of evil energy has actually created an ancient corpse. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. If you ask me, it would be better to just focus on gathering the Xuanpin Ancestral Qi. But the young master insists on trying to see if he can control it with his secret technique. This..."

"Shut up! How dare you speak ill of the young master!"

Before the short, stout young man could finish speaking, a sharp female voice rang out; she was the only female cultivator among the four.

"Once the young master subdues that ancient corpse, the sect will have another Yin Corpse in the future, and it's even possible that it will be promoted to a Golden Corpse. How can you be so short-sighted!"

The short, stout young man sneered, "We're not like you, always thinking about climbing into the young master's bed. Even though that ancient corpse has just revived and is not in his right mind, we only have a 20% chance of controlling him."

The two were still arguing when another flaming spear shot towards them, and they quickly dodged it.

Taking this opportunity, the four people shook the bells in disarray, and the corpse's coordination revealed a flaw.

Wu Chengdao immediately seized the opportunity and with a roar, cut the evil corpse in half at the waist.

The other three also exerted their strength, and in the blink of an eye, the four demonic corpses were mangled beyond recognition.

The short, stout young man was taken aback and shouted, "Never mind! Anyone who objects can go and block Wu Chengdao themselves!"

The other three immediately fell silent.

As a demonic cultivator who raises corpses in the Abyss of Fallen Souls, he was very familiar with Wu Chengdao's name, and knew that countless fellow disciples had perished at Wu Chengdao's hands.

After saying that, the short, fat young man quickly shook the bell, and the other two male cultivators followed suit. Only the female cultivator was quite unwilling, but she had no choice but to follow suit and shake the bell.

The next instant, the already mangled corpse suddenly trembled, and its remains began to swell.

"It's Corpse Explosion!" Wu Chengdao shouted a warning, while simultaneously raising an iron shield in front of him with one hand.

Having known each other for so long, this was the first time Gu Fan had seen Wu Chengdao use a defensive magic weapon. He immediately dared not be careless, put away his divine general form, and enlarged the Sunset Bell to cover his body.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The four fiendish corpses exploded one after another, their power exceeding Gu Fan's expectations. Even the Sunset Bell trembled, and his divine sense was affected.

The sandstorm caused by the explosion obscured everyone's vision. When the sandstorm cleared, the four Yin Corpse Sect disciples had vanished without a trace.

"They ran away?" Li Fengyi said unwillingly, her eyes filled with murderous intent.

Anyone who is ambushed will inevitably erupt in anger.

"Why don't we follow them and see for ourselves?" Gu Fan suggested.

Wu Chengdao was taken aback, then laughed, "Could it be that Fellow Daoist Gu can track down their whereabouts?"

Gu Fan nodded slightly.

On the other side, the four disciples of the Yin Corpse Sect had already fled more than ten miles away when they suddenly split into two groups.

The three male cultivators abandoned the only female cultivator and flew away in a huge arc, seemingly trying to avoid something.

The female cultivator was furious. She stomped her foot and flew straight away, unwilling to give up. That was the place where Gu Fan and the others were supposed to arrive.

Unbeknownst to the four, a pair of golden eyes were watching this scene from beneath the ground.

As a spirit beast with both earth and metal attributes, the Xuanjia Earth Dragon is naturally adept at lurking and escaping underground. Previously, Gu Fan had only released Xiao Hei as a covert operation, but after witnessing the Corpse Explosion Technique, he decisively ordered Xiao Hei to follow the group.

When the four demonic cultivators parted ways, Xiao Hei hesitated for a moment before choosing to follow the female cultivator.

It sensed that the female cultivator was the weakest among them and the least likely to detect it.

Following the spiritual connection, Gu Fan led the group to track them down.

After flying for a while, the female cultivator landed in a canyon.

It's called a canyon, but it looks more like a deep crater created by a battle.

The valley floor was surrounded by several black banners, and black corpse energy formed a chain that coiled around a mangled corpse in the center of the canyon.

It was an ancient corpse.

The ancient corpse was extremely dilapidated, with rotten clothes hanging from tattered strips, and its flesh and blood shriveled and stuck to the skeleton like a layer of brown membrane, with its arms revealing stark white bones.

Even so, the ancient corpse moved extremely quickly, leaping towards a young man in black outside the canyon.

The young man had long, dark green hair that cascaded down his shoulders, and his face was deathly pale. A faint, eerie flame flickered around his fingertips.

Each time the ancient corpse charged, the young man would unleash a burst of fire.

The firelight fell on the ancient corpse, like a branding iron, making it roar and howl. Taking advantage of this opportunity, wisps of corpse energy seeped into the ancient corpse.

As more and more corpse energy seeped in, the ancient corpse slowed down, swaying as if it were drunk.

Just then, the female cultivator landed at the bottom of the valley, knelt down and said, "Young Master, we were ordered to intercept cultivators heading this way, but we encountered cultivators from the Wei Kingdom. The leader of them is... Wu Chengdao."

The young man in black flicked out another flame and said softly, "Even Wu Chengdao and the others wouldn't have died so easily. So... they escaped?"

"Young Master, please understand, I couldn't stop them," the female cultivator said, bowing her head, her face showing both nervousness and guilt.

At this point, the ancient corpse's movements had become extremely slow.

The young man in black turned around, placed his hand on the female cultivator's head, and rubbed it a few times as if petting a pet.

Instead of dodging, the female cultivator raised her head and rubbed her palm against the young man's hand.

"This is not your fault."

The female cultivator was overjoyed upon hearing this, but the next moment a sharp pain shot through her head as the young man in black lifted her up by her hair.

"But... you were wrong to lead the enemy here."

After speaking, the young man in black turned his head to the top of the canyon, where five figures appeared, namely Gu Fan and his companions.

Little Black popped out from underground and squatted at Gu Fan's feet, raising its head as if asking for a reward.