What do you mean by saying that the corpses I sew are all ominous creatures?

"Retreat!" Lu Yan shouted, and flung out the talisman she had prepared in advance.

A golden light curtain instantly rose in front of us, completely blocking the black ripples.

"Hiss hiss hiss—"

The ripples struck the Golden Light Mantra, producing a corrosive sound.

The golden light flickered violently and dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"What a potent poison! It can even directly corrode Taoist internal energy!"

Lu Yan's expression changed slightly, clearly not expecting the other party's methods to be so strange.

"Leave her to me, you keep watch!"

Instead of retreating, I used the moment when the Golden Light Mantra blocked the first wave of attacks to unleash a powerful, earth-shaking force from my feet.

"Bang!"

I stomped on the blue bricks under my feet until they crumbled, splashing mud and water everywhere.

I pierced straight through the shattering golden light barrier and charged towards the old woman.

Seeing that I was advancing instead of retreating, the old woman sneered.

She didn't move, but her wrist holding the cane twitched slightly.

The black snake-head cane curved eerily in the air, silently bypassing my front and striking my right shoulder.

"Dispel evil spirits."

Same moves, same formulas.

Back in Huilongzhai, her sister used this very move to easily break my protective aura.

But I'm no longer the novice I used to be, someone who could only be slaughtered at will.

"The same trick won't work on me!"

Instead of dodging, I faced the cane head-on and thrust my left shoulder forward.

Just as the cane was about to touch my shoulder, the mercury-like evil energy within my body surged to the meridians of my left shoulder, forming an incredibly dense black shield under my skin.

"clang!"

A loud clang of metal striking metal echoed through the underground utility tunnel.

The old woman's cane tapped my shoulder, and a chilling aura had just entered my body when it was tightly enveloped by the malevolent energy within me and instantly wiped out.

At this moment, the old woman's expression finally changed.

Her withered eyelids twitched suddenly, clearly not expecting that I could withstand her attack.

Meanwhile, my hands kept moving.

His right hand, wielding a willow-leaf dagger, transformed into a streak of silver light, slicing directly towards her throat.

With this strike, I held nothing back. The mercury-like killing intent amplified the sharpness of the willow-leaf blade to its extreme, even cutting a visible ripple through the surrounding air.

However, this old woman was indeed a top-notch expert who had experienced countless battles.

Shocked, she reacted very quickly.

She jerked her body backward, folding it backward in an instant, barely avoiding my deadly strike.

But my attack did not end there.

"Royal!"

I silently shouted to myself.

The black bone needles, which had been hidden in the shadows, suddenly shot out from the old woman's blind spot under the control of the Qi manipulation technique, aiming straight for her back.

"Ding!"

At the critical moment, the old woman actually used the end of her snake-headed cane to precisely block the black bone needle.

However, the powerful penetrating force of the bone needle and the malevolent energy I poured into it still caused her tiger's mouth to crack.

I could see dark red blood seeping from her withered palms.

"What a ruthless kid! I underestimated you!"

Using the force of the bone needles, the old woman was thrown backward more than ten meters, increasing the distance between herself and me.

She stared intently at me, her eyes no longer showing the previous contempt, but instead filled with apprehension.

She glanced at her bleeding palm, then suddenly stuck out her tongue and licked the blood from the wound.

In that instant, her aura changed.

Beneath her originally withered skin, it seemed as if countless tiny insects were wriggling wildly.

And her hunched body began to straighten slowly, making a series of grinding sounds.

"Chen Yang, be careful! She's using a secret technique to forcibly unleash her potential!"

Lu Yan shouted a reminder from behind.

Before she finished speaking, Lu Yan suddenly pointed the peach wood sword in her hand into the air and began chanting a spell.

"Five thunderbolts, descend!"

In this dark and damp underground, Lei Fa was limited by the environment.

However, Lu Yan, relying on her profound cultivation, managed to summon a bolt of purple lightning as thick as a wrist, which pierced through the top of the corridor and struck the old woman who was undergoing a transformation.

The old woman raised her head, and facing the terrifying lightning bolt, she did not flinch.

She suddenly opened her mouth and exhaled a cloud of extremely thick black mist.

The mist condensed rapidly in the air, transforming into a gigantic, eight-winged, bizarre phantom of a Gu worm, which crashed into the lightning.

"Boom—!"

Lightning and the phantom of the Gu worm collided violently in mid-air, bursting out with blinding light and a deafening roar.

The violent shockwave hurled the surrounding water more than two meters high, carrying with it broken bricks and foul-smelling silt, which crashed down on us.

I immediately held my sword in front of me, using my killing intent to protect myself and Lu Yan behind me.

When the splash subsided, I saw the old woman still standing in the same spot.

The phantom of the Gu worm above her head had been shattered by lightning, her Miao clothes were torn to shreds, and several parts of her skin were even charred black by the lightning.

But her aura was even more terrifying than before.

Her originally cloudy eyes had turned dark red, with elongated pupils, making her look like some kind of cold-blooded reptile.

And on her withered hands, black nails with a metallic sheen had grown.

"You two juniors have something to be proud of for forcing me to use the power of my natal Gu."

The old woman's voice was no longer hoarse; instead, it began to become sharp.

She threw away the snake-headed cane in her hand, which fell into the water and instantly transformed into a giant black python as thick as a water bucket.

After the giant python appeared, it opened its blood-red maw and roared silently at us.

"Today, both of you will stay here and serve as nourishment for the Gu King!"

The old woman flashed, her speed more than twice as fast as before.

She instantly covered a distance of more than ten meters, her hands with long black nails aimed straight for my throat and heart.

At the same time, the giant black python launched an attack from the side, its massive tail sweeping fiercely towards Lu Yan with immense force.

"Lu Yan, the snake is yours!"

I did not back down, and at this moment I pushed the evil energy within me to its limit.

At the same time, the cool energy between my eyebrows was circulating wildly, allowing my mind to remain absolutely calm even in extreme danger.

I know that any attempt to probe an old woman in this state would be superfluous.

It must be a fatal blow.

I took a deep breath, abandoned all defense, and gripped the hilt of the scalpel tightly with both hands.

At that moment, everything around seemed to slow down.

The remnants of lightning that Lu Yan had stirred up were still leaping on the water's surface, and the old woman's sharp claws, covered in black nails, were less than half a meter away from my throat.

"Piercing Demon".

I whispered those two words in my heart.