Chapter 621: Thousand-Eye Technique! Multi-Treasure Daoist! Slaying the Three Corpses! The Beautiful Woman’s Scheme!
The woman’s back of the head took the strike from the Earthbreaker Pearl, leaving her dizzy and disoriented.
Li Yanchu’s eyes turned cold as he advanced with his saber.
The woman manifested her divine power, multiplying herself into hundreds of forms!
Li Yanchu’s movements paused slightly; in an instant, his energy could no longer lock onto a single target.
Every image of the woman seemed to cover her face in grief and wailing.
Whoosh!
He manifested the Heaven-Illuminating Seal and the Five-Dragon Wheel in his hands. Five fire dragons shot out through the raging divine flames, tearing all the duplicate images apart.
Earlier, his Fire Virtue Star Lord Dharma form had been restrained. Yet these five pseudo-mythical fire weapons could still be controlled.
“You’ve been so arrogant, haven’t you? Come! Let’s see what other tricks you have.” Li Yanchu said coldly.
The moment he finished speaking, he put on the Golden Radiance Crown, vanished from sight, and his aura disappeared along with him.
The beautiful woman smirked coldly, confident and calm. She recited a complex and obscure incantation under her breath.
Dozens of eyes suddenly appeared all over the beautiful woman’s body, tearing through flesh and skin as they drilled their way out, packed so densely together that the sight alone was horrifying. Anyone with trypophobia would probably go completely insane on the spot!! Each of those eyes shone with a vicious, resentful malice.
“I possess the Thousand-Eyed Art. What can your magic treasure possibly do to me?” the beautiful woman said smugly.
Yet when the dharma eyes covering her body focused, Li Yanchu’s figure had already vanished.
Whoosh!
All the eyes on her body flared with brilliant light, illuminating every cun of the space around her. It could be said that she now had a full three-hundred-and-sixty-degree view, without a single blind spot.
Those eyes spun frantically, yet still failed to capture even the slightest trace of Li Yanchu.
Clang!
A flash of saber light streaked past, and the beautiful woman was cut cleanly in half at the waist. Her organs and blood sprayed across the sky, and she let out a piercing scream.
A powerful force forcibly pulled her body together in midair, merging it back into one.
Vital energy surged within her, attempting to repair the body that had been split apart. And yet, she could still sense no trace of Li Yanchu’s aura anywhere nearby!
The beautiful woman’s brows knit tightly.
“Invisibility Art?”
Earlier, she hadn’t seen Li Yanchu wearing the golden crown’ by that point, she had already been blind.
Whoosh!
The saber light flared once more.
Clang!
A sound like a great bell resounding through heaven and earth echoed out.
This time, the beautiful woman mobilized her accumulated thousand years of cultivation, forcibly blocking Li Yanchu’s saber. But now, fear crept into her heart. She discovered that the wounds inflicted by the saber in that Daoist’s hand... could not be healed. The beautiful woman could only rely on her vast, ocean-like reserves of magical power to forcibly maintain her body.
After a brief moment of thought, she transformed into a streak of white light and shot toward the sky.
This Daoist is far too vicious. I can’t fight him head-on! she thought to herself.
Thinking of the two presences sealed within her body, she felt that this trip hadn’t been for nothing. Once she completely refined those two, she would definitely be able to break through to the advanced third realm. By then, that young Daoist would be no match for her.
The beautiful woman employed the Heavenly Fox secret technique and, in the blink of an eye, swept hundreds of li away.
After flying several hundred li, she slowed slightly, finally letting out a breath of relief.
Whoosh!
The saber light descended once again. The beautiful woman was struck heavily from behind by a single, crushing slash. Although her protective barrier of magical power wasn’t broken, the sheer force of the impact still smashed her straight down from the sky!
She hastily circulated her power to steady herself.
“Fellow Daoist, hiding your head while your tail is still showing[1] isn’t the way of the righteous path!”
the beautiful woman shouted, attempting to shame him with moral righteousness.
Unfortunately for her, the one she had run into wasn’t a disciple of a great orthodox sect, cultivated for decades or centuries and steeped in moral teachings, nor was he some old monster who cared about his reputation.
Li Yanchu activated the Ten Thousand Crows Urn, and countless fire crows surged forth. They were dense and overwhelming, blotting out the sky as they engulfed the beautiful woman.
But she merely took a deep breath, and swallowed all the fire crows into her belly in one gulp.
Isn’t this woman afraid of getting heartburn!?
With a thought, he came up with a way to deal with this mysterious and formidable beautiful woman. Controlling the Ten Thousand Crows Urn, he released tens of thousands of flames once more. At the same time, the five fire dragons within the Five-Dragon Wheel lunged ferociously toward the beautiful woman.
Roar!
Clear, resonant dragon cries echoed throughout the heavens and earth.
“Do you really think I’m some demon that fears fire?” Cold light flashed through the beautiful woman’s eyes as she opened her cherry-red lips.
With a single gulp, she swallowed all the fire crows filling the sky. At the very last moment, Li Yanchu executed Fire Escape Technique from the Five Elements Great Dao, entering her body along with the fire crows.
The beautiful woman froze for a moment. Just now, she had felt someone forcefully break into her body, and very deeply at that, likely already reaching her abdomen.
“Damn it!”
Her heart sank.
Clang!
A sharp saber light erupted from within the beautiful woman’s body, ripping her open from the inside out. A young Daoist burst forth, clutching two glowing orbs as he flew out!
The beautiful woman was in excruciating pain, yet she couldn’t even spare attention for the agony tearing through her abdomen.
Seeing the two light orbs in Li Yanchu’s hands, she shouted coldly, “Give them back to me!”
She immediately cast the art of commanding wind and rain. The wind was black wind, while the rain was yin rain. Black wind destroyed the physical body, while yin rain corrupted the soul; both were vicious, malicious demon arts!
“What? You demon thing, are you really trying to defy heaven and complete the Three Corpses?” Li Yanchu sneered coldly.
The beautiful woman froze, horror flashing across her eyes. “What are you talking about?!”
Li Yanchu let out a cold laugh and said, “I already felt something was off. Why was it that those two didn’t recognize each other at all, yet both believed themselves to be the temple deity of the Fox Immortal Lady Shrine, and had never once seen the other?”
“When I saw how eager you were to devour the two of them, I understood. The three of you are all the temple deity of the Fox Immortal Lady Shrine, and you are the Three Corpses severed by the same Land Immortal.
“The Three Corpses are unaware of one another’s existence, which is why each believed herself to be the true deity of the Fox Immortal Lady Shrine. You’re the more special type, you actually wanted to find the other two corpses and devour them! With such actions, I cannot allow you to live!”
The beautiful woman’s expression changed drastically, and she fell silent.
“Fellow Daoist, you’re indeed clever! That’s right. At first, I truly never discovered the existence of the other two. It was as if, in the unseen depths, a great invisible hand had trapped me in this area. Even after I cultivated to the intermediate Yang Spirit realm, I still couldn’t confirm the existence of that hand! I crave power, and I also sensed that only by devouring the two of them could I form a flawless body, perfectly fused as one.”
“Fellow Daoist, you know so much about the Three Corpses Severing Art, do you have a secret method you could teach me? I am willing to pay any price,” the beautiful woman said.
The Three Corpses Severing Art was a special method of cultivation within the Daoist path. However, interpretations based on cultivation insight differ.
Sometimes, it is divided into the upper, middle, and lower corpses, which control the three types of human obsession. Others said one could sever a good corpse, an evil corpse, and the self-corpse.
The second interpretation was actually the most common method of the Three Corpses Severing Art. However, to perform this secret art, one must be a Daoist of extremely high realm.
Otherwise, after severing them, one might lose the self entirely, with one’s temperament changing drastically, becoming like a completely different person.
“Teach you? Who do you think you are? Why should I do as you say?” Li Yanchu sneered.
A flying sword condensed from pure, refined demonic power was clenched in the beautiful woman’s hand. Her greatest secret had been exposed, and she had even been toyed with because of it. This sent the beautiful woman’s fury skyrocketing to its peak.
Whoosh!!
The flying sword shot straight toward him. The protective qi around Li Yanchu’s body was pierced layer by layer until it struck the talismanic armor.
Clang!
The talismanic armor was a magic treasure forged from one hundred thousand merits, fully capable of blocking such an attack.
Li Yanchu chose to meet force with force. With a lift of his hand and a fall of his saber...
Shkk!
The beautiful woman’s head was sent flying high into the air. Earlier, her spell techniques had failed to break through Li Yanchu’s defenses. Yet Li Yanchu’s Jiaoslayer was able to cleave straight through her demonic body!
A contemplative look appeared in Li Yanchu’s eyes.
So this demon really is cultivating the method of the Three Corpses Severing Art.
At first, he had only harbored a vague suspicion. As matters gradually became clearer, he faintly arrived at a judgment regarding the identity of the first Lady Hu he had encountered.
“Fellow Daoist, I’ll remember this grudge! One day, I will slaughter a hundred thousand of your human race as revenge!”
The beautiful woman circulated her magical power. Using a secret technique, she reclaimed the two light orbs. In an instant, they vanished without a trace.
1. “藏头露尾” literally means hiding the head while the tail is still showing.
It is used to describe someone who speaks evasively, conceals the truth, or behaves in a furtive, sneaky, and unforthright way. The idiom often functions as a predicate, attributive, or adverb, and is commonly applied to people who act without openness or deliberately obscure the real situation. ☜
