13: Instant death upon close contact; evil cultivators drop gold coins.

Thirty li west of the city, the Mass Grave.

The setting sun, red like blood, dyed the desolate tombs and crooked dead trees a grim, dark red.

The air was filled with an unbearable stench of decay and a chilling evil aura. The ground was covered in viscous black mud, making a grating “squelch” sound with every step.

Broken coffins and scattered white bones were everywhere, and the hoarse caws of crows added an ominous note to the deathly silence.

Lin Jingyu’s towering figure stood like an iron statue at the edge of the Mass Grave.

On his wrist, the mark of the Blood Soul Life-Chasing Curse glowed faintly, like a compass, clearly pointing to the core area with the densest evil Qi within the grave mound—a half-collapsed giant tomb.

“Woo... ugh ugh ugh...”

“Hoo... hoo hoo...”

Hair-raising low growls and bone-grinding sounds suddenly erupted from all directions!

One after another, desolate graves split open, soil churned, and twisted Corpse Puppets crawled out!

Dozens, hundreds... like piranhas smelling blood, they surged out from every corner. Although their movements were still stiff, their speed was faster, their sense of power stronger, and driven by a madness fueled by evil energy, they lunged at Lin Jingyu! A A foul wind swept through.! bloody wind assaulted his face!

“Corrupted Corpse Puppets... evolution points!” A cold light burst forth from Lin Jingyu’s eyes. Instead of retreating, he stepped forward against the tide of corpses!

“Boom!”

A shallow pit exploded in the black mud on the ground!

“Dragon Elephant Suppressing Prison!”

A low roar, like muffled thunder! Lin Jingyu’s body erupted with a crimson Qi and blood aura, several feet high! The Dragon-Elephant Power beneath his skin completely unleashed! He no longer held back, his arm muscles bulging like coiling Dragons, dark golden light flowing and covering his fists!

Facing the three bloated, pus-oozing Corpse Puppets that rushed him first, his fists, like two giant mountain-splitting hammers, struck out with a terrifying shriek that tore through the air!

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

No technique! Only the purest, most barbaric power overwhelming everything!

Three extremely muffled explosions occurred almost simultaneously!

The three Corrupted Corpse Puppets were as if struck head-on by a high-speed steel war chariot!

The chest of the foremost one instantly caved in and burst, foul pus and shattered internal organs spraying backward like fireworks!

Of the two on either side, one’s head exploded like a rotten watermelon, while the other’s half-shoulder and arm were directly pulverized into flesh and bone fragments by the violent fist force! The three mangled remains were sent flying by the immense power, crashing into the surging horde of corpses behind them!

“Ding! Killed Corrupted Corpse Puppet! evolution points +8!”

“Ding! Killed Corrupted Corpse Puppet! evolution points +8!”

“Ding! Killed Corrupted Corpse Puppet! evolution points +8!”

“Current evolution points: 254!”

The cold system prompts were like rousing war drums!

Lin Jingyu was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep! No, he was a demon god charging into a pile of rotting flesh!

His fists swung! With every strike, one or even two Corpse Puppets were inevitably blasted to pieces! The sound of exploding bones, tearing flesh, and splattering foul blood intertwined into a symphony of death!

He didn’t need to defend at all! Occasionally, the sharp claws, bone spurs, or limbs oozing corrosive pus from Corpse Puppets would scratch or hit him!

“Clang! Clang! Hiss...”

The clang of metal and the sound of corrosion rang out! Sparks flew! The Vajra Shield’s aura fluctuated violently, humming, yet remained as steady as a rock!

The pus, capable of corroding fine steel, could only leave shallow marks on the dark golden aura before being swiftly neutralized by the circulating Qi and blood power!

Not even a corner of his clothes was damaged!

“Roar!”

An unusually tall, mutated Corpse Puppet Leader, covered in black bone armor with grotesque bone spurs growing at its joints, let out an angry roar. Leading several equally strong Corpse Puppets, it crashed through its kin like a small war chariot, charging straight at Lin Jingyu! Its bone spurs flickered with dark light, carrying evil power that could pierce armor!

“Good timing!” The ferocity in Lin Jingyu’s eyes intensified. He neither dodged nor retreated, but instead rushed towards the Bone-Armored Corpse Puppet Leader!

At the moment of impending collision, he twisted his waist sharply, and his right arm, covered in a dark golden aura, swept out horizontally like a steel whip, carrying the terrifying power of Dragon Elephant Suppressing Prison!

“Crack! Bang—!!!”

The sweeping arm struck the Bone-Armored Corpse Puppet Leader’s neck with pinpoint accuracy!

A grating sound of bone shattering exploded!

The seemingly hard black bone armor shattered inch by inch like fragile porcelain!

The entire grotesque head was violently swept off its neck by the immense force!

The headless, massive body spun from the residual force, knocking down a swath of ordinary Corpse Puppets!

“Ding! Killed Corrupted Corpse Puppet Leader! evolution points +15!”

“Current evolution points: 277!”

Crushing everything! True overwhelming power!

Wherever Lin Jingyu passed, it was as if an invisible storm had ploughed through! Limbs and severed arms flew, and foul blood and shattered bones covered the viscous black mud ground! The evolution points prompts furiously scrolled across the screen!

“evolution points +8! +8! +8!...”

“Current evolution points: 335!”

In just a short moment, dozens of Corrupted Corpse Puppets had turned into piles of shredded flesh and remains!

The remaining Corpse Puppets seemed to be intimidated by this pure, violent slaughter. Their movements showed a clear delay, and a hint of instinctive fear even appeared in their murky eyes!

“Useless! All useless!”

From deep within the half-collapsed giant tomb came a shrill, exasperated roar! The voice was dry and hoarse, filled with venom and furious shock!

Accompanying this roar, an aura far stronger than that of ordinary Corpse Puppets, imbued with dense corpse-controlling evil power, suddenly erupted!

From the dark opening of the cracked tomb, a small, withered figure clad in tattered black robes floated out.

He wore a pale bone mask on his face, revealing only two eye sockets that flickered with ghostly green phosphorescence.

Dozens of nearly transparent threads, emanating sinister fluctuations, were wrapped around the ten fingers of his withered, claw-like hands. Each thread was connected to the core of a Corpse Puppet!

He was the Evil Cultivator controlling this group of Corrupted Corpse Puppets!

“You dare to destroy my Corpse Slaves! And kill Old Poison! Good! Very good! Your Physical Body is even more perfect than I imagined! The Master will surely like it!” The Bone-Masked Evil Cultivator’s voice trembled with excitement and rage. His phosphorescent eye sockets were locked onto Lin Jingyu’s towering physique, as if looking at a peerless treasure. “Seize him for me! Alive!”

He shrieked, his ten fingers dancing wildly! The transparent threads connecting to the Corpse Puppets instantly tautened, emitting a faint hum!

The last trace of hesitation in the eyes of the remaining dozens of Corpse Puppets was completely wiped away, replaced by an even more frantic madness, fully dominated by evil power!

They let out inhuman howls, their speed surged, and they recklessly lunged at Lin Jingyu from all directions, even using their bodies as weapons, trying to tackle and overwhelm him!

“Seize me?” Lin Jingyu’s lips curled into an extremely cold arc, like a Vicious Beast baring its fangs. “With this rotten meat?”

Facing the even more frenzied Corpse Tide, he not only didn’t retreat but instead pushed his speed to the limit!

The Meridian Opening Realm’s Qi and blood circulation, combined with Dragon-Elephant Giant Strength, made him like a dark golden lightning bolt tearing through a swamp of decaying flesh!

Fists! Elbows! Knees! Shoulders! Every part of his body transformed into the most terrifying weapon!

“Boom! Crack! Splat!”

Muffled impacts, bone-shattering sounds, and tearing flesh sounds rained down densely!

He charged through the Corpse Puppets like a meat grinder!

Every collision was accompanied by the Corpse Puppets being torn to pieces!

Not a single Corpse Puppet could stop him for even an instant! No attack could shake him in the slightest!

Wherever he passed, he carved out a bloody path paved with shredded flesh and broken bones through the Corpse Tide!

His target was directly the Bone-Masked Evil Cultivator at the tomb entrance!

“Ding! Killed Corrupted Corpse Puppet! evolution points +8!”

“Ding! Killed Corrupted Corpse Puppet! evolution points +8!”

...The evolution points number jumped wildly! “Current evolution points: 415!”

“No... impossible!” The Bone-Masked Evil Cultivator watched Lin Jingyu, unstoppable as a demon god, rapidly approaching, his face beneath the mask completely twisted! His strongest Corpse Slave army, against the opponent’s pure power and defense, was actually as fragile as paper?!

This was definitely not the strength a Meridian Opening Realm cultivator should possess!

Fear instantly seized his heart! He shrieked, pointing both hands suddenly at Lin Jingyu!

The dozens of transparent Corpse-Controlling Threads wrapped around his fingertips shot out like venomous snakes, not to attack, but to try and entangle and bind!

At the same time, black mist surged beneath his feet, and his figure rapidly retreated into the depths of the tomb! He wanted to escape!

“Trying to run?”

A sharp glint flashed in Lin Jingyu’s eyes!

Facing the incoming Corpse-Controlling Threads, he neither dodged nor avoided, but instead increased his speed! His arms, covered in dark golden aura, crossed violently in front of him, smashing into them head-on!

“Hiss hiss hiss—!”

Dozens of Corpse-Controlling Threads, imbued with evil power, instantly wrapped around his arms! A powerful binding force and an evil thought eroding his Divine Soul violently struck!

“Break—!”

Lin Jingyu roared! His arm muscles bulged like Dragons, his bones and tendons vibrated like thunder! The power of Dragon Elephant Suppressing Prison Technique erupted!

“Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap!”

A series of dense explosions, crisp like snapping Strings strings!

Those dozens of incredibly tough evil Corpse-Controlling Threads, capable of binding Meridian Opening Realm experts, were actually snapped by his pure Physical Body strength!

The broken threads drifted powerlessly, like venomous snakes losing their life.

“What?!” The Bone-Masked Evil Cultivator was scared out of his wits! His last reliance was so brutally broken! He retreated even faster, even spitting out a mouthful of vital blood to transform into a blood escape evil light!

But it was too late!

After Lin Jingyu broke the Corpse-Controlling Threads, he stomped his foot hard!

“Bang!”

A deep pit exploded in the ground! Viscous black mud mixed with shattered bones and foul blood shot backward!

His body, like a cannonball, instantly covered the remaining distance! He grabbed with pinpoint accuracy at the Bone-Masked Evil Cultivator’s hastily retreating neck!

“No—! Master, save me!” The Bone-Masked Evil Cultivator let out a desperate shriek!

“Crack!”

A crisp sound of neck bones shattering, like death’s sigh, clearly echoed over the Mass Grave.

All of the Bone-Masked Evil Cultivator’s movements, screams, and blood escape evil light instantly froze. Dark red foul blood oozed from beneath the pale mask.

Lin Jingyu casually threw the limp corpse to the ground, as if crushing a noisy bug.

“Ding! Killed Meridian Opening Realm Fourth Layer Evil Cultivator (Corpse Controller)! evolution points +180!”

“Ding! Annihilated Corrupted Corpse Puppet group (total 42), evolution points +336!”

“Current evolution points: 931!”

“The Blood Soul Life-Chasing Curse has mutated, curse source marked and locked (distance: extremely close)!”

The cold system prompts brought generous rewards! 931 points! A massive amount of evolution points!

Lin Jingyu didn’t even look at the corpse on the ground. His sharp gaze instantly pierced into the depths of the half-collapsed giant tomb! There, an aura far stronger, colder, and filled with dense bloodthirst and corpse-fiend energy than the Bone-Masked Evil Cultivator’s, like a sleeping Vicious Beast, was being startled awake!

“Master?” Lin Jingyu’s lips curled, revealing stark white teeth that looked particularly ferocious in the dim Mass Grave. “So... you were hiding here!”

On his towering body, the Vajra Shield aura flowed, and Dragon-Elephant Power surged and roared through his Meridians. On his wrist, the curse mark was like a red-hot branding iron, scorching hot, pointing directly to the tomb’s core!

The slaughter was not over yet! A bigger prey was right before him!

Lin Jingyu took a deep breath. He no longer hesitated and boldly crashed into the giant tomb!