93: Corpse Control

The six Core Formation Cultivators engaged in close combat, as well as Gu Fentian who was watching from the sidelines, all stopped moving at the same time.

The giant, hundred-zhang-tall skeleton roared and stood up, its Spiritual Pressure even causing the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth to stagnate.

[Jiang Tianze]

[Core Formation Early Stage (Core Formation Late Stage)]

[Blood Sacrifice Refinement of Balefulness] [World-Ending Baleful Corpse]

[Blood Sacrifice Refinement of Balefulness: A Cultivator uses their body as a cauldron, destroys their Three Ethereal Souls and Seven Corporeal Spirits, sacrifices their Physical Body, and refines the World-Ending Baleful Corpse. Only Bloodline descendants can control its power.]

[World-Ending Baleful Corpse: Using living souls as a guide, it devours the Life Qi and blood of all beings in the world. Consciousness dissolves, and the Physical Body ascends.]

Fang Huai gazed at the skeleton. The first thing he saw were two non-exchangeable tags. Although the black battle power tag appeared after refreshing, the side effects were extremely severe.

Jiang Miao was embedded in the center of the skeleton's brow, his expression manic. He laughed wildly at Jiang Lie: "Sect Head, why were you so reluctant to use the power of the Old Ancestor?"

Fang Huai gazed at Jiang Miao, and the tags on his body also changed:

[Jiang Miao]

[Qi Refining Perfection]

[Corpse Control (Black)] [Baleful Corpse Fusion]

[Corpse Control: Temporarily controlling the Old Ancestor's Baleful Corpse at the cost of the Divine Sense being annihilated.]

[Baleful Corpse Fusion: Using Bloodline Power, the Physical Body fuses with the Baleful Corpse.]

"Wretched son, do you know that if you use the Old Ancestor's power, no one in the entire Sect will survive!" Jiang Lie looked panicked.

He had been in Core Formation for over three hundred years and had seen countless situations, yet this was the first time he showed such an expression.

"Jiang Lie, the Sect will not be destroyed!"

Jiang Miao laughed wildly, using the skeleton's mouth to transmit the sound waves to every corner of the Corpse Fiend Sect:

"All Disciples of the Corpse Fiend Sect, the root cause of your previous restraint by the Sect was that your living souls were imprisoned by the Sect!

Just now, benevolent Cultivators have released thousands of living souls. And I will help you break open the Sect Protecting Formation, allowing you to live!

Let the Dao legacy of the Corpse Fiend Sect be passed down for generations!"

Jiang Lie roared furiously: "Wretched son, once the Sect Protecting Formation is activated, we can only wait for its energy to be exhausted and dissolve on its own. How can you break the Formation?"

"Old thing, you're trying to probe me, aren't you? You also want to escape by breaking the Formation, right?"

Jiang Miao laughed: "After fusing with the Old Ancestor, I learned many things. One of them is controlling the Sect Protecting Formation. Too bad, you can't escape. Your living soul is inside the Old Ancestor's body!"

As soon as his voice fell, a heaven-shaking explosion came from the southeast direction of the Corpse Fiend Sect.

Jiang Miao murmured: "I kept my promise to you. I don't owe you anymore."

After Jiang Miao finished speaking, the pale white skeleton beneath him was covered in a layer of eerie blood color. At the same time, the Cultivators whose living souls were imprisoned inside the skeleton's body were all in unbearable pain.

Their souls seemed to be clutched by an invisible giant hand, and their flesh and blood were frantically pulled by an irresistible suction force.

Finally, their Physical Bodies and souls disintegrated simultaneously, surging towards the skeleton.

"Wretched son, stop!" Jiang Lie let out a heaven-shaking roar, summoning all his Spirit Treasures and attacking the skeleton.

However, these Spirit Treasures hitting the skeleton could only barely break through the skeleton's protective Evil Qi, failing to cause much substantial damage.

Seeing that half of his Three Ethereal Souls and Seven Corporeal Spirits had already been absorbed by the skeleton, and his Physical Body was about to disintegrate, Jiang Lie roared: "Wretched son, I am your father!"

"My father? Have you ever acknowledged it in front of others?" Jiang Miao's eyes were full of malice. "The Sect is about to be destroyed, and all you think about is escaping. You don't deserve to be my father!"

Jiang Lie finally went mad, swallowing countless Medicinal Pills, and pointed directly at Jiang Miao, shouting: "Soul Severing Balefulness!"

Soul Severing Balefulness uses one's own soul as a guide to gradually curse and kill the target's soul, harming the enemy by a thousand while losing eight hundred oneself.

Although malicious, it was Jiang Lie's only way to survive at this moment.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

After being hit by the Soul Severing Balefulness, Jiang Miao's expression became even more manic. After a few breaths, he fell into endless darkness.

The crimson skeleton, now out of control, froze its bone claws mid-air, its movements gradually slowing down, finally stopping in place.

Fang Huai focused his gaze on the [Corpse Control (Black)] tag on Jiang Miao. At this moment, he had to make a decision.

Originally, with the skeleton attracting the firepower of the Righteous Path Cultivators, he still had hope of escaping the Sect, but now that the skeleton had stopped moving, the Righteous Path Cultivators would slaughter the demonic Cultivators without restraint.

"According to my calculation, exchanging a black tag should cost 1,000 points!"

He had never exchanged a black tag before. Even if the exchange succeeded, forcefully controlling a Core Formation skeleton with his Ninth Level of Qi Refining cultivation was a huge gamble.

"Exchange!"

Fang Huai gritted his teeth and whispered. Amidst the blurring of his vision, he actually completed this Heaven-Defying exchange.

Before he could feel joy, his Sea of Consciousness felt as if it was being pierced by ten thousand needles, the intense pain unbearable, frantically eroding his Divine Sense.

At the same time, he established a connection with the Core Formation Middle Stage skeleton. With a shift of his will, the skeleton's joints crackled, and it started moving again.

Although he exchanged for [Corpse Control], he lacked any Jiang family Bloodline, and forcing control over a Core Formation skeleton with Qi Refining cultivation was a Heaven-Defying act, intolerable by the Heavenly Dao.

Heaven and earth changed color. Black Qi billowed around the skeleton's frame, and a residual consciousness seemed to be fighting against Fang Huai.

Fang Huai's vision turned pale, and a thunderous roar erupted in his head. He took out several Silver Needles, plunged them into the top of his skull, and shouted angrily:

"Silver Needles enter the crown, lock my Divine Sense!

Old Ancestor, do you want to watch the Sect's ten-thousand-year foundation be wiped out by the Righteous Path!"

For eighteen years, he had lurked in the demonic Sect, cautious and meticulous, cultivating day and night without daring to slack off even slightly, all for this very day.

This Core Formation skeleton was his only chance to tear open the cage and regain freedom.

Today, even if the Heavenly Dao forbids it and his Divine Sense is annihilated, he must use this Qi Refining body to forcefully control the Core Formation skeleton, borrow the might of Core Formation, kill his way out of this demonic purgatory, and take back everything that belongs to him.

Today, it is either freedom or death!

Perhaps the Silver Needles locked his Divine Sense, or perhaps Jiang Tianze's residual consciousness sensed Fang Huai's call, but Fang Huai was finally able to control the skeleton freely.

"Wretched son, die for me!"

When Jiang Lie saw the skeleton suddenly stop moving, he couldn't wait for Jiang Miao to be consumed by the curse.

He had to instantly kill Jiang Miao with the momentum of thunder, giving him time to forcibly retrieve the living souls that had not yet been fully absorbed by the skeleton.

His expression grew even more frantic, and bloody fierceness surged around his body, turning him into an afterimage that rushed directly toward Jiang Miao at the center of the skeleton's brow.

"Excellent timing!"

Fang Huai roared internally. If he allowed Jiang Lie to curse and kill Jiang Miao's soul, he would eventually lose [Corpse Control] and fall into a passive position.

Now that Jiang Lie had delivered himself to his doorstep, he must kill the opponent with a single strike.

The skeleton remained standing motionless, but Jiang Lie's figure was as fast as a streak across the sky, closing in on the skeleton in an instant.

Just as Jiang Lie was about to strike Jiang Miao's head, the skeleton's claw suddenly lifted, clamping Jiang Lie's body precisely like iron pincers, and the joints instantly exerted force and contracted!

"How dare you!" Jiang Lie's frenzy was gone, replaced by sheer panic in his eyes.

Fang Huai, watching from afar, had a profound gaze and a cold voice: "Why wouldn't I dare!"

"Pfft—"

The skeleton's claw tightened abruptly, and Jiang Lie's body turned into a mist of blood that scattered across the sky.

Accompanied by the endless Life Qi, blood, and soul surging into the skeleton's body, the skeleton's cultivation continued to climb after breaking through Core Formation Middle Stage, rapidly approaching Core Formation Late Stage.

"Old Ancestor, your foresight in setting up the soul nurturing pool and imprisoning so many living souls is truly great. Your Disciple—

Accepts your grace!"

A ruthless look flashed in Fang Huai's eyes as he commanded the skeleton, whose Aura had surged, to charge toward the Righteous Path Cultivator camp.