Chapter 180: Fierce Battle (Please Subscribe)

Perhaps because the head had exploded and the person was already dead, Li Jian's remains were easily ground into fragments.

But Du En did not let his guard down; instead, a strong sense of impending danger arose.

With a movement of his feet, a "Bang!" sounded as immense force erupted, the ground collapsed, and he had already leaped fiercely from the shadows, landing directly a hundred zhang away, supported by a top-grade Dharma sword beneath his feet, turning in mid-air to look.

"Tsk!"

He only saw Li Jian clicking his tongue in annoyance.

He was not in a normal state now; he looked just like a corpse, deathly pale, the same as the corpses summoned using evil arts before, but as the sound flowed out, his complexion rapidly regained blood color from head to toe, soon normalizing.

As both his cultivation and techniques improved, the "earth cannon," now a masterpiece of his efforts, had reached a size of three zhang, and at this moment it crashed down with a roar, like a meteorite or shooting star, unstoppable.

A shower of light fell in clusters!

"Tsk! There really are that many! Where on earth did you get so many Dharma treasures? You were clearly still locked up before; could it be that Gao Feng is as useless as Tang Yiping, that even that couldn't stop your channels for obtaining resources?"

As if unable to hold on any longer, the cannon pillar sank violently, and the ground shook incessantly.

Du En stood with his back straight, the plates of his earth armor rubbing together with a clanging, resonant sound, the embedded spirit crystals gleaming brightly, majestic and upright, as if a divine statue had truly revived, currently punishing the wicked and eliminating evil, cleansing the foul atmosphere!

"You say that, but didn't you still use the underhanded tricks of a malevolent spirit?"

Du En ultimately dodged it, though it grazed past his neck.

"Hiss! Even I feel the pain just looking at it!"

"So that's how it is, that's why you could find me; it's a sea-of-corpses tactic..."

Li Jian laughed, then gradually fell silent.

Corpse after corpse of Li Jian crawled out from all around Du En; in the blink of an eye, there were hundreds of them, every one identical, pale and grinning evilly, enough to scare a timid person to death.

A deathly silence suddenly spread; this familiar sense of déjà vu made Du En not hesitate, and he immediately fired an Earth Cannon Art.

Watching the group of second-tier high-grade Dharma treasures easily tear apart those corpses, Li Jian could not help but click his tongue, unable to refrain from complaining about Gao Feng's side.

Boom!

The zhang-tall earth armor landed, the earth rippled, and the buildings collapsed in unison.

Li Jian laughed turbidly, his thick malice no longer concealed, flowing out directly: "You can take a guess, how many of my own corpses have I, this old senior who buries the dead, buried in this godforsaken place over these past hundred years!"

"Hehe, as you can see, I am immortal; at least, until all the corpses are used up, I cannot die."

Another corpse transformed into Li Jian, looking up at his own giant corpse in the sky being violently torn apart, turning into blood rain devoid of evil nature and covering the ground.

The evil nature pulsed and boiled, and the body began to swell.

The use of the Fire-Burning Art and Flying Sand Art temporarily slowed their offensive.

"Hahaha! Your method of self-detonation actually hit the mark by accident; otherwise, I would have followed the mana imprint to jump-pad onto your own body."

Because the alarm bells in his heart were ringing loudly!

Because the blood seeping from his body was pulsing at this moment, ejecting strips of blood hands that grabbed these Dharma treasures, defiling the spirit light and twisting the treasure restrictions; Du En wanted to self-detonate but could only detonate half, barely managing to perish together with the blood hands.

Du En continuously self-detonated Dharma treasures in a short time, all of them high-grade, and at this moment he had blood spilling from the corners of his mouth, suffering the accumulated damage of the backlash, but he could only swallow it silently, his mana output rising instead of falling.

"Haha! Hahahahaha!!!"

He stopped abruptly, a layer of earth armor wrapping around his body, having mastered this stage; it was a full zhang tall and a foot thick, and fully activated, it was no longer purely earthy yellow mud, but embedded with crystals, gleaming brightly, its hardness surpassing that of others at the same stage.

Leap!

Flames burned upward.

However, at the same time, two more second-tier top-grade and fifty second-tier high-grade sword-shaped Dharma treasures, completely standard templates, came covering densely from all directions while self-detonating, and after being frozen by the deathly silence, they exploded with a roar.

At this moment, his entire body was covered in purple-black evil patterns, as if a network of blood vessels had appeared out of thin air, his own evil nature merely serving as an embellishment.

Whoosh!

Flying sand obscured the vision.

Li Jian's voice dispersed the smoke and dust; facing the previous offensive, he actually walked out unscathed.

"That is indeed the case, but you must know that the evil arts of an evil cultivator, and the evil nature that replaces mana, were originally derived from the Overlord; for me to use the traces he left behind is merely taking a step further. That's right, can I now be called half-step Golden Core stage?"

At this moment, instead of retreating, he advanced, crashing down like a human earth cannon, charging straight to shatter the blood hands, punching the giant corpse's head to pieces, interrupting Li Jian's wild laughter, and then falling into the midst of the corpses.

The evil nature was viscous, blood turned into hands; inside these corpses, countless blood hands scrambled to touch Du En, but they were all beaten and torn to shreds by him, who dared to charge in, with plain and unadorned violence.

"I am not some insane piece of trash like Xue Song."

Li Jian laughed loudly, his voice like thunder; as he spoke, he leaped violently, the ground itself seeming to ripple, and he flew directly in front of Du En, who was rapidly gaining altitude.

However, there was still a trend of being restrained.

And so.

"Haha, don't you have many Dharma treasures? Then, let's see if you can outlast me!"

This Southern End Border City, one or two of them, are all trash!

"Forget it, no more playing, let's get serious!"

Triple Earth Cannon strike!

Boom, boom, boom!

Four earth cannons stacked into a pillar, pressing down with immense force!

Li Jian was like a man carrying a pillar; even while bearing the cannon pillar, he could still radiate evil nature and stimulate evil strangeness.

Smoke and dust filled the air, making it difficult for divine sense to peer through.

The voice suddenly elongated, because the person had already closed in on Du En, his hand reaching out like a beast's claw, directly slicing open the earth armor and bringing up a spark and crystal shards.

Then, switch Dharma treasures!

Three hundred second-tier high-grade Dharma treasures replaced the two hundred second-tier mid-to-low-grade ones, like a roc spreading its wings, and also like a thick, dark iron cloud.

Du En's brows furrowed slightly.

Li Jian laughed loudly, his corpses leaping up one by one, imitating Du En's self-detonation method, beginning to charge forward fearlessly, as they were already dead to begin with.

Li Jian said, shaking his head with a grimace: "Forget it, neither here nor there, it sounds so... ridiculous even to me..."

However, upon coming into contact with that deathly silence, it was as if one had fallen into a swamp, only able to sink deeper and deeper.

"What a high-sounding excuse!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The giant corpse strode forward, crushing the already dilapidated buildings, and paid no heed at all to the many magical artifacts lunging and biting at it.

Pfft, pfft, pfft~

The sounds of people fell, followed closely by the sounds of corpses.

Li Jian began to laugh, laughing wildly; as he laughed, something moved beneath his skin, his evil nature surging and increasing violently, and then, like a balloon being inflated, he grew directly in size, bursting through his clothes and transforming into a giant corpse three zhang tall with pale red, blood-oozing skin.

"What a shiny body; it makes you look just like a spirit stone waiting for someone to use it. I really can't figure out why you would cultivate yourself into such a state?"

Li Jian was commenting leisurely at this moment, appearing exceptionally composed and full of confidence.

(End of this chapter)