Chapter 429

"So, sorry, you're just going to have to die!" the Great Elder laughed.

Immediately, his aura exploded outward.

Venerable realm!

The Second and Third Elders were only half-step Venerables.

Only the Great Elder was a true Venerable.

But a single Venerable certainly wouldn't give them such confidence.

That Sect Master was their greatest trump card.

The three elders joined forces, standing in a triangular formation.

At the same time, all three performed a complex finger seal.

The next moment, a "person"-like cultivator crawled out from the blood-red cave beneath the hall.

He was covered in blood, his appearance hideous, like a monster.

Su Ming took one look.

It was an elite monster!

He immediately activated his Eye of Insight to check its data.

【Sect Master · Yue Chenshan (Elite Monster)】

【Bloodline: Living Corpse Puppet】

【Level: 61】

【Strength: 4229】

【Constitution: 4247】

【Agility: 1631】

【Spirit: -354】

【Luck: 0】

【Talent: Nascent Soul (The Nascent Soul realm, also known as the Venerable realm in this world. It means he has condensed a physical soul Nascent Soul within his body. After his physical body dies, as long as the Nascent Soul remains intact, there is a possibility of resurrection and a comeback; thus, the Nascent Soul realm is the realm all cultivators in this dungeon world yearn for most)】

【Skills】

【Mountain Mausoleum Internal Art (Mastered): A high-level technique. After cultivation, the body becomes as hard as a mountain, the skin impervious to blades and spears, capable of breaking all laws with force. His defense is increased by an additional 100%】

【Ten Thousand Flesh Spirit Apertures: Countless cultivators' spirit apertures were flayed out and then fused into his body via secret arts, so he possesses almost infinite Qi to fuel his skills】

【Mountain-Breaking Palm: His palm force can shatter the air from a distance and crush the enemy's physical body】

【...】

【BUFF】

【Living Corpse Puppet: He has been refined by evil secret arts into a monster that is neither human nor ghost, living in a state worse than death. His will has been completely erased, and he is entirely commanded by Cui Bao, Cui Shu, and Cui Wu!】

Seeing this data, even though Su Ming was prepared, he was still surprised.

This was a Sixth-Turn elite monster... truly terrifying.

Strength 4229, Constitution 4247.

These stats were enough to crush any Sixth-Turn Venerable.

It was almost on the same level as a Fifth-Turn peak BOSS, the Zombie King!

Elite monsters were like mini-BOSSes, so their stats were definitely several times higher than players of the same level.

A Sixth-Turn elite monster generally required several, or even ten, Venerables to surround and attack it to have a low-risk fight.

Otherwise, casualties were inevitable.

"This... is your Sect Master!?" Ni Shuang's blue eyes flashed with shock as she spoke.

She hadn't expected that the Sect Master, who should theoretically have the highest status, was actually a living corpse puppet!

Yan Ze, Ji Yao, and Jiang Yunqing were not overly shocked.

During the time they were away from Su Ming, they had each trained in dungeons and seen too many horrific scenes.

Yan Ze and the others had also cleared several dungeons and had long since developed the ability to remain calm in the face of danger.

Mud monsters in lava flows, werewolves in forests, terrifying saber-toothed bone tigers—they had defeated too many.

Having seen so much, there was naturally nothing to be shocked about.

Sect Master Yue Chenshan, once a Sixth-Turn cultivator, originally didn't have such high stats.

But after being refined into a monster and becoming an elite monster, his stats skyrocketed.

All of this was thanks to the three elders constantly luring cultivators here.

They used cruel demonic methods to murder and dismember those innocent cultivators, then extracted their essence and spirit.

Using demonic methods to refine the cultivators' flesh and blood, they gathered all the power into this Sect Master living corpse, constantly adding to it.

Ultimately, they created such a powerful, obedient living puppet!

The Sect Master puppet had a hideous and bloodthirsty expression, as if enduring endless pain, and it rushed out, standing before the three elders.

Its palms trembled, as if it were already channeling energy, preparing for battle.

Its eyes were unfocused, its consciousness entirely controlled by the three elders.

It stared fixedly at Su Ming, waiting only for the command to charge and kill.

"The 'Sect Master' of the Mountain Mausoleum Sect is the strongest living corpse puppet refined by the three of us brothers. Once it strikes..."

The yellow-robed Second Elder smiled uglily; his face looked just like a yellow weasel begging for a title.

"Heh, you lot have only a dead end ahead, to be turned into nourishment."

"Once we refine you two Venerables, this puppet will reach the peak of the Venerable realm. By then, we can walk sideways across the entire continent!"

"Hahahaha!!"

The three elders laughed.

At the same time, the suppression of the array weighed down on them; Su Ming felt his shoulders sink, his stats slowly decreasing.

Moreover, a large number of Mountain Mausoleum Sect disciples and cultivators had already surrounded them!

Looking at this scene, there was no fear in Su Ming's eyes, only battle intent and excitement.

"A Sixth-Turn elite monster, truly not bad... more challenging than I imagined," he said, the corners of his mouth curling up.

The stronger the enemy, the more experience!

Moreover, what excited Su Ming most was that he could complete his Sword God class-transfer quest here and promote to Venerable, without having to wait until the end of the Shushan trip.

Su Ming looked at the three elders.

The Great Elder's purple robes had patterns, his face protruding like an old leopard.

The Second Elder wore yellow robes, his appearance ugly, like a yellow weasel.

The Third Elder wore white robes, but they couldn't hide the colorful flesh beneath, like a centipede.

Su Ming saw at a glance that they were not human.

They were monster beasts that had taken human form, having "cultivated" into humans later in life.

In this Shushan dungeon, monsters could cultivate into human form.

Every dungeon had its own unique characteristics and rules.

Su Ming had been to this dungeon in his previous life, so he knew quite a bit!

He looked around at the three elders, his expression calm.

"The Mountain Mausoleum Sect might have truly been a righteous sect originally."

"I suspect that the three of you monsters took human form to infiltrate, pretended to apprentice under the Sect Master, then launched a sneak attack to take his life and refine him into a living corpse puppet," Su Ming deduced.

"Since then, this place has become an out-and-out evil sect."

"Such cruel methods, returning kindness with resentment, completely devoid of conscience."

"Beasts, you truly are beasts."

Su Ming looked at the three elders, speaking loudly and uninhibitedly.

With a great enemy before him, Su Ming was as steady as Mount Tai, his gaze as sharp as fire.

Even his deductions were spot on.

Yan Ze also had a grave expression, whispering.

"Most of these disciples and cultivators are likely puppets you've refined, right?"

"Only a very few are former Mountain Mausoleum Sect cultivators who follow you for profit."

Yan Ze's mind was extremely meticulous, his intelligence extraordinary.