Chapter 204: The Three Corpses Sect's Shock!

What's going on with Liang Xing of the Medicine Sect? How did his points suddenly drop by one?

Furthermore, have you noticed that the yellow light point after Liang Xing's name has gone out?

Indeed, and furthermore, Fang Xu's points suddenly increased by one just now—could it be that…

Everyone had a rough guess in their minds.

Actually, anyone with a clear eye can see what's going on at a glance, but everyone just refuses to believe it.

After all, in their view, Fang Xu being able to survive the recent beast tide must be due to some underhanded means, exploiting a loophole.

In terms of strength, he definitely doesn't have any.

But the current situation is a solid slap to their faces.

Everyone knows the Medicine Sect is one of the major powers of the Dark Divine Palace, ranking among the top ten within the Dark Divine Palace.

Although the Medicine Sect's Young Master Liang Xing is not a hot contender for this Son of God selection, his strength is still not to be underestimated.

Some people are even clearer: the Medicine Sect nearly emptied its coffers for this Son of God selection, arming Liang Xing and his guards to the teeth.

The Medicine Sect's Guard Squad is already not inferior to those top contenders vying for the Son of God position.

How could such an existence be plundered by Fang Xu in less than a quarter of an hour?

Everyone was puzzled.

The faces of the Medicine Sect's people were even more grim.

They truly staked all their wealth on this Medicine Sect's bid for the Son of God position.

But just after the Second Stage began, their sect's Young Master was defeated by a candidate full of criticism.

This is not only a loss, but also makes the Medicine Sect lose face among its peers.

The Medicine Sect's people looked unfavorably at the few Profound Sect disciples in the crowd.

Especially the Sect Leader of the Profound Sect's immortals, Xuan Ji.

When the Son of God selection began, Xuan Ji did not arrive right away.

He had originally been staying in the Vast Sea to look for Fang Xu, delayed on the way, and only arrived here after the Second Stage began.

He had also heard about Fang Xu's previous performance from the Profound Sect disciples.

At this moment, seeing the Medicine Sect's people all looking at him, Xuan Ji smiled faintly and said to the Medicine Sect's Sect Leader Liang Deming: 'Brother Liang, don't be angry, this is the rule of the Son of God selection…'

Hmph!

Liang Deming gave a cold snort and turned his head away.

He also knew he had no reason to blame the Profound Sect for this.

That's how the selection rules work—Liang Xing had his points taken by Fang Xu, so it can only be said his strength was inadequate.

Moreover, Fang Xu showed mercy—at least his grandson is still alive.

Thinking of this, Liang Deming suddenly felt a hint of doubt.

He felt that most people present likely held many prejudices against Fang Xu.

Or perhaps Fang Xu's performance has deceived most people.

Many only see that Fang Xu has late-stage Primordial Martial strength, his guards are mostly Martial Venerable level, with only a few reaching the Primordial Martial Realm.

Thinking such a team could compete for the Son of God is simply ridiculous.

But Liang Deming understands his own grandson and knows how strong the Medicine Sect's squad is.

He said without hesitation that, as long as it's not a one-on-one duel, Liang Xing together with the Medicine Sect's squad fears almost no challenger.

Even the sects with the highest championship support are the same.

Moreover, Liang Xing, as the Young Master of the Medicine Sect, is not an arrogant person.

Since childhood, Liang Deming has educated him that as a member of the Dark Divine Palace, one must always stay cautious and know how to conceal one's abilities.

Therefore, Liang Xing's defeat is certainly not due to underestimating the enemy.

This means Fang Xu plundered Liang Xing's resource point, a genuine defeat in direct combat.

So, is that brat's strength really as fragile as everyone guessed?

Are his achievements truly just opportunistic tricks in others' eyes?

Many people share Liang Deming's view.

At this moment they suddenly realized they might have been misled by appearances.

The world of cultivators has never lacked miracles.

Before someone creates a miracle, most people think miracles are Arabian nights.

They slander, question, and deny those who want to create miracles.

But when a miracle is truly created, only then do these people shut their mouths.

Liang Deming and others now have a vague suspicion in their hearts.

Perhaps Fang Xu will be a creator of miracles.

Within the resource point, Fang Xu glanced at many Medicine Sect disciples and did not order a massacre.

In his view, his goal is the Son of God of the Divine Palace, and also the future Palace Master of the Divine Palace.

Even if not for the Divine Palace, he will eventually have to face the spokesperson of the Heaven Mysterious Realm's world will—the Great Expansion Dao Sect.

To oppose the Great Expansion Dao Sect, such a massive entity, with one's own strength is insufficient.

Although the Dark Divine Palace's situation is not good now, it is at least the second strongest power in the Heaven Mysterious Realm.

Moreover, the Divine Palace, having been passed down since ancient times, surely still possesses some unknown foundations and methods.

With the aid of the Dark Divine Palace, his chances of victory can be greater.

If he plundered these candidates' resource points and took the opportunity to kill them all,

This would undoubtedly offend all the forces of the Divine Palace.

By the time one truly reaches the summit and becomes the hall master of the temple, there will also be grudges with these forces.

After all, he knows that in this Divine Son selection, to vie for the position of hall master, the major forces of the Dark God Temple have each sent out their most outstanding talents, those with the greatest potential.

Losing even one would make them feel heartbroken.

Of course, this does not mean we should always tolerate.

For those who are clueless, I don't mind stepping in to teach them a lesson.

Now the Dark God Temple has become corrupt.

A giant whose illness has penetrated to the marrow wants a full recovery; at critical times, drastic bone-scraping detoxification is also necessary.

After the points were credited, he took Bone Prison Breath and the Golden Scale Fire Thread Snake King and left here.

As for Liang Xing, most of these people were injured and unconscious; only a few were killed because the ferocious beast zombies didn't hold back.

Overall, the losses of the Qihuang Gate are not great.

The vast horde of ferocious beast zombies continued forward.

Along the way, resource points of some weaker candidates were completely swept clean.

For this round of plundering, Fang Xu chose to show mercy.

Soon, the main force arrived at a high-quality resource point on the edge of the great lake.

"The aura of the dead." Before even approaching the resource point, Bone Prison Breath suddenly said: "They likely have mastered some technique for refining and controlling corpses."

Fang Xu, hearing this, became somewhat curious and went up to a towering rock, his gaze toward the resource point at the lake's edge.

A number of stiff-moving ferocious beast zombies loitered near the resource point, amounting to nearly ten thousand.

However, these ferocious beast zombies differ somewhat from those transformed by Bone Prison Breath using the golden small coffins.

The ferocious beast zombies transformed from the golden small coffins move almost indistinguishably from ordinary ferocious beasts, and they possess a violent, bloodthirsty nature; upon receiving an order, they charge forward in a frenzied, fearless manner.

In contrast, the ferocious beast zombies on the opposite side move stiffly and appear to have little combat strength.

They probably serve merely as flesh-and-blood bunkers.

"Let's attack."

After observing for a while, Fang Xu spoke.

Bone Prison Breath and the Snake King issued commands simultaneously.

At once, hundreds of thousands of ferocious beast zombies charged straight toward the resource point at the lake's edge.

Nearly ten thousand Golden Scale Fire Thread Snakes hid among these ferocious beast zombies, ready to ambush.

Lakeside resource point.

A pallid, slender youth in black robes was intently studying the ferocious beast corpse before him.

The commotion outside instantly made him frown.

"Whose corpse puppet has gone out of control?"

"Get it under control quickly!"

Shi Bu Yu shouted somewhat displeased.

Several disciples of the Three Corpse Sect looked around and found that the beast corpses they controlled were honestly patrolling the perimeter, with no sign of losing control.

"Young Master, it doesn't seem to be our corpse puppet."

Shi Bu Yu, hearing this, lifted his head somewhat curiously.

The commotion in the distance grew increasingly obvious, clearly a large number of ferocious beasts approaching.

"That must be some clueless ferocious beasts running over to harass us again."

"Have people prepare some; this time let's capture a few live ferocious beasts."

"The ferocious beasts in the Three God Space seemingly all have many secrets; as the Young Master, I need to study them well."

As his words fell, the ground beneath his feet began to tremble.

"Young Master, listening to the commotion, it sounds like a beast tide!"

A disciple of the Three Corpse Sect said, his face slightly changing.

"What's there to panic about? What's wrong with the beast tide?"

"Isn't the beast tide also bringing us materials?"

Shi Bu Yu, somewhat unwilling, covered the ferocious beast corpse before him and turned to go to the perimeter of the resource point.

At this moment, all disciples of the Three Corpse Sect had gathered together, ready to welcome the beast tide.

Shi Bu Yu lifted his head to look at the sky, his face showing some doubt.

"How come this beast tide has no omens?"

His words also drew the attention of the surrounding disciples.

In previous beast tides, the sky would light up with red radiance.

But this time, the sky seemed to have no movement.

But now is not the time to worry about those things, for deep in the distant jungle, a large number of ferocious beasts have already charged out, their target being this very resource point of the Three Corpse Sect.

The army of ferocious beast zombies instantly arrived at the perimeter of the resource point, clashing with the corpse puppets controlled by the Three Corpse Sect.

Although the Three Corpse Sect's corpse puppets are slower than the zombies transformed by Bone Prison Breath, all the corpse puppets were remodeled by Shi Bu Yu.

All the corpse puppets have been infused with a dreadful corpse toxin; once it contacts a living being, it can quickly annihilate the soul directly.

It is precisely thanks to this that the Three Corpse Sect has previously handled beast tides with ease.

But this time, some disciples of the Three Corpse Sect noticed something amiss.

The ferocious beasts charging from the opposite side seem not to fear the corpse puppets' toxin.

"Wrong, they are not ferocious beasts!"

"Zombies! They are all ferocious beasts turned into zombies!"

Heavens, what's going on? The Divine Temple produced our Three Corpse Sect, and yet someone knows corpse-control techniques?

This is absolutely not a corpse-control technique; even if we gathered all members of our Three Corpse Sect, it would be impossible to control that many corpse puppets!

Young Master!

The Three Corpse Sect members panicked.

Those who usually dealt with entities discovered for the first time how terrifying corpses could be.

The ferocious beast corpse puppets rushing out of the jungle, like a tide, quickly broke through the defensive line they had set up using corpse puppets.

Moreover, the corpse poison on the corpse puppets they controlled was utterly useless against these ferocious beast zombies.

Shi Bu Yu also didn't understand what was happening at this moment; seeing the dense ferocious beast zombies already surrounding his resource point, he knew he couldn't hold it.

Retreat!

Without any hesitation, Shi Bu Yu had no intention of letting the disciples inside fight those ferocious beast zombies.

Ridiculous.

To have that person's life go head-to-head with those ferocious beast zombies—that's foolish.

With the methods of our Three Corpse Sect, abandoning this resource point would soon allow us to seize the next one.

All that would be lost are some painstakingly refined corpse puppets and some corpse poison.

This time, in order to seize the Divine Son's position, the Three Corpse Sect had prepared a large amount of corpse poison for him.

There's no need to risk the disciples' lives over a mere external object.

Shi Bu Yu's line of thinking is quite correct.

Following his order, all Three Corpse Sect disciples immediately abandoned resistance and withdrew straight into the depths of the great lake.

The ferocious beast zombies quickly tore those corpse puppets to shreds.

The moment Fang Xu stepped onto the resource point, the already-retreating Shi Bu Yu suddenly received notice that his points had decreased by one, leaving him completely dazed.

How did my points drop by one?

Could it be that the one who seized my resource point isn't the ferocious beasts of this world, but other contenders?

That's impossible!

Within the entire Dark Divine Temple, none are more proficient in corpse control and corpse refinement than our Three Corpse Sect.

Besides that, the Profound God Teaching under the Profound God Gate is said to also master a corpse refinement technique, but the Profound God Teaching has already defected from the Divine Temple.

Apart from them, it seems only some people of the Profound Gate branch and the Shamanic Dao have mastered corpse refinement.

But this definitely isn't the Shamanic Dao's corpse refinement technique, since their corpse refinement was all bestowed by the Three Corpse Sect back then—how could they reach such a level?

Shi Bu Yu's expression grew somewhat solemn.

Corpse refinement and corpse control are his greatest trump card in this selection.

Relying on corpse refinement, he had planned to gain as many points as possible in the second stage.

But now it seems others also share the same plan.

Moreover, the opponent's methods of corpse control and refinement far surpass his own.

No!

He must act quickly.

Otherwise, if the other contenders happen to be swept away by the opponent, he might not even get any soup.

He must hurry to seize a resource point and then quickly refine another batch of corpse puppets.

Shi Bu Yu's plan is similar to Fang Xu's.

He too had originally been calculating the points held by other contenders, preparing to wait a few more settlement rounds before leading his corpse puppet army to plunder other contenders.

That way, he would become the biggest winner of the second stage.

As long as he can earn enough points in the second stage, even if his performance in the third stage is mediocre, he still has a chance to seize the Divine Son's position.

Among these, Fang Xu, who occupies a top-grade resource point, has always been Shi Bu Yu's primary target.

But not long ago, he discovered that the golden light pillar in the distant sky had vanished.

This meant that Fang Xu, who occupied the top-grade resource point, had already been wiped out.

Shi Bu Yu felt a bit disappointed, and thus prepared to cultivate as many corpse puppets as possible to plunder others.

Outside, the same situation appeared again.

Those before the stele saw that the point of light after the name 'Shi Bu Yu' of the Three Corpse Sect on the stele suddenly went out.

Along with it, his points suddenly dropped by one.

Meanwhile, the name of Fang Xu at the top flickered once, and his points increased by one again.

Now, several settlement time points have already passed.

Fang Xu's points, counting the output from his own resource point plus plunder, have already reached seventy.

Meanwhile, the second-place contender's points are still under twenty.

The gap keeps widening, and the sects watching, who have designs on the Divine Temple's Divine Son position, have all become anxious.

Only half the time of the second stage has passed.

At least twenty-four double-hours remain ahead.

Twenty-four double-hours, six settlements, Fang Xu gains twelve points each time, guaranteeing at least seventy-two points gained!

Adding what he already has, even if he doesn't go plundering afterward, his total points will reach a terrifyingly high level.

How can anyone compete with that?

Some sect forces have fallen into despair.

And some sect forces at this moment have instead harbored crooked thoughts. (End of chapter)