Chapter 273: Double Kill

Zhang Gui's offhand remark.

Liu Shanzhen, excitedly seized by his six arms, stared with eyes widened like an old man.

"Yes, isn't death fine!

I fully transformed into a phosphorless Earth Dragon queen, and for a quarter hour lost my sanity.

I turned my wife, children, and elders into skeletons with their skin hanging.

Then I burrowed into the ground, devouring corpses and flesh, and in less than a day grew to a height of one zhang.

"Clearly it's still worth it, worth it…"

Then his head drooped down, and without any sign, he lost his life.

From a dying living person he literally transformed into a newborn Earth Demon Hundred Races, and just imagining it shows the difficulty is god‑defying.

Even if a "Heavenly Position" stronger employs secret incantations and secret techniques, it may not succeed each time.

And Liu Shanzhen's lively chatter.

But in fact the whole transformation process is just killing thousands of slaves and burying them in the ground.

Then drilling a hole in the head and inserting a worm egg.

There is absolutely no trace of any extraordinary power involved; the success rate is obvious.

Sudden death is actually not unexpected.

But Zhang Gui, though he understands this, refuses to accept the reality.

"Killing Jiao Datou and Kong Liu, those two underdeveloped, tail‑cut, survival‑seeking human‑headed worms, can give me plenty of positive mysterious feedback.

Moreover, Liu Shanzhen is such a huge human‑headed worm.

But it suddenly died on its own; where does this even start!

No, no, it already has this form.

It couldn't have died so easily; it must be feigned, a disguise, definitely a disguise."

Thinking this, he unhesitatingly used his six arms, stretched his ten‑zhang body, and tore Liu Shanzhen's worm body into several sections.

Then he commanded the fungal mat to roll upward, completely dissolving Liu Shanzhen cleanly.

After that, nothing happened.

Liu Shanzhen indeed just died on his own; the matter stands as it is, helpless.

Zhang Gui sighed, no longer thinking of those irretrievable matters.

Using the black slurry flowing from Lu Gate, he dissolved all the corpses scattered throughout Liu Shanzhen's residence.

He activated Divine Authority to sweep through Shanhai County City.

He rushed toward the collapsed broken walls on the western side of the city.

Upon exiting the residence, his massive body propped the market solidly.

But thanks to the boost from the Divine Cluster 'Crosswise As You Wish' after activation, he showed no clumsiness at all.

He leapt, soaring like a fragrant elephant, instantly covering over a thousand steps, landing lightly and silently amid ruins.

At this moment, Zhao Sanshi led a hundred Stone Corpse Soldiers in the "Gold Army March" battle array, engaged in a back‑and‑forth fierce battle with a group of cultivators.

At a glance you can see that in a one‑on‑one fight, aside from Zhao Sanshi, the other troops would inevitably be at a disadvantage.

But elite troops and strong generals value the gathering of forces and stacking combat power.

If it weren't for a "strong" fat man in brocade armor on the enemy side maintaining multiple fronts.

The hundred‑person Stone Corpse army, under the battle array's boost, would have already killed the cultivators without leaving a single piece of armor.

"Fat man, aren't you Jiang Lianpeng of the Compassionate People's Society?"

Zhang Gui, after seeing the situation clearly, asked coldly.

His massive stature, once appearing, naturally drew everyone's attention.

The brocade‑clad fat man frowned, but his tone was very modest,

"What a 'Kuafu True Form'.

I didn't expect someone of your noble stature, Longhu, to know my humble name.

Surely there's some misunderstanding?"

"Misunderstanding, hehehe," Zhang Gui said with a smile,

"The deputy magistrate Liu Shanzhen of Shanhai County turned into a phosphorless Earth Dragon, killed his entire family, and before committing suicide in grief, said it was your doing.

He also said that your Compassionate People's Society and the phosphorless Earth Dragon among the Earth Demon Hundred Races were 'intimately affectionate'.

From time to time you send such a person to roam desolate mountains and remote lands…"

Hearing this, Jiang Lianpeng suddenly launched a killing move.

His brocade armor unfolded, turning into a phosphorless Earth Dragon hide that completely wrapped him.

He rolled on the ground, becoming a living phosphorless Earth Dragon.

His body stretched and contracted, piercing the void, and instantly shifted to the back of Zhang Gui's neck.

He bit down fiercely.

If it were elsewhere, this sudden strike would likely have been unavoidable for Zhang Gui.

But now Shanhai County has become a land shrouded by his Divine Authority.

Consuming several times more Substance and Void allows him to teleport at will, as if in the Earthly Divine Kingdom.

Thus Zhang Gui also teleported.

Instead he shifted behind Jiang Lianpeng, gripping his plump worm body.

At this moment, Jiang Lianpeng's phosphorless Earth Dragon form began to rapidly expand, turning into a huge flesh worm over ten zhang long from head to tail.

Finally it lived up to the "dragon" in the name "phosphorless Earth Dragon".

But unfortunately, such Divine Ability is still not enough before Zhang Gui.

He felt his opponent had unleashed a killer move, and he activated all the Divine clusters within his inner body, linking them to operate.

The three Primordial Abilities—Explosive Burst, Commander, Black God Standing on the Ground—combined, and the "Black God Explosive Burst Commander Formation Method" finally unleashed its rare full firepower.

Ten-Zhang Golden Body instantly grew several times larger again.

Two new heads sprouted on the neck, forming the majestic appearance of the "three heads six arms" of ancient myth.

Yet it seemed simple, but actually required his full effort to break free from Zhang Gui's fingers; Jiang Lianpeng, having just escaped Zhang Gui's grasp, saw his Divine Ability shift.

He was not seeking death at all; under the stretch and contraction of his massive body, he instantly covered a distance of over ten li.

Then he was about to dive deep underground.

Unexpectedly, at that moment, a constraint from all directions sprouted out of the void.

The suppressing force could no longer move.

At the same time, a soft voice sounded,

"You do business in the Ming Song Kingdom, why don't you understand, there are clouds,

Those who bring disaster to the countryside shall be shackled for three days; those who cause death without cause, three persons, and those above shall be cut.

Now I only shackled you; if you still do not surrender, you will be torn apart by a thousand knives."

"Words become law, what a splendid 'words become law'!

In the Human Realm, those who can master this Divine Ability number no more than ten.

Moreover, they are all from the Chuangu Grand Sect, the most thriving sect of Di Ku Jie today, the foremost true lineage that walks the Human Realm.

The Dragon Tiger truly hides deeper than our Compassionate People's Association.

"Given that, I concede wholeheartedly,"

Looking at the wind‑riding Zhang Gui, Jiang Lianpeng fell silent for a moment and whispered.

Zhang Gui sensed that his tone and words were off, and hurriedly spoke:

"Steward Jiang, you have misunderstood…

But unfortunately, at this moment Jiang Lianpeng's body, hidden within the phosphorus‑free earth dragon skin, had already exploded entirely.

The giant insect formed from the linked earth dragon skin instantly weathered into a cloud of ash.

Zhang Gui's original plan was to unleash various great Divine Abilities to intimidate Jiang Lianpeng.

Then give him a glimmer of hope, guiding him to surrender obediently.

Willingly offering the treasure he had hidden, and revealing the concealed secret.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Lianpeng mistook the Judicial Divine Authority that Zhang Gui wielded, which linked the Legal System Element's rule of Punishment, as "words become law".

He was overwhelmed by intimidation, misidentifying Zhang Gui's identity.

Feeling that he now knew the great secret he held, he thought Zhang Gui would certainly not let him go.

Consequently, he instantly lost the desire to live and killed himself.

(End of chapter)