Chapter 728: The art of corpse refining, Profound Yang blazing flames (Seeking monthly votes)

From the moment he entered this cave dwelling, Song Qingming had vaguely felt that the owner of this cave dwelling had deliberately built it in such a hidden place, seemingly not just for his own safety, but to hide some unknown secrets.

Seeing so many cultivators' corpses before him, Song Qingming finally guessed some of it. The other party was hiding here, definitely to cultivate the art of corpse refining, which is regarded as a taboo by the righteous cultivators of the cultivation world.

The art of corpse refining and the method of refining corpse puppets are roughly the same in principle.

It's just that many of the arts of corpse refining are directly refined from living people, and the speed of cultivating corpse refining is also much faster than the corpse puppets that Song Qingming and the others cultivate.

As long as there are sufficient resources, a Core Formation cultivator can easily cultivate ten or twenty Foundation Establishment corpse refiners. Using this well is definitely a great combat power improvement for an ordinary Core Formation cultivator.

However, because the art of corpse refining is directly refined from living people, the behavior is really too cruel, and it is no different from the actions of demonic cultivators.

The cultivation world had unified the art of corpse refining as a taboo art tens of thousands of years ago. As long as someone was found to be cultivating this kind of evil method, righteous cultivators would attack them in groups.

After so many years, there were no longer any sects famous for the art of corpse refining in the cultivation world, and many cultivation classics about this art had already been lost.

However, because the art of corpse refining can enhance a cultivator's combat power after cultivation, even if the righteous cultivators of the cultivation world have regarded it as a taboo art, there is no way to completely eradicate it. Many rogue cultivators will choose to find a hidden place to hide and cultivate secretly. The owner of this cave dwelling is eight or nine out of ten one of them.

It's just that the other party hasn't been found yet. Although Song Qingming had some guesses in his heart, he did not choose to tell Chen Yuting and the others directly, and he didn't want to scare them all at once.

After Song Qingming explained, his eyes turned to the wall behind these wooden boxes. Just as he was about to step forward to investigate, a strange movement suddenly came from the wooden box on the side.

"Senior, this corpse puppet seems to be alive!"

Hearing a reminder from Chen Yuting behind him, Song Qingming hurriedly turned around and found that the few Foundation Establishment cultivator corpses he had just found had all suddenly come to life.

As soon as Song Qingming turned around and walked over, these corpses jumped out of the wooden boxes and started fighting with Chen Yuting and Luo Li, who had already taken out their magic tools.

Seeing the strange green light in the eyes of these Foundation Establishment cultivator corpses, Song Qingming immediately saw that his previous guess was correct; these were all corpse refiners who had already been controlled by someone.

There were four Foundation Establishment corpse refiners in total, and their cultivation was not high, with the most powerful only at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment. Moreover, because they hadn't been out for a long time, their strength had also weakened and could not compare to their peak state.

Although the number was double that of the opponent, the strength of corpse refiners without independent consciousness was still somewhat different from ordinary cultivators. Facing two mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, Chen Yuting and Luo Li, they did not take any advantage.

Seeing that the two women were not in any danger, Song Qingming did not rush to intervene, but stood on the side and observed these corpse refiners quietly, wanting to see who was controlling them.

Seeing that Song Qingming did not intervene directly in the battle, as if he had the intention to test the strength of the two, Chen Yuting and Luo Li also used their most powerful supernatural means, wanting to solve the enemies in front of them quickly.

Luo Li and Chen Yuting were born in the East Sea cultivation world and also often dealt with spirit beasts in the sea. Their ability to fight was not very strong among Foundation Establishment cultivators, but they were definitely not weak.

Song Qingming had already seen this point when he met them that day, so he felt at ease handing these few Foundation Establishment corpse refiners to the two of them to deal with.

Although they had no experience in dealing with this kind of corpse refiner at first, Luo Li and the two could only barely stabilize their position and fought to a draw with the other party.

However, as time progressed, Luo Li was the first to find the weakness of these corpse refiners who feared fire-attribute spells. Finding an opportunity, she used a second-tier fire-attribute spirit talisman on her body to directly solve her opponent.

Afterward, Chen Yuting and Luo Li fought more and more bravely, gradually gaining the upper hand and suppressing the other party in turn.

The fight between the two sides lasted for half a quarter of an hour, and only one corpse refiner with a higher mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation remained on the battlefield, while the other three opponents were all solved by Luo Li and the two.

Just as Luo Li and Chen Yuting were joining forces to kill the last corpse refiner, a trace of blood mist suddenly appeared on the body of this one who was forced into the corner, and then a burst of somewhat strange blood light lit up.

"Careful, step back!"

Seeing the abnormal change in this corpse refiner, Song Qingming immediately reminded the two women, then leaned toward them in a flash.

Just as Chen Yuting and Luo Li withdrew, the corpse refiner in front of them suddenly saw its spiritual energy start to soar in an instant, and after a moment, it exploded directly.

However, at this time, Song Qingming had already hurried to the front of the two women, used his hand to directly support a protective escape light in front of them, and resisted the power of this corpse refiner's self-detonation.

"Blood Explosion Technique! These corpse refiners were actually set with such vicious secret methods. The person who refined them is truly somewhat vicious."

Seeing this corpse refiner suddenly explode, Chen Yuting and Luo Li were also somewhat lingering in fear.

If Song Qingming hadn't made a move in time just now, even if they had the confidence to avoid most of the power of the corpse refiner's self-detonation, I am afraid they would inevitably suffer some minor injuries.

Hearing Chen Yuting's words, Song Qingming was about to ask when he suddenly felt a danger coming from behind, and hurriedly turned around to use his natal magic treasure "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" to protect his side.

Song Qingming had just taken defensive measures when he felt a very strong force push him back several steps, and he hurriedly strengthened his magic power into the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" to stabilize his figure.

After blocking a sneak attack, Song Qingming, feeling that the opponent's strength was not weaker than his own, immediately took out another defensive magic treasure, the "White Dragon Ruler," to protect his front.

As the smoke and dust around quickly dissipated, Song Qingming also saw clearly the person who attacked him not far away: an old man with a withered face wearing a gray Daoist robe.

This person was holding a very sharp third-tier top-grade flying sword, staring tightly at Song Qingming and the three not far away. The pressure emitted from his body even exceeded Song Qingming's cultivation, and it seemed that he had already reached the ninth layer of Core Formation.

Seeing that the other party's cultivation was so high, Song Qingming was also somewhat unexpected and couldn't help but frown slightly.

Seeing that the other party had been looking at him strangely and had no intention of speaking, after thinking for a moment, Song Qingming still took the initiative to ask: "Fellow Daoist, are you the owner of this cave dwelling?"

Hearing Song Qingming's question, the gray-robed old man did not answer.

After another while, just as Song Qingming was about to ask again, the gray-robed old man's eyes suddenly flashed with a trace of red light, then he vanished from where he stood in a flash, and the next moment he appeared in front of Song Qingming, slashing directly at the protective shield turned into by the "White Dragon Ruler" with one sword.

Facing the gray-robed old man's sudden attack, Song Qingming was also prepared long ago, desperately pouring the magic power in his hand into the "White Dragon Ruler," and steadily blocked the other party's flying sword.

Only hearing a loud "bang," the gray-robed old man was directly bounced back by the white protective shield turned into by the "White Dragon Ruler," and his whole body even hit the wall not far away.

The "White Dragon Ruler," this third-tier top-grade magic treasure, was found by Song Qingming from Zhao Jibai at the entrance of the "Heavenly Source Sect" secret realm years ago.

This magic treasure's defensive ability was already very outstanding, and after being strengthened by Song Qingming using the "Green Jade Treasure Mount Mount Lianhua Technique," its power was even more powerful than before.

Even if the gray-robed old man's cultivation was higher than his own and had reached the ninth layer of Core Formation, it was impossible to break the defense of the "White Dragon Ruler" in one blow.

After defending against this attack from the other party, seeing that the opponent didn't seem as difficult to deal with as he had imagined, Song Qingming also had some confidence in his heart at this moment.

Before the gray-robed old man could stand firm, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" beside him had already been controlled by him to surround from all sides, wanting to trap the opponent directly in place.

The gray-robed old man holding the flying sword just wanted to continue his attack, but found that he was being attacked by several huge copper mirrors, and hurriedly swung several sword lights to fight hard to block the copper mirrors in front of him, taking advantage of the gap before the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" completed the encirclement to escape directly from inside.

The gray-robed old man who had just escaped, seeing that Song Qingming not far away seemed somewhat difficult to deal with, suddenly looked at Song Qingming with some anger, then suddenly turned and flashed toward the location of the cave entrance, seemingly wanting to escape from this cave dwelling.

However, when he arrived at the location of the cave entrance, a black-robed person was already waiting there, waving a sword light to block the gray-robed old man's way, forcing him to stop his steps.

From the moment he entered this cave dwelling and felt the strangeness inside, Song Qingming had been prepared. This black-robed person was "Jin Feng," whom he had specifically left at the cave dwelling entrance to prevent accidents.

The gray-robed old man was blocked by "Jin Feng," and this pause also gave Song Qingming, who was chasing, a chance. He took the opportunity to cast a spell to control two golden ring magic treasures to set on the gray-robed old man, making it difficult for his figure to move again for a while.

Afterward, the five huge copper mirrors turned into by the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" immediately followed, surrounding the gray-robed old man from all sides and trapping him in the middle.

Trapped by the "Golden Brilliant Treasure Light Ring" and the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," the gray-robed old man also felt very bad and hurriedly struggled to escape from this golden cage that made him somewhat uncomfortable.

However, Song Qingming obviously did not want to let him out easily. He poured his magic power into the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" and controlled the "Profound Yang Qi" stored in the magic treasure to burn the opponent with intense spiritual light. This gray-robed old man seemed to be somewhat afraid of the Profound Yang Qi in the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," and facing the burning of these scorching spiritual energies, he actually let out a few painful screams.

Seeing that it seemed difficult to escape the predicament by himself, the gray-robed old man's eyes flashed with a strange red light again, and he suddenly let out a roar that shook the entire underground cave dwelling slightly.

Before Song Qingming could see the opponent's movements clearly, he felt a violent sound coming from the location of the large wooden boxes not far behind him.

Song Qingming, who was struggling to control the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," turned his head and saw that more than twenty Foundation Establishment corpse refiners had appeared from nowhere, rushing toward him quickly, seemingly wanting to help rescue the trapped gray-robed old man.

These Foundation Establishment corpse refiners were significantly stronger than the few that Chen Yuting and the others had dealt with just now. Their cultivation was at least at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, and many had already cultivated to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

Seeing this, Song Qingming immediately gave an instruction to "Jin Feng," who had been guarding the cave dwelling entrance, asking him to go and block these Foundation Establishment corpse refiners so as not to affect his dealing with the gray-robed old man.

These Foundation Establishment corpse refiners, although their individual cultivation strength was far inferior to "Jin Feng," who was already at the fourth layer of Core Formation.

However, what made Song Qingming somewhat unexpected was that they actually knew how to form a formation. More than twenty Foundation Establishment corpse refiners formed a strange formation together and fought with "Jin Feng," and for a while, they did not fall into much of a disadvantage.

"Senior Song, rest assured, we will block these corpse refiners!"

Seeing that the Foundation Establishment corpse refiners summoned by the other party were somewhat difficult to deal with, Chen Yuting and Luo Li, who were watching the battle on the side, also immediately held their magic tools and took the initiative to step forward to help, assisting "Jin Feng" in blocking those Foundation Establishment corpse refiners.

After observing for a while, seeing that they had stabilized their position and were in no danger, Song Qingming also gradually felt at ease and focused on controlling the magic treasure to deal with the gray-robed old man trapped in the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror."

After fighting with the other party for so long, Song Qingming also gradually saw that this gray-robed old man was not a living cultivator, but like the corpse refiners beside him, he was also a person who had been dead for many years.

It's just that unlike other corpse refiners, this gray-robed old man was not only profound in cultivation but also knew how to summon other corpse refiners to help, and it didn't seem like he was being controlled by anyone.

Moreover, the other party fled as soon as he saw that he was difficult to deal with, which was obviously not an ordinary corpse refiner without self-thought, and it was very likely that he had already given birth to some spiritual wisdom.

It's just that now I don't know what his identity is, why he was trapped here, and who was controlling all this behind the scenes.

The gray-robed old man trapped in the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" was gradually becoming unable to support himself under the burning of the "Profound Yang Qi," but he had not seen the Foundation Establishment corpse refiners outside come to help for a long time, and his heart was already extremely urgent.

Seeing that the reinforcements outside could no longer be relied upon, the gray-robed old man suddenly spat out a mass of blood mist from his mouth, his momentum climbed a few points again, and then he struck the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" in front of him with all his might with his bare hands.

Although he was prepared, the power of this attack was still somewhat beyond Song Qingming's expectations. With just one punch, he smashed a crack in his natal magic treasure, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror."

Seeing that the opponent was already desperate and fighting for his life, Song Qingming also knew that this battle had reached a critical moment.

Taking a drop of "Millennium Spirit Milk" from his body and swallowing it directly, Song Qingming's magic power, which had been consumed by more than half, was quickly restored. Afterward, he poured the "Green Jade Treasure Mount Mount Lianhua Technique" he had cultivated for many years into his natal magic treasure. At this time, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" immediately shone brightly, and the golden copper mirror was gradually covered with a layer of faint green spiritual light.

Afterward, under Song Qingming's strenuous control, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" shot out dozens of white spiritual lights, turning into a giant hand in the air, and grabbed the gray-robed old man who wanted to continue attacking the copper mirror.

This giant white hand turned into by spiritual light also carried a large amount of "Profound Yang Qi." As soon as it grabbed the gray-robed old man, it burned him and let out a scream. Its power was far stronger than the "Golden Brilliant Treasure Light Ring" controlled by Song Qingming before.

The white spiritual light in the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," like the purple spiritual light that could imprison the opponent's magic treasure before, was the second supernatural power of the natal magic treasure "Profound Yang Blazing Flame" that Song Qingming had just cultivated not long ago after the magic treasure advanced to the late stage of Core Formation.

This "Profound Yang Blazing Flame Hand" was a supernatural power with relatively strong offensive ability. Once an ordinary Core Formation cultivator was grabbed by it, it would be very difficult to escape. The white light it contained had very powerful "Profound Yang Qi," which could turn into blazing flames and continuously burn and consume the opponent.

After learning the powerful supernatural power of "Profound Yang Blazing Flame," Song Qingming also had one more relatively powerful offensive means when fighting with others.

Although it was the first time to perform this supernatural power in battle, the power it displayed also made a look of satisfaction appear on Song Qingming's face.

After the gray-robed old man was grabbed by the giant hand turned into by the "Profound Yang Blazing Flame," he first urged the blood light on his body and a mass of black corpse energy in his body, wanting to get rid of Song Qingming's control.

However, even if he had exhausted all his skills, it was still in vain, and he could only watch helplessly as the corpse energy on his body was slowly refined by the white light and flames.

Although performing the "Profound Yang Blazing Flame" supernatural power consumed a lot of magic power in the cultivator's body, Song Qingming had a residual map on his body to help restore magic power, and using this supernatural power was easier than ordinary people.

When magic power was insufficient, he could also take "Millennium Spirit Milk" to supplement it. This was also his greatest confidence in consuming the opponent. As long as the opponent could not break free from the control of the "Profound Yang Blazing Flame," he would sooner or later be defeated in his hands.

On the other side, "Jin Feng" and Chen Yuting also firmly blocked those Foundation Establishment corpse refiners who were fighting to the death to come and support. Song Qingming and the others had already occupied an absolute advantage on the battlefield at this moment, and they only needed more patience to solve the opponent.

Half an hour later, seeing that the corpse energy on the gray-robed old man trapped in the "Profound Yang Blazing Flame" had been completely refined by the white light, Song Qingming then felt at ease and opened the white giant hand.

At this time, although there was still a trace of blood light in the gray-robed old man's eyes, there was no corpse energy on his body, and he didn't even have the strength to stand up, so he could only look at Song Qingming walking toward him on the ground unwillingly.

"Since you have already passed away, don't stay in the world and continue to harm the world. Only by entering reincarnation early can you be reborn as a human again. I hope you will take care of yourself!"

After Song Qingming finished speaking, a white spirit talisman had already appeared in his hand, which he directly pasted on the other party's forehead, and then cast a spell and tapped lightly on the spirit talisman. The gray-robed old man was stunned for a moment, and then there was no movement at all.

After a while, a mass of white mist suddenly rose from the gray-robed old man's corpse, turning into a human-shaped phantom in mid-air.

This phantom was the gray-robed old man's primordial spirit. After looking at Song Qingming, he did not hesitate and directly escaped into the underground netherworld to reincarnate.

Although there are fights between cultivators everywhere in the cultivation world at all times, in general situations, unless it is a mortal enemy of heinous crimes, cultivators will let the opponent's primordial spirit reincarnate after killing the opponent, so as not to get involved in the heavenly cause and effect of this interface for no reason.

Only when facing those demonic cultivator inheritances that do not belong to this interface will they choose to kill the opponent's primordial spirit, to prevent these demonic cultivator primordial spirits from seizing bodies and being reborn, continuing to harm the world.

Although this gray-robed old man was a corpse refiner, because he was refined by others during his lifetime, his primordial spirit had also been trapped in the corpse for hundreds of years and could not reincarnate.

Song Qingming releasing his primordial spirit this time could be considered as doing a good deed, helping him completely liberate and be able to reincarnate and be reborn as a human again.

After solving the gray-robed old man, Song Qingming put his corpse and the flying sword magic treasure on the side into a storage magic tool, then turned and immediately came to "Jin Feng," who was still entangled with those Foundation Establishment corpse refiners.

At this time, "Jin Feng" and the others had occupied some advantages and solved seven or eight opponents. After Song Qingming joined the battlefield, he immediately accelerated the battle and ended the process. In less than a quarter of an hour, he knocked them all to the ground.

Ever since discovering this senior's cave dwelling, Chen Yuting had also thought that there might be some danger inside, but she really didn't expect that it would be so dangerous after coming in, and even Core Formation corpse refiners ran out.

If it weren't for bringing Song Qingming here this time, relying on Chen Yuting alone to enter this place would undoubtedly be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth to die. At that time, not only would she not be able to get any spirit items, but she would also lose her life.

Just after the battle ended, looking at the corpse refiners all over the ground, Chen Yuting, who was still lingering in fear, immediately turned and came to Song Qingming to bow and salute:

"I didn't expect that there were so many powerful corpse refiners hidden in this place. If it weren't for Senior coming here together, even if I could come in today, I am afraid I wouldn't be able to live and go out. This junior thanks Senior for saving my life."

Hearing this, Song Qingming immediately waved his hand: "Since we agreed to come together, if there is anything, I will naturally make a move. You don't need to think too much, get up first."

After comforting Chen Yuting, Song Qingming took the two women to search these Foundation Establishment corpse refiners and found many second-tier magic tools they used. Afterward, Song Qingming cast spells to burn all these corpses with elixir fire.

Looking at the blazing flames burning slowly in front of him, Luo Li, who was somewhat unbearable, couldn't help but say: "I don't know who the owner of this cave dwelling is, to actually refine so many living people into corpse refiners. His heart is truly vicious."

Just as Luo Li finished speaking, Chen Yuting immediately pointed to the location where these corpse refiners had just appeared and said to Song Qingming beside her:

"Senior, these corpse refiners seem to have run out from behind those wooden boxes. I think there must be some mechanisms and news hidden there. Let's go and look for it, maybe we can find the place where the cave dwelling owner is hiding."

"Hmm! You stay here and don't go over first, I will go and check the situation first."

After Song Qingming finished speaking, he gave an instruction to "Jin Feng," arranging for him to continue guarding the cave dwelling entrance, before walking alone toward the wall behind the pile of wooden boxes. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 729 =====