Chapter 651: Void Refinement Corpse Demon

"Oh no… I don't know whether my father did it on purpose or by accident, but I was buried right here beneath the ground!"

"How convenient—this place happens to be a place of utmost yin, filth, and cold!"

"At that time, my three souls and seven spirits had already entered reincarnation, yet a wisp of residual soul remained within my corpse!"

"That wisp of residual soul, trapped within the corpse, began its long journey of cultivation!"

"I am a yin ghost, so my cultivation speed is extremely slow—but yin ghosts and corpse cultivators have one advantage: as long as we avoid the killing tribulation, we can exist forever!"

"We cannot die!"

"Or rather, we are already dead people!"

"Thus, year after year, day after day… tens of thousands of years have passed!"

"I have finally cultivated to the Void Refinement realm!"

"Hehehehe…"

"After reaching Void Refinement, relying solely on understanding the laws of heaven and earth is far too slow—it barely lets me break through my Dao barrier!"

"So I began leaving this tomb, concealing my cultivation base and yin energy, appearing among the Spirit Realm as a human, seeking out cultivators, luring them to my tomb, and devouring their Nascent Souls and Dao methods—thus accelerating my breakthroughs by more than a hundredfold!"

"Hehehehe…"

"Now, you should understand why you've ended up here, right?"

The group exchanged uneasy glances.

Beichen asked: "You mean you're going to devour us?"

"No no no… I have elixirs, ready-made Dao laws and rules!"

"I can give them all to you!"

"Let us go!"

"Impossible!" the woman shook her head: "In the Spirit Realm, over ninety percent of elixirs are useless to corpse cultivators like us!"

"Only the jade infant of humans is truly exquisite!"

As she spoke, Zhou Qingmei licked her own crimson lips.

"Uh… Senior Sister Zhou…" He Pingsheng suddenly spoke up: "You've cultivated for tens of thousands of years—surely your unfaithful lover must be long dead by now?"

"Sigh…" Zhou Qingmei sighed deeply and shook her head: "Regrettably, no…"

"Now, he has grown to a height I can only look up to!"

"I'll probably never be able to kill him or avenge myself in this lifetime!"

He Pingsheng's heart jolted.

Still alive?

Damn… could this man be a human Mahayana Emperor?

Ordinary Void Refinement cultivators have only five thousand years of life; Body Integration grants ten thousand.

But once one reaches Mahayama Emperor, lifespan doesn't merely double.

It multiplies tenfold!

That means, once one reaches Mahayana Emperor, one gains at least a hundred thousand years of life.

Just now, Zhou Qingmei said she'd been cultivating underground for tens of thousands of years since death—so that means the man she spoke of is now a human Mahayana Emperor?

Otherwise, he couldn't possibly have lived tens of thousands of years!

Damn!

Neither of these two is simple at all.

"Senior Sister Zhou, are you lying to us?" Longyue said: "With your Void Refinement cultivation, we're nothing but ants before you… so why go through all this trouble to lure us here?"

"Why not just kill us outside and devour us directly?"

"Or better yet—suppress us and drag us back yourself!"

"Why waste over six years searching the Canglan Gorge?"

No one had considered this angle.

Now that she mentioned it, everyone grew suspicious.

"Hmph…" Zhou Qingmei said: "You're utterly ignorant. Do you know I'm a corpse cultivator, forbidden to exist within heaven and earth?"

"Those who have entered reincarnation must not bring chaos to the world—that is the Dao's rule!"

"If I unleash my vast magic power outside, I'll be instantly captured by the Spirit Realm's yin-yang laws!"

"And do you know how many people make their living hunting demons and exterminating evil?"

"Within the Heavenly Buddha Emperor Domain alone, hundreds of millions of Buddhist disciples would kill me on sight."

"If I so much as reveal a trace of my aura, death is imminent!"

"Outside, I cannot act!"

"Otherwise, why do you think I've spent so long setting up layer upon layer of defensive arrays underground?"

"You don't understand the terror of those Buddhas in the Heavenly Buddha Emperor Domain!"

With that, everyone understood.

"But… hahaha…" Zhou Qingmei laughed again: "Soon, I will merge with the Dao… when my true body and my avatar unite and enter Body Integration, I'll use the power of 【Heavenly Manifestation】 to shed my corpse demon form, refine it into my own Dharma Form, and become a true cultivator!"

"Hehehe… devouring you few should be enough!"

"Hahahaha… come here, my treasures…"

Boom…

Zhou Qingmei transformed into a black whirlwind and lunged at Beichen.

Beichen unleashed every technique he had to resist!

Yet his resistance meant nothing to Zhou Qingmei!

"Puch…"

The next instant, Beichen's body shattered, leaving only his jade infant, seized in Zhou Qingmei's hand.

"Next, it's your turn…" After securing the jade infant, she raised her hand—a black sword-light erupted, instantly tearing through Longyue's body.

But to Zhou Qingmei's shock, Longyue vanished the moment she was torn apart.

Only a black wooden doll remained on the ground.

"This…" Zhou Qingmei's face darkened: "Damn… it's a death substitute doll… she escaped?"

"But it doesn't matter—I only ever intended to lure three here!"

"Even if Longyue ran, killing and devouring you two will be enough… hehehehe…"

Zhou Qingmei turned to He Pingsheng and Hao Cang.

"You don't seem afraid at all?" Zhou Qingmei stared at He Pingsheng, puzzled.

He Pingsheng said: "Why should I be afraid?"

"Swoosh…" A green spiritual-needle shot from He Pingsheng's mind-sea and slammed into Zhou Qingmei's forehead.

Yet Zhou Qingmei laughed heartily: "Spiritual attack?"

"I'm a corpse cultivator—I have no soul. How could I have spiritual sense?"

"Your trick is useless on me!"

"This poison is useless on a corpse cultivator of utmost yin, filth, and cold!"

He Pingsheng was stunned—but after one breath, he smiled: "Zhou Qingmei, even if spiritual sense can't harm you, I still give you one chance!"

"Kneel on the ground, pledge allegiance to me, and make me your master!"

"Otherwise… you will die!"

As he spoke, He Pingsheng pulled out a black talisman.

Sixth-rank Talisman: Ghost King Talisman!

No nonsense!

He pulled out his strongest killing move immediately.

Because He Pingsheng knew: against a Void Refinement ninth-layer corpse cultivator, his Heaven's Mechanism Thirteen Staves or Ten Thousand Extinctions Returning to Origin were useless.

Now that spiritual sense attacks had no effect, the only thing that could suppress her was this Ghost King Talisman.