Chapter 158: 【Corpse King Executed, Establishing the Immortal Clan】 (First update, begging for)

The means with the most certainty to eliminate the Rending Heaven Corpse King was naturally the 【Nail-Head Seven Arrows】 supernatural power.

This supernatural power was not limited to killing people.

Although it was said that a straw man was made, that was merely a reference; all things could be killed!

Although zombies do not have three souls and seven spirits, in reality, the three souls and seven spirits here were also just a reference. After a cultivator refines a primordial spirit, the three souls and seven spirits have long since merged into one, and they do not exist.

This was just to obtain its consciousness.

All things born of heaven and earth have essence, Qi, and spirit. What was taken on the straw man was the 'spirit'—the divine soul, primordial spirit, and spirit.

Therefore, Lu Runping had no doubts about whether he could kill the Corpse King with this.

The key lay in whether it was worth it.

To kill an existence at the Land Immortal realm, even if it was at the same level, the consumption of lifespan would definitely not be small.

He had achieved the status of a Land Immortal, but that didn't mean he had no goals.

Inheriting the will of his ancestors to establish the Lu Family Immortal Clan, now that he had achieved the status of a Land Immortal, his mission had just begun.

Establishing an immortal clan was not enough just by gathering a group of people; the key was the development of the clansmen. He had to protect them for at least ten thousand years.

Therefore, if too much lifespan was consumed, he might not be able to protect the immortal clan for ten thousand years.

So, using other methods, could he kill the Corpse King?

After pondering for a while, Lu Runping determined that there was basically no chance.

That 'Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Talents Reversing Universe Flag' was too strong. Back then, when this guy hadn't achieved the status of a Land Immortal, it could still run away after being hunted by two Land Immortals.

Now that it had become a Corpse King, with the help of this set of Dharma treasures, he feared it would be very difficult to kill it.

Lu Runping did have some means that might restrain the other party, but he himself was not certain and even less willing to take risks.

After comprehensive consideration, he still decided to use the simplest method directly.

He had no choice but to burn his lifespan!

With the 【Covering the Sky and Blocking the Sun】 supernatural power, he was not afraid of exposing karma, so he directly set up an offering table, straw man, talisman paper, books, and peach wood sword in his cave abode in the Ice Soul Divine Palace.

Come to think of it, this was the first time Lu Runping had used this supernatural power.

Perhaps it was because he was more inclined to guide from behind the scenes and harvest Dao Fruits, and he didn't have any clear enemies, so he had never used this supernatural power.

Using it for the first time, it was directly the highest difficulty in this world—killing an existence at the Land Immortal realm—which was truly a bit exciting.

After the supernatural power was activated, there was naturally a karmic connection in the dark. At the beginning, the karmic line was very weak, just like a mortal worshipping an immortal; the karma produced was very weak to the immortal.

The latter might not even be able to perceive it.

In the current situation, the other party was even less able to perceive it.

The first day of kneeling and worshipping, the second day of kneeling and worshipping, until the fifth day.

The Round Light Manifestation supernatural power showed that the Rending Heaven Corpse King's body, which was in the middle of cultivation, suddenly paused, and then its consciousness was snatched away.

The spiritual energy was dragged onto the straw man, and then a face was seen.

This was Lu Chengtong's face.

"It's you!"

The Rending Heaven Corpse King recognized at a glance that this was one of the two cultivators who had delivered themselves to its door back then.

But immediately after, it said angrily:

"No, he was already eaten by me. Who are you, and how did you bring me here?!"

Lu Runping looked at it and smiled blandly:

"I have come to resolve the karma. You were born because of me, and you shall also perish because of me!"

The Rending Heaven Corpse King wanted to say something more, but its consciousness had already returned to its original body once again.

Having regained control of its powerful zombie body, it had no sense of security at all.

Just now, trapped inside the straw man, it actually had no ability to resist at all. This kind of means exceeded its imagination.

Sensing a strong karma, it immediately searched for the karma to fly away, but not long after, it discovered that the karmic direction had changed. After searching for three hours, it angrily struck a crack in the ground.

The karmic direction kept changing, and it couldn't determine the target at all.

Clearly, this karma had been covered up, and it couldn't find the other party by such means.

The Rending Heaven Corpse King didn't know what the other party would do next, but it decided to stay far away from here and leave the Donghua Zhenzhou.

It didn't believe that if it ran out of the range of this continent, the other party could still use that kind of means to strip away and snatch its consciousness.

With the flight speed of a Land Immortal, the Rending Heaven Corpse King soon arrived at the northernmost end of the North Wilderness Domain and flew straight north.

The next day, it arrived on a lonely island, killed a large number of demonic beasts to vent its anger, and sucked their essence and blood to strengthen itself.

This was the sixth day.

Suddenly, the Rending Heaven Corpse King fell down.

While it was wantonly killing, it fell directly on this lonely island, but no creature around dared to approach.

"It's you, it's still you, how can you still snatch my spirit!?"

The Rending Heaven Corpse King roared unwillingly.

Lu Runping smiled and said:

"You can keep running, but, there is only one day left."

After speaking, the ritual was completed, and the Rending Heaven Corpse King's consciousness returned to its body.

This time, it felt that more than sixty percent of its spirit had been lost. Indeed, one more time, its spirit would be completely extinguished!

Although this zombie body could still give birth to a new consciousness, that would no longer be it.

Run, keep running!

If running out of the Donghua Zhenzhou didn't work, then run to the Beizheng Sizhou. The Rending Heaven Corpse King didn't believe, and didn't dare to believe, that the other party's means could ignore distance.

Unable to find where the other party was, all it could do was run, desperately run away.

Of course, actually, if it could ascend in a short time, then Lu Runping wouldn't be able to kill it either, because the gap in strength was too large.

A Land Immortal is not a True Immortal; they are still human.

Killing an immortal as a human, the price paid exceeded Lu Runping's limit of endurance.

But the Rending Heaven Corpse King clearly didn't have that fate; if it couldn't ascend, it could only wait for death.

It didn't manage to run to the Beizheng Sizhou.

The Nine Provinces of the Yuanshuo World are far apart. A Land Immortal, flying at full speed, would take at least three days to reach another continent.

Halfway there, the Rending Heaven Corpse King had all its spirit detained, and its body happened to fall on a lonely island, its powerful aura scaring all creatures away.

Returning once again to that straw man that made it feel incredibly afraid, the Rending Heaven Corpse King begged unwillingly:

"Is there some misunderstanding between us? You are absolutely not him. What exactly do you want to do? As long as you don't kill me, I can acknowledge you as my master!"

In the face of absolute life and death, the Rending Heaven Corpse King lost its temper.

Lu Runping, while pulling up the peach wood bow and aiming at the straw man, said:

"I said, I am just resolving karma."

One arrow shot out, and one-third of the Rending Heaven Corpse King's spirit dissipated, but its body was not damaged.

This might have a certain relationship with it being a zombie.

The relationship between a zombie's consciousness and its body is not as closely linked as that between a cultivator's primordial spirit and body. A zombie's consciousness is not included in its cultivation.

Lu Runping's karma was resolved on the Rending Heaven Corpse King's consciousness, not its body.

After three arrows, the Rending Heaven Corpse King's consciousness was extinguished, and no more arrows were used.

As expected, when fighting an enemy of the same rank, only three arrows were needed.

Seven days of kneeling and worshipping, consuming two hundred years of lifespan each day, and three arrows, each arrow costing three hundred years of lifespan—a total of two thousand three hundred years of lifespan were used, which was not much.

It was less than expected.

A good thing; it was equivalent to earning it.

He suddenly thought of something and activated the 【Taking Objects from Afar】 supernatural power, grabbing the Rending Heaven Corpse King's zombie body in front of him in one go.

Grabbing a target from hundreds of millions of miles away was as easy as reaching into a bag, it was just that the further the distance, the more divine soul power was consumed.

This zombie body was a good thing, equivalent to a spiritual object at the Land Immortal realm. If the clone was taken back, it could be directly used to transform into a clone.

However, this was a very dangerous thing, as it might undergo corpse transformation.

Lu Runping directly released the Taiyin True Water, freezing it into a large ice sculpture, and then put it into the Mustard Secret Realm to keep it.

The biggest karma, the Rending Heaven Corpse King, had been eliminated.

It was time to start creating the Lu Family Immortal Clan!

Using a month's time, Lu Runping observed everywhere in the Thirteen Domains of the Central Continent through the 【Round Light Manifestation】 supernatural power, and finally cast his gaze on the Lianze Domain.

Other places had powerful immortal sects, while here, the Three-Turn Heavenly Monarch of the Qingyang Immortal Sect had not truly stepped into the Land Immortal level, and the Kongming Immortal Sect had been destroyed; it was absolutely a power vacuum for immortal sects.

Especially on the territory that originally belonged to the Kongming Immortal Sect, due to the blood sacrifice of the Kongming Ancestor, a large number of cultivators died, and many places became wasteland, waiting to be developed.

In addition, although the entire Kongming Immortal Sect was blood-sacrificed, their sect station was still there, and various buildings were very complete.

That piece of territory was now used as a sect station by an affiliated sect of the Qingyang Immortal Sect called the Qingyan Sect.

He believed they would voluntarily give it up.

After making the decision, Lu Runping announced his seclusion in the name of Duanmu Lin, and then came to the Lianze Domain, the Kongming Immortal Sect station, and found the Sect Master of the Qingyan Sect, Liu Yixiao.

"This seat intends to open up the Lu Family Immortal Clan. This place has a connection with my Lu family. Please, Sect Master Liu, look for another place."

Lu Runping directly released his cultivation at the perfection of the early stage of the Land Immortal realm. This aura represented that he was not an existence who had just entered the Land Immortal realm, causing Liu Yixiao's face to change.

"My Qingyan Sect is not worthy of the position, so naturally we should abdicate to the virtuous, but, the junior has another proposal."

Speaking of this, Liu Yixiao paused, and seeing that Lu Runping did not interrupt, he gathered his courage and continued:

"The junior feels that this place is vast, and the senior's immortal clan has just been established, so there are not many people who can be used. Why not let us stay, return to a corner, become an affiliate of the immortal clan, and also share some worries for the senior."

Although the Qingyang Immortal Sect already had a Three-Turn Heavenly Monarch, it was clear that this Land Immortal was more powerful.

In the Lianze Domain, the Qingyang Immortal Sect was already adopting a conservative strategy, and it was absolutely impossible to go to war with a Land Immortal because of an affiliated sect. Therefore, in order to obtain protection, Liu Yixiao's choice was understandable.

At this level, what was considered was the interests of the sect; things like loyalty didn't exist in the first place.

Lu Runping considered it and felt that this was also not bad.

The immortal clan was newly created, and there were no powerful clansmen, so they indeed needed some manpower.

He had investigated, and the Qingyan Sect had two Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Monarchs and eleven Dao Harmonizing Laymen, which could be considered a help.

"In that case, that is fine."

Three days later, the Qingyan Sect packed up their manpower and gave up a large piece of precious land. On the highest peak, Lu Runping announced loudly:

"Today, I, Lu Runping, Patriarch of the Lu family, establish the Lu Family Immortal Clan in the Lianze Domain, to be passed down from generation to generation, protecting the common people!"

The voice rolled out like thunder, spreading to the surroundings again and again, gradually covering the entire Lianze Domain, a full nine times.

And at the same time, Lu Runping reached out and grabbed, and a large number of bewildered clansmen were grabbed in front of him from all over the place.

Sorry, I'm late.