Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 853 - 347: Celestial Craft Square: Level 3

”You... what kind of method is this?!”

The Yin Corpse stared at that wisp of green flame in Ji Yuan’s hand, and an instinctive sense of fear actually rose in its heart.

As if... this thing was its natural nemesis.

Ji Yuan’s only response was the surging Mana pouring into that Yin Corpse Demon Fire.

In just the span of a breath, that Yin Corpse Demon Fire expanded from the size of a fingertip to the size of a human head.

Seeing that things were going bad, the Yin Corpse let out a shrill roar and flew toward Ji Yuan.

”Courting death!”

Ji Yuan cursed inwardly, and his right hand suddenly swung forward.

The hurled Yin Corpse Demon Fire exploded in an instant. In a flash, the sky under this vault was filled with burning green ghostly flames. Those still burning in midair were fine, just little tongues of fire, but the ones that fell into the dense forest on the ground were a different story.

Ancient trees, wild grass, beasts, birds.

Any living thing that was tainted by this Yin Corpse Demon Fire was instantly devoured by the flames, finally turning into dust.

And at the moment the Yin Corpse Demon Fire exploded, the Yin Corpse that had just been arrogant and intent on charging forward felt fear, its figure thrown straight back, then it shot at full speed back into the cave where it had been before.

”Trying to run?”

Ji Yuan hooked his right hand, and all the Yin Corpse Demon Fire immediately flew back, forming a green halo of Demon Fire behind him.

The light given off by the Demon Fire cast Ji Yuan’s face in a horrifying dark green, making him look even more ferocious and terrifying!

His body turned into Escape Light, chasing right after, one before and one behind as they slipped into the cave.

Only moments ago it had been the Yin Corpse pursuing Ji Yuan, but now Ji Yuan was hunting down the Yin Corpse.

In the short span of less than a cup of tea, the tide of offense and defense had completely reversed!

And just as his figure rushed into the cave, Ji Yuan released his Divine Sense. He was worried that the Yin Corpse, driven into a corner, would destroy the Icefire Lotus.

If that really happened, this trip would truly be more loss than gain.

Fortunately, the Icefire Lotus was still growing intact at the center of the cold pool. However, that Yin Corpse which had fled in... was nowhere to be seen.

Ji Yuan did not panic. His figure flew straight toward the depths of the cave.

In just a short moment, he arrived at the stone chamber.

He looked at the Icefire Lotus floating in the center of the cold pool and flicked his right hand in a sword-finger gesture.

”Go!”

A streak of sword light flashed out, but before he could pluck the lotus, a Yin Corpse suddenly burrowed out of the ground, using its body as a shield to block this Flying Sword.

”You really cling like an unquiet ghost!”

The Yin Corpse glared at Ji Yuan floating in midair and spoke through gritted teeth.

Ji Yuan said nothing; his answer was the simultaneous emergence of nine Flying Sword embryos.

As for the Yin Corpse Demon Fire... Ji Yuan did not dare release it, worried that it might accidentally harm the lotus.

For a time, the nine Flying Swords struck the Yin Corpse’s body, clanging repeatedly.

They could not injure the Yin Corpse, but they could barely contain it. Just as Ji Yuan thought he could free up a hand to pluck the lotus, a surge of powerful Yin Energy suddenly erupted from the Yin Corpse, blasting all the Flying Swords away and sending its figure flashing behind Ji Yuan in an instant.

Thinking it had seized its chance, it suddenly smashed a fist into Ji Yuan’s back.

”Boom—”

A dull thud rang out from Ji Yuan’s body, protected by the Spirit Devouring Armor. His figure staggered forward... but that was all!

”What?!”

Seeing that its full-force punch hadn’t even shaken this man’s body, the Yin Corpse finally felt a trace of fear.

Relying on the memories from its lifetime, it vaguely guessed Ji Yuan’s background.

”You... you’re actually a Body Cultivator!”

”There is no such heritage on the Jiyuan Continent at all. You’re from another continent, Cangluo... no, no, you’re from the Desolate Ancient Continent!”

The Yin Corpse spoke in a trembling voice.

Ji Yuan did not turn around, but the Yin Corpse Demon Fire protecting his back seized the chance and poured entirely onto the Yin Corpse.

Just now Ji Yuan had deliberately revealed a flaw, worried that the Yin Corpse might not bite.

Now it seemed, a dead thing was still a dead thing.

It only knew how to charge blindly, far less insidious and cunning than a Cultivator.

”Aaahhhhh!!!!”

The Yin Corpse Demon Fire burned everything, and this thing before him was itself a Yin Corpse. Coming into contact with the Yin Corpse Demon Fire... was like pouring oil on a blazing inferno. In just a blink, the flames engulfed its entire body.

Thick streams of Yin Energy continuously spewed from the Yin Corpse’s body.

Clearly, it still had many means it had not yet used, but all of them were buried in this cave along with that single conflagration of Demon Fire.

Seeing the ever-thickening Yin Energy spreading out around him, Ji Yuan did not waste it.

With a flicker of Heart Thought, two banners flew out from his back, the Yin Ghost Banner on the left and the Thousand Souls Banner on the right, on top of the Yin Corpse Demon Fire currently blazing in the cave.

In that instant, the Demonic Qi around Ji Yuan could truly be said to be surging to the heavens!

At this sight, the Yin Corpse was shocked to the extreme, and at the same time let out its final words.

There was a hint of regret, and also a hint of resentment.

”I... I am also of the Yin Ghost Sect... sect...”

Before it could finish, the barrier of Yin Energy around its body finally failed to withstand the corrosion of the Demon Fire. The eerie green Yin Corpse Demon Fire swallowed it in an instant, reducing it to dry bones.

Under the Spirit Devouring Armor, Ji Yuan’s eyes lit up at these words.

...Yin Ghost Sect?!

This Yin Corpse had actually been a disciple of the Yin Ghost Sect in life?

But when Ji Yuan thought it through, he knew that was impossible. The Yin Ghost Sect had been destroyed for far too long.

Even if this Cultivator had become a Yin Corpse after death, a Yin Corpse without even Nascent Soul Cultivation—how could it have crossed the Long River of time to live to this day?

It would most likely have long since been erased in the dust of history.

More likely, as with Ji Yuan himself, this Yin Corpse had only chanced upon a portion of the Yin Ghost Sect’s legacy while it was alive.