Enlightenment: Beginning as a Disposable Warrior-Chapter 175 - 135: Corpse Qi, Twin Ghosts Knock at the Door (Second Update)

Chapter 175: Chapter 135: Corpse Qi, Twin Ghosts Knock at the Door (Second Update)

Seeking revenge, killing?!

Zhang Jin’s eyes gleamed with excitement. Indeed, heaven hadn’t forsaken him. His luck was truly exceptional; he was convinced that Su Mu was the righteous knight, here tonight to target the remnants of the Corpse Puppet Sect.

"Benefactor, your righteousness is boundless. I am willing to join hands with you..."

"Get lost!"

Su Mu threw another punch, sending the Iron Armor Corpse Puppet, which had risen to attack again, reeling back. The Cyan Wolf Mask turned, revealing cold eyes that glanced at Zhang Jin.

It was unclear whether this "Get lost" was directed at the corpse puppet or Zhang Jin.

Zhang Jin’s throat moved as he realized that the meaning was most likely the latter; the "Get lost" was meant for him.

"I am Zhang Jin of the Hongmen Martial Arts Hall in Changfeng County. Benefactor, please be careful!"

After speaking, Zhang Jin sensibly retreated, intending to head deeper into the cave. Su Mu noticed this out of the corner of his eye and nodded secretly. This guy was indeed true to his word; he was actually going to rescue people instead of trying to escape in the chaos.

"Want to leave? It’s not that easy!"

Jingle -------

The sinister sound of a bone bell was heard, and immediately five humanoid monsters surged madly toward Zhang Jin. Su Mu did not even glance at him.

If he can’t even manage that after I saved him, then he might as well die.

Seeing the humanoid monsters rushing at him, Zhang Jin swung his hands, the iron chains wrapping around his fists. He punched several times, repelling the advancing monsters, and quickly continued deeper into the cave.

These humanoid monsters, when combined, could delay or even surround and kill a Muscle-Enhancing Martial Artist, but with iron chains binding them, if Zhang Jin didn’t linger to fight, he could naturally leave.

The black-robed elder observed Zhang Jin heading toward a passage deeper in the cave but remained unperturbed. He knew the key wasn’t Zhang Jin but Su Mu, who wore the Cyan Wolf Mask.

If he could settle with Su Mu first, Zhang Jin would be merely a turtle in a jar trying to rescue anyone deeper in the cave.

"Who are you, sir? Why did you intrude upon my Lin Family Manor and ruin my plans?"

The black-robed elder gestured with the bone bell, bringing the Iron Armor Corpse Puppet to stand before him, and the humanoid monsters fell silent again. Although Su Mu had repelled the Iron Armor Corpse Puppet several times, not truly harming his precious creature, the elder was deeply apprehensive, unable to figure out Su Mu’s origins.

"Where did this person come from? Since when has there been such a character in the Three Counties?"

As these thoughts raced through his mind, the black-robed elder subtly signaled those beside him, who understood and retreated several steps, attempting to leave quietly, an act that did not escape Su Mu’s sharp eyes.

Su Mu kicked a piece of the ground shattered by the Iron Armor Corpse Puppet, and with Pill Force infusion, the rock shard shot out like an arrow.

Whoosh!

The elder’s face changed slightly as the Iron Armor Corpse Puppet growled and shielded him, but Su Mu’s target was never the elder; it was the one trying to discretely slip away.

Bang!

Hearing the sound behind him, the person turned abruptly only to have the rock fragment magnify before his eyes, unable to even grunt before his head suddenly exploded.

"Since you wish for death, I shall fulfill it."

The black-robed elder immediately retreated and struck the rock wall with his palm, triggering a hidden mechanism. With the sound of machinery, the chains embedded in the rock wall loosened and fell free.

Jingle -----------

Under the eerie, chilling peal of the bone bell, the five humanoid monsters and the Iron Armor Corpse Puppet issued low growls, besieging Su Mu on all sides.

The humanoid monsters moved faster than the Iron Armor Corpse Puppet. The nearest one, now unbound, pounced at Su Mu, leaping several feet into the air.

Upon witnessing this, the black-robed elder’s face twisted into a menacing grin, his eyes gleaming greedily at Su Mu, as though seeing a treasure.

Given that Su Mu could drive back his Iron Armor Corpse Puppet, his mastery in Cross-Training Martial Arts must exceed even that of Zhang Jin, which is why the elder allowed Zhang Jin to exit the battlefield unhindered.

"Hehe, if I use this man’s corpse to make a puppet, perhaps it could rival the Copper Armor Corpse Puppet without needing Treasure Armor!"

Moreover, the elder was confident in his five wolf-shaped corpse puppets and the Iron Armor Corpse Puppet. The five wolf-shaped puppets, in life, were Eighth-Grade Martial Artists who had undergone Third Bone Forging and studied Cross-Training Martial Arts, including a monk from the Vajra Temple.

Having been thrice bone-forged and trained in Cross-Training Martial Arts in life, they were soaked in Demon Beast Blood and refined with secret techniques after death. Though they were unarmored, their bodies were tougher than even the Hundred-Refined Elite Soldiers, serving as humanoid weapons.

These five wolf-shaped puppets, coupled with an Iron Armor Corpse Puppet, could shame even a well-known top-tier Muscle-Enhancing Martial Artist caught off guard.

Yet in the next moment, a thunderous crack shattered the elder’s dream.

Rumble -------

Thunder boomed suddenly, the purple electricity coursing through Su Mu’s clenched fist. The ground’s debris shot out violently as the purple electricity sliced through the air the moment Su Mu’s fist struck.

The lunging wolf-shaped puppet froze mid-air.

Then, with a series of thunderous cracks, the puppet’s chest was violently blasted open, a gory hole formed, with purple electricity flickering across the wolf-shaped puppet’s body. The blood-chilling shriek emanated from within the gaping wound.

Amid the rolling black smoke, the wolf-shaped puppet, which Zhang Jin could only repel but not destroy, plummeted, twitched a few times, and lay still.

Witnessing this, the black-robed elder’s lips twitched. His painstakingly crafted wolf-shaped puppet had been destroyed so abruptly.

The elder’s gaze fixed on the shattered chest, his pupils narrowing sharply.

"Was that punch just a coincidence..."

The corpse puppets he refined felt no pain, ferocious and relentless; fatal injuries to a typical martial artist’s flesh and blood body couldn’t kill a corpse puppet. Even if its arms were broken, legs severed, or head smashed and sliced off, it couldn’t be killed.

Boom!

While the black-robed elder was still in doubt, Su Mu punched again, and another wolf-shaped corpse puppet was blasted and fell to the ground. This time Su Mu shattered its abdomen, and more wisps of foul-smelling black smoke emerged.

In that moment, a ferocious light flashed in the elder’s eyes. This newcomer who suddenly appeared struck the wolf-shaped corpse puppets’ corpse gu locations precisely with two consecutive punches. One could be a coincidence, but two couldn’t be.

"To actually discern the location of the corpse gu I refined..." The elder’s face was sinister, surging with a killing intent. The destruction of two wolf-shaped corpse puppets made his heart bleed. "Initially, I intended to let you live a bit longer, but it seems that’s unnecessary now."

An unease arose in the elder’s heart. For Su Mu to discern the location of the corpse gu he refined, it was clear he came prepared, and such a person couldn’t be left in this world. He decided to kill this scourge himself.

Immediately, he shook a bell, and the remaining three wolf-shaped corpse puppets instantly ceased their attack, retreating to block Su Mu’s escape route.

"Purple Shirt."

At that moment, Su Mu uttered the words ’Purple Shirt’. The black-robed elder visibly hesitated upon hearing them, but soon exposed a fierce light with a hint of joy.

Su Mu observed this scene and immediately understood that the person replacing Lin Yun was not Purple Shirt, but definitely had some connection with Purple Shirt.

"So this person came for the Purple Robe Snake King. The Celestial King is about to emerge; capturing this person could earn a credit with the Celestial King."

Thoughts rapidly turned in his mind, and the elder coldly shouted.

"Corpse Armor!"

As soon as those words fell, the Iron Armor Corpse Puppet let out an extremely frenzied low roar, spitting out a ghostly green mist from all around its body.

Poison mist?

Su Mu immediately stepped back, and the three wolf-shaped corpse puppets blocking the retreat one after another retreated several steps.

The elder opened his mouth wide and swallowed the green mist from the Iron Armor Corpse Puppet into his abdomen. Instantly, the elder’s black robe burst inch by inch, and the thin body beneath his garments swelled at a visible speed. Beneath his skin, the green mist surged. His body towered upward, becoming a giant, and the green mist seemed to condense into armor around him.

During this process, the elder’s aura skyrocketed, faint sounds of mourning from men, women, young, and old could be heard.

"Dare to cause trouble on my territory? You don’t have the qualifications. You destroyed two of my wolf-shaped corpse puppets, so I’ll use you to make a corpse puppet as compensation."

The elder sneered, stepping forward, and the corpse puppets beside him moved in complete synchronization with him. The two large figures seemed like two malevolent spirits charging, exerting immense pressure. Facing such demons, a typical Muscle-Enhancing Martial Artist might become terrified without even fighting.

But Su Mu was an anomaly. Confronted with the elder’s powerful and unknown martial arts, Su Mu’s eyes flashed with both solemnity and excitement.

"This person’s aura far exceeds Shangguan Feng’s, and is no weaker than Gu Feng’s that night. This green mist, is it the so-called corpse qi? Its effects remain unknown, but the world’s martial arts never cease to amaze!"

The path Su Mu wished to follow was to blend martial arts from a hundred schools, forging his own Martial Dao.

Simultaneously, it was a path of carnage.

Engaging with a formidable adversary made the blood within him boil as if about to reach a fever pitch in a boiler, his chest filled with a soaring battle intent.

"Prepare to die!"

The elder clenched his fist and punched out. Immediately, a series of thunderous explosions erupted in the sky. At the same time, the Iron Armor Corpse Puppet, fully charged, attacked too, resembling a dreadful attack called "Double Ghost at the Door".

Moreover, as the punch was launched, the green mist around the elder transformed into a ghastly green wind intertwined with the wails of men and women, momentarily filled with countless phantoms of skulls.

Su Mu didn’t underestimate his opponent, suddenly pressing his palms together.

Roar!

The wind from the tiger, a majestic and towering tiger’s roar dispersed the ghostly wind before him, while a ten-foot Golden Bell emitted a sonorous chime.

With Su Mu’s advancement in martial arts, two new strands of power were born. This thirteen-foot power-imbued Golden Bell had advanced further, soaring to form a sixteen-foot Golden Bell.

Amidst the golden bell’s chimes and tiger’s roars, the Golden Bell transformed into a Furious Eyes Vajra, covering Su Mu. The underground cave filled with ghostly winds suddenly erupted with golden light, as if True Gold of Hundred Refinements wrapped around every inch of Su Mu’s skin.

"Just in time!"

In his Vajra State, Su Mu faced the dual ghostly assaulting forces, and his fists shot forward together.

Tiger Subduing Fist: Vajra Subduing Tiger!

The Tiger Subduing Fist and Vajra Body both belonged to the martial arts of the Vajra Temple. In Vajra State, the power of Tiger Subduing Fist is even greater.

Once again the sound of tiger roars resounded as fists clashed fiercely, explosive sparks flying, accompanied by deafening metallic clangs.

The power of both sides suddenly erupted, the overflowed aftermath turning into two gusty winds so intense, they fractured the rock walls, and stones fell with a clatter, as though cleaved by an axe.

Upon impact, the ground beneath both fighters smashed downwards sharply, cracks spreading like a spider web.

Su Mu from this punch of the black-robed elder sensed an incredible force even beyond the Iron Armor Corpse Puppet; the power transmitted was also vigorous, the elder’s mastery over Transforming Force was not much inferior to Gu Feng.

Receiving the attack directly, Su Mu also needed to take a half-step back to release the power, his feet sinking into the ground.

Thud, thud, thud!

On the other side, the attacking dual ghosts retreated abruptly three steps after breaking the ground consecutively, the elder’s face suddenly changed, now looking with profound gravity on his face.