Longevity Begins with the Seven Injuries Fist-Chapter 234 - 152: Miaojiang Uprising! High Level Corpse Gu!

Chapter 234: Chapter 152: Miaojiang Uprising! High Level Corpse Gu!

"These kinds of Corpse Gu are generally very rare."

"As long as you, my lord, organize the Heaven-Breaking Army to kill the Gu Masters controlling Corpse Gu in Miaojiang, those Corpse Gu will have no use."

"Moreover, as long as you hide your tracks well, even those Miaojiang experts won’t be able to assassinate you."

"Though the Miaojiang experts are powerful, merely a few of them cannot possibly annihilate an army of tens of thousands."

After listening, Li Xuanji asked, "Master, you mentioned that the unrest caused by the forces like the Cave of Myriad Poisons in Miaojiang might have been instigated by the Holy Altar."

"What is the power of the people from the Holy Altar like?"

Fan Gushan’s eyes slightly narrowed under his mask:

"I don’t know what the current power of the Holy Altar is, but in the past, the Holy Altar had experts above the Gang Condensing Realm."

"With such power, we are unable to deal with them nowadays."

"If the Holy Altar truly makes a move, we should immediately retreat, secretly gather strength, and then watch as the Holy Altar and the Liang Court wage war. Once our power is enhanced, we can reap the benefits as a third party."

After hearing this, Li Xuanji nodded, forming an idea in his heart.

...

Su Que realized that Miaojiang had many poisonous substances he could absorb to elevate the Heart Scripture of Myriad Poisons more swiftly.

The next day, he told Su Jing that he wanted to go on an excursion and would leave Jiannan Prefecture City for a few days.

Su Jing was now a Three Blood Martial Artist and had learned sword techniques; after sparring with Li Yujing multiple times, her strength was not weak.

The small gang leaders in the area were no longer her match.

Thus, she suggested to Su Que that she could accompany him on the excursion to protect him.

Su Que thought that having her along would make things inconvenient.

So he said that he would be traveling with some very skilled martial artists, and Su Jing need not worry about his safety.

Hearing this from Su Que, Su Jing conceded.

Su Que pretended to pack a bundle, tossing some study ink treasures into it, and left the house.

He then headed to a cave where he changed his outfit, picked a new bundle, tied it to himself, and set off for Miaojiang.

With a large appetite, Su Que, this time traveling further without haste, walked and ate along the way.

He inquired about the most delicious food stalls at each roadside liquor stall, tea stall, county towns, small towns, and villages he passed through, visiting all of them.

He packed some braised beef, munching it as he walked.

He thought that traveling while training wasn’t bad either.

Wandering around was better than staying in a cave in Jiannan Prefecture City.

That day, he walked and ate this way.

Although he spent some time eating, his Lightweight Skill was superb, and he moved rapidly.

By nighttime, he reached the borders of Jiannan Prefecture.

If he were an ordinary caravan, it would have taken about ten days.

He gazed into the distance, vaguely seeing the mountains on the horizon.

Those mountains were the legendary Miaojiang’s Hundred Thousand Mountains.

’I’ll find a place for dinner, then book a guesthouse, have a hot shower, and rest for the night; tomorrow, I’ll head into Miaojiang.’

Thinking this, Su Que looked around.

In the distance, under the dim sky, he saw a city.

He used his Lightweight Skill and darted towards the city.

As he approached, he saw a sparse crowd of a dozen or so commoners heading into the city.

Su Que slowed his pace and mingled with these commoners to enter the city together.

As he got closer, he noticed the two guards at the city gate had a vacant stare, with no spirit in their eyes.

Su Que instantly sensed something was amiss.

At that moment, he heard a faint horn sound from somewhere inside the city.

Shortly after, there was a buzzing sound.

A swarm of red and black insects, resembling bees, flew towards the city-goers and towards him.

Su Que immediately spread his right palm, gathered the True Qi of the Marriage Robe Divine Skill, and pushed it towards the insects.

The True Qi condensed into strength and instantly pulverized the insects into dust.

"It’s not safe here, hurry home!"

After unleashing his palm strike, Su Que spoke to the surrounding commoners.

But the commoners did not seem to understand what had happened, looking at each other in confusion.

Just then, the two guards at the city gate suddenly gripped their spears and simultaneously thrust them towards Su Que.

The two soldiers charged forward, completely ignoring the civilians in their path.

Su Que suddenly kicked out twice.

Qi Force burst from his foot, striking the buttocks of the two civilians about to be stabbed by the spears.

"Ouch! Ouch!" The two civilians felt a pain in their buttocks and immediately staggered to the sides, avoiding the spears, stumbling four or five steps before stopping.

Facing the incoming spears, Su Que grabbed each one with his hands and snatched them away.

Then, he reversed the spearheads, channeled force into his hands, and hurled the spears.

The two spears transformed into shadows, piercing through the chests of the two soldiers in an instant.

The bodies of the two soldiers were carried backward by the force of the spears.

"Bang! Bang!"

The two spears were successively embedded in the city wall, pinning the soldiers to it.

"Murder!"

The civilians hadn’t reacted to what was happening.

But upon seeing the soldiers pinned to the wall, their pupils contracted in shock as they ran away screaming.

Su Que ignored the fleeing civilians and looked at the two soldiers.

He noticed the blood flowing from their chests along the spears was black.

Even with their chests pierced, the soldiers still had the ability to move.

Their eyes were still fixed on Su Que, their bodies seemingly unaware of pain, oblivious to the spears still in their chests.

They took steps toward Su Que again.

Their bodies moved along the spears, which were stained with their black blood.

Su Que executed the Nine Yin Corpse Claw, reaching for the soldiers’ heads.

His ten fingers instantly exuded a chilling white air, penetrating the soldiers’ heads as if through tofu.

He found that the soldiers’ blood had no warmth, suggesting they were already dead before their chests were pierced.

He operated the Nine Yin Corpse Claw cultivation technique, and the chilling white air rose from the soldiers’ corpses, flowing into his hands.

Soon, the soldiers’ flesh became dry and blackened.

And two insects Su Que had seen before, red and white striped, resembling bees, flew out from the soldiers’ mouths.

Su Que slapped toward the air, and with a burst of Qi Force, the two insects exploded and died.

This method of controlling bodies with insects was something Su Que had seen and heard of before.

It seemed to be the legendary method of corpse control by the Miaojiang Gu Masters.

’Could it be that this city has been taken over by Gu Masters, and does Li Xuanji know about this?’ Su Que thought.

At this moment, the sound of a conch still echoed in the city, faint and elusive.

Suddenly, Su Que felt the ground tremble.

It seemed that many burly men were charging toward this side.

Su Que immediately headed into the city.

Soon, he saw many robust figures, some even a bit bloated, with lifeless eyes, numbering about a hundred, charging at him from the streets and alleys.

Unlike the two soldiers, these robust figures were high-level corpse Gu refined with Miaojiang secret techniques.

The two soldiers were temporarily controlled by Gu insects as a cover by the Miaojiang Gu Masters in this city and didn’t even qualify as lower level corpse Gu.

Therefore, besides being unaware and immune to pain, these soldiers had no combat power.

As for these high-level corpse Gu, they were ordinary civilians who didn’t know martial arts in life.

The Miaojiang Gu Masters took just six months to refine them into corpse Gu with combat strength comparable to the Five Blood Martial Artist.

Civilians could be refined into corpse Gu comparable to the Five Blood Martial Artist.

Refining high-level corpse Gu from martial artists would naturally be even more formidable.

However, besides having abundant poisons, Miaojiang lacks martial arts resources.

Therefore, martial artists rarely venture there.

The corpses of martial artists that Miaojiang Gu Masters could obtain are extremely rare.

Once a martial artist corpse is refined into a corpse Gu, it’s given to the higher-ups of Miaojiang forces, not to these frontline Miaojiang Gu Masters.

Su Que saw these soulless bodies rushing toward him.

He knew that defeating these bodies would only waste energy.

Only by defeating the Gu Master controlling these bodies would the bodies stop.

Thus, he listened intently to the direction of the conch sound, activated his Lightweight Skill, and swiftly moved in that direction.