Chapter 247 - 245: Bizarre

Chapter 247: Chapter 245: Bizarre

Yang Lianzhenjia had originally thought his Corpse Puppet would be enough to deal with this Chen Jiutian. But when he turned to look, he saw his puppet had already used the power of two of its heads, yet it still couldn’t do a thing to this junior.

This Corpse Puppet could be called the culmination of all his Evil Techniques. He had robbed hundreds of great tombs on the Grassland and braved countless dangers just to refine it.

’Who would have thought both heads would be countered by this Chen Jiutian? How does this junior have so many Secret Techniques? No wonder Xu Tianhong died at his hands.’

Meanwhile, although Yang Yanxing was trapped by one of Yang Lianzhenjia’s Secret Techniques, his Blood Qi erupted, allowing him to charge forward and engage Yang Lianzhenjia in a fierce struggle.

Yang Lianzhenjia was from the Esoteric Sect, and his Physical Cultivation was also quite strong.

He whipped out a White Bone Zen Staff and clashed head-on with Yang Yanxing.

Because Yang Yanxing’s Qi Blood was suppressed, the two were surprisingly locked in a stalemate.

After they exchanged several moves, Yang Lianzhenjia suddenly flicked his hand toward the Corpse Puppet, sending a streak of black light into its body.

The next moment, the half-shattered priest’s head and the snake head on the Corpse Puppet exploded simultaneously. A streak of black light from each head surged into the head of the Princess.

The Princess’s head snapped up, revealing a deathly pale face.

Its posture, which had been on all fours, suddenly changed. It stood up straight, revealing long, lanky limbs that gave it an extremely eerie appearance.

The Princess’s eyes snapped open, but they held no eyeballs. Instead, inside her sockets were two hands, each with eight fingers!

The hands extended from the eye sockets. Their eight fingers were slender and long. Then, they formed a Seal Technique, and in an instant, a profound and bizarre power descended.

Chen Yuan’s expression shifted slightly.

This power was immensely powerful, so much so that even he felt a sliver of a threat.

This power was even capable of provoking a reaction from his Blood Fiend Origin.

This was proof enough that although this force was not a Power of Origin, it was an existence on the same level.

"The Divine Power descends! You should feel honored to die by such a force, junior!"

Yang Lianzhenjia scoffed.

In his lifetime, he had robbed tens of thousands of tombs, but the Princess’s tomb was by far the most bizarre and dangerous.

When he had first opened the Princess’s coffin, all of her flesh and bones had vanished, leaving only a sheet of human skin. Bizarrely, it had not a single wound. Only her head remained intact.

’Heaven only knew what kind of power could have devoured all her flesh and bones from the inside.’

Just as Yang Lianzhenjia reached to take her head, her eyes opened. In that instant, it was as if he saw another world—an ethereal, illusory Divine Kingdom, a true Divine Kingdom presided over by a supreme being!

Fortunately, Yang Lianzhenjia had a Secret Treasure on his person and managed to break free in time. Otherwise, he feared he too would have been dragged into that Divine Kingdom.

In that single instant, Yang Lianzhenjia discovered that twenty percent of his body’s Qi Blood had vanished into thin air.

If he had been any later, he feared he would have ended up just like the Princess—mysteriously reduced to nothing but a sheet of skin.

He sealed her eyes with a Secret Technique and studied them carefully, eventually making a discovery: whenever her eyes opened, indescribable things would emerge from that illusory Divine Kingdom, along with a formidable power that ordinary Martial Artists could not possibly resist.

Yang Lianzhenjia called this force Divine Power, and not even Primordial Pill Realm Martial Artists could withstand it.

However, whenever this Divine Power appeared, the Princess’s head would be corroded. After three uses, the entire head would be reduced to nothing but a sheet of skin.

Therefore, Yang Lianzhenjia was unwilling to play this trump card unless it was a critical moment. He only resorted to it this time because Chen Yuan was proving too tenacious.

Upon seeing two grotesque hands emerge from his opponent’s eyes, Chen Yuan felt a chill run down his spine. He immediately drew his bow, and a Mulan Continuous Jail-Piercing Arrow shot out instantly.

’This thing is beyond the scope of the Martial Dao,’ he thought. ’It’s some other kind of unimaginable power.’

But with a casual wave from the two grotesque hands in the Princess’s eye sockets, the power of the Mulan Continuous Jail-Piercing Arrow completely dissipated, as if it had never been fired at all.

Chen Yuan’s expression flickered, and he retreated rapidly.

But the Princess puppet’s movements became ghostly, and in an instant, it appeared less than a foot away from Chen Yuan, almost face-to-face!

Chen Yuan could see every detail of the two grotesque hands in its eye sockets.

They had no pores or hair; they were slender and pale, but exuded a slippery, greasy sensation. They seemed coated in a layer of oil, emitting a scent that was simultaneously rank and cloyingly sweet.

Startled by the sudden, in-your-face attack, Chen Yuan’s horror was immediately channeled into an even more ferocious counterattack.

His Qi Blood burned, boiling to its absolute peak as the Power of Li Yan Blood Fiend erupted from him. His left hand formed the Blood Killing Heaven-Seizing Hand, while his right hand wove the Gouli Blood Flame Divine Seal.

The two powerful Seal Techniques, condensed from the Power of Blood Fiend Origin, slammed down, instantly forcing the Princess puppet back.

This time, his power was not disintegrated, but it still failed to shatter the puppet.

However, the Princess’s head suddenly shriveled by half, as if it had lost all support.

One of the two grotesque hands in its eye sockets suddenly retracted, leaving the other to perform a Seal Formation single-handedly. It then brought three fingers together and pointed them at Chen Yuan.

In that instant, Chen Yuan felt a bizarre power envelop him.

’My Qi Blood, organs, bones, and flesh... it feels like they’re no longer under my control, about to rip themselves free from my body!’

This bizarre power was something that none of Chen Yuan’s trump cards could block.

Even using his Corpse Tower Forest Divine Artifact Incarnation would be useless.

Right now, he couldn’t even condense his Qi Blood, let alone lift an arm.

’In terms of raw strength, this Yang Lianzhenjia is nothing compared to Kou Anzhi,’ Chen Yuan thought. ’But who could have guessed he possessed such a bizarre Secret Technique?’

Chen Yuan could withstand a direct blow from Kou Anzhi, yet his entire arsenal of abilities was completely useless against this strange power.

At the critical moment, Chen Yuan forced himself to calm down. He activated the Inner Vision God Observation Method to stabilize his flesh and blood.

However, the Inner Vision God Observation Method could only slow the pulling force; it couldn’t nullify it completely.

Just then, Chen Yuan noticed that the Princess’s head was shrinking rapidly.

It had already shriveled to half its size, but now it looked like a deflating balloon, with even less remaining.

The next moment, Chen Yuan drew the Power of Li Yan Blood Fiend into his body—not to gather strength for an attack, but to infuse his very flesh and blood with it!

This was akin to self-torture, using the Li Yan Blood Fiend for Body Refining. It was no different from attacking himself, a pointless waste of his Qi Blood.

Under normal circumstances, Chen Yuan might use this method to temper his physical body, but in the middle of a battle, it was a sheer waste of his energy.

But the Power of Li Yan Blood Fiend contained the Blood Fiend Origin. The moment this power entered his body, it actually began to resist the pull of the Evil Power.

The Princess’s head shriveled at a rate visible to the naked eye. As it was reduced to a fluttering sheet of skin, the rest of the Corpse Puppet’s body melted into a pool of foul, rotting flesh.

The bizarre power surrounding Chen Yuan completely dissipated. He heaved a sigh of relief, but his Qi Blood was severely depleted, and his face was deathly pale.

Even Chen Yuan himself had never imagined that this battle against Yang Lianzhenjia would be the most dangerous one he had faced since stepping into the Jianghu.

None of his trump cards or abilities could counter that power. In the end, he had only survived by stalling until his opponent’s power was completely exhausted.

Chen Yuan took this as a grim warning.

’Things have been going too smoothly for me lately.’

’I joined the Zhenwu Hall, then the Ming Sect. With my dual identity, I have all sorts of powerful Secret Martial Techniques and trump cards. I can even trade blows with a renowned Jianghu Grandmaster like Kou Anzhi.’

’I was starting to think I was already powerful enough, practically invincible below the Grandmaster realm.’

’Who would have thought that a moment of carelessness would nearly get me killed by this obscure Grassland Demon Monk, Yang Lianzhenjia!’

’That’s right, this Demon Monk Yang Lianzhenjia is obscure. What little fame he has is all infamy; he’s a nobody.’

’Compared to the Primordial Pill Realm Grandmasters I’ve killed, like Feng Wushang and Zhu Xinwu, he’s just a nobody.’

’Even in the original story, I didn’t know a character like this even existed on the Grassland. He was completely unheard of.’

’Who would have thought this nobody would be the one to nearly cause my downfall?’

’This world is still far too dangerous. Even though I’m familiar with the plot, what I know doesn’t represent the entirety of this world.’

’There are still so many bizarre, mystical powers and things I don’t know about in this world.’

’A lion uses its full strength even to catch a rabbit. From now on, I have to remember to be careful. Always.’

While Chen Yuan was deep in self-reflection, Yang Lianzhenjia saw that his Corpse Puppet was gone. His eyes instantly turned red with anguish and heartbreak.

That Corpse Puppet accounted for more than half of his total strength. He had exhausted his mind and body, robbing countless graves, just to create it.

The power of the Princess’s head was especially bizarre; Yang Lianzhenjia believed that no one at the Grandmaster Level could have withstood it.

He wasn’t sure if a Divine Platform Realm expert could block it, but he certainly wouldn’t dare pick a fight with one to find out.

’Who could have imagined that this power would be resisted by a mere Condensing Truth Realm junior? What is so strange about this brat that he could block a power that doesn’t even belong to this world?’

But Yang Lianzhenjia no longer had time to dwell on it.

With his Corpse Puppet destroyed, his concentration wavered. Yang Yanxing immediately seized the opportunity. His Long Spear, enveloped in a towering battle intent, thrust out repeatedly, instantly punching a bloody hole in Yang Lianzhenjia’s abdomen.

Yang Lianzhenjia formed a Seal Technique, and the flesh around the bloody hole began to squirm grotesquely, healing the wound in an instant.

But in the next moment, he suddenly felt a bone-chilling killing intent from behind.

He whipped his head around to see that Chen Yuan had, at some point, recovered a portion of his strength. He was already drawing his bow, gathering his power, and a Mulan Continuous Jail-Piercing Arrow instantly locked onto Yang Lianzhenjia!