Ling Tian extended a finger and beckoned towards the golden corpse.
"Come here, come on!"
Yin Tianxiong wished he could instantly teleport beside Ling Tian and tear him to shreds. However, looking at the human-shaped flame beside Ling Tian, he felt a tremor from the depths of his soul.
Even the golden corpse it possessed kept emitting warnings, telling Shi Xiaoyue that the thing was extremely dangerous!
Shi Xiaoyue gritted his teeth, his heart hardening. He suddenly turned and fled at top speed, his target being the cave by the water潭.
Shi Xiaoyue knew that the cave contained immense Yin Sha energy. If he could achieve a breakthrough within the cave in a short period and become a Lion King, perhaps he could preserve some of his sanity!
Ling Tian was a bit bewildered, not expecting the guy to turn and run. How could he let Shi Xiaoyue escape? So, Ling Tian raised his Crimson Flame Treasure Sword and chased after Shi Xiaoyue.
However, after running only a dozen meters, the scene before him suddenly changed. What was originally on the riverbank now transformed into a graveyard.
Ling Tian was startled, but he quickly understood the situation. He had stumbled into a formation!
The next moment, the surrounding graveyard seemed to melt like ice cubes in boiling water, erupting into a frenzy. Countless corpses and skeletons crawled out from the ground and swayed towards Ling Tian.
Ling Tian could even see the residual rotten flesh and maggots on those skeletons!
Ling Tian sneered, took out a book of talismans, and spread them on the ground around himself.
Immediately after, Ling Tian took out a talisman, injected his true essence into it, and chanted incantations. The talisman ignited, and Ling Tian raised his hand, the talisman disappearing into the ground beneath his feet.
"Boom!"
The exploding talisman beneath his feet released a massive amount of energy, which spread outwards and instantly detonated the talismans Ling Tian had laid out earlier. These talismans then exploded on the spot, releasing a large amount of energy in all directions.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."
The continuous explosions enveloped the space around Ling Tian. After a few seconds, the scene around Ling Tian finally returned to normal!
Ling Tian clapped his hands with satisfaction. Only then did he see an old man with a strange expression standing about twenty meters in front of him.
This person was none other than another enshrined elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect, Hu Lan!
Hu Lan was also somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected his Maze of Life and Death formation, set up with Qimen Dunjia, to be broken by this young man so easily!
This formation was their ancestral killing move. He didn't know how many cultivators he had secretly killed with it.
Once one stepped into this Maze of Life and Death, they would be besieged by endless zombies and skeletons. Eventually, those trapped in the formation would be exhausted and then killed by the zombies or skeletons!
Although these zombies and skeletons were not entirely corporeal, they could still inflict severe damage on a person's soul, leading to death!
Ling Tian's Heavenly Eye divine ability allowed him to see through these tricks with little effort.
Furthermore, in the Myriad Laws Pavilion within Ling Tian's spiritual realm, there were records of this Maze of Life and Death formation.
Ling Tian wasted no words. He directly set up a small formation and used energy to forcefully break it, thereby cracking the Maze of Life and Death formation.
"You actually broke my formation! Who exactly are you!"
Hu Lan was somewhat astonished. This fellow was arrogant. In his opinion, besides the Sect Master of the Heavenly Demon Sect, no one else in China could break his Maze of Life and Death formation!
But now, reality had hit him hard!
"Who are you? Why did you ambush me? I don't seem to have any grudges with you!" Ling Tian asked.
"I am Hu Lan, a protector of the Heavenly Demon Sect!"
"Are you a rogue cultivator?" Ling Tian asked with a frown.
"You are correct, young brother. With your insight, I can guess that you are also a cultivator!
The path of cultivation is not easy. What we should pursue is the Great Dao, not fighting and killing for temporary anger!
I don't want to make things difficult for you. I just want to save my brother Shi Xiaoyue. He has already turned into a zombie and has only a few days left to live. For my sake, just let him go like a fart!"
Hu Lan's attitude was very sincere when he said this. In fact, he genuinely wanted to save Shi Xiaoyue, not for any other reason than for the golden corpse.
Although the golden corpse was powerful, it was ultimately an inanimate object, and Hu Lan's interest was limited. But now, Shi Xiaoyue's physical body was destroyed, and his soul had parasitized within the zombie, eventually becoming a corpse-ghoul.
This corpse-ghoul was much more powerful than an ordinary golden corpse. More importantly, corpse-ghouls possessed powerful soul energy, giving them extremely high growth potential.
Hu Lan's Qimen Dunjia techniques also included puppet arts and corpse-driving arts. He believed he could use this zombie, infused with Shi Xiaoyue's soul, to craft even more formidable magical artifacts.
He also had a plan: he had methods to delay Shi Xiaoyue's soul from completely losing its consciousness. This way, he could use Shi Xiaoyue to extort all the techniques of their Corpse Refining Sect.
In his view, the Corpse Refining Sect's thousand-year heritage contained many things that could significantly enhance one's strength.
In fact, from the moment Ling Tian began fighting with Shi Xiaoyue and Yin Tianxiong, Hu Lan had been observing the battle from a distance using secret techniques.
On one hand, he intended to probe Ling Tian's background. On the other hand, he had also planned to let these two exhaust Ling Tian.
However, Hu Lan never expected Ling Tian to be so ferocious. Two elders of the Heavenly Demon Sect were dead or turned into monsters in such a short time.
Seeing Ling Tian pursuing the golden corpse, he had no choice but to step forward to stop him.
As a result, this Ling Tian was so brutal that he broke their family's ancestral killing move, passed down for hundreds of years, with just a few talismans. This made Hu Lan feel wary of Ling Tian.
An old man like him, who had lived for seventy or eighty years, was actually very afraid of death. Without probing Ling Tian's trump cards, he dared not risk a mutual destruction with Ling Tian.
"Then I'll tell you a few things.
First, I am from the Righteous Alliance. The Heavenly Demon Sect is an evil path, and we are irreconcilable!
Second, the strange situation in Han Tan Village must be your doing. You killed so many villagers, and you still want to get away with it?
Third, how much is your face worth? Why should I give face to you, an old coffin-dweller? Who do you think you are!"
Ling Tian pointed at his nose and directly cursed. Hu Lan's nose immediately twitched with anger.