How many people dared to compete with a Corpse King in strength?
Lu Yin was one of them. When he had first become a Hunter, he had been able to match an Enlighter's power level. He had used the Red Eyes Transformation to fight ghouls that were infused with death energy. Now, his power had soared once again, and he was using it against a Corpse King for the first time.
The gray-eyed Corpse King clawed at Lu Yin's palm, intending to break it apart. However, it found that Lu Yin's expression was calm, and his palm did not move at all. Even the Corpse King could not understand this.
Lu Yin's eyes went wide, and he exerted more strength. There was a crack as the Corpse King's arm was torn apart.
This scene shocked the elder, and he felt as if his worldview had been turned upside down. Was this a competition of strength?
Lu Yin clenched his right fist and punched the Corpse King's abdomen, piercing through it. The Corpse King spat out a mouthful of blood and roared as gravity descended. This was his innate gift, and Lu Yin did not care about the Corpse King's gravity. This Corpse King had a power level of 400,000 at most, and he could even fight against a Hunter.
There was a loud crack as he slapped the Corpse King's head away. Lu Yin pulled his hand back and spread out his fingers. He faced another Corpse King in the distance and unleashed an empty palm strike.
There was a thump as the Corpse King was crushed. The cultivator fighting against the Corpse King looked at Lu Yin in shock, as that palm strike had brought him very close to death.
"No need to thank me," Lu Yin said. He looked up and saw a woman fall out of the Astral Source Universe and land in front of him. Half of her body had been destroyed, and there was no hope of saving her.
The void distorted as an Envoy-level Corpse King walked out. Its scarlet eyes stared at Lu Yin as it roared and suddenly descended. Its speed was so fast that even Lu Yin could not see it clearly. This speed definitely had something to do with its innate gift.
This was the greatest advantage that Corpse Kings had over humans. They could obtain innate gifts by eating star crystals and other foreign objects, something that humans could never do.
Lu Yin could not sense the Corpse King's speed, and he subconsciously put on his universal armor. He would not take the risk.
Behind him, a heavy blow landed and pressed him into the ground. The Corpse King continued to attack, and without his universal armor, Lu Yin would have been heavily injured even if he could have withstood the attacks with his physical strength. After all, this was an Envoy-level Corpse King. Even so, he could recover quickly since he had broken through the Intelligent Gate.
In the distance, the void was sliced apart as sword qi descended.... an Envoy-level powerhouse had acted.
The Corpse King waved his hand to break the Sword Qi, and his body disappeared.
Lu Yin panted heavily as he walked out. He saw a man wielding a sword in the distance and was forced to defend himself; the Corpse King was simply too fast.
The Star Chessboard appeared beneath Lu Yin's feet and extended outwards, encompassing the Corpse King, the sword-wielding man, and the surrounding battlefield. Then, he moved, catching the Corpse King off guard and moving it in front of him. He then grabbed the Corpse King's hands and said, "Attack."
The sword-wielding man was shocked, but he reacted quickly. Without hesitation, he slashed out with his sword, stabbing towards the Corpse King's neck.
The Corpse King tried to struggle free from Lu Yin's grasp, but Lu Yin's strength was too great. Golden battle force seeped out of his universal armor and illuminated the Corpse King's face, accentuating its sinister and terrifying facial features.
Lu Yin's sword pierced the Corpse King's neck, causing it to roar and kick at Lu Yin. Lu Yin raised his leg as well, but there was a thump as the Corpse King's right leg twisted unnaturally. In terms of strength, the Corpse King was no match for Lu Yin.
The sword-wielding man was truly stunned. An Enlighter had actually suppressed a Corpse King in terms of strength, which was inconceivable. However, he did not slow down. He bent the tip of his sword and then shook the hilt as he displayed his sword technique. The blade pierced through the Corpse King's neck and came out in a horizontal slash. Half of the Corpse King's head fell off and hung from its neck.
Lu Yin released his grip and slapped out with both hands.
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However, there was nothing but air.
There was a thump as the Corpse King was sent flying. Its body had been torn apart, and it was deader than dead.
The sword-wielding man looked at Lu Yin and exclaimed, "Who are you?"
"We'll talk later," Lu Yin growled and then rushed off into the distance. There were no less than a hundred Corpse Kings in the headquarters, and even though there weren't many of them, they were still able to kill many cultivators. These Corpse Kings were not weak.
The sword-wielding man watched Lu Yin leave with a look of admiration. He then raised his sword and slashed in another direction.
The battlefield was a strange place. There were many life and death crises, but it also created a different kind of law of the jungle. No one cared about one's realm, and the strong were respected. Although Lu Yin was only an Enlighter, the strength that he had displayed was enough to earn the sword-wielding man's respect, even if he was an Emissary.
Lu Yin killed five Corpse Kings in a row, which attracted the attention of a green-eyed Corpse King. More than ten people had already fallen at its feet, and one of them was an Emissary.
It was very difficult to encounter Emissaries in the outside world. Even in the Astral Tree Realm, where there were many Emissaries and they were scattered throughout the vast territory, it was still extremely rare to encounter them. However, it was very common here, and the deaths of Emissaries were even more common.
Aside from Emissaries, there were also quite a few Enlighters at the foot of the green-eyed Corpse King. The death of one of them caused the short man who had tried to entice Lu Yin to join the Red Alliance to despair. That person was the Red Alliance's leader, and he had also died.
With a whoosh, the green-eyed Corpse King swept through the surroundings and charged towards Lu Yin. It had the strength of an Emissary, and it even had green eyes. It was one of the stronger Corpse Kings that had attacked the headquarters.
Lu Yin's sense of danger rose, and he began to worry about whether or not his universal armor could withstand the attack. He tried to think of a way to deal with this Corpse King when a cone-shaped sourcebox suddenly appeared from the ground and floated in midair. It suddenly collided with the green-eyed Corpse King, and at the same time, at least ten other cone-shaped sourceboxes appeared around it, piercing through one Corpse King after another.
This was a sourcebox array that was used to protect the headquarters' second array base.
Lu Yin relaxed, as this was a battlefield, and he did not need to be alone.
The green-eyed Corpse King was struck by the cone-shaped sourcebox and was forced back by more than ten steps. Right after that, another cone-shaped sourcebox struck it, and in just a few seconds, it had withstood more than twenty attacks. More than half of the Corpse Kings that had attacked the headquarters had died, and even the average Envoy-level Corpse King could not withstand the attacks of the cone-shaped sourceboxes.
At that moment, a Corpse King's body suddenly swelled. Two meters, three meters, five meters, ten meters, and finally, it grew to a height of a hundred meters and emitted a terrifying aura.
The cone-shaped sourcebox frantically attacked, but the Corpse King's body was like a swamp, and the attacks of the cone-shaped sourceboxes were useless against it. The Corpse King's body also possessed a terrifying strength that caused others to tremble.
This was not Lu Yin's first time seeing such a giant Corpse King; he had encountered one back on the Shenwu Continent.
The giant Corpse King raised a hand and slammed down with a palm, causing the ground to crack. Hundreds of cultivators were reduced to pools of blood under the force of the palm.
It then raised its head and slammed down with another palm. "You're courting death." In the distance, someone rushed over and raised a hand, causing a tree to descend from the void and smash into the giant Corpse King, causing it to collapse. Following that, countless trees descended from the sky and smashed into the Corpse King.
"Order Master Chun is here," someone said excitedly.
Lu Yin looked over. Was that the Order Master?
Suddenly, there was a flash of light as sword qi shot over from afar, following Lu Yin's cheek and shooting behind him. The sword-wielding man shouted, "Be careful!"
Lu Yin turned around, and the sword qi slashed at the green-eyed Corpse King, causing it to pause for a moment before continuing to attack Lu Yin.
With a whoosh, Lu Yin's attack missed.
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The moment the sword qi swept over, Lu Yin had already prepared himself. A Star Scattered Chessboard appeared beneath his feet, and the green-eyed Corpse King's attack was unable to hit him. Lu Yin appeared behind the Corpse King and activated his golden battle force, using 350 Stacks to unleash an Emptiness Palm.
There was a loud bang as the Green-eyed Corpse King was sent flying by a Hollow Palm. Lu Yin took advantage of this opportunity to unleash a series of Hollow Palms, each one landing on the Green-eyed Corpse King's body. He unleashed dozens of Hollow Palms in succession, shattering the void and preventing anyone from approaching.
Even the sword-wielding man's sword qi was torn apart by the Emptiness Palms.
The Corpse King's body began to crack, but it was still a green-eyed mutant that was a hundred times stronger than a normal body. It was also an Emissary, so even Lu Yin's dozens of Emptiness Palms were unable to kill it.
The Corpse King stood up. Although it had not been killed, its body had been severely injured, and this was not an injury that an Enlighter could inflict on it.
In the distance, the giant Corpse King struggled free from the suppression of the trees and flung them in all directions.
The Green-eyed Zombie King was also unlucky to have been struck by a tree. Lu Yin's gaze turned cold as he stared at the most heavily injured part of the Green-eyed Zombie King. He took out Wang Su's knife and stabbed it, easily tearing apart the Green-eyed Zombie King's body and killing it completely.
The moment he killed the Corpse King, he put away the knife so that no one could see it.
In the distance, the sword-wielding man was shocked. Another Emissary level Corpse King that could even transform into a green-eyed Corpse King had been killed. Who was this person?
The battlefield at the headquarters had been smashed beyond recognition by countless trees, and the cone-shaped sourceboxes were still stuck in the giant Corpse King's body. They could not be activated, and Commander Chun was helpless.
At this moment, a spear condensed out of thin air and pierced through the Corpse King's head from top to bottom. It pierced through the Corpse King's body and into the ground, causing cracks to appear that extended in all directions.
Lu Yin hurriedly dodged, but the cracks beneath his feet continued to extend into the distance. There was also a sharp aura that he did not dare to come into contact with. This aura was very familiar; it belonged to the White Dragon Tribe.
The giant Corpse King was killed by the spear, and its body fell to the ground. An old man walked out of the void and arrived beside the spear. He reached out and grabbed it, looked up, and stepped lightly into the Astral Source Universe.
Lu Yin took out some Elysium Lake water from his cosmic ring and took a look.
Within the Astral Source Universe, the leading red-eyed Corpse King was fighting against a middle-aged man. It was being suppressed by the middle-aged man, but it quickly recovered. The corpse king's physical strength was too strong, and its occasional counterattacks made the middle-aged man apprehensive.
If Lu Yin was not wrong, then that middle-aged man was Xia Yan, the commander of the second base. The red-eyed Corpse King was able to fight against Xia Yan, a Half-Progenitor. In terms of absolute strength, Xia Yan far surpassed the red-eyed Corpse King, but it was still very difficult for the former to kill him.
The old man who had killed the giant Corpse King entered the Astral Source Universe and stabbed the red-eyed Corpse King with his spear.
The scene in front of Lu Yin's eyes returned to normal, and he could no longer see the Astral Source Universe. However, he did not need to see it anymore. That old man dared to participate in Xia Yan's battle, so he should be a Half-Progenitor as well. There were two Half-Progenitors at the base: one was the commander, and the other was the eye of the array. That old man should be the eye of the array, and he was a Half-Progenitor from the White Dragon Tribe. Lu Yin remembered Qingchen mentioning that he seemed to be called Old Dragon.
The sky suddenly exploded, and a human figure fell from the void, coughing up blood. Half of his body had been smashed. It was the Red Pupil Corpse King. Then, another human figure walked out and stabbed his long spear, piercing through the Red Pupil Corpse King. It was the Half Martial Ancestor old man.
Suddenly, the dusky universe turned red, and an incomparably dark hand blocked out all light. It was an incomparably huge hand that shattered a planet and grabbed at the red-eyed Corpse King.