usenovelonline Chapter 1290: The Undying Body
Chapter 1290: The Undying Body
Translator: CinderTL
After plummeting several thousand miles, Gu Huang finally managed to stabilize his form. Though still being carried deeper by the gale, his descent had slowed considerably.
But then, the Giant Corpse—formed from Gou Jun’s Substitute Puppet—reappeared from nowhere, fearlessly diving down from above.
Rage flared in Gu Huang’s eyes. He once again summoned his flying sword, slashing at the Giant Corpse and tearing it into countless pieces of flesh.
Yet the next moment, the Giant Corpse materialized just a few dozen feet above his head.
Gu Huang felt a wave of despair wash over him. Gou Jun seemed to have an endless supply of these Substitute Puppets, making them virtually indestructible—like an undying body.
Bang!
The Giant Corpse slammed into his protective shield once more, accelerating Gu Huang’s descent.
With no other options, Gu Huang once again activated his flying sword, slashing at the Giant Corpse.
Though helpless, every Substitute Puppet destroyed was a small victory.
But this time, his decisive strike missed its mark.
Suddenly, a black skeleton materialized in the Giant Corpse’s hand. Its twig-like fingers gripped the skull tightly, swinging it with a mighty force.
Clang!
A sharp, metallic clang echoed through the air.
The flying sword collided with the black skeleton, producing a metallic clang.
The skeleton, which looked as though it might fall apart at any moment, actually sent the flying sword flying back, leaving not a single mark on its surface.
In contrast, Song Wen felt an unbearable force surge through him. His hand instantly exploded with rotting flesh and black, viscous fluid, and the skeleton slipped from his grasp.
Song Wen glanced at his right hand. His entire forearm and palm were now completely devoid of flesh. Then, a blood-colored tentacle erupted from beneath his feet, snaring the flying skeleton and dragging it back.
At the same time, Song Wen used the immense force transmitted through the flying sword to accelerate his charge toward Gu Huang.
This time, he didn’t slam into Gu Huang’s mana shield. Instead, he braced his hands against the shield and poured all his energy into the Profound Thunder Nine Heavens Escape Technique, pushing Gu Huang downward into the depths.
"Gou Jun, you’re going too far!"
Seeing Song Wen’s brazen disregard for decorum, Gu Huang’s fury surged. Gritting his teeth, he uttered a phrase that completely reversed their roles: "Don’t bully me like this!"
He was currently focused on recalling his Natal Flying Sword.
Here, the howling gang qi severely disrupted divine sense. If the gale carried his flying sword too far, retrieving it would become nearly impossible.
Just as Gu Huang finally managed to recall his flying sword and slash at the Giant Corpse, his expression suddenly changed.
His divine sense had abruptly detected a stone wall appearing below.
He had arrived directly above the two caves that were spewing out gang qi, only a dozen miles away.
"Gou Jun, get out of my way!" Gu Huang roared in fury.
He could no longer hold back. Spiritual power surged from within him, coalescing into a foot-long light sword that shot straight for the Giant Corpse’s crimson eyes.
Just as the light sword reached the Giant Corpse, the nine tentacles atop its head suddenly began vibrating at an accelerated frequency.
A chill ran down Gu Huang’s spine.
Facing him, a Mid-Stage Body Integration Cultivator, Gou Jun, who was only at the Peak Void Refinement stage, had dared to hold back. Only at this critical moment did the void fiend finally unleash its true power!
The void fiend’s humming sound struck Gu Huang’s Sea of Consciousness like a heavy hammer, the pain intensifying to the point where his consciousness momentarily blurred, leaving him unable to control the light sword.
In the blink of an eye, the Giant Corpse merely tilted its head slightly, dodging the fatal blow.
The lightsaber brushed past the Giant Corpse’s cheek, leaving a shallow wound before vanishing into the endless gales above.
Boom!
A muffled thunderclap erupted as Gu Huang felt himself slam into an impenetrable wall of bronze and iron.
His mana shield, fragile as paper, shattered into countless motes of spiritual light.
Without the protection of his mana shield, his back crashed against the iron wall.
Instantly, flesh and blood splattered, bones shattered, and a wave of cloying sweetness surged into his throat. Blood mixed with fragments of internal organs gushed from his mouth.
Excruciating pain flooded his entire body like a tidal wave, paradoxically jolting Gu Huang from his previous daze.
Then, he saw the Giant Corpse before him suddenly raise its claws and crush its own skull.
In an instant, the Giant Corpse transformed into a Headless Corpse Puppet, swept away by the gales and spiraling deeper into the cave.
Gu Huang had no mind to dwell on the Giant Corpse’s transformation.
Both his divine soul and flesh were wounded, and the gang qi at the cave entrance was now countless times more violent. He was trapped in a desperate struggle for survival.
In this critical moment, he finally managed to recall his Natal Flying Sword, thrusting it with all his might into the unyielding rock wall behind him.
Like passing through a Gang Qi Waterfall for the first time, Song Wen activated his life-substitution art and arrived over a thousand miles below the waterfall.
He looked up at the two caves above, which devoured endless amounts of gang qi.
As he emerged from the cave, he noticed Gu Huang’s Natal Flying Sword had sunk halfway into the rock face. Gu Huang gripped the hilt tightly with both hands to stabilize himself, preventing the gale from pulling him deeper into the cave. Simultaneously, a golden glow enveloped Gu Huang’s body, shielding him from the gale’s violent assault.
After observing for a moment, Song Wen couldn’t determine Gu Huang’s exact condition and decided to leave him.
He swiftly shot westward.
The Gang Qi Waterfall spanned over a hundred thousand miles. There was no need to remain beneath these two caves.
This was the most conspicuous location. If Jian Xiao and the others pursued him, they would undoubtedly come here first. Song Wen would then find himself in danger once more.
After fleeing tens of thousands of miles, Song Wen reached the westernmost edge of the waterfall.
He stood beneath the Gang Qi Waterfall, silently waiting for the gale to change direction again.
The shift came sooner than he’d anticipated. Just an incense stick’s worth of time later, the gale transitioned from swallowing to expelling.
Without hesitation, Song Wen plunged directly into the Gang Qi Waterfall.
The situation was too dire to waste time meticulously confirming whether the intervals between the gale’s directional changes were long enough for him to escape the abyss.
If time ran short, he could simply let the gale drag him back to the edge of the two caves and use the life-substitution art to escape beneath the gale.
Song Wen darted through the roaring gale like a bird in flight.
And his luck held. The gale didn’t change direction until he had escaped the abyss and been carried high into the sky.
Without pausing, he raced eastward, toward the exit of the Turbid Spirit Realm.
The exit had been discovered by the two Divine Transformation Stage cultivators who had first entered the realm, after considerable effort.
A million miles away.
Amidst a cluster of towering, overlapping mountains.
Hong Yi was fleeing with all her might, pursued relentlessly by a Giant Eagle.
The Giant Eagle’s wingspan stretched dozens of yards, and each flap of its wings stirred up a hurricane of turbulent air.
Wherever the hurricane passed, the world changed color, mountains crumbled, and boulders tumbled like fallen leaves.
Hong Yi gritted her teeth, desperately maintaining the operation of a Pagoda.
The Pagoda, about a foot tall, hovered above her head, radiating golden light.
As the golden light flowed, it coalesced into a three-yard-tall Pagoda Phantom, enveloping her entirely.
The hurricane, like a blade, crashed against the Pagoda Phantom, producing deafening roars.
Ripples spread across the Pagoda Phantom, with mysterious talismans constantly appearing and disappearing within it.
Hong Yi’s face grew increasingly pale. She could feel her spiritual power draining rapidly, and she knew she couldn’t hold out much longer.
"Just hold on for another two quarters of an hour," she thought, "and I’ll reach the exit."
Suddenly, a flash of cold light erupted, piercing straight toward the Giant Eagle’s sharp eyes.
(End of the Chapter)
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