Chen Zhou narrowed his eyes and looked into the void, speaking coldly, "You cowardly rat, hiding your head and showing your tail. Do you only dare to talk trash from the shadows?"
Wan Xiu was not annoyed. He chuckled and said, "Why must you be so angry, Fellow Daoist?"
"Lord Qing Lu's great event is drawing near. It is only right for me to be cautious."
"After all, these days, there are more and more people like you who do not follow the rules."
As soon as he finished speaking, the ley line suddenly began to flicker.
The emerald light surged brilliantly for a moment before quickly dimming into a faint green glow.
The green light poured out from the depths of the ley line, flowing like water. Everywhere it passed, the air became thick and viscous.
Then, three corpses slowly floated out from the ley line.
The first was a young man.
He wore tattered imperial robes. His face was haggard and his skin shriveled, but his features were still faintly discernible.
Sword-like eyebrows, a high nose, and thin lips.
Chen Zhou had seen him in Jiao Mu Jiao's memories. It was Mu Tianyou, the last monarch of the Jiao Mu Kingdom, the man who had been refined into the array.
His corpse was relatively well-preserved. Aside from being shriveled, there were almost no signs of decay.
There was a large hole in his chest as if something had pierced through it. The edges were neat and smooth, looking as though they had been cut by a sharp weapon.
The second was a giant snake.
Its entire body was crimson. Its scales were dull and lusterless, yet one could still see its former glory.
The snake's body was a hundred zhang long and as thick as three men's arm spans, but it was now as shriveled as a withered vine.
Its eyes were tightly shut, and its mouth was slightly agape, revealing the sharp fangs within.
Chen Zhou guessed that this should be the original body of Wing-Fire Snake, the red-banded giant snake, which was also the terrestrial fire snake slain by Mu Tianyou.
The third was a beetle.
It was massive, ten zhang long, and dusty yellow in color. Its carapace was covered in fine cracks.
The beetle's six legs were curled in front of its chest. One of its antennae was broken, and the other was only half-length. Its transparent wings were tattered and ruined.
Chen Zhou stared at the beetle for a long time.
If the corpses of the two kings had gathered, then this one, barring any surprises, was the corpse of Purity and Filth.
Chen Zhou had always known that the True Lord of Purity and Filth was also a demon, but he had never known his true form. Now that he saw it, this was what he actually looked like.
Jiao Mu Jiao and Wing-Fire Snake were both repelled by the green light.
Every living being present, including the mindless hundred corpse patchworks, was suppressed by the green light and forced to kneel on the ground.
Except for Chen Zhou and Lian.
This light was something with status. Chen Zhou's expression turned solemn.
At the same time, he felt another surge of intense hatred erupting from within Tao Tuantuan, causing the divinity of hatred inside him to stir restlessly.
Chen Zhou found it hard to imagine how such profound hatred could be hidden beneath such a calm exterior.
Who was this hatred directed at this time?
Chen Zhou scanned the three corpses. The era of the red-banded giant snake and Mu Tianyou was too distant, and Tao Tuantuan had no reason to harbor a grudge against them. The most likely target was still Purity and Filth.
She hated Central Province, she hated Wan Xiu, and she also hated Purity and Filth?
Why?
Before he could think further, green light continued to pour out from the ley line, injecting itself into the three corpses.
The shriveled flesh began to swell, the haggard skin became full, and the dull scales regained their luster.
Then, they floated toward the three giant hundred corpse patchworks and began to fuse with them.
Mu Tianyou's corpse merged into the chest of one hundred corpse patchwork. The massive creature shuddered violently, and the corpses on its body began to rearrange themselves.
The originally chaotic pile of corpses now became orderly.
They fitted together like building blocks, forming a humanoid body.
The head, torso, and limbs all appeared one by one.
The corpses of the red-banded giant snake and the True Lord of Purity and Filth merged into the other two hundred corpse patchworks, transforming into a massive serpentine monster and a giant beetle.
The auras of the three fused monsters skyrocketed.
They surged from the seventh-stage third contract level straight to the seventh-stage fifth symbiosis contract level.
The moment Jiao Mu Jiao and Wing-Fire Snake saw those three corpses, they came to a sudden halt.
Chen Zhou could clearly see grief and anger in the eyes of these two summons, who were not supposed to possess consciousness or thought.
Those were their former selves.
The king who had given his all to protect his people was also a pitiful man who had been deceived, used, and refined into a monster.
But they were currently being suppressed by the green light emanating from the ley line.
Chen Zhou took a deep breath. Facing three seventh-stage fifth symbiosis contract monsters with Wan Xiu lurking in the shadows made this a difficult battle.
Wan Xiu's voice rang out again, tinged with a hint of smugness.
"I warned you long ago, Fellow Daoist. If you have had your fun, it would be best for everyone if you left early."
"The muddy waters of Tianchi Province are not for you to wade in. Since you refuse to listen and insist on this path, do not blame me for being heartless."
Chen Zhou sneered. He glanced at Jian Huaishuang and Plague Rat hanging in mid-air, then at the three approaching monsters. Then, he activated all of his remaining death qi.
A grayish white Ghost Domain surged from his body, instantly expanding to shroud Wing-Fire Snake and Jiao Mu Jiao within.
The green light shone upon the Ghost Domain, and they partially neutralized each other, but the Ghost Domain remained unshakable.
Chen Zhou's Ghost Domain was bolstered by the inner godhead of the Oasis Goddess, making it also a thing with status that could resist the suppression of the green light.
Wing-Fire Snake and Jiao Mu Jiao regained their ability to move.
They immediately charged forward.
Wing-Fire Snake lunged at the Red Banded Snake Corpse, while Jiao Mu Jiao pounced on Tianyou's Corpse.
The two summons and the two monsters clashed, fighting until the sky and earth turned dark.
The strength of the Red Banded Snake Corpse far exceeded that of an ordinary hundred corpse patchwork. It opened its mouth and spewed a torrent of crimson flames.
The fire carried the power of decay and plague, and its temperature was terrifyingly high. Everywhere it passed, even the ley line was scorched into lava.
Wing-Fire Snake was not to be outdone and spat out transparent flames.
The two fires collided and exploded with a thunderous boom. The rolling heat waves even forced Lian, who was some distance away, to retreat several steps.
The situation on Jiao Mu Jiao's side was also not optimistic.
Tianyou's Corpse possessed immense strength. Every punch carried ten thousand jin of force, leaving deep craters in the ground.
Jiao Mu Jiao was forced back step by step, several of the scales on his body shattered by the impacts.
Lian quickly summoned several black spot monsters to help, but before the seventh-stage fifth symbiosis contract monster, those black spot monsters could not even withstand a single blow and were instantly blasted into fragments.
Three against two, Chen Zhou's side was clearly at a disadvantage.
Chen Zhou saw Jian Huaishuang again. He was still bound in mid-air, but his eyes were fixed on the battle.
Seeing Chen Zhou look over, he gave a slight nod.
Understanding the signal, Chen Zhou condensed two bone spears in his hands.
The bone spears were grayish white, with faint death qi flowing over their surfaces. Their tips seemed sharp enough to pierce through anything.
Chen Zhou aimed at Jian Huaishuang and Plague Rat and threw the bone spears with all his might.
The bone spears whistled through the air. The green light tried to block them, but with Chen Zhou's death qi attached, they pierced right through the glow.
Thwack!
Thwack!
The two bone spears precisely severed the green threads binding Jian Huaishuang and Plague Rat.
The threads snapped, and the two fell from the air.
Jian Huaishuang adjusted his posture mid-air and landed steadily.
Plague Rat, however, landed face first in the dirt and rolled twice before coming to a stop.
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