novelraw Chapter 14 : Once You Enter the Sect, I’ll Also Visit Often to Keep an Eye on You
Chapter 14 : Once You Enter the Sect, I’ll Also Visit Often to Keep an Eye on You
Chapter 14: Once You Enter the Sect, I’ll Also Visit Often to Keep an Eye on You
Getting in through the dungeon’s back entrance by exploiting it was troublesome.
Getting out, however, was much easier.
After all, that back entrance was mainly designed to prevent players from “entering”; its fundamental purpose was for “exiting.”
It was more or less like in soul-travel games, where “This door cannot be opened from this side.”
Fang Chang did not even need to use much force.
The Black Tortoise Cauldron gave it a ram.
Eh, it opened.
The continuation of this kind of early-version bug also indirectly showed that Fang Chang could make even more reference to the forum veterans’ deviant speed-clear methods.
Hohoho~
If that was the case.
Couldn’t he then refer to the previously popular Formless Form bug?
The so-called 【Formless Form】 was likewise an S-grade secret treasure.
Its user could copy and transform into any character, and during the transformation, could use some of the other party’s skills.
And certain passive skills could, by exploiting a bug, be permanently fixed onto the user.
Truly the pinnacle of freeloading.
“Bang!”
Fang Chang shut the exit.
Cheng Hua raised her hand to stop him, but was a step too late.
“My senior sister has not come out yet.”
“Do not panic. Your senior sister is a Fourth Realm Sitting in Forgetfulness cultivator. This Second Realm Tomb General—even if its values are a little higher and its mechanics a little disgusting—your senior sister can still handle it with ease.”
Fang Chang waved his hand, not particularly concerned.
No matter how disgusting this dungeon’s values and mechanics were, its level range was still between the First Realm Qi Absorption ~ the Second Realm Spirit Preservation.
It could scheme a Third Realm Guarding Unity cultivator to death.
But actually killing a Fourth Realm Sitting in Forgetfulness cultivator was rather unlikely.
“By the way, everything that just happened, please keep it secret, Daoist Friend Cheng.”
Fang Chang gave her a wink.
Faced with the teasing.
There was naturally no expression on Cheng Hua’s fairy-like face of white porcelain.
“It is good that you know grave robbing and tomb digging are things that cannot see the light of day… I will conceal it for you, but after joining Canglan Mountain, you absolutely must not do it again.”
“Alright, alright, alright.”
“Once you enter the sect, I will also visit often to keep an eye on you.”
“Daoist Friend is really putting on airs now.”
“Since you have saved me several times, I also cannot let you wander through a short life in confusion. If you and I address each other as Daoist friends, remain together for a long time, meet for a long time, and ascend the great Dao together, that would naturally be very good.”
Fang Chang lifted a brow and looked over.
What kind of provocative words was this woman saying again?
If it were any other woman, he would have already pushed his luck.
But Cheng Hua...
Hehe.
He shook his head and walked toward the carriage.
At this very moment.
The ground suddenly bulged upward, as if an earth dragon were turning over.
The next instant.
Rocks exploded apart, and dust shot into the sky.
The two carriages, horses and all, were blasted into the air together. When they crashed back to the ground, they became a splatter of flesh and mud.
A tall figure slowly rose from the collapsed tomb.
The tattered armor hanging on its body reflected a dim metallic sheen beneath the sunlight, and the gaps between the armor plates were packed full of old blackish-brown blood grime.
The Tomb General!
It stood atop the collapsed ground, its figure over three meters tall.
The skin exposed outside was grayish-white, withered like the bark of an old tree, tightly wrapped around bone, with not the slightest trace of flesh.
Most terrifying of all was its face—its features were still faintly discernible, yet only a thin layer of dried skin clung to the skull. Its eye sockets were sunken and completely empty.
And at this moment.
Half its head had been torn open, and its entire right arm was gone.
Black blood like filthy mud slowly flowed down from the wounds.
“Zheng——”
With a dragon’s cry, cold light flowed like water.
Cheng Hua drew her sword and stood in front of Fang Chang.
“You go first.”
“Look at you, doing this again.”
Fang Chang curiously sized up the Tomb General.
Under the blazing sun, it was being baked until threads of foul-smelling steam rose from it.
Its hollow eyes stared fixedly at Fang Chang.
It was also right in the midst of that rigid transition between extreme yin and extreme yang.
But at this moment, its aura was still climbing step by step, from the peak of the Second Realm all the way to the Fourth Realm Sitting in Forgetfulness.
The upward momentum showed not the slightest sign of stopping.
If allowed to continue, it might well charge straight to the peak of the Fourth Realm Sitting in Forgetfulness.
Its terrifying aura was fully maxed out.
However, this was merely an act of overdrawing itself.
It was only overdrawing the accumulation it had built up over many years in the tomb.
Once that period passed, it would immediately die and its Dao would vanish.
So rash...
Sure enough, far more interesting than the game’s programmed behavior!
Fang Chang grew excited.
He burst into loud laughter.
With his left palm, he brought forth the Blood Gold Pill.
Inauspicious crimson seeped out from the void. At first it was only a thin mist, then it swelled violently into towering waves of blood.
Blood Whale Devouring Tide!
The blood tide crashed like a mountain collapsing!
As the Tomb General was swept by the tide, it was directly crushed into the mountainside, embedded into a human-shaped pit.
Even the ground connected to it collapsed under the pressure, with shattered rocks flying everywhere.
Fang Chang ultimately had a lazy disposition; otherwise he would not have played the Corpse Refinement Path.
After that one palm strike, not only was the Spiritual Essence in his body emptied, even his battle intent had dispersed seven or eight parts out of ten.
He had a way to deal with the Tomb General personally.
But he walked the Corpse Refinement Path, and aside from that momentary whim just now, personally stepping into battle was always the final move.
Fang Chang smashed the coffin behind him onto the ground.
Dust billowed everywhere.
“Your turn.”
A new Yin Corpse was precious, yes.
But since it should be used, it had to be used; he could not exactly keep it enshrined.
It was time to break it in.
“I don’t like that woman. Tell her to get lost.”
Zhao Yuntong’s voice came from the coffin, referring to Cheng Hua.
“So you think you have the right to choose. That is a little funny, Yuntong.”
Fang Chang chuckled to himself.
Letting your soul come out to control the Yin Corpse is me giving you face.
Not willing?
As if I could not drive this thing myself? Manual control works just the same.
Buzz——
The coffin flashed with furious red light, then exploded with a boom.
Wrapped in red obsession flames, Zhao Yuntong emerged.
Behind her, a two-zhang-tall closed-eyed Guanyin condensed in midair.
The Obsession Path used obsession as its vessel; through obsession, one entered the Dao.
It took the three flowers gathering at the crown and the five qi returning to the origin as its foundation, using all the movement of one’s essence, qi, and spirit to “feed” and “temper” one’s own obsession.
Thus one understood the heart and perceived obsession, and once obsession took root and transformed into an “Obsession Form,” that counted as entering the path.
So every battle in the Obsession Path was connected to thoughts and emotions.
The more intense the practitioner’s emotions, the stronger their combat power.
This was also one of the important reasons Fang Chang used 【Original Soul Awakening】.
When Zhao Yuntong emerged from the coffin, Fang Chang’s provocation had already angered her.
Here, when she drove a vicious kick downward, the closed-eyed Guanyin behind her followed that motion.
It fiercely pressed toward the Tomb General’s direction.
At once, there was another burst of earth-shaking impact.
The Tomb General let out a shrill roar.
Its body was tyrannical, and it forcibly crashed through Zhao Yuntong’s Obsession Form.
Immediately after, it charged forward violently, exchanging punch after punch with Zhao Yuntong.
The surging airwaves from their blows made the branches and leaves in the forest tremble chaotically.
...
“Zhao Yuntong.”
Cheng Hua looked at Fang Chang.
“Obviously.” Fang Chang did not feel the least bit guilty.
Earlier, Cheng Hua had not asked, so he had not said anything.
Besides, I walk the Corpse Refinement Path. What problem is there with refining corpses?
“Hmph!”
Cheng Hua gave a soft snort, and there was already some obvious displeasure in her tone.
Fang Chang could not be bothered to care about her.
A woman’s heart was made to be suspended—the more one fawned over it, the harder it became.
Fang Chang walked several steps forward.
From the hole through which the Tomb General had burst out just now, he had sensed something.
Now that he went over and looked down, his expression immediately became vivid.
He saw that in the depths underground.
The heavily injured Dai Bojun lay on the ground, barely clinging to life.
And that equally injured white tiger soul was pressing over Dai Bojun’s head, yin and yang qi stirring ceaselessly.
“Possession? Ahahaha——”
“That loyal and righteous white tiger who had protected Dai Bojun all year round is actually trying to possess him at this moment?”
“Interesting, truly interesting.”
Fang Chang could not help laughing out loud again.
How many surprises there were today.
Games truly could not compare to reality!
“Loyal and righteous? Loyal and righteous... just a thing waiting to sell itself to the highest bidder.”
Fang Chang took out a square handkerchief from his bosom—the very one stained with Dai Bojun’s blood.
Using qi, he cut open his fingertip, mixing his own blood with the spot of Dai Bojun’s blood.
Then he formed a hand seal.
The square cloth began to shine with Spiritual Essence and automatically folded itself into a paper crane.
The paper crane moved without wind.
Like a fallen leaf, it drifted into the depths underground, floating toward the top of Dai Bojun’s head.
“You want to swap out the protagonist’s core? Hehehehe, I refuse to let that happen.”