l period. His strength seems even greater than the Serpent Woman's.Qin Sang once heard rumors that a golden armored warrior had been seen fighting the Serpent Mother and her spirit beasts single-hande...A thick shroud of darkness hangs over the swamp.

Countless creatures have been consumed by the swamp, giving rise to this vast expanse of pure darkness.

The periphery of the swamp was weak in yin qi, but its spiritual energy was more abundant than other places. However, unless one practiced ghost dao cultivation using yin qi, ordinary people wouldn't establish their cave dwellings here.

In the depths of the swamp, thick miasma lingered and refused to dissipate, devouring all life force. Almost no living creatures could be seen, resembling the Yin Sha Pond of the Guiyin Sect.

In this place, there stands a stone tower, half-submerged in the marsh and half floating above it.

At this time, three figures were floating before the stone pagoda.

A large pit appeared in the marsh below. The black mud around it converged toward the center, and the mud at the bottom was overturned, a mix of black and yellowish hues, emitting a stench of rot.

This indescribable scene is sickening to behold.

Standing before the stone pagoda was a cultivator with a square face. His complexion was ashen, his left hand tucked into his sleeve, trembling incessantly. He could only barely suppress it with his true essence, so from the outside, nothing seemed amiss.

"Your Excellency, what a clever move!"

The cultivator with a national character face clenched his palms, his face contorted with anger, gritting his teeth and saying, "Good! Luo admits defeat, the Corpse Refining Technique is yours!"

Having said that, the person flicked their sleeve. A streak of light flew towards the opposite side, containing a jade slip inside.

Across from each other, the two figures stood, one after the other, each wearing a ghost-face mask. Though not magic artifacts, they were top-tier weapons nonetheless. Even the black-robed cultivator, a formidable Core Formation stage expert, couldn't pierce through the masks with his divine sense to see their true faces.

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The man at the front grabbed the jade slip, swept his divine sense over it, checked the contents, and a hint of joy appeared in his voice. He took out another jade slip and said, "I apologize for any offense I may have caused earlier, Daoist Luò. As promised, I will not leak your necromancy technique. In exchange, this is a secret art of necromancy that I collected before, it should be helpful to you. Farewell!"

Before the words could fall, the two figures raised their escape lights and fled without looking back.

After a moment, several cultivators flew out of the stone pagoda and landed behind the national-character face cultivator. They looked unwilling and said in unison, "Master, are you just going to let them go"

The Guozifu cultivator's face was grim. "Don't let them leave, are we going to keep them here You didn't see it, this man just fought me. He could match me evenly with his swordsmanship alone. The person behind him seems even stronger, possibly a late stage Jindan expert."

"Late stage of forming the golden pill!"

The crowd was astonished.

"But Master, you haven't fully activated the great formation yet. Even a late Core Formation expert shouldn't be able to easily break through your Master's Corpse Demon Array, right Besides, Master, your main Corpse Demon possesses strength comparable to a Core Formation cultivator. As long as we hold out for a while, Senior Mao will bring people here..."

Upon hearing this, the national character-faced cultivator's face turned even uglier. He let out a cold snort and said: “Look at the position this person is standing in, it's precisely the weakest point of the formation. This can't be a coincidence! The Corpse Spirit Array was created by me alone, no one else could possibly know how to break it. That means this person is extremely proficient in the way of formations, easily seeing through the flaws of the great formation…”

Hearing this, the disciples were even more shocked and realized how dangerous the situation had been just now.

“Enough! This person is not coveting the true teachings of my Nether Corpse Sect. Since he doesn't practice the true teachings, many secret arts are useless to him. The rest is similar to the corpse refining art of other Corpse Dao Sects, so it won't harm him. Besides, the corpse refining art given to me by this person seems to have a history. After I master it, perhaps I can improve the Nether Corpse Array…”

The man with a national character face gradually withdrew his anger and flashed back into the stone pagoda.

Meanwhile, the two had already flown outside the swamp, it was Qin Sang and his avatar.

For over a decade, Bai Zhongqiu and his wife followed Qin Sang's orders, discreetly investigating and gathering information about the renowned corpse cultivators from the Liefeng Archipelago.

Qin Sang selected all the people he could possibly offend and visited them one by one, exchanging experiences and insights about refining corpses and the Dao of Corpse Cultivation.

The jade slip Qin Sang threw to that person did not record the Heavenly Yin Corpse Scripture, but another corpse path inheritance he had obtained during his time in the Xiaohan Domain. Of course, it was also incomplete.

The Xiaohan domain doesn't lack these kinds of incomplete techniques. Most of them were dug out from the ancient battlefield of immortals, ancient cultivator lineages with great value. They can allow cultivators who follow the Corpse Dao path to understand them easily.

Thus, Qin Sang took out this kind of secret technique in exchange, plus his and his avatar's strength were there, the communication process was quite smooth.

Qin Sang did this for two reasons: first, to find a way to decipher the Heavenly Corpse Talisman, and second, to see if he could gain inspiration from other corpse-refining techniques and perhaps comprehend the subsequent parts of the Tian Yin Corpse Art.

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In fact, while Qin Sang was working for the chamber of commerce in the Demon Sea, he had been collecting them. Back then, he bought them with spirit stones, and in the Crackwind Archipelago, he mostly used his fists to speak.

Those cultivators who can stand firm in the Lièfēng Archipelago all have some skill. Among the corpse refining techniques Qin Sang obtained, there are indeed a few that are unique.

Unfortunately, there isn't a cultivation technique for refining corpses, it follows a similar path to the .

These necromancy techniques include secrets to refine corpses into flying night demons, but they all require a lengthy corpse-raising and refining process, coupled with harsh conditions. The difficulty is comparable to that of ordinary cultivators forming their core.

An avatar is already a demanding thing, resource- and energy-wise. It's impossible to split your focus to cultivate another corpse as well.

Over the past decade, Qin Sang spared no expense to elevate his avatar, finally breaking through to the late stage of Core Formation just recently. From Core Formation to the later stage, it only took less than thirty years. If other cultivators heard this, they would surely shed tears of envy.

But for Qin Sang, it was still too slow.

From the message he received, this opening of the Qisha Hall was estimated to be in seven or eight years. It wasn't enough time for his avatar to cultivate to the peak of the Jindan stage. He would have to use a quick-cultivation method.

The good news is that the cultivation process of 《Tian Yao Lian Xing》 has been going very smoothly. Ten years ago, he successfully broke through to the mid-stage of the third layer and achieved parity in cultivation level.

Although the rate of improvement slowed down drastically later on, Qin Sang was not afraid of the star curses. He still cultivated this method much faster than others.

He was even considering, before the Qi Sha Hall opened, whether he should take the Hegemony Blood Fruit and attempt to break through to the late third layer.

"Corpse..."

Qin Sang fell to a safe place, instructing his avatar protector to guard him while he focused on studying the newly acquired Corpse Refining Art.

"The Corpse Refinement Art of the Ming Shi Sect is indeed different from others, but it requires cultivating a unique Yin Qi first before refining. No wonder this person readily handed over the Corpse Refinement Art!"

Qin Sang retracted his divine sense and let out a soft sigh.

Apart from utilizing sinister qi, this technique is largely similar to other corpse refinement methods and offers little help in breaking the Heavenly Corpse Talisman.

“There are a few more, but I don't have time now. The auction on Fengyin Island is about to begin, and I must get the jade pendant that grants entry to the Qisha Hall. It seems like I'll have to use some of the precious spiritual objects I got from the man from Heishen Mountain…”

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Qin Sang pondered for a moment, then took flight westward.

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