Chapter 20: Heaven's Wrath and Earth's Fury (Part 2)

  The Five Elements Escape Method is the most basic way for a Yin Corpse to move, even if it's a demonic cultivator, they wouldn't let a corpse appear in public all the time. So, most of the time, the Yin Corpse is hidden underground. This is an instinct that comes with being a Yin Corpse, almost without using any special divine abilities. Therefore, Qin Yifan only felt someone approaching that day, but couldn't sense the Yin Corpse's movement at all, until he dug up the ground and discovered its existence.

  Those people's mysterious disappearance was also due to the yin corpse's earth escape. With the yin corpse's thousand-year cultivation, taking a person with it in an earth escape is a light and easy matter. Those people were captured by the yin evil, their whole body trapped underground, even someone as strong as that controller of corpses would be suffocated to death, let alone some ordinary people who can't use martial arts.

  The corpse was sealed for a thousand years. At this moment, even if she relied on her instincts to struggle free from the control of the Corpse Controlling Great Technique, she couldn't think clearly and could only vaguely sense Qin Yifan's intense emotions. Relying on this intense hatred and killing intent, she surprisingly never killed the wrong person, which was truly rare.

  What made Qin Yifan feel even more unbelievable was that in this place of evil energy where even cultivators would be affected, the dark corpse with a consciousness as blank as empty space had no effect on her. The ubiquitous evil energy was simply an excellent tonic for her.

  When she couldn't sense Qin Yifan's emotions, she acted on her instincts and frantically absorbed the overflowing evil spirits. Lin Qiulü and others had once thought that the influence of the evil spirits had greatly diminished, thinking it was because the range of the evil land had shrunk, but it was actually due to the aftermath of being frantically absorbed by the shadow corpse.

  The Corpse Control Technique was like a tiger adding wings in the hands of the female corpse. Including the original Corpse Controller, all the missing people from the later Wohu Villa and Holy Maiden Peak were easily controlled by her. If Qin Yifan had dug up that piece of land where she hid before, he would have discovered a Heaven-Defying Array formed by corpses. Thirty-six corpses were arranged according to the positions of the thirty-six Heavenly Defenders, and the Corpse Controller was the array's eye.

  This Heaven-Defying Great Formation, entirely composed of corpses, has only one effect: to increase the speed at which yin corpses absorb malevolent energy. Perhaps in the process of being refined for a thousand years, the deepest memory left to her is the constant enhancement of her cultivation. In this land of great nourishment, she can only act according to her instincts.

  However, the current Tian Jie formation has completely changed its appearance. The large number of people who disappeared from Wohu Mountain Villa not long ago were all controlled by the dark corpses and arranged into another Di Jie formation, with a total of 72 corpses. In combination with the previous Tian Jie formation, it forms a complete Tian Jie Di Jie formation. The effect of absorbing yin evil energy of the Tian Jie Di Jie formation is much better than that of a single Tian Jie formation, and just this point alone is enough to make all the cultivators here envy the dark corpses.

  Because the entire Tian Gou Di Xia formation is completely composed of corpses, and the formation eye is also a corpse of a highly cultivated demon path cultivator. The absorbed yin evil energy can be fully preserved in these corpses even if the yin corpse is temporarily not present, waiting for the yin corpse to refine at any time, which is equivalent to this place being a home for that yin corpse.

  Of course, Qin Yifan was not interested in watching the dead bodies at home. Now he can only confirm a few things.

  One is that the corpse has no malice towards itself, and even because it returned her freedom, she is grateful. For people who don't like Qin Yifan and have murderous intentions, they will be dealt with in a very violent manner.

  The second thing that can be confirmed is that only when Qin Yifan was in a very small range by the lake, could Yin Shi sense Qin Yifan's strong emotions. In other locations, it seems that Yin Shi did not have this ability. Originally thought that as long as they were close enough, but didn't expect there to be such an obstacle, and after much contemplation, couldn't figure out the reason, finally had to conclude that it was probably due to the old fellow in the lake playing tricks.

  Thirdly, although those people were all killed by the yin corpse, in the end it was because they had murderous intentions themselves. A simple yin corpse would not attack living humans under these circumstances where the yin energy is abundant. Therefore, the lives of over a hundred people ultimately still have to be accounted for on Qin Yifan's head. This can be considered a disaster without cause, but as for debts of human life, Qin Yifan has never been particularly concerned about it; even if there were twice as many, it would not matter - having more lice does not mean they will bite people.

  It's just that from the time he left the army until now, Qin Yifan had never taken a life. After receiving the master's guidance and having a heart that sought the way, he deliberately used the method of opening an inn to temper his will. Over the years, he also achieved some small success, and at such moments, he could control his desire to take action. Unfortunately, there was still a lack, and he still had murderous intentions.

  Of course, in any case, Qin Yifan would not regret this small matter. Some people were killed and some were buried. These people were already very lucky, on the battlefield, many comrades-in-arms didn't even have the chance to be buried.

  The top priority is to figure out how to deal with this corpse. Can't just let her appear in the inn, can we? Not to mention ordinary people seeing a zombie that can only hop around now would be scared out of their wits, but even if those cultivators are willing or not to stay with a thousand-year-old corpse is worth considering. Being with a corpse might trigger their disgust and alert their sect's masters, ultimately affecting the old man in the lake.

  Communication with the corpse is also difficult, after all, her soul has just controlled the body, and her mind has just opened, she can't speak fluently, and her movements are stiff and awkward. If it weren't for the transcendent escape technique, I believe even taking action would be a problem.

  It's just as well, because of the reason Qin Yifan put a ring on her finger, the corpse is now obedient to Qin Yifan and doesn't resist at all. There is ample yin energy here, and the corpse doesn't have any other requests, so let her stay here and absorb the yin energy. Otherwise, if a fully white-haired zombie were to appear in the inn, who knows how many villagers would still be able to live there peacefully?

  The lakeside is a good place, with plenty of yin energy and few cultivators passing by, so let the corpse cultivate here. Anyway, there's the Tianjia Dixin formation, she only has benefits and no drawbacks.

  The corpse looked very happy to accept such an arrangement, in front of Qin Yifan, without using the earth escape directly back to her "residence", stiffly leaving. Only, when leaving, the entire face and arm were all covered with black gauze, blown by the wind, a small corner was lifted, a smooth as jade hand flashed, where was there still any thousand-year-old white hair?