“Whether I can kill you or not, I truly cannot say for certain. After all, you are far too formidable, lad. No one knows what new abilities you might suddenly reveal.”
The corpse granny laughed. “But it can absolutely help this old woman escape from here! As long as I get away, you had better prepare to die. You probably do not know why Biwave Island treats me with such favour.
It is not merely because my strength is great, but more importantly because I have someone backing me!”
“Oh? Which great power is it? Black Water Immortal Island? Or the Water God Temple?” Lingxiao asked.
“You do not need to know that. You only need to understand that you have done something extremely foolish. That is enough.”
After a sinister cackle, the corpse granny suddenly opened her mouth and inhaled sharply. The souls of all the Biwave Island disciples Lingxiao had just killed unexpectedly detached from their bodies and surged towards her.
These corpses had only just died in battle, so their souls had not yet had time to depart. Now, however, they were seized by the corpse granny.
As the souls continuously poured in, her body grew larger and more robust.
Most terrifying of all, the aura she released became increasingly powerful.
It faintly gave the sensation of climbing towards the Yin-Yang Realm.
Yet it was not quite the same as genuine Yin-Yang Realm cultivation.
Finally, after completely absorbing even Seng Li’s soul, the corpse granny’s body had grown to around ten metres tall. Just her breathing could whip up raging winds.
A slight movement of her foot caused the earth to tremble.
The dilapidated temple could no longer contain her frame and was utterly destroyed.
“Ahahahaha! Do you see it, Lingxiao? This is my strongest state. What a pity that right now I can only accommodate a hundred souls at most. Otherwise, I would be even more powerful.”
The corpse granny’s voice had originally been hoarse but still feminine. At this moment, however, it was deep and terrifying, more masculine than a man’s voice.
“This is rather interesting. I did not expect souls could have such a use.”
The corpse granny tried to see fear and regret on Lingxiao’s face, but all she saw was a smile brimming with interest. He appeared not only unafraid of her, but actually fascinated by her current form.
“Die, lad! You will soon know my power.”
The corpse granny raised her foot and stamped viciously towards Lingxiao. When that enormous sole lifted, it even dragged up some corpses with it. Inside the ruined temple, sand and stone flew everywhere.
“Leng Mei, take Situ Hongyan out of here.”
Lingxiao said.
“But Master, what about you?”
Leng Mei asked worriedly.
“Rest assured. Do you really think I would give her a genuine healing elixir? She may dream of it, but unfortunately I am not that stupid.”
Lingxiao smiled faintly.
“Then I can relax.”
Leng Mei carried Situ Hongyan on her back and soared away.
Once outside, she stood directly on the head of Lingxiao’s skeleton soldier, closely watching the battle.
Inside the destroyed temple.
Lingxiao suddenly snapped his fingers.
The corpse granny’s attack abruptly halted.
“What is happening?”
The corpse granny stared at Lingxiao in shock. Her body seemed to have slipped from her own control.
“Corpse granny, oh corpse granny. Feeding you poison would make me seem too low-level. Yet feeding you a genuine healing elixir would make me appear too foolish. Therefore, I gave you a medicine with considerable technical sophistication. From now on, you must obey my control.”
Lingxiao stood there without any intention of lifting a hand. He merely looked at the gigantic corpse granny with cold disdain and smiled.
“Impossible! There cannot be such a medicine!”
The corpse granny had some slight knowledge of pills. In all her experience, she had never heard of anything so miraculous.
As she spoke, she tried once more to attack Lingxiao.
Yet the moment she moved, she let out a miserable scream.
“Ah~~”
Blood cascaded down like a waterfall.
The corpse granny had actually sliced off one of her own ears.
That ear was perhaps too large, so the amount of blood was astonishing.
With her strength multiplied, the pain was also multiplied. The corpse granny collapsed directly to the ground and rolled about constantly.
The bricks and tiles of the ruined temple had already been crushed to fragments by her enormous body.
Great groans and cries for mercy came from her mouth, but these brought her nothing.
In the distance, Zhang Tiande and Representative Yan watched this scene in terror. Just moments ago, the two of them had nearly come over.
They had planned to reap the benefits once the fighting was done.
Fortunately they had not. Otherwise, Lingxiao would probably have controlled the current corpse granny to attack them.
“Not listening to instructions, refusing to heed advice. Keeping those ears is pointless.”
Lingxiao said coldly. “Now, cut off your other ear.”
Can you imagine the terror of knowing the pain will be unbearable yet still having to cut off your own ear?
That is exactly what the corpse granny was experiencing now.
She watched helplessly as her own hand moved towards her ear.
Then the excruciating pain struck again. Her whole body shook.
The corpse granny had thought she would never cry again in this lifetime.
She had believed her tears had long since dried up.
Yet today, she shed tears of regret and pain, and of course, anger too.
She regretted provoking this little harbinger of doom, Lingxiao, and doing so repeatedly, as if afraid others would not target her.
Now everything had come to this. It was all her own fault.
She suffered unbearably, yet could do nothing about it.
She was furious that Lingxiao showed her no mercy, yet she never considered that during the battle on the long street, she had intended no mercy for Lingxiao either.
Even just moments ago, she had still been threatening him with words.
“Kill me! Stop tormenting me!”
The corpse granny howled in agony.
She no longer wished to continue living in such pain. She wanted death, and the sooner the better!
She simply could not endure this kind of suffering.
“Tell me the power behind you, and I will grant you a quick end.”
Lingxiao said calmly.
“No, no, it is impossible. I cannot betray them.”
The corpse granny shook her head, apparently terrified of the enormous power backing her.
“Cannot betray? You truly are laughable. You are on the verge of death, yet still protect them so fiercely. Should I call you loyal, or should I call you foolish?”
As Lingxiao spoke, he snapped his fingers again.
The corpse granny directly gouged out one of her own eyes.
Trembling completely overtook her body. She nearly blurted out the power behind her.
“I will tell, I will tell, but only to you alone.”
Finally, as the intense pain gradually eased, the corpse granny spoke.
“No problem.”
Lingxiao had no fear of any trickery from her. Right now, if he wanted this fellow dead, she would die. That was the terror of an alchemist.
He leapt lightly to the side of the corpse granny’s mouth.
She whispered a few sentences in his ear and truly did nothing else.
“Impossible!”
Lingxiao revealed a puzzled expression.
“It is true. Everything I said is true. You are so powerful, you should be able to tell I am not lying. Now I beg you, give me a quick death. I do not want to continue like this.”
The corpse granny cried out loudly.
