As the dust settled, the entire Yin River was at a standstill.
Zhang Pingsheng and the others hadn't expected the Sect Leader to be so mercurial. Just a moment ago, everyone was engaged in friendly banter, and suddenly the Sect Leader drew out a large, black Treasure Sword and swung it at the opponent's face.
The dark light emanating from the demon-slaying Treasure Sword stunned not only foes and allies but also confused the fierce skull servants briefly.
Witch Qi was momentarily stunned, "Where did my massive brother go?"
Xu Qing, who was capricious and fighting solo, had already put away the demon-slaying Treasure Sword and casually uttered two words:
"Average."
"..."
It seemed the far ancient Great Witch's sense of shame was provoked by Xu Qing's dismissive demeanor, for not far away, a skeleton Ghost King with a bull's head and a man's body suddenly let out a furious roar.
"I am the ancestral witch of the witch tribe, my body coexists with heaven and earth, immortal and indestructible unless you possess world-destroying powers, otherwise you cannot harm me in the slightest!"
Is this the art of borrowing a corpse to live again?
No! Xu Qing glanced at the shattered corpse remains of the Ghost General below him and suddenly understood.
The witch sacrifice originally possessed a substitution divine technique, and the twelve Skull Giants formed from the bone mountain were all clones of the opponent.
If Xu Qing wanted to eliminate the witch sacrifice, he must first face the twelve Skull Giants before him...
Twelve regenerating skeletons, with abilities not inferior to true Immortals, without having great divine power to completely annihilate this ancient battlefield, it's truly challenging to confront the witch sacrifice's limitless resurrection technique.
Xu Qing blinked, but his stance did not falter.
It's perfect, for the Celestial Spirit Axe Technique he learned is precisely an earth-opening divine technique!
However, Xu Qing had more than just this one solution to the crisis before him.
Even though the witch sacrifice's mouth was hard, Xu Qing did not believe the opponent genuinely coexists with heaven and earth, nor did he believe the opponent is truly immortal.
If that were the case, how did these two Great Witches become this ghostly semblance of human and spirit? Let alone having been crafted into puppet evil corpses by the Underworld law corpses after the return to the void.
Having experience in transcending ghost laws and corpse demons, Xu Qing now understood slightly about the origin of the twelve gatekeepers of the Yin River and the capabilities of the Underworld law corpses.
The so-called twelve gatekeepers were nothing but walking corpses formed from accumulated grievance and malicious thoughts over the years.
This type of walking corpse is akin to the three corpses that people need to eliminate when aspiring to ascend to immortality, except ordinary Immortals and divine beings lack the ability to gather those scattered grievances and malicious thoughts into 'corpse puppets,' while the Underworld law corpse formed from the three corpses severed by Immortal Buddha Holy Spirits, just happens to possess the talent and divine technique to create corpses out of thin air.
Xu Qing admired this ability immensely, can the body-making divine technique be any less powerful than any other magic?
In terms of theory, law corpses and zombies are all bodies, why shouldn't he have such a divine technique?
Xu Qing looked towards the witch sacrifice using 'borrowing a corpse to return the soul,' without any fear in his gaze, only a faint sense of pity.
The pity in his gaze made the witch sacrifice shudder, not understanding why the Cyan Dragon Divine Monarch, a naturally holy being, was wary of him, yet why this human cultivator who hadn't ascended to immortality lacked any reverence.
Meanwhile, as Xu Qing raised the Ghost-slaying Sword again, Sacrifice and Qi exchanged glances, and the two Great Witches immediately chose to switch strategies.
Magical power has limits, dealing with a reckless youth like Xu Qing who charges with all his might is evidently more suitable for using witch poison curse techniques.
In this give and take, as long as they exhaust the other's magical power, by then will Xu Qing not be mere prey on their plate!
"Sect Leader!"
Witnessing Witch Qi summon the plague host, maneuvering pestilence to spread towards Xu Qing, Zhang Pingsheng and the others hurried to assist.
Facing the surging five-colored plague, Xu Qing felt a slight movement in his heart and immediately stopped Zhang Pingsheng and the others from approaching.
The plague before was not the ordinary poison of epidemic, jaundice, malaria, or infection, but a primeval witch poison capable of corroding the bodies of Gods and Buddhas, polluting the magical power of Immortals.
This kind of witch poison divine technique had no negative effect on his zombie body, but for others, it required utmost vigilance to face!
Xu Qing commanded Zhang Pingsheng and the rest to handle the Skull Giants on the battlefield while he moved upstream, locking onto Witch Qi performing witchcraft on him amidst the polluting waves.
Witch Qi saw Xu Qing incessantly pressing forward, yet remained unperturbed, as before him was a skeleton. Above it, the five kinds of pestilence clung like five pairs of children's hands, constantly climbing upwards.
Amidst the overwhelming sea of pestilence, countless skeleton Yin Ghosts floated and sank, some attempting to reach out to grasp Xu Qing's ankles, others turning into invisible tendrils, entwining around Xu Qing's body.
Simultaneously, the skeleton before Witch Qi began to transform endlessly, at some moment, the five-colored skeleton infected by the pestilence transformed into Xu Qing's form.
Seeing this, Witch Qi was overjoyed, and afar the witch sacrifice also disregarded the battlefield filled with Buddhist light dharmic images and various Daoist divine techniques.
He summoned several skeleton warriors, mobilizing the soldier demon energy of the entire ancient battlefield to obstruct Xu Qing outside the altar.
Xu Qing ignored the surrounding Skull Giants, casually employing fragmentation techniques, dispatching eight clones to block all intervening skeletons, as he broke through the layers of pestilence fog, arriving at the side of the altar.
Seeing this, Witch Qi quickly sent out cryptic witch tribe-exclusive language to the witch sacrifice.
Xu Qing glanced sideways to see a headless corpse ghost holding a large axe in the distance suddenly break free from the battle array, then opened its belly mouth wide, baring its large teeth, roaring as it charged towards the altar!
"Showy nonsense."
Xu Qing roughly discerned that the witch sacrifice intended to assist Witch Qi in conducting some curse technique ritual, but he feared the least about poisoning or cursing.
Such things only affect the living, if used on the dead, it might not only fail to harm the corpse but revive it instead.