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142. Unexpected Arrivals

Yi Ping kept a tight hold on Xixing. Hui walked ahead with Fa Chuyou, pretending not to care. This is a step in the right direction. Once we get her back to the Corpse Refinement Valley, I can ...

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141. Negotiations

Three cultivators stood in the black plains before Vertebra 108, an exhausted Xixing tied up before them. Their leader, Han Ziguo, narrowed his eyes at the approaching duo. A cold snort emerged fro...

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140. Master Jing

Leaving the corpse in the coffin to soak up the fluids, Fa Chuyou led the way deeper into the valley. Outside the cave Gu Tian had vanished into, she paused and drew a breath. “Gu Tian! Time!”<...

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139. The Dao of Corpse Refinement

The second Hui’s qi passed through the coffin walls, it faded away. Startled, Hui yanked back his tendril of qi and found it dying, as if infected with death qi. He severed the tendril, leaving i...

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138. Corpse Refinement

Hui looked down at the black-blooded girl’s corpse. She laid there quietly, eyes shut. Aside from the garish slash at her neck and the bloodless tone of her skin, she seemed almost ready to sit u...

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137. Ruined Calamity

“Er, right now? Elder Sister, Gu Tian is…” Hui smiled gently and nodded after the forgotten Gu Tian.

“Oh, right!” She looked at Hui, then glanced reluctantly over her shoulder at th...

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136. Let's Cultivate Corpses Together!

Weeks passed. At last, Hui opened his eyes. The death qi fully assimilated with his death qi dantian, which rotated quickly, so quickly it began to hollow in the center. Checking his ordinary danti...

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135. A Chance to Rest

The three of them tore through the inheritance realm, looting every scrap they came across. At last, they stepped out into the sunset. Hui pushed his hair back from his forehead and stared up the s...

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134. Phrasing

Bai Xue frowned. “Happily, but right here? Right now?”

Hui stared at him. A second later, his cheeks burned. “B-Hong Xue!”

“What? How else am I supposed to interpret that?”<...

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133. Hold Me Now

Hui glanced back. “We’ve got company.”

Bai Xue snorted. He slammed his foot down, stopped dead and whirled. Waving his fan, he shot a blast of flame up the passage, roaring at the four ...

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132. Stealing Other People's Inheritance Feels Better Than Receiving Your Own

“A—after all that?” Hui asked, startled.

Bai Xue shrugged. “We can only enter this inheritance space once in our lives. We might as well take what we can.”

Hui hesitated. “T...

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131. Emptiness And

He burst out into another chamber. Identical to the first, but larger, it sported three full pillars rather than one with two stumps. Red light bathed the chamber. In the rear, the shelf with the g...

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130. Inheritance Or

Hui climbed to his feet and brushed down his robes. He glanced around, then stepped forward toward the stone eye. It stretched two meters tall, wide enough for a man to squeeze through at the narro...

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129. Open Up Your Eyes: Transformation

The blood mist’s howling cut off abruptly. Utter silence replaced it, so sudden Hui’s ears rang. His feet echoed hollowly as he stumbled forward a few steps, kicking up dust.

He stood in ...

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128. Blood Mist Valley

Chasing after Huang Muwen, Hui and Bai Xue leaped into the valley. Bai Xue brought up the rear, leaving Hui safely encapsulated between the two. For his part, Hui transferred a few talismans into h...

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127. An Invitation

Thump. Thump.

Hui startled awake. His hair stuck to his face, eyes hazy. He yawned and rubbed his face, then stretched.

Ah. I had a good night’s sleep.

…...

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126. Forging Talismans

Vertebra 60 was a distance up the skeleton. Hui climbed up the bones. They slipped under his feet, the surface smooth and polished. Hui operated his movement technique to maintain his balance, hopp...

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125. Regaining Focus

Running down the skeleton, Hui ducked into his cave. Breath still ragged, he leaned against the cave wall. The bone cooled his heated forehead. He pressed a hand against his forehead and released t...

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124. How Did You Get Here?

Out of the Valley of Beasts. Bai Xue hurtled through the air, toward a higher point on the snake skeleton than Hui had hoped to reach. He flew into his cave and released Hui, stepping back.

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123. Abnormal Cultivation

Hui raced toward the death qi. As he drew close, he suppressed his qi, hiding his presence. He raced through the forest, ducking branches and leaves, and in no time, came to the edge of a clearing....

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122. Moving Up in the Skeleton

Sitting inside his cave, Hui circulated his qi and investigated his new ghoul skin more closely. His qi flowed easily from one shard of flint to the next, confirming his first glance. I already...

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121. A Tug at the Heart, a Chill Down the Spine

Hui froze in midair. His dantian shuddered, trembling in fear. “E…elder sister?”

“Following me all the way here… you’re a suspicious one, aren’t you?”

“Sus…suspiciou...

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120. A Coffin Fit for a Small Cultivator

They passed another two coffins. One had a shut lid, and the other laid open and empty, only the sticky remnants of a purple fluid clinging to its corners. Hui kept a healthy distance from both, in...

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119. The Valley of Corpse Refinement

Night settled over the demonic sect. A low fog curled around the base of the snake skeleton, casting it in a yet more mysterious air. Shadows moved in the fog, indistinct and faint. Some flitted ov...

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118. Don't Bribe the Reaper

Hui stopped dead. “Eh.”

She stepped forward and took his hand. “A death cultivator like yourself, with unprecedented intelligence at such a low realm? If I refined your corpse, I wonder...

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117. A Guide for Dead Men

Chang Bolin’s ghoul leaned toward him, stumbling over his own feet. He stared dully, eyes glazed and white, coated with thick cataracts. His jaw worked slowly. Faintly, his brows furrowed.

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116. Reunions Never Go As Imagined

With a friendly wave, Gu Tian left Hui alone on the vertebra. Immediately, Hui felt a hundred predatory gazes land on his shoulders. He glanced left and right, then darted into the immortal’s cav...

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115. Demonic Sect

They zoomed out of the forest, and the demonic sect appeared, laid out before them. A huge snake skeleton curved up from the earth, ferocious and bizarre, hundreds of meters long. Its bones were as...

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114. A Life-and-Death Battle

Hui sped through the forest. The two strongest of the life qi cultivators chased after him, both in the third stage. One, the same as him, had cultivation of the low third stage, while the other em...

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113. Unexpected Escape

The scene came back into motion. The father stared, looking at the boy, the bloodstained sword, then at his own hands. He screamed in horror and stumbled away.

Halfway through the father’s ...

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