The Corpse Fiend: The Way of Pure Martial Power

"Just because of you, you dare call him an ant?" The voice was calm and cold, devoid of any emotion.

Martial qi surged into the heavens!

The mysterious, gaunt figure was unfathomable. He appeared abruptly before them, his overwhelming martial qi shaking the entire Most Evil Ground. Two Ancestral God-level powerhouses were both sent staggering backward.

He arrived so suddenly that even the two supreme experts ahead of him had not sensed him in advance.

The gaunt figure seemed frail. His yellow hair was as wild as weeds, tangled and unkempt. His body was nothing but skin and bones, a layer of sallow flesh barely clinging to his frame.

Xiao Chen nearly cried out in shock. This mysterious arrival was not a stranger—it was the... Corpse Fiend!

The Corpse Fiend who had once slumbered within the King Ship! The supreme expert who had single-handedly torn open the Death World and ventured deep within to seek the Oracle Bone Diagrams!

If not for this mysterious Corpse Fiend breaking into the Death World's Heavenly Palace and suppressing the Great Might Nether King Ruixiao, Xiao Chen and Tianwaitian would surely have fallen by now.

From the moment he had awakened on the King Ship, the Corpse Fiend had shown himself to be overwhelmingly powerful.

"Who are you?" asked the white-jade skeleton Ancestral Lord opposite him, his voice low.

Nearby, the colossal figure like a divine stele revealed a look of shock and doubt. "You are..."

Their answer came only in the form of a pair of fists—iron fists that could shatter mountains and tear the sky asunder.

"Boom!"

As if unable to bear the weight of the blow, the divine-stele-like figure's words were cut short. He was sent flying sideways.

The white-jade Ancestral Lord reacted with the speed of a god, his palm meeting the Corpse Fiend's other fist. He met the attack, but he could not stop it.

"Clang!"

The mighty Ancestral Lord was also sent flying by a single punch. The crystalline bones of his palm were nearly broken.

The Ultimate of Force!

The Corpse Fiend's gaunt frame was thin, yet it possessed the most terrifying combat power in all the world. It smashed through all obstacles; nothing could withstand it.

"It's you... It really is you!" The divine-stele-like giant was shaken.

"It is me, and yet it is not me."

The gaunt figure stood alone between heaven and earth. Though he appeared frail, at this moment he intimidated everyone present. Not a single person dared to make the slightest move.

The divine-stele-like giant finally manifested his true form. His entire body was covered in red-scaled dragon armor. The light was dazzling, like a burning blaze.

The six Half-Ancestors of the Otherworld in the distance wanted to cheer, but when their gaze fell upon the mysterious Corpse Fiend's back, they all held back.

Without a doubt, this was a powerful Ancestral God of the Otherworld—the companion Li Huiyou had mentioned, who had been severely wounded and fallen asleep in the chaotic spacetime. Known as the Red Robe Sword Ancestor, he had revived today and arrived here.

"Back then, four supreme experts were deployed, yet we still left you a sliver of life..."

"Boom!"

Piercing heaven and earth, the mysterious Corpse Fiend answered with action alone. He did not vanish through divine powers; his movements were purely physical, shattering the limits of common sense.

He moved faster than human thought could follow, appearing instantly before the Red Robe Sword Ancestor. A withered palm slashed down diagonally, more fearsome than a heavenly blade.

"Boom!"

He struck heavily against the Sword Ancestor's crossed arms, sending blood flying from the gleaming red dragon-scaled armor.

The dragon armor shattered. The Red Robe Sword Ancestor was sent flying by the pure martial power.

Behind him, the Martial Imprint was nearly howling with excitement. He shouted fiercely:

"Do you see that? This is pure martial power! The utterly worthless martial skills you were just denouncing! If you think this is a trivial trick, then enjoy it to the fullest!" It was clear the old charlatan had been holding in a bellyful of anger, and now he was venting it all.

"Utterly worthless trivial trick?" The mysterious Corpse Fiend repeated the sentence coldly, his back to the crowd. "Has the martial path fallen so low? In that case, I shall use this utterly worthless trivial trick to bury you here and open a new world!"

With these words, the mysterious Corpse Fiend took a single step, covering hundreds of feet, and was instantly before the Red Robe Sword Ancestor. The earth shook. The heavens trembled. As his fists swung out, the entire Most Evil Ground quaked, and the whole sky rocked violently.

The Red Robe Sword Ancestor's body blazed with blood-red light. True to his name, he commanded the power of the sword. Tens of millions of sword beams erupted from within him, all sweeping toward a single point.

"Buzz!"

Like the sound of countless insects taking flight, a piercing noise that made even Half-Ancestors' ears ache.

The sky was filled with blood-red sword beams!

But facing this endless storm of sword qi, the mysterious Corpse Fiend was utterly unimpressed. His iron fists pressed forward without pause, smashing straight ahead.

Crushing all obstacles!

A pair of iron fists shattered the sky-filling blood-red sword beams, directly pierced through heaven and earth, and with a thunderous roar, crashed into the Red Robe Sword Ancestor.

"Boom!"

The Sword Ancestor took the blow and shot upward, appearing high in the sky. He roared: "Hundreds of millions of stars, hear my command! Celestial Sword of the Starry Sky—descend!"

The vast starry sky blazed with light. Dazzling sword beams rained down from countless stars. With the stars themselves as the sword source, the sky was filled with murderous intent. The entire heavens were the Red Robe Sword Ancestor's stronghold.

This was the terror of the Sword Ancestor—hundreds of millions of stars were the divine swords in his palm. A peerless divine power, enough to annihilate everything in the world!

Blinding light drowned the area, all of it converging on the mysterious Corpse Fiend.

Facing such a fearsome divine ability, even the white-bone Ancestral Lord behind him showed a look of gravity. Its power was far too great.

But the mysterious Corpse Fiend was unafraid. He rose up through the millions of starry sky swords, carving a path with invincible combat power, shattering all obstacles.

His goal was clear: concentrate all his martial force on a single point and strike down the Red Robe Sword Ancestor.

Since the billions of starry sky swords were all summoned by the Red Robe Sword Ancestor, killing him directly would cause all the fearsome sky swords to disperse.

"Boom!"

The mysterious Corpse Fiend's combat power was heaven-defying. He used pure martial force to break an Ancestral God's supreme divine ability! His body spun like a top at extreme speed, shredding all the sky-filling swords, and he reached the Red Robe Sword Ancestor.

His ten fingers spread wide like ten heavenly drills, plunging toward the Sword Ancestor's chest.

They completely pierced through the three-zhang-thick protective divine light of the Ancestral God-level powerhouse. The mysterious Corpse Fiend's combat power was unmatched, using pure martial force to savagely close in.

"Ah!"

The Red Robe Sword Ancestor roared, his heart filled with extreme dread. He mustered all his strength, condensing ten thousand layers of sword light before his chest to block the spreading fingers.

"Crack... Crack..."

The sound of shattering came. The mysterious Corpse Fiend's martial power was heaven-shaking. His purely physical attacks transcended all imagination. His ten fingers pierced through the Red Robe Sword Ancestor's blood-red dragon armor like paper through flesh, leaving ten terrifying bloody holes.

The mysterious Corpse Fiend was terrifying beyond measure. Ten fingers stabbed through the Red Robe Sword Ancestor's chest, and ten jets of blood burst forth.

"Ah!"

The Red Robe Sword Ancestor screamed, retreating like a streak of bloodlight for over ten li before stopping with a hand over his chest.

"This... is the utterly worthless trivial trick of the pure martial artist..." The Corpse Fiend's voice was cold and calm, but his actions proved the power of the martial path!

In the distance, all the Otherworld Half-Ancestors were horrified. That was their Ancestral God, and he could not defeat this mysterious enemy.

The eight Sovereigns were also deeply shocked. This mysterious man was far too powerful; his combat strength had wounded an Ancestral God so quickly.

In the Paradise Lost, Xiao Chen and the others were also profoundly shaken. Back then, on the Forbidden Sea, they had all seen the Corpse Fiend emerge, but none had expected him to be so powerful.

He had the strength to kill an Ancestral God!

"Seventh Heaven of Ancestral God? Or maybe the Eighth Heaven?!" The white-bone Ancestral Lord in the distance showed an extremely grave expression. Though he had not yet attacked, he had been oppressed by a terrifying combat power all along.

"Back then, he was a supreme figure of the Ninth Heaven!" The Red Robe Sword Ancestor finished healing his wounds and walked back through the void.

The white-bone Ancestral Lord was shocked. At this moment, he had no choice but to join forces with the Red Robe Sword Ancestor; otherwise, he could not face this fearsome martial artist alone.

"Clang!"

With solemn gravity, the white-bone Ancestral Lord unsheathed the bone knife strapped to his back. It was snow-white, and its killing aura instantly pierced the heavens. Its terrible power merged with the countless stars.

Though it was a bone knife, it was more terrible than most Ancestral God weapons. This was a blade he had been refining since awakening as a tiny fire-seed being. Evolving to this point, it had long become a true peer-level Ancestral Lord weapon!

"My name is Original Sin. My blade is called Sinking."

The white-bone Ancestral Lord announced his title.

"Whoosh!"

The bone knife slashed down, swelling to three thousand zhang long. The snow-white bone blade was incomparably sharp, falling like a mountain ridge.

The Death World shook violently. The endless baleful aura rose from the grass and trees, condensing onto the bone knife. The Ancestral Lord named Original Sin could summon the power of the Death World.

The Corpse Fiend's steps seemed to tread on stars as he rose through the void, halos of light blooming beneath his feet. His footwork was eerie and inscrutable as he charged toward the enormous bone knife.

"Clang!"

He met the giant blade with nothing but his bare palm. A sky-shaking explosion rang out. The mysterious Corpse Fiend was unharmed, sending the three-thousand-zhang bone knife flying.

Then, like a trace of flowing light, he shot forward and with a "Boom!" struck the white-bone Ancestral Lord with a palm. The Lord was sent flying.

"Don't fight him with pure martial force! Few can match him in that domain." The Red Robe Sword Ancestor shouted, "Use curses and divine arts against him!"

The Death World Ancestral Lord, Original Sin, flew over a dozen li before stabilizing himself. His body was crystalline, nearly transparent. Holding the Sinking bone knife, he nodded and said, "Then we shall subdue him with divine laws and principles."

"Boom!"

The Corpse Fiend had already attacked, engaging two Ancestral God-level powerhouses alone! His profound footwork made him like a ghost in chaotic spacetime—impossible to predict where he would appear next.

Pure martial power. Fearsome combat techniques. Unmatched in the world!

The Corpse Fiend moved with heaven-shaking force, bringing immense pressure to the Ancestral Lord Original Sin and the Red Robe Sword Ancestor, filling them both with deep unease.

At this moment, they held nothing back. They fully manifested the power of the heavenly laws and principles they had comprehended.

"My name is Original Sin. I carry out Heaven's judgment. Souls, be stripped!" The white-bone Ancestral Lord Original Sin roared, his Sinking bone knife flashing with ominous light as it swept toward the Corpse Fiend.

This was an extremely sinister divine ability, drawing on the power of the Death World itself, seeking to strip away an Ancestral God's very soul!

The Most Evil Ground had once been fragrant with flowers and grass, but now the earth rose with towering baleful energy. Black mist shrouded the entire world.

At the same time, a "clattering" sound rang out. Tens of millions of enormous iron chains, each as thick as a mountain range, suddenly appeared in the dark sky. They thrashed madly, winding toward the mysterious Corpse Fiend.

Stripping away an Ancestral God's soul!

The death chains summoned by the white-bone Ancestral Lord could bind even the soul of a supreme powerhouse of this level.

Tens of millions of enormous chains, tens of li long, cascaded down from the high heavens, drowning the Corpse Fiend in an instant! Such giant chains were not meant for binding—they were meant for true annihilation.

The power of the Death World was vast. These chains could truly imprison the soul of an Ancestral God.

"Strip!"

The white-bone Ancestral Lord Original Sin shouted. The Sinking bone knife trembled violently, and the endless massive chains in the sky all "clattered," shaking fiercely, a sound that seized the soul.

The watching Half-Ancestors were all terrified. Such power was too terrible—unheard of. It had actually bound the Corpse Fiend who could kill Ancestral Gods!

The Corpse Fiend was drowned by the sky-filling chains. Endless black energy swirled around him, as if he was truly imprisoned.

A fearsome force tore at his soul!

"Heaven and earth may crumble, but my soul is deathless. You wish to imprison my spirit? Impossible!" The Corpse Fiend suddenly roared. "Shatter!"

In that instant, a raging tide swept heaven and earth, shaking mountains and rivers. An overwhelming martial power erupted from his gaunt frame.

The enormous chains in the sky all snapped!

"Crack! Crack! Crack!" The sound of shattering was deafening, ringing out without end.

The sky was filled with broken death chains, each as huge as a mountain range!

"Boom!"

Martial qi surged into the heavens, scattering all the black clouds. Heaven and earth returned to clarity. All the evil and bizarre forces vanished.

This deeply shook everyone!

He had completely shattered that terrifying imprisonment with nothing but his physical body!

"Celestial Swords of the Starry Sky!" At that moment, the Red Robe Sword Ancestor swept his hands through the void. Between his fingers appeared a hazy curtain of light. An entire sea of stars swirled in his palm.

A supreme divine ability!

He had summoned an entire starry sky—a mustard seed containing a mountain, cradled in his hand!

This forbidden divine power was truly breathtaking.

Suddenly, the starry sky held in his palm erupted with dazzling radiance. The sea of stars rapidly expanded, surging toward the mysterious Corpse Fiend. Tens of millions of sword beams shot forth. Every single star became a sword of the heavens.

"To cultivate the martial body is to be immortal through the ages." The Corpse Fiend's voice was cold and terrifyingly fast. He charged directly into the endless starry swords summoned by the Red Robe Sword Ancestor.

He broke through the starlight, shattered the starry swords, and crushed all obstacles with irresistible force. With a great roar, the Corpse Fiend was already before the Red Robe Sword Ancestor. His left hand drove upward, his right hand struck downward—the ancient combat techniques, Heaven-Fault Finger and the Hand of the Supreme Being, respectively.

"Boom!"

Blood rained through the sky, splattering everywhere. Heaven-Fault Finger pierced through the Red Robe Sword Ancestor's chest. The five bloody holes it left rapidly cracked, and the entire chest bone suddenly shattered into pieces. The Hand of the Supreme Being smashed the lower half of his remaining body to bits.

The Otherworld Ancestral God, the Red Robe Sword Ancestor, was torn to pieces by the Corpse Fiend. His flying head still roared with fury: "Martial Ancestor! You will die after all! Martial Ancestor!"

His ten fingers vibrated, and three large characters appeared in the sky.