Chapter 590: Chapter 585 Spiritual Beast Shows Ferocity, Qin Feng Demonstrates Power

Fortunately, the White Dragon was not alone, and the primary target of the person hidden in the shadows was not it. So, even though it was somewhat embarrassed after the clash, it was not injured.

Qin Feng was not about to stand idly by and watch the White Dragon take on the burden alone.

His eyes swirling with black and white, Qin Feng pushed his Yin Yang Ghost Eye to the extreme. Even though he had not completely seen through the Heavenly Punishment and Earthly Destruction Shura Battle Formation, he had vaguely grasped a few patterns of the war formation’s operation.

Then, he summoned the many spiritual beasts under his command.

For a moment, great beasts roared and Qingluan birds chirped melodiously, as the void filled with more than a dozen spiritual beasts and divine birds of various races and sizes.

These spiritual beasts, the moment they appeared, followed Qin Feng’s mental command and attacked their respective opponents, forcibly inserting themselves into the nodes of the war formation’s operation, attempting to break the formation and kill the corpse puppets.

Under Qin Feng’s control, the Undying Qingluan’s flames blossomed, the all-black scale-armored serpent spit out a corrosive poison liquid that could corrode everything, and the Spring and Autumn Cicada moved like lightning, striking with thunder, joining forces to attack the same corpse puppet, directly ejecting it from the battle formation.

On another front, the Hellhound roared, its bellow like thunder, it opened its mouth wide and bit the neck of a corpse puppet, decisively biting off its head.

Although corpse puppets did not have a life force and could still fight even without a head, the Hellhound, a ferocious monster that had lived in the Death Kingdom since its infancy, was particularly adept at handling such dead things, so Qin Feng did not bother to send another spiritual beast to assist it.

After all, the creature was the strongest, just a hair’s breadth away from a Demigod, and facing a corpse puppet controlled by others was not difficult.

The Ghost-Faced Spider did not use the Soul Burning Demon Flame; although the power of that flame was formidable, it targeted the divine soul more and would be greatly reduced in effectiveness against these corpse puppets lacking complete souls.

So it spat out strands of spider silk to form a web, trapping a corpse puppet directly.

Since becoming the main spirit beast of the eighth layer of the Demon Refining Pot, it immediately received Qin Feng’s nurturing. After merging with the bloodlines of multiple Demon Spiders, its strength surged and likewise broke through to the level of a Super Demon Beast.

The reason for measuring its strength by the standard of Super Demon Beasts, and not by the Dharma Image Realm, was because this creature, whether it was the merged remnants of the Dark Flame Demon God’s broken divine status or the Demon Spiders it had recently absorbed, and even the Spider Evil God it was preparing to consume and refine, all belonged to creatures from Otherworlds.

This caused its cultivation system to deviate from the start, closely resembling that of the demon beasts of Otherworlds, making it unsuitable to be classified by the realms of cultivators.

Near the Ghost-Faced Spider, seven or eight house-sized Demon Spiders either spat out poison liquid or swung their sharp claws, recklessly charging at the corpse puppets; these were the subordinates that Qin Feng had subdued for the Ghost-Faced Spider back in the Spider Nest.

In the void, a trace of green light imbued with boundless life force emerged, and the Life Tree waved its branches, flinging a corpse puppet hundreds of yards away.

The Life Tree had undergone a drastic change in appearance. Although it still radiated with vitality that made one feel fondness at the sight, its emerald branches now bore bunches of fruits.

Ever since it merged with the War Ancient Tree, even though the influence of the World Tree remained predominant, many changes had taken place, especially its combat methods were no longer as simple as before. Coupled with the cultivation of the Wood Element Techniques prepared by the Beast Taming Sect for spirit plant tree demons like itself, its war power had surged.

What’s more important was that it had always been a standard demon cultivator. Even though influenced by many images of the World Tree, which made it difficult to condense a Dharma Image, it could combine its body with the Dharma Image it was supposed to condense, adding the Divine Skill of Fatian Xiangdi to make its tree body grow a hundredfold.

With the Life Tree waving its branches, suddenly, with several whooshes, seven or eight fist-sized fruits flew from its branches and exploded upon nearing a corpse puppet, unleashing strong fluctuations that shook the corpse puppet, making it stagger and retreat repeatedly.

Following that, the Life Tree shook its form, instantly turning its roughly ten-foot-tall body into one hundred feet tall. Thick roots entwined out, tightly binding a corpse puppet while countless tiny roots burrowed through the puppet’s orifices, attempting to tear the corpse puppet apart.

Not far from the Life Tree, the Swallowing Sky Toad and the Death Curse Crow also stopped a corpse puppet.

The Swallowing Sky Toad’s body was surrounded by countless dancing space blades, occasionally severing the void around the corpse puppet, attacking its body.

The Death Curse Crow flapped its wings and spun in the air above the corpse puppet’s head, cawing strangely. From time to time, flames would fall from its body.

However, this one was clearly just going through the motions, not giving it their all.

Qin Feng had instructed it to do so in secret, because he wanted the Death Curse Crow to seek out the hidden demon cultivator. Otherwise, it would be boring to fight only with corpse puppets without ever seeing the opponent. If that person decided to flee upon facing defeat, he would have fought in vain!

Although the opponent was hiding far away, the Death Curse Crow might still find the other’s hiding place through the connection between the corpse puppets and the opponent due to its uncanny nature.

“Hmm?”

The presence lurking in the shadows was taken aback to see Qin Feng summon so many spiritual beasts.

From his understanding of Beast Taming Sect cultivators, the higher their cultivation, the fewer spiritual beasts of the same realm they should be able to control. Normally, a Beast Taming Sect cultivator at the Purple Mansion Realm having three or four Purple Mansion Spirit Beasts was considered good. Even those disciples with exceptional talents and true inheritance would only have three to five spiritual beasts of the same realm at this stage.

But the guy in front of him was different. Not only did he release more than a dozen spiritual beasts at once, but among them, besides those in the Purple Mansion Realm, there were also several at the Dharma Image Level, which was surprising.

“After all, the aura Qin Feng emitted was still that of the Purple Mansion Realm. How could he tame so many powerful Spiritual Beasts?”

“Could it be that this kid is pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger, his true identity being a Great Cultivator of high Dao Cultivation from Beast Taming Sect, altering his appearance and hiding his Cultivation to lure me into a trap?”

“But that’s not right. He has been wandering around, with no fixed abode, to avoid detection by the Righteous Path Cultivators. He doesn’t even know where he will go next, so how could someone from the Beast Taming Sect possibly have predicted in advance that he would be in this vicinity?”

The man in the black robe hid from afar, his eyes flickering with a gloomy light as he scrutinized Qin Feng from head to toe over and over again. Finally confirming that this guy was indeed in the Purple Mansion Realm without a doubt, he felt both shock and joy!

What shocked him was that Qin Feng, who was so young, already possessed so many powerful Spiritual Beasts, clearly holding a high position in the Beast Taming Sect.

What delighted him was that a young and potent talent was about to die at his hands, which would not only allow him to vent the frustration of being hunted by Righteous Path Cultivators but would also cause profound grief to the Beast Taming Sect.

He was a Demon Cultivator who had been chased out of the Western Regions by a group of eminent Buddhist monks. Originally, he had been doing well in the Western Regions, but due to the Beast Taming Sect’s schemes back then, it had triggered a joint effort to hunt down Demon Path practitioners throughout the Cultivation World, causing him to also suffer immensely. He had nearly lost his Dao Cultivation, hence one could imagine the depth of his hatred when encountering a Cultivator from the Beast Taming Sect.

That was also the reason he had immediately pursued and attacked Qin Feng.

However, today’s Demon Cultivators were completely different from those of the past. Hiding in remote locations to avoid revealing their whereabouts, they not only wandered desolate mountains and wilderness but also refrained from wantonly killing even Loose Cultivators, for fear that indiscriminate slaughters would attract the attention of other Cultivators and lead to a massive pursuit.

Although this approach was relatively safe, it also meant they were not well-informed.

Although the man in the black robe had heard of Qin Feng’s reputation from other Cultivators, he was unclear about other details concerning Qin Feng. After all, he had only recently escaped the Western Regions and hadn’t been in the Southern Domain for long, worried about being discovered by the Cultivators of the Southern Domain for his unusualness. He didn’t pay too much attention to the gifted disciples from other Sects!

Therefore, he was unaware that the young man before him was the currently rising star, Qin Feng, and even less so that this person had just been favored by the Heavenly Dao as the Master of Qi Luck. So now his mind was occupied with how to deal with Qin Feng.

As the Demon Path sects and schools were almost completely eradicated by the Righteous Path, those few remaining Demon Dao Cultivators, in order not to have their Sect lineages extinguished, fully set aside their differences. They exchanged their inheritances with each other, especially various life-preserving techniques, which were highly prized by all Demon Cultivators, who wished they could learn every single technique to increase their chances of survival.

Therefore, this black-robed man not only possessed the technique to control Corpse Puppets but was also proficient in many strange and unpredictable Demon Path magics.

He had a secret technique similar to ‘substitute,’ that allowed him to imperceptibly transfer his soul into someone else’s body, and he also knew techniques such as Rebirth Technique and Corpse Control Technique, among others.

If Qin Feng fell into his hands, he could play out eighteen kinds of tricks without repetition, and if possible, he would also like to try infiltrating the Beast Taming Sect.

The only problem was that he lacked Qin Feng’s memories; even if he could initially deceive the Cultivators of the Beast Taming Sect, over time, some discrepancies would surely reveal themselves.

But that would be a matter for the future. For now, the man in the black robe wasn’t worrying about that much; he was intent on capturing his opponent first.

Even though Qin Feng’s Spiritual Beasts had disrupted the Heavenly Punishment and Earthly Destruction Shura Battle Formation’s array, he remained calm and continued to control the Corpse Puppets to fight.

After all, these Corpse Puppets under his command were powerful, and even without forming into a battle formation, each Corpse Puppet could exert Dharma Image level war power in single combat. How could they fear these Spiritual Beasts, whose strengths were still mostly at the Purple Mansion Realm?

What’s more, not only did his own Cultivation Realm far surpass Qin Feng’s, he also had many techniques at his disposal. If it really came down to it, he could join the fight himself. Given his Primordial Spirit Realm strength, he shouldn’t have any problems dealing with a mere Purple Mansion Realm Cultivator from the Beast Taming Sect!

However, wishes are one thing, but he had overlooked a fact: Corpse Puppets indeed could use Dharma Image Realm Divine Power Magic and match the strength of Dharma Image Cultivators, but only just that – a match.

A Corpse Puppet, after all, is still a Corpse Puppet; once turned into a puppet, no matter how skillfully he controlled it, he couldn’t avoid the rigidity during combat. This was starkly different from the Spiritual Beasts of the Beast Taming Sect.

Spiritual Beasts that retained their Spiritual Intelligence could certainly rebel or slack off if they were unruly. But as long as they genuinely recognized their master, they definitely would not show such obvious flaws in battle.

Moreover, the Spiritual Beasts under Qin Feng’s command had no chance to rebel and could only fight wholeheartedly for him.

So in one-on-one combat, those Corpse Puppets were no match for powerful Spiritual Beasts like the Hellhound, Life Tree, and Ghost-Faced Spider. Even several Purple Mansion Realm Spiritual Beasts working together could entangle a Corpse Puppet, making it unable to break free.

Even if there were a few Corpse Puppets not entangled by Spiritual Beasts, it didn’t matter because there were also the White Dragon and Qin Feng himself.

Especially Qin Feng, whose strength was extremely formidable.

Top-level True Inheritances from each Major Sect endowed the ability to battle beyond one’s level. With Qin Feng’s cultivation foundation, this was even less of a problem. Having cultivated to the Half-Step Dharma Image Realm, ordinary Dharma Images were truly not his match.

Especially since he mastered so many Powers of Laws and had an endless array of Divine Power Magic. Even top-level Dharma Images might not withstand his assault, not to mention these rigidly-moving puppets!

Thus it didn’t take long for the man in the black robe, hiding in the distance, to witness Qin Feng demonstrating his Divine Power. He first used his powerful Physical Body to explode a Corpse Puppet that tried to get close, kicking its head to pieces. Then various strong Divine Powers were unleashed in quick succession, killing or crippling a number of puppets in just a moment, leaving the man in the black robe dumbstruck!