Once a powerful humanoid creature appears on the surface, these hidden energy sources will be attracted and resonate with it, pulled up from underground.
"Ye Liang, come check this out! Is there any energy surge around this teapot or not?" A woman's foot rested near a corpse that hadn't yet decayed.
He lay in the mud, clutching a mystic teapot. With a corpse like this, there was likely energy nearby.
Ye Liang hurried over.
He placed his hand on the ground and scanned the area—no warmth at all. "This isn't right. If there's definitely a resident's corpse here, how could there be no divine power left? Could it be this dead man isn't actually a deity?"
He grabbed the corpse.
Suddenly!
He sensed a warm current emanating from the body!
"This thing still has divine power left!" Ye Liang shouted, shoving Aya Fujiwara away. Just as he was about to run, the noble corpse suddenly stood up.
"What are you?! How dare you disturb my rest!" It roared furiously, raising its hand and reaching toward Ye Liang.
Clang!
Ye Liang slammed a fist into the corpse's face! As it staggered, Ye Liang yanked Aya Fujiwara's hand and bolted.
"Ye Liang, what are you doing? It's just a dead person," she asked, puzzled.
Ye Liang's face turned pale!
"Dead person my ass! That thing would wipe you out even if you fought with one hand tied behind your back!" The moment Ye Liang saw the corpse, he used his Kanka to scan it.
Physical strength level 60!
That was way beyond what they could handle.
He himself was barely at 48 right now!
"Run!"
Ye Liang dragged Aya Fujiwara out of the noble's room.
Just then, a powerful explosion erupted from the room behind them. A massive metal bone claw burst up from beneath the house.
As soon as it appeared, it landed in the palm of the dead noble.
"This seems to be his weapon!"
Ye Liang judged.
Aya Fujiwara nodded too.
However, her eyes widened, but she couldn't sense the corpse's real strength.
"Are you sure he's really strong? Why can't I sense even a trace of divine power from him?"
"You can't see it?" Ye Liang asked.
"No, not only can't I see it, I don't even feel the slightest danger." At her level, women like her possessed a sixth sense!
Right after finishing her sentence, the metallic bone claw extended toward Aya Fujiwara. This device looked like the flying tiger claws from Ye Liang's past life. When it shot forward, a steel cable extended from its center, pulling it rapidly toward its target.
When Aya saw the claw rushing toward her, she wasn't scared at all. She raised her bamboo staff to parry the attack—but Ye Liang shoved her aside just in time.
Crash!
The bamboo staff shattered into splinters!
Aya's expression turned horrified. "How is this possible! The Heki Staff is crafted from the hardest bamboo in Takamagahara! Even a Fifth Stage powerhouse wouldn't be able to shatter it that easily!"
"Heh," Ye Liang scoffed. "It would've been nice if he was *just* Fifth Stage!"
"This creature is a Sixth Stage expert! It surpasses us by two entire stages!"
"What did you say!" Aya Fujiwara exclaimed in shock.
A Sixth Stage expert was practically unmatched among all the exiled humans!
And yet one had actually appeared here!
The undead noble paid no heed to Aya's horror. He charged straight at them with his metallic bone claw. Ye Liang shot a quick glance at it before stepping back rapidly.
He wasn't abandoning Aya—he was just figuring out how to defeat this terrifying undead noble.
"Although its physical body is powerful, its speed seems noticeably slow. That might be because it's already dead.
Its body movements aren't particularly flexible.
If that's the case, what if I attack its weak point?" At that thought, Ye Liang's body moved suddenly, vanishing into thin air!
With his strength restored, he could naturally use those refined techniques again.
Ye Liang used Shadow Camouflage to stealthily approach the undead noble. Then he poured all his power into a Tailed Beast Ball and launched it at the monster's neck!
No matter how strong your cultivation base is, the neck will always be a human-shaped creature's weakness!
"Bang!"
The undead noble's neck emitted a crisp cracking sound—it had actually fractured from Ye Liang's strike!
"Damn it!"
Ye Liang inwardly cursed!
Although this blow had significant effect, any attack that failed to kill was meaningless! The undead noble's body radiated divine power—without an instantly fatal strike, it would likely regenerate fully on the spot!
Sure enough!
After a momentary shock, the undead noble abandoned attacking Aya. He glanced at Ye Liang—the wound on his neck miraculously healed—and his metallic bone claw lashed toward Ye Liang!
Ye Liang couldn't dodge in time. His arm tore open from shoulder to elbow beneath the claws!
"Ye Liang!"
Aya shouted in alarm.
Seeing Ye injured, she rushed over immediately. Because the undead noble faced Ye directly, it completely failed to notice Aya approaching from behind.
Struck by her sudden impact, the monster staggered sideways.
Ye Liang was helped up by Aya Fujiwara. But before he could fully stand, the undead noble rose again!
This time his target was Aya Fujiwara!
"Oh no!"
Ye Liang inwardly cried out. He quickly summoned the Chaotic Cursed Blade hidden within his spatial dimension! Previously, he hadn't used the cursed blade because he worried its aura might amplify the undead noble's resentment!
The Chaotic Cursed Blade possessed spirit-suppressing attributes. Looking at this undead noble from inside out, nothing suggested it could be suppressed by such a weapon! Once activated, the blade's demon-subduing properties would definitely enrage this monstrous humanoid!
This creature was a Sixth Stage being—if provoked, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Sure enough!
As soon as the cursed blade blocked the undead noble's bone claws, the monster immediately showed signs of pain! Its expression turned hideous, pale corpse flesh rippling slowly. Its eyes, originally black and white, shifted into blood-red!
It was about to go berserk!
Ye Liang activated the Tenseigan while still holding Aya Fujiwara!
The two vanished into thin air.
"Boom!"
The Undead Noble slapped at Ye Liang, but his strike hit nothing solid—it went straight through him. The sheer force alone split the ground open, carving a three-meter-long fissure!
It kept attacking Ye Liang.
Again and again, its massive hand struck at Ye Liang's illusory figure, each time missing completely. Ye Liang, already inside the void, was beyond the reach of a mindless monster like this.
Just then,
A familiar figure suddenly appeared in the distance.
As soon as Ye Liang saw him, he immediately vanished from sight!
He was still inside the void—merely cloaked with the power of Shadow Camouflage.
The Undead Noble landed another empty strike. It looked around suspiciously for a moment but did not continue attacking.
That figure suddenly jumped down!
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