Chapter 21: Let’s See If Your Neck Is Tougher Or My Sword Is Sharper
This corpse actually rapidly underwent corpse transformation into a blood corpse in just a few seconds, and its body was still continuing to expand.
Uncle Wu San and the others were all scared pale and retreated one after another.
But Su Mo’s expression remained calm and unruffled, his pair of eyes looking at the blood corpse.
What he wanted had always been that one treasure:
“Ghost Seal!”
The Ghost Seal was not in the stone coffin, not in the seven-star coffin, and not beside the bronze fox-faced corpse just now, so it must be on this blood corpse!
It was the key to opening the bronze gate, the crucial item to unravel the ultimate mystery. No matter if this blood corpse’s identity was the Iron Masked Man or King Lu Shang, it would only keep the Ghost Seal on its body.
Therefore, although the blood corpse was rapidly expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye, Su Mo’s eyes quickly scanned over it!
But he did not find the Ghost Seal!
Su Mo couldn’t help but frown.
This blood corpse did not have the Ghost Seal on it either!
Where on earth was it?
In just over ten seconds, the blood corpse’s body had already expanded to giant size!
Su Mo immediately drew the Frost Moon Sword and fiercely thrust it toward the blood corpse’s chest.
Pfft!
The crescent-shaped blade instantly pierced into the blood corpse’s heart.
The blood corpse let out a painful, tearing roar, its body trembling violently.
At the same time, the nine-headed cypress suddenly began to thrash wildly as well,
Its giant umbrella-like crown swaying madly like a madwoman, the branches and vines on the crown dancing along with it, the mummified corpses wrapped at the vine ends spinning in the air like chain maces.
The entire space seemed to become dark and chaotic because of this, like the scene before the end of the world!
This scene scared Uncle Wu San and the others pale.
“Master Su…”
Su Mo’s expression also changed slightly.
This blood corpse had been stabbed with one sword, yet it reacted so dramatically!
Could it be that this nine-headed cypress had already become one with the blood corpse?
He looked toward the blood corpse’s back,
Only to see an extremely thin bloodline extending from the tree hole behind the coffin, connecting all the way to the back of the blood corpse’s head!
It was unknown whether this bloodline had been there from the beginning or had just grown out, but it was thickening along with the blood corpse’s expansion, now as thick as an intestine connecting an infant to its mother.
No wonder the blood corpse was expanding so quickly—it turned out its body had already merged as one with the nine-headed cypress tree!
It had hidden the coffin inside the nine-headed cypress tree—could it be for this very reason?
At that moment, the surface of the blood corpse’s body rapidly dulled after expanding, the bright red like fresh blood on its skin quickly turning black and cold, the blood water rapidly congealing into patches, as if turning into mottled bark.
Although Su Mo did not know why it was undergoing such a change, it was clear the blood corpse was turning into something like the nine-headed cypress!
The strangeness of this thing had already exceeded the limits of normal human understanding!
“Master Su, quickly kill it!”
Little Brother’s face had turned pale. As he shouted loudly, he raised the black gold ancient blade in his hand and slashed fiercely toward the blood corpse’s neck.
Clang!
The black gold ancient blade struck the blood corpse’s neck on its already black, cold, mottled skin, but only cut open a gash.
In just a few dozen seconds, this blood corpse’s skin had become as tough as iron!
Su Mo immediately twisted his wrist, pulling the Frost Moon Sword out from the blood corpse’s chest, then swung it backhand toward the blood corpse’s neck.
Slash!
The blood corpse’s neck was instantly cut open halfway, but blocked by the neck bone.
The sharpness of the Frost Moon Sword far exceeded that of the black gold ancient blade, and Su Mo’s backhand sword carried nearly a thousand jin of force.
Even so, it only cut open half of the blood corpse’s neck, unable to cut further once it reached the neck bone.
This blood corpse’s neck bone was actually harder than iron and stone!
The blood corpse roared madly again, its hands slamming forward fiercely.
A palm wind carrying a foul stench and the scent of fresh blood immediately struck toward Su Mo and Little Brother.
Little Brother quickly retreated a few steps, dodging the blood corpse’s palm.
Su Mo jumped to one side, while from the blood corpse’s left side, he slashed down with another sword.
The position the sword edge struck was still the blood corpse’s neck.
If one sword couldn’t sever your head, then two swords!
Let’s see whether your neck is harder, or my sword is sharper!
The sword edge slashed down again into the wound from the previous sword.
But with this sword, Su Mo concentrated even stronger power than before.
Clang!
It actually produced the sound of metal clashing!
With this sword, Su Mo directly severed the blood corpse’s neck bone!
The blood corpse’s head immediately flew off its neck, while its body swayed in place for a moment before pitching forward into the coffin.
Thick corpse qi, carrying a foul odor and bloody stench, instantly spread rapidly around the coffin.
Even one whiff made one feel nauseous and suffocated.
Uncle Wu San had an extremely sensitive nose. Smelling this thick corpse qi, he immediately shouted:
“Quickly retreat, quick…”
He hurriedly led Wu Tianzhen, Da Kui, Pan Zi, and the others to quickly retreat backward. Although Little Brother was not afraid of corpse qi or blood poison, he too quickly retreated a few more steps.
At this time,
The nine-headed cypress giant tree’s thrashing state suddenly became even more frenzied, the entire cave resounding with cracking and snapping noises, as if the cave was about to collapse.
Between the crown’s vines, an even blood-red aura seeped out,
As if a mass of blood mist had suddenly appeared in the rock cave!
The long snake-like vines swung the mummified corpses wrapped at their ends, looking like a swarm of corpses dancing in the blood mist, terrifying to the extreme!
Su Mo was also extremely shocked in his heart.
The reaction triggered by killing the blood corpse far exceeded his expectations, differing greatly from the original work.
Under the spreading corpse qi from the blood corpse, he too could only retreat a few steps to one side.
Although he was not afraid of corpse qi or blood poison, staying in this foul-smelling corpse qi really did not feel good.
However, he did not retreat too far, his gaze turning to the blood corpse’s head on the ground.
A kind of intuition emerged in his heart.
The connection between this blood corpse and the nine-headed cypress was extremely deep.
The series of reactions triggered after killing the blood corpse were very likely related to it.
Now, although the blood corpse’s head had been severed,
The nine-headed cypress’s reaction was still so intense, seemingly because that blood corpse head was still connected to the tree body!
Scanning with his gaze, he saw that the blood corpse’s head rolled a few feet on the ground with a gurgle, then suddenly rolled toward the tree hole.
No!
It wasn’t rolling there—it was being dragged there by that umbilical cord-like bloodline!
Su Mo’s heart tightened.
He must shatter this blood corpse’s skull to sever the connection between it and the nine-headed cypress.
Although Su Mo did not know the strangeness between this nine-headed cypress and the blood corpse’s skull, shattering the skull was undoubtedly the right choice!
Thinking of this, he immediately held his breath and lunged toward the blood corpse’s skull in one arrow step.
Sword light flashed, like a startling rainbow.
The Frost Moon Sword slashed fiercely toward the blood corpse’s skull.
This sword contained almost all of Su Mo’s body strength in the sword edge.
Clang!
The sword edge struck the blood corpse’s skull hard, instantly chopping a gash directly into the skull.
The bloodline connected to the skull suddenly twitched and spasmed like a dead snake, dragging the skull rolling wildly on the ground.
Su Mo looked at the skull that had been chopped open and was preparing to slash down with another sword,
Suddenly…
Bang!
The blood corpse’s head suddenly burst open from the top like a flower bud blooming, instantly splitting into several gashes, fresh red flesh and blood blooming outward like petals!
A one-inch-sized, entirely golden corpse beetle crawled out from the brain matter.
