Longevity: Starting as a menial servant in the Green Wood Sect

Black waves crashed against the jagged rocks, making a dull, rumbling sound, like countless water ghosts whispering amongst themselves. In the distance, the skeletal ship named "Black Shark" broke through the waves, the dried corpses hanging from its bow swaying violently in the eerie wind, producing a sickening clanging sound.

"Hehe, looks like two newcomers who have just fallen on hard times. That female cultivator's clothes are a bit torn, but her figure...tsk tsk!"

On the ship, the one-eyed leader's crude, lewd laughter drifted clearly on the sea breeze, causing the surrounding henchmen to let out a series of strange howls like wolves.

Gu An stood on the slippery bank, his leather armor, ripped to shreds by the spatial wind blades, hanging on his body, revealing pale skin covered in scabs. He listened to the foul language, but his face showed no anger or fear that a living person should have.

escape?

Not to mention that his spiritual energy is currently depleted and his meridians are damaged, the one-eyed dragon at the eighth level of Qi Refining has already locked onto this area with his divine sense. If he turns around now and exposes his back to the other party, it would be tantamount to handing a knife to those bloodthirsty sharks.

In this chaotic sea of ​​stars, to show weakness is to die.

"Don't move."

Gu An felt Shen Wan's body tense behind him, as if he wanted to forcibly overdraw his life force to fight desperately. Without turning his head, he shouted in a low voice without any emotion.

Then, he slowly released his hand from Shen Wan's and took a step forward alone.

With this step, the previously dormant Corpse Control Technique within Gu An's body suddenly awakened like a sleeping beast.

"Buzz—"

A faint, grayish fluctuation, barely perceptible to the naked eye, suddenly spread outwards from Gu An's center.

The corpse energy he had absorbed for several days in the mass grave of corpses in Mine No. 3 erupted without restraint at this moment. Combined with the residual baleful energy from consuming the corpse pills he had previously consumed, and the deathly aura he had picked up during spatial teleportation, they now mixed together to form a terrifying, suffocating aura.

Gu An's eyes suddenly rolled upwards, his black pupils vanishing instantly, leaving only a ghastly white expanse. His jaw was slightly dislocated, and a trickle of murky black liquid dribbled from the corner of his mouth. He stood stiffly in the shadows on the shore, like a thousand-year-old corpse that had just sprung from a coffin.

There was no breathing, no heartbeat, and even the slightest trace of human body temperature vanished instantly.

Instead, there was an overwhelming, dense aura of corpses, which stood out starkly against the cold, underground seashore.

A hundred feet away.

The one-eyed man, who had originally sailed up in his black ship with great momentum, intending to "reap the harvest," suddenly changed his expression.

He was a minor leader in the Black Shark Gang, having operated in this remote sea area for decades, relying on his keen eyesight and a nose sharper than a dog's.

Just now, he clearly felt that they were two heavily wounded and dying fat sheep.

But in that instant, the atmosphere on the rocks on the shore changed.

That wasn't a living person at all! It was clearly a ferocious beast that had just been unearthed! The chilling, violent, and blood-stained aura of the corpse made his hair stand on end even from a distance, and even the bone boat beneath him seemed to be suppressed in some way, its speed inexplicably slowing down.

"Stop the ship! Stop the ship right now!"

The one-eyed man suddenly raised his hand and shouted sharply.

"Boss? What's wrong? Those two bastards are just ahead, just a little more charge and they'll be..." A henchman who was manipulating the sails looked bewildered.

"Snapped!"

One-Eyed Dragon slapped the henchman across the face, sending him spinning three times.

"You know nothing! Open your dog eyes and look! Is that a virgin?"

The one-eyed man squinted his single eye, staring intently at the stiff figure on the shore, his heart filled with doubt and unease.

In this chaotic sea of ​​stars, besides those rogue cultivators who have fled, there is another type of person you absolutely must not provoke.

That is heretical cultivation.

Especially those old monsters who practice corpse refining and ghost raising techniques. These people are often eccentric and unpredictable, and they love to set traps in the wilderness to lure living people in and turn them into corpse puppets.

The person in front of me was covered in blood and had a lifeless breath. He didn't look like someone who had fallen on hard times at all. Instead, he looked like a demon who was taking advantage of the place to cultivate some kind of evil magic!

"Could it be... that we've run into a tough opponent?"

Cold sweat beaded on the palm of the one-eyed man's hand gripping the ghost-head saber. He couldn't see through Gu An's cultivation level. Under the dual concealment of the Corpse Control Technique and the Breath Concealment Pendant, Gu An's aura was like a stagnant pool, unfathomable.

The boat stopped fifty feet from the shore.

This distance is within the range of the spell's attack, yet it also leaves enough room for retreat.

The one-eyed man cleared his throat, abandoning his previous arrogance and adopting a tone of martial arts slang, clasped his hands and shouted loudly:

"Who are you, fellow cultivators, cultivating here? I am Liu Sanyan from the Black Shark Gang, just passing through this blessed land. If I have offended you, please forgive me!"

The sound echoed across the empty water, carrying far and wide.

However, the person on the shore seemed not to hear, and remained standing straight and motionless.

The wind seemed to grow colder.

One-Eyed Dragon felt a chill run down his spine. He wasn't afraid of being insulted, or even physically attacked; what he feared most was this eerie silence.

This silence represents contempt, and it may also represent... murderous intent.

"Click...click click..."

Just as the one-eyed man's patience was about to run out, the figure on the shore finally moved.

Gu An's neck turned slowly at an extremely stiff angle, even defying the natural laws of bone structure.

The sound of bones grinding together was clearly audible in the quiet night.

His pale eyes, through the dark water, were fixed on the one-eyed man on the boat.

He didn't speak, and his expression remained unchanged.

Only an even stronger stench of death wafted in with the sea breeze.

"hiss……"

The henchmen on the ship all gasped and instinctively took a step back.

"Boss... this... this doesn't seem to be a living person? Could it be an armored zombie?" a henchman said in a trembling voice.

"Shut up!"

One-Eyed Dragon let out a low shout, his eyes filled with even greater surprise and doubt.

If it's an unclaimed armored corpse, that's a real treasure; capturing it could fetch a lot of spirit stones. But if it's being controlled by someone...

He didn't want to give up this easy opportunity, but he didn't dare gamble with his life.

"Two people go."

The one-eyed man's eyes darted around, his gaze landing on the two cannon fodder beside him, both only at the fourth level of Qi Refining. "Big Head, Lai Zi, you two are good swimmers, go into the water and check it out. If that guy's just playing tricks, kill him. If he's really tough... then get out of there!"

"Huh? Boss, this..."

The two henchmen's faces fell; this was clearly a mission to detect mines.

"What? Don't want to go?" A fierce glint flashed in the one-eyed man's eyes, and he slightly drew his demon-headed sword. "If you don't go, you'll be feeding the fish right now!"

"Let's go! Let's go!"

The two men shuddered in fright and didn't dare to say another word. They quickly took off their shirts, grabbed the water-splitting spikes from their mouths, and darted into the water like two slippery water rats.

Two barely perceptible ripples appeared on the water's surface, and the ripples quickly moved towards the shore.

Gu An stood on the shore. Although he was "blind" in both eyes, his meridians, which he had rebuilt in the water, made him exceptionally sensitive to the water flow.

Those two ripples appeared to him like two conspicuous red lines.

"They're here."

Gu An sneered inwardly.

He didn't move, remaining in that stiff posture, as if he were truly just a mindless corpse.

But beneath those wide, tattered sleeves, his scarred fingers twitched very slightly.

Several thin strands of [Mysterious Yin Silk], completely invisible in the darkness, slid down his fingertips and silently disappeared into the cracks of the rocky beach beneath his feet, setting up a deadly tripwire.

The water splashed softly.

The henchmen named "Big Head" and "Lizard" finally swam to the shore.

The two cautiously poked half their heads out of the water, looking at the eerie, motionless figure a few feet away, their hearts pounding with apprehension.

"Big Head Bro, look at him, he looks like he's really dead?" Lai Zi said in a low voice.

"It's better if she's dead. If she's dead, we can rob that woman and run away," Big Head said boldly. "Look at that woman. Although she's half-dead, the fabric of her clothes is top-quality. She must have some good stuff."

Greed ultimately triumphed over fear.

The two exchanged a glance, gripped their water-splitting spikes tightly, and suddenly leaped out of the water. Crouching low, they used the rocks as cover and crept towards Gu An from the left and right.

Ten steps.

Five steps.

Three steps.

Gu An remained motionless, seemingly oblivious to the murderous intent lurking at his feet.

A hint of joy flashed in Big Head's eyes. It seemed this really was an inanimate object!

He suddenly sprang up, the Water-Splitting Dagger in his hand gleaming coldly, aiming straight for Gu An's vital dantian—if he were a zombie, this would also be the location of his dantian.

However, the moment he stepped into that shadow.

He suddenly felt a very slight resistance at his ankle.

It was like touching a spider's web.

Before he could even react to what it was...

Gu Ann's fingers, which had been hanging down at her sides and were stiff as iron, suddenly lifted upwards!

"laugh!"

A faint, almost inaudible tearing sound rang out.

Big Head, who was at the very front, suddenly froze in mid-air.

His eyes widened in disbelief and terror. He opened his mouth to scream, but could only manage a series of bubbling sounds.

next moment.

A thin red line appeared from his neck.

Immediately afterwards, blood gushed out like a fountain!

His head, without a sound, slipped off and rolled into the pile of rocks.

"Varied……"

The leper following behind was terrified and was about to turn around and run away.

But then Gu An, who had been "stiff" all along, suddenly turned to the side, and his pale eyes seemed to glance at him.

That was the look of someone staring at a dead person.

Gu An flicked his finger again.

"Whoosh!"

A hidden black silk thread, which had been lying in wait, sprang up like a venomous snake and instantly wrapped around the leper's neck.

"Crunch!"

The sound of bones cracking rang out.

Before the leper could even utter a sound, the sharp silk thread snapped his neck, and he collapsed limply to the ground.

Two cultivators at the fourth level of Qi Refining were turned into corpses in the blink of an eye, without even touching the hem of their enemy's clothes.

The smell of blood instantly filled the air.

Gu An stood between the two corpses, his face still expressionless.

He didn't even glance at the two corpses.

He simply raised his still-bleeding arm and made a gesture toward the one-eyed man on the black ship in the distance.

It was an extremely stiff, eerie, yet undeniably provocative statement—

wave.

Come on.

This action, coupled with the blood all over the ground and Gu An's deathly appearance, looked particularly terrifying in this gloomy underground sea.

"Damn it!!"

On the boat, the one-eyed man stared with eyes blazing with fury.

Although he didn't see how his two henchmen died, he did see the waving gesture!

This is no dead body at all! This is clearly that evil cultivator toying with him!

In the chaotic seas, such humiliation was more unbearable than death.

"You shameless bastard! How dare you kill members of my Black Shark Gang!"

The one-eyed dragon was consumed by rage. In addition, the killing just now did not involve any earth-shattering magical fluctuations, which made him judge that the opponent was probably only good at ambushes or setting traps, and that his own cultivation level was not necessarily that high.

Greed and anger clouded reason.

"Run him over there! Crush him!"

The one-eyed dragon drew his demon-head sword and let out a roar.

"boom!"

The array on the Black Shark roared into action, and a layer of black spiritual light shielded the ship's hull. This magnificent ship, crafted from the bones of a gigantic demon beast, resembled an enraged behemoth, carving a white wave across the water and crashing with immense force towards the rocky shore!

Fifty zhang is but a blink of an eye for the bone boat, which is sprinting at full speed.

A strong wind blew in, tousling Gu An's long hair, which was stained with blood.

As the black ship drew ever closer, a faint glimmer of blue light finally appeared in Gu An's lifeless, white eyes.

He didn't hide.

They didn't use any magic to stop it.

He simply took a deep breath.

As he inhaled, the dense, humid air around him seemed to be summoned by some force, frantically converging into his body.

Aquatic wood.

In this cold and damp underground sea, Gu Anna's mutated meridians, reshaped by the dragon soul and imbued with water-attribute characteristics, displayed their terrifying adaptability for the first time.

The water elemental energy, which was originally obscure and difficult to understand for wood-type cultivators, was transformed into pure wood true energy without any hindrance when it entered Gu An's body!

Although the total amount is not large, its advantage lies in its continuous and inexhaustible supply!

"really……"

Gu An murmured to himself.

He slowly grasped the broken sword "Piercing Clouds" at his waist with his right hand.

The broken sword trembled, emitting a low groan as if yearning to drink blood.

"Since you're here, don't leave."

Just as the black ship was about to crash into the shore.

Gu An made a move.

He was no longer that stiff corpse.

In that instant, he seemed to transform into a streak of dark blue lightning, advancing instead of retreating, leaping up to face the massive black ship!

"Open it... for me!"

A loud shout drowned out the roar of the waves.

A bluish-black sword light, about ten feet long, suddenly erupted from the broken sword.

Within this sword light, there is not only the sharpness of Geng metal and the vitality of Yi wood, but also a trace of... the chill and heaviness from the deep sea!

"boom--!!!"