Becoming a Saint by Touching Corpses

"Fuck you!"

With a fierce expression, Lou Yi charged like lightning toward the shadowy figure, bringing his axe down overhead.

To avoid harming his fellow disciple, he halted the axe just as it was about to strike the shadow.

"Splitting Mountain!"

An invisible wave of energy spread toward the shadow.

The strength of the Mountain Opening Skill is related to Qi-blood.

Lou Yi's current Qi-blood was much stronger than when he killed the big beast, so the power was incomparable.

"Meh!"

The shadow let out a sharp scream and disappeared on the spot, revealing a horrific scene below.

Ding Minghai's face was beyond recognition.

More than half of the skin and flesh had melted, becoming a translucent, jelly-like texture.

Inside, red blood and a white connective layer trembled, seeming ready to burst forth from the jelly at any moment...

Zhan Weida, who had seen a lot, couldn't stomach it, bending over to dry heave.

Lou Yi resisted his nausea with difficulty.

He approached Chen Muju and touched his neck, finding the split wound hadn't reached an artery, and there was still some faint breathing.

His face was purple due to the shadow's unknown poison, though it shouldn't be life-threatening for now.

Lou Yi took out a green Detoxification Pill from his bosom and placed it into Chen Muju's mouth.

He had bought it at the Beast Hunting Camp beneath the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range. It could cure many toxins and was an essential item for the Beast Hunter Guard.

"Quickly, bind Senior Brother Chen!" Lou Yi then instructed Zhan Weida.

He focused intently on his surroundings, letting his mind sink in steadily.

With perception far surpassing an ordinary Martial Artist's, the flow of the entire world seemed to slow down slightly.

Everything around him appeared and was filtered out in his perception, sifting out abnormalities.

But the shadow was not only outstandingly fast but also had an extremely abnormal hiding ability, making it difficult for Lou Yi to locate it.

Suddenly, he felt a slight disharmony.

It seemed like something had flickered.

An illusion?

Lou Yi's gaze abruptly fixed on the shadow behind Zhan Weida.

In the moonlight, a short shadow appeared.

Compared to his shadow, this one seemed a bit darker.

If not looked at carefully, it was hard to notice.

What is it?

Without another word, Lou Yi whipped out his axe and struck at the shadow five feet ahead.

"Armor-Piercing!"

An incredibly sharp energy instantly spanned the five-foot distance and infused Zhan Weida's shadow.

"Meh!"

The ear-piercing shriek rang out again.

The shadow under Zhan Weida's feet began to ripple violently, revealing its original appearance.

It was a flat, lizard-like creature, less than a foot long.

Its body was covered with dense lumps, similar to a bitter melon.

The skin was black, the eyes black, and even the forked tongue was black.

No wonder it was hard for others to notice as it hid in the shadow.

After being hit by Lou Yi's attack, the black lizard let out an agonized scream.

Then, like lightning, it shot into the woods nearby.

'Woo, woo!'

Lou Yi casually threw his axe, hitting the black lizard spirit, severing a piece of its tail, and spraying a small amount of foul-smelling green liquid.

The mucus landed on the ground with a 'sizzle,' raising a cloud of white mist.

The lizard spirit, desperate to survive, vanished again after a backward glance.

Lou Yi walked to several nearby fruit trees, scanning them with his eyes, seemingly finding nothing unusual.

The fruits were rosy, the branches and leaves lush, the bark brownish-yellow, cracked like a turtle's shell, filled with uneven grooves.

Lou Yi suddenly turned and slashed fiercely at the chest-high spot of a tree behind him to the right!

"Meh!"

It was the lizard spirit's final wail.

It was nailed directly to the tree by Lou Yi, revealing a body indistinguishable from the brownish-yellow tree bark, still struggling under the axe blade.

"What an disgusting creature, its color and shape can keep changing?" Zhan Weida showed fear, "No wonder even Senior Brother Chen fell for it."

"Indeed, it's a hassle," Lou Yi nodded and said, "Its strength isn't great, but it's a born assassin, impossible to guard against.

If it hadn't been injured, I wouldn't have discovered it so easily."

After all, color and shape can be disguised, but scent cannot.

"Die!"

Furious at his fellow disciple's death, Zhan Weida stabbed a sword into the lizard spirit's head, ending its sinful life.

Lou Yi habitually touched the lizard spirit, familiar semi-transparent small characters floated before his eyes:

'Energy +5, absorb?'

'Yes.'

Immediately, another line of small characters appeared, making Lou Yi's heart skip.

'Consume ten energy points to acquire talent: Disguise. Consume?'

'Yes.'

In the attribute panel, a third item appeared under the talents section: Disguise (Uninitiated 0/10).

Continue consuming ten energy points to advance it.

New memories appeared in Lou Yi's mind.

He transformed into an ordinary tree lizard, dull gray and palm-sized.

The world in its eyes was far more colorful than for humans, even seeing ultraviolet light and other colors.

But it showed no reaction, as lizards don't care about beauty, only food.

One day, a colorful butterfly flew by, its wings seemed to glow, and as it passed by, an agile tongue wrapped around it, swallowing it down.

Soon, intense pain came from every part of its body.

The tree lizard fell painfully to the ground, struggling continuously in the dirt.

Its skin quickly ulcerated, and its internal flesh kept disintegrating and reconstructing...

After a long time, the tree lizard regained consciousness, having endured through sheer will.

Its skin color transformed from a dull gray to a vibrant green.

In the sunlight, it turned orange-red.

As the sun set, it became black, blending quietly with the night...

In reality.

A cold energy surged into Lou Yi's body, cycled through him a few times, then disappeared, seemingly changing nothing.

Lou Yi looked at the attribute panel:

[Name: Lou Yi]

[Age: 19/68]

[Realm: Three-Blood Martial Artist (40/600)]

[Cultivation Technique: Yellow Extreme Breathing Technique (Second Stage, Mastery 0/300+1 Nirvana Divine Flower), Hu Family Breathing Technique (Uninitiated 0/10)][Skills: Lou's Axe Skill (Minor Achievement 0/500), Extreme Fist (Mastery 0/100), Stone Throwing (Mastery 0/30), Light Body Technique (Minor Achievement 0/200), Basic Spear Technique (Initiate 0/6), Secret Skill: Dragon Piercing Technique - Fragment (One), Qi Locking Technique (Initiate 0/3)]

[Talents: Petrification (Minor Achievement 0/1000+5 White Dew Stone+1 Star Cold Iron), Swift (Initiate 0/20+1 Earth Dragon Essence Tendon), Disguise (Initiate 0/50+1 Earth Jade)]

[Energy: 202]

Lou Yi stared at the talent disguise for a few breaths, then a prompt appeared:

Disguise (Passive): The longer you stay in a fixed environment, the easier it is to integrate into that environment.

Disguise (Active): Minimize your presence to be overlooked by others, can sustain for a period of time.

'This talent is quite interesting.'

Lou Yi silently recited 'Disguise' in his heart.

Immediately, a subtle, indescribable change occurred in his aura.

The sharp aura characteristic of a martial artist quickly diminished.

His striking face seemed to be covered with a thin layer of dampness, becoming less conspicuous.

'It's kind of interesting,' Lou Yi thought.

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