“She’s tough.”

Ye Qing raised his eyebrows. His punch might look like a simple punch from the outside, but it was really infused with the fist intent of Break Hammer. He had injected it all into Snow Corpse’s body.

If Snow Corpse was, say, Old Man of Snowy Mountain, he would have shattered into a million pieces already. On the other hand, Snow Corpse was only cracked all over. It proved that her physical toughness was equal to that of an ordinary Great Grandmaster.

“Ahhhhhh!!!”

Ye Qing’s attack seemed to anger Snow Corpse as she suddenly let out a powerful howl, and translucent, dew-like liquid seeped out of the cracks and dripped onto the ground.

Crack crack crack…

When the liquid hit the ground, ice mountains sprung into existence immediately. At the same time, ice was spreading in every direction.

In just the blink of an eye, the ice mountains had grown over a hundred meters, and everything within three hundred meters had turned into a frozen hell.

The ice wasn’tld, but everything it touched instantly lost its spirituality and characteristics.

For example, the wind lost its nimbleness, the snow lost its whiteness, the rocks lost its toughness, and the ground lost its weight and vitality.

Even Ye Qing’s Profound Yellow Mother Qi had grown a little dim when it madentact with the liquid.

That was all though. The powerntained by the liquiduld not threaten the Profound Yellow Mother Qi at all.

Seeing that the liquiduld not threaten Ye Qing, a hint of human puzzlement and panic flashed across Snow Corpse’s wooden face. The next moment, she backed away from Ye Qing and tried to escape.

Ye Qing did not allow it, ofurse. The moment she retreated, he stretched his palm wide and slapped her on the forehead.

Boom!

Snow Corpse plummeted diagonally toward the ice mountains directly underneath them. The next moment, an ice mountain that was just rising from the ground exploded into a million pieces.

Despite this, Snow Corpse was still alive. In fact, she tried to escape as soon as her bodyllided into the ice mountain. She was an oldrpse that had been buried underneath a glacier for over a thousand years. She eventually became sentient and transformed into a Stranger after absorbing a sufficient amount of sun, moon, ice and snow essence. Naturally capable of manipulating theld elements, sheuld pass through ice and snow like it was nothing. If she managed to escape into the ice, then her enemy would not be able to harm her no matter how strong he was.

Unfortunately for her, Ye Qing was faster. She was just about to slip into the ice when Ye Qing descended from the sky andllided with the ground with both feet. The ice, snow, and ground within three hundred meters instantly depressed inward like a piece of fabric. Strangely though, it didn’t break.

Snow Corpse felt his weight more than the ground itself. It was like a divine mountain had descended from the sky and crashed on top of her, preventing her from moving even a muscle.

The next moment, a tremendous amount of power flooded in from every direction. Snow Corpse began melting as the power gradually annihilated her very being like a furnace.

“Ahhhhhhhhh!!!”

Snow Corpse did not possess a sense of touch, much less pain. Right now though, she felt pain and fear toward death like nothing she had ever felt before.

As her bloodcurdling scream resounded throughout the land, therpses that Old Man of Snowy Mountain were keeping at bay suddenly charged toward Ye Qing with reckless abandon. He was unable to stop all of them from approaching the young man.

“Hmph!”

Expression unchanging, Ye Qing lifted his right foot and stomped down hard.

Thump!

The human was the hammer, and the earth the drum. Together, they suppressed the evil and wicked.

The earth vibrated, and the mountains shook rhythmically. The next moment, everyrpse running toward Ye Qing dissolved into a pile of ash.

It was quite something to see thousands and thousands ofrpses dissolve into ash at the same time. It was a sight that caused Yi Pin and Old Man of Snowy Mountain’s eyelids to jump erratically.

All this time, Snow Corpse’s scream was only growing more and more high-pitched.

To Snow Corpse’s credit, it was less of a scream of despair and more of a final struggle. As she screamed, rumblings echoed from the deeper parts of the earth, and the earth directly underneath Ye Qing’s feet rippled, broke, and shattered incessantly like water.

In response, Ye Qing rotated his right foot lightly andvered the ground in a sheen of profound light. It looked thin and frail, but it kept the ground intact and prevented Snow Corpse from escaping.

Slowly, Snow Corpse’s scream grew softer, and her struggles became weaker. In the end, she stopped strugglingmpletely.

When Snow Corpse died, therpses she wasntrolling lost their source as well. They allllapsed to the ground and fell perfectly still.

A few breaths later, Ye Qing let out a murky breath and withdrew the Profound Yellow Mother Qi permeating the earth back into his body. As he did this, the affected soil became as translucent and clear like yellow sand.

“Hmm?”

Suddenly, Ye Qing sensed something and tapped the ground lightly with the tip of his foot. The earth stirred weakly for a few breaths before a fist-sized crystal rose to the surface.

The crystal was translucent, pure, and flawless. It shone dazzlingly under the weak sunlight like the prettiest, most exquisite piece of art in the world.

“Are you alright, brother?”

It was at this moment Yi Pin crawled out from behind a rock and walked up to Ye Qing.

Ye Qinguld not help but sighed a little when he gave Yi Pin a look-over andnfirmed that there wasn’t a single scratch on his person. The old Taoist might be terrible at fighting, but his ability to evade danger, hide, and protect his own life was undoubtedly top-tier.

He had fought Old Man of Snowy Mountain earlier, and now Snow Corpse. As a result, nearly everything within three hundred meters of him had been wiped outmpletely. Old Man of Snowy Mountain had taken some injuries because of this. And yet, Yi Pin wasmpletely unscathed even though his hiding spot was closer to the center of the battlefield. If that wasn’t impressive, then nothing was.

“Hmm? Is that the Flawless Stone? No wait, that’s not right. It’s the Resurrection Stone!”

It was at this moment Yi Pin saw the crystal Ye Qing was holding and exclaimed in pleasant surprise.

“Resurrection Stone? You know this?” Ye Qing asked curiously.

“Ofurse. It’s the good stuff!”

Yi Pin took the crystal from Ye Qing and examined it closely. “All things in the world can be divided into yin and yang. Yin and yang both repelled and supported each other. Yang is found where yin is greatest, just as yin is found where yang is strongest. Such is the natural order of the world.”

“This is why some locations of absolute yang would give birth to an object of absolute yin, and vice versa. Just the same, objects of absolute death and taintuld sometimes be found in locations of absolute life and purity, and vice versa.”

“The Flawless Stone is an object of ultimate purity and flawlessness born in a location of absolute taint. Pure and flawless, its power is perfectly pure, and it is imbued with the power of the world. A one-of-a-kind treasure, it can be used for cultivation, artifact forging, and many other uses.”

As for the Resurrection Stone, it is an object of absolute yang that is born from a dead object or spirit. Because itntains an immensely pure and vast reservoir of vitality, ituld aid a dead spirit inming back to life. True life, mind you, not the false life of a zombie or the like. Hence, it is called the Resurrection Stone.”

“Not only did the Snow Corpse give birth to a Resurrection Stone, its purity is quite something. If I am not mistaken, this Snow Corpse isn’t far away fromming back to life and living another lifetime as a human. Such a person is usually protected by the world and blessed with great fortune and opportunities. It’s a true shame!”

Yi Pin wore a regretful look when he said this.

“Oh? Are you saying I shouldn’t kill her?” Ye Qing chuckled.

“Ofurse not. I’m just saying that it’s a bit of a waste to kill a spiritrpse that is protected by the world, and that she is more useful alive than dead.”