"Master, this dragon corpse has changed!"
"Well, you guys back off."
The old beggar stretched out his hand and pushed back, causing Lu Xiaoyou and Yang Zong to step back a few steps, not far, but just a few steps behind the old beggar.
After the slight strange sound just now, the dragon corpse returned to silence, as if it was just an illusion. However, for cultivators like the old beggar, they would not believe in illusions.
"Come on, you are hiding your head and showing your tail, show yourself to me!"
At this moment, he was underground in the mountains. The old beggar didn't use any magic spells. He just stretched out his hand in the direction of the earth dragon's corpse and made a faint claw with his bare hands.
Rumble, rumble, rumble…
As slight vibrations occurred in the surroundings, large patches of pale yellow light, like streams made up of earth power, gathered from all directions, followed the direction of the old beggar's hand, gathered around the earth dragon's corpse, and even penetrated into the dragon's scales and other parts.
“Clackla… Clackla…”
A sound of rocks rubbing against each other continued to be heard on the earth dragon's corpse, and the slight vibrations around it continued uninterruptedly. After about ten breaths, a faint black smoke began to overflow from the eyes, ears, mouth and nose of the earth dragon's corpse.
Although it is called smoke, this black substance is more like wisps of black sewage floating in the air. Even if it overflows, it will linger around the corpse of the earth dragon and will not dissipate.
"Um?"
The old beggar's eyes twitched, and he suddenly realized that something was wrong, but before he could react, the earth dragon in front of him suddenly opened its eyes without warning, and opened its mouth at the same time.
"Roar—"
A dragon's roar sounded like an explosion at close range, and a huge dragon's mouth full of sharp teeth and fangs came towards the old beggar to bite. The bite force of the dragon clan is quite amazing. Even if a cultivator with several levels of cultivation is several levels higher, if he does not respond in time and correctly, he is very likely to be torn into pieces if bitten by a dragon.
The old beggar felt a great sense of crisis at this moment, and he reacted almost instinctively by using his magic power to form a white barrier on his body surface.
"boom… "
The fairy light barrier was like a slippery ball of light, which separated from the dragon's mouth as soon as it touched it. The old beggar also retreated rapidly at this moment, grabbing his two apprentices with his hands on the left and right, and flew back with them.
"Boom boom boom..."
“Boom boom boom boom…”
The ground veins began to become seriously unstable, and even the earth escape light of the old beggar and his two disciples seemed to be shaky, like a bubble in a strong wind.
"Roar—"
The sound of dragon roars continued to explode not far away, and turbid dark light mixed with the power of the earth kept sweeping around. Wherever it passed, rocks collapsed and magma emerged, and even underground thunder was generated, producing all kinds of destructive forces that horrified the old beggar. This was not only the power of the earth dragon, but also the power of the earth.
"The ground is in disarray. The ground is not in our favor. Let's go up!"
This situation was rather dangerous, and considering that his two disciples were right behind him, the old beggar also needed to take them into consideration, so he simply pulled his two disciples upwards. His earth escape speed was almost as fast as flying, and in a short time they had crossed the deep soil and rocks and rushed out of the col.
When the group of fairy light led by the old beggar and the other two flew into the sky, looking down, around and into the distance, there was a "rumbling..." sound everywhere, and the earth-shaking scene was heard wherever the sight reached.
"Master, has the earth dragon transformed into a corpse?"
In fact, the ones who were most frightened just now were Lu Xiaoyou and Yang Zong, who were afraid that their master would be bitten by the dragon. However, everything happened too quickly and they had no time to remind themselves. The old beggar had quickly broken away and led them out from underground.
"It's not entirely true to say that it was a corpse transformation. It should be the method used by the person who killed the earth dragon."
Yang Zong was speaking on behalf of his master, and he could hardly hide his astonishment.
"It seems that these guys don't even mind the dragon clan. It's ok to kill the earth dragon, but they even defiled the dragon corpse. How audacious!"
The old beggar glanced at his two disciples and said lightly.
"You two should stay away. Now is not the time to discuss whether or not to defile the dragon race. I will have a good fight with that corpse dragon!"
Lu Xiaoyou and Yang Zong looked at each other, and without saying a word, they flew towards the sky together, leaving only the old beggar in a relatively low altitude.
The earthquake on the surrounding land gradually became stable from the wild stage, but there were still aftershocks. However, at this stage, the old beggar and his two apprentices did not have the extra energy to worry about the suffering this earthquake brought to the world, but instead focused on the valley below.
Even Lu Xiaoyou and Yang Zong were always ready to take action. Although they were confident in their master, they also gathered together and were ready to support their master at any time. Even if they could not play a decisive role, they could at least provide some interference.
"Roar—"
The roar of dragons continued to sound underground, but the old beggar waited and waited but no dragon came out. Instead, the earthquake that had subsided before began to become violent again.
Amid the roar of the earth, some mountains below began to collapse, and huge cracks tore in all directions. At the same time, foul air continued to overflow from the cracks.
"You're just making trouble underground? Do you think I can't do anything to you?"
The old beggar laughed in anger, his body slightly bent forward in the air, his magic power rose but there was no strong fairy light. Instead, it seemed as if heat flowed in to disrupt the light, creating a feeling of distorted vision around him, especially in the sky above him.
The next moment, the old beggar suddenly thrust his hands downward, and a mysterious aura suddenly spread from the sky to the ground.
"Boom..."
There was thunder without any thunder in the earth, and the surrounding ground force caused a resonance at this moment. The old beggar turned his palms outward, as if he was grabbing the cracks in the earth, and his old hands seemed to be holding something heavy, slowly prying them apart.
"Open it for me—"
Rumble, rumble, rumble…
The sound of the earth shaking rang out again, but this time it was not a large-scale shaking, but a shaking of this mountain. Large pieces of soil and rock were torn into pieces, and the mountain collapsed. The old beggar did not care about much, and separated the lower pieces of soil and rock to the left and right, and at the same time gathered the ground force on both sides.
Just like a skilled method of controlling and avoiding water can cut a path in rivers and seas, the old beggar used his immense power to quickly split an area of four or five meters wide on the ground which was much more solid and difficult to move than water, and a roaring earth dragon could be vaguely seen below.
Almost at the same moment when the earth was split apart, the old beggar's right hand suddenly turned into a claw and grabbed the ground.
"Bind the earth and capture the dragon, come up to me!"
"Boom boom boom..."
At the moment when the old beggar caught the dragon with his claws, the ground that had just been separated began to close rapidly from below, almost as if cooperating with the old beggar's claws to squeeze the dragon up. The old beggar actually gained the upper hand in the use of the power of the earth.
"Roar..."
"Call your mother a fool!"
The old beggar cursed angrily, and his other hand, which had been raised high at some point, suddenly swung downwards at this moment, and a gust of wind with a faint glow swept downwards.
"boom… "
The earth dragon's mouth was slapped hard, and a pool of black and dirty ambergris flew out.
"rise-"
Following the old beggar's angry roar, a huge earth dragon about twenty or thirty feet long was pulled out of the ground, and the cracks in the earth slowly closed at this moment.
"Hehe, it's just a corpse puppet. Its use of earth power is far inferior to that of a real earth dragon. It only knows how to destroy with brute force."
Since such an earth dragon has been caught from the ground, it cannot cause much waves even on the ground in front of the old beggar.
“Roar… Roar…”
It was as if an invisible giant hand grabbed its neck. The earth dragon kept shaking its body to break free. The old beggar was not as relaxed as he said. Veins bulged on his right hand. After all, wrestling with a dragon from a distance was not his forte.
"Let you die again."
"Roar… "
The corpse dragon suddenly twisted its neck and sprayed a mouthful of dirty water upwards. A foul stench instantly emerged, and there were some tiny and twisted substances wriggling in it.
The smell made even the old beggar feel nauseous, but he did not loosen his grip. The magic light that was holding the earth dragon seemed to be loosened by the filth, allowing the earth dragon to break free and fly forward.
The old beggar waved his sleeves, creating a gust of wind that blew away the foul air. He stepped on the clouds and chased forward with the fairy light.
"Want to run away? Have you asked me, the old beggar?"
The old beggar arrived later than the other way around, and with a flash of fairy light, he had already caught up with the earth dragon in front. He appeared dozens of feet above the earth dragon's head, in an upside-down position. He stretched out his right hand and suddenly dropped it with the force of a dragonfly, and hit the earth dragon's forehead with his palm.
"boom… "
The entire flying earth dragon shook slightly, and the old beggar turned into light and flew into the sky, while a large amount of dirty blood burst out from the seven orifices of the earth dragon. The whole dragon became shaky but still flew forward quickly.
"Huh? Didn't fall?"
The old beggar was a little surprised. Logically speaking, he had used quite a lot of force in that palm strike, so the earth dragon should have fallen to the ground. But he immediately came to his senses and realized that although the corpse dragon was not as magical as a living earth dragon, its endurance had increased.
"If one slap doesn't work, then give me another one!"
"Bang..." "Bang..." "Bang..."
The old beggar did not just attack with one palm strike, but three in a row. Even though the corpse dragon tried to dodge, it could not avoid it at all. It could only resist with the constantly surging filth and dragon energy, and it actually managed to hold on.
There was even one time when it actually took a hit and quickly rose up as a dragon, trying to wrap around the old beggar. The sweeping attacks from its dragon claws and tail even brought with it a tornado that never stopped.
The old beggar understood that although the earth dragon was dead, its dragon ball seemed to still exist and its essence had not dissipated. At this moment, this essence was released without any cost, almost like the accumulation of thousands of years of practice, rushing out from the opened water pump to fight with him.
“Crack, boom…” “Crack… boom…”
Thunder kept falling from the sky and striking the earth dragon. This was the spell cast by Lu Xiaoyou and Yang Zong, but dragons have a high resistance to thunder. Even if the earth dragon was dead and full of evil spirits, this kind of thunder would not have much effect on its body. It just made the earth dragon look like it was entangled in lightning.
"Master, the people in the distance are very angry, I'm afraid they will soon reach the place where humans live!"
Lao Qi was shocked, and suddenly realized that if this corpse-transformed earth dragon did not still have considerable intelligence, then someone was controlling it remotely or even closely at this moment, and it was consciously rushing towards the human world.