The corpse generals, as well as the corpse soldiers under the Ghost Sect's control, might be able to terrorize other average cultivators with their unpleasant and deadly ptomaine. However, Austin had no such worries due to his Golden Sun Scripture that could entirely suppress the ptomaine of the corpses. As a matter of fact, the man was nearly immune to the poison discharged by the dead after he refined the Scorching Evil Fire.
Moreover, Austin had also downright understood the method of subduing and controlling the persistent corpse soldiers and corpse generals.
Under normal circumstances, most cultivators would avoid encountering the corpse armies as much as they could. As for Austin, he was thrilled and his eyes alight with purpose the minute he saw the corpses moving about in front of him. Just like a child being presented with brand new toys to play with, Austin busied himself with rushing to get the undead soldiers under his control.
It was not long before he managed to enlarge his troop to over a hundred corpse soldiers and generals. The defeated ones staggered behind Austin and Violet as they moved toward the top of the mountain. Under a new leader, the soldiers blindly followed new directions and resolution to fight alongside him.
Along the way, Austin stumbled upon eight more corpse generals and subdued them in the smanner as those before them.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtUntil then, the boy showcased great intelligence and strength as he had over thirty corpse generals under his control doing his bidding.
These corpse generals he had gathered were equivalent to thirty cultivators who were at the premium stage of the Earth Realm.
As Austin momentarily halted his movements towards the peak of the mountain, it dawned on him that the reason why the Ghost Sect had acted so arrogantly after they had reappeared in the world was their sheer confidence over their strength and their number. Challenging all the forces in the Violet Orchid Empire was a brazen move; and the fact that they had deliberately decided to defeat even the royal family spoke volumes of their conviction.
Looking back at the crowd under his power, Austin knew the Ghost Sect did have the initial power to challenge every force in the Violet Orchid Empire by virtue of the numerous and weighty corpse soldiers and corpse generals under their authority.
Unfortunately for them, Austin was slowly chipping away at their once formidable undead army. Smirking to himself and turning forward once again, Austin started to lead his own troop of corpse legionnaires towards the top of the Sun Mountain.
Concentrating on the environment around him, Austin continued to monitor the current situation on the mountaintop with his spiritual sense. Furrowing his eyebrows and expanding his spiritual vision, he estimated that over a thousand members of the Sun Sect including Theon, the Sect Leader, were all besieged by the people of the Ghost Sect. "That's weird." Austin muttered under his breath as he ruffled his hair confusedly. For sunknown reason, the members of Sun Sect and Ghost Sect were not fighting against each other as he expected.
As Violet glanced over at him worriedly, Austin knew she was thinking about the sthing. However, upon realizing that the people of the Sun Sect were still alive, he did not rush as much into rescuing them from the intruding sect. The young man's next move instead was to travel around the perimeter of the mountain to subdue as many soldiers and increase his undead troop as much as possible.
"Ah... The Martial Arts Square. | did not expect to chere again." "It does seem like there are many people staying here." Upon sighting the old monument, he was abruptly reminded of the last the had been there and all the times he spent in his old sect. As he scanned ahead using his spiritual sense, the broad square arena in front of them was definitely the Martial Arts Square of the Sun Sect.
Reminiscing the past, Austin distinctly heard the faint shout of cheers when he thought of how far he had cuntil then. 'How fast tflies, indeed..." Austin pondered, his eyes glazing over momentarily when he recollected his experience when he had attended the Top Ten Outer Disciples Ranking Challenge.
Ridding himself of the images his memory had conjured in his mind, he focused once again to the task he cto the Sun Mountain for. Even though he had sensed the area earlier, Austin was still taken aback by how many people were crowding in the square at that exact moment.
Just like his intuition and his spiritual sense had told him before, he confirmed more precisely that there were over a thousand people gathered at the center of the Martial Arts Square.
Judging by the presences of the people alone, Austin gathered that most of the people in the area consisted of outer disciples and inner disciples of the Sun Sect, while there were also sprincipal disciples. Leaning his head towards the side, Austin briefly wondered why all of them looked like someone had rained on their parade as they all shared the slooks of extrfrustration and misery.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmMentally counting the number of guards in his head, Austin then noted that the square was surrounded by two hundred corpse soldiers and fifteen corpse generals. Additionally, about forty to fifty members of the Ghost Sect were controlling the undead to patrol the place heavily.
It did not take a genius to deduce that the disciples of the Sun Sect had already been besieged by the Ghost Sect.
Most outer disciples of the Sun Sect were merely at the sixth or seventh level of the Energy Gathering Realm, while the inner disciples were mainly at the eighth or ninth level of the srealm. Moreover, a few members of the sect were able to reach the Earth Realm.
As for the principal disciples of the Sun Sect, most of them attained the preliminary stage of the Earth Realm. Sof the other disciples, too, had reached the medium stage of the Earth Realm.
Among the sect, arguably the most powerful disciples were the principal disciples who had managed to achieve the status of being at the premium stage of the Earth Realm.
The Sun Sect's disciples were in a great disadvantage, given the fact that an ordinary cultivator at the preliminary stage of the Earth Realm would face extrdifficulty in attempting to defeat a corpse soldier due to its sturdy build and the poisonous ptomaine it emitted into the air.
It was an undeniable fact that the two hundred corpse legionnaires currently situated in the square surrounding the disciples of the Sun Sect were invincible enemies, let alone the existence of the undead generals.