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Cultivation Realms – Elementary Profound Realm, Nascent Profound Realm, True Profound Realm, Spirit Profound Realm, Earth Profound Realm, Sky Profound Realm, Emperor Profound Realm, Tyrant Profound Realm, Sovereign Profound Realm, Saint Profound Realm and Divine Profound Realm.

World Spiritist Levels – White-Cloak, Gray-Cloak, Blue-Cloak, Purple-Cloak, Gold-Cloak.

Profound System Ranks - Low Ranked Profound System, Medium Ranked Profound System, High Ranked Profound System, Special Ranked Profound System, Legendary Ranked Profound System, Ultimate Ranked Profound System and Heavenly Ranked Profound System.


Chapter 55 - Blood Corpses


After all of the people of that group had left, Issei finally turned around to face the members of the Water Devil Alliance. Currently, everyone was looking at Issei, an expression of slight fear all over their faces.

After all, the members of the Water Devil Alliance were still young, and although they had already experienced a lot, they had never truly killed a person with their own two hands. In fact, they never went in assassinations missions.

However, Issei was different from them. The killing intent that emanated from his body was nothing short of deadly, and undoubtedly authentic. Only someone who had already killed many times before would be able to emanate such fierce, strong and blood-thirsty killing intent.

Furthermore, from what they had just seen, he wasn't one to bluff. He would really kill, and in fact, he just did so. Not only that, he was completely merciless, his expression not changing in the slightest when taking one's life. Only the killing intent that Issei emanated could be so terrifying, capable of bringing up fear from the bottom of anyone's heart.

Even so, at the same time, while they indeed felt fear, they were also rejoicing in their hearts. Rejoicing that Issei wasn't their enemy, but instead, their comrade. If they were to face him in a battle, they didn't dare to even think of what kind of dangerous situations they would have to go through.

"All of you, go inside and collect the remaining cultivation resources. I can guard here." Issei said calmly as he casually swiped his hand in the air, causing the blood on it to fall on the hard, stone ground.

"Yes," All of the remaining Water Devil Alliance members nodded without hesitating, immediately rushing into the room. At that moment, the way they viewed Issei in their eyes changed even more. Now, he wasn't just a strong teammate. He had now become the leader of their operation, taking Sona's job.

From that moment onwards, Issei and company opened several more doors. Well, Issei did. They just entered the room and took everything within.

At the same time, many stupid, naive and foolish people tried to rob Issei, aiming for his cultivation resources. Their result, however, was that they only got a one-way ticket to hell. Issei didn't spare even a single one of the foolish cultivators that tried to rob him.

By the time they were almost done, the killing intent emanating from Issei's body had already gotten even stronger than before. Now, every time a cultivators looked at him, they would immediately walk away. His face, which was delicate, cute and tender, in their eyes, was akin to that of the devil.

At this point, there were only a few unopened doors on both sides, but Issei had already had enough of Spirit grass. They had already accumulated enough grass to last a life-time. Instead, they decided to take the initiative and delve deeper into the tunnel.

What Issei was looking for was the Nascent Beads. To him, even if it was millions of Spirit Grass, they would be useless. Actually, they had already acquired nearly 10 thousand low-grade spirit grass each. However, to Issei, it could only be used as money.

Furthermore, Issei was sure that further inside, he would find some good, interesting treasures. After all, according to the information that they had gotten, this was the tomb of an incredibly powerful expert. It was impossible for him to not have placed at least a few beads inside.

However, when they went deeper into their tunnel, a dense, metallic, smell of blood rushed towards them like waves in the sea. In front of them was a wide hall, and as soon as they caught sight of it, coupled with the terrifying blood stench that emanated from it, they stopped dead in their tracks, completely stunned.

The reason for their reaction was simple. The spacious hall in front of them was filled with corpses. From their attire and state, it could be seen that it hadn't been too long before they had died, and they were most likely some of the people that entered the tomb when it was opened

However, as if that wasn't enough, there was an even more terrifying thing there. Surrounding the corpses, there were many humanoid monsters. They were extremely ugly, even more so than the ones Issei had met in his previous tomb adventure.

Their appearances was miserable, their appearance akin to a human that had shed off their skin, and it seemed absolutely terrifying. All in all, it was a top-grade nightmare material.

Furthermore, from the aura around their bodies, it could be seen that they could cultivate, the weakest ones of them being at the late stages of the Nascent Profound Realm and the strongest ones being at the early stages of the True Profound Realm.

Currently, the strange, ugly-looking monsters were munching the flesh of the corpses around them, taking huge bites. They were much more scary and ruthless than profound beasts found in the wild.

Finally, the most important part has yet to come. There wasn't one or two monsters, or even ten. No, there were several hundred of them, occupying as much space as the corpses around them. Because of that, if a group wanted to cross the hall and reach the exit on the other hand, they would have to go through this army of terrifying monsters.

"Blood corpses..." Sona muttered in a low voice, her eyes shining with disbelief. "So many of them..."

Seeing Sona's expression and the words she had said, Issei couldn't help but to ask, "Senior Sister Sona, do you know what they are?"

When Issei looked at the monsters, he felt a chill rush down his spine. From his observation, he figured that although not having any skin, the monster's body wasn't really that different from a human's one. That suggested that this monsters had most likely been human before.

Anyways, Sona nodded to Issei's question as she explained. "There's a poison in this world named Blood Poison. It is created from thousands of strange poisons, and one of the most terrifying ones out there.

"If a person swallows it, and does not acquire the cure, within one or two hours, they will lose their conscience and awareness. From that moment onwards, they would no longer die or rot, becoming zombie-like killing tools.

"After being transformed, their outer skin would be destroyed, and only the blood and muscles behind it would remain. Because of that, they are known as Blood Corpses.

"To prevent Tombs from being robbed, some martial masters would use this poison to create Blood Corpses, and have them guard the tomb. However, this amount..." Reaching that point, Sona's face revealed an expression of amazement and disgust.

After hearing Sona's description, everyone looked at the Blood Corpses, horror in their eyes. Changing humans into monsters... this method was truly ruthless and cruel. Furthermore, changing hundreds of them...

Issei nodded, finding the information useful. He glanced back at the Blood Corpses, looked at them deeply before turning around to look at Sona.

"Senior Sister Sona, do you, by chance, know their characteristics?"

Issei and his group was standing outside of the spacious hall, and although the Blood Corpses were more than able to use them, they didn't show any indication of going to attack them. However, it was apparent that the corpses in the hall was the result of the Blood Corpses' slaughter. As such, Issei was beginning to formulate an idea in his head.

"The Blood Corpses have eyes, but since they don't have awareness, they cannot see. All they possess it the desire to kill, using the their sense of smell to determine if an organism is food of if it's a fellow Blood Corpse. Other than other Blood Corpses, any being that comes near their range of smell will be immediately killed," explained Sona.

Issei nodded once more and asked, "So they use their sense of smell to distinguish between foe and ally?"

"Yes, but what of it?" Sona asked, curious.

At that moment, a slight smirk appeared on Issei's previously cold features. He then smiled at her slightly, "Well, I now have a method to pass by them."

Since the start, Issei knew that forcing his way through would be useless. With his speed, it would be able to reach the other side, but all of the other members would be unable to. Now, however, he finally found a solution.

"Junior Brother Issei? What method?" When the members of the Water Devil Alliance heard his words, all of them revealed surprised expressions. When they saw those Blood Corpses, in all of their minds, they had already given up. However, at this moment, a glimmer of hope ignited in their hearts. If Issei truly could come up with a way to bring them to the other side, then that would be that they would certainly be able to acquire treasures.

"Don't get your hopes up," Issei quickly said as he started walking forward, into the hall. "It's just an idea. I'll have to test it first."

When he finished his sentence, he had already stepped into the hall. He quickly turned around, strengthened his fingers, and dashed towards a Blood Corpse, who was at the late stages of the Nascent Profound Realm.

"Hua!"

When Issei got close to that Blood Corpse, it suddenly turned around and opened it's mouth, making a blood-curling scream. While baring his fangs, it immediately leaped from the ground, pouncing at Issei.

Issei's eyes, however, didn't show surprise as he raised his right arm, his fingers already strengthened. Immediately after, he brought it down.

*Swoosh~! *

A sword slash collided against the Blood Corpse, followed by many others. By the end, it was turned into a pile of pieces of meat. Its body parts were scattered all over the place, and the biggest part that remained was only the size of the hand.

Seeing the results of his attacks, Issei nodded with satisfaction before waving his arm, making all the pieces float to his hands. He then turned around, and started gathering around the pieces, making a pile out of them.

After that, he turned to another Blood Corpse, and also sliced it up. He repeated this a few more times, and by the time he was done, there was already a huge pile of pieces in the ground. After that, he walked to one of the corpses of the dead cultivators and took off their clothes.

Following that, he used those clothes as rope and tied the small pieces of the Blood Corpses onto his waist, legs and torso. By the end, he was completely covered in small pieces.

"Just what is Junior Brother doing? The Blood Corpses..." Sa Ji had an expression of disbelief as he looked at Issei, slightly disgusted at the scene. After all, seeing such a cute little kid covered in body pieces, using them as decoration, was unbelievably gross.

However, Sona wasn't feeling uncomfortable. She continued watching Issei with rapt attention, awaiting his next actions.

At that moment, a shocking scene took place in front of them. Issei turned around, and while covered in body pieces, ran towards the center of the hall, where most of the Blood Corpses were.

At that moment, a single though appeared in the head of all of the members of the Water Devil Alliance: "Just what is he doing?!"

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AN: Jimakos, I can now answer you question. You see, for the time being, I'll keep adding DxD characters here and there, but that will mostly be it for the DxD elements, sorry.

Also, for the other readers, I must apologize for the mistakes in the last chapters. You see, Thursday, I only had a limited amount of time to write the chapter. To make make matters worse, when I had finally finished correcting the mistakes, the lights went out, erasing all my corrections. The program that I use, Libre Office, saved the document, but it was the version before I had corrected the mistakes. In the end, I still did a slight check, but I was not able to do a real, slow and concentrated search for mistakes. Either way, I have already corrected the previous mistakes on chapter 54.