Poison God's Heritage

I pulled out even more pills and had the corpse ingest them, further increasing the destructiveness inside its body but again, since it was a corpse, it wasn't about to keel over and die.

Finally, the last pill, this one was devised from studying the walkers in the Sea of Demons. This poison had an uncanny ability which was greatly similar to the Sea of Demons's atmosphere.

It was able to immediately seal Qi upon contact with it, the only difference was that the Sea of Demons was a natural occurrence, while this poison needed to be concocted by mixing a lot of herbs.

To create it, I would need about five minutes, which was about enough for the corpses to reach the forts in the middle. But, I needed more time than just that.

I ordered the puppets which I had improved to go on a suicidal mission. Their goal was to reach the corpses and do as much damage to them as they could, though hapless, they still carried inside them a very powerful engine.

The Saint Qi reactor inside them could overclock itself and go into overdrive. Once it lasts more than five seconds in overdrive, it would crack and then blow up.

With the command given, all twelve improved puppets rushed toward the corpses.

Three to one would look like I'm ganging up on them, but due to their absurd strength, it's not even close to being enough.

The puppets rushed forward, going through the field of corpses as fast as they could to intercept the corpses. Once the corpse had an enemy in its sight, it decided to slice down at it with its cleaver, only for the two other corpses to jump at it and hug it tightly.

Confused, but still fully protected by the barrier of Qi the corpse wanted to shake them away. But the puppets had already been in overdrive and once all three of them latched onto the corpses, an ear-deafening explosion sounded.

As a shockwave of Qi blasted outward cratering the field four times in all directions, all puppets managed to achieve their goal.

Three of the corpses were caught off guard, and with the explosion being so close, their bodies were shocked and sent flying hundreds of meters away.

Yet the damage on them was almost negligible as their barriers were still up and running. Besides a few burns and singes on their bandages that they used for clothes, nothing much happened to them and I lost twelve puppets.

As for one of the luckier corpses, it managed to stab one of its cleavers in the ground deep enough for it to only be blasted a few dozen meters away.

It did however take more damage than the rest as it focused more on standing its ground than protecting its body.

"Stall it," I ordered the corpse and focused on finishing the poison in my hands.

My main body was busy creating the pills, but my clones were tasked with another mission. I had no hope for the corpse I doped to kill the other corpses, but it was more than capable now of slowing at least one of them down for at least a few moments.

with my main body creating the Qi-sealing poison, the other avatars had a more important job to do.

It was to create the rifles I used against the Fire Lord, and inside the Poison God's Heritage trial.

The long-distance rifles were not hard to make, but they were limited in terms of rate of fire. Needing at least a minute to cool down after each shot.

With eleven copies making the parts of the rifle. Assembling it and fully inscribing it was going to take a good chunk of my time, time that I don't really have right now.

Both my and the enemy invading corpse began fighting.

And off the bat, my corpse was already on the receiving end, losing in terms of power and speed. Taking many hits while delivering almost nothing. The corpse's cleaver on my side had poison on it, but it still failed to penetrate the barrier.

I would have liked it if it did manage to penetrate the barrier but with the enemy corpse fully focused on defending itself from poison that was pretty much a hopeless attempt.

My only hope was to finish this rifle in time. Because regardless of how strong those guys are, with a bullet that can cross galactic distances in mere moments, there is no way they would be able to survive them. The only issue was time.

I needed time, and a lot of it, the corpse though was taking a beating, was still able to slow down the corpses, but the other three were still creeping up toward the base.

Seeing that my corpse was about to lose miserably, I ordered it to retreat. I still had one more bastion to slow them down and it was the fort, and once the puppet retreated, it began to gush out black blood from the many scares it received in the last battle.

The effectiveness of the poison pills began slowing down due to the many injuries and the corpse was basically standing on its last breath.

The closest enemy corpse then made it to the fort and was affected immediately with the formation inside it. However, that only lasted for a bit, since the corpse seemed to somehow know and understand the formation on the ground, it stomped its foot down hard, and ruptured the ground, breaking the formation placed inside it.

The puppets and turrets around the inner walls of the fortress never stopped shooting, but it only served to reduce the size of the barrier around the enemy corpse and not break it.

The corrosive poison spread inside the fort, but that too was not effective against the barrier as it was reflected the moment it touched it.

Annoyed but still thankful that the corpse was somehow more interested in wreaking havoc inside the fort than proceeding forward. It had a goal of destroying everything in its path first before moving it seemed. That was a good breather that I needed as I was done building the rifle.

This rifle, was not as stable, as the ones I usually make inside the Lord of Lords pagoda. It was hastily made, and though I tried my best to make everything perfect, I didn't have the exact materials so I had to use substitutes. But it should still in theory fire… I hope.

I had four bullets in my hand, all of them inscribed and had a pill inside them, the pill had the same Qi suppression poison that I extracted earlier.

With the bullets chambered, I handed the rifle to the closest puppet and ordered it to mimic my movement since it had no idea how to use the rifle.

I took an aiming stance, locked my sight on the incoming corpse, and squeezed my finger.

The puppet followed suite. The inscriptions on the rifle's stock began lighting up, and the whole barrel began illuminating the inscription inside them.

The inner Qi chamber also ignited, and the bullet shot forward…