novelapdf Chapter 117 This zombie is really burning!
Chapter 117 This zombie is really burning!
Zombies can develop intelligence once they reach the seventh level.
Upon reaching the ninth rank, one can become a king.
Jiang Mu really wanted to curse right now.
What kind of underworld instance is White Deer Peak? How come it hides so many powerful demons? First there was an eighth-tier Blood Mist demon, and now a tenth-tier Zombie Queen has appeared?
Is this even allowed to live in peace?
Fortunately, the terrifying shriek only lasted once before it stopped abruptly.
Tang Guixin, being a woman of considerable experience, calmed her disordered breathing slightly and whispered her guess:
"It must be that blood mist monster that invaded the Zombie Queen's territory and disturbed her. Zombies have a very strong sense of territory, and that shriek was a warning. As long as we don't provoke them and hurry down the mountain, we'll be safe."
Upon hearing this, everyone's expressions softened considerably.
Carrying torches that reeked of burnt corpse oil, the group groped their way down the mountain path they had come from.
The torchlight tore a path through the thick blood mist.
It's like a small boat swaying in a sea of blood.
As soon as a torch is about to burn out, the people around it immediately and tacitly replace it with a new one, without daring to interrupt the process in the slightest.
Jiang Mu, holding the horse he had taken back from Yang Tianci, walked alongside Tang Guixin at the front of the procession.
Two seriously wounded soldiers from Yancheng were carrying the horse, both unconscious. The remaining soldier, whose injuries were not too serious, was being carried on Zhu Chang's back.
About half an hour later.
The group finally found their way to the foot of the mountain.
The journey was surprisingly smooth, without encountering any monsters to obstruct it, which allowed my tense nerves to relax a little.
However, just when everyone thought they were about to escape and were secretly overjoyed.
The surrounding blood mist suddenly thickened.
The torches lit by corpse oil, which had initially illuminated the path a few feet ahead, suddenly dimmed, their light flickering precariously, as if they might go out at any moment. "Stop!"
Tang Guixin's expression changed drastically, and she let out a low shout.
The group immediately stopped and formed a circle back to back, staring intently at the churning red mist around them.
Tang Guixin took out a white flower that looked like a dandelion from her bosom.
She blew gently.
Countless tiny downy hairs drifted in the wind, quickly swirling around the group and forming a faint light barrier, completely isolating them from any aura. Having done this, she listened intently for a moment, her brow furrowing:
"Xiao Jiang, you keep an eye on them, I'll go scout ahead."
"Aunt Tang, let me go."
Jiang Mu stopped her, handing her the reins. "I have a special eye technique that allows me to see more clearly than you in this environment." Without waiting for the woman's reply, Jiang Mu took the torch and walked alone into the thick fog.
Tang Guixin gritted her teeth, turned around and whispered to Ming Cuicui and the others, "Stay where you are and don't move. Conceal your presence!"
She was still worried, so she secretly followed them.
Jiang Mu pushed aside the bushes blocking her way, and with the blessing of the [Earth Star Observation] supernatural power, her eyes shone with a faint starlight.
The originally thick blood mist gradually became thin and transparent in his eyes.
After walking about a hundred steps, he suddenly stopped.
The blood mist ahead was no longer spreading aimlessly, but rather flowing slowly toward a central point, like a living stream.
Just as he was about to get closer to investigate, a hand suddenly grabbed his arm from behind.
"Don't go over there!"
Tang Guixin caught up with her.
She untied a finely crafted sword from her waist and tossed it into the flowing mist of blood ahead.
"Boom!"
A soft sound.
The moment the longsword touched the flowing blood mist, it was as if it had been thrown into strong acid; it was instantly corroded and turned into a cloud of dust. Jiang Mu's heart skipped a beat.
Tang Guixin pressed down on his shoulder, signaling him to squat down. She then took out a dark yellow talisman from her bosom and carefully stuck it on his back, completely concealing their presence.
She lowered her voice, her tone tinged with apprehension:
"The monster's true form should be just ahead, don't move!"
"detour?"
Jiang Mu asked in a low voice.
Even with his cheat codes, an eighth-tier demon is no match for him.
Fighting head-on is just suicide.
"Wait a minute."
Tang Guixin stared at the flowing blood mist, her brows furrowed.
"Something's not right... This monster doesn't seem to be coming for us."
The Zombie Queen had just issued a warning, indicating that the blood mist was encroaching on her territory. Yet this monster continues to release the blood mist, clearly a provocation!
It wants to turn the entire White Deer Peak into a death trap!
Jiang Mu frowned: "You mean, it's going to kill all the living beings here?"
"Very likely."
Tang Guixin nodded. "It didn't expect there to be a Zombie King hiding here. They're probably in a standoff right now. Otherwise, with the perception of an eighth-tier demon, we would have been exposed long ago."
As they were speaking, the flowing blood mist in front of them suddenly accelerated and surged.
Gradually, the fog parted to both sides.
A blurry figure slowly emerged from the depths of the blood mist.
The man was enveloped in flowing crimson mist, obscuring his face; one could only vaguely discern that he was a burly man.
His walking posture was extremely strange.
His legs were stiff, his knees unbendable, and every step he took was like that of a puppet, exuding a stiff and numb deathly aura.
"Demon!?"
The word popped into both Jiang Mu's and Tang Guixin's minds at the same time.
Jiang Mu was even more horrified.
He had seen many demons, from Zhang the Butcher he first encountered after his transmigration, to Yuan Laowu, Yuan Aqing's father, and then to the maids in the Han family... but none of them gave him the same terrifying and oppressive feeling as the one in front of him.
Eighth-tier demon!
In the records of the Demon Slayer Bureau, demons are generally divided into two categories:
One type is low-level zombies who have lost their minds due to the corruption of demonic poison, and the other type is evil cultivators who have fallen into depravity by actively cultivating demonic arts.
But this one in front of me...
It is like a mindless walking corpse, yet it possesses terrifying strength comparable to an eighth-order great demon!
This completely overturned his understanding.
Even the well-informed Tang Guixin was completely bewildered and shocked at this moment:
"How could this be? How could a mindless corpse possess eighth-tier strength? This doesn't make sense!"
Sudden.
The Blood Mist Demon stopped in his tracks.
It slowly turned its head and looked in the direction where Jiang Mu and the other person were hiding.
Two blood-red eyes pierced through the mist like searchlights, radiating coldness and murderous intent.
"Oh no!"
Jiang Mu felt her heart clench, as if it were being gripped tightly by an invisible hand.
A heavy, mountain-like pressure swept over him, making it almost impossible for him to breathe. His chest felt tight, and his blood surged.
Jiang Mu gripped the hilt of the knife tightly, preparing for a desperate fight.
Just then
"ah!!"
Another sharp, piercing whistling sound came from the direction of the mountaintop.
It's that zombie queen!
The howl contained a violent aura of death and immense pressure, sweeping down like a shockwave and forcefully dispersing most of the blood mist that shrouded the foot of the mountain. Even the mist surrounding the blood mist demon was shattered into pieces.
It revealed its true form.
He was a middle-aged man.
His face was bluish-white, covered with lividity, his features were regular, and his eyes were bloodshot like lanterns with no whites.
Most notably, he was wearing a set of black armor.
The style of this armor is completely different from the armor commonly seen in the Daqing army today.
"This is·……"
Upon seeing the armor clearly, Tang Guixin was first stunned, then her eyes widened in disbelief, and she gasped in a low voice:
"The black-armored divine soldiers of the Mirror Kingdom!?"
"What?"
Jiang Mu was completely confused.
Tang Guixin's face turned pale, and she explained in a low voice:
"This demon must have been a 'Black Armor Divine Soldier' directly under the royal family of the Mirror Kingdom in his previous life."
Before the fall of the Mirror Kingdom, this army was dedicated to protecting the royal family and occasionally participated in major battles; their combat strength was extremely formidable. Legend has it that they were blessed with the power of a sorcerer god's incantation, and as long as the sorcerer god's power remained inexhaustible, they were virtually immortal.
Jiang Mu was deeply shaken upon hearing this.
Immortality?
He frowned and asked, "How did the royal guards of the Mirror Kingdom end up here? And why do they possess supernatural powers similar to those of the Mist Demon?"
Tang Guixin shook her head, her eyes filled with even deeper confusion:
"I don't understand either. Logically speaking, with the fall of the Mirror Kingdom and the dissipation of the power of the Witch God, these soldiers should have turned to dust long ago." As the Zombie Queen's shriek subsided, the mist that had spread from the Blood Mist Demon closed up again.
It seems to have lost interest in Jiang Mu and the other person.
He glanced at it briefly, then turned and continued walking with stiff steps into the depths of the forest.
They quickly disappeared from their sight.
As it departed, the blood mist surrounding the area gradually dissipated, revealing the original verdant mountain.
Clearly, under the threat of the Zombie Queen, it chose to back down.
"Gone?"
Jiang Mu breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that her back was soaked with cold sweat.
"This is no place to linger, let's go!"
Tang Guixin dared not delay for the slightest and pulled Jiang Mu to leave.
However, misfortunes never come singly.
Just as the two were about to get up, they saw swaying figures crawling out of the mud from the surrounding mountains and forests.
Zombies!
There were fifty or sixty of them!
They wore tattered clothes, had dry, bluish-purple skin, and sharp, knife-like fingernails; most of them were just low-level zombies.
The leader of them was exceptionally large, and its body was filled with a dense, black aura of death.
It was a fifth-tier zombie.
Further away, shadowy figures suggest that even more zombies are converging on this side.
"broken."
Tang Guixin's face darkened.
"These zombies have an exceptionally keen sense of smell; they must be the spies sent out by the Zombie Queen. It now seems that the true master of White Deer Peak is this Zombie Queen."
She may have been asleep or in seclusion, but was awakened by the black-armored divine soldiers of the Mirror Kingdom.
Jiang Mu also found it troublesome.
He had killed fifth-tier zombies before, but with this number, his "kiting" tactic would probably be difficult to execute.
Tang Guixin decisively took out a porcelain bottle:
"Xiao Jiang, these zombies will smell us sooner or later. I'll lure them away, you take Cui Cui and the others down the mountain quickly!"
As she spoke, she uncorked the bottle and was about to pour the special powder inside, which was attractive to demons, onto herself.
"Aunt Tang!"
Jiang Mu grabbed her hand and snatched the bottle back. "Let me do it. When it comes to escaping, no one is worse than me." He wasn't as experienced as Tang Guixin and couldn't guarantee that he could safely lead those twenty-odd people out of the encirclement, but if he just needed to lure the enemy away and deal with them alone, he was full of confidence.
Moreover, looking at the dense horde of zombies, a bold idea suddenly popped into his mind.
So many experience packs...
It would be a shame not to capitalize on this opportunity.
"No! You!"
Tang Gui was very anxious and wanted to stop him.
But Jiang Mu had already uncorked the bottle and poured all the foul-smelling powder onto himself.
"Aunt Tang, see you down the mountain!"
Jiang Mu grinned, said no more nonsense, and unleashed the full power of his Serpent Step, transforming into a blur as he raced off in the opposite direction from where the others were hiding.
"Roar roar roar!"
All the zombies were drawn by the alluring scent and chased after it like madmen.
"This child..."
Tang Guixin watched Jiang Mu lead the horde of corpses away, her eyes instantly reddening. She gritted her teeth, turned, and ran towards where Ming Cuicui and the others were hiding. Jiang Mu used the "Spirit Serpent's Wandering Step," his figure as slippery as an eel, swiftly traversing the rugged mountain forest.
Before long, he had lured all the zombies in the area behind him.
To prevent the terrifying black-armored warrior from turning back and running into him, Jiang Mu deliberately chose a secluded and steep mountain path, running all the way towards the south side of Bailu Peak.
Gradually, more and more zombies gathered around.
One hundred...two hundred...
In the end, nearly two hundred of them gathered!
Judging that the zombies had gathered enough, Jiang Mu began to carry out his "clearing" plan.
He first secretly threw "Shadow Number One" into a hidden crevice in a boulder as an anchor point for his retreat.
Then they continued running until they came to a relatively open valley basin.
The range does not exceed three hundred meters of the demon's perception.
As the horde of corpses entered the intended area, densely packed and roaring, a cold glint flashed in Jiang Mu's eyes.
"This is it!"
"Come on, my little cuties, I've got a big gift for you!"
With a thought, he summoned "Shadow of Number Two" and left it in place.
Prepare to teleport away, then detonate Shadow Demon Number Two.
The second Shadow Demon's skill is self-destruction.
Its power matches the master's cultivation level, which is equivalent to the self-destruction of a cultivator at the fourth realm.
However one
The moment the thought crossed his mind.
The horde of zombies that had been charging forward suddenly stopped as if a pause button had been pressed.
Jiang Mu's heart skipped a beat, instinctively sensing that something was wrong.
"Teleportation!"
He roared inwardly.
But………
No response!
Not only could he not teleport, but his body felt as if it were nailed to the ground by countless invisible steel nails, unable to move even a finger. An unprecedentedly terrifying pressure descended from the sky!
He struggled to lift his eyelids.
Not far ahead, on a jagged, giant gray-white rock, a wide throne made of interwoven white bones had appeared out of nowhere.
A woman sat on the throne.
A stunningly beautiful woman, almost eerily alluring.
She wore a gorgeous gold and red dress with a very high slit that extended all the way to her upper thigh.
Her right leg gracefully crossed over her left leg.
The slit in the skirt revealed long, shapely legs that were dazzlingly white and exuded a mature, alluring sensuality.
Judging by the length of those legs alone, he must be at least 1.9 meters tall when he stands up.
At this moment, the woman leaned lazily against the bone throne, propping her chin up with one hand, her posture alluring to the bone, her toes swaying gently.
The shoes he was wearing were of an unusual design.
The sole is slender and stiff, with a high heel and a low forefoot.
The entire foot then rests as if lying quietly on a slightly tilted crescent moon.
Several thin straps gently gathered from both sides, barely securing them, leaving the toes, arches, ankles, and even the exquisitely curved heels completely exposed.
She exudes an aura of domineering power, as if she were the queen.
Even more chilling is that
Several black chains were wrapped around her upper body.
The other end of these chains was deeply embedded in the bone throne beneath her, binding her firmly to it.
Especially the front placket, bound and restrained by chains, has a striking visual impact with its astonishing curves that are in no way inferior to Lingye's watermelon.
The woman had a golden talisman pasted on her forehead.
A corner of her face was gently lifted by the wind, revealing a pale yet exquisitely alluring face.
Zombie Queen!!
Jiang Mu gasped, her scalp tingling, and all she could think of was a series of "Holy crap!"
At that moment, he really wanted to cry.
I ran right into the boss's lair while fleeing! What kind of luck is that?!
This is the worst luck imaginable!
"We're doomed... This is really the end for us."
Jiang Mu felt despair.
Tenth Rank!
Even with a scapegoat, in front of such a powerful being, it would only mean dying once more.
Unfortunately, my cultivation level is too low.
Even if there is an eighth-order rank.
Let alone confronting the zombie queen head-on, even getting her pregnant would be within my means!
Just then.
"call"
Suddenly, thick, blood-red mist surged up from all directions, spreading like ghostly claws.
The black-armored divine soldier that had disappeared before actually walked out of the blood mist step by step!
"Holy crap..."
Jiang Mu felt even colder inside.
There are wolves in front, tigers behind, and a fool in the middle.
An eighth-tier demon and a tenth-tier zombie queen... Is this a double attack against a nobody like me, a mere fourth-realm weakling?
However, the next moment, Jiang Mu was stunned.
As the black-armored divine soldier approached, the terrifying pressure that had been binding his body inexplicably loosened.
He can move now!
"Is this guy... saving me?"
Jiang Mu looked at the black-armored divine soldier in surprise.
But he quickly dismissed the idea.
The other party is the most loyal guard of the Mirror Kingdom's royal family. How could he possibly save a demon slayer from Daqing?
It was mostly because the auras of these two powerful figures clashed and canceled each other out that gave this small fry a chance to catch his breath.
"snort!"
On the throne of bones, the Zombie Queen let out a cold snort.
Her eyes, framed by smoky makeup, had turned a ghastly green; her voice was hoarse and magnetic, carrying a hint of both allure and authority.
"Where did this rotting, cursed corpse come from, daring to covet my Yellow Spring Jade Coffin? It's courting death!"
Her long, slender fingers, as if carved from white jade, made a sweeping motion in the air.
"Buzz"
Countless red threads suddenly descended from the sky.
Like a rain of blood, carrying a sharp aura capable of cutting through everything, it descended upon the black-armored divine soldiers.
The scene was magnificent and grand, like a divine punishment.
The black-armored divine soldier seemed oblivious.
Or rather, its empty consciousness is filled only with the instinct to move forward.
Faced with the deadly red lines raining down from the sky, he mechanically raised his arm, and a black spear appeared out of thin air in his hand. As he swung it, blood mist churned, and he forcefully clashed with the red lines.
Jiang Mu was dumbfounded.
Gee tut.
How dare an eighth-tier demon confront a tenth-tier zombie queen head-on?
That's incredible!
However, he also keenly noticed that the zombie queen seemed to be restrained in her strength because she was chained up and suppressed by talismans.
The two are probably evenly matched.
"When gods fight, mortals suffer. Time to get out of here!"
Taking advantage of the moment when the two bosses were exchanging energy, Jiang Mu didn't dare to look any longer and immediately activated his teleportation.
Swish!
His figure vanished into thin air.
"Bring him back!"
The instant he disappeared, he heard the Zombie Queen's cold command.
It was clearly directed at those little zombies.
"Arrest me?"
Upon hearing these words, Jiang Mu, who had teleported 300 meters away, flashed a ruthless glint in his eyes.
"Try this amazing treasure I gave you first!"
"Shadow Demon Number Two, explode!!"
Thoughts or intentions.
The "Shadow of Number Two" that remained in place suddenly lit up with a blinding red light.
"BOOM!!!"
A deafening explosion resounded from the bottom of the valley!
Even from 300 meters away, Jiang Mu could still feel the ground tremble beneath his feet, and a shockwave mixed with scarlet malevolent energy spread outwards. Although the power of the explosion wouldn't harm the two powerful figures fighting like gods.
But for the low- to mid-level zombies who were gathered together to watch the spectacle, it was a devastating blow!
Countless severed limbs and broken arms flew through the air.
At the same time, some blurry points of light appeared next to the magic slot in Jiang Mu's sea of consciousness.
This is a fragment of the second Shadow Demon.
Clearly, it has entered a long cooling-off and recovery period.
To Jiang Mu's regret, he no longer dared to go over and absorb the demonic energy of those little zombies.
So much demonic energy wasted... What a huge loss!
Jiang Mu cursed under his breath, then stopped and pushed his movement technique to its limit, fleeing down the mountain for his life without looking back.
The most urgent task is to moisturize!
The farther the moisture reaches, the better!