Chapter 359 (1/2)
The more Long Yi thought about it, the more he felt this method was feasible. In this place, there were no less than 10,000 corpse kings, so even if they wanted to kill all of them, their hand would go limp with exhaustion before they were able to. Moreover, in this Death s.p.a.ce, the longer they stayed here, the more disadvantageous it would be for them. Therefore, the most important matter was to leave this place as quickly as possible.
Long Yi no longer hesitated. He directly rushed towards the distant Golden Armored Corpse King and a wisp of powerful true qi made a slick curve and shot at the back of the Golden Armored Corpse King's head. Since Long Yi was observing the battle between Long Two and another Golden Armored Corpse King, he was able to determine the weak point of the Golden Armored Corpse Kings. Attacking the back of its head seemed to be the best choice.
However, this Golden Armored Corpse King's reaction wasn't slow in the least. Seeing a human charging towards it, it immediately counterattacked. Its claw which was glowing with golden light advanced towards the chest of Long Yi. After seeing what the claw of a Golden Armored Corpse King could do to Long Two even with its bone armor, Long Yi instantly dodged to the side in order to avoid the terrifying claw flying at him. The moment he dodged, his true qi attack shot through the back of the Golden Armored Corpse King. Along with a 'clang', the sound of metal colliding against metal, the Golden Armored Corpse King unexpectedly staggered a few steps. After Long Yi's attack hit, a two inches deep wound appeared on the back of the Golden Armored Corpse King. However, for the Golden Armored Corpse King, this small injury was nothing.
Long Yi was speechless. If he were to rank this Golden Armored Corpse King according to the ranking of magical beasts, based on its strength alone, it would be cla.s.sified as an SS-ranked magical beast.
Not giving much time for Long Yi to be surprised, the Golden Armored Corpse King quickly turned around and instantly spat out a mouthful of dense green fog towards Long Yi. Changing into a beam of golden light, the Golden Armored Corpse King rushed towards Long Yi, who was in the midst of escaping from the green fog.
Long Yi knew that this dense green fog was most probably corpse poison, and he didn't want to test how terrifying the corpse poison of a Golden Armored Corpse King was. Instantly, Long Yi casted a barrier spell to isolate this corpse poison. However, just a moment later, the Golden Armored Corpse King's head smashed into Long Yi's barrier. The barrier rippled violently, and was nearly broken from the impact.
Long Yi didn't dare to be careless, so he immediately chanted an obscure incantation as his eyes shone with divine light. Then, his strong power trapped the Golden Armored Corpse King.
The Golden Armored Corpse King violently struggled, and several minutes later, its struggle slowly weakened as Long Yi's incantation become even sharper.
Finally, the stiff body of the Golden Armored Corpse King trembled. The spirit power seal casted by Long Yi suddenly entered into the s.p.a.ce between its eyes, giving rise to a spirit connection between them. As soon as the spirit connection was made, this Golden Armored Corpse King fell under Long Yi's command.
Long Yi proudly laughed and used his thoughts to command this Golden Armored Corpse King to make the Silver Armored Corpse Kings and Copper Armored Corpse Kings in the surrounding area stand still. As soon as the Corpse Kings stood still, Long Yi commanded the 18 super skeletons to absorb the Corpse Kings' power.
In a few moments, the path ahead of the group became un.o.bstructed. Long Yi obtained two additional Golden Armored Corpse Kings and he nearly made the entire population of Corpse Kings in the area extinct. Among these 10,000 corpse kings, there were only 20 Golden Armored Corpse Kings that were scattered throughout the area. Fortunately for Long Yi and the rest, if the Golden Armored Corpse Kings were to stick close to each other, they would really be in trouble. Among these 20 Golden Armored Corpse Kings, other than three which were controlled by Long Yi, the other 17 were killed by Long Two. The huge amount of dark magic power possessed by the 17 Golden Armored Corpse Kings were completely absorbed by Long Two.
After traveling with three Golden Armored Corpse Kings protecting them, by the time the shadow-like sun disappeared from the grey sky, the group of four had already reached the end of the territory of Corpse Kings. As soon as the 'sun' disappeared from the sky, the dark mist inside the Death s.p.a.ce began surging and rolling. Finally, even that little bit of faint light which was illuminating the death s.p.a.ce disappeared. The entire world turned into darkness, and even with Long Yi's night vision, he was only able to see the silhouettes ahead of him.
”Long Yi, should we stay here for the night and continue our journey tomorrow or do we keep going?” Wushuang asked Long Yi. It was not surprising for her to ask such question. In the nighttime, the death qi inside this Death s.p.a.ce was several times more powerful compared to the daytime, and this gloomy and cold death qi was gradually nibbling away at their spirit power.
Long Yi frowned and asked after thinking for a bit, ”Can you guys keep going?”
Barbarian Bull brandished the Greenstone Rule in his hand and bellowed, ”Of course I can! Not to mention that I didn't get to fight the Corpse Kings. Now, my hands and legs are itching to do something, naturally, I can continue.”
”I have no problem with continuing as well, my husband.” Nalan Ruyue said from the other side of Long Yi.
”I have no objection as well. We are about to enter the dense forest in front of us anyway, who knows if the forest would be illuminated in the morning. What if the dense canopy blocks off all the light? We might as well not waste time and enter now.” Wushuang said.
”Since there is no objection, we will carry on with our journey. Anyway, this place is not suited for long periods of habitation. We should leave this place as quickly as possible, if not, we may be in big trouble.” Long Yi explained.
The four people reached a consensus, and began to grope about in the darkness while walking forward. For their safety, they didn't use Illumination Magic or Fireball Magic to illuminate their path in fear that fire or light might attract all undead creatures in the forest. Their guess was that the creatures which lived in the deeper areas of the death s.p.a.ce were stronger than the Corpse Kings they met when they just arrived. As such, they decided to be cautious when moving forward.
Stepping on dead leaves, they walked a segment of the path. Along the way, Long Yi had a sense of unease in his heart. The three G.o.d-beasts following behind him were restless throughout the journey which piled on to Long Yi's discomfort.
”Long Yi, I have a bad feeling about this place. Don't you feel as though many eyes are staring at us?” Wushuang whispered to Long Yi.
”I have the same feeling as you, and my spirit sense is very chaotic. I am able to sense that this place is desolate and uninhabited, but there are moments when I can feel as though there are living creatures all around us.” Long Yi made a wry smile and said. He knew that death qi was able to cause all kinds of negative feelings to be induced in people. Fear, over-suspicion, bloodthirst, thought of killing… These were just a few negative feelings death qi could induce in people.
Nalan Ruyue gripped Long Yi's hands tightly and squeezed, as she was extremely nervous in her heart.