Chapter 246 – Dance of the Dead (1/2)

Only now did everyone see the tiny skeleton standing behind the Qi Practitioner. The white bone sword in its hand had pierced the Qi Practitioner’s chest.

However, no one noticed when it had appeared there. It seemed no different from something dead, giving off no aura at all. Even zombies would possess corpse qi.

“W- what kind of daemon is this?”

The scattered white bones melted into fluid and flowed towards the sword. The bone sword was an extremely ordinary short sword, without anything special, just tougher and heavier than usual. It was not even worthy of being called a sword embryo of the Buddha Slaying sword.

Xiao An scanned past everyone with the roaring flames in her eye sockets.

Everyone shivered inside after she glanced past them. They actually found her to be even more terrifying than the daemons that they had faced.

The corner of Li Qingshan’s lips curled up. He yelled out, “Run, everyone!” He grabbed Yu Zijian and rushed towards the cave.

Everyone was on edge already, so now that they suddenly saw such a strange monster, they had no interest in fighting at all. With Li Qingshan’s yell, they immediately scattered and scrambled for the cave.

The first senior brother was furious. He pointed at Li Qingshan. “Kill him.”

Several dozen zombies surged over. Their long nails were like a wave of spears as they stabbed towards Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan suddenly halted. There was a gust of wind behind him, and the Iron Plate corpses extended their sharp claws towards his back.

However, he had been anticipating this. Without even looking back, he forcefully twisted his body and penetrated the group of corpses, ramming into a zombie. In Li Qingshan’s hands, just a single body slam was like a battering ram. There was the cracking of bones, and the zombie was sent flying, colliding against the zombies behind it and fracturing their bones too. They were incapacitated, allowing him to clear a path.

He took a step forward, and just when he was about to escape the encirclement, two metal claws directly reached towards Li Qingshan’s face.

He had stopped taking these regular zombies seriously a long time ago. The only ones that could threaten him to some degree were the dozen or so Iron Plate corpses. As long as he paused even for a moment, the Iron Plate corpses would surge over. While there was not a lot of danger, they were still troublesome.

He came to a halt and twisted his body again, smashing his way through the zombie horde like a tiger. He purposefully chose to run into regular zombies and managed to collapse the horde in just a few moves. Iron Plate zombies were extremely powerful, but their reaction speeds were slow, so they failed to even touch a hair on him.

Li Qingshan leapt up and charged towards the cave.

“A Steel Plate corpse!” Everyone shivered inside. This figure was the shining Steel Plate corpse that originally stood beside the first senior brother.

The first senior brother said frigidly, “I’ll kill whoever runs!”

The Steel Plate corpse was like a supervisor, blocking everyone’s escape path. It looked at Li Qingshan with its bloodthirsty eyes.

Li Qingshan swung out with the Whale’s Ingestion of Water, the crystal blade cleaving down viciously.

The Steel Plate corpse brought its hands together, actually catching the ice blade and swinging it away.

Li Qingshan was thrown into the air. He did a flip and landed on the ground gently. He was surprised, not because of the Steel Plate corpse’s strength, but because it was different from regular zombies that only knew how to use brute strength.

The Iron Plate corpses surged in from all directions once again. Their viscous faces and stinging smell of corpses made Yu Zijian’s heart thump nervously, but when she saw how Li Qingshan remained composed, she even began to smile in a self-deprecating manner.

The first senior brother’s confidence was not groundless. It was already rather tough for Xiao An to face a ninth layer Qi Practitioner by herself, and if other Qi Practitioners were thrown into the mix, it would only be even more difficult for her to triumph. Unfortunately, they just happened to be disciples of the Burial Mound mountain.

Jade-green vines grew from below Xiao An’s feet and tried to wrap around her, but they missed.

The two Skull Prayer Beads rose up in the air and expanded into two huge skulls. Their jaws chattered rapidly; it was like extremely strange laughter. Afterwards, they surged over like two meteors.

Boom! The two collisions merged into a single sound. Even the entire cavern shook slightly.

The skulls rolled along the ground, rampaging through the crowd and creating a series of chaotic cries and howls. Apart from one unlucky person, who was smashed to death by a skull, the others were mostly uninjured.

As for Xiao An, she turned into a white blur and passed through the crowd, arriving before the Steel Plate corpse.

A sneer appeared on the first senior brother’s emotionless face. This skeleton monster sure was reckless. In this cavern, the strongest was not even him, but the Steel Plate corpse that he controlled. Even against eighth or ninth layer Qi Practitioners, the Steel Plate corpse had the ability to rip them to pieces. If the blackwater daemon had not been lurking in the water, he would have never suffered such a great loss.