Chapter 71: Taboo Against Taboo (1/2)
Fully alert, Lu Yun clutched an oversized black donkey hoof. He’d begun refining these items en masse soon after exiting Yuying’s grave, and completed the process the day before departing for Myriad Formation Summit. There were a dozen of them in total, and the one currently in his hand was the most powerful of the lot.
“Do I cram it inside her mouth?” He stared into the zombie’s eyes. Sparkling like rubies, her irises were shining so brightly they could move a man’s soul. He sensed no aggression or lust for slaughter from them, but her gaze seemed somewhat vacant, her eyes empty.
Lu Yun exhaled softly with relief when he saw that her soul had yet to fully take shape. “Actually, will it fit?”
Grasping the hoof tightly in his hand, he glanced at her dainty little mouth, a little stumped. Shoving a black donkey hoof in a zombie’s mouth was the way that tomb raiders usually dealt with them.
An ethereal voice floated to his ears just then, interrupting his thoughts. “You can stop your deliberations. I no longer fear the thing you hold.” As the voice sounded, Lu Yun saw the girl’s previously unfocused gaze come alive. She looked straight into his eyes without blinking.
Most importantly, the faint hint of death on her brow was nowhere to be seen. A zombie king!
She’d reformed her soul and come back to life as a true zombie king! Blanching, Lu Yun stumbled back in quick succession.
“How… what?!” he exclaimed incredulously. “Two hours should’ve been the bare minimum for you to absorb this dense concentration of extreme yang.”
“It is as you say.” The girl nodded. “But the three august immortals used weapons of lightning and thunder against me. The pure yang energy contained within them is the bane of all dead, and it scattered the last vestiges of death inside of me.”
Lu Yun glared sidelong at Qi Shenghui’s group. They were huddled together, strenuously resisting the crimson light. The governor ground his teeth together and thought, what a bunch of shit teammates!
Rather than helping, they’d facilitated her completion instead.
“You lured me here on purpose!” Realization dawned belatedly.
“Correct. I would’ve been powerless to do anything, had you stayed at your previous location.” The girl nodded. “There’s something on you that calls out to every fiber of my being. I would very much like to know what it is.”
The corner of her lips rose in a smile that could bedazzle every man in the world, but her scarlet eyes flashed hungrily in the next moment. “Whatever it is, it is inside your body. Allow me to cut you open and see what it is.”
She suddenly reached out with her delicate hand, her fingers forming a claw and grabbing for Lu Yun’s chest. In a state of heightened tension, the governor shot backward the moment he saw her move. In addition, a black figure appeared in front of him in the same instant, surrounded by a glowing white light.
Boom—
The girl’s hand clashed violently against the dazzling white halo surrounding the shadowy figure. The zombie king shook as her eyes gleamed with joy.
“The Yang Formation Orb! So you have it,” she enunciated to the black-robed woman, her red lips parting gently.
Feinie. Formation Orb in hand, she’d emerged from the Gates of the Abyss at this critical juncture.