Chapter 310: A Living Corpse (1/2)

Eyes squeezed shut, Su Xiaoxiao remained dumbly in place. Uneasiness flashed across her face, then was replaced by a general sense of not knowing what to do with herself. Regardless, this wasn’t what a dead person, what a corpse was supposed to look like.

“Xiaoxiao, are we not in the skydragon tomb anymore?” Diexi asked again when the poison doctor didn’t respond.

Su Xiaoxiao still radiated discomfort, and her tender hands twisted and turned the hem of her dress.

“She can speak?” Lu Yun’s eyes widened and he paused in the midst of condensing a talisman in his hand.

“She can… oof!” Diexi grunted with pain as a gray talisman stinking of putrid decay made its way out of her body, attracted by the one in Lu Yun’s hand. “Is it out?”

Joy crossed her face; this Zombification Talisman had bedeviled her for quite some time. In fact, she’d been on the cusp of completing her evolution to a living being, but the talisman had negated all of her efforts.

Lu Yun nodded slightly and ignited a flicker of hellfire, reducing the talisman to ashes.

As its name implied, a Zombification Talisman could zombify a living thing, similar to the effects of the Great Formation of Corpse Refinement and Bag of Corpse Refinement. The Corpse Refiners sure have a lot of tricks up their sleeves, huh.

Rumble.

An incredible burst of power exploded from the two-headed zombie, throwing the slightly weaker scaled-dragon backward and slamming him on a small mountain not too far off in the distance, instantly flattening it.

The Scaled-Dragon King roared furiously and ricocheted right back like a cannonball, hurtling into his enemy. He released the image of a dragon and crocodile from his body at the same time, the two intertwining to create a terrible killing force that bore down on the zombie.

“Awaughhhh!!” screeched the zombie, sending Yuchi Tianhuang flying with a flip of the hand, then brought its hands together to thrust them outward at the dragon-crocodile image.

Pffft!

The Scaled-Dragon King trembled but once, blood misting out of all his pores. Destruction crawled up every inch of his bones and meridians, shattering them to pieces. In the next moment, the second strongest monster spirit king of the North Sea flopped to the ground as a sack of quivering, twitching flesh.

“Awau awau awaughhh!!” Two decaying mouths split open, shrieking with a cacophony that could rouse the deaf and return sight to the blind. The sound waves rushed out of the place of extreme yin and pushed the waters, creating horrifying ripples that sped in all directions. Meanwhile, the two-headed zombie opened its arms wide and sprang at the prone Scaled-Dragon King.

Wham.

Yuchi Tianhuang rushed in just at this time, the innate power of metal flickering all over his body in aureate radiance. The light cut viciously at the zombie, as if the edges of keen blades.

Diexi remained staunchly at Lu Yun’s side in a protective stance, blocking all of the aftershocks caused by the clash between peerless immortals.

“Lü Biao!” called out Lu Yun.

A bright verdant figure flashed in front of him as a green-haired man charged out of the Gates of the Abyss, making directly for the two-headed zombie. Monster Spirit King Lü Biao of Mist Land had died under a single swipe of Lu Yun’s blade while protecting Lü Guhong, and was the first peerless immortal Infernum that’d come under the overlord of hell’s command.

Wham.

Caught off guard in a moment of distraction, it was the zombie’s turn to careen backward. This created an opening for a tongue of hellfire to envelope the Scaled-Dragon King and repair the ghostly soldier’s injuries.

A peerless immortal Infernum wasn’t an asset that Lu Yun could afford to just throw away. Though there were many soldiers in his ghostly army, there were only a couple of peerless immortals, and it would be a painful loss if any were destroyed here.

This two-headed zombie is really strong… even Yuchi Tianhuang and the Scaled-Dragon King aren’t its match. Diexi and Su Xiaoxiao were patently stronger than those two, and it took the addition of Lü Biao to barely hold off this terrifying zombie.

“Just where does it come from?” Lu Yun’s heart clenched in fear.

Yuchi Tianhuang was a divine king, one of the White Tigers! The Scaled-Dragon King was the second seat of the North Sea, and when aided by Lü Biao of the Mist Land, they formed a trio of unparalleled peerless immortals who could shake the entire world with a stamp of their feet!

Su Xiaoxiao’s expression of discomfort deepened further, but she stubbornly stuck to the act of an unknowing, unfeeling zombie and pretended not to understand Lu Yun, but her small hands had turned the hem of her white dress into a wrinkled mess.

“The skydragon tomb, the zombie’s from the skydragon tomb!” Diexi answered. “After the Corpse Refiners planted the talisman in me, I escaped to the imperial waters of the North Sea and accidentally barged into the skydragon tomb…. I met that perverse existence there!”

As the king of zombies, Diexi could control all zombies beneath the heavens, even if she was only a peerless immortal. Who would’ve ever thought she’d be hunted by one instead?

“And her?” Lu Yun pointed at Su Xiaoxiao.

Though the poison doctor’s eyes were still squeezed shut, she seemed to sense that Lu Yun was pointing at her. Keeping up the act, she staggered and lurched like a low-level zombie, stumbling her way behind Diexi.

“Xiaoxiao saved me!” The zombie king wouldn’t hide anything from Lu Yun. Since her birth, she’d been bereft of friends and family in the world of immortals. Lu Yun was the only person who hadn’t treated her like some unnatural monster, so naturally she was very close to him.

“Doctor Poison Su Xiaoxiao, you’re coming with….” Lu Yun grabbed the zombie girl’s hand, causing her to shudder and freeze.

“You’re… so cold….” He felt like he’d grabbed an icy piece of frost jade, one that was about to freeze him solid. “Don’t resist!” he ordered before the Gates of the Abyss opened and swallowed both of their bodies.