Chapter 74
Chapter 74: Being Undead is Really Too OP!
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Just then, Xiaotao, who was usually quiet, suddenly spoke up anxiously.
“Master, run! A formation has been activated!”
Having once served as the core of an illusion formation, she was extremely sensitive to formation fluctuations and detected the anomaly almost instantly when the formation activated.
This warning struck like thunder, immediately jolting Lin Muyu back to her senses from her loss of reason.
She looked at Su Wanqing, who was about to take her away, and urgently shouted:
“Senior Sister! Quickly use your flying sword to leave, there’s a formation activating here!”
“A formation?!”
Su Wanqing’s heart jumped in alarm. Though she didn’t know how Lin Muyu had detected it, if a formation was truly activating, then their target was obviously the two of them!
She immediately summoned her flying sword without hesitation, but just as the two stepped onto the sword, an invisible pressure suddenly struck.
The flying sword was completely suppressed and instantly lost its power!
The two cried out in alarm and fell straight down from mid-air.
At this critical moment, Su Wanqing reacted quickly and tightly protected Lin Muyu in her arms, using her last bit of spiritual energy to cushion their fall, finally landing safely.
But before the two could steady themselves, the corpses that had already died inside the houses suddenly “came alive,” like zombies, roaring as they rushed out from the rooms, frantically closing in on them!
Su Wanqing frowned, and with a flash of sword light, countless corpses were instantly split in half.
Lin Muyu breathed a slight sigh of relief seeing this, it seemed these corpses weren’t very strong.
But before she could relax, dense black energy suddenly emerged from the fallen corpses.
It actually stitched the bodies that had been split in half back together.
What’s more, it combined the severed limbs of several corpses together, forming even larger and more grotesque monsters!
“This is bad, they’re undead!”
Lin Muyu’s heart instantly sank to rock bottom, feeling completely cold.
Su Wanqing obviously also realized how troublesome the situation was and stubbornly swung her sword again.
But no matter how many times she slashed, those monsters could always quickly recover under the wrapping of black energy.
Lin Muyu stared intently at those monsters and suddenly noticed that the monsters with frost energy remaining on their bodies were stitching back together much more slowly.
A thought suddenly shot into her mind:
“Senior Sister, can you use ice-type spells to freeze them? Perhaps that way we can stop them from stitching back together and make them unable to move!”
Su Wanqing didn’t hesitate at all upon hearing this. With a swing of her frost sword, ice-blue sword light wrapped in bone-piercing cold energy instantly enveloped those monsters.
This time, the monsters weren’t cut in half, but were frozen in place, completely unable to move.
“It’s working!”
A flash of excitement appeared in Lin Muyu’s eyes, it seemed her guess was correct.
“Something’s wrong.”
Su Wanqing’s expression became increasingly grave. She could clearly feel that the spiritual energy in the air was decreasing at an alarming rate.
And that suffocating death energy was becoming increasingly dense.
“The spiritual energy here is getting thinner and thinner.”
“Then let’s quickly leave this place!”
Lin Muyu immediately felt an ominous premonition rise in her heart. Could it be that whoever set up the formation wanted to exhaust their spiritual energy?
The two quickly walked to the village boundary, only to discover a barrier formed by dense death energy firmly enveloping the entire village, making them fish in a barrel.
Su Wanqing tried swinging her sword, but when the sword energy struck the barrier, it was like a stone dropped into the sea, only causing ripples before being completely devoured by the death energy without a trace.
“It’s no use, this won’t work. We must break the formation!”
Su Wanqing said in a heavy voice.
Break the formation? Lin Muyu felt a wave of bitterness in her heart.
A sword cultivator who specialized in sword dao and a cultivation newbie who had just started, who would know how to break formations?
“Xiaotao, do you have any way?”
With no other choice, Lin Muyu could only place her hopes on Xiaotao.
As her words fell, the bead that Xiaotao controlled slowly separated from Lin Muyu’s neck.
It spun a few circles in mid-air, seemingly carefully observing the surrounding situation.
“We need to find the formation’s core, Master.”
Xiaotao, who had once served as an illusion formation’s core, immediately saw through the key to this formation.
“Where is the formation’s core?”
Lin Muyu urgently asked. She could already feel that the air was almost completely covered by death energy, and the spiritual energy in their bodies was continuously draining away.
Even without casting any spells, their spiritual energy was quietly dissipating.
At this rate, it wouldn’t be long before their spiritual power was completely exhausted.
“In the place where the death energy is most concentrated!”
Xiaotao said, and the bead floated toward the center of the village.
“Follow quickly!”
Lin Muyu immediately called out to Su Wanqing, who was curiously watching her interaction with the bead.
Su Wanqing reacted extremely quickly and immediately followed.
The two followed the bead all the way to the village center, where a nauseating stench hit them head-on.
“Ugh, the death energy here is way too dense…”
Lin Muyu couldn’t help but cover her nose, frowning as she looked at the area ahead where the death energy had almost solidified into substance.
The black particles floating in the air seemed to carry bone-chilling coldness.
Su Wanqing focused her gaze and immediately struck out with her sword.
But when this sword entered the death energy, it was like a stone thrown into boiling water, instantly stirring up thousands of waves.
The death energy suddenly began boiling, and an aged, zombie-like figure rushed out from the black mist, lunging toward them!
Su Wanqing instinctively wanted to use the freezing technique from before.
But just as the cold sword energy touched that aged corpse, it dodged to the side with strange speed and wasn’t frozen at all.
In the blink of an eye, the corpse had already charged in front of Su Wanqing, its ugly face covered in rotting marks that made people want to vomit.
Facing the claw swinging toward her, Su Wanqing blocked horizontally with her sword, but the tremendous force transmitted through the blade made her arm numb and her heart shake violently.
She urgently shouted to Lin Muyu:
“This is bad, it’s Golden Core stage! You need to get far away!”
Fighting back the trembling in her arm, Su Wanqing could only do her best to buy time and not let the opponent get close to Lin Muyu.
“Golden Core stage?!”
Upon hearing this, Lin Muyu didn’t dare hesitate for even a moment and immediately obediently retreated far away.
In this level of battle, she, a small Qi Refining stage cultivator, was simply a walking target. Getting involved would only hold them back and might even get her instantly killed.
She could only anxiously watch the battle from a distance, her heart jumping to her throat.
Although Su Wanqing’s strength had initially reached the level where she could contend with Golden Core stage opponents.
And this Golden Core stage corpse seemed to only fight on instinct, understanding no techniques and unable to cast spells.
But the key issue was that it had an undead body within this formation!
What was even more troublesome was that it kept summoning ordinary corpses from the surroundings to gather here.
While Su Wanqing could easily freeze those ordinary corpses, she simply couldn’t find time to use freezing techniques against this Golden Core stage corpse.
Its speed was just too fast. Every time the cold energy just began to form, it had already nimbly dodged away.
And within this formation, spiritual energy decreased with every bit used. Once Su Wanqing’s spiritual energy was exhausted, both of them would probably be torn to shreds!
“What should we do?”
Lin Muyu bit her lip tightly, racking her brains to think of what she could do.
But she was just a Qi Refining stage cultivator. In this level of battle, it seemed she really couldn’t help with anything…
“I’ve got it!”
Just then, a flash of inspiration struck Lin Muyu’s mind. She hurriedly took out Xiaomu’s main body from her storage pouch, that ordinary-looking fire poker.
“What’s this for? I’m still sleeping!”
A childish, sleepy voice came from inside the wooden stick.
“Xiaomu, this is urgent, I need your help!”
Lin Muyu spoke rapidly while recalling the few moves of the Dog-Beating Staff Technique she had briefly seen before.
Thinking that perhaps this could add some power.
She took a deep breath and silently chanted in her mind:
“It’s a dog, it’s a dog! This kind of guy with undead talent is just too OP!”