All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 69 Corpse Worms?

"roar~"

The rotting zombie, which looked remarkably like Zhang Cheng, suddenly stood up and let out a beast-like roar.

The next moment, he actually abandoned the tiger eagle he was fighting and ran towards Zhou Qing, who had just walked out of the cave.

The bluish-black fingertips were over two inches long, gleaming with a chilling, eerie light. Sharp teeth opened and closed, with bits of dark red flesh mixed in. The clothes on the chest were torn, revealing a highly decomposed chest.

Through the gaps in his ribs, Zhou Qing could still see the shrunken heart inside, which had long since stopped beating.

Seeing Zhang Cheng charging towards him menacingly, a cold smile crept onto his lips.

"Whether you're a human or a ghost, killing you alive is as easy as killing a chicken. Do you think I'd be afraid of a dead person?"

Instead of retreating, Zhou Qing advanced, diverting some of his vital energy to his legs, and charged fiercely towards the zombie.

He gathered power in both palms, which suddenly swelled up a size. Except for the bluish-gray area on the back of his hands, the rest of his hands were as white as jade. When he struck out, his sleeves moved without wind, making a sharp, rustling sound.

With his left palm, he slapped away Zhang Cheng's arm that was reaching for his neck, while his right palm, like a nimble snake, pierced through Zhang Cheng's arms and struck him heavily in the chest.

boom!
"so hard!"

Zhou Qing felt his right palm strike the hard rock, producing a dull thud.

Although Zhou Qing didn't use true qi in that attack, he did use hidden force. Through the gaps in Zhang Cheng's ribs, you could see that his shrunken heart had been cracked by the hidden force.

However, despite suffering such a heavy blow, Zhang Cheng only staggered back a few steps. As soon as he regained his footing, he attacked again.

"It seems that zombies don't have the same vital points as ordinary people."

Zhou Qing raised an eyebrow.

This is a good opportunity to practice my skills.

Zhou Qing lunged forward, his movements as swift as a cheetah pouncing on its prey, aided by the speed of his Divine Step.

Moments later, Zhang Cheng's ribs were broken cleanly by his two fleshy palms, and his entire chest was caved in.

thump!
With Zhou Qing's final powerful side kick, Zhang Cheng's body flew backward and crashed heavily into the stone wall beside the cave.

Just as Zhou Qing was about to finish him off, he suddenly stopped.

"Ok?"

As darkness fell, the bright moonlight cast a silver veil across the night sky, draping Zhang Cheng's highly decomposed body as if he were wearing a layer of silver armor.

"Kakaka!"

Zhou Qing noticed that Zhang Cheng's broken ribs were slowly returning to their original position under the moonlight, and his sunken chest was rising high as if inflated.

He exuded a sense of openness from the inside out.

"Is this okay?!"

Zhou Qing's eyes flashed.

clang!
When Zhou Qing's palm touched Zhang Cheng's body again, it was like striking an extremely hard piece of steel, producing a dull and ear-piercing impact sound.

Zhang Cheng did not back down because of this attack. Instead, he stiffly swung his withered arm, and his sharp claws reached for Zhou Qing with a whooshing sound.

"My body's rigidity has increased, and my defense has greatly improved, but my speed has decreased."

Zhou Qing nimbly sidestepped the attack, dodging it while using the force to push back. This time, he used all his strength, pushing with both palms, and a considerable amount of Azure Water True Qi burst forth.

This time, when Zhou Qing's palm struck Zhang Cheng, there was no sound of metal clashing against metal.

Click!

Zhang Cheng's neck snapped, and his head flipped over and landed on his back, held together by the hard outer skin of his neck, preventing his grotesque head from falling to the ground.

Even injuries that would be fatal to an ordinary person could not kill Zhang Cheng; his body remained capable of movement.

The scene before him caused Zhou Qing's expression to change.

"Huh?! What is this?" Zhang Cheng's neck, which he had turned over, was empty, and a black beetle the size of a fist was protruding from the wound.

The beetle's entire back is covered with a horseshoe-shaped black carapace, which is arched.

"It looks just like a horseshoe crab!"

A strange fish from Zhou Qing's past life surfaced in his memory.

"Hi~!"

At this moment, Chi Yan, who had just followed Zhou Qing out of the cave, suddenly let out an excited hiss.

Without Zhou Qing's command, its hundreds of legs moved rapidly, climbing onto Zhang Cheng's body.

Upon seeing the crimson flames, the black beetle resembling a horseshoe crab seemed to encounter its natural enemy and crawled out from inside Zhang Cheng's head.

thump!
After losing the black beetle, Zhang Cheng's body fell to the ground and shattered into eight pieces.

The black beetle crawled desperately toward the distance, but it still couldn't outrun the crimson flame and was tightly entangled by its three-foot-long body.

"Crack! Click!"

The crimson flame's mouthparts, like sharp scissors, gnawed at the black beetle's body, making a series of crisp sounds.

Despite the black beetle's violent struggle, it was still unable to escape the control of the crimson flames.

Before long, the black beetle's hard shell was gnawed open by the red flames, and dark blue blood flowed out.

The black beetle's final fate was also to be devoured by the crimson flames that burrowed into its body, eating it completely from the inside out.

Crimson Flame wasted nothing, not even a drop of blue blood that seeped into the soil, swallowing it along with the soil.

After devouring the black beetle, Crimson Flame's body trembled slightly.

A moment later, its body emitted a cold, eerie blue light, but the light quickly dimmed.

Crimson Flame coiled its body into a circle and remained motionless.

Zhou Qing stepped forward.

Having sensed the Crimson Flame's agitation, he did not forcibly stop it from devouring the black beetle.

This black beetle can control corpses, which is quite similar to the corpse worm Gu recorded in the Strange Insect Records, but there are differences in appearance and size.

The corpse worm gu is only about the size of a thumb, not as big as a fist.

Seeing that Chi Yan had stopped moving, Zhou Qing picked it up and took it back to the cave.

He then took out two more earthenware jars, divided the remaining medicinal herbs into two portions and put them into the jars, and then put the Crimson Flame and the four Golden Silkworm Gu into the two jars.

Zhou Qing cut his finger again, dripping blood onto the Crimson Flame and the four Golden Silkworm Cocoons.

As blood is absorbed by them, the connection between the two becomes increasingly close.

"Luckily I learned martial arts, otherwise the wound on my finger would never have healed."

Zhou Qing applied a topical ointment to her finger to help close the skin around the wound.

Once a martial artist reaches the Flesh Refining Realm, they will be able to control the skin and muscles of specific body parts.

If there is an external injury, the muscles can be contracted to accelerate the hemostasis.

Zhou Qing had long since reached the standard to break through the flesh barrier, so he was able to control the skin and muscles of specific areas.

With the protection of the Azure Water True Qi, such a minor wound will fully heal in about two days.

"Next"

Zhou Qing walked out of the cave.

(End of this chapter)