Dimension Paradise, I am a summoning apostle

Chapter 213 Corpse Demon Carrying the Mountain Woman

After eating and drinking to his heart's content, Chu Danqing, as usual, began to review the knowledge gained from his proficient skills.

Although I am a slow learner, learning is like rowing against the current; if you don't move forward, you fall behind.

Even a little growth is still growth.

Otherwise, what are we doing with all this time?

Zhong Ting would occasionally chat with Chu Danqing, sometimes subtly inquiring about Chu Danqing's background and his intention to visit the tomb of Prince Yuanping.

However, Chu Danqing was tight-lipped, and he couldn't get anything out of her.

Around nine o'clock, there was really nothing left to talk about, so I ended up going to sleep.

He's been staying up all night, since he doesn't have much entertainment.

In addition, I have to get up early the next day, so most of the time I go to sleep as soon as it gets dark.

Actually, there's another reason: to save money.

Whether reading or writing at night, one needs to light a lamp, and over time, the cost of lamp oil becomes a significant expense.

Da Bao watched cartoons for a while, then went to sleep.

He needs to conserve his energy; who knows what might happen tomorrow?

Chu Danqing decided not to sleep; given his current condition, sleeping would be a waste.

Around midnight, strange noises came from outside the cave.

Yue Lan Wu Ying asked if he should go and take a look, and Da Bao immediately woke up.

He was asleep, that's true, but his instincts and intuition were still at work.

So when he noticed the commotion, he immediately got up.

On the contrary, Zhong Ting's dominant performance today has certainly left him quite exhausted.

In addition, the noise wasn't loud, and since he wasn't a tomb raider, he didn't need to be on guard while sleeping.

Due to a combination of factors, he did not wake up.

"Ignore him. He hasn't bothered us, so let's not cause trouble," Chu Danqing said.

He wasn't the type to kill anything he saw. This night belonged to ferocious creatures, and if he acted recklessly, he could easily attract powerful enemies.

The world's difficulty is clearly not low, and he doesn't want to cause any unnecessary trouble before completing his talent mission.

The profits can be less, but the talent cannot be compromised.

As long as he can complete the S-level talent awakening mission, his evaluation this time will be at least S-level.

With the training room secured, the greatest benefit has also been achieved.

With Chu Danqing's words, Yue Lanwu Ying naturally stopped taking any further action.

Da Bao also curled up and prepared to continue sleeping.

The strange noise grew closer and closer, forcing Da Bao to get up again, which also woke Zhong Ting from his sleep.

"This commotion seems to be caused by a corpse demon." Zhong Ting listened carefully and quickly identified the approaching ferocious creature.

“I have dealt with several such malevolent spirits. Most of them were born from the resentment of adulterous men and women who died without remorse.”

"Therefore, he was fond of obscenity."

"The men are tall and strong, the women are alluring and charming."

"And they would also abduct men and women for forced sexual intercourse."

"How can this man compare to such a ferocious beast? He will surely die within a night."

"Secondly, they are insatiable killers, a common trait shared by all ferocious creatures,"

“So even if you manage to survive one night, you’ll still die before dawn,” Zhong Ting said.

While the area he was in did not have as many ferocious creatures as the Cangmang Ancient Ridge, it still had quite a few due to the collapse of social order and the chaos caused by warlords.

Their strength is just a bit low.

The vengeful corpse that had previously infested his area was already capable of causing havoc.

Their strength, placed within the vast ancient mountains, is truly insignificant.

"How strong are you?" Chu Danqing asked.

"Perhaps somewhere between a Corpse Demon and a Corpse Centipede." Zhong Ting could only distinguish the species from the sound; he had no ability to perceive the strength as well.

If he really had that ability, he would have kicked the corpse demon to death right now, instead of saying all this to Chu Danqing.

As soon as he finished speaking, a burly figure slowly approached from outside the cave.

Its body was covered with a layer of fine green fuzz, which Chu Danqing discovered upon closer inspection to be mold, and it also emitted a fermented smell.

"Good grief, others rot, but you ferment," Chu Danqing remarked instinctively.

However, he quickly shifted his gaze to the back of the corpse demon, which was carrying an unconscious woman on its back.

He had a normal appearance, and his clothes and skin were typical of someone from a poor family. His hands had calluses from working in the fields.

“Something’s not right, nine out of ten things are not right,” Zhong Ting suddenly said.

On the other side, the corpse demon threw down the unconscious woman. It sensed the presence of a living person, and because the woman was male, it formed a same-sex repulsion and immediately began to kill her.

Da Bao rushed forward immediately, and a battle ensued between the two sides inside the cave.

"Something's not right," Chu Danqing asked.

“The Corpse Demon is lustful; this woman was definitely not abducted from nearby,” Zhong Ting continued. “Logically, once she finds a secluded place, she should immediately begin forcibly taking advantage of him.”

"How could they possibly be here?" "Could they be from the village they were in before?" Chu Danqing thought of this possibility, since they were moving and it wasn't impossible for them to have met on the way.

“Absolutely impossible.” Zhong Ting said decisively, “They went in a different direction from you and me. The corpse demons have plenty of places to go, how could they possibly bring people to us?”

"On the contrary, there is a small village in Huanglongjiang where my senior brother once rested."

"If nothing unexpected happens, the woman that the corpse demon abducted is most likely from this small village."

"I just don't understand why it was brought here."

The night in the vast ancient mountains is indeed fraught with danger for people.

But for the ferocious creature, it's nothing. Given the corpse demon's lustful nature, it will only run a mile or two after kidnapping someone before it starts its attack.

“If it’s not the corpse demon that’s the problem, then,” Zhong Ting’s gaze fell on the unconscious woman lying on the ground, “it’s this woman who’s the problem.”

Upon hearing this, Chu Danqing reminded him, "We don't condone victim-blaming."

About five minutes later, Da Bao tore the corpse demon in half with a single claw.

The battle ended quickly; the corpse demon's strength was far below what Zhong Ting had described, only slightly stronger than the vengeful corpse.

They were no match for Da Bao, who was gradually adapting to the intensity of the battle, and naturally died quickly.

However, after it died, the ghoul did not drop any treasure chests.

From this, Chu Danqing could deduce that the corpse demon and the blind boy she had encountered before were both minor monsters in a group event.

No treasure chests will be generated until all enemies are defeated.

Moreover, the corpse demon is not the main subject of the incident, and Chu Danqing has not yet had in-depth contact with it.

Otherwise, the task should have been triggered at this point.

After Da Bao threw the corpse of the ghoul into a sheltered spot outside the cave, the smell inside the cave improved considerably.

Chu Danqing then had Da Bai treat the woman, since she was just an ordinary person and a single Spirit Healing spell was enough.

The main purpose is to purify the negative effects, but it seems the mechanism is quite complex, as people don't wake up immediately.

Zhong Ting patted the other person's face before he woke up.

It was clear that after treatment and purification, the coma directly turned into a sleep state.

When the woman woke up, she looked confused and didn't quite understand what was going on.

But when she saw that everyone around her was a stranger and that Da Bao had just thrown in the corpse of the ghoul, she was so frightened that she opened her mouth to scream.

Fortunately, Zhong Ting reacted quickly and covered the other person's mouth, preventing them from making a sound.

"Quiet down. It's nighttime. If you don't want to attract evil spirits, then keep quiet, understand?" Zhong Ting warned fiercely.

He had seen the simple kindness of ordinary people, but he had also seen the fools and the wicked among them.

The woman nodded, indicating that she understood.

Zhong Ting then released his grip and asked, "What happened to you? How did you get caught by the corpse demon?"

After calming down, the woman understood the situation and realized that these people must have saved her.

"It wasn't just mountain monkeys, but also night owls, black rats, and many other ferocious creatures that suddenly swarmed into our village."

"I was lucky I was caught and didn't die." The woman started crying as she said this: "The others, the others..."

Upon hearing this, Zhong Ting immediately frowned.

It's not that there aren't groups of ferocious creatures; the blind boy they encountered before was one such creature.

However, most of these are limited to the same type of ferocious creatures; it is indeed rare for different types of ferocious creatures to act together.

'A great evil is driving a malevolent spirit!' This thought immediately popped into Zhong Ting's mind.

"Is there anything else unusual?" Zhong Ting did not immediately draw a conclusion, but continued to inquire about the reasons.

"I don't know, it just came suddenly," the woman replied, but then changed her mind: "Wait, the Huanglong River has risen by more than three inches in the last two days."

Chu Danqing didn't feel anything; it was just ten centimeters.

However, Zhong Ting knew that the fact that the water level had risen by almost ten centimeters despite the lack of rain at this inopportune time spoke volumes.

"Is there anything else?" Zhong Ting asked again, unwilling to give up.

After hearing this, the woman thought for a moment and then said, "Five days ago, a group of thugs and several strangely dressed people came. They were probably tomb raiders."

"When they arrived at our village, they talked to the village chief in a secretive manner."

"I don't know the specifics, but I heard some rumors from the village chief's daughter-in-law."

"They said they were going to find some kind of Mysterious Maiden's Herb." The woman didn't hide anything.

Chu Danqing went through the information in his mind, but the knowledge provided by his identity did not include any information about Xuan Nu Zhi.

However, Zhong Ting's expression changed. He clearly knew what the Mysterious Maiden's Ganoderma was, and judging from his demeanor, it was definitely not a good thing.

"What is Xuan Nu Zhi?" Chu Danqing asked bluntly.

"The so-called Xuan Nu Zhi is not a kind of Ganoderma lucidum medicinal material, but refers to Princess Zhi of the Lin Kingdom in ancient times."

"At the end of the Donglin era, this eldest princess Zhi claimed that the Mysterious Woman had given her a military treatise at night, and thus raised an army to restore order and promoted her younger brother to the throne to rebuild Xilin."

"Later generations revered her as the Mysterious Woman Zhi".

"At the same time, because of this merit, after Xuan Nu Zhi died, her younger brother, the emperor, buried her in the Cangmang Ancient Ridge with state funeral honors, in order to continue to suppress the Lin Kingdom's fate."

"Those warlord soldiers and tomb raiders went to the tomb of Xuan Nu Zhi." Zhong Ting looked at Chu Danqing, and the other half of his sentence was that Xuan Nu Zhi, who had become a great omen of misfortune, might have come out of the tomb.

(End of this chapter)