Zhu Tian: A journey of spiritual practice starting from Joy of Life

Chapter 238 Walking Dead Block the Way
But when Leng Feibai reached the city gate, he saw a group of figures gathered there.

Leng Feibai was in a hurry to leave the city, so he ignored the crowd and headed straight for the city gate.

As soon as he passed by, the gatekeeper immediately stopped Leng Feibai.

"What's up?"

Leng Feibai frowned as he looked at the gatekeeper who was blocking his way and asked, "What is it? Is there something wrong?"

Seeing Leng Feibai's expression, the gatekeeper said irritably, "What's the rush to leave the city? Are you looking for death? Go and see the notice over there!"

Leng Feibai ignored him and walked straight towards the door.

"Are you deaf!"

As the gatekeeper spoke, he stepped forward to try and stop Leng Feibai.

But the moment his hand touched Leng Feibai's shoulder, his hand was thrown back.

If Leng Feibai hadn't shown mercy, that guy's arm would have been dislocated, if not broken.

Before the gatekeeper could react, Leng Feibai transformed into a phantom and dashed out of the city gate.

The gatekeeper rubbed his eyes in disbelief, his gaze filled with astonishment.

After leaving Chang'an, Leng Feibai slowed down when he saw that no one was chasing him.

He hadn't gone far when Leng Feibai arrived near a pavilion outside Chang'an City.

A large tree with its bark scraped off came into his view not far away by the roadside.

Out of curiosity, Leng Feibai went closer to take a closer look.

There was a line of writing on it: "Recently, walking corpses have appeared on the official road to the Zhongnan Mountain area, injuring people. All people traveling need to gather a group of 100 people and set off at the three times of Si, Wu, and Wei every day. They will be escorted by the Jinshi and Changfeng Escort Agencies in the city. Do not ask for help and delay."

Looking at the handwriting, Leng Feibai recalled the conversation between those people in the city and the notice at the entrance, and suddenly realized something.

"It seems this zombie thing is quite serious!"

Leng Feibai frowned and said, "Could it be a remnant of the corpse-refining family that was wiped out by Shaolin and the Beggars' Sect back then!"

Thinking of this, Leng Feibai looked around. He originally wanted to go into the Twelve-Story Tower and do some calculations in the inner realm.

But after thinking it over carefully, Leng Feibai abandoned the plan and, taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, transformed into a mountain eagle and flew towards Zhongnan Mountain.

He wanted to see just how powerful those zombies really were.

After all this time, apart from the match with the Sweeper Monk, he hadn't found anyone he could really enjoy fighting.

After flying for a while, Leng Feibai used his Eagle Eye technique to carefully search this section of the road.

But for some reason, Leng Feibai searched for a long time but couldn't find any trace of zombies or anything like that.

"It seems the time is wrong; it's currently just past noon!"

After thinking for a while, Leng Feibai flapped his wings and landed on a boulder under a large tree on the official road. He transformed back into human form, intending to wait there for a while before searching for the whereabouts of the zombies.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Leng Feibai took out one of the books on eighth-grade supernatural abilities from his pocket and began to study it again.

Since Leng Feibai began learning flower cultivation techniques from Su Xinghe, he has finally been able to understand the knowledge in the book.

Therefore, Leng Feibai sent three clones to an open space in the Hundred Herbs Garden to try to cultivate the Seven Special Cloud Ephemeral Flower, one of the eight divine flowers.

Even if the three clones take turns irrigating the divine flower with wood-type true qi that accelerates plant growth, it can only temporarily accelerate the growth of the divine flower.

According to Leng Feibai's calculations, it would take at least twenty years for this Seven-Colored Cloud Ephemeral Flower to be cultivated to the point where divine essence could be extracted!
"We need to study this carefully! Otherwise, if the refining fails, we'll have to start all over again!"

Leng Feibai muttered to himself as he continued flipping through the book in his hands until the end of the 11 PM.

Just then, a putrid stench suddenly wafted from Leng Feibai's nose.

"coming!"

Leng Feibai returned the book to the Twelfth Floor and then transformed into a wisp of black mist, disappearing into the forest.

The next moment, four figures wearing armor, some with reddish-copper bodies and others with silver-white bodies, and wearing straw hats flew out of the forest.

When Leng Feibai, who was hiding in the forest, saw this, he was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.

Having lived for over a hundred years, this was the first time he had ever seen a manipulated corpse.

As for the other three corpses, seeing that the silver corpse next to them had been smashed, the corpses did not react at all and continued to walk forward on their own.

Seeing this, Leng Feibai, who had transformed into black mist, condensed a supreme yang sword aura and shot it towards the corpses below.

"boom"

The one that was shot was a silver-white walking corpse. The corpse shattered on the spot, leaving only a fist-sized worm crawling around on the ground.

Seeing this, Leng Feibai raised his hand and conjured a golden needle about five millimeters in diameter, which he then threw at the location of the insect.

The golden needle struck its target precisely. The corpse worm withdrew itself once or twice, and then remained motionless.

Seeing the corpse worms on the ground, Leng Feibai landed on the ground, reverted to human form, took out a small bag from his pocket, and put the corpse worms inside.

I plan to have someone research this when I go to Raojiang.

Watching the three corpses disappear into the distance, Leng Feibai flew forward, raised his hand, and three blazing red fire snakes flew out, roaring as they attacked the three walking corpses.

Fiery Cloud Palm - Fire Serpent's Tongue

The fire serpent struck the walking corpses squarely, instantly burning all three bodies to ashes.

Seeing the three corpses destroyed, Leng Feibai turned around and walked to the pieces of the body on the ground. He then used his Double Hands to press down on the heads of the corpses from a distance.

There weren't many memories left in the corpse. The only memories Leng Feibai extracted were of a guy in a black robe holding a string of beads whose gender was unknown, and a desolate, dilapidated village.

Upon seeing this, Leng Feibai was overjoyed. After burning the body parts on the ground, he transformed back into black smoke and flew straight towards the place where the corpse had come from.

Fifteen minutes later, Leng Feibai arrived at the outskirts of a desolate and dilapidated village.

It was just past the White Dew solar term, and gusts of autumn wind blew through the ruins and alleys, sounding like the wailing of ghosts and wolves.

Leng Feibai stood at the end of the village, his eyes fixed on the distance not far ahead.

Not far ahead was a mass grave, but for some reason, all the graves on the grave had been dug up. At the entrance of one of the larger graves, there was a stone door blocking the entrance.

Upon seeing this, Leng Feibai transformed into the Black Cube once more, passing through the crack in the stone door and arriving directly in a very spacious tomb chamber, comparable to the main hall of the Mo Family's Mechanical City.

Before long, a tall, thin figure appeared in the center of the tomb chamber, wearing a black robe and a bamboo hat, holding a string of black beads in his hand.

Around him, thirty-six walking corpses surrounded the tomb chamber.

The corpses were of various shapes and sizes, including men and women. The oldest was probably over sixty, and the youngest was probably only fifteen or sixteen years old.

Some of them were dressed in the uniforms of county magistrates, head constables, and constables, while others were in tattered clothes. However, the skin on the faces of these walking corpses was already rotten and emitted a pungent stench.

The most appalling thing was that two walking corpses, a man and a woman, who looked like five or six-year-old children, were following the man in the black robe.

"Son of a bitch!"

Leng Feibai revealed his true form and said coldly, "So it was you who sent out zombies everywhere to harm the people!"

The sudden sound caught the attention of the man in black robes. Looking at the white-haired boy in front of him, the man in black robes laughed wildly, the sound seemingly able to penetrate one's eardrums.

"Hahahaha, not bad, I am the master of this place. You little brats probably haven't even finished shedding your baby hairs, yet you dare to come to me to act on behalf of Heaven!"

After saying that, the black-robed man spun the string of beads in his hand rapidly, and with his other hand, he pulled out a golden bell from somewhere and shook it wildly.

The thirty-six zombies reacted immediately, quickening their pace and rushing towards Leng Feibai.

Seeing this, Leng Feibai took a deep breath. Since the fighting power of this group of corpses was only so-so, he would try a different approach.

Before the zombies could approach, Leng Feibai was enveloped in golden light, instantly transforming into a golden figure.

He first sidestepped a walking corpse dressed as a constable, and at the same time activated the 32 Forms of Wudang Long Fist, delivering a powerful straight punch that struck the walking corpse in the chest.

Even though Leng Feibai deliberately held back his strength, his physical body was now enhanced by the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art, the Overbearing True Qi, and the Primordial Breath Earth Technique, as well as a powerful internal energy technique. The destructive power of his strength was far greater than that of Li Yunqian back then.

With a single punch, not only the walking corpse but also the corpse worms inside it were instantly pulverized.

Upon seeing this, the man in the black robe suddenly changed his gesture of shaking the bell, and the rhythm of the bell's shaking also changed.

Seven of the remaining thirty-five corpses emerged and surrounded Leng Feibai.

The seven zombies reeked of decay from their arms, and their hands had black fingernails that emitted a poisonous stench.

Seeing the corpses rushing towards him, Leng Feibai immediately charged left and right through the encirclement of corpses, changing his attack method from Wudang Long Fist to the Taizu Long Fist created by Zhao Kuangyin.

Emperor Taizu of Song, Zhao Kuangyin, conquered the world with his fists and a long staff. Although his fist technique was common, it was carefully studied by various schools, who extracted its essence and incorporated it into their own fist techniques.

Leng Feibai was no exception; when he was creating the Xiaoyao Fist, he also used the Taizu Changquan manual as a reference.

A barrage of punches and kicks rained down on the corpses, and under the impact of Leng Feibai's true qi, the seven corpses instantly turned into dust.

At that moment, the remaining twenty-eight bodies formed a special formation and, under the command of the black-robed man's bell, moved according to a specific pattern.

Leng Feibai's pupils constricted upon seeing this, and he said speechlessly, "Manipulating the Twenty-Eight Constellations Formation of the Walking Dead, how did you even come up with that! But..."

Before Leng Feibai could finish speaking, a female zombie opened its mouth, which was full of rotting flesh, and sprayed a stream of black liquid towards Leng Feibai.

Leng Feibai didn't dodge, letting the liquid splash onto his arm. But the liquid didn't burn Leng Feibai's skin; instead, it flowed directly down his golden arm.

"That's impossible! How could corpse poison not have an effect on you!"

The man in black robes spoke with disbelief, revealing that he was the one who had concocted the corpse poison within the walking corpse.

Even a master of body refinement would collapse from the poison if they were hit by it.

How could they possibly have no reaction to this white-haired boy?

"The toxicity of your corpse poison is indeed quite impressive!"

Leng Feibai boasted sincerely, "Among all the poisons I've ever seen, this one is at least in the top three. But unfortunately, I'm immune to all poisons!"

"Humph"

The man in black snorted coldly and continued to shake the bell in his hand, while his legs involuntarily moved backward.

Upon hearing the bell, a group of zombies seemed to activate a collective berserk buff and pounced on Leng Feibai.

"Want to leave!"

Leng Feibai snorted coldly, deactivated his golden body state, and a huge array appeared out of thin air beneath his feet.

Separation from the Word: Purgatory
In that instant, raging flames erupted and instantly incinerated the twenty-eight walking corpses within the formation, reducing them to ashes.

"My zombie!"

The black-robed man, enraged, pointed at Leng Feibai and cursed, "You beast! You actually damaged the walking corpse I painstakingly created! I curse you!"

As the man cursed, he quickly stepped on a paving stone.

"Snapped"

Suddenly, the floor tiles at the four corners cracked, and four coffins rose vertically from the ground.

"Let me show you my Four Greats..."

Before the man in black could finish speaking, Leng Feibai flashed forward, swiftly using his double-handed technique to press down on the man's head.

Leng Feibai showed no mercy to this beast who had harmed children, and completely erased all the memories from his head, turning him into an idiot.

Having lost all his memories, the man in black robes collapsed to the ground like a newborn baby, drooling.

At the same time, the coffins in the four corners also exploded at that moment.

Leng Feibai quickly activated his Vajra Qi Shield to stop the wooden stick rushing towards him, and turned to look around.

Then came four zombies, each over ten feet tall, completely naked, golden in color, their figures resembling the tyrant from Resident Evil: Damned!
Leng Feibai glanced at the four guys from afar, and a smile involuntarily crept onto his lips.

These four guys are completely different from the guys I fought before. To be more specific, they are about the same strength as Hong Sixiang and Xiao Yuanshan.

Just then, four zombies charged towards Leng Feibai.

This is the difference between gold corpses, silver corpses, and bronze corpses. After being tempered by special methods, gold corpses have already developed some basic consciousness.

Even if it is not controlled by anyone, once awakened, it will retain the ability to destroy all living creatures in the surrounding area.

Upon seeing this, Leng Feibai's entire body erupted with a verdant light.

Countless vines formed from wood-elemental true qi burst forth from the ground, coalescing into four red pine trees, each about three meters tall, around Leng Feibai.

Ten thousand trees in bloom
Leng Feibai snapped his fingers, and tens of thousands of pine needles burst forth from the four pine trees, rushing towards the oncoming golden corpse.

The four imposing golden corpses were riddled with holes on the spot and collapsed like iron towers.

Leng Feibai looked around, smiled easily, raised his hand to retrieve the black-robed man's memories, and began to examine his past.

As Leng Feibai expected, this guy was indeed a remnant of those corpse-refining families that were wiped out by the Shaolin Temple and the Beggars' Sect.

In order to seek revenge against the Beggars' Sect and the Shaolin Temple, he had been learning the art of corpse refining since childhood.

When he achieved some success, he used the corpses of his recently deceased parents to create walking corpses for his own control. He then manipulated his parents to slaughter the entire village, sparing not even the county magistrate, constables, and head constables who came to investigate the disappearance of the villagers.

(End of this chapter)