This humble Taoist priest, Qianhe, begins his quest for immortality by slaying demons and monsters.

Chapter 190 Empress Dowager Cixi's physical body dies, Emperor Xianfeng's corpse perishes.

With Zhong Bai leading the way, everyone's emotions were indeed stirred up in no time.

Riding his sword into the air, Zhong Bai didn't even bother to descend into the tomb. Looking at the corpse energy constantly surging out of the large hole, Zhong Bai smiled coldly. His blood and qi surged out, transforming into a long blood dragon that rushed straight to the cave entrance. As the blood dragon flew into the cave, Zhong Bai used his divine soul to ignite his blood and qi. The Samadhi True Fire exploded instantly, and endless flames filled the tomb. In an instant, roars echoed continuously from inside the cave.

"Amitabha! Sect Leader Zhong's Samadhi Fire technique is truly terrifying. Not to mention ordinary jumping zombies and copper-armored corpses, even silver-armored and gold-armored corpse kings could be burned to death if they don't escape in time!"

Abbot Huian of Jinshan Temple, who had witnessed Zhongbai's Samadhi Fire supernatural powers, praised him highly.

Upon hearing this, everyone gasped in astonishment. Master Lingxiao even swallowed hard. He knew that Zhong Bai was currently at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, just like him, but he never imagined that Zhong Bai's supernatural powers were so formidable, almost comparable to his Five Thunder Orthodox Method.

Moreover... this is not even Zhong Bai's trump card. He also knows a lot of killing techniques, such as sword control and divine thunder magic.

Just as everyone was in surprise, the group of corpses in the tomb suffered the consequences, as terrifying Samadhi Fire rushed from the entrance of the tomb passage all the way to the depths of the tomb.

Wherever they went, the corpses were torn to shreds, with only a few quick-reacting silver-armored and gold-armored corpse kings having the chance to escape underground.

Bang bang bang!
As the corpse energy exploded, it gradually obscured the sun in the void.

One after another, silver-armored and gold-armored corpse kings emerged from the ground. Upon seeing this, without saying a word, the high-ranking members of the Buddhist and Taoist sects immediately captured and killed them!

Inside the tomb passage, as the Samadhi Fire continued to surge towards the main burial chamber, a golden-armored corpse king instantly slammed the tomb door shut.

With a touch of agility, he arrived before his master's coffin.

"Your Majesty, please wake up!"
The Taoist cultivators have arrived!

Upon hearing the golden-armored corpse king speak in human language, a terrifying aura of death surged out from the coffin.

With a loud bang, the coffin shattered, and a body radiating golden light and exuding a somewhat eerie aura slowly stood up.

"Damn it, I was about to cross the threshold of the flying zombie realm, who dared to interrupt me at this moment!"

Hearing his master's rage, the Golden Armored Corpse King immediately prostrated himself on the ground.

"Master, I don't know..."

Upon hearing this, Empress Dowager Cixi took a deep breath, exhaled an extremely pure aura of corpse energy, and then looked up.

"Hmph! No matter who you are, I will make you pay the price!"

With a whoosh, the earth shook violently, and a crack appeared on the ground. Then, Empress Dowager Cixi flew out and hovered in the air.

The aura of death emanating from him was terrifying. He was a half-step flying zombie. With a roar, even some disciples at the Qi Refining stage felt a sharp pain in their eardrums, even from thousands of meters away.

only……

The moment Empress Dowager Cixi was born, a group of high-ranking Buddhist and Taoist figures surrounded her from above and below.

At the highest point, Zhong Bai stood on his spirit sword, looking at Cixi without any expression. She was just a half-step flying zombie, incapable of causing any trouble.

"Amitabha Buddha, since you are already dead, why cling to worldly riches and honors?"

As Abbot Tonghai looked at the inhuman and ghostly figure of Empress Dowager Cixi in the void, he couldn't help but sigh.

Upon hearing this, Empress Dowager Cixi immediately scoffed. From the moment she was born, she knew that she was probably doomed. Her initial domineering aura vanished without a trace. "What a joke," she thought, "who could survive being surrounded by six or seven Golden Core experts?"

"You stinking monk, you make it sound so easy. These thousands of miles of land have always belonged to my royal family. I simply want to take them back!"

Besides, how arrogant you Buddhist and Taoist masters have been towards our royal family for hundreds of years?
Why is it that you can live for hundreds or thousands of years, while we can only turn into dust?

Upon hearing this, Abbot Tonghai gave up on communication. Everyone has a different perspective, and since reasoning with her was ineffective, Abbot Tonghai had his own way of making Cixi submit.

"Amitabha! You have fallen too deep into demonic possession, turning yourself into a zombie with a fierce and wrathful expression. I cannot tolerate you causing harm to the world!"
"Great Buddha Hand!"

With his hands clasped together, he pushed towards Empress Dowager Cixi with a mighty force. A giant palm, a hundred meters long, suddenly appeared in the void, radiating Buddhist light, and struck Cixi mercilessly.

With a bang, Cixi's entire body was struck by this giant palm, her bones shattered, and even the corpse energy within her body weakened somewhat.

Like a kite with a broken string, it fell straight down from the void.

Zhong Bai watched quietly from the void, but only glanced at it. Cixi had only been buried for a little over ten years, yet she had already evolved into a half-step flying zombie. The dragon aura on the other Manchu emperors who were buried earlier was even stronger, and they were very likely all flying zombies!
"Hahaha, you want to kill me?"
You shouldn't have come...

"The late emperor, save me!"

As Cixi shouted this with all her might, the entire depths of the imperial mausoleum trembled. A unique aura belonging to a flying zombie emerged from the earth and approached Cixi from the void.

Seeing this, without anyone else needing to intervene, Zhong Bai flew on his sword and instantly confronted the flying zombie.

"Judging from the direction, that's the Xianfeng Emperor's Mausoleum. They barely managed to squeeze into the Flying Zombie realm. With this kind of strength, they dare to come to the rescue?"

Xuanmingzi, who had surrounded Cixi, shook his head. It seemed that the Manchu royal family was not as terrifying as they had thought. It was very likely that Cixi, that old witch, had used tricks to quickly advance to the half-step flying zombie realm.

Indeed, that was the case. The imperial corpses sent from the border regions to the capital were all devoured by Empress Dowager Cixi, who absorbed their corpse and dragon energy, allowing them to quickly advance to the half-step flying zombie realm. Other Manchu emperors did not have this peculiar habit, hence their slower advancement. "Kill Cixi; the other Manchu emperors will probably emerge soon."

Lingxiao Celestial Master spoke calmly, and then a bolt of lightning struck Cixi, the terrifying lightning continuously eroding her physical body.

After doing all this, several Foundation Establishment cultivators went into the tomb to clean up the remaining zombies, while the others continued on their way.

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In the void, the Xianfeng Emperor's corpse, which was fighting Zhong Bai, was covered in wounds in less than half an incense stick's time. With the blessing of Zhong Bai's Golden Light Divine Mantra, he did not need to dodge at all and directly clashed head-on with the Xianfeng Emperor's corpse, with each punch landing hard. Every now and then, he would scorch the Xianfeng Emperor's corpse with Samadhi True Fire. Who could withstand that?
With Empress Dowager Cixi already killed, Emperor Xianfeng had no intention of rescuing her body; his immediate priority was to save his own life.

"Damn you stinking Taoist priests! When has the Aisin Gioro royal family ever offended you? Are you really going to push us to this point?"

Having withstood Zhong Bai's punch and used the force to create distance, Emperor Xianfeng's corpse couldn't help but interrogate Zhong Bai's soul.

Zhong Bai shook his head and said, "You are zombies, which are intolerable to heaven and earth and will not be accepted by the six paths of reincarnation. If you are left in the mortal world, I don't know how the people will survive."

"Hmph! Under the whole heaven, all land belongs to the king; on the shores of the earth, all people are subjects of the king. Those lowly people should feel honored to become my food!"

Zhong Bai listened to this argument without any emotional fluctuation. Since they were already facing certain death, why bother with it?
"Stay..."

With those three words, Zhong Bai transformed into a streak of light and darted behind the corpse of Emperor Xianfeng. His five fingers formed claws and gripped the emperor's neck tightly. A crimson bolt of lightning erupted instantly, and the corpse of Emperor Xianfeng felt all its corpse energy draining away...

"No! You deserve to die, let me go!"

No matter how much Emperor Xianfeng's corpse struggled, Zhong Bai showed no sign of stopping.

For Zhong Bai, barely stepping into the realm of Flying Zombie was not enough, especially since the Xianfeng Emperor's corpse and others entered the realm of Flying Zombie through the mutation of dragon energy, rather than normal corpse transformation. They had the realm and the strength of their physical body, but they had not awakened any supernatural powers. Their souls were only locked in their physical bodies by dragon energy.

Although it's called a flying zombie, it's actually quite different from a real flying zombie.

"Please, I beg you, let me go..."

Seeing that Zhong Bai truly intended to kill him, the corpse of Emperor Xianfeng began to beg for mercy. He had finally managed to transform into a flying zombie and be reborn, but before he could regain the wealth and status he had enjoyed in his previous life, he was captured by Zhong Bai. He was unwilling to accept this outcome!

"Let you go... How naive!"

Zhong Bai tightened his grip on the neck, then used the Samadhi Fire to burn the body. Unlike the Silver Armor Corpse King and the Golden Armor Corpse King, the flying zombie's body was still resistant to burning.

It should be able to last for about half an incense stick's time.

But what flying zombie in the world would be so foolish as to stand there and let a cultivator burn it?
Or rather, it's simply impossible for an ordinary cultivator to capture a flying zombie with their physical strength like Zhong Bai did.

Looking at the increasingly dying corpse of Emperor Xianfeng, Zhong Bai was not worried at all.

Not far away, another imperial tomb exploded, and an aura even more terrifying than that of Emperor Xianfeng's corpse surged out. Two beams of dark light fell directly on Zhong Bai.

"The Daoist sect has crossed the line!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the emperor's corpse headed towards Zhong Bai, but it was intercepted by the Lingxiao Celestial Master with a smirk after flying only a thousand meters.

"The body of Emperor Qianlong! Please wait here!"

Bang bang bang!
Three more imperial tombs exploded, and Xuanmingzi went to one of them to intercept them.

"Halt at the corpse of Emperor Daoguang!"

The Buddhist master Tonghai arrived before another imperial corpse: "Amitabha, the corpse of Emperor Jiaqing, this old monk has been waiting for you for a long time..."

Standing before the last imperial corpse, Yun Qingzi smiled faintly and said, "Tongzhi Emperor's corpse, wait!"

This scene left Commander Zhang utterly dumbfounded. It made him truly realize how utterly worthless so-called worldly power was in the face of these Taoist and Buddhist masters…

The moment they clashed, the void was incredibly lively, with all sorts of spells flying everywhere. Zhong Bai, on the contrary, became the most relaxed one. In his hands, the flesh of Emperor Xianfeng's corpse had been burned beyond recognition, and even its struggles had ceased.

In just a few minutes, when Zhong Bai completely withdrew the Samadhi True Fire, Emperor Xianfeng's corpse was already charred black.

After discarding the Emperor's corpse, Zhong Bai looked at the fierce battle in the void. The group of Buddhist and Taoist Golden Core cultivators were relatively relaxed in the face of the flying zombie Emperor's corpse, which had no supernatural powers or spells. Zhong Bai then looked at the group of elders and disciples on the ground.

True cultivators and masters at the Foundation Establishment stage are basically facing concubines, princesses, princes, and other members of the Manchu imperial family who were buried with them. These zombies possess dragon energy, which cannot support them in crossing the threshold of flying zombies. Therefore, they are basically stuck at the Silver Armored Zombie King and Golden Armored Zombie King levels.

As for the jumping zombies and bronze-armored corpses, they were soldiers and eunuchs.

Just then, from the deepest part of the imperial tomb, two explosions rang out, and two auras ten times more terrifying than Emperor Xianfeng's corpse surged out.

Zhong Bai's expression immediately turned serious.

"The corpse of Emperor Yongzheng, the corpse of Emperor Kangxi!"

Zhong Bai's expression changed slightly. With everyone else busy, it seemed Zhong Bai would have to face this alone...

(End of this chapter)