One divination a day, a trainee celestial master

"These things...something's not right!" Li Xunfeng immediately noticed something amiss.

next second.

These zombies didn't move slowly or stagger like ordinary corpses. Instead, they all let out a low hiss like wild beasts, pushed off the ground with their legs, and rushed straight towards the group at great speed!

"Prepare to meet the enemy!!" Zhang Lingqiu shouted sharply.

"Hurry, hurry, as the law commands! Burn!"

Tao Qingci flicked her wrist, and three yellow paper talismans covered with intricate cinnabar drawings flew out, instantly transforming into three blazing fireballs in mid-air, crashing head-on into the three zombies charging at the front!

"Boom boom boom!" The fireball exploded, sending the three zombies flying backward, their bodies charred black.

"Five Thunder Orthodox Method, by imperial decree!" Zhang Lingqiu pointed his long sword to the sky, and silver-white lightning bolts, like serpents, weaved and exploded among the corpses.

"Palm Thunder!" Although Wen Daoqing's Dao Yuan had not fully recovered, his attack was still ruthless. He struck out with a palm, and lightning flashed.

The four teams stood in unison, their hands waving rapidly. Gravity talismans, unique to the Zaoge Mountain lineage, flew out like raindrops, sticking to the zombies and instantly slowing their movements.

Li Xunfeng moved like the wind, his Qingfeng sword transforming into a streak of light.

"Pfft!"

He pierced the chest and abdomen of a zombie with pinpoint accuracy. However, the zombie seemed to feel no pain at all. Instead of falling, it lunged forward along the blade, its dark, sharp claws aimed straight for Li Xunfeng's throat!

"Hmph!" Li Xunfeng snorted coldly, his figure dodging the attack at an incredible angle. Then, with a flick of his wrist, the green light on the sword blade shone brightly!

"Whoosh!"

With a single slash, the zombie was cleaved diagonally in two from shoulder to waist, black blood splattering all over the ground before it finally collapsed completely.

"die!!"

With a sweeping attack from Ye Cheng, as fierce as a raging Vajra, the last zombie was reduced to ashes in the blazing fire of [The Blazing Sun].

The battle came quickly and ended just as quickly. But the zombies' unnatural agility still sent chills down everyone's spines.

The group exchanged glances but remained silent, gripping their weapons tightly and continuing to advance in formation.

However, they had only walked less than a hundred steps forward.

"Here we go again!" Jiang Shou's deep eyes narrowed slightly as he spoke again to warn him.

In less than two breaths.

From the forest ahead, another series of dense rustling sounds came. This time, the sounds were even more frequent and urgent than before!

It was yet another one-sided massacre with no suspense whatsoever. This nine-person team brought together the most elite combat power from all the Daoist sects in the world, and ordinary hordes of corpses could not stop their advance at all.

but……

The crowd continued walking forward for less than half an incense stick's time, stepping over charred remains and mangled limbs.

From the gray-black mist, even more zombies poured out once again! They were like ants that could never be killed or exterminated, surging towards them from all directions in waves!

"Huff... huff..."

The intense fighting had left Wen Daoqing, Xu Lingfei, and the others, who had just recovered from serious injuries, slightly out of breath.

"Senior Brother Zhang!" Li Xunfeng decapitated a zombie with a single sword stroke, then turned and shouted, "Have we already arrived at the 'Corpse Forest Maze' that Master Zhao mentioned?!"

"Highly likely!" Zhang Lingqiu's body crackled with lightning. "This density of corpses couldn't possibly have formed naturally!"

"Junior Brother Lingqiu!" Tao Qingci urged urgently, his hands gripping the talisman, "Take out that life tablet and see if there's any reaction!"

"good!"

Zhang Lingqiu turned around and with a single sword stroke, cut a zombie that was attempting to ambush him in half at the waist. He then used his free left hand to pull out the black hall master's life tablet from the pocket of his special operations uniform.

However, he waved the life tablet in mid-air.

Nothing has changed.

The intricate and eerie skull patterns on the talisman remained lifeless, and the blood-red character "Chen" on the back was as dry as blood, showing no reaction whatsoever. It was just an ordinary talisman, offering absolutely no "guidance" or "protection" whatsoever!

"Useless!" Zhang Lingqiu's face darkened. He stuffed the life tablet back into his pocket and continued to wield his sword to kill the enemy.

……

The third wave of zombies was finally wiped out by the combined efforts of everyone.

The ground was littered with nauseating severed limbs and a foul stench.

"Phew... what the hell do we do? Keep charging forward?"

Ye Cheng leaned on the ground, panting heavily. "These bastards are relentless. If this keeps up, we won't even get to the entrance of the Abyss of Ten Thousand Bones before our Dao Yuan is completely depleted!"

"Yes." Xu Lingfei wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his expression grave. "The spiritual energy here is even thinner than in the withered forest and on the gentle slope; it's almost completely depleted. It's probably closer to the third barrier, the deathly zone of spiritual desolation. Our Dao Yuan is dwindling with every bit we use; we simply can't recover it!"

"How about... we set up camp first?" Wen Daoqing clutched his aching chest. "We can decide tomorrow morning when visibility is better?"

"No way," Li Xunfeng immediately objected. "This place is too yin; it's clearly the core area of ​​the formation. If we camp here, we'll be sitting ducks. Who can guarantee that these things won't endlessly swarm in tonight? We won't even have a way out!"

"How about we turn back first?" Tao Qingci frowned, offering a prudent suggestion. "Shall we retreat back to that hilltop we were on before and set up camp there? We can discuss it further tomorrow?"

Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent.

Go back? We've finally made it this far, and we're probably already at the edge of the Corpse Forest Maze. If we go back, we'll have to fight our way back again tomorrow, wasting our energy for nothing.

But if we don't retreat, this life tablet, which has no effect, is like a useless piece of trash and can't lead the way at all.

Just when everyone was caught in a dilemma and the atmosphere was oppressive.

"that……"

Qin Lang, who had been kept in the middle of the group and had a very low profile, suddenly spoke up timidly.

His voice was soft, tinged with obvious lack of confidence: "Senior brothers and sisters...should we...try transferring some Dao Yuan into that life tablet?"

"..."

"..."

Everyone was taken aback and turned to look at this nobody from Yunmeng Mountain.

Zhang Lingqiu was the first to react, a look of realization flashing in his clear, cold eyes.

That's right! Since this is a token of a grand formation set up by evil cultivators, how could it automatically glow like a signpost when held in your hand? It must require energy to activate it!

Without any hesitation.

Zhang Lingqiu quickly reached into his pocket, took out the black hall master's life tablet again, and held it in his palm.

He concentrated his mind and calmed his spirit, mobilizing a trace of pure Longhu Mountain true essence within his body, and slowly channeling it into the black life tablet through the meridians in his palm.

"Buzz!"

A strange buzzing sound suddenly rang out in the deathly silent forest!

As Zhang Lingqiu injected his true essence, the originally lifeless and complex skull patterns on the life tablet seemed to come alive, and began to flow like water!

Followed by.

The black sign suddenly emitted a faint, greenish glow!

The green light emanated from the life tablet, forming a semi-circular green light shield that instantly enveloped a half-meter radius around Zhang Lingqiu!

The moment the green light appeared, the dense, suffocating gray-black miasma around them seemed to have encountered some natural enemy and automatically parted to both sides.

"There's a chance!" Ye Cheng exclaimed in surprise.

Looking at the green light shield around him, Zhang Lingqiu pondered for a moment and immediately increased the amount of Dao Yuan flowing from his palm.

really!

With the massive influx of true essence, the green light on the life tablet suddenly surged!

With a "whoosh," the green light shield, which was originally only half a meter wide, expanded instantly, turning into a huge green shield with a diameter of more than three meters, encompassing Jiang Shou, Tao Qingci, and the others who were closest to it!