One divination a day, a trainee celestial master

"Come in, all of you!"

Zhang Lingqiu let out a low shout, and with the Dao Yuan in his palm activated, the green light shield on the life tablet instantly expanded to a radius of three meters.

The other eight figures squeezed in almost simultaneously.

Nine adults were crammed into a circular light shield only three meters in diameter, practically shoulder to shoulder and heel to toe.

"...It's a bit cramped." Ye Cheng tried to shrink his massive body further inside, grinning. "But it's better than being surrounded and gnawed on outside. Come on, let's try moving forward and see if this thing actually works."

No one dared to be careless, and they maintained a tight formation.

As they moved, the dense, grayish-black miasma outside the light shield, as if encountering some natural enemy, automatically parted to the sides like a solid wall of fog, creating a small, clean vacuum zone for them.

The group squeezed together inside the small green light shield, stepping on withered branches and fallen leaves, and slowly moved forward.

Less than two hundred steps.

The first zombie has appeared.

It stood there, stiff and unyielding, beneath a gray-white, withered tree, dressed in a coarse cloth outfit whose original color was long gone. Its head was strangely tilted to one side, its cloudy, whitish eyes staring motionlessly at the swirling miasma ahead.

The moment the nine people saw it, they tensed up instantly, and their breathing unconsciously became shallow.

Ye Cheng's hand snapped onto the clasp of the [Proud Sun] sword case, while Tao Qingci and Li Xunfeng also secretly fastened their respective talismans and magical artifacts.

"..."

The team maintained a tight formation and continued to move forward slowly.

ten meters.

five meters.

three meters.

The edge of the light shield slowly brushed past the zombie. At its closest, the zombie was less than two meters away from the green shield.

However, the zombie seemed completely oblivious to the yang energy of these nine living people.

It just kept tilting its head, staring intently at the empty, grayish-black mist in front of it, without moving.

"..."

"It really works..."

After passing the zombie, Ye Cheng lowered his voice, his rugged face filled with disbelief.

"Shh...don't make a sound, keep going!" Zhang Lingqiu interrupted him in a low voice.

……

The further you go in, the more of these things you see around you.

At first, there were only three or five corpses, scattered among the gray and white shadows of withered trees.

Later, it became more than a dozen.

Later, there were dozens of bodies.

Some of them leaned against tree trunks, some knelt in the mud, and others were huddled together in twos and threes, shoulder to shoulder.

Without exception, they stood or knelt there silently. In this gray-black, deathly fog, pairs of cloudy, whitish eyes stared in different directions.

"..."

The nine people stood silently together, like a green glowing sphere, and I slowly passed through them.

No one dared to speak anymore. Even the sound of heartbeats seemed unusually loud in the deathly silent forest.

……

When the group actually entered the depths of the forest, everyone realized with chills what a true "corpse forest maze" was!

That number can no longer be described as "many".

Look around.

Within a radius of several hundred feet, under every tree, in every ditch, and beside every rock, there were "people" standing!

They were densely packed together, like a terrifying forest of corpses, stretching from the ground beneath our feet all the way into the darkness beyond our sight and the miasma!

Some were dressed in ancient mountain folk clothes, some in tattered modern windbreakers, and some in coarse cloth shorts that had long since rotted away...

There were dried corpses that were shriveled up and reduced to skin and bones, as well as fresh corpses that were pale and not yet completely rotten, looking as if they had just died.

"..."

"..."

In the group, some people's breathing was already trembling uncontrollably.

Later, the already rugged paths in the mountains became unbearably narrow. In some places, to avoid the dense hordes of corpses, they even had to squeeze through sideways.

On both sides, there were only the faces of dead people.

The nine people were almost pressed together in three closely spaced lines, one next to the other, shoulder to shoulder.

Outside this green light barrier, in the forest, there were almost tens of thousands, countless zombies!

Ye Cheng was also pressing his hand tightly against the sword case of [Proud Sun] with intense tension. He could feel the extremely strong and yang energy inside the sword case trembling restlessly, as if it were about to explode at any moment and fight to the death with these filthy things outside.

"What if...what if..."

Walking on the left flank, Li Xunfeng looked at the suffocating sea of ​​corpses around him, his Adam's apple bobbing with difficulty, and he couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "What if this life tablet suddenly becomes invalid..."

"Damn it! Don't talk nonsense!!"

Ye Cheng shuddered in fright, and growled in a low voice, "Making promises or jinxing things at a time like this is just asking for death! Don't you read novels?!"

"..."

Just then.

The face of a female zombie brushed past Ye Cheng's right side along the edge of the light shield.

It was an extremely terrifying face. The dough was dry, cracked, and peeling; the lips had long since rotted away, revealing a stark white gum and two rows of teeth.

Her eyes were cloudy and white, and she was less than half a foot away from Ye Cheng!

Ye Cheng could even smell the eerie stench of a stale corpse emanating from that withered body.

He held his breath tightly, his Adam's apple bobbing with tremendous difficulty.

"..."

Those murky, lifeless eyes remained motionless.

It didn't look at him.

Just like a piece of rotten wood, it was pushed aside by the green light and slid behind.

Ye Cheng couldn't help but recite the Taoist calming mantra in his mind.

……

however.

Accidents often happen in an instant!

Just as the group reached the most densely packed depression in this forest of corpses...

"Click~~"

Qi Heng of Zaoge Mountain, who was walking towards the back of the group, stepped on a round stone covered with moss in the mud and his foot suddenly slipped!

At the same time, his right tactical uniform cuff was unfortunately snagged by a hard, dry branch that stretched out from the side!

Under the combined effects of gravity and tension.

Qi Heng instantly lost his balance and stumbled uncontrollably to the side!

His broad right shoulder suddenly... fell out of the three-meter-circle green light barrier!

"hiss……"

next moment.

Within a radius of ten zhang!

Hundreds of zombies that were originally motionless like sculptures!

"Click! Click! Click!"

Accompanied by a tooth-grinding, cracking sound of stiff cervical vertebrae grinding together.

Those hundreds of drooping, tilted heads.

They all turned around in unison!

"!!!"