Ghost Immortal

"Don't make any rash moves. During the day, the Zombie King's coffin is sucked in by the earth's energy and can't be opened at all. You can only sneak in at night," Li Feng wrote to Qiu Sheng.

Qiu Sheng nodded: "Junior brother, I've always seen how smart you are, and I'll listen to you in everything. You absolutely must bring me back alive."

As night fell, Tengteng Town seemed to come alive.

The white-haired zombies that had been hiding indoors during the day were now all surging out onto the streets.

They tilted their heads back, facing the direction where the moon was rising, and let out low moans, as if they were watching over something.

The moon had not yet fully risen, and only a sliver of silvery light shone from the eastern mountaintops.

The four blood-soaked corpses at the entrance of the ancestral hall simultaneously raised their right feet and took a step forward.

"Thump!"

"Junior brother, what are they trying to do?"

Qiu Sheng and Li Feng lay prone in the ruins opposite the ancestral hall and asked in a low voice.

The two had been here all day.

The ruins were originally a general store, but most of the roof has collapsed, leaving only half of the remaining wall to cover the building.

Li Feng sprinkled grave soil and blood sand around the base of the wall and pasted two exorcism talismans on the wall, barely managing to deceive the zombies outside.

"Don't make a sound, just watch. We'll only have a chance once they disperse and move around."

Li Feng also stared at the four blood-soaked corpses at the entrance of the ancestral hall, curious about their activity patterns.

The Zombie King's coffin was stuck to the earth's energy during the day and couldn't be opened at all.

This kind of earth energy is not ordinary feng shui earth energy, but a unique energy field formed after the corpse energy accumulated by the zombie king over hundreds of years merged with the underground yin veins.

It absorbs the yin energy from the earth's veins during the day to nourish the zombie in the coffin. The coffin lid is stuck shut, and even if ten Qi Refining stage cultivators work together, they cannot pry it open.

Only at midnight, the instant when the earth's energy shifts and transforms, will the coffin lid loosen.

But the zombie king is also at midnight, and it's extremely dangerous when he comes out to worship the moon!

"Thump!"

Four blood-soaked corpses emerged like guards.

They walked out of the ancestral hall in unison, their footsteps creating deep cracks in the bluestone paving stones beneath their feet.

Upon reaching the seventh step, the four blood-soaked corpses stopped simultaneously, turned to face east, and knelt on one knee.

The moon then appeared behind the mountain.

The silvery moonlight, like a waterfall cascading down the valley, enveloped the entire Tengteng Town.

Seventy or eighty zombies on the open ground simultaneously raised their heads and emitted low "whimpering" sounds.

At that moment, the main gate of the ancestral hall suddenly opened.

Crunch!

Dark red mist seeped out from the crack in the door and spread outwards along the ground.

The moss on the bluestone floor tiles withered instantly, and the mist surged to the feet of the four blood corpses, who buried their heads even lower, almost touching the ground.

A tall, slender figure emerged from the crack in the door.

It was the Zombie King.

He was wearing a long black robe, the style of which was extremely ancient.

It doesn't look like a style from the last few hundred years; it looks more like court robes from a previous dynasty, complete with court beads.

His face was remarkably well-preserved, without the signs of decay and swelling typical of ordinary zombies.

His facial features were well-defined, and his skin was bluish.

If it weren't for the dark red ghost fire burning in his pupils, his face would be almost indistinguishable from that of a cold-faced living person.

His ten fingers had jet-black fingernails, each three inches long, capable of piercing a wall in one go.

The Zombie King walked to the stone steps in front of the shrine and slowly raised his arms.

The sleeves slipped down, revealing two arms covered with dark blue scales.

The scales are fine and neat, each about the size of a fingernail, with a dark red sheen at the edges.

These are not characteristics of a zombie; they are more like the scales of some kind of monster.

"Is this guy... still a zombie?"

Qiu Sheng was so frightened that his face turned pale and he trembled.

Li Feng also looked solemn.

The aura emanating from the Zombie King was even stronger than that of the female corpse in the quarry.

The female corpse was a descendant of the phoenix bloodline at the peak of her transformation, and her resentful aura was terrifying.

However, her power was greatly weakened during the hundreds of years of sealing.

The zombie king before us, having been nurtured underground for hundreds of years, has not only not weakened, but has instead absorbed the yin energy of the earth's veins to grow stronger, reaching the peak of the zombie king, only one step away from the legendary demon.

Even if Lei Jian, a peak Qi Refining expert, were to personally come, he might not be able to defeat this level of zombie head-on.

The Zombie King tilted his head back, facing the moon, and opened his mouth.

A dark red bead slowly rose into the air from his mouth.

The bead was only the size of a pigeon's egg, perfectly round, and its surface was shrouded in a blackish-red mist.

The bead rose to a position three feet above the Zombie King's head and began to rotate slowly.

The moonlight dimmed as it breathed, and the luster on the surface of the bead grew brighter and brighter.

Baiyue swallows semen!

This is the instinct of zombies in their cultivation.

Zombies are born from the resentment and filth of heaven and earth, feeding on yin energy and nourishing themselves with the moonlight.

Every full moon night, zombies would come out to worship the moon, absorbing the yin essence in the moonlight to refine their corpse pills.

The stronger the Corpse Core, the higher the zombie's cultivation level.

When the Corpse Core is perfectly refined, the zombie can shed its corpse shell and transform into a demon.

At that time, this zombie king will be able to fly through the air and disappear into the earth, leaving the land barren for thousands of miles.

All the zombies in the open space lay prostrate on the ground, kneeling before the Zombie King, in order to receive a sliver of moonlight.

The four blood corpses remained kneeling on one knee, motionless.

They were waiting for the Zombie King to finish absorbing the moonlight, and then to share the remaining Yin essence with them.

This is the rule in Tengteng Town.

The Zombie King eats meat, and they drink soup.

As Qiu Sheng looked at the corpse pill floating in mid-air, a thought suddenly popped into his head.

"Junior brother, do you think if we rush up now and snatch his corpse core, he'll be crippled?"

Li Feng looked at him like he was an idiot.

"Senior brother, are you tired of living? If you want to die, you can just use your neck to tug-of-war with the roof beam. You don't need to run all this way to feed zombies."

Qiu Sheng shrank back sheepishly, no longer daring to joke.

The Zombie King absorbed the moonlight for a full hour.

For the next hour, Li Feng and Qiu Sheng lay motionless in the ruins.

The Corpse Aura Concealment Technique requires specific breathing techniques, with each exhale being three times longer than the inhale.

Ordinary people would feel dizzy and lightheaded after breathing at this pace for a few minutes, and even cultivators would feel dizzy and lightheaded after an hour.

Li Feng kept glancing in the direction of the ancestral hall out of the corner of his eye.

He was calculating the patterns of the Zombie King's moon worship.

When he was observing the earth's atmosphere during the day, he noticed a detail.

The earth's energy in the ancestral hall rises and falls in a fixed rhythm, with the interval between each two rises being exactly one-third the length of an incense stick.

If there is some connection between the earth's energy and the corpse pills, then the movement pattern of the zombie king when worshipping the moon should also be related to this rhythm.

Sure enough, when the moon reached its zenith, the Zombie King withdrew the Corpse Pill and turned to walk back to the shrine.

His steps were the same as when he came out, neither fast nor slow, with the exact distance between each step.

When he reached the entrance of the ancestral hall, he stopped and knocked three times on the door frame.

"Thump, thump, thump."

After the three cries, the four blood-soaked corpses stood up simultaneously, retreated to the entrance of the ancestral hall, and resumed their guarding posture.

The ancestral hall's main gate slowly closed.

The zombies in the open space then stood up and scattered in all directions like the receding tide.

But Li Feng noticed a detail.

After the Zombie King entered the shrine, the blackish-red mist drifting out from the crack in the door became even thicker.

"Junior brother, when do we make our move?"

Qiu Sheng rubbed his numb legs and smiled wryly.

"Wait a little longer, until he completely sinks into the state of earth energy transformation."

Li Feng stared intently in the direction of the ancestral hall, his gaze unwavering.

The one-eyed old man's secret method states that the third quarter of the hour of Zi (11:45 PM) is the point where the earth's energy is absorbed and transformed.

At this time, the Zombie King will sink the Corpse Pill into the Yin Vein at the bottom of the coffin to absorb the earth's energy, and the coffin lid will loosen briefly.

If you want to steal the coffin fungus, you must act at this point.