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Luo Che led several dozen personal guards to scout out Xiahou Tan's camp, but they were gone for several hours and still hadn't heard anything.

The deputy general sent people to investigate several times, but to no avail; they couldn't see what was happening inside at all.

"Could something have happened to the general?" a centurion muttered quietly.

"Don't talk nonsense!" another veteran glared at him. "The general is highly skilled in martial arts. Even if he can't win, he can run away. He'll be fine."

"But that black mist..."

"What's wrong with that black fog? Maybe it's some kind of trick by those imperial troops to scare us. Our general has seen it all; how could such a small trick stump him?"

The crowd was buzzing with discussion, but none of them could hide their anxiety.

That's what they said, but everyone knew that it couldn't have been Xiahou Tan's trick; they had really encountered something strange, otherwise they wouldn't have retreated here.

Just then, someone suddenly shouted, "Look! What's that?!"

Everyone looked up and followed the direction the man was pointing. They saw a dark cloud flying towards them at an extremely fast speed on the horizon.

The dark cloud was moving extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye it was already above the camp.

The clouds were as black as ink, exuding a suffocatingly cold aura.

At the edge of the clouds, some twisted figures could be faintly seen churning, as if something was struggling within them.

"What...what the hell is this?!"

Before anyone could react, the dark cloud had already enveloped the entire camp.

The sky suddenly darkened, as if it had gone from daytime to night in an instant.

A bone-chilling cold spread out, causing everyone to shiver involuntarily.

Then, a figure emerged from the dark clouds.

She was a young woman dressed in a green dress, with stunning beauty, yet she exuded a chilling aura.

The moment she landed, the entire earth trembled slightly.

Everyone involuntarily took a step back.

"Who...who are you?!" The lieutenant, suppressing his fear, drew his sword and shouted sharply.

Yue Lingshan did not answer his question, but simply gestured with her hand.

Forty figures descended from the dark clouds and landed silently on the ground.

Those were forty humanoid figures.

They were tall, with pale blue skin, empty, ghostly eyes, and a thick aura of death emanating from them.

They stood there, motionless, yet they already exuded a suffocating sense of oppression.

"What are these?!" The lieutenant's voice trembled.

Yue Lingshan still didn't answer, but simply waved her hand, releasing the restraints on the zombies.

The forty living corpses, like hunting dogs on a command, moved simultaneously.

They were incredibly fast; in the blink of an eye, they had already dashed into the crowd!

Screams echoed throughout the entire camp in an instant.

The ordinary soldiers were utterly powerless against the high-level zombies who were comparable to martial arts masters.

The zombies' claws can easily tear through iron armor, and their teeth can bite through bones. Although their movements are stiff, they are not slow, and ordinary people cannot outrun them.

The entire camp instantly transformed into a battlefield of carnage.

Yue Lingshan stood in mid-air, continuously attracting the Yin energy of heaven and earth to cover the area and block out the sunlight. She watched the carnage before her with an expressionless face, as if she were watching a drama that had nothing to do with her.

She needs these zombies to grow as quickly as possible, and the best nourishment for growth is living people.

Whether these soldiers were innocent or deserved to die was not her concern.

Half an hour later, the huge camp was completely deserted.

All eight thousand soldiers were devoured by those forty living corpses.

After consuming so much flesh and blood, those zombies underwent a significant physical evolution.

Their bodies had grown almost a full size larger, the bluish-white of their skin had deepened, and even the light in their eyes had changed from a hollow, deathly gray to a faint, eerie green.

Elite zombies!

Forty elite undead!

Any elite undead, aside from lacking intelligence and being easily tricked, is no less powerful than the Yin Wind Ghost Mother on paper.

Yue Lingshan looked at the nascent zombie army before her and nodded in satisfaction.

"not bad."

With a casual wave of her hand, the forty living corpses transformed into streaks of black shadows, flying into the dark clouds and disappearing from sight.

Then, she herself leaped into the dark clouds.

The dark cloud, like a giant airship, slowly rose into the air and flew into the distance.

At the same time, Luo Che and Kong Chen finally broke out of that damned formation.

They wandered in the mist for nearly two hours until Yue Lingshan left with Wuyun, at which point the formation lost its power and gradually dissipated, allowing them to escape.

The moment Luo Che rushed out of the military camp, he froze.

What met his eyes was a scene of utter devastation.

The entire military camp had become a dead camp.

The tattered tents lay scattered on the ground, and corpses lay strewn about, the air thick with the stench of blood and decay.

“This…” Luo Che’s voice trembled.

He strode over to examine the corpses and found that their deaths were all extremely gruesome.

Some were torn to pieces, some had their bodies ripped open from the inside, their internal organs spilling out onto the ground, but without exception, they all became mummies.

"What... happened?" he murmured.

Just then, a whooshing sound came from the sky.

Luo Che looked up and saw a streak of light descend from the sky and land on the open ground in the center of the military camp.

It was Duanmu Xingyun and Nie Yan.

The moment Duanmu Xingyun landed, his expression turned extremely ugly.

He looked around, his brow furrowed as he sensed the thick, terrifying aura of death and demonic energy lingering in the air.

"Such a heavy aura of death..." he said in a deep voice, "What... happened here?"

Duanmu Xingyun remained silent for a moment, then walked to a corpse, squatted down, and examined it.

His expression grew increasingly grave.

"Is it some kind of new type of zombie? Or perhaps a ghostly army?" He stood up and looked at Luo Che. "Have you seen anything unusual?"

Luo Che shook his head: "When I came in, this place was shrouded in black mist, and we couldn't see anything. We wandered around inside for several hours before we finally managed to get out."

“Black mist…” Duanmu Xingyun’s brows furrowed even more.

He looked around, his gaze sweeping over the corpses, the tattered tents, and the remaining traces...

Suddenly, his gaze settled on a huge burial mound in the center of the military camp.

It was a huge burial mound with a diameter of nine zhang (approximately 33 meters), surrounded by various dubious feng shui formations, and a strong, lingering yin energy was constantly emanating from the mound.

Duanmu Xingyun strode to the edge of the pit, opened his Dharma Eye and looked down, his expression suddenly changed drastically!

"So many corpses, all drained of their essence, and this layout..."

His voice trembled slightly: "Someone is trying to refine corpses here, and in large numbers!"

Upon hearing this, Kong Chen's expression also changed: "Corpse refining?!"

“That’s right.” Duanmu Xingyun said solemnly, “This is a typical corpse refining technique. Although the layout is ambiguous and full of mistakes made by beginners, the cultivation level of the corpse refiner is incredibly astonishing, making up for the lack of structure and allowing the cultivation of an extremely powerful corpse demon!”

He raised his head and looked into the distance along the traces of yin energy: "It seems that the other party has successfully created an unparalleled giant corpse, devoured everyone in the military camp, and left."

After exchanging ideas with Luo Che and the others, he concluded that after he and his men left last night, a super demon descended upon the place, chose to refine corpses here, devoured thousands of people, and then left, completely disregarding Luo Che and the others.

This conclusion brought a sigh of relief to everyone, but it also left them feeling rather down.

Especially Luo Che, who couldn't find Xiahou Tan's body, clearly indicating that he had been taken away.

The demon took Xiahou Tan away but ignored him. Doesn't that mean that in the demon's eyes, he was far inferior to Xiahou Tan?

Damn it, Xiahou Tan was able to suppress him in this way even under these circumstances, which really made him furious.

Disgrace, a tremendous disgrace!

Upon learning that Qingluo and the others were safe and sound outside the military camp, Nie Yan breathed a sigh of relief. He then reunited with the group and announced that the young lady had joined a celestial sect and left the group, while Immortal Master Duanmu Xingyun had joined the group. They would continue their journey to the capital.

Luo Che and his group separated from Nie Yan and his group again; one group went back to find the troops, while the other continued on their way to the capital.

No one noticed that a terrifying giant corpse was being conceived in the military camp beneath their feet.

Luo Che and the others hurried back with great relief. The demon had not slaughtered the people but had left on its own, which was undoubtedly fortunate. Otherwise, they would probably have been in grave danger this time.

Although he didn't manage to kill Xiahou Tan, Xiahou Tan was clearly doomed, and Luo Che had finally avenged his great grudge, which made him feel much more relaxed.

But when the group found the location of the troops and saw the desiccated corpses scattered on the ground, their relief and joy vanished completely, replaced by fear and hatred.

Luo Che remained silent for a moment, then suddenly drew a dagger from his waist and slashed his palm!

Blood gushed out, but he was completely unaware. He simply looked up at the sky and roared with all his might—

"No matter who you are! No matter where you are! Today you slaughtered eight thousand of my brothers, I, Luo Che, will never let you live under the same sky!"

"In this life and the next, I will fight you to the death!"

"A fight to the death!"

His roar echoed in the air, lingering for a long time.

Chapter 186 What does it mean to "destroy wherever you go"?