Traveling Through the Heavens: Intercepting Duan Yu at the Beginning

A familiar voice sounded behind him. Uncle Jiu's voice had a very complicated tone, with the relief of finally arriving in Nanyang, the heaviness of facing a bloody battle, and the determination to die.

"Let's go to the island and take a look!"

Everyone looked at each other, and when the boat docked at the shore, they boarded the island in front of them one after another.

However, as soon as they set foot on the island in front of them, everyone's expression changed.

Before, I could feel the strong aura of evil and death on the island from a distance. Now that I actually set foot on the island, this aura became even stronger.

"Brother, this breath..." Chen Fei looked at Uncle Jiu beside him with a serious expression.

The evil energy under their feet was constantly corroding their bodies and minds. If it weren't for their profound Taoist skills, they would have been corroded by this force and turned into monsters that only knew how to kill in just a short moment.

"Let me take a look!"

An elder from the Tianshi Mansion took out a compass, only to see the bronze needle spinning wildly on the compass, and then snapped into two pieces under the gaze of everyone.

"The earth veins are exhausted, and yin and yang are upside down!"

The forehead of the Tianshi Mansion elder was covered in sweat, and his voice was as hoarse as rusted iron: "I'm afraid that all the living things on this island have become blood sacrifices for the Corpse King!"

Hearing this, everyone's heart sank, and a bad premonition emerged in their hearts.

A group of twenty people marched along the cracked earth toward the island. The once abundant stream was now reduced to a dark red riverbed, and faint traces of white bones could be seen deep in the cracks.

Xincheng, a Buddhist elder from Mount Wutai, suddenly stopped, and his staff clanked against a rock - a child's skeleton half-buried in the sand, its charred fingers still clutching a faded rattle.

"Amitabha..." Xincheng chanted the Buddha's name in a low voice. He wanted to go forward to check the specific situation, but Uncle Jiu's peach wood sword was already across his chest.

"Don't touch!"

Uncle Jiu's face was solemn. The tip of the peach wood sword in his hand lifted the skeleton's clothes. The rotten cloth instantly turned into ashes, revealing the black maggots wriggling between the ribs.

The next moment, the wriggling maggots suddenly burst open, and the splashing pus eroded the rock into honeycomb-shaped holes.

"hiss..."

Everyone gasped, never expecting that any random corpse could harbor such horrific murderous intent.

"There's something wrong here!"

"What is this? Get away!"

At this moment, there was a cry of surprise from the back of the team. Fade Chen moved quickly to the back of the team and saw three Taoists surrounding a dead coconut tree.

Dark sap oozed from the cracks in the bark and condensed on the surface of the trunk into a distorted human face. The face opened its mouth and spewed out black smoke with a smell of sulfur.

"Hold your breath!" Chen Fei's pupils shrank, and he threw out three yellow talismans, then pulled the two Taoists beside him and quickly retreated.

The talisman paper shot out and burned into a fire net in the air. The black smoke hit the talisman fire and made a shrill cry like a baby crying. Under the burning of the fire net, the whole coconut tree exploded, and the flying wood thorns nailed the last Taoist priest who did not have time to leave to the ground.

"what..."

A shrill scream was heard, and the Taoist looked at the blood gushing out of his chest, his eyes filled with despair.

Although they have profound Taoist skills, their skills are ultimately only at the level of ordinary people. Without using Taoist skills, they have no way of avoiding such attacks.

"Hurry up and save people!"

Everyone screamed and hurriedly prepared to save the man, but when they got closer they found that the blood flowing from the man's wound had turned dark green.

"Oh no! This attack carries a strong aura of evil and sinister force. He is... beyond saving..."

Seeing the Taoist's eyes gradually turning red, everyone felt a sinking feeling in their hearts. They had just landed on the island and had not yet seen the Corpse King's true face, but they had already lost a companion.

The Corpse King is so powerful, can they really lure the Corpse King into the formation?

Or, even if they succeed in luring the Corpse King into the formation, with their strength, can they really suppress or even kill the Corpse King?

"Let fellow Taoist be free!"

Uncle Jiu sighed lightly. The Taoist priest could no longer be saved. Now the only way to prevent him from becoming an enemy after his corpse transformed was to kill him completely. This was also the last dignity that everyone could give him.

As the peach wood sword was swung, the Taoist's head was chopped off and fell to the ground. Immediately afterwards, a burning talisman fell on the corpse, and a raging fire ignited the moment it came into contact.

Everyone started chanting scriptures for salvation. After a while, the chanting stopped and the Taoist's body turned into ashes and dissipated between heaven and earth.

"Let's go, keep going!"

The atmosphere was a bit depressing. One of their men had just been killed when they got ashore, which made them extremely nervous.

This time, they did not take it lightly. Everyone used their own means of self-protection, whether it was a talisman or a magical weapon, to avoid a fatal accident.

As the sun sets, in this silent and solemn atmosphere, the nineteen people continue to move towards the center of the island.

"Wait a minute, the compass is responding!"

The elder of the Tianshi Mansion suddenly shouted, and the compass with a broken needle in his arms emitted a green light, and dense red dots appeared on the compass.

The next moment, there was a sound of tiles breaking from the roof, and hundreds of shriveled monkeys jumped down from all directions - their fur stuck to festering flesh, centipedes crawling in their eye sockets, but they pounced on the crowd with strange coordination.

"Oh no, it's an evil spirit tainted with evil spirits!"

Uncle Jiu's sword finger swept across the sword, and the peach wood sword burst out with a three-foot green light: "The evil spirit of the Corpse King has infected all living things. These beasts have become evil creatures that are neither alive nor dead. Be careful of their attacks!"

Everyone present was an expert in cultivation. When they saw these evil spirits, they knew how difficult they were to deal with.

For a moment, Buddhist beads and talismans flew everywhere, and explosions sounded all around.

Chen Fei's body was as fast as lightning. He dodged the siege of the monkeys and occasionally swung a palm to hit the monkey corpse, causing it to explode into balls of green fire.

These monkeys are not strong, it’s just that there are too many of them and they are a bit difficult to deal with.

"Oh no, help me!"

A scream was heard, and Chen Fei turned around suddenly, only to see a monkey with only a skeleton left breaking through the defense and hugging the calf of Monk Xincheng from Mount Wutai. The monk staggered and fell to the ground, and the hem of his cassock was stained with the foul-smelling black water flowing out of the monkey's abdominal cavity.

The monkey corpse clung to Monk Xincheng's body tightly, roared, opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, and was about to bite Monk Xincheng.

Chapter 126 A Hard Fight

"careful!"

Chen Fei's eyes narrowed, he moved his feet, and rushed to Xin Cheng's side like a ghost, and then pointed at the monkey corpse under his feet.

puff!

This finger carried a strong magical power. After piercing through the monkey corpse, the monkey's body also slowly turned into ashes.

"Thank you fellow Taoist for saving me!"

Xincheng hurriedly got up, his face full of fear. If Chen Fei had not intervened in time, he would have died here.

"Master, be careful!"

Chen Fei nodded, and then his body shuttled between the crowd and the monkeys again. Wherever Chen Fei passed, palm shadows and sword energy were everywhere, and the monkey corpses turned into ashes and dissipated.

When the last monkey corpse turned into ashes under Chen Fei's palm, the monkey group besieging them was completely wiped out.

Everyone did not relax, but looked around vigilantly, guarding against any danger that might arise.

It was not until a while later that no new evil creatures appeared, and even the detection magic weapons on everyone's bodies showed no movement, that they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"This time, thank you to Brother Chen from Maoshan!"

"Indeed, if Fellow Daoist Chen had not single-handedly killed most of the monkey corpses, I'm afraid we would have paid a heavy price."

"I never thought that Maoshan's Taoism has reached such a level. We are truly ashamed!"

Everyone who came here with a sense of relief spoke to Fade Chen with gratitude.

If Chen Fei had not been wandering around killing monkey corpses, thus greatly relieving their pressure, I am afraid that some of the people present would have died.

"Amitabha, Fellow Daoist Chen, thank you very much. If you hadn't helped me just now, I'm afraid I would... cough cough cough..."

Monk Xincheng suddenly started coughing before he could finish his words. He seemed to have thought of something and lifted the hem of his monk's robe, only to see a black tooth mark on his ankle that had appeared at some point.

"How could it be, I... I clearly dodged..."

Xincheng said tremblingly that he was bitten by the monkey corpse, but he was completely immersed in the battle and didn't notice it. Now that the evil spirit began to backfire, he finally realized that something was wrong.

"Huchi...huchi..."

Heavy breathing could be heard, and Xincheng's eyes quickly turned red. This evil spirit was too overbearing, and it instantly occupied his mind.

"Master, you..."

There was sadness in everyone's eyes. Xincheng was bitten, but they could only watch him die.

Not to mention that there is no time to help Xincheng get rid of the evil spirit now. Even if there is, the evil spirit is so domineering that they cannot get rid of it at will.

"Amitabha, I never thought that I could only stop here!"

"My fellow Taoists, please take care of yourself on the road ahead."

Xincheng smiled bitterly and forcibly suppressed the evil thoughts in his body. Then he sat cross-legged and chanted Buddhist scriptures in a low voice.

Under the gaze of everyone, a dazzling golden light emanated from Xincheng's body. The golden light and the dark evil energy entangled with each other, and then turned into a blazing flame, completely engulfing Xincheng's body.

When the flames died down, there was no trace of Xincheng in front of the eighteen people. Only a pile of ashes was left, drifting away with the wind.

"Let's go, the mission is not yet completed!"

This was the second companion to die. Two companions died in succession before they even met the Thousand-Year Corpse King. A thought arose in everyone's mind: Can they really live to see the Corpse King?

On the following journey, groups of evil spirits swarmed towards them like sharks smelling blood. Everyone was on high alert and used their best skills.

But even so, several people still died under the siege of evil spirits.

When they saw the figure sitting cross-legged in the ruins of the Blood God Cult from afar, only thirteen people were left out of the original twenty.

In the center of the huge blood pool, a tall figure was sitting cross-legged in the air, and wisps of pure blood rose from the blood pool below and penetrated into his seven orifices like a swimming dragon.

In addition, three normal-sized bodies were sitting cross-legged on the periphery of the blood pool, seemingly guarding the corpse king in the middle.

"That's the Corpse King from three thousand years ago. What a powerful aura!"

Uncle Jiu swallowed hard. Even though they were so far away, they could still feel the oppression from each other.

"Blood flowed for thousands of miles, truly blood flowed for thousands of miles. Such a huge pool of blood. They massacred tens of thousands of people on the island. It's simply outrageous!"

Some people looked angry. What the Corpse King and the Blood God Cult did was simply insane.

"Those three figures must be the leader and elders of the Blood God Cult. Judging from their appearance, they have clearly been transformed into the same kind by the Corpse King."

"Heh, isn't this exactly what they want? Using this method to achieve immortality is simply ridiculous!"

Someone recognized the three figures beside the blood pool at a glance, but these three people from the Blood God Cult were very different from before, and their bodies were filled with monstrous murderous aura.

"Not only the Corpse King, but the three Blood God Cult members are also very strong."

"If a fight really breaks out, I'm afraid these three people from the Blood God Cult alone will be enough to suppress us."

Although they disdained the actions of the Blood God Cult, they were still shocked by the strength of the three members of the Blood God Cult.

"Hmm? Oh, a few little mice!"

"Is this the cultivator in China today? They are so weak!"

"However, the blood in their bodies can speed up my recovery a bit. Go and capture them!"

The Corpse King who was sitting cross-legged above the blood pool had already sensed the breath of the crowd, but to him, Uncle Jiu and the others were too weak, and he had no interest in taking action himself.

"Yes, I will obey my Lord's orders!"

The three members of the Blood God Cult who were sitting cross-legged on the edge of the blood pool nodded respectfully, then glanced at the crowd in the distance, and their bodies slowly floated up into the air and flew towards them.

"No, they found us!"

"They can fly, they can fly, this is... a flying zombie..."

"Flying Zombies, Zombie King-level beings, I'm afraid we can't defeat them, retreat quickly!"

Looking at the three people flying in the air, Uncle Jiu and the others' expressions all changed, their eyes filled with fear and solemnity.

If a cultivator wants to fly in the sky, he must reach the realm of Qi Refining or above. If a zombie wants to fly, it needs to reach the level of Flying Zombie. The three people from the Blood God Cult have turned into zombies, so they are naturally Flying Zombies, and may even be stronger.

No matter which aspect, they are not able to defeat it.

"Walk, where can we go?"

"Don't forget our mission, which is to lure this thousand-year-old corpse king away. If we leave like this, wouldn't all our efforts have been wasted in vain?"

"Besides, if we can't kill them, the only fate that awaits us is still death!"

"No running away! I'll stop two of them. You guys work together to take out one, and then come help me!"