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Chapter 23 Corpse Creatures

The only true world, the center of the fog, is brilliant and glorious.

Eight peaks guard the main peak, and the main peak absorbs the spirit of the eight peaks and stands tall into the clouds.

With Jiufeng as the center, there are continuous mountain ranges and vast desolate lands.

In this desolate place filled with gray fog and no grass, countless living creatures are active.

There are humans, and there are all kinds of humanoid creatures with lizard tails, pointed horns on their heads, and scales on their bodies.

There are already monks and Taoists using strange magic to explore something in this wasteland.

At the end of the wasteland, there stands a huge stone tablet - the important place of the Corpse Family.

As night fell, all creatures retreated into the city, leaving the desolate place with only gusts of cold wind.

A young girl dressed in coarse linen, holding an ancient bronze lamp, came to the stone tablet against the biting cold wind.

The cold wind could not extinguish the green lamp. The girl held a shovel and carefully dug the desolate stone ground.

"God bless me, let me dig up some treasure and cure my mother's illness."

The girl murmured and prayed to the immortal god Buddha who had long disappeared.

There was too much rubble, making digging difficult, and she soon began to sweat profusely.

Some stones were not suitable for shoveling, so she could only slowly break them apart with her hands, and the broken stones hurt her fingers.

His fingers were stained with blood, but he gritted his teeth and persevered.

A faint smell of blood lingered in the air, and the cold wind seemed to be even more violent.

The candle flame of the green lamp was swaying, flickering, and could go out at any time.

There seemed to be human figures in the distance, appearing and disappearing.

The girl sensed something and became anxious. She dug harder and harder, causing the wound to grow bigger and the blood to flow more and more.

She didn't dare to look at Qingdeng, as this was the only chance she had to pay for it with all her savings.

If you fail, then stay in this wasteland and become a part of it.

She had surveyed this piece of land for a long time and was sure that something was buried there.

His clothes were soaked with sweat, his fingers were exposed to the bones, and his blood was soaked in the mud.

She suddenly paused, and tears as big as beans fell. She saw a stone slab that could not be dug out.

The green lamp behind her went out, and not far away, two illusory figures appeared, accompanied by a cold wind, staring at her greedily.

Tears blurred my vision, the last glimmer of hope was shattered, and my tense mind was like a broken string.

Her body fell heavily. Perhaps she shouldn't have come with hope.

For a long time, no danger came.

The girl looked up carefully and saw the two figures with pale and lifeless faces, their feet standing on the cold wind.

They just stood three meters away, their eyes fixed on the stone slab.

The stone slab was cracked, and she knew it couldn't have been her fault.

There is only one possibility, there is something underneath!
She didn't know where she got the strength from, but regardless of the pain, she held the shovel and chopped down hard.

bang bang
The sound echoed far away in the silent wasteland.

The cold wind grew stronger, and the sound alarmed more souls in the distance. They gathered together, eager for an intact corpse.

The two figures showed anxiety and wanted to move forward, but were afraid of something.

At this moment, the girl swung the shovel faster because she knew what was underneath.

If it were a tomb robber, he would definitely not be able to intimidate the two soul shadows.

There can only be more powerful soul shadows, or - corpse creatures!

Although corpse creatures are more terrifying, there is a slight possibility that corpse creatures that have just been born with intelligence are not bloodthirsty.

砰

The stone slab cracked, and a pale palm, surrounded by the Nine Dragons' Qi, broke through the stone slab and came out.

The gray and faint Nine Dragon Qi rapidly widened the cracks, sending the girl tumbling and scrambling in terror. Thirteen soul figures had gathered around her, their gaze fixed on the girl and the figure that had crawled out from under the stone slab.

It was a young man, his face paler than theirs, with gray spots all over his body.

There are nine gray real dragons on his body, flowing slowly, and his whole body is filled with the smell of decay.

Li Yi looked around blankly, with no memory of his original self in his mind.

This time, time is going backwards, and something seems to have gone wrong.

Wow
The cold wind howled, and before he could figure out the situation around him, thirteen soul shadows pounced on Li Yi at the same time.

For Soul Shadow, they are better than girls.

In an instant, nine dragons swirled around, and their pale bodies became somewhat illusory, as if they were independent of the world.

A shrill howl rang out, and the soul shadow that touched the Nine Dragons' Qi instantly evaporated, turned into black mist, and merged into his body.

As if he had taken a tonic, the true energy in Li Yi's body was boiling and circulating faster.

The thirteen soul shadows disappeared in an instant.

He suppressed the inner energy in his body and looked at the girl: "What year is it today?"

"The two hundred and eighty-sixth year of the fifth generation of the Tang Dynasty." The girl replied, bowing her head deeply, not daring to peek at the corpse.

"Tang?" Li Yi was stunned: "Who was the founding emperor?"

Could it be that he had arrived in the future? But wasn't the future of the only true world the afterlife?
How does this look like the future?
"Taizu Chen Xun, sir, would you like to leave here first?" the girl replied respectfully.

"Let's go." Li Yi stretched out his hand to pick her up, and with one leap, they ran more than ten meters.

"Sir, we're going the wrong way."

"Oh."

Li Yi changed direction and took her away. When passing by the stone tablet, he took a look at it.

The corpse is in a very important place of the Shi family. Did he replace a corpse this time?
No wonder there is no memory left, perhaps he has been dead for many years.

After quickly leaving the wasteland, we saw a towering city in the distance - Zangguan.

Perhaps because of the corpse spirit, his eyes could see things in the dark as if it were daytime, and his vision was better than before.

"We can't enter the city. You are a corpse. It will be very troublesome if you are discovered by the soldiers guarding the city. Let's stop here." said the girl.

Li Yi stopped and sat down cross-legged: "I just woke up, let me find out what's going on inside my body first."

After devouring thirteen soul shadows, the Taixu true qi in his body could hardly be suppressed.

The girl sat aside, not daring to speak.

Now that I was safe, I felt the piercing pain in my fingers, but I gritted my teeth.

Li Yi mobilized the true energy in his body, and nine dragons surged in his body.

He was about to condense the immortal seed, and he no longer cared whether there would be any strange phenomena.

Anyway, you can reopen it. If this method is not enough, you can collect methods later and practice it again.

There was a faint sound of dragon roars, resounding in the dark night, nine dragons collided and merged into one.

Without the constraints of heaven and earth, it is easy to merge.

The nine dragons merged into one, becoming a grey immortal species. The moment it took shape, nine illusory grey dragons appeared above its head, circling and intertwining, transforming into a misty sky, faintly containing a supreme divine power.

The girl was frightened by the might of heaven and crawled on the ground in fear. She felt powerless all over and had no intention of resisting at all.

She was afraid in her heart. The aura of this corpse creature seemed to be more terrifying than those cultivators.

Li Yi felt the immortal seed, and the energy underwent a qualitative change, which was several times stronger than the previous true qi.

I have finally entered the path to immortality!
He opened his eyes and looked at the girl: "Tell me about my situation and why I am underground."

"You must be a corpse spirit, buried there, infected by the burial soil, nurtured, and gave birth to spiritual intelligence.

You have forgotten all your memories and are a new life, but you have the aura of a corpse and are not alive."

The girl was also a little confused: "I just heard it from others. Someone once dug up a corpse and slaughtered many cultivators. The city lord summoned many cultivators to eliminate him..."

(End of this chapter)