Traveling through time to cultivate immortality: a life and death test

The thousand-year-old zombies proved to be formidable. Liu Xing's struggle grew with each fight. While his magic power slightly surpassed the zombies', his physical strength was undoubtedly inferior. He dared not use his magical weapons. His blue helmet and sharkskin armor had withstood numerous blows during the recent melee, leaving them tattered and battered. His Jade Wave Sword had been snapped in two, completely destroyed. Perhaps only the magical weapons of a Jindan-level expert could rival their physical strength. Despite the heavy losses, Liu Xing's close combat abilities and agility had significantly improved after a long day of close combat. He had also developed a set of tactics that suited him. Even an early Jindan-level expert would likely be nearly dead if he were to accidentally engage them in close combat, thus significantly boosting his combat effectiveness. Now, Liu Xing could easily leave, but if the zombies pursued him, Senior Brother Lu Hua would be in danger, so he couldn't leave just yet.

It was a real headache to fight and escape. After a long battle, Liu Xing could only fight and hide. If it weren't for his strong body, deep magic power and strong endurance, and the corpse poison eaten by Pang Pang, he would have died countless times.

The Millennium Zombie's advantage is its physical form, comparable to a magical weapon. Ordinary Jindan-stage cultivators are powerless against it, unable to slay it, only to seal it. This advantage has attracted many demonic cultivators, some cultivating zombies as puppets, even going so far as to transform their own bodies into zombies, embarking on a unique path of the corpse path. Of course, the creation of a Millennium Zombie is extremely difficult. The corpse itself must possess a strong spiritual root, and must be nurtured by the Yin Qi of an extremely yin land for over a thousand years. Through various coincidences, consciousness gradually develops, generating a faint soul.

Therefore, the Millennium Zombie's weaknesses are obvious: its weak soul power and low intelligence. The current battle stems from its bloodthirsty instincts and the rage it feels when provoked by the weak. If it finds itself outmatched, it will instinctively flee. Liu Xing is now considering how he can exploit its weaknesses. The Golden Silkworm Gu Pang Pang burrows into the opponent's sea of ​​consciousness and directly attacks the soul. However, the Millennium Zombie's body is as hard as a magic weapon, with no blind spots, making it impossible for Pang Pang to penetrate. If he were to release it rashly, with its defenses as a Level 4 demon beast, it would likely explode and die from a single tickle from the zombie. This also directly ended his plan to release Duoduo and Jiaojiao to assist. As his combat power increased, his spirit pets fell behind, and he had to find a way to increase their strength so that they could better assist him.

After thinking about it many times, including the physical body, magic weapons, and spiritual pets, there is no possibility of defeating the thousand-year-old zombie. What else can I use?

Liu Xing dodged a pounce from the millennium zombie and quickly retreated to distance himself. Then, reluctantly, he took out his bamboo flute, ready to test its effectiveness. He currently lacked a secret technique for attacking with his spiritual sense, hindering his powerful spiritual sense from fully unleashing its full potential. Normally, he could only use it as a scanner, a truly frustrating situation.

He began by playing a requiem. Drawing on his experience from class, he blended his spiritual consciousness with the flute's sound, entering the other person's sea of ​​consciousness and carefully soothing their soul. As the flute melody began, the zombie unexpectedly stopped, its frenzied mood seemingly softening slightly. It was indeed effective, and Liu Xing, overjoyed, began to play even harder.

But joy can be followed by sorrow. For unknown reasons, the thousand-year-old zombie instinctively resisted, instantly breaking free from the soul's control. Caught off guard, it lunged and punched Liu Xing in the right chest, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood. Frightened to the point of his soul leaving his body, he scurried to dodge. The flute music was forced to cease, and the zombie charged again, sparking a new chase.

Since the flute sound is effective, this is the breakthrough point. Liu Xing played the flute while fighting with the zombie. Then a strange phenomenon occurred. The zombie stopped for a while with a dull expression, and then went crazy and chased and attacked Liu Xing fiercely. It had no way to prevent the flute sound from entering its mind, and could only fight against the evil sound with its expression twisted and ferocious. The song Liu Xing played had no rhythm at all and did not follow any music theory at all. He played the song in any way that made the zombie uncomfortable. If the zombie blocked the left side, he would attack the right side. Gradually, the zombie's intelligence, which was not high to begin with, became even more confused. A few punches actually hit itself, making it scream.

Liu Xing slowly mastered the technique, maintaining control over the zombie for longer and longer periods, but it still wasn't enough to defeat it. His main focus now was disrupting the opponent's soul power, blocking their attacks while forcing them to self-harm or strike the air to consume their mana. His magic sound wasn't enough to weaken the opponent's soul power, otherwise he could have annihilated their soul and won the battle directly. Liu Xing regretted that he still needed a secret method of spiritual attack.

The zombie gradually realized the flute's disturbing effects were too much, and instinctively, feeling threatened, it finally decided to flee. Liu Xing, however, couldn't grant its wish and relentlessly pursued it. The flute's interference significantly reduced its speed, and it could never escape Liu Xing's magical sound. It stumbled deeper into the Yinming Cave, finally reaching its bottom. Finally, exhausted, the zombie collapsed to the ground. Undeterred, Liu Xing continued to use the magical sound to disturb its soul, but he realized the zombie was completely powerless and at his mercy.

So Liu Xing summoned the golden silkworm Gu Pangpang, and let it drill into the zombie's sea of ​​consciousness from its mouth, devouring its soul bit by bit. The thousand-year-old zombie huddled up in pain, which was as painful as extracting the soul and refining the spirit. Even though its soul power was weak, it was also in the Jindan stage, and its soul power was stronger than the peak of the late foundation building stage. Finally, after an hour, the zombie had no breath, and its soul power was completely eaten. Pangpang drilled into its dantian again and swallowed the corpse pill in one gulp. The thousand-year-old corpse pill was a highly toxic substance, but it was a great tonic for Pangpang. Only then did it crawl out of the zombie's mouth with satisfaction, drill into Liu Xing's dantian, yawned and fell asleep. Pangpang had a good meal this time, and Liu Xing was looking forward to it, wondering if there would be a possibility of a breakthrough.

Liu Xing breathed a sigh of relief after finally destroying the thousand-year-old zombie. He'd finally found a way to control the soul with the magic sound, and only then could he completely destroy it by having Pang Pang devour its soul. Otherwise, he could only imprison it and then seal it. The corpse of this thousand-year-old zombie was a treasure, no less valuable than a Jindan cultivator's magical tool. Liu Xing immediately collected it, though he hadn't yet figured out how to use it. A thousand-year-old zombie is difficult to create, but it's extremely rare, and could be very useful in refining weapons, puppets, or even as an external incarnation. After collecting the corpse, Liu Xing felt a surge of joy.