by Feng Yise
Ye Yuan already used his strength to thoroughly conquer the people's hearts in the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land.
"Huhu, don't stand there in a daze anymore. Even though Young Lord is powerful, facing a corpse tide like this, it's also beyond one person's power. Let's go help him!" Wu Siyuan said with a laugh.
Wang Zan nodded fiercely and said with an excited look, "With such a young lord, our Crimson Afterglow Holy Land is bound to rise up!"
Wu Siyuan and Wang Zan duo rushed over soon after. These two people were both Phaseless Realm. Their strengths were a great deal stronger than Ye Yuan's. Dealing with some low-level zombies was naturally a cinch.
What they were truly afraid of was being trapped deep in this corpse tide and being forcefully exhausted to death by these zombies.
Killing so many zombies in one go, they obviously had to expend quite a bit of essence energy too. Over a long time, they could not bear it too.
"Heh heh, indeed rather capable. We've underestimated him! To think that he's only Boundless Realm. If he breaks through to the Heaven Enlightenment Realm, the few of us are probably not enough for him to look at at all!"
After the shock, Hua Shujie came back to his senses too, his words filled with bitterness.
Even with their realms, they also could not do it like lifting something heavy as if it were light like Ye Yuan in this corpse tide.
"Humph! Just putting on a pretense! In my view, he's intentionally showing off here! I don't believe that this kind of move can be unleashed many times. Wait until his essence energy is exhausted, I want to see what he does!" Wei Cheng said scornfully.
"No matter what, just this move, his supreme true intent has likely been comprehended to the third-stage already. This Crimson Afterglow Young Lord seems to really be quite formidable! But what you said is true as well. This kind of move, with his Boundless Realm cultivation, he shouldn't be able to unleash it more than a few times. Let's go, if we still don't go, the gap that they opened up is going to be filled up by zombies," Sheng Jun said.
The people of these three families rushed forward too and caught up to Ye Yuan very quickly.
With them joining in, the speed that the team advanced sped up considerably all at once!
"These zombies themselves aren't much. But their physical bodies are extremely formidable. Everyone take note, don't get your essence energy depleted by these zombies!"
Watching Ye Yuan cutting them up like melons and cabbages earlier gave them a misconception that these zombies were just a little more in quantity and there wasn't anything impressive.
But the moment they clashed with these zombies now, Wei Cheng discovered that they looked down on these zombies too much.
The strength of the zombies in itself was stronger compared to martial artists of the same realm. The most terrifying thing was that their fleshy bodies were extremely powerful. Want to thoroughly kill them, they must expend even more essence energy.
One or two obviously could hardly show anything. But once the quantity ramped up, the essence energy expenditure would become very frightening.
Right now, they were already utterly surrounded by these zombies. If they did not charge out as soon as possible, they would be forcefully exhausted to death by these low-level zombies.
Forget that Wei Cheng was just a Heaven Enlightenment Realm martial artist, even the Phaseless Realm elders they brought here were probably unable to escape by luck too.
The number of these zombies were too terrifying!
Chapter 828 - Mowing down All Resistance
In a twinkle, four hours passed. Ye Yuan and the others already advanced forward several hundred miles distance.
Not only did the zombies in front of them not reduce, but it also had an increasingly worsening trend instead!
The more zombies killed, the more there were, making these Phaseless Realm elders somewhat start losing all hope.
Wei Cheng, Hua Shujie they all, these people's essence energy expenditure were immense. The speed of killing the zombies distinctly slowed down compared to before.
His gaze involuntarily looked over towards Ye Yuan and was incomparably shocked in his heart.
Could this punk be a freak? It's been four hours, and his combat capability is actually still roughly the same as when it just started; it's virtually without much reduction! That level of martial technique, how can a Boundless Realm martial artist possibly execute it consecutively for four hours? Wei Cheng thought to himself.
He thought from the bottom of his heart that Ye Yuan would deplete his essence energy very quickly and seek Blackwind's help from there.
Who knew that four hours passed and not only was Ye Yuan's martial technique like as though it did not expend essence energy, it was even releasing non-stop.
Even the killing speed of the Phaseless Realm martial artists slowed down. Only Ye Yuan's speed of reaping these zombies did not reduce the least bit.
Ye Yuan was still at the forefront, forcefully opening up a gap in the corpse tide.
"Young Lord, carrying on like this is not the way to go! The strengths of these zombies are becoming stronger and stronger. Right now, the majority of what we are killing are already Tier 5 zombies. There are even quite a number of Tier 6 zombies mixed up inside. I suspect that if it continues like this, ahead will probably all become Tier 6 zombies!"
The more Wu Siyuan fought, the more alarmed he became, and he could not help becoming somewhat afraid of the grim situation before his eyes.
Facing the tidewater like zombies that had no regard for danger, they, these Phaseless Realms, were also at a loss on what to do.
These zombies did not know what was fear at all and did not have any consciousness either. They only attacked them blindly. What was even more damnable was that their physical bodies were extremely powerful. Wanting to kill them took quite a bit of effort.
"How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair? The more powerful the zombies at the back, the more it means that we're getting increasingly closer to the source of the zombies! There is already no path of retreat at this time. All of you just respond with care and follow me!" Ye Yuan said without hesitation.
One sentence made Wu Siyuan flush red to his ears.
He, an exalted Phaseless Realm, actually had to hide behind Ye Yuan.
But this was also something that could not be helped. To talk about the speed of killing these zombies, his efficiency was really not as high as Ye Yuan's.
Under this kind of circ.u.mstances, they, these Phaseless Realms, did not dare to execute any large area-of-effect martial techniques. That was no different from seeking death.
What they could do was to kill the zombies around them and charge forward all the way, conserving essence energy to the greatest limit.
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In a blink, another four hours passed. Everyone already killed God knows how many zombies.
Even the Phaseless Realm martial artists killed until their hands were weak too.
They all consumed quite a number of essence energy restoring medicinal pills but still could not stop the essence energy in their bodies from being depleted bit by bit.
By their sides right now were all Tier 6 zombies. There were even some Tier 7 zombies inside occasionally!
The pressure these elders experiencing soared greatly one by one, let alone Wei Cheng they all, who were only at the Heaven Enlightenment Realm.
Tier 6 zombies, their fleshy bodies' resilience advanced a great deal from before too. The essence energy expended in wanting to kill them would be much more.
Wei Cheng's entire body was already drenched in sweat. He was almost reaching his limits already.
"Too careless this time! Really didn't think that these zombies' strength would be so powerful!" Wei Cheng gritted his teeth and said.
Hua Shujie hacked a zombie with a sword and similarly gasped for air as he said, "Hang in there a while more! It's going to be daytime very soon!"
"I almost can't keep
going anymore. My medicinal pills are almost exhausted already. Even if I consume medicinal pills, the speed of restoring essence energy is also far from matching up to the speed of consumption!" Wei Cheng said.
"Just what kind of cultivation method did Ye Yuan that fellow cultivate? This essence energy recovery speed is also too terrifying, right? I didn't even see him consume medicinal pills, and he actually relied on essence energy recovery to persist until now! Simply makes people dare not believe it!" Sheng Jun said.
Eight hours went by, Ye Yuan's combat power was still off the charts!
Even if it was all Tier 6 zombies around him, he still reaped like chopping up melons and cabbages. The speed was actually not much slower compared to before.
This kind of strength made everyone incredibly shocked.
"Everybody double up, we shouldn't be far from the source of the zombies already," Ye Yuan suddenly said in a clear voice.
As he was talking, Ye Yuan raised his hand, and it was a Coiling Dragon Heaven Devastating Palm!
The places the palm force reached, the zombies turned to piles of dust, directly splitting open several thousand feet in distance.
This palm even decimated the few Tier 7 zombies mixed up inside.
Wei Cheng and the other two exchanged a glance, seeing astonishment in the other party's eyes.
They finally knew how Ye Yuan became the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land's Young Lord.
Those Tier 7 zombies' bodies were incomparably tough. Even sabers and swords hacking over was very hard to cause them injuries. Furthermore, the recovery abilities of these Tier 7 zombies were extremely strong. If they could not kill them, the wounds on their bodies would recover back to normal very quickly, extremely hard to deal with.
But in front of Ye Yuan, these Tier 7 zombies simply could not withstand even a single blow!
Tier 7 zombie, those were existences equal to human martial artists' Heaven Enlightenment Realm!
"What are you still in a daze for? Keep up! Take this time, you guys recover some more essence energy. Further to the back, I might not be able to deal with those Tier 7 zombies anymore!" Ye Yuan shouted loudly.
Wei Cheng and the rest were startled inwardly and hurriedly kept up with Ye Yuan's footsteps, directly pushing forward several thousand feet in distance.
Not only were these zombies not intimidated by Ye Yuan's palm force, each and every one seemed infuriated instead, surrounding over very quickly.
Ye Yuan did not hesitate at all, firing out another Coiling Dragon Heaven Devastating Palm. Another large swathe was obliterated!
At this moment, Ye Yuan was akin to a war god.
Wei Cheng even produced a misconception that if they let Ye Yuan keep on killing like this, would he really be able to kill finish these zombies that blotted out the skies and covered the earth or not!
But he quickly felt that this idea was too laughable. There were too many of these zombies; Ye Yuan definitely could not kill all of them!
Ye Yuan did not spare physical power and essence energy, directly unleashing big moves. It also let this party of people advance a lot faster.
Seizing this opportunity, everyone also consumed medicinal pills non-stop, recovering essence energy as soon as possible!
But this process did not persist for long, because the zombies at the back got increasingly stronger. There were more and more Tier 7 zombies. Even though Ye Yuan's Coiling Dragon Heaven Devastating Palm was powerful, it was still a little lacking to deal with late-stage Tier 7 zombies.
Fortunately, through a period of time of rest and rehabilitation, the others' essence energy also recovered considerably and were able to help Ye Yuan share the burden a lot more.
All of a sudden, Ye Yuan felt his scalp tingle. A feeling of danger instantly enveloped his entire body!
"Blackwind, be on alert! Tier 8 Corpse Venerables appeared!" Ye Yuan shouted.
To be able to make Ye Yuan give rise to such a sense of crisis, there were only Tier 8 Corpse Venerables!
"Rest assured, Master. With Blackwind here, these zombies can't hurt you!" Blackwind also knew that it was different now, directly shielding in front of Ye Yuan.
Not far away, several shiny green lights were faintly discernible!
Ye Yuan saw it clearly. Those several rays of shiny green lights were emitted by those few zombies.
These zombies were clearly Tier 8 Corpse Venerables!
Chapter 829 - Boneyard
After martial artists die and their bodies did not decay under some special circ.u.mstances and absorb heaven and earth essence energy instead. This would strengthen their fleshy body, causing them to turn into a zombie.
At the beginning of birth, a zombie was just a walking corpse that had no consciousness. Because martial artists produce evil yin qi after death, so it kills instinctively.
Once a zombie was formed, they could seize the martial artist's essence to strengthen their own fleshy body when they kill martial artists.
This was actually a cultivation process, only that it was done at a subconscious level.
Following the fleshy body becoming more and more powerful, the zombie would even give birth to intelligence belonging to its own. This intelligence already had no relation whatsoever with the martial artist when he was still alive, becoming another lifeform.
After giving birth to intelligence, the zombie could cultivate on its own and could even cultivate to Deity Realm!
In the Divine Dao era years ago, there was a 10 thousand year zombie king that once cultivated to Deity Realm, becoming a legend.
But at that time, he was already not much different from ordinary humans.
The birth process of natural zombies was extremely slow. The conditions required were very stringent too.
But if they were refined by people, this process would be greatly reduced.
Ye Yuan and the others killing until now, the intelligence of these zombies were mostly not high. These Tier 6 zombies before their eyes all had some intelligence but were very limited.
Tier 7 zombies, the intelligence was clearly a great deal higher.
And those Tier 8 zombies hiding in the zombie horde, their intelligence was clearly very high.
They knew that this party's strength was formidable. There were even quite a number of Tier 8 Phaseless Realm existences. Therefore, each and every one of these Tier 8 Corpse Venerables was all roaming, not coming into contact with those elders. They only let ordinary zombies come and deplete the elders' essence energy, while they wait for an opportunity to attack at the sides!
More and more Tier 7 zombies rushed up, making the elders' pressure skyrocket.
Even though Tier 7 zombies could not cause much threat to them, following the increase in numbers, their essence energy expenditure would also increase by a large margin.
By the time their essence energy was almost depleted finish, they would be at the mercy of these Tier 8 Corpse Venerables!
"Blackwind, don't stint on essence energy anymore! I feel that we're already not far from the source of the zombies! Use your strongest attack and open up a way!" Ye Yuan said in a grave voice.
"Yes, Master!"
All of a sudden, Blackwind's body was becoming larger at a speed visible to the n.a.k.e.d eye, instantly turning into a hundred over foot long black flood dragon.
A colossal dragon pressure spread out. The pressure of the great circle of Tier 8 instantly erupted.
"Surging Floodwaters!"
Blackwind opened his mouth wide. Rapid floodwaters gushed out like a waterfall; it was abnormally turbulent!
Those Tier 6 and 7 zombies were sent flying one after another under these floodwaters.
Those slightly closer were even smashed to dust by the massive impact force!
Under one move, no idea how many zombies suffered a devastating cataclysm.
The originally tightly packed zombie horde had a massive gap flushed open too.
Ye Yuan was overjoyed when he saw the situation and said, "We
ll done, Blackwind! Phaseless Realms, open up the path in front; charge over in one go!"
Wei Cheng and those elders were all dazed. This black flood dragon's destructive powers were too terrifying!
But Blackwind's big move also roused their spirits.
With Blackwind around, maybe they were really able to escape with their lives.
The great circle of Tier 8 was indeed not for show!
Hearing Ye Yuan's words, all of them did not dare to dawdle either, rapidly breaking out of the encirclement through the flushed open gap.
Those Tier 8 Corpse Venerables were merely initial-stage Tier 8. Seeing the power of Blackwind's move, they helplessly stared as the crowd rushed forward, not daring to charge forward.
Ye Yuan and the others raised their speeds to the extreme, charging out several miles of distance in a blink of an eye.
Suddenly, the party's movements stopped, forcefully stopping their footsteps.
Astonished expressions emerged on everybody's faces, being struck dumbfounded by the scene before their eyes.
In front of them, was an enormous sinkhole that stretched beyond what the eye could see.
As far as the eyes could see, inside the sinkhole was all dazzling white bones, looking horrifying to the mind.
These martial artists cultivating until now, God knows how many people they had killed. But even so, this scene that they saw was unbelievably shocking too.
Right at this very moment, a glimmer of dawn lit up from the horizon. Those zombies seemed to have sensed something, retreating over into the sinkhole like tidewater.
Those few Tier 8 Corpse Venerables hesitated a little too, then they tunneled into the sinkhole headlong.
"This … Just what kind of place is this? Such a huge sinkhole actually appeared at the borders, why have I never known?" Wei Cheng s.u.c.k.e.d in a deep breath and said.
"Impossible! I remember that this area should be a flatland. How can it possibly be a massive sinkhole?' Sheng Jun said with a solemn expression.
Hu Shujie followed up and said, "What you said is right! If I didn't remember wrongly, this place was indeed a region of flat land. It's impossible to have such a huge sinkhole appear."