Chapter 70: A Trace of Death

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As soon as the three august immortals had landed on the island, they felt a sudden change in their surroundings . Mountains of corpses and seas of blood a.s.saulted their senses, and an endless swarm of zombies lunged at them .

“What’s going on?!” Scowling, Qi Shenghui gathered his power and warily scanned the surroundings .

“They aren’t real zombies, but attacks from a combat art!” As a formation master, Qin Xianhuo’s consciousness was more powerful than the consciousnesses of Situ Yun and Qi Shenghui and he immediately traced the changes to their source . “That woman is a powerful immortal . This is all her doing!”

His eyes blazed with avarice . “She activated the Formation Orb and created the terrifying formations on the riverbank . Ignore the zombies and kill the woman . Take the orb!”

At the center of the killing field stood a tranquil girl in white . Soft, windswept hair danced by the sides of her face, framing eyes that were now fully open . A fleeting trace of melancholy flashed through the violent crimson of her gaze . She seemed rather out of place amidst the gory battlefields of zombies and blood .  

The combination of everything in the scene constantly hammered at the minds of the three august immortals .

“Kill!” shouted Situ Yun as he manifested a pair of rose-gold hammers . Thunder and lightning roared around the twin weapons as they rapidly expanded to the size of small mountains and hurtled toward the girl, flickering with golden light .

Meanwhile, Qi Shenghui and Qin Xianhuo also manifested their weapons of thunder and lightning . In the span of a breath, enormous bolts of lightning gyrated frenetically over the island in wild, fearsome capers while thunder clamored in a crackling din overhead . The terrible light of blood was diminished, and the zombies and gory illusions faded . Thunder and lightning could restrain all evil, and the zombie king’s combat arts were no exception .

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Suddenly, the young woman opened her mouth and let out a piercing shriek . The scattered crimson light instantaneously reformed, morphing into tidal waves of blood that slammed into the incoming hammers .

Bam!

Rose-golden thunder exploded and the two hammers bounced back, flying toward Situ Yun .

“No!” He widened his eyes and drew in a quick breath, inflating his body like an enormous toad . His arms grew exponentially thicker and burst through the armor plates covering them .

Crack .

He extended his arms to catch the giant hammers, lightning flas.h.i.+ng and crackling around his body . The tremendous impact sent him flying backward, almost depositing him in the Dusk River .

The corners of his eyes and the flesh between his thumbs and index fingers exploded, scattering pearls of blood .

Splas.h.!.+

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The river behind him boiled over . Enhanced by an unknown force, the layout of one potential broke through the restraints applied by the Path of Ingress . Bodies upon bodies emerged from the water and climbed onto the island .

“Get away!” Situ Yun’s chest heaved violently like giant bellows . He adjusted his grip around the hammers and spun them at the river in a sweeping motion . Lightning coursed through the riverbank, sweeping the corpses back into the water .

“Once more!” he yelled . His body had now tripled in size and was wreathed by furious flashes of lightning . He looked like a warrior born out of heavenly thunder .

Leaping into the air, he slammed into the girl at high velocity . She slowly lifted her head, two explosive beams of crimson light shooting out of her eyes to block him .

Qin Xianhuo and Qi Shenghui made their next moves as well . The armored warrior rushed at the young woman spear-first, while Qin Xianhuo took out several disks to set up formations .

“She can’t move from where she is!” Lu Yun happened to notice the peculiarities about her condition while the zombie king fought the three august immortals . He activated his Spectral Eye and closely observed her .

Lightning and thunder furiously tangled with b.l.o.o.d.y light, and harrowing combat art clashed upon combat art . The monstrous shockwaves resulting from the clashes were almost enough to remake the entire island . At the same time, the corpses that Situ Yun had thrown back into the river lurched up again and rejoined the fray .

However, a bubble of peace existed beneath the five formation disks, thoroughly unaffected by the fight outside . The four formation disks synergized with the disk of yin and yang that Lu Yun had created, forming a great formation of the eight trigrams that isolated the area and countered the power of the tomb .

The formations of opposing forces on them had been personally created by Feinie . Although her current cultivation level was only at true immortal as of now, her mastery over formations was much more impressive . With the help of the Gates of the Abyss and the Formation Orb, the formations she etched could now rival those she’d set up in her peak .

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“There’s still a trace of death about her . She remains one step away from becoming a real zombie king!” Lu Yun could tell that the girl was at a delicate tipping point .

For a zombie to resurrect and piece together its soul, it required a great deal of life essence and yang energy to offset the energy of death wreathed about it . Even a little hint of death would prevent the zombie from forming its new soul .

The tomb had emerged at the peak of yang energy so the girl could absorb it to drive out death . Once she cleansed herself and formed a soul, she would become a true zombie king .

With the endless supply of yang energy streaming into her body, there was only an indiscernible trace of death left within her—her soul was almost complete . She was one step away from returning to life!

In fact, she was in the midst of an evolution process . This was why she couldn’t move, and why she couldn’t directly attack the intruders . Otherwise, she would make quick work of even three golden immortals, let alone three august immortals .

“Even if she’s not a zombie king yet, she’s at least still a zombie . No wonder she destroyed my black donkey’s hoof first . ” Realization flashed through Lu Yun’s eyes .

A zombie king would kill everything in its way and was the one thing tomb raiders dreaded the most . He wouldn’t allow one to be born in the weakened and poor Dusk Province .

“You two stay here and don’t move!” Lu Yun turned to Qing Han . His clear, chilling gaze sent a slight tremor down Qing Han’s spine .  

The imperial envoy nodded .

Lu Yun stepped out of the formation of eight trigrams and made his way to the girl at the center of the island .

Boundless crimson light and tremendous shockwaves a.s.saulted him, but a faint white glow kept them all at bay—the Formation Orb . He’d opened the Gates of the Abyss to channel the power that Feinie was sending him through the Formation Orb . Such was the white light protecting him .

Blinding crimson light rippled around the zombie king, countering the attacks from the three august immortals . The rose-gold lightning and Qing Xianhuo’s formations were all crushed by the crimson light .

Moreover, she activated the layouts of one potential, two principles, and three essentials through her Formation Orb .

Under the formations’ might, the three august immortals had to struggle to even move a muscle . If not for the thunder-attribute weapons they possessed, they would’ve long lost their ability to fight .

White flame burned outside of Lu Yun’s body as he approached the girl through the crimson light . With Spectral Eye activated, he observed closely and finally found the trace of death hovering between the girl’s eyebrows .

“As long as there’s death present, you’re still a regular zombie… I can kill you with a powerful black donkey’s hoof . ” Black flame burned strongly in his eyes as he deployed the Tome of Life and Death to its limits and forged a path through the b.l.o.o.d.y light .  

Finally, he came face to face with the girl .

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