Emperor Wu Shihuang's handwriting, do not go out of the Milky Way border

Without making any further sound, Ying Zheng simply stretched out his hand to indicate that he was to stop moving forward.

The Venerable Ones following behind him immediately realized what was happening, and each of them felt a chill and assumed a fighting stance!
“There!” Ying Zheng stretched out his hand and pointed in a certain direction.

Sure enough, following the direction Ying Zheng pointed, all the Venerable Ones could see a figure standing quietly among a clump of reeds about thirty meters ahead.

It stood there quietly, motionless, like a sculpture.

Its feet were deeply embedded in the mud, with its entire ankle submerged.

It wore rotten leather armor and gripped a rusty sword tightly in its hand.

Perhaps because it had been holding the sword for so long, its hand had become fused with the sword.

There was no wind in the swamp. After Ying Zheng and his men stopped, everything around them seemed to fall into a deathly silence.

However, in Ying Zheng's heart, it was as if a cold wind was blowing, making them feel a chill.

"Why is it not moving?" Ying Zheng finally couldn't help but ask in a low voice as he observed the zombie.

"I don't know," replied the Great Mighty Saint Venerable beside Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng pondered for a moment, then took the bow and arrows off his back.

The bow is made of wood, the string is made of twisted hemp rope, and the arrowhead is made of metal.

Ying Zheng drew his bow, pulled it taut, aimed, and released it!

call out!
The arrow tore through the air and shot out with a whoosh, aiming straight for the zombie's head!

Boom!
Just as the sound of a wooden stick striking a wooden fish rang out, an arrow struck the zombie's head hard.

Incredibly, with that crisp sound, the arrow was deflected. It didn't even manage to leave a mark, let alone pierce its head.

"How is this possible?!" Ying Zheng couldn't help but exclaim.

Although he had heard from the Venerable Yamantaka and the others that these zombies were impervious to weapons and extremely powerful, he never imagined they would be this powerful.

After being shot by Ying Zheng's arrow, the zombie finally stirred.

It turned its head and looked directly at Ying Zheng and his entourage.

Meeting its gaze, Ying Zheng and the others inexplicably felt a chill run down their spines!
"I'll deal with it! You all cover me!" Ying Zheng said.

After saying that, he put the bow back on his back and then drew the Vajra Spear!

Grabbing the Vajra Spear, Ying Zheng charged straight at the zombie monster.

In the swamp, water splashed everywhere, creating chaos. Ying Zheng, thirty meters away, moved like a phantom across the mud, his spear whistling through the air as he thrust it fiercely towards the zombie's throat!

With this shot, Ying Zheng used all his skills.

With his own strength, combined with the unique properties of the Breaking Formation Vajra Spear, he finally succeeded in piercing the zombie's throat!

At this moment, Ying Zheng felt as if he had thrust a spear into an incredibly hard, old piece of wood.

"Drink!" he roared in a low voice, his entire body bursting with strength. He gripped the gun barrel tightly with both hands and lifted the zombie out of the swamp!

"Pop!" With a crisp sound, the zombie's feet were pulled out of the muddy water.

"Dance of the Vajra Spear! Kill!"

The zombie was flung into the air, and Ying Zheng wildly wielded his spear. In an instant, afterimages flashed, and spear beams shot out like lightning, the spearhead stabbing out countless times in a flash!

The gunfire pierced through the zombie's body, leaving one large hole after another. Then, the zombie's body was thrown out like a heavy door, crashing heavily into the swamp and splashing water everywhere.

After Ying Zheng's barrage of attacks, ordinary targets would have been dead beyond any chance of survival. However, this time, the Great Mighty Saint and the others were all focused on the zombies that had crashed into the swamp.

"Is it resolved?!" Emperor Wuxuan couldn't help but shout loudly at Ying Zheng.

"Is he dead?!" Xuanjian, the Divine Lord, hurriedly asked.

"He's not dead!" Ying Zheng's voice was low and his expression was solemn!

"Hiss!!" At this moment, the Great Mighty Saint Venerable and others all gasped in shock.

He's definitely not dead!

Ying Zheng's judgment was based on a simple fact: he did not feel any energy feedback.

Ying Zheng's gaze was fixed on the zombie in the swamp, which he had stabbed dozens of times with his spear. Sure enough, the zombie moved.

It slowly stood up again in the mud.

At this moment, its throat, limbs, and body were covered with large holes, all wounds inflicted by Ying Zheng's Vajra Spear.

Even so, it remained standing and did not die.

"Interesting," Ying Zheng muttered to himself, his expression grave.

The moment the words left his mouth, the zombie moved.

Its speed was astonishing! Faster than the attack speed of the lake monster snake head! So fast that even Ying Zheng's eyes could barely keep up with its movements!
"So fast!"

Ying Zheng's face was filled with disbelief; he couldn't believe that this zombie could move so swiftly.

However, this is of no use!

"Kill!!" Ying Zheng roared, wildly wielding his spear and smashing it down on the zombie, sending it flying!
"Immortal? Then I'll tear you to pieces and see if you're still alive!"

Ying Zheng's Vajra Spear trembled violently, and a spear flower shot out with a whoosh, followed by a spear beam that pierced through the air.

The sharp spear light whistled, the entire spearhead seemed to transform into a drill, slamming into the hole that Ying Zheng had previously pierced in the zombie's throat. The terrifying tearing force ripped the zombie's head off.

The zombie's head flew several meters away, and its body, headless, fell heavily into the swamp.

However, the matter did not end there.

Because Ying Zheng still did not receive the kill reward.

"He's still not dead?!" Ying Zheng couldn't help but frown.

Then, he could clearly see that a large amount of black gas was coming out of the zombie's neck. Not only that, but the holes that the Vajra Spear had just pierced through its body were also spewing out pitch-black gas!
These black wisps spread out, seemingly containing a strange power, extending for over ten meters and connecting with the black wisps emanating from the heads. Then, the black wisps, seemingly pulling, attempted to reconnect the zombies' heads and bodies.

This scene almost left Ying Zheng speechless.

Without much hesitation, Ying Zheng immediately stepped forward and thrust his spear again, trying to sever the black aura.

Unfortunately, the spearhead swept through the black mist without affecting it at all.

"Physical damage is ineffective?!" Ying Zheng was slightly startled.

"Azure Jade Ghost Hand!" he shouted sharply.

Immediately, two more cyan arms extended from beneath Ying Zheng's arms. These two arms reached out and grabbed directly at the black mist, actually managing to catch it.

After being grabbed by the Jade Ghost Hand, the black energy struggled incessantly, like a venomous snake.

"Hmph!" Ying Zheng snorted coldly, then controlled the Azure Jade Ghost Hand to pull hard, tearing the black energy apart.

The moment the black energy was torn apart, Ying Zheng clearly heard a long sigh, which sounded like a sigh of relief.

The black aura emanating from the zombies leaked out from their wounds as if they had been ripped open, and then vanished completely in the blink of an eye.

A surge of energy flowed into Ying Zheng's body. He finally killed the zombie.

"Dead?!" The Great Mighty Saint and the others couldn't help but shout at Ying Zheng when they saw the situation on his side.

Ying Zheng nodded.

At this moment, the Great Vajra Deity and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, they all came over and examined the remains left by the zombies.

"How can this thing be so powerful!" the Great Lord of Mighty Virtue couldn't help but exclaim.

"What is that black mist?" Immortal Venerable Hongluo couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know." Ying Zheng shook his head.

"However, this black aura can ignore physical attacks, somewhat like a ghost," Ying Zheng said.

"What level does it roughly belong to?" asked the Divine Lord Xuanjian.

"It's probably at the third level of the cosmic level," Ying Zheng said.

"But it is extremely troublesome. I'm afraid even a typical fourth-level expert at the cosmic level would be unwilling to get entangled with it for too long."

"However, if we have sharp weapons and methods to deal with ghosts, it's not difficult to defeat it."

Ying Zheng did not speak carelessly.

If he were to deal with that zombie again now, he was confident he could finish it off within ten moves.

"These zombies should provide a considerable amount of energy, and their overall threat level is still manageable. What do you think, should we continue exploring forward, or turn back?" Ying Zheng asked the group.

This problem truly stumped the Holy One Yamantaka and the others.

They looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, and then the Holy One Yamantaka said, "Let's continue."

“I agree.” Immortal Venerable Hongluo nodded.

“I agree as well,” said Emperor Wuxuan.

With these three agreeing, the others naturally did not object. Thus, Ying Zheng and his entourage continued on their way!

These zombies are really tough to deal with.

Fortunately, their numbers were not large, and they were only scattered throughout the swamp. With Ying Zheng's strength, dealing with them one by one would be relatively easy.

Ying Zheng usually only needed a few moves to tear off their heads, and then hand them over to the Great Vajra Saint Venerable and others to kill.

He temporarily lent the Jade Ghost Hand to the Great Vajra Deity.

After equipping the Jade Ghost Hand and the Glass Bead, the Great Lord of Vajra received an astonishing amount of energy when finishing off these zombie monsters.

After slaying approximately thirty zombies, the Great Vajra Saint Venerable broke through! He successfully advanced to the third level of the Universe level!

"I've broken through!" said the Great Lord of Might and Magic after finishing off a zombie.

However, there was no ecstatic look on his face; instead, his smile was somewhat bitter.

The breakthrough was so fast that it felt unreal to him.

He is at the third level of the cosmic level. If he were outside, he might not be able to reach this level even after cultivating for trillions of years.

However, in the Canglan Fantasy Realm, he broke through to the second level of the Universe level at an unimaginable speed, and now he has broken through to the third level of the Universe level!
Of course, he also understood that this was thanks to Ying Zheng.

Without Ying Zheng's guidance, if they had to deal with these zombies on their own, let alone more than thirty, even just one would have been enough to wipe them out.

Ying Zheng is simply too powerful; right now, it's purely Ying Zheng leading them to improvement!
After reaching the third level of the cosmic level, his strength was significantly greater than that of the second level of the cosmic level.

Afterwards, the Great Vajra Saint Venerable handed over the Glazed Stone Bead and the Azure Jade Ghost Hand to the Martial Profound Emperor Venerable, while Ying Zheng continued to search for and kill the lone zombies.

He still injured the zombies and then handed them over to Emperor Wuxuan to deal with.

And so, Ying Zheng and his men wandered in the swamp for more than a month, almost wiping out all the zombies roaming the swamp.

During the day, they hunt lone zombies; at night, they retreat to dry areas to camp.

"Something's not right!" Immortal Venerable Hongluo was the first to notice the abnormality.

"Do you remember? The old chieftain said that the zombies in the swamp might be the descendants of their people who came here before."

“That’s right.” Emperor Wu Xuan and the others nodded in agreement.

"But have you forgotten something?! The old patriarch said that at most, his grandfather's generation only had about three hundred people! How many zombies have we killed in the past month?!" said Immortal Venerable Hongluo.

"That's right!" All the venerable ones were startled.

“Two hundred and thirty-one,” Ying Zheng suddenly said.

"I've been keeping an eye on this number ever since I got here. We've killed a total of 231 zombies."

"It seems that most of the manpower from Dashi Town has been lost here," Ying Zheng said.

"According to the old clan chief, his grandfather brought people here after the outbreak of the epidemic. This means that at that time, more than one or two people in Dashi Town had been infected."

“Excluding those who contracted the disease, and including some children and the elderly, almost the entire town of Dashi came out of the village.”

"How terrifying! I wonder what they encountered here!" Even the Supreme Lord Hongdu couldn't help but say.

"However, what happened to them is none of our business," said Emperor Wuxuan.

"Over the past month, we've searched almost the entire swamp, and we've eliminated every zombie we've encountered. It's a relief that those who died here can finally rest in peace."

“No.” At this moment, Ying Zheng shook his head.

“There must be something else in this swamp!” Ying Zheng said.

"Why are you so sure?" the Great Vajra Deity asked Ying Zheng.

“Intuition,” Ying Zheng said.

“Although it’s just a gut feeling, I’m certain that there’s something in this swamp. Sometimes, I can even sense that something is watching us from the shadows! But when I try to feel it more closely, I can’t sense anything at all.”

"This feeling started on the tenth day after we arrived! And it still exists today!"

As Ying Zheng finished speaking, all the venerable ones felt a chill run down their spines.

"It shouldn't be that bad," Huo Rong Supreme said with a forced smile.

"It might be an illusion. After all, we've searched the entire swamp. If there really was something, it would have shown itself long ago," said Supreme Hongdu.

However, at this moment, Ying Zheng suddenly slapped his thigh.

"I see!"

"What do you know?!" The Great Vajra Saint and the others looked at Ying Zheng with puzzled expressions.

"I know why I've been unable to find those eyes that are watching us!" Ying Zheng said in a deep voice.

"What do you mean?" Immortal Venerable Hongluo pressed.

"It's nighttime!" Ying Zheng said gravely. (End of Chapter)