Unsurpassed Spirits

Chapter 168 Alliance
These dead monks used to be physical cultivators. Unlike ordinary cultivators who store spiritual power in their Dantian, pure physical cultivators use all their spiritual power to temper their physical bodies. Their bodies are particularly strong, with hands and feet They are all capable of rivaling the finest magical weapons.

Among the twelve pagodas in the Central Plains, there is a corpse puppet pagoda, which is famous for raising corpses and refining corpses. They divide the levels of walking corpses into walking corpses, iron corpses, bronze corpses, silver corpses, and gold corpses, which respectively correspond to the monks' Qi refining, There are five stages: foundation building, golden elixir, Yuanying, and spiritual transformation.

It is said that when a walking zombie reaches the golden corpse level, it will open up its spiritual intelligence. At that time, it will look like a human being and even have an immortal body. However, before that, walking zombies of this level need to be controlled by monks. Make the most of it.

These walking zombies in front of them were in the foundation building stage before death. After death, their bodies mutated into walking zombies in the chaotic atmosphere of this place all year round. They should have reached the level of iron zombies.

Their bodies still retain the toughness they had in life, and their strength far exceeds that of monks of the same level. Even because they have no consciousness, no pain, and no knowledge of fear, they only act according to instinct.

Luo Qingli held a sword flower, and hit the female corpse with sword energy, leaving only some sword marks, which only caused the female corpse to move forward slightly.

The other four people all encountered the same problem. No matter how hard they tried, they could not bring down these iron corpses. Even if they finally knocked them down, they would get up again after a while.

Comparatively, among the five, Fang Jingshan is in the best situation. He is a talisman maker. His main means of attack is talismans, and he mostly uses fire talismans, and walking corpses are inherently evil things. , Thunder Fire is often the best able to restrain them.

So the group of people began to use talismans or fire spells to deal with the walking corpses.

Luo Qingli took out a peach branch from the storage bag. This was the one she had cut when she knocked down the poisonous insects on the grass. Later, she picked it up in the storage bag while picking up the poisonous insects.

The old peach tree was already spiritual and had given them the essence of plants and trees. Later, before the five of them left, they were too embarrassed to break even one and a half leaves from it. This peach branch was picked up by Luo Qingli.

The peach wood itself has the effect of warding off evil spirits, even if the peach branch has not been sacrificed and refined into a magic weapon.

Luo Qingli used this dead branch as a sword and struck it on the female corpse's body, easily dissipating the corpse energy around the female corpse. The effect was several times better than the Shen Shuang Sword. Coupled with the fire-type Explosive Flame Talisman and the Thunder Talisman, After a while, the female corpse was forced back.

However, more and more zombies were waking up around them one after another. Just as a female corpse was forced to retreat, another tall male corpse came forward. Seeing the situation gradually getting out of control, five people gathered together back to back.

Ji Ruochu held a round shield in one hand and a spear in the other, and said in a deep voice: "No, there are too many zombies. If we continue to fight, there will be no end."

Wan Qishan threw out a handful of talismans and looked at the stone figures scattered on the ground. She frowned and said, "The formation here has also been destroyed. It shouldn't be like this..."

Luo Qingli's eyebrows moved slightly, and he noticed two zombies waking up in the far corner, and suddenly asked: "Natural zombies are not controlled by humans. How do they identify their target prey?"

These zombies are naturally formed and have no spiritual intelligence. They can only rely on instinct to attack. There should be a basic basis for this.

The four of them were startled, and Ning Shen suddenly said: "I'm angry!"

Before they came in, these walking corpses were obviously in a deep sleep, but after they came in, they woke up one by one, because they were attracted by the anger of the living people.

The anger on their bodies is completely different from the death and zombie energy on the walking zombies. The walking zombies will not attack the same kind, but will fight against foreigners.

Wanting to understand this, several people took out the breath-blocking charms almost at the same time and attached them to their bodies to block the anger on their bodies from spreading outward.

At this moment, Fang Jingshan suddenly yelled. It turned out that he was scratched by a zombie, leaving three black blood marks on his forearm. The smell of blood spread around, and a group of zombies fell into a state of madness. Suddenly Everyone rushed towards Fang Jingshan.

Ning Shen secretly thought something bad when he saw this, and suddenly the soft sword flew across the sky, shining with golden light, and gathered into thousands of golden sword lights.

"The golden snake dances wildly!"

The sword light intertwined and entwined, and in an instant, it was like thousands of spiritual snakes, baring their teeth and claws to bite the walking corpse that was rushing towards them.

There was an intermittent sound of crackling metal, and the spiritual snakes bumped into the walking corpses, biting their flesh tightly, and were torn into pieces by the walking zombies' claws, turning into little spiritual lights and dissipating.

But in this way, it still delayed for some time.

Ning Shen quickly took out a Hidden Breath Talisman and stuck it on Fang Jingshan. Luo Qingli also took out a formation disk with his backhand, neatly placed the spirit stone, and inserted several finger techniques. The moment the formation disk was opened, those noisy people The walking corpse suddenly paused, and his expression became blank and confused.

Everyone stared closely at the walking corpses. They suddenly lost their target and could only search hard for the vague life in the air. They walked in different directions, and in the end they wandered aimlessly in the huge stone room.

The group carefully avoided the path of the walking corpses and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Ji Ruochu looked thoughtfully at the formation disk in Luo Qingli's hand, and asked aloud: "Is it the breath formation disk?"

"Not bad." Luo Qingli nodded. She got this when she was in the Qi refining stage. Although this is only a low-level formation disk, it has to be said that sometimes it is really useful.

Ning Shen was treating Fang Jingshan's wound. Fang Jingshan was scratched by a walking corpse. Although the wound was not big, the corpse's nails were covered with corpse poison, and the detoxifying pill could not suppress the corpse poison. After a while, Fang Jingshan's forearm was scratched. The scratched area on the body began to rot, and the scope of the rot was still expanding outward.

"This..." Ning Shen frowned. He was not a medical practitioner and had never been exposed to walking corpses before. He was really ignorant in this regard.

Fang Jingshan felt a sense of soreness spreading up his arm. After feeling it carefully, his expression suddenly changed, "Senior Brother Ning, I found that there is a strange aura in my body, and when I mobilize my spiritual power, my meridians are sharp. It hurts so much.”

Ning Shen was slightly startled, and Wan Qishan said: "It should be corpse energy. The walking corpse scratched Mr. Fang, and part of the corpse energy entered the meridians. You must know that spiritual energy belongs to yang, corpse energy belongs to yin, and yin and yang conflict. , then you will feel severe pain."

"What should we do?" Fang Jingshan asked quickly.

Wan Qishan slowly shook her head, "To remove corpse poison and corpse qi, you have to take the right medicine. I don't have anything on hand right now, or Young Master Fang can wait until he goes out and ask an elder with advanced cultivation to help force out the corpse qi. Then try to use it as little as possible." Spiritual power, as for your injury, I suggest you remove the carrion as soon as possible to prevent the spread of corpse poison."

Fang Jingshan stared blankly, looking at the expanding rotten area on his arm. He also knew the dangers. He took out a dagger from the storage bag and stabbed the piece of rotten flesh hard. A large piece of rotten flesh was gouged out, including the leather. come out.Blood flowed all over his hands, and the corpse poison did not spread anymore, but Fang Jingshan was still in pain and was sweating all over his head.

The bloody aura was suppressed in the breath-isolating formation and did not come out. Ning Shen's eyes moved slightly, and he looked at Wan Qishan calmly, bandaged Fang Jingshan's wound, and cleaned up the blood on the ground.

"I'll look around and find a way out."

Wan Qishan explained, affixed two breath separation charms on her body, walked out of the formation range, and came to a corner.

There are several stone figures standing in the corner. Each of these stone figures is tall and tall, holding a stone sword in his hand. His face is ferocious, and he looks extremely fierce.

Ji Ruochu carefully avoided the wandering zombies and looked around in the stone chamber. Luo Qingli put down the formation plate and was about to step out when Ning Shen's voice suddenly came to his mind: "Fellow Daoist Pei."

Luo Qingli looked at him in confusion, and Ning Shen continued: "Fellow Daoist Pei, do you know how to solve the problem of corpse energy in Junior Brother Fang's body?"

Luo Qingli was stunned and looked at Wan Qishan who was not far away.

Wan Qishan has made it very clear just now. Now Ning Shen asks her again. Does this mean she doesn't trust Wan Qishan?

On the surface, this group of people seems quite harmonious, but it turns out that they all have their own differences...

Ning Shen lowered his eyebrows. He really didn't believe in Wan Qishan. To him and Fang Jingshan, Wan Qishan was just a partner. It was okay for them to contribute their share in the adventure together, but it was impossible to completely hand over the back. thing, and he was sure that this woman had her own little thoughts and was probably plotting something.

Fang Jingshan was injured and the corpse energy entered his body. If it is true as Wan Qishan said that he can only wait until he leaves to find a senior with high cultivation level to force out the corpse energy without using spiritual power, then Fang Jingshan will have to wait for the rest of the journey. He's just a piece of trash who can't use his spiritual power.

None of them knew what they would encounter next, and he might not be able to guarantee Fang Jingshan's complete protection.

Although Ning Shen didn't know the origin of this female cultivator named Pei Yao, if she used poison, it would not rule out the possibility that she was from the Jade Toad Sect. Ning Shen could only ask with a glimmer of hope.

Luo Qingli shook his head, "I'm sorry, Fellow Daoist Ning, I'm not a medical practitioner, and I don't know how to detoxify. I'm not good at this. I'm afraid I won't be able to help Fellow Daoist."

Ning Shen was not too disappointed. He looked at the pale-faced Fang Jingshan and then sent a message: "Fellow Daoist Pei, to tell you the truth, Junior Brother Fang and I were found halfway by Daoist Fellows Wanqi and Ji. The end of this adventure The initiator is Fellow Taoist Wanqi, but she has reservations about us. Don’t you think she has other agendas?”

Luo Qingli's brows moved slightly. When Wan Qishan came to her, she was basically sure that Wan Qishan had ulterior motives. She had always thought that the four of them were one, so when she came to pull her in, there must be something wrong with her. She had a plan, but she still had Xiao Wu, so she didn't feel panic at all. As a result, they were also very clear-cut among themselves.

Ning Shen continued: "Fellow Daoist Wanqi suggested that Daoist Pei join us just on a temporary basis. Although I don't know exactly what she plans to do, we are probably just a pawn in her hands..."

He said these words just because he wanted to form an alliance with her. Now that Fang Jingshan is like this, he urgently needs a partner. He doesn't know the specific relationship between Ji Ruochu and Wan Qishan and whether he knows the whole story. So, he doesn't know. The only person who can win over is Luo Qingli.

Moreover, the strength that Luo Qingli showed along the way was obvious to everyone.

They came here for adventure and opportunity, so even though they knew it might be a trap, they still jumped out and gave it a try. Even though they were cautious enough, there would still be times when they didn't expect it.

No one wants to be a stepping stone for others, and the same goes for Ning Shen.

Luo Qingli glanced at Wan Qishan lightly. She had obviously noticed their movements, but she remained calm, as if she was indifferent.

Ning Shen and Fang Jingshan, one of them had rescued her from the river when she was young, and the other had worked with her in the secret place of the Misty Forest. She didn't know what Wan Qishan was selling in her gourd. What kind of medicine, but there is no harm in choosing to alliance with Ning Shen now.

Luo Qingli smiled slightly and said: "I understand what Fellow Daoist Ning means, and I hope we can have a happy cooperation in the future."

After Luo Qingli walked out of the formation circle, Fang Jingshan couldn't help but send a message: "Senior Brother Ning, can she be trusted?"

Ning Shen sighed softly: "There is no other choice. Anyway, compared to Wan Qishan, it should be more trustworthy."

Fang Jingshan looked gloomy and was silent for a long time. Looking at his tightly bandaged arm, he felt sad and frustrated: "I'm sorry, Senior Brother Ning, it was all me who held you back..."

Luo Qingli walked around the edge of the stone room. Xiao Wu didn't quite understand what the two Xiu said before, so he could only ask Luo Qingli: "Master, what do they want to do?"

Xiao Wu rarely comes into contact with humans. Its world has always been very simple. It is normal for it to not understand the twists and turns between humans and cultivators.

Luo Qingli explained briefly. Xiao Wu didn't speak for a long time, and finally said dullly: "No wonder the patriarch keeps saying that the world of human cultivation is very complicated..."

As he spoke, he flicked his tail and vowed: "Master, don't worry, Xiaowu will protect you and won't let others hurt the master!"

Luo Qingli laughed dumbly, "Okay, then Lao Xiaowu will be here."

After a while, everyone returned to the breath formation. Wan Qishan still looked as usual, as if she had no idea about the alliance between Ning Shen and Luo Qingli. She said seriously: "According to the animal skin picture in my hand. According to records, this was supposed to be the second floor of the trial camp. The stone men on the ground were controlled by the formation and fought with the monks who came in. As long as the stone men were defeated, you could go to the third floor. But now the formation is destroyed. No more, the stone man is useless."

"Senior Brother Ning, these monks must be the family members of this trial site. They should all have tokens on their bodies. If they were fatally injured, they should be teleported out. How could they die here and become a walking corpse?"

Fang Jingshan pointed at the dozen zombies wandering around aimlessly and asked in confusion.

Ning Shen shook his head, "The formations in the trial area like this are usually nested formations one after another. The reason why monks who are hurt when entering are teleported out is because there are protective formations inside. These The monk was unable to go out, probably because the protective formation here was damaged during the earthquake."

　Thanks to Xi Ruohua and Shang Biebieshang for the reward~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)