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Chapter 22: Intermediate Grade Magical Instruments and Escape

Lu Yan's heart was shocked, and he immediately picked up the soul flag and summoned eight resentful souls, controlling the resentful souls to explore the surrounding environment.

The vengeful spirit hid its body in the wall, carefully moving between the floors of Building 13, secretly spying outside the 13th floor.

At night, a large number of zombies gathered to bathe in the moonlight, including some extraordinary zombies. Lu Yan did not dare to send out the resentful souls openly.

With the help of the resentful spirit's vision, Lu Yan clearly saw the scene outside the thirteenth floor.

From the uncleaned buildings, more than 3,000 zombies poured out like a tide and quickly occupied most of the community.

There is a super zombie in almost every building, but most of them have only reached the initial stage of Qi training, which is not much different from the previous zombie dogs. There are only three super zombies that can reach the middle stage of Qi training.

These extraordinary zombies of various shapes stood in front of the floors they occupied, enjoying the nourishment from the moonlight and spiritual energy.

Ordinary zombies do not possess extraordinary powers and can only passively accept the nourishment of the moonlight's spiritual energy. Not only do they absorb it at random, but they can also hardly exert even one-tenth of its effect.

The extraordinary zombies possess extraordinary powers, have mastered some almost instinctive cultivation methods, and are absorbing and exhaling rare moon energy.

"No leader-level zombies?"

Lu Yan became more confused and became more cautious in his actions.

After a long search, Lu Yan finally saw a strange zombie with flesh and blood tentacles behind it on the roof of Building No. 7, absorbing and exhaling moonlight spiritual energy.

As his mouth opened and closed, visible moonlight and spiritual energy were swallowed into his stomach, and the flesh and blood tentacles behind him danced wildly.

"Peak of Qi training!"

Lu Yan's expression suddenly changed, and the next moment the strange zombie that was absorbing the moonlight's spiritual energy turned around and looked in the direction of the resentful soul.

The resentful spirit quickly hid in the wall and dared not continue to spy.

The strange zombie withdrew his gaze with a puzzled look, and continued to swallow and exhale the moonlight spiritual energy.

Inside the room, Lu Yan's face was solemn at this moment.

Even in the version of cultivating immortals, the peak of Qi training is already considered quite good, and most of the high-ranking officials in the Bamboo Forest Market are also at this level.

Lu Yan once saw a high-ranking market lord who was at the peak of Qi training control a flying sword and kill three Tribulation cultivators who were at the middle stage of Qi training with one sword. The difference in strength was so huge that it was difficult to estimate.

This leader-level zombie is no longer a level that Lu Yan can contend with.

Even if the Soul Banner is about to be promoted to a mid-grade magic weapon, it is still far from being able to compete with it.

“There are a total of 20 buildings in the community. I have cleared out two of them, which has significantly reduced the number of zombies in the community. However, Building No. 7, where the leader-level zombies are located, is still some distance away from here.

These ordinary zombies can absorb the moonlight, which to some extent can be considered as resources for the extraordinary zombies.

If I continue to hunt zombies in the community, the decrease in moonlight will inevitably attract the attention of the leader-level zombies. Once they are targeted, it will be difficult for me to escape with my cultivation level!"

"We must leave this place before nightfall tomorrow!"

With his mind made up, in order to prevent the leader-level zombies from noticing the spying, Lu Yan arranged for the resentful souls to monitor the movements around Building No. 7 at all times.

Inside the room, Lu Yan used a concealment talisman and then began to practice again.

The moonlight spiritual energy is rare, and Lu Yan is not sure whether such moonlight spiritual energy will appear every night, so he must seize this opportunity.

The practice continued until the next morning. As the sun slowly rose, Lu Yan stopped practicing. Unlike those extraordinary zombies who just followed their instincts to breathe in the moonlight, the "Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra" that Lu Yan practiced could actively absorb spiritual energy to refine mana, and his efficiency was far better than that of extraordinary zombies.

Throughout the night, Lu Yan could clearly feel a clarity within his soul. His soul gradually became stronger, and he became more adept at controlling the resentful souls and the main soul within the Soul Banner.

In addition, the concentration of spiritual energy is ten times that of the urban version, and with the help of the moonlight spiritual energy, Lu Yan's cultivation is also advancing by leaps and bounds. According to the progress of his cultivation last night, he can be promoted to the second level of Qi training in less than a week. This speed is already extremely fast.

Looking outside, as the sun rose, all the zombies returned to the building. Lu Yan noticed that zombies gathered again inside buildings 12 and 13, which had been cleared out. They were all ordinary zombies that returned to the buildings at night and ran around in the wrong places.

After taking out a few bites of food from the storage bag, Lu Yan picked up the Soul Flag and started today's hunt.

We must move out of this neighborhood before nightfall today, but Lu Yan has already figured out the distribution of zombies in the neighborhood, so it would be a waste if we leave directly.

Therefore, Lu Yan decided to avoid the leader-level zombies and three extraordinary zombies in the middle stage of Qi training before leaving, and clean up the rest of the area.

The soul flag unfolded, and eight resentful souls flew through the floors, starting today's zombie hunting.

When the apocalyptic version just arrived yesterday, there were only four resentful souls in Lu Yan's soul banner. Today, with eight resentful souls plus a main soul, the efficiency has more than doubled.
Approaching a building, the strong man cooperated with the other wronged souls to kill the extraordinary zombies in the early stage of Qi training, followed by a one-sided massacre by the wronged souls.

The whole process would not even take more than ten minutes, and nearly two hundred zombies in a building would be slaughtered. Most of the rest of the time was spent on using the soul flag to refine the wandering souls of the zombies.

As time went by, the number of resentful souls within the Soul Banner began to grow rapidly.

Nine, ten, eleven. The hunting lasted from early morning till afternoon.

When Lu Yan finished clearing the fifteenth building, the number of resentful souls in the soul flag had reached twenty-seven.

As early as when the number of resentful souls reached ten, the Soul Banner had already been promoted to a mid-grade magical weapon.

And now, once all the twenty-seven resentful souls in the soul flag are released, the area within a hundred meters will be filled with ghostly shadows. An ordinary zombie in the early stage of Qi training will be torn to pieces by such a large number of resentful souls in an instant, and even a zombie in the middle stage of Qi training will find it difficult to withstand it.

Controlling the mid-grade soul flag and so many resentful souls is undoubtedly a huge burden for Lu Yan's current cultivation level.

Under normal circumstances, he could only leave the nine-headed ghost in the outside world to command.

Looking towards the center of the community, there were still a few buildings that had not been cleaned up, but they were too close to the leader-level zombies.

Although his strength has greatly increased at this moment, Lu Yan still doesn't dare to take the risk of provoking a leader-level zombie who is at the peak of Qi training.

Lu Yan turned around decisively and walked towards a building outside the community where there were no extraordinary zombies, with nine resentful spirits leading the way.

At night, the fifteenth day had passed. The full moon in the sky was incomplete, and the moonlight was much less than yesterday.

A large number of zombies walked out of the buildings again, and the extraordinary zombies also came to their respective territories.

In the Xingfu community, the leader-level zombie Bloodxu came to the roof, ready to start absorbing and exhaling the moonlight spiritual energy.

For some reason, Xuexu, who had just reached the top floor, suddenly discovered that the moonlight spiritual energy received by the zombies today was more than half less than usual, and was less than a quarter of the normal amount.

Although the extraordinary zombies are not very smart, they are not fools. This situation makes Xuexu furious and he tries to find the source of the problem.

But when Xuexu looked around, he found that the happy community that was usually crowded with zombies was now only left with a few hundred scattered zombies.

A large number of zombies disappeared in those buildings, leaving only piles of bones on the ground.

The angry roar suddenly resounded through the night sky!

(End of this chapter)