The End of the Extreme Dao: I Planted a Sacred Tree and Gained Immortality

Chapter 10 Fear
The footsteps were irregular, and finally all the sounds disappeared in front of Huo Ying's door.

The flames of the poplar wood suddenly became stronger.

Huo Ying, who had just relaxed, felt his heart rise to his throat again.

"It's a corpse ghost!"

"The corpse ghost that we didn't kill last time is here again!"

"And I called for help!"

Huo Ying put all the Yang stones on his body, picked up a torch, and stared at the door vigilantly.

Now, the air column in his body is only one-fifth.

The corpse ghost came at such a coincidence that he only had one chance to use Wood Release.

Holding his breath, Huo Ying listened to the noise outside the door.

Plop, plop, crackle.

The quiet night is eerie.

There was not a breath of wind.

The only sounds in the room were Huo Ying's heartbeat and the burning fire.

The footsteps stopped outside the door and then there was no more movement.

Huo Ying only felt his skin tingling and a tense electric sensation running through his body.

He saw more than a dozen zombies surrounding the house.

They dragged their rotten corpses, raised their pale faces, and each one stared at himself with its smelly eyes.

The Yangshi in my arms felt burned.

Huo Ying came back to his senses.

It was an illusion again. The corpse outside the door began to confuse me again.

Subconsciously, Huo Ying looked towards the window. It was pitch black outside the window and the corpse was not under the window.

Gulu.

Huo Ying swallowed, the silence made him feel extremely uneasy.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Huo Ying only felt his muscles swelling. Seeing that the firewood in the fire was half burned, Huo Ying reacted and realized that he had been confronting the corpse ghost outside the door for nearly two hours.

wrong!

There is clearly a group of zombies outside, why don't they launch an attack? They can consume my resources at any cost until all my resources are exhausted.

What are they doing!
The air column in Huo Ying's body also recovered to two-fifths.

Huo Ying felt more confident as he could use Wood Release one more time.

"These guys are scaring me!"

Huo Ying thought of the corpse ghost's intention.

The corpse ghosts were hurt by Huo Ying's Wood Release ability, and some were afraid of Huo Ying's ability to shoot fire without leaving any trace. They were creating a terrifying atmosphere to oppress themselves, trying to drive themselves crazy, drive them mad, scare them into weakness, and want to get rid of themselves at the lowest cost.

Corpse ghost, do you have such IQ?
Huo Ying thought of the riot that Zhang Yuqi had mentioned during the day. This group of zombies were planned, organized, and had hallucinogenic abilities. They were good at taking revenge on humans, but they were restrained by the poplar wood flames and yang stones that possessed the power of the sun, so they did not force humans into a desperate situation.

Huo Ying hesitated for a long time, and finally chose to trust his own judgment. He did not confront the corpse ghost again, but hugged the Yangshi and held the torch, hid in a corner where the window could not see him, leaned against the wall, half-closed his eyes, and rested while being on guard.

A few more hours passed, and when Huo Ying was feeling drowsy, the door suddenly creaked.

It was the sound of fingernails scratching the door. Huo Yingshuai stood up subconsciously.

But it became quiet outside the door again, as if the stingy sound was an illusion that Huo Ying heard.

Damn, there is a group of zombies outside the door. Even if I see through their plan, who can rest peacefully in this situation!

Another hour passed and the sound of the door opening was heard again. After a squeak, it became quiet again.

Huo Ying added some firewood to the fire and suppressed his urge to go out and fight the corpse ghost.

This group of zombies are just to wear me down. If I confront them at night, I won't have the energy to collect resources during the day.

If I don't sleep at night and collect resources during the day, I won't be able to hold on for a few days. I will become weak and by then I won't even be able to resist the corpse ghost's illusion.

The correct approach is to ignore the harassment from the zombies. With the Yang Stone and the flame, it is impossible for the zombies to break through the door in an instant, and you always have a chance to react.

I must rest!
Huo Ying recalled his battle with the spider infection over and over again in his mind. After thinking about it for more than ten times, Huo Ying's nervous heart suddenly relaxed.

The attack capability of that infected spider is very difficult to defend against. Even Zhang Yuqi might fall into the spider web trap. But with Wood Release, no matter how many times she fights with the spider, Huo Ying will definitely win!
I don't need to be afraid, they are the ones I should be afraid of!
Huo Ying kept encouraging himself and finally fell asleep amid the disturbance of the zombies.

After an unknown amount of time, there was a knock on the door.

Huo Ying opened his eyes drowsily and found that sunlight was already shining in through the window.

Outside the door, Zhang Yuqi shouted anxiously: "Huo Ying, are you okay? Why haven't you made any noise?"

Huo Ying was about to respond when he suddenly sneered.

This corpse ghost is too dedicated. He wants to confuse me when I am weak. No matter what happens to me, Zhang Yuqi would never knock on the door so rashly.

Without saying a word, Huo Ying slowly walked towards the door with the Yang Stone and torch.

Hearing the noise in the house, Zhang Yuqi's voice stopped abruptly.

Then footsteps were heard outside the door, and the footsteps got farther and farther away.

After being injured by Huo Ying through the door last time, the corpse ghost learned its lesson. Seeing that Huo Ying was not trapped by the illusion, it immediately ran away and no longer approached the house.

These guys.

Huo Ying spat and did not waste the air column. He waited in the house for a while. When the sun had risen completely, Huo Ying roasted the red yang stone to feel it. The yang stone did not get hot. Then he opened the door, picked up the shoulder pole, and hurried to the stream.

The corpse ghosts must be dealt with. Even with Zhang Yuqi's skills, Sister Bai said that if a corpse ghost entered the room, two people would die. Huo Ying didn't think that he could withstand the siege of a group of corpse ghosts by relying on Wood Release.

He could only try various methods.

Since there are countless parasites and terrible microorganisms in the stream, is it possible that the stream that can devour humans can also devour corpses?

Could the dangerous stream be a weapon sent by God to humans?
Carrying the bucket back to the house, Huo Ying did not filter the stream water. Instead, he used Wood Release to create a ladder and climbed to the roof with the bucket.

After observing the position of the eaves, Huo Ying discovered that if a water trough was built on the eaves, when the corpse ghost came to scratch the door, he could use Wood Release to overturn the water trough, and the stream water could be poured onto the gate.

In addition to the main door, the corpse ghost also likes to hide near the window. Huo Ying measured the distance and found that one sink was not enough, so a separate one had to be built near the window.

Huo Ying arranged two poplar trees, then used wood escape technique. The two wooden strips grew into the shape of canoes, and then slowly stretched the edges and corners to become two rectangular wooden troughs for water storage.

This change consumed three-fifths of Huo Ying's air column, but Huo Ying felt it was worth it. He poured two buckets of water into the wooden trough, and the water level in the wooden trough defending the gate rose by one-third.

Three round trips will fill a wooden trough, and five more trips are needed to completely complete the trap.

Huo Ying glanced at the sun. It was very bright and there was enough time.

As it was a matter of life and death, Huo Ying was full of energy. He ate two baked potatoes and drank a few gulps of water. The sun was still high above his head, and it was only a little past noon when Huo Ying had filled two water tanks.

(End of this chapter)