The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

On the highway in Dayun City, Wang Qi was driving, pressing the accelerator hard, the tires screeching sharply on the empty streets.

Gongsun Baizhan sat in the passenger seat, one hand gripping the roof railing and the other on the hilt of his sword at his waist. His body swayed back and forth with the car's sharp turns, and his face looked rather unwell.

"Do you always drive this recklessly?" Gongsun Baizhan's voice was broken by the wind.

"I'm in a hurry!" Wang Qi didn't even turn his head, stepped on the gas, and the car shot forward a long way.

We have arrived at the assembly point in area C-4-2 as indicated in the distress call.

Before the car had even come to a complete stop, Wang Qi spotted the meeting point.

It wasn't the buildings at the center that I saw, but rather the soaring, murky, sticky energy fluctuations that I felt, like a black column of smoke piercing straight into the sky.

"Holy shit," Gongsun Baizhan said.

"Damn it," Wang Qi said.

The two men's assessments were surprisingly consistent.

The situation at the assembly point was worse than they had anticipated; a gap had even appeared in the black defensive line formed by the torchbearers!

As soon as Wang Qi got out of the car, a silver-badged officer at the C-4-2 area gathering point spotted them and shouted at Wang Qi and Gongsun Baizhan, "Two Tier 5 Lustful Corpse Species have already escaped!"

"They headed southeast towards the Dafa Shopping Mall!"

Wang Qi and Gongsun Baizhan immediately realized that two Lustful Corpse Species had already broken through the defenses and slipped out through the gap!

Their purpose in going to crowded shopping malls is very clear: there is no other reason than to absorb negative emotions!

Wang Qi didn't have time to think much and immediately made a judgment: we must solve the problem at the current gathering point first, otherwise more lustful corpses will escape, and the situation will only get worse!

As for the two that ran away, even if they absorb negative emotions and become stronger, they can only stay a little longer!

He and Gongsun Baizhan rushed into the assembly point and joined the battle without saying a word.

With the addition of Wang Qi and Gongsun Baizhan, the battle situation immediately reversed. Although Wang Qi was only at the fifth level, his blue flames were extremely domineering. He had even killed sixth-level corpses, let alone a fifth-level one.

Long spears of blue flame were thrown out, burning the parasitic bodies of the fifth-tier and lower-tier Lustful Corpse Species like burning paper.

Gongsun Baizhan's sword was also fast and accurate. The two of them, along with the other torchbearers at the gathering point, worked together to clear out the more than ten fifth-tier corpses in the gathering point in less than ten minutes.

The Torchbearer squad leader, whose pressure had eased slightly, wiped the sweat from his face, nodded to Wang Qi, said nothing polite, and turned to lead his men to clean up the remaining low-level corpses.

Wang Qi and Gongsun Baizhan exchanged a glance and ran towards the mall at the same time.

Those with the best physical condition and the highest combat strength were the best candidates to pursue the two Lustful Corpse Species that broke through the defense line.

Meanwhile, at the Dafa Shopping Mall.

It no longer resembles a shopping mall.

The glass door was shattered, and the escalator was crookedly stopped, with the shoes of several people who hadn't managed to escape lying upside down on the steps.

The cosmetics counters on the first floor were mostly overturned, and the air was filled with a strange smell that was a mixture of perfume, blood, and some kind of burnt smell.

Two lustful corpses stood in the courtyard, like two diners choosing food in a buffet, leisurely reaping the lives around them.

"Aaaaaaah! There's a monster!!!"

"Help!"

"My legs!!!"

"Someone, please save me!!!"

Cries, screams, and calls for help came from every corner of the mall, blending into a cacophony of noise.

With each increase in those sounds, the aura of the two corpses surged upwards.

Fifth-order Class B... Fifth-order Class A... Sixth-order Class C...

By the time Wang Qi and Gongsun Baizhan arrived, the two lustful corpses had already grown to the sixth-order grade B level.

"Damn it!"

Seeing the devastation inside the mall, Wang Qi felt a surge of anger and resentment. He cursed, and blue flames shot out from his palms, turning his hands into two dark blue orbs.

Gongsun Baizhan drew his sword, the blade flashing briefly in the lamplight.

He didn't speak, but his grip on the sword tightened a bit more than usual.

Without hesitation or retreat, the two exchanged a glance, their understanding unspoken, and with a single movement, charged forward without a second thought.

With the help of the Crimson Flame Ice Shard Grass, Wang Qi has broken through to the fifth-tier A level, while Gongsun Baizhan is at the fifth-tier B level, and his strength is not bad either.

But the opponents were two Rank 6 Grade B corpses, a whole rank higher than them!

Fortunately, the combat power of the Lustful Corpse Species itself is not considered very strong among those of the same level, and Wang Qi's blue flames are indeed domineering. For a time, the two fifth-level beings actually managed to hold off two sixth-level beings.

Blue flames roared, and the clashes between the longsword and the black energy attacks emitted by the Lustful Corpse Species were deafening.

Two figures and two sixth-tier Lustful Corpse Species were locked in fierce combat amidst the ruins of the shopping mall.

Unfortunately, even though Wang Qi used the Two Elements Incineration technique, he could only hold them off.

A moment later, Wang Qi sensed something was wrong.

Each time his blue flames struck the stronger Fiend Corpse, the damage they caused became less and less. It wasn't that his flames were getting weaker, but rather that the opponent was getting stronger!

The two lustful corpses continued to absorb the negative emotions permeating the mall, growing stronger and more troublesome every second!

But Wang Qi also called for help through his headset: "There are two Tier 6 Lustful Corpse Species in the Dafa Shopping Mall southeast of the C-4-2 area's assembly point, come quickly!"

Upon hearing Wang Qi's plea for help...

The stronger Lustful Corpse Species that was entangled with Wang Qi stopped its attack, its turbid eyes darting around.

Its gaze shifted from Wang Qi to Gongsun Baizhan, and then from Gongsun Baizhan to the other member of its own kind that was beating Gongsun Baizhan.

Its gaze lingered on its own kind for less than half a second.

Then, it moved.

It wasn't attacking Wang Qi, nor Gongsun Baizhan, but rather it stabbed a claw into the chest of the corpse next to it.

The movement was so swift and decisive, as if it were the most normal thing in the world, that the fighting zombie didn't even have time to react.

Its eyes widened for a moment, a hint of confusion flashing in its turbid pupils, before it turned into a wisp of black smoke.

The black smoke wasn't dispersed by the wind; instead, it was swallowed whole by the stronger zombie that opened its mouth.

"Hehehe—" it let out a chilling laugh, "Useless trash, you might as well become my nourishment!"

The effect is immediate.

Its aura surged dramatically the moment it swallowed its own kind, and it also monopolized the negative emotions within the mall.

It covered the range from sixth-order B to sixth-order A in less than three seconds, and it continued to climb.

The aura was fluctuating stronger and stronger, getting closer and closer to a critical point, like a pot of water boiling, which could burst open the lid at any moment.

It's a sixth-tier Class A, and it's even very close to the seventh tier.

Wang Qi understood that the other side had heard his plea for help and was preparing for a swift victory!

If he could barely put up a fight against a sixth-tier Class B, then the Lustful Corpse Seed, which was now approaching the seventh tier, was beyond his ability to handle.

The aura of the raging succubus corpse turned to Wang Qi and said, "Hehehe, a genius among humans?"

"Your screams will surely be more melodious than those of ordinary humans, hehehehe—"

Feeling the sticky aura of someone about to break through to the seventh rank, Wang Qi no longer hesitated. He nodded to Gongsun Baizhan, who was already bruised and swollen, and reached into the inner pocket of his trench coat, touching the pure white dagger.

To be honest, he was a little reluctant to use it.

This item was given to him by Lao Wu; it's a top-tier item capable of instantly killing a seventh-tier being. Wang Qi felt it was a bit of a waste to use it on something that hadn't even reached the seventh tier yet.

But even if you're reluctant to give it up, you still have to use it; you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

No more dwelling on it.

He held the talisman sword between his index and middle fingers, aimed it at the lustful corpse that was frantically absorbing negative energy and whose energy fluctuations were constantly rising, and then activated it.

The pure white talisman sword flashed at his fingertips.

Then it transformed into a pure white, ethereal sword light.

The sword light was not large, not dazzling, not ostentatious, as gentle as a breeze, as quiet as a petal falling on the water.

It flew out from between Wang Qi's fingers, drawing an almost invisible arc in the air before passing through the body of the lustful corpse.

There was no explosion, no shockwave, and no other unusual noise.

The lustful corpse, still chuckling, suddenly realized that its body seemed to have been pierced by something.

The next moment, its laughter abruptly stopped, and it looked down at the spot in its body pierced by the sword light: "This is—"

Then, before it could finish speaking, its body began to crack from the spot where the sword light had pierced it, spreading out in dense, intricate cracks both upwards and downwards, like a piece of shattered porcelain.

Then, it turned into a thick cloud of black smoke.

The black smoke lingered in the air of the mall's atrium for about two or three seconds before disappearing silently without leaving a trace.

Wang Qi watched the black smoke completely dissipate, then looked down at the talisman sword that had vanished from his fingers. He nodded, somewhat pained, and said, "It really worked..."

Seeing this, Gongsun Baizhan also touched the small sword in his pocket, his gratitude growing even stronger.

Meanwhile, in mid-air.

Wu You is moving at high speed.

Suddenly, a notification appeared on the Sword Codex panel.

Experience points +4000.

Wu You frowned: Four thousand experience points is the experience points provided by an ordinary sixth-tier corpse, but the problem is, he didn't kill any sixth-tier corpses just now.

Where did it come from?

Wu You narrowed his eyes, quickly piecing together the information in his mind.

Could it be a talisman sword?

The talisman sword was formed from his power, so if the corpses killed by the talisman sword could be considered as killed by him and thus provide him with experience points, that makes sense.

Having figured this out, Wu You's expression became somewhat strange: although four thousand experience points were indeed not much for him now, what if he did more and gave them to more people so that they could kill zombies in various places?

Although he killed the zombies very quickly, he was still alone.

Human resources are sometimes limited.

But what if there are enough people?

Moreover, talisman swords can be mass-produced; if everyone used talisman swords to kill zombies...

But then, a number of corresponding questions popped into his mind:

Rune swords are all disposable, and making a rune sword also requires a certain amount of time and effort. A rune sword can basically only kill one corpse species, so the efficiency is not high.

Is there any way to improve the efficiency of the rune sword in killing zombies and reduce the wear and tear of the rune sword?

An idea immediately popped into Wu You's mind: Could the power of the talisman sword be activated in stages? Or could the user selectively activate the power within the talisman sword based on the specific situation they face?

After all, it would be a waste to use a rune sword that can instantly kill a seventh-tier monster to kill a sixth-tier or even lower-tier corpse species, just like in the situation just now.

That power could be broken down into multiple sixth-tier powers, or even more fourth- or fifth-tier powers, for use. In this way, a single talisman sword could be used many times.

If it is possible to activate the rune sword in stages, it can indeed improve the efficiency of killing corpses with the rune sword while reducing the wear and tear on the rune sword.

Thinking of this, Wu You was stunned. An item that could be used multiple times and could unleash power beyond its own level—wasn't this the kind of "magic weapon" he had seen in online novels in his previous life?

But now the problem is, how do we add a switch or restriction to the talisman sword so that it can be used multiple times?

Wu You turned his gaze to the Sword Manual panel.

Sword Imbuing Talisman Technique (Minor Success) (102/3000)

He has now reached a minor level of mastery in the art of planting talismans and imbuing swords, but he still cannot modify the talisman swords.

Perhaps after reaching perfection, one will have a different understanding.

With this thought in mind, Wu You withdrew his thoughts and continued moving at high speed toward the next rendezvous point. The wind whistled past his ears, and the streets of Dayun City rushed past him in his field of vision.

He didn't have time to think about this issue in depth for the time being, but after he perfected the Talisman Sword Technique, he might be able to try to create a magic weapon version of the Talisman Sword.