Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 291 Powerful Trump Card, Unexpected Events [Please Subscribe]

The appearance of the Earth Armored Dragon was expected.

However, when faced with attacks from both the Earth Armor Dragon and the Blue-faced Zombie at the same time, Zhou Mingde and his companions still felt immense pressure.

The Earth Armor Dragon is easy to deal with. Although it is a mid-grade third-tier demon beast, its attack methods are not particularly strong among demon beasts of the same tier, so it does not pose a great threat to the three of them.

But the blue-faced zombie was completely different.

This blue-faced zombie was extremely fast, no less so than a mid-grade third-tier demon beast like the Fire God Jackal. In the relatively limited space of the main tomb chamber, its speed advantage was amplified to the extreme.

At the same time, its defense is extremely strong. Not only is the robe it wears difficult to be damaged by ordinary magical artifacts, but its physical constitution is also stronger than that of the Fire God Jackal.

If it has any shortcomings, it's its attack methods.

Because it is a zombie conceived from a special item called the Xuan Yin Jade Coffin, it has very few attack methods. Apart from close-range attacks, it can only use two methods: spewing out corpse gas and poisonous mist and corpse flames.

However, neither the corpse gas, poisonous mist, nor corpse flames posed a significant threat to Zhou Mingde and his companions.

The most threatening attack is its swarming attack.

Relying on its powerful physical body, the attack is comparable to that of a high-grade third-tier demon beast. Moreover, the corpse aura swirling around its claws has an all-pervasive penetrating power and is accompanied by corpse poison.

Even a powerful third-tier mid-grade demon beast like the Fire God Jackal was quickly suppressed in a head-on confrontation and was even scratched in multiple places.

Fortunately, the powerful demonic fire of the Fire God Jackal has a strong refining effect on the corpse poison; otherwise, it might have been poisoned after only a few bites.

Overall, the strength of the Green-Faced Zombie is still somewhat inferior to that of a late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator, and it can be regarded as a powerful mid-grade third-tier demonic beast.

That is why Zhou Mingde and his companions continued fighting the Blue-Faced Zombie and the Earth Armor Dragon after exchanging a few blows with them.

"Fellow Daoists, this zombie will be difficult to kill in a short time. It would be better to concentrate our forces to kill that Earth Armor Dragon first!"

After several exchanges, Zhou Mingde saw that the three men's attacks were having little effect on the blue-faced zombie, so he decisively sent a telepathic message to Shen Borong and Ruan Hongzhuang, expressing his opinion.

Upon hearing his words, Shen Borong quickly nodded in agreement, "Alright, then Fellow Daoist Zhou, hold off that zombie for now, while Fellow Daoist Ruan and I will join forces to deal with that earth-armored dragon!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Mingde couldn't help but frown slightly.

He originally intended for Shen Borong to hold off the blue-faced zombie first, while he and Ruan Hongzhuang would then kill the earth-armored dragon.

Unexpectedly, Shen Borong preemptively pushed the difficult task onto him.

For a time, he was like a mute eating bitter herbs, suffering in silence.

However, the situation on the scene clearly did not allow him to think too much, so after a brief hesitation, he gritted his teeth and agreed for the sake of the overall situation.

"Zhou did his best!"

As he spoke, he exerted all his strength to activate his magical artifacts and, together with the Fire God Jackal, began to deal with the blue-faced zombie.

With Zhou Mingde doing his best to restrain and block them, the pressure on Shen Borong and Ruan Hongzhuang was greatly reduced.

No longer needing to worry about the threat from the blue-faced zombie, the two immediately rallied their spirits and began to besiege the earth-armored dragon.

They were both very familiar with this earth-armored dragon, and with their cooperation, they quickly beat it until it cried out in agony, completely powerless to fight back.

However, the main burial chamber is underground, and the earth-armored dragon seems to possess a token left by the tomb owner for entry and exit, allowing it to freely enter and exit the tomb.

After being brutally beaten by Shen Borong and his companion and unable to retaliate, it used its earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic that allows it to escape into the soil) technique to play a game of hide-and-seek with the two. It would occasionally disappear into the soil of the stone wall and then suddenly emerge to attack the two, and even attack Zhou Mingde.

In this way, the three's plan to kill the Earth Armor Dragon first has undoubtedly failed.

"Sigh! Let's retreat for now. It seems we can't achieve our goal in one fell swoop today!"

With a deep sigh, Zhou Mingde couldn't help but speak first, revealing his intention to withdraw.

He has always been a person who can take things in stride and let them go. He will not force himself to do something he knows is impossible unless absolutely necessary.

Although the treasure was right in front of him, and it would be a pity to give it up, he didn't want to risk his life.

But just after he uttered the words of retreat, Shen Borong suddenly said, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, if I have a way to kill that Earth Armor Dragon, could I have priority in choosing the spoils afterward?"

Ok?

Zhou Mingde and Ruan Hongzhuang both turned their attention to Shen Borong, not expecting him to say such a thing.

Facing their gazes, Shen Borong calmly explained, "Fellow Daoists, there's no need to look at me like that. If I were to slay the Earth Armor Dragon, I would need to use a precious trump card. Therefore, prioritizing a treasure is not unreasonable!"

His words made sense; after all, losing a treasure that served as a trump card should indeed be compensated.

However, since it involved the relics of a Golden Core cultivator, and without knowing what treasures were inside, Shen Borong's request was somewhat unacceptable.

"Prioritizing these items is fine, but treasures of this caliber are an exception!"

After hesitating for a while, Zhou Mingde finally gave a conditional response.

Without a doubt, the most important relic of a Golden Core cultivator is the magic weapon he used during his lifetime.

Even a magical artifact, even one that other cultivators cannot fully utilize to its full potential, is a treasure worth hundreds of thousands of spirit coins.

Such a treasure is incomparable to any trump card used by a cultivator at the Purple Mansion stage.

Therefore, Zhou Mingde would never agree to Shen Borong's desire to have the right to choose the magic weapon.

Shen Borong himself was clearly aware of this.

Therefore, after hearing Zhou Mingde's words, he immediately and readily replied, "No problem, I'm not that greedy."

After speaking, he turned to Ruan Hongzhuang and asked, "Fellow Daoist Ruan, what is your opinion?"

Upon hearing this, the beautiful woman in the red dress immediately replied, "If Fellow Daoist Shen can slay the Earth Armor Dragon, then it is only right that he chooses the treasures first. I have no objection."

"Very well, since you two fellow Daoists have agreed, then let's see what I, Shen, can do!"

With a satisfied smile on his face, Shen Borong immediately reached out and patted the storage bag at his waist, taking out a jade box from it.

As he opened the jade box, Zhou Mingde and Ruan Hongzhuang finally knew what his trump card was.

Inside the jade box was a talisman.

"It seems that talisman has something special about it, otherwise an ordinary talisman wouldn't be able to kill that earth-armored dragon!"

Zhou Mingde's eyes flickered slightly, and he also paid more attention to Shen Borong.

And so, when the Earth Armor Dragon once again pounced out of the stone wall to attack Ruan Hongzhuang, Shen Borong decisively activated the talisman.

A bright yellow light shone from inside the tomb, and a phantom image of a bowl-shaped, earthen-yellow magical artifact appeared in mid-air.

"Certainly!"

Suddenly, a shout burst from Shen Borong's mouth.

Immediately, a beam of yellow light shot out from the bowl-shaped magical artifact and landed on the earth-armored dragon in the blink of an eye.

Strangely enough, although the Earth Armor Dragon was clearly protected by a ring of yellow spiritual light, the yellow glow easily penetrated the yellow spiritual light and landed on it.

After being enveloped by the yellow glow, the Earth Armor Dragon's body was immediately frozen in mid-air, as if it had been hit by a spell, unable to move.

In this situation, let alone using earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a technique for escaping), it would be difficult for it to even move its body.

At this moment, Shen Borong pointed at the Earth Armor Dragon, which was frozen in mid-air, and the bowl-shaped magical artifact phantom transformed into a yellow light and crashed down on it.

Bang!

With a muffled thud, the Earth Armor Dragon's head was smashed into pieces by the bowl-shaped magical artifact phantom, its brains splattering everywhere.

A mid-grade third-tier demonic beast died on the spot without any power to resist!

This scene shocked both Zhou Mingde and Ruan Hongzhuang.

When the two looked at Shen Borong again, a hint of fear had already crept in.

Originally, although Shen Borong was at the mid-stage of the Purple Mansion realm, his strength was not particularly outstanding; he was just an ordinary mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivator.

Even Zhou Mingde, who possessed the power of the Fire God Jackal, did not consider him a rival at all, believing that he could easily defeat him.

But now, after witnessing Shen Borong's two moves to kill the Earth Armor Dragon, he was filled with shock and fear.

It is obvious that since Shen Borong was able to kill the Earth Armor Dragon in two moves, he could very well kill the Fire God Jackal, which is also a mid-grade third-tier demon beast, in two moves!

If they were to target Zhou Mingde, it would probably be a matter of two moves for him as well!

"What level of magic weapon was used to forge that talisman? Could it be a legendary spiritual treasure?!"

Zhou Mingde muttered to himself, feeling utterly incredulous.

He had used talismans before and seen them many times.

However, no matter what talisman he had used or what talisman he had seen, none of them were as powerful as the one Shen Borong used.

In his memory, only the pseudo-magic weapon that Daoist Mingxia had used back then possessed such powerful energy.

But that's a fake magic weapon!

Ruan Hongzhuang was also deeply shocked.

Although she and Shen Borong are from the same country, they didn't actually have much interaction before.

Therefore, she did not expect that Shen Borong had such a powerful trump card hidden away.

If I had known this earlier, why would I have clashed with Zhou Mingde in the first place...?

Just as she was thinking about these things, she suddenly heard Zhou Mingde's obsequious voice: "Since Fellow Daoist Shen has such methods, why not take this opportunity to deal with this blue-faced zombie as well? Then you can not only choose the treasures first, but you can even have the magic weapons!"

So this guy can be scared too!

She chuckled inwardly and couldn't help but glance at Shen Borong.

If Shen Borong can really deal with the blue-faced zombie as well, then she and Zhou Mingde will have no chance to compete with it for the magic weapon left behind by the Golden Core cultivator.

After all, neither of them knew they could withstand a full combo from Shen Borong.

However, Shen Borong's response surprised both of them.

With a swift wave of his hand, he transformed the bowl-shaped magical artifact back into a talisman and stored it in the jade box, then quickly closed the lid and put it away.

He then shook his head at the two of them and said, "I appreciate your kindness, but the power of talismans is limited and should not be used excessively. Let's work together to kill that zombie!"

Is that really the case?

Zhou Mingde and Ruan Hongzhuang's eyes flickered slightly, harboring doubts about Shen Borong's statement.

Although the power sealed by the talisman is indeed limited, a portion of its power will be permanently lost after each use.

But if we can kill the blue-faced zombie and directly obtain a magic weapon, then it's a win no matter what!

Despite their doubts, since Shen Borong was unwilling to take action again, the two could not force him.

Therefore, after a glint of light flashed in Zhou Mingde's eyes, he quickly nodded and replied, "Alright, now that the Earth Armor Dragon is no longer a threat, the three of us working together are enough to eliminate this zombie."

The Blue-Faced Zombie is, after all, a monster without intelligence, and unlike the Earth Armor Dragon, it is not proficient in the life-saving earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of escape technique).

Three cultivators at the Purple Mansion stage, along with a third-tier demonic beast, surrounded and attacked it. They could slowly wear it down until it died.

Time passed slowly, and soon another two hours had gone by.

After more than two hours of siege, the green-faced zombie gradually lost its previous ferocity under the attack of Zhou Mingde and others.

If it weren't for the concern that excessive force would damage the storage pouch and spirit beast pouch on its chest, it would be severely injured, if not dead.

Seeing the now-dead, ferocious-looking blue-faced zombie, Zhou Mingde had an idea. He suddenly said to Ruan Hongzhuang, "Fellow Daoist Ruan, let's work together to restrain this fiend's size, and Fellow Daoist Shen can try to behead it!"

Before Ruan Hongzhuang could even speak, Shen Borong readily agreed, saying, "Great idea! For zombies that haven't formed their corpse cores, cutting off their heads will cripple most of their power, making it easier for us to retrieve the storage bag and spirit beast bag first!"

"Since both of you fellow Daoists agree, I am naturally willing to cooperate!"

Ruan Hongzhuang nodded slightly, agreeing with Zhou Mingde's suggestion.

Immediately, she seized the opportunity and used the silver-gray bracelet magic artifact that had once bound the tail of the earth armor dragon, putting it on the left wrist of the blue-faced zombie.

The purpose of this magical artifact is to imprison and interfere with the flow of magical power within the target's body. After the blue-faced zombie's wrist was bound by it, the corpse energy within its body was immediately suppressed.

At the same time, under Zhou Mingde's command, the Vulcan pounced forward and bit the right arm of the blue-faced zombie, pinning it to the ground.

Roar!

The blue-faced zombie roared in pain and immediately opened its fangs to bite at the head of the Vulcan.

But at that moment, a flying sword seized the opportunity and plunged into its mouth, knocking its head backward with tremendous force.

It's now!

A glint flashed in Shen Borong's eyes, and he immediately formed a sword incantation, unleashing a sharp golden sword light that slashed towards the neck of the blue-faced zombie.

The neck is one of the weak points of the blue-faced zombie, as it is not protected by the blue robe it wears and is relatively more vulnerable than other parts of its body.

Despite this, when Shen Borong's flying sword struck it, it was like a knife cleaving a tree trunk. Although it successfully cleaved through, it failed to truly decapitate the target and instead got the flying sword stuck inside.

Just as Shen Borong was about to press on and continue to exert his strength to completely sever the remaining less than one-third of the muscle with his flying sword, an accident occurred!

This unexpected event did not originate from the blue-faced zombie, but from Zhou Mingde.

(End of this chapter)