108: Chapter 108 Cursed Evil Corpse

"Everyone, get ready for battle! If we don't get rid of this thing, we can forget about treasure hunting!"

"No melee, focus fire from a distance! Hurry!"

"It's no use, it's too fast, we can't hit it at all!"

"Watch out! It's charging!"

The group of Beast Tamers immediately took a defensive stance and began to resist the zombie monster's assault.

However, the zombie monster was like a tiger in a flock of sheep, wreaking havoc as it darted through the crowd, relying on its extreme speed and the terrifying poisonous corrosion covering its body.

The Beast Tamers' formation collapsed instantly, and they could only dodge and retreat in a sorry state.

All long-range attacks missed one after another due to its high-speed irregular movement, and no one dared to get close for melee!

At this moment, Chen Yi narrowed his eyes.

A system interface floated before his eyes.

However, it wasn't the system interface for a spirit beast or magic beast, but for an item.

[Cursed Evil Corpse: One-Star]

[A product under the rules of the heart of the secret realm. Anyone who dies from wind poison will turn into this. The guardian's rank is the same as the deceased's rank in life, and its strength is roughly equivalent to an S-grade spirit beast bloodline.]

[Note: This target possesses a large amount of wind-attribute spiritual energy. After being killed by a wind-attribute spirit beast, the spiritual energy within can be refined to nurture oneself!]

"So it's a guardian of the secret realm?"

"In that case, when those two people earlier were pierced through the chest by thorns and turned to ash, it wasn't actually a skill of the Crimson Flame Demon Tree."

"Instead, it's because dying from a fire-attribute attack results in that kind of death, am I right?"

[Yes!]

[This is a unique mechanism of the heart of the secret realm of the Five Elements Secret Realm!]

[After being killed by any of the five attributes, one will encounter a different curse!]

"Is that so? This Five Elements Secret Realm is quite interesting!"

Different attributes have different effects, and even dying from an attack of a certain attribute yields different death-rattle effects.

It doesn't feel like a secret realm, but rather like a natural training ground.

*Swoosh—*

A ghastly green claw shadow flashed past!

"Arghhh—"

A shrill scream rang out!

A Spirit Beast Girl who failed to dodge was pierced through the shoulder by the Cursed Evil Corpse's sharp claws!

Poisonous and corrosive power instantly invaded!

Her Beast Tamer's eyes bulged with rage as he roared and tried to rush forward to save her, but he was held back tightly by his companions: "Don't go! It's dangerous!"

In the next second, a scene occurred that was enough to destroy all will to resist!

The body of the heavily injured Spirit Beast Girl began to twitch violently and unnaturally the moment she was tossed aside!

Dark green rapidly spread from the wound, and her skin visibly shriveled and discolored.

Only ten seconds later.

Under the horrified gazes of everyone, she stopped struggling, her body twisting in an equally eerie way as she slowly crawled up from the ground.

She also emitted a ghastly green glow, and her cloudy white eyes stared fixedly at everyone present.

She had actually transformed into a second Cursed Evil Corpse!

"This... how is this possible?"

"If you're killed by it, you'll also turn into that monster?"

"There are two of them! We couldn't even handle one, and now there are two?"

"It's over, completely over! We're all going to die here! We'll all turn into those monsters!"

Panic completely devolved into wails of despair.

Facing two agile Cursed Evil Corpses that caused death upon touch and could even transform others, the remaining Beast Tamers' fighting spirit completely collapsed.

Some slumped to the ground, others fled in all directions; the scene was completely out of control.

"Little Brother Chen Yi, should we... take action?"

Luo Shiyin looked at the two Cursed Evil Corpses wreaking havoc in the field and asked tremulously, "If this continues, the more people killed, the more evil corpses there will be. If a Corpse Tide forms, we might also—"

She didn't finish, but the meaning was self-evident.

Hearing this, Chen Yi pondered for a moment.

The reason he hadn't let The girls act yet.

On one hand, he was worried that if they accidentally got poisoned, they would also turn into those zombie-like forms;

On the other hand, Chen Yi wanted these people to back off and leave the heart of the secret realm obediently.

He had no intention of playing the savior.

But the situation before him was out of control. If he allowed these two evil corpses to continue killing and transforming, their numbers would grow exponentially, which would indeed cause huge trouble.

The girls were also eager to try, so there was no need to dampen their enthusiasm.

Chen Yi nodded: "Let's do it! Looking at them, they shouldn't have long-range moves—but Tao Tao, you stay out of this. I don't like loli zombies!"

Hearing this, Su Taotao curled her lip and murmured, "I already said I'm not a loli—"

"Alright, alright, now is not the time for this! You stay and protect Moon Pupil and Xing Tong. Move further back; absolutely do not get near the battlefield!"

After all, Chen Yi didn't know.

If Su Taotao used the power of the Taotie to devour the power of the Cursed Evil Corpse, would she also be eroded by that poison?

"Okay, I understand!"

Su Taotao nodded and immediately took Hua Yuetong and Hua Xingtong's hands, quickly retreating behind a relatively safe rock at the edge of the battlefield, alertly observing the surroundings.

"Roar—"

The two Cursed Evil Corpses rampaged, and with their "death-upon-touch" trait.

The spirit beasts' formation was smashed to pieces in minutes, as they didn't dare get close to them.

Despair gradually appeared on the faces of the Beast Tamers.

They had barely survived the attack of the Burst Wind Vultures, and now something even more fierce had appeared.

Were they really going to die here?

Just then, Lin Mengxue, Luo Shiyin, and Yan Jiuyue joined the battle.

Since the Cursed Evil Corpses only attacked those at the fourth rank or above, they almost only needed to provide long-range firepower like attacking training dummies.

However, the result was somewhat unexpected.

Frost Breath froze an area, but only left frost on the ground after the evil corpse had already darted past;

Wind Blades flew past the evil corpse's afterimage, shattering a rock;

Eerie Fox Fire scorched the air, but only singed the trail of the foul-smelling wind left by the evil corpse; they couldn't hit it at all!

"Dammit! Too fast!"

"Slippery as an eel!"

"Why can't it be like in games where hitting friendly units doesn't cause damage?"

The evil corpse's dodging ability was beyond imagination, and its movement path was completely irregular.

Coupled with the presence of "teammates," it was impossible to use large-scale area-of-effect attacks.

If two or three out of ten attacks managed to graze it, that was considered good, and the damage dealt was like scratching an itch through a boot.

Seeing this, Chen Yi's brow furrowed slightly.

"Is it really that fast? This is a bit tricky—"

While thinking, Chen Yi suddenly made a very extravagant decision.

He took out an ice jade fruit from his space ring and held it out in front of him.

This thing was part of Yan Jiuyue's dowry, and it was time to use it.

Su Taotao, who had retreated to a safe corner, saw this and asked somewhat blankly, "What's wrong, Brother Chen Yi? Now isn't the time to eat, is it?"

Chen Yi smiled: "No way! Tao Tao, I'm about to unleash my ultimate move! Watch closely!"

"Ul... ultimate move?"

Su Taotao was stunned for a moment.

What kind of ultimate move required using an ice jade fruit?

But since Chen Yi said so, she naturally wouldn't say much more.