32: Bronze coffin! Fierce battle! Mysterious token!
Blood surged, and a thick, bloody scent diffused.
A huge shadow gradually emerged from beneath the blood.
Xu Qing looked closely, his vertical pupils slightly contracting.
In the deepest part of the Black Mist, a massive coffin slowly surfaced from the blood pool!
The bronze coffin was thirty zhang long, covered in mottled verdigris, and many places were still caked with bloodstains.
Just then.
Buzz!
The coffin shook violently.
A wisp of extremely cold Qi emerged, and the coffin lid emitted a soaring light, with images manifesting in mid-air.
Xu Qing looked at those images, which depicted what he should be doing at this moment.
Refine the blood in the blood pool with magic power and pour its essence into the coffin.
This was also what the Monkey Demons had done before.
Only upon reaching here could one know exactly what to do.
"Bang!"
The coffin vibrated, and the lid shifted slightly, revealing a crack from which a roar emanated.
It seemed to be urging Xu Qing to quickly get to business.
Xu Qing naturally couldn't comply.
His purpose in coming here was to uncover the mysteries of this place, not to help out.
A glimmer flashed in his vertical pupils.
His Spiritual Eyes opened, staring directly at the huge bronze coffin in the center of the blood pool, wanting to take this opportunity to see what was inside.
It seemed to sense Xu Qing's prying.
"Bang!"
The coffin lid made a loud noise and was violently flung open.
A dense, icy killing intent appeared, and a chilling aura spread, with thick black mist gushing out from the coffin!
The source of the Black Mist shrouding this place seemed to be the bronze coffin.
With the emergence of the Black Mist and killing intent, the entire Black Mist Region experienced a riot.
The surrounding Black Mist surged wildly, like ghostly claws trying to tear through Xu Qing's body.
Fortunately, with the protection of the dark iron rod, Xu Qing was unaffected.
And at this moment.
He also saw clearly what was inside the coffin.
The thirty-zhang-long coffin was filled with thick blood, and in the center of the blood lay a corpse covered in green fur!
Although the green fur on the corpse was thick and long, almost obscuring its original form.
Xu Qing still recognized it at a glance.
It was a human corpse!
About six feet tall, slender, it was the corpse of a man.
There were some shattered fragments of clothing in the blood, with intricate patterns, clearly not something an ordinary person could afford to wear.
How could there be a human corpse in the deep mountains?
Covered in green fur and feeding on essence blood, this was clearly a zombie, right?
Before Xu Qing could think further.
The corpse in the bronze coffin suddenly opened its eyes.
Two streaks of blood light shot out from those eyes, and a chilling, fierce killing intent suddenly locked onto Xu Qing!
Whoosh!
The zombified corpse sat up rigidly from the blood, blood rolling down its fur, its cloudy eyes staring fixedly at Xu Qing.
"Roar!"
Dense killing intent erupted.
The zombie stood up, enveloped in black mist, and with one step, instantly appeared before Xu Qing!
Its intelligence was Chaos, but its instinct told it that eating the creature in front of it would be of great help.
"Rip!"
Its dark claws directly raked against Xu Qing's body, and a series of dazzling sparks burst forth.
Cracks appeared in the protective divine light enveloping Xu Qing.
This was the first time Xu Qing had encountered something that could tear apart his protective Divine Ability since he acquired it!
He immediately became fully alert, and a scorching flame sprayed out!
"Boom!"
Blazing flames erupted, and a large area of black mist was directly incinerated.
The zombie's footsteps flickered, constantly dodging, roaring incessantly.
Spitting Flame can burn evil spirits.
A zombie is an evil among evils, and it is extremely restrained by it.
But its speed was very fast, and its movements were swift.
A clear light flashed in the green-furred zombie's cloudy eyes, and then, a patch of Dao patterns appeared beneath its feet, and its speed suddenly increased.
With a "whoosh" sound.
It pounced behind Xu Qing and unleashed a punch.
"Boom!"
A deafening explosion echoed.
A powerful force penetrated, and Xu Qing only felt a sharp pain in his body, his bones making cracking sounds.
What great strength!
Stimulated by the pain, a fierce look appeared in Xu Qing's eyes.
The ferocity deep within his Bloodline was ignited.
He chanted a magic spell in his heart, his muscles swelled, and a vast, immense power was added to his body!
"Whoosh!"
A sonic boom sounded in the air as his steel whip-like long tail lashed out, fiercely striking the green-furred zombie!
"Bang!"
A primitive and brutal battle began.
Roars like continuous bell tolls resounded.
One demon and one zombie fiercely clashed and fought, purely competing with their Physical Body strength.
The zombie's strength was immense; ordinary creatures were no match for it.
But Xu Qing, as a Yao Race member whose Bloodline had undergone multiple transformations, also possessed a formidable Physical Body, and with the augmentation of the Earth Fiend Divine Ability, he was in no way inferior in strength!
Not only that.
Fire and lightning occasionally descended.
While fighting the zombie, Xu Qing chanted spells to unleash powerful lightning strikes on it.
The flames transformed by Spitting Flame were already very effective against zombies.
The fierce lightning was even more the bane of banes.
Before long, the zombie was firmly suppressed by Xu Qing!
Even though the zombie had tough skin and strong regenerative abilities, it was still steadily losing ground.
Much of its green corpse fur had been burned off, and its body gradually became visible.
Its upper body was bare, and embedded in its 360 acupoints were dark iron nails!
Only the Baihui acupoint on its head had a single blood hole, with no nail visible.
Xu Qing's thoughts stirred, and he looked at the dark iron rod.
Could this thing have been pulled from the zombie's Baihui acupoint?
The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
With this in mind, Xu Qing no longer hesitated.
With a "bang".
His long tail directly sent the zombie flying, its body embedded in the ground.
Before it could crawl out.
Xu Qing appeared before it, magic power surging, and the dark iron rod transformed into a black light, directly plunging into the blood hole on the zombie's head!
Buzz!
The iron rod vibrated immediately as it entered the Baihui acupoint!
In an instant.
The entire Black Mist Region fell silent.
The ferocious-looking zombie's expression suddenly froze, then gradually softened.
The corpse fur deeply rooted in its skin fell off, revealing the corpse's original appearance.
A middle-aged man with a face like jade.
His entire demeanor had changed, the turbidity in his eyes dissipated, and a hint of clarity emerged.
The middle-aged man looked at the giant green snake in front of him, then at the nails on his body, and everything around him.
Suddenly, he seemed to understand something.
Waves of inexplicable fluctuations emanated from his body.
His body was gradually dissipating, everything returning to the heavens and earth.
The middle-aged man's expression was calm, and at the last moment of his disappearance, he threw out a token.
He pointed at the token, revealing a sincere smile, and cupped his hands in a bow.
Immediately, the middle-aged man completely vanished, leaving only a black mark on the ground and a scattering of black iron nails.
"Boundless Heavenly Venerate..."
In the unseen, a phantom voice echoed between heaven and earth.
Xu Qing looked down at the token.
Several small characters were engraved on the palm-sized token.
Purple Profound Cave Illuminating Heaven, Chi Zhenzi!