Chapter 186 – She Bi Zombie Race
Hua-la——
The spindrift dispersed and landed him right in front of the little temple, leaving nothing behind but the amazements he had towards Shui Zian, Elder Shui Zian’s prowess is incredible, the skills need to make this river were perfectly executed, exerting just the right amount of strength to land me right in front of the temple. He is indeed the legendary man who had forged one of the Ten Malefic Weapons and the progenitor of the【Sixty-Four Sword Styles】! Right now, Elder Shui is wounded, I wonder the battle between him and Xiao Que would transpire, could he win….
It was pitch-black inside the little temple,even the doors were black in color. It was a stark contrast to the other celestial temples that flared luminously in the night – this temple appeared to be cold and dilapidated.
It was dead silent, and the silence was almost overwhelming.
Zhong Yue recollected his thoughts and knocked on the temple door —Kock kock— the sound released was unexpectedly shrill.
Then, the sounds of creaking could be heard as the dark black doors opened slowly and imperiously. Within the pure darkness behind the door, there was a dark black hand slowly reaching out. Immediately, Zhong Yue quickly placed the willow trees token onto the palm of the dark hand, when he came in contact with the hand, he could not feel the usual warmths that normally accompanied a hand, only a surge of an icy-cold sensation. It was so frigid that the coldness seeped into his bones, sending waves of chills down his spine!
The icy-cold sensation was so intense that it was as if there were poisons that engendered within the coldness. Zhong Yue had to visualize the Great Sun to eradicate the ice poison away from his body.
The owner of the icy-cold palm verified the token with its touch before slowly receding back into the darkness.
Moments later, there was a melodiously sweet voice of a lady coming from the little temple, “So you’re the messenger of Shui Zian. Please, come in.”
Zhong Yue kept his mouth shut as instructed by Shui Zian, not saying a word and standing right outside of the door.
“The smell of the humans … so you are from the human race, what are you afraid of?”
The laughter of the lady came from inside of the temple, her voice was soothing as she chortled coquettishly and said, “Don’t worry, I’m not going to eat you.”
Zhong Yue stood steadfast, he could sense the air of the hunters coming closer to its prey. Clearly, the celestial experts gad locked in on his aura and were able to track him down wherever he went!
“You enemies are here for you, their prowess are way beyond your level, Quick, come into the temple and I’ll ward them off for you.” The lady’s voices rang in his ears, beckoning him to enter the temple.
However, Zhong Yue was determined his heart and stood staunchly in front of the door, disregarding her words no matter how hard she tempted him. He thought to himself, There’s no reason for Elder Shui to warn me so many times if it wasn’t important. So, if he asked me not to enter the temple and to shut my mouth, then I’ll do as he says, staying right outside of the temple and not saying a word!
Her voices came from the temple again, “I’ve been alone in this empty temple for so long, I’m so lonely. Human boy, why can’t you enter the temple and accompany me for awhile? I just want you to come in….”
Hu hu hu—— Dong dong dong——
Sounds of air getting pierced followed by the sounds of heavy objects landing could be heard, the ground was quaking and the woods swayed violently as their leaves rained down onto the ground. It was as the earth was holding a procession announcing the arrival of the celestial that came after Zhong Yue!
Zhong Yue cast his gaze over with the help of the moonlight. One after another, huge and tall figures walked out from the dark and bathed in the moonlight. In the woods, eyes glared like night lanterns, some glowed in red, some green, some yellow and there were some in the form of fire, burning flames in the sockets of their eyes.
These experts … other than Xiao Mang, Shan Shen and Gui Shen, there are still four more celestial races!”
Zhong Yue identified the celestials from their glittering eyes, his heart stiffened up, The other celestial races have also sent their experts to come after me….
“Human, Shui Zian is currently entangled by Xiao Que, you are out of options.”
Their eyes glittered in the dark, a pair of eyes among them hovered forward, the owner of the pair of eyes said eerily, “The ones who have reverse opened the five Yuan Shen realms will have to die regardless of the races, let alone the humans! Now, you have nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide. So, sit down and embrace death!”
Zhong Yue kept his mouth shut while standing in front of the temple door, the aura of these experts was too overpowering to him, way beyond the level he could even hope to put up a fight. They were all at least experts at the level of hall masters. The surrounding air seemed to stagnate as they instilled the despair into their surroundings.
Although he had reverse opened the five Yuan Shen realms, he was still too weak and tiny in the eyes of all these experts, so petty that he was nothing more than an ant against their seemingly unstoppable might.
When will it be … that I become an earth-shaking expert, to ride the clouds and gallop on the earth, and wherever I go, the celestials would kneel down and shudder in fear?
Zhong Yue kept mum, he thought, I’m not one yet, as of now … But in the future, I swear that I will turn that into reality!
“Not saying a word, are you? Did fear just swallow your heart and shatter your guts?”
A pair of eyes flared in the dark, pressing forward towards Zhong Yue while continued smilingly, “But no matter what, your death must be confirmed!”
All of a sudden, a terrifying strong air erupted out, getting closer and closer to the little dark celestial temple. With the help of the moonlights, Zhong Yue could see a mountainous body with muscles bulging out of the skins bolting over while reaching his hands out clawing at Zhong Yue!
A hall master-levelled expert, had finally made a move!
Right at the moment where the celestial expert acted, the three skyscraping willow trees swayed on their own in the windless air, the twigs of the willow trees undulated in the air and abruptly, they shot out like nocked arrows finally let loose —Hu hu hu— they twined on the mountainous body and dragged him into the little temple!
The celestial expert let out a shrill shriek in pain and terror. It was as if the cry was a signal, the other celestial experts instantly launched their attacks and the after-impacts of their skills quaked the earth, trembling the air!
Strong and powerful skills blasted around centering at the little dark temple, their prowess could infuse fear into the weaklings, ravaging the land of a hundred miles in radius around the little temple with various terrifying specters emerging in the air!
Other than that, there were still soul weapons dancing in the dark, flitting across the air like strikes of lightnings; some were dead quiet as they moved around while the others rumbled like thunder!
In front of the little dark temple, Zhong Yue could see the soul weapons and skills interweaving with one another like a dense network of attacks. Also, there were the strong and powerful celestial experts leaping here and there, filling the surroundings with their after-images.
Whether if it was the soul weapons, skills, or the celestial experts themselves circumnavigating the little temple, any one of them could kill an Awakening Qi Practitioner like him a thousand times over!
And yet, the little dark temple and the three willow trees were unschated despite being in the center of all the bombardments, while Zhong Yue who was a few steps away from the temple door was also left untouched. With the moonlight showering down onto the ground, Zhong Yue could see the willow twigs shuttling in and out all over the places, the images he could perceive were blurry but he could vaguely tell that twigs penetrated through the skills and crushed the soul weapons!
One after another, every time the twigs come back, there would be wreathed celestials that were dragged into the little dark temple!
Moments later, a few celestials soared into the air and fled away, their cries were shrill as they echoed through the night air, “The three monstrous willows, this is the Zombie King Temple of the She Bi Zombie Race!”
“Wasn’t the temple abandoned? How are there still celestials living in it?”
“Run, run!”
….
In a trice, the skills that ravaged the land were no more, the once exquisite soul weapons were shattered into parts and fell down from the sky —Chi chi chi— piercing down into the soils around the little dark temple. There was one, huge like walls, smooth and shiny, it was the blade of a saber; another one was spherically-shaped, two to three men tall, it was the tip of a soul weapon; and there were more lying around the ground.
Zhong Yue was greatly shocked, in the blink of an eye, the celestials that chased after him were either dead or severely injured, even their soul weapons were destroyed, while more of them were dragged into the little celestial temple.
“Zombie King Temple?”
He never felt anything before this, but as he cast his gaze over and looked at the pitch-black colored little temple again, his heart quivered and he was tingling in horror. The melodiously sweet voice of the same lady came chortling from the temple, “Living meat and fresh blood … and they are all of high quality … Ummm, yummy … it’s been a long time since I’ve had such an enjoyable meal….”
Sounds of chewing could be heard, it sounded like a beast was gnawing ferociously on its food — the unfortunate celestial experts that were dragged into the temple.
What is this celestial temple? What kind of celestial race is residing in it?
Zhong Yue was terrified, while the voices of the lady rang in his ears, she praised in a soft voice while eating her meal, “These celestials are tastier than the human boy outside of the temple, sadly, that evil brat Shui Zian forbade him from entering the temple, or otherwise I would’ve also … I’ve missed the taste of humans … quick, quick, eat, I’ve been starving for so, so long….”
Zhong Yue’s hair bristled up, he dare not speak a word nor did he dare to breathe heavily.
Moments later, there were only sounds of chewing coming from the temple, the lady in the temple was really a big eater, she was eating and eating without pause!
Zhong Yue braced himself as he walked two steps closer. The lady was still enjoying her meal, there were no other movements.
Thankfully, the fella in the temple isn’t dangerous anymore once she gets to eat….
Zhong Yue heaved a breath of relief, he then turned his eyes onto the shattered soul weapons on the ground. His eyes brightened up, Nice stuff, these are all good things! All these celestial experts are at the level of Atman Body, Inner Core and even, Heavenly Dharma! Their soul weapons are so much better than the ones of the Awakening Qi Practitioners; the five elemental Qi are thicker and heavier; if I can absorb them and distill them into the five elemental Qi and use them to solidify the Wu Xing realm, it’ll allow me to cultivate my Wu Xing Realm to the peak!
Cultivating the Wu Xing Realm required a substantial amount of five elemental Qi to strengthen and expand the realm. It would cost years of cultivations for ordinary Awakening Qi Practitioners to harvest the five elemental Qi so that they could continue expanding the Wu Xiang Realm to the peak and proceed with the opening of the next realm.
The Qi Practitioner of Swords Gate would usually rely on high grade medicinal pellets like the Five Qi Pellets, and the lower grade medicinal pellets such as the Wood Qi Pellets, Gold Qi Pellets, to cultivate and nourish their Wu Xing Realm.
While Zhong Yue had opened all give Yuan Shen Realms, and he cultivated the exceptionally powerful【Great Boundless Sword Qi】. Unlike the other Qi Practitioners that relied on medicinal pellets, he could directly extract the Wood Qi, Gold Qi, and all the other five elemental Qi out of these broken soul weapons, and refine them at a great speed!
Quickly, he roamed around the little temple and collected all the shattered pieces together, piling them up into a little hill. Each and every one of them were exquisitely forged to the highest caliber, the five elemental Qi within them were overwhelming!
Zhong Yue was shocked and overjoyed, while at the same time feeling slightly anxious, That thing inside the temple, just exactly how strong is it … even soul weapons like these can be easily crushed away, could it be like what the celestials have said? The thing inside the temple is the Zombie King, or otherwise why would the temple called the Zombie King Temple?
He composed himself and started to cultivate in front of the temple, extracting the five elemental Qi from the soul weapons and expanding the Wu Xing Realm in his Yuan Shen. At a great speed, the Wu Xing Wheel behind him was visibly expanding quickly!
Soon, the Wu Xing Realm had increased in size, it was sized like a bowl and it turned into the size of a basin. Another hour soon passed, and it eventually grew to eight feet in radius; its expansion had still yet to stop!
When the first ray of sunlight shone down onto the ground, his Wu Xing Wheel was already thirty feet in radius, revolving slowly while emanating the almighty power of the five elements!
Nearly half of the shattered pieces of soul weapons before him had been consumed when Zhong Yue opened his eyes to see the sun rising above the horizon. He thought to himself, Elder Shui said that I’ll have to enter the little temple at dawn; when the rays of the sun shone onto the soil, the danger of the temple would be lifted; and now, it is time….
He turned and looked back, the scenery that met his eyes caused the hairs at the back of his neck to bristle and his heart to shudder. Terrified as he was, the dark black little temple was never the temple he thought it was. Instead, it was a huge coffin colored black – a one hundred and eighty feet dark black coffin erected vertically upright!
While the three willow trees were grown on the top of the coffin cover!
And all these while he was standing right in front of the dark black coffin!
The coffin cover was slightly opened, it was through the gap that the strange hand had reached out from and also the where the voices of the lady emanated out of!
