Chapter Seventy-Five: A Major Crisis Has Broken Out

As I was flying out of the cave, I heard Xiyue’s voice. But in that instant, it was as though my whole body had been strapped to a frozen iron sphere, and under that violent impact I nearly had my soul shattered apart.

Just as my body was about to hit the ground, I felt a gentle force lift me up completely. The moment I opened my eyes, I saw Xiyue with her brows tightly knit.

She stood before me and held me steady, refusing to let me be wounded by that terrifying force.

I could feel that the instant Xiyue caught me, the surging black aura around my body was washed clean by the faint, pure radiance of moonlight surrounding her.

After we left the cave, the corpse-hiding cavern before us collapsed at once. Two streams of black light shot out from the ruined opening, and at that moment I also felt waves of violent power erupting through the entire space. The ghastly, ghostly miasma rose skyward in torrents, nearly blotting out the space before my eyes.

A low, heavy boom rang out. From within the collapsed cave came yet another dull crash, and the whole little hill caved in at once.

“Go!”

Xiyue seized me, and in a flash we vanished into the night sky. Of course, at that moment she was using a spatial shifting technique, and by then I was no longer as clumsy and unfamiliar with such a method as I had once been.

When I opened my eyes again, we had already returned to the office. Xiyue helped me sit down on the sofa. I was actually not badly hurt; I only needed time to recover. The corpse aura and ghostly energy entwined around me had already been completely dissolved by the pure essence of her moonlight. But the pain left by my body would still have to heal slowly on its own.

“Xiyue, what just happened?”

Though I was the one involved, I still had no idea what had gone on. The moment I bent down, everything before my eyes suddenly went black, then a sharp pain struck my chest as if I had been hit head-on by a monstrous iron ball, and my whole body was flung away. I had only been able to endure it; I had no idea what had happened at all.

Under that terrifying force, my body had been wrapped in cold ghostly aura, along with corpse energy that reeked with an almost caustic corruption. In that situation, in order to save me, Xiyue had no choice but to abandon the pursuit of Master Forgetfulness. In the end, all we could do was watch helplessly as he fled with that corpse spirit.

The methods employed by Master Forgetfulness were truly sinister. Although all nine corpse spirits had already been destroyed, before those nine people became corpse spirits, yellow talismans had been forcibly stuffed into their bodies. Even after their corpse forms were slain, they could still be used one last time by drawing on the final refinement of those talismans. And when you stabbed the ninth corpse spirit, Master Forgetfulness burned through his own soul and unleashed the power of the Nine Yin Formation. Fortunately, his cultivation was shallow, and those corpse spirits were not true corpse spirits. Otherwise, none of us would have escaped today.

After hearing Xiyue’s words, I felt a wave of lingering fear.

“Now that Master Forgetfulness has fled with that corpse spirit, it looks like Lidu will not know peace for the next few days.”

My heart gave a sudden jolt, and only then did I remember Old Master Zhou.

“By the way, Xiyue, why did we never see Old Master Zhou?”

I thought that if Old Master Zhou had been there tonight, perhaps neither of us would have escaped so easily. After all, with two corpse spirits plus nine corpse zombies, the terror of it all was beyond anything simple imagination could hold.

“I didn’t sense him either. Perhaps Old Master Zhou wasn’t in that cave at all. After all, the reason Old Master Zhou became a zombie was probably arranged in advance by Master Forgetfulness. So after he transformed, he went straight to the cave we had visited before. From the looks of it, those nine female corpses we saw earlier were probably bitten on the very night Old Master Zhou turned.”

I nodded. Only that would fit the state in which those nine female corpses had appeared before us. In that horrifying situation, we could clearly feel the yin energy from all nine of them, and not only that, but also the dreadful corpse aura, surging toward us nonstop. It was the sort of sensation that defied imagination, so vile and terrifying that it was almost unbearable.

If they had only just been bitten, they could not possibly have had such a strong corpse stench.

“Damn it!”

At the thought of Old Master Zhou after his transformation, my heart trembled violently, because earlier it had already been said that once Old Master Zhou became a zombie, he would go looking for one person: Lina Li.

Since Old Master Zhou had vanished tonight, did that mean Lina Li was already in trouble?

I had no time to think further. I hurriedly picked up the phone and called Zhang Hansen. No sooner had he answered than I heard his panicked voice.

“Yang Dong, Master Yang, help me!”

Before I could even say anything, Zhang Hansen cried out in distress, “Master Yang, what on earth is going on? Why, why did Lina Li become like this? Did you do something to her?”

“What did Lina Li turn into?”

Zhang Hansen let out a cry, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps down the stairs. Then I heard a door open through the phone, and after that came a piercing scream that made my heart lurch violently.

At that moment, Zhang Hansen’s frantic voice came through again.

“Tonight, Lina Li came to my place. After taking a bath and just as we were about to do it, I suddenly saw her open her mouth. Her little cherry mouth, which had once been so delicate, had become horribly frightening. So terrifying that I was almost frozen by the sight of it. It was no longer the mouth of a woman at all, and there were not even any canine teeth in it. I saw two teeth growing out from inside that mouth, sharp beyond belief, more like a zombie’s!”

Listening to his panicked voice, I could feel the fear in Zhang Hansen’s heart. In such a situation, anyone who saw such a scene would be terrified. And at that moment, I could hear a few more screams, gradually growing faint.

“Where are you right now?”

Needless to say, I knew Lina Li had definitely turned into a zombie and had begun biting and draining blood. The entire residential block would likely be infected.

“In the residential complex beside Golden Crown Tower!”

I answered at once, then said, “Call the police first, then get out of there quickly. I’ll be there right away!”