The group appeared in a picturesque valley.
Li Tianyu, entering a Secret Realm for the first time, looked around curiously.
He noticed that Zhang Zongnian, who was at the Demon King Realm, was also looking around as if he were seeing such a sight for the first time.
Lin Xue, Hong Yanzhi, and the other female demons were much more composed due to their previous experiences.
Lin Xue asked Li Tianyu for the map to determine their current position.
The Medicine God Valley Secret Realm was massive, and they needed to orient themselves as quickly as possible.
Li Tianyu took a map from his storage bracelet and handed it to Lin Xue.
It was a map previously drawn by the cultivators of the Demon-Slaying Bureau.
After confirming their orientation, Lin Xue led the group along the river toward the Secret Realm where the Living Corpses were emerging.
Along the way, Hong Yanzhi and the others spotted several precious medicinal herbs.
However, because the cultivators in the outside world were still struggling to resist the Living Corpses, they did not stop to gather them and continued pressing forward.
They encountered a few scattered Living Corpses on the path, which Lin Xue easily eliminated with ice needles.
After walking along the river for half an hour, the number of Living Corpses began to increase.
Lin Xue had already gathered nearly 100,000 Experience Points.
She felt that if the points could not be used up, they were nothing more than a series of numbers.
When they encountered a Demon Corpse, Lin Xue considered taking its Serpent Core.
However, she worried about being infected by the Corpse Poison and feared it could not be cleared, so she abandoned the idea and continued toward the mysterious area.
Before long, Lin Xue and her party arrived at the entrance of a narrow canyon.
They had reached their destination—the entrance to the Mysterious Secret Realm that was teeming with Living Corpses.
A Portal had opened within the canyon, allowing the Living Corpses to emerge from the Mysterious Secret Realm and pass directly through the Portal into the real world.
Even before entering, they could smell the stench of decay and hear the howling of the Living Corpses.
“Everyone, take out your Formation Jade Talismans,” Lin Xue called out.
She instructed them to activate the Nine-fold Profound Wall Formation to bolster their defenses and resist the virus.
With Zhang Zongnian blending into the formation, the ten people walked toward the canyon entrance.
Dozens of Living Corpses guarded the front of the canyon, but Lin Xue’s ice needles eliminated them in an instant.
Upon entering the canyon, Lin Xue saw several thousand Living Corpses crowded into an open space.
In the center was a wide Portal, and the Living Corpses were entering it in large batches to be sent into the real world.
At the other end of the canyon sat a dark cave, which continuously spewed out Living Corpses like a factory. That cave was the entrance to the Mysterious Secret Realm.
The Demon-Slaying Bureau had previously been unable to investigate because there were too many Living Corpses.
It was said that treasure hunters had damaged an Ancient Seal, leading to this sudden surge.
Hundreds of nearby Living Corpses noticed the intruders.
They turned their heads to stare, and the air seemed to stagnate for a moment. Then, with a collective howl, the Living Corpses charged.
Hong Yanzhi and the other female demons turned pale.
They were only at the Condensed Core Early Stage, and the strength of these Living Corpses far exceeded their own.
Li Tianyu was also frozen with fear. He had thought the Living Corpses at the camp were intense enough, but this was on another level.
As someone only in the Qi Refining Realm, his first instinct was to flee.
At that moment, Zhang Zongnian stepped forward with his sword, shielding Lin Xue.
After returning to Xixia Mountain yesterday, he had asked Lang Buping and Hong Yanzhi for a weapon.
Hong Yanzhi had searched the Inner Treasury and given him a long sword that had been seized from a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Now, facing the charging Living Corpses, Zhang Zongnian held his sword horizontally to protect Lin Xue.
‘I must protect her,’ he thought. ‘Anyone who wants to harm Lin Xue will have to step over my corpse.’
Lin Xue was moved, but she quickly pulled Zhang Zongnian back and scolded him.
“Are you trying to get yourself killed? Do not leave the protective range of the Nine-fold Profound Wall Formation! Don’t block my line of sight, and just stay in the back so you don’t get in the way.”
She reminded him that the Nine-fold Profound Wall Formation would protect the nine of them from the Corpse Poison as long as he stayed within its range.
After speaking, she activated the Water Control Art.
She drew in the surrounding water elements, condensing them into a water ball several meters in diameter.
She then split the water into tiny droplets and froze them into countless ice needles.
Like a Storm of Blades, she unleashed them upon the hundreds of Living Corpses ahead.
She was intimately familiar with this technique and completed the movements in an instant.
The Living Corpses fell in massive batches. Within just a few breaths, the first wave was completely annihilated.
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