kingnovel Chapter 584 Weird Zombies
Chapter 584 Weird Zombies
Ziyun reached out to the root of the purple danshen and gently dug a few times.
Then, he followed the rhizome and pierced directly into the rock and soil.
Ziyun pulled it out with force, and a root block that was an inch long, shaped like a ginseng, and completely black was pulled out.
At the end of the root block, there were dozens of thin roots, which were entangled on a white bone.
The white bone was very thick and it was obviously the corpse of some kind of monster. When Ziyun pulled out the purple danshen, he took the white bone out with him.
The strong corpse gas that Song Wen sensed came from this corpse.
This made Song Wen's vigilant heart relax a lot.
"Is the purple danshen parasitic on the corpse?" Song Wen asked, looking at the purple danshen in Ziyun's hand.
Ziyun took out the jade box and put away the purple danshen; while replying.
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"Yes. Wherever the purple salvia grows, there must be a skeleton of a human or a demon beast."
Song Wen and Zhu Yin looked at each other. This was information that Zi Yun had not revealed before.
Zi Yun stood up and walked forward.
"Let's go. Let's go deeper."
This cave is deeper and more complicated than Song Wen and the other two imagined. In front of them, a fork suddenly appeared.
"Which way should we go?" Zi Yun asked.
Zhu Yin said, looking at the two caves that were no different.
"Let your earth dragon explore both passages. If there is no difference, just choose one at random."
Zi Yun nodded, and the earth dragon jumped into one of the caves at her instruction.
Not long after, the earth dragon returned.
After a brief communication with the earth dragon, Zi Yun pointed to the cave on the right side in front.
"This passage extends gradually downward, and the other extends horizontally."
"Go to the one that goes down." Song Wen said.
Ziyun looked at Song Wen with a strange look.
"Jiyin, if you go too deep underground, aren't you worried about encountering a fourth-level golden corpse?"
Song Wen said, "The secret realm is open for only one month, and we don't have much time to spend slowly in these caves."
Ziyun looked at Zhuyin, "Zhuyin, what do you think?"
"I think Jiyin is right. Exploring the secret realm and searching for spiritual medicines is always risky." Zhuyin said.
"Okay, then I'll do as you say." Ziyun said.
Tuxinglong and Song Wen's third-level middle-stage ghost king were exploring the way ahead. The three of them walked side by side in the middle. Behind them was Zhuyin's ghost king.
After walking for more than ten miles, Zhuyin suddenly said.
"The number of corpses scattered here seems to have increased significantly."
As Zhuyin said, before finding the first purple salvia miltiorrhiza, the three had not encountered any corpses. At present, there is a corpse every one or two miles, both human and monster.
"Where do these corpses come from in this deep underground? Especially these human corpses, there are no original human beings in the Huanling Valley secret realm. Ziyun, could it be that the cultivators of your sect who explored the secret realm in the past died here?" Zhuyin asked.
Ziyun shook his head, "These corpses are not from Liangyi Sect. Liangyi Sect discovered this secret realm, but it has only been a thousand years, and it has only explored it a dozen times in total, and the number of cultivators who died is less than ten."
"Where do these corpses come from?" Zhuyin said.
"It should be left by people who originally practiced in this secret realm. The corpse gas here is rich, whether it is human or monster, their bodies will become stiff after death, which greatly slows down the speed of corpse decay." Ziyun said his guess.
"According to your guess, there must have been a massacre before this secret realm was lost." Zhuyin said.
Ziyun wanted to say something, but suddenly his face changed slightly.
"Be careful, there are zombies ahead."
Then, her expression relaxed again.
"It's just a bronze corpse of the early third stage, which has been dealt with by my earth dragon."
The three walked two miles forward and saw the dismembered bronze corpse.
The bronze corpse looked extremely strange, about ten feet tall, with a human upper body and a horse lower body. What's more peculiar is that behind the horse's butt is not a horse's tail, but a long snake's tail.
"What kind of creature is this?"
Ziyun frowned, with a hint of disgust in his eyes.
After observing for a while, Song Wen shook his head.
"I'm afraid this is not a creature born naturally, but artificially cultivated."
Song Wen had such a guess because he had seen artificially cultivated human snakes when he was in Liangyi Sect.
Ziyun looked puzzled, "How do you determine that it is artificially cultivated? Rather than being artificially spliced and refined after death?"
Zhuyin pointed to the broken horse body of the bronze corpse and said.
"Look at the place where its human body and horse body are connected, the bones have grown together. This means that it already looked like this when it was alive. Moreover, no one would refine a corpse puppet that is neither human nor beast. That would only be counterproductive, consuming a lot of resources, but not getting a powerful corpse puppet."
"But... who would try to combine the human race and the monster beast? What are the benefits of doing so?" Ziyun looked puzzled.
"In the Book Building of Wuji Island, there are many ancient books from the Nether God Temple. I have seen such records in one of the ancient books. There is a place called "Strange Beast Pavilion" under the Nether God Temple, which specializes in human-beast hybridization." Zhuyin said.
"Why do they do this?" Ziyun asked.
"I don't know about this. There is no record in the ancient books." Zhuyin said.
"Could this be where the Alien Beast Pavilion of the Hades Temple is located?"
"It's possible."
Song Wen listened to the conversation between the two without interrupting.
He suddenly remembered that when he was in the secret realm of the Hades Temple on Fang Zhu Island, he had seen a resentful spirit that was a mixture of humans and several kinds of monsters.
At that time, he thought that it was the pollution of the ghost mist that caused the souls of humans and monsters to merge.
Now it seems that this is not the case. Those resentful spirits already looked weird when they were alive.
Therefore, artificially cultivating new creatures was not the first initiative of the Beast Control Sect. The Divine Blood Sect had already done this many years ago.
The Beast Control Sect cultivates humans and snakes in order to fuse 'Xuan Qi'.
What is the purpose of the Divine Blood Sect cultivating new creatures?
"Don't worry about the Alien Beast Pavilion. We'll hurry up and look for Purple Salvia." Zhuyin said.
Ziyun was about to say something, when his expression suddenly became a little weird, a bit of surprise and gloominess.
"What's wrong?"
Zhuyin saw the change in Ziyun's expression and asked.
Ziyun said, "Tu Xinglong discovered another purple salvia."
Zhuyin looked happy, "Where is it?"
"Come with me." There was an imperceptible strangeness in Ziyun's tone, as if he was somewhat reluctant.
After the three of them walked two miles, they saw another purple salvia plant in a depression on the cave wall.
This purple salvia plant has six leaves.
"It turned out to be a 600-year-old purple salvia." Zhuyin exclaimed in a low voice.
She turned to look at Song Wen, "Ji Yin, who will take this purple salvia, you or me?"
"Fellow Taoist Zhuyin, you take it first," Song Wen said.
"Okay." Zhuyin nodded unceremoniously, stepped forward, and picked out the purple salvia.
Ziyun looked at Zhuyin's movements, and an unnatural look flashed across his face.
Although she had the upper hand in the order of distribution, the age of the purple salvia miltiorrhiza she obtained could only depend on luck.