A Warm Current

Before she could finish speaking, Qiu Chan charged out.

She spun the Tang Saber in her hand, carving elegant arcs through the air.

For some reason, Qiu Chan kept feeling that there was something strange about the saber in her hand.

She did not know whether it was because she was too nervous or for some other reason, but the Tang Saber in her hand seemed to be heating up, while a warm current flowed through her body.

It must be an illusion, right?

Qiu Chan did not dwell on it. Becoming one with her blade, she focused entirely on dealing with the Zombies before her.

After learning that a Zombie's weakness was its head, Qiu Chan found killing ordinary Zombies effortless.

After all, the Zombies at this stage were still Level 0. They were neither fast nor strong, and their reactions were slow. Anyone with even a basic foundation in National Martial Arts could easily cut them down.

The only thing she needed to worry about was the Zombie Virus.

After all, Zombies did not feel pain. Once they caught someone, they would bite.

After killing the ordinary Zombies, Qiu Chan began fighting the Long-Necked Zombie.

When it came to cutting down enemies, the future Sword Saintess and peerless expert was already finding her rhythm.

Over by Taiji Lake, Jiang Yang arrived before the Secret Realm Gate.

"Bro Jiang, are you really going in?"

"Bro Jiang, it's too dangerous inside. Several people went in and never came back. Be careful..."

Li Shun and his girlfriend Zhang Yao stood nearby, trying to dissuade Jiang Yang. But when they thought of the power Jiang Yang had just displayed, they swallowed the rest of their words.

He had killed nine thugs in half a minute. That was definitely not something an ordinary person could do.

"Of course. Stay at the entrance, then come with me afterward!"

Jiang Yang patted Li Shun on the shoulder, and the other man's information appeared before his eyes.

Name: Li Shun.

Physique: 7.

Spirit: 10.

Agility: 6.

Class: None.

Level: Level 0.

Ability: None.

Skill: None.

Loyalty: 79.

Jiang Yang only noticed two things: loyalty and spirit.

Li Shun's loyalty toward him had reached seventy-nine. He was someone worth trusting and could be considered for recruitment.

To build his own team, the first thing he needed to consider was not a member's talent or combat power, but loyalty.

Clearly, Li Shun was nothing like those fair-weather friends. This was a true brother.

It was just that his spirit had actually reached ten.

Ten was the highest spirit an ordinary person could have. How had this guy reached it?

Jiang Yang thought for a moment and found a memory from the original owner's mind.

It was the story of Li Shun bragging to the original owner about how many girls he had taken down in one night, then relying on sheer willpower to finish off the last one after he had already run dry.

However, after Li Shun met Zhang Yao, he never went out looking for girls again.

The original owner had laughed at him for it.

Li Shun had replied, "I've had my fill of beautiful women, but there's only this one woman I want to live with. I've already made enough for this lifetime."

"I won't explain anything else. Guard the entrance!"

Jiang Yang glanced at the others. Aside from Li Shun and Zhang Yao, there were four other men and five women present.

To prevent anything from happening to Li Shun, Jiang Yang sighed and broke the legs of those men.

However, as he acted, he said righteously, "You pathetic bastards. The four of you together probably couldn't even make up one dick. A girl from your own school was being treated like this, and aside from my brother, not one of you stepped up?"

For a moment, screams rang out without end.

One should not harm others, but one must guard against them.

In the Apocalypse, the first half of that saying could be ignored.

As long as someone posed a threat to him, he would eliminate them if possible. After all, he was someone who stood against a Son of Destiny.

Jiang Yang took out the Black Gold Ancient Blade and stepped into the Secret Realm Gate.

A wave of dizziness hit him, followed by a drastic change in the scenery around him.

After the golden radiance came endless darkness, and within that darkness was a massive vertical pupil.

Standing before the vertical pupil, Jiang Yang felt incomparably small.

Not far from Jiang Yang, two people lay on the ground: Gu Tao and the woman Gu Tao had just pushed inside.

Jiang Yang went over to inspect them. Neither had any wounds, but both had lost all signs of life.

In the original novel, those who failed did not suffer injuries. Their souls were simply sacrificed.

At that moment, a strange pushing force acted upon Jiang Yang.

This was how the Secret Realm Gate tested people. The force would push them out of the gate, while anyone who wished to undergo the trial only needed to take a step forward and resist it, signifying the beginning of the trial.

Jiang Yang stepped forward. In an instant, the scene before him changed once more.

He arrived in a field of ruins, while beyond the ruins, a group of Zombies stared at him without blinking.

"The first stage—I know this one too well!"

Jiang Yang was extremely familiar with this part of Ye Fan's trial in the original novel. This was the first stage.

Those Zombies were all Level 0, but there were a great many of them.

To pass, he needed to kill those Zombies.

In the original novel, Ye Fan had used the terrain of the surrounding ruins to kill them.

But Jiang Yang did not need to make things so troublesome. He raised the Black Gold Ancient Blade and went straight at them!

With a Crescent Slash, he instantly cleaved six Zombies to death.

The Black Gold Ancient Blade was of exceptional quality. Jiang Yang had also injected the Captain America Serum and wore chainmail.

The first stage posed no difficulty at all. If anything, it was a little too easy.

Wielding the Black Gold Ancient Blade with broad, sweeping strikes, Jiang Yang was a complete stat monster. He needed no technique whatsoever—he simply smashed through them with his equipment!

After safely clearing the first stage, the second stage began, and the surroundings turned into a wasteland.

This time, the Monster that appeared was a Mutated Beast—a Mutated Roc.

Seven hundred meters from Taiji Lake, inside the Kendo Club, the battle had reached its most intense point.

Qiu Chan's gaze was icy as she fiercely slashed out with her Tang Saber, leaving a cut across the Long-Necked Zombie's face.

Anyone who had watched movies knew that Zombies carried the Zombie Virus, so Qiu Chan had been avoiding a direct confrontation with it.

But after several exchanges, she had little stamina left. Meanwhile, despite taking several blows from Qiu Chan, the Zombie had not suffered the slightest injury.

Relying on her agility, Qiu Chan had struck its head and neck more than once, but she had failed to inflict a fatal wound.

The Zombie's neck was covered in an extremely tough layer of skin, while its head was protected by a bony plate. It was terribly difficult to deal with.

"This ugly thing can really take a beating!"

Qiu Chan's eyes were filled with wariness.

But even more than that, they revealed an excited fighting spirit.

Ordinary Zombies could only give her the novelty of "cutting people."

But this Zombie allowed her to fully experience the thrill of battle.

Still, it was not a solution to keep dragging this out. How was she supposed to defeat it...

Suddenly, a warm current flowed from the Tang Saber in her hand. It passed through her arm and traveled throughout her slender body before finally gathering in Qiu Chan's eyes.

"What is this?"

Qiu Chan felt heat in her eyes. At the same time, several red dots appeared on the Long-Necked Zombie's body—one beneath its jaw and another on its back.

"Is this the effect of the saber?"

Qiu Chan murmured, her body swaying as she struck!

The tip of her blade hit the Long-Necked Zombie beneath the jaw, exactly where one of the red dots had appeared.

The sound of shattering bone rang out. The bony plate on the Zombie's face actually broke apart completely, revealing a savage face of exposed flesh beneath it.

"So that's it. These red dots are its weaknesses."

"They're openings!"

The corners of Qiu Chan's lips rose slightly. Zombies had already appeared, so it was hardly strange for the saber in her hand to possess such mysterious power!

"I'll kill you!"

Qiu Chan dashed toward the Zombie. Her body moved like a butterfly in flight, her graceful steps carrying her forward as strike after strike shattered the Zombie's openings.

"This Tang Saber... is no ordinary weapon!"

Qiu Chan's eyes lit up. Zombies had already appeared, so it was hardly surprising that a saber with a long history would possess some mysterious qualities, right?

"This is getting more and more interesting..."

Qiu Chan's lips curved upward as she wielded the Tang Saber in broad, sweeping strikes. The warm current within her body erased her fatigue, and her stamina rapidly recovered.

"Interesting. Let's see what other strange abilities this saber has!"

Qiu Chan moved like a ghost, twisting aside to evade the claws of the surrounding Zombies as the tip of her blade pierced one Zombie's opening.

In an instant, scorching energy erupted from Qiu Chan's body, and countless streams of heat flowed into her like swimming dragons.

After being stabbed once, the Zombie's entire upper body exploded as if it had been crushed by a truck, while its lower body toppled to the ground as well.

Qiu Chan stood proudly, holding her saber in one hand behind her back.

"These Zombies are nothing. I'd like to see what kind of Monster is worthy of making me swing my blade seriously..."