"What... what on earth is that thing?"
Second Master Hui's voice trembled.
Before opening the coffin, he had guessed that something "big" might be hidden inside such an enormous Bronze Coffin.
But he had never imagined it would be this big—or this horrifying. It was a Flesh and Blood Corpse Statue, as though countless corpses had been piled together, woven through one another, then cast into a single mass.
The Flesh and Blood Corpse Statue stood more than ten men tall. As its aura spread unchecked, a putrid stench assaulted their noses and a bone-deep chill filled the air.
Corpse creatures craved flesh and blood.
This enormous Flesh and Blood Corpse Statue was no exception.
Sensing the living people around it, two slits split open in its huge, misshapen head. Like a pair of black-and-crimson eyes, they fixed on Second Master Hui and the others.
At the same time, its body began to writhe. One sweep of its fleshy arm sent a storm of blood and stench surging toward them.
Second Master Hui was horrified, but he did not flee.
With such a foe before him, the more desperately he tried to run, the faster he would die.
Besides, he was the closest. Even if he wanted to flee now, he could not.
"Everyone, attack together! Pin down this monster!"
Second Master Hui shouted. Gritting his teeth, he took out an entire bottle of Blood Wine he had been saving and splashed it over the formation. Then he bit his finger, touched the blood to his brow, formed a hand seal, and chanted an arcane incantation. He poured everything into the ancient Daoist Array Disk he had laid out earlier, something that seemed neither quite a formation nor quite a talisman.
Light blazed across the Array Disk.
Ancient, profound seal-script