Transcendent Zombie

Lu Yan held the Soul Banner and walked through the old stairwell. The Vengeful Souls around him transformed into ghostly figures, weaving through the walls, scouting the surroundings.

Occasionally, a roar would come from a room, but it would quickly disappear, followed by a Vengeful Soul respectfully placing a Wandering Soul it held in its hands beside Lu Yan.

Each time this happened, a ghostly mist would spread from the Soul Banner, easily refining and devouring the Wandering Soul.

Then, Lu Yan stopped at the stairwell entrance. The five Vengeful Souls that had cleared the entire floor of stairs stood respectfully behind Lu Yan.

Walking all the way down from the top floor of this dilapidated building, Lu Yan had used the Vengeful Souls to clear more than half of the floors, with only the bottom first floor remaining.

The number of zombies on these floors was far less than on the top floor, but there were still over thirty. Refining the Wandering Souls had already caused the sixth Vengeful Soul within the Soul Banner to show a rudimentary form.

This speed was already quite fast, and it allowed for stable growth. More importantly, hunting zombies did not carry the risk of attracting cultivators for a siege.

Looking at the stairwell leading to the first floor, Lu Yan had not yet advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage and could not produce divine sense. However, the nascent spiritual sense of a cultivator told him that danger was hidden below.

This was also the reason Lu Yan did not immediately send the Vengeful Souls down.

"With five Vengeful Souls protecting me, no matter how many ordinary zombies there are, they can only be slaughtered by the Vengeful Souls.

To make my spiritual sense so wary, could it be a zombie with transcendent power?"

"With a spiritual energy concentration ten times higher than the Urban Version, it doesn't seem surprising that transcendent zombies comparable to cultivators would be born."

A sense of vigilance arose in his heart. Lu Yan took out another Spirit Stone from his Storage Bag to replenish his Mana. Then, a large amount of Mana was poured into the Soul Banner. The black ghostly mist began to spread from the second floor towards the first floor.

The five Vengeful Souls were hidden within the ghostly mist. The completely dark vision did not hinder their sight at all. Following the spreading ghostly mist, they infiltrated the first floor.

Meanwhile, Lu Yan remained on the second floor, holding a talisman to conceal his aura.

Using the Vengeful Souls' vision, the scene on the first floor was completely visible to Lu Yan.

The first floor led directly to the outside community. The unit door had long been torn down by zombies, and the entrance was covered in white bones and bloodstains.

Inside the first floor, within the unit door, a large number of zombies seemed to have gathered here to avoid the sunlight outside, numbering over a hundred.

The degree of decay on these zombies was far less than on the zombies upstairs, and some even maintained complete forms.

In the center of the many zombies, a large area was empty. A massive zombie, stout and nearly three meters tall, stood there.

"As expected, it's a Transcendent Zombie!"

Lu Yan's eyes narrowed slightly. He felt a sense of threat from the zombie, but it was not fatal. He roughly judged that the opponent's strength should also be at the level of Early-Stage or Mid-Stage Qi Refinement.

In terms of realm alone, this zombie far surpassed Lu Yan, but cultivators did not simply determine victory or defeat based on cultivation, especially for low-level cultivators.

Spells, magical artifacts, and talismans were the real keys to determining the outcome of a fight.

Lu Yan, with a large number of talismans, holding the Soul Banner and controlling five Vengeful Souls, dared to confront even an ordinary Mid-Stage Qi Refinement cultivator.

Not to mention that Vengeful Souls perfectly countered zombies, which gave Lu Yan great confidence.

The ghostly mist spread to the first floor. The ordinary zombies remained motionless, but only the giant zombie seemed to sense something. Its body swayed, and it let out threatening roars.

As the giant zombie moved, the other hundred or so zombies also followed suit, letting out roars.

Lu Yan's eyes narrowed, and he quickly increased his Mana output. The rolling ghostly mist instantly engulfed the entire first floor.

The chilling energy turned into frost, slowing down the zombies' movements. And within that ghostly mist, five pairs of sharp claws extended, all targeting the giant zombie.

To the Vengeful Souls, ordinary zombies, no matter how numerous, posed no threat. The only thing that could potentially harm them was this giant zombie that possessed transcendent power.

Five pairs of ghostly claws pierced into the giant zombie's body. The giant zombie immediately let out an angry roar. A black iron color rose from its flesh, making its entire body seem cast from refined iron, difficult to wound with blades or spears.

However, physical defense was useless against the five Vengeful Souls. The ghostly claws that had penetrated the giant zombie's body had already touched its soul.

Just as the Wandering Souls were about to strip the giant zombie's soul, a powerful transcendent force erupted from the giant zombie's soul. The connection between the giant zombie's soul and body was far stronger than that of ordinary zombies.

The five ghostly figures instantly flew backward. Cracks even began to appear on their complete soul bodies. The giant zombie, which had just erupted, displayed a nimbleness completely inconsistent with its body. It shattered the floor and caught up to one of the Vengeful Souls in a single step.

Its black iron-colored fist rose, emitting a faint glow, and smashed down towards the Vengeful Soul.

"Boom!"

In an instant, blood splattered. A large number of zombies that couldn't dodge in time had their bodies smashed by the punch. The floor vibrated, and the entire building trembled under this immense force.

However, the incorporeal Vengeful Soul had already burrowed into the ground, avoiding that punch.

Lu Yan could feel that the faint glow on the surface of the fist contained transcendent power that could harm soul bodies. If the Vengeful Soul at the first level of Qi Refining hadn't chosen to dodge, its soul body would have been severely injured.

Having failed to capture the Vengeful Soul with one strike, the surrounding ghostly mist rolled in, completely obscuring the giant zombie's vision.

The giant zombie let out an angry roar, trying to search. Just then, a ghostly claw extended from the ghostly mist and pierced into the giant zombie's body.

This time, the Vengeful Soul did not choose to forcibly strip the giant zombie's soul. Instead, it used its ghostly claw as a blade to cut a wound on the giant zombie's soul. The eerie ghostly energy immediately began to erode the giant zombie's soul.

The giant zombie instinctively counterattacked, swinging another punch. However, the Vengeful Soul had already retreated into the depths of the ghostly mist. With that punch, only the zombies that couldn't dodge in time had their bodies smashed.

Just like this, the Vengeful Souls within the ghostly mist, under Lu Yan's control, began to play hide-and-seek with the giant zombie.

The Vengeful Souls gave up on deciding the outcome in one go. Each sneak attack could only leave a few wounds on the soul. Thanks to the cover of the ghostly mist, the giant zombie's counterattacks were always ineffective.

And during the continuous battle, the Vengeful Souls even had spare energy to hunt those muddled zombies, leaving a large number of Wandering Souls scattered everywhere after being freed from their physical bodies.

Soon, only one giant zombie remained on the entire first floor.

As the ghostly claw pierced into the giant zombie's body once again, Lu Yan suddenly saw the black iron color on the giant zombie rapidly recede, returning to a body of flesh and blood.

Clearly, the wounds on its soul had severely injured the giant zombie, causing it to exhaust its transcendent power and even making it unable to continue using its metallization ability.

The Vengeful Soul hooked the giant zombie's soul. This time, there was no obstruction. A powerful Wandering Soul covered in wounds was stripped from the giant zombie's body.

The next moment, the giant zombie's tall body rapidly decayed, and its white bones collapsed with a crash.

Lu Yan, hidden on the second floor, slowly walked down the stairs, his eyes fixed on the giant zombie's Wandering Soul, which was covered in wounds, on the battlefield.

Unlike ordinary Wandering Souls, the giant zombie's Wandering Soul had a clear outline and form.

Even though it lacked the Heaven and Earth souls, the giant zombie's Wandering Soul was so strong that it was almost comparable to a Mid-Stage Qi Refinement cultivator. This was why the five Vengeful Souls had difficulty stripping its soul.

Although the Mid-Stage Qi Refinement soul is incomplete, its soul power is still stronger than several Vengeful Souls.

Such a powerful soul is completely capable of being refined into a main soul for the Soul Banner!