Zhou Yan sat cross-legged, silently regulating his breathing and bringing himself into peak condition.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes and looked up at the sky.
"Noon is here!"
Zhou Yan rose, adjusted his armor and battle saber, then strode into the Corpse Demon Mountain Forest.
The midday sunlight shone on his armor, casting a dazzling sheen.
The moment Zhou Yan truly entered the Corpse Demon Mountain Forest, he felt the blazing sunlight vanish without a trace. Great waves of icy yin energy surged toward him from every direction, rapidly seeping into his body.
For an instant, Zhou Yan felt as though he had stepped straight from a sweltering kitchen into a freezer.
"The yin energy really is thick here!"
Zhou Yan raised his brows and tightened his grip on the Azure Dragon Battle Saber.
He had started out with Corpse Controlling and could hardly have been more familiar with yin energy.
Yet this was his first time experiencing such a fierce, surging concentration of it. After a brief initial discomfort, Zhou Yan quickly adjusted.
His Yin-Yang Life-Death Art allowed him to manipulate both yin and yang energy, so the yin energy posed little hindrance. Instead, he swiftly mastered its use and formed a faint protective barrier.
With that, the yin energy in the Corpse Demon Forest could no longer affect him.
More importantly, it also blocked another energy within the Corpse Demon Forest: corpse qi.
Compared with the obvious yin energy, corpse qi was far more insidious, but no less harmful.
Many cultivators who entered the Corpse Demon Forest were unknowingly corroded by corpse qi. Eventually, their movements became sluggish, their vital blood stagnated, and their bodies grew stiff. Some even remained in the Corpse Demon Forest forever.
Whoosh...
Zhou Yan slashed at a nearby Yin Locust Tree. A ribbon