A little under half a month earlier, at Purple Ultimate Immortal Mountain, the ancestral seat of the Purple Mansion Palace in Changzhou.
Countless troops of the Demonic Path crowded shoulder to shoulder, sweeping madly across the plains ahead like a rolling sea, its towering waves crashing against the shore.
When the disciples of the Purple Mansion Palace saw this from afar, every one of them was horrified.
As far as their eyes could reach, virtually everything in sight was a zombie or ghost monster of one kind or another.
Amid dense, drumbeat-like pounding, they charged forward, shaking heaven and earth.
Even though the vast majority were low-ranking fodder such as white stiffs, their streams of yin baleful origin energy gathered together, drops forming rivers and ten thousand rivers flowing into the sea, creating an unimaginably vast momentum.
"Th-this is far too many!"
"There must be several million... no, tens of millions?"
"At least a hundred million!"
Gulp!
Several newly admitted early-stage Qi Refining disciples swallowed, feeling their blood freeze and their entire bodies shake stiffly.
Fortunately, the Purple Mansion Palace's Mountain Gate Grand Array had already been activated. A towering wall, half illusory and half solid, rose across the open ground, protecting the entire immortal mountain like the outer walls of a fortress. When the endless, surging tide of zombies and ghost monsters reached its foot, they swarmed like ants, yet could do nothing to it.
The real threat came from living corpses that had reached higher grades.
The disciples peered out and saw blood corpses, scarlet from head to toe like skinned monkeys, beginning to climb the mountainside, preparing to bypass the protective ring formed by the gang qi wall and sneak inside.
Elsewhere, huge numbers of green stiffs gathered.
These were creatures nurtured for years in corpse-rearing grounds,