"Enemies incoming! Everyone, stay alert! Kill them!"
"Kill!"
The sun had only just risen when a fierce battle broke out in the valley.
The patrol that rogue cultivator Wu Qi belonged to was a combat unit hired by the Heavenly Dao Alliance. Over the past several days, they had been entering and leaving the valley, patrolling far and wide to survey the terrain and qi vein nodes. They hoped to discover a possible Void Rift or sealing grand formation and find the Five Elements Venerable hidden deep within.
Naturally, the Demon Alliance would not let them conduct their search in peace and frequently sent people to harass them.
An unexpected battle erupted after the two sides stumbled upon each other.
Wu Qi stared grimly at the hideous zombie lunging toward him, inwardly cursing his rotten luck. Still, he knew that retreating rashly at a moment like this would only expose his weaknesses to the enemy's blade. Only by meeting the danger head-on and fighting fiercely could he hold out until their experts arrived to support them and survive this sudden encounter.
He clenched his teeth, his face twisting with exertion and veins bulging on his forehead. A strand of flame-like gang qi wrapped around his saber as he slashed forward viciously, the blade whistling like the wind.
Clang!
After a sharp ring like metal striking metal, the zombie staggered, its body tilting as the blade cut into its neck.
Yet astonishingly, despite his strength at human rank seven turns, that full-force slash penetrated less than half an inch.
The toughness of this zombie's body far exceeded anything he had imagined.
"Not good! This isn't an ordinary zombie-it's a copper corpse!"
Copper corpses were a special kind of mutated zombie, known for their tough bodies and bronze-colored skin. Zombies, however, were