Like a free bird that had just flown out of its cage, it gleefully ran out of the side chamber and began racing around the main hall.
It truly moved like the wind. Even Feng Qi could only make out blurred afterimages as he watched it move.
Perhaps it had exercised enough and truly grown hungry, for Su Jiu and the others finally felt the danger emanating from that bag of skin and bones.
While it was still far away from them, the bag of bones suddenly raised a claw toward Su Jiu and slashed downward.
The sinister wind beneath its claw arrived in an instant, forcing Su Jiu back several steps.
When Su Jiu looked up again, she saw the green light in the mummy's eyes.
"Hungry..." As it ran toward Su Jiu, it occasionally swung its foreclaws, unleashing sinister winds at her and the others.
The others were fine, but Yun Huanling was simply a little too slow. Before the mummy even reached them, the sinister winds had already cut several wounds into his body.
Su Jiu placed a formation disk in the mummy's path. Just as she had hoped, it stepped straight into the formation without even looking. The mummy was trapped.
"Yun Huanling, how are you?"
Su Jiu examined Yun Huanling's meridians. The flow of spiritual qi within them was obstructed, with traces of foreign matter mixed in. Her gaze gradually turned cold. "You've been infected with corpse poison."
When Su Jiu looked at his face again, she discovered that his lips were also steadily darkening. In barely a dozen breaths, they had turned an unnatural purple.
Su Jiu had not realized how close she had drawn to Yun Huanling while examining his condition, but Yun Huanling had been aware of it all along.
He felt