Only when the strips of cloth flew before Su Jiu's eyes did she finally make out the black patterns on them.
The lines were exceedingly fine. Ordinary people could scarcely notice their existence without looking closely, let alone make them out at such tremendous speed.
Fortunately, Su Jiu was no longer quite so ordinary.
As she nimbly maneuvered around the strips flying at her, she carefully searched her memories.
She had indeed seen these patterns before, during a chance encounter in a Secret Realm she had entered in her previous life.
This was the Yin-Gathering Soul-Absorbing Pattern, a pattern specifically designed to convert other people's souls into power for oneself.
Su Jiu immediately thought of the souls of the Hidden-Seclusion Disciples that had originally been sealed inside the coffins.
Judging by the zombie's current state, it was not difficult to guess that those souls had probably already merged into the patterns on the cloth strips, giving it its present strength.
What surprised her was that the zombie could actually control these strips...
Could this, too, be an instinct the mindless zombie had acquired after its corpse transformed? Something like drawing the souls inside its coffin into the strips wrapped around its body...
Su Jiu felt that explanation was rather far-fetched, but for now, there did not seem to be a better one.
While the zombie controlled the strips, they also extended and branched on their own. Had her cultivation been any lower, or her combat experience any poorer, it might truly have caught her off guard.
Unfortunately for it, Su Jiu had neither weakness.
Few at her cultivation level could rival Su Jiu's agility. Like a white butterfly, she flitted through the white strips.
Cunning as those strips were, they failed to touch so much as a hair on her.