The Power of a Divine Ability, the Corpse Awakens

Liu Yi stood at the entrance to the burial chamber as a chill swept over him.

A gigantic coffin covered in runes rested in the very center of the chamber.

But the unnerving mechanical clacking that made his scalp tingle did not come from the coffin.

Following the sound, he saw two golden humanoid puppets, each a full two meters tall, slowly rotating their joints on either side of the chamber. An eerie light suddenly kindled in their dark red eyes.

Like ancient guardians roused from slumber, they advanced toward the entrance with heavy, mechanical steps.

"This is bad! These golden humanoid puppets are nothing like the bronze ones from before!" Bai Shuyan's face went deathly pale, and his voice trembled audibly.

Meng Zhixu tightened his grip on his spear, his knuckles turning slightly white. Xu Wang and the others beside him also braced themselves for a formidable enemy.

Their grueling battle with the bronze humanoid puppets was still fresh in their minds.

Facing the golden humanoid puppets, whose entire bodies radiated an oppressive presence, they could sense the vast difference in strength without even exchanging blows.

The bronze humanoid puppets would probably have been no more than ants before them.

Although Liu Yi had shown astonishing strength earlier, everyone's hearts still pounded with uncertainty. They did not know whether he could stand up to two golden humanoid puppets.

"Maybe... we should retreat first? These golden humanoid puppets are too strong. If we fight them head-on, we won't be able to hold out!"

Little Yellow barked anxiously while sending Liu Yi a message on Microchat:

"Master, the golden humanoid puppets are too strong. Can you handle them? Why don't we retreat and come back after we've gotten stronger?"

"Don't worry. These two golden humanoid puppets might have the strength of the Golden Core Realm, but I can handle them. This is a good chance to try out my Divine Ability."

After sending the message, Liu Yi waved to the others. "Step back. I'll take care of them."

With that, he said no more and strode forward.

He had originally intended to use the Five-Colored Divine Light to draw the puppets into his Divine Ability space.

But just as he was about to act, he changed his mind and used the Great Five Elements Destruction Divine Light instead.

The Five-Colored Divine Light could trap the puppets temporarily, but he would still have to release them and deal with them afterward.

He might as well use the Great Five Elements Destruction Divine Light to kill them on the spot.

Liu Yi swept both hands outward, and two beams of Great Five Elements Destruction Divine Light shot out like lightning, straight at the two golden humanoid puppets.

"Boom! Boom!"

In an instant, a deafening roar erupted through the burial chamber. The sound waves swept outward as if they had substance, like divine punishment descending from the nine heavens to end the world.

Amid the dazzling five-colored light, the two Golden Core Realm golden humanoid puppets did not even have time to raise a defense.

Their upper bodies crumbled and were destroyed under the terrifying might of the Great Five Elements Destruction Divine Light.

Their mangled lower halves toppled to the ground with a clatter, kicking up clouds of dust.

Liu Yi could not help staring for a moment.

He had not expected the Divine Ability to be so powerful that even Golden Core Realm puppets could not withstand a single attack.

The unimaginable sight left Xu Wang, Meng Zhixu, Su Wantang, and the others, who had been preparing to retreat, rooted to the spot.

Their eyes went wide, and their faces were filled with disbelief.

Gasps rang out one after another.

Everyone's minds went blank, their ears buzzing as they stared in utter shock at the scene before them.

None of them had imagined that when Liu Yi said he would act, he would be so fast that he instantly killed two terrifying golden humanoid puppets before they even had time to retreat.

"That's outrageous! Just what cultivation realm has Young Hero Liu reached?"

"Could he be an immortal cultivator? How else could he have such terrifying strength?"

"Could it be... he's already broken through to the Dao Seed Realm?"

Cries of amazement and chatter erupted in the burial chamber. Everyone looked at Liu Yi with awe and shock in their eyes.

Little Yellow, dressed in his boldly patterned pants, bounced up and down beside Liu Yi, sending a stream of messages on Microchat:

"Master, you're incredible! My admiration for you is like the surging waters of a mighty river, flowing on without end."

"What Divine Ability was that? I want to learn it too!"

Liu Yi stepped forward as he replied, "That was the Great Five Elements Destruction Divine Light. Your cultivation isn't high enough yet, so you can't learn it."

He entered the burial chamber and casually waved a hand, sweeping the remaining wreckage of the golden humanoid puppets into his Storage Space.

Then he looked around, and after confirming there was nothing else, turned his gaze to the coffin in the center of the chamber.

He studied it intently, working out and analyzing the meaning of its runes in his mind.

In the blink of an eye, Liu Yi understood what the runes meant.

It was a corpse-refining formation!

He had never expected the immortal cultivator in the coffin to have abandoned the immortal path and refined himself into a zombie that neither lived nor died.

"Woof, woof, woof!" Little Yellow's fur suddenly stood on end, and he barked furiously at the coffin while sending a Microchat message:

"Master, there's something strange about the coffin! There's a cold, powerful force hidden inside!"

Liu Yi replied at once, "I know. It should be the immortal cultivator who refined himself into a zombie. Stand back, I'll deal with it."

Then he turned to Su Wantang and the others and said solemnly, "The master of this tomb refined himself into a zombie in pursuit of longevity. All of you, stand back. I'm going to open the coffin and get rid of it!"

Everyone gasped. "We'll get back right away!" they said hurriedly.

Liu Yi flicked a finger, sending a sharp blast of force whistling out and knocking the coffin lid away in an instant.

At once, a vast surge of Corpse Qi burst skyward from the coffin like a giant black dragon.

A terrifying presence, cold, overbearing, and violent, surged upward and filled the entire main burial chamber in an instant.

The air seemed to be clenched in an invisible hand, turning thick and oppressive.

Xu Wang, Meng Zhixu, and the others went deathly pale as a suffocating sensation washed over them like a tide.

They scrambled desperately backward, wishing they could sprout wind beneath their feet and flee at once.

At the same time, they shouted a warning to those behind them: "Don't come in! Get back, it's dangerous up ahead!"

Liu Yi stared into the coffin and saw a figure slowly rise.

The figure was a full two meters tall, its ashen face twisted like a fiend's and its ghastly white fangs gleaming with an eerie light.

Stranger still, where its left arm should have been made of flesh and blood, there was a puppet arm gleaming coldly, its gears and metal framework flickering in and out of view amid the rotting flesh.

He paused in surprise. Its appearance was truly bizarre, with a faintly cyberpunk feel to it.

Could it be that this immortal cultivator had originally intended to refine himself into a puppet in pursuit of longevity, but failed and had to refine himself into a zombie instead?

But from the looks of it, his corpse refining had also failed. He had lost consciousness and become a bloodthirsty zombie.

As these thoughts churned through his mind, a deafening zombie roar suddenly rang out.

The zombie pushed off with both legs and leaped into the air like a bolt of black lightning, lunging at him on a gust of fetid wind.

As the zombie lunged at him with teeth bared and claws outstretched, Liu Yi's expression did not change. He raised a hand and unleashed the Great Yin-Yang Destruction Divine Light.

In an instant, a terrifying force capable of destroying heaven and earth rose within the burial chamber, as though all things would be reduced to nothing by this attack.

A beam of intertwined black and white divine light crossed the chamber in an instant and blasted toward the zombie.

The zombie seemed to sense the deadly danger. Corpse Qi surged wildly around it, gathering entirely on its left puppet arm, which it thrust toward the Great Yin-Yang Destruction Divine Light with immense force.