Chapter 378 - 1000 Years of Malicious Grudge

The cold wind whispered, everyone’s hair could not stop flying, and the atmosphere suddenly became very tense. Mu Shaoai vest was covered with layers of cold sweat, soaking his clothes completely.

Xiao Chen took a deep breath, looked at Mu Shaoai and said coldly, “I’ll let you off regarding the previous matter. From now on, if you dare to yell at Senior Sister Luo again, I’ll definitely take your life!”

Mu Shaoai’s whole body shook violently, just as if he had just walked to the gate of Hell and returned. Last time, Xiao Chen was still a disciple of the Orthodox Path, so he was quite cautious. Now, Xiao Chen was no longer a disciple of the Orthodox Path, if he wanted to kill him, even with Yu Yifeng around, he would not be safe. Leave here! Return to Jade Qing Sect! Go back to his master Yuheng Zi! These were his only thoughts now.

“Swoosh!” That bamboo hat in a distance away flew back into Xiao Chen’s hands. He put the bamboo hat on and walked towards the end of the night without looking back.

Yu Yifeng stood in place, and the cold wind blew his eyes red. He watched Xiao Chen and the three people of the Devils’ sects disappeared at the end of the night. This scene was so similar. A former Junior Brother of his, Wu Nian fell into the Devil’s Practice for a girl from the Devil’s sect he was obsessed with. He then went to the Wuwang Wind Cloud City and renamed himself, Leng Ningfeng.

That day, it rained heavily. Leng Ningfeng held the woman’s cold body and walked step by step in the bloody water. Countless Sword Qi penetrated his body, and countless flying swords were inserted into him, but he continued to walk towards the foot of the mountain and refused to turn back.

“Wu Nian! Come back! Don’t make the same mistakes again and again; put her down! Just admit your mistake to Martial Uncle Yu Heng and you’ll be fine…”

“Same mistakes again and again? Yu Yifeng, tell me, what is right! What is wrong! Heaven could tolerate everyone, but why can’t it tolerate her! Why!

The wind, whispering, was like a desolate and beautiful music score of the heavens and the earth, wailing.

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After half an hour, Xiao Chen and the four had traveled more than ten miles to the open woods. Seven Killings said, “So, let’s part ways here, and see you at the Ghost-wailing Hill.” Then he moved and disappeared without a trace. Of course, what he meant when he said ‘see you at the Ghost-wailing Hill’ was that when the four of them were to meet again, they would be competing for the extraordinary treasure.

“I’ll say goodbye too!” Yi Yeqiu moved and went in the other direction.

Lastly, Su Lianyue looked at Xiao Chen. Under the dim moonlight, the shadows of the branches tilted horizontally, as if the night was more blurred, which also made her look more beautiful and charming. Her snow-white shoulders and clearly visible clavicle were angled in a way that they were partly hidden and visible at the same time. The night was as if being stained by ink. It was like a picture of a drunken beauty, but at the end of the picture, there was a cold and thrilling dagger.

She said in a charming voice, “The night is long; the moon is alluring; Master Xiao is alone…”

“Farewell.” Before she finished speaking, Xiao Chen moved and disappeared without a trace.

Su Lianyue at the back stunned for a little and then she sniggered. But in the corner of her eyes, a slight invisible cold radiance flashed.

At midnight, the sky seemed colder and the frost was heavier. Xiao Chen found a cave. At this moment, he sat cross-legged at the entrance of the cave, the moonlight shone his face and it looked like a sheet of paper, without any color.

“Puff!” After a moment, a mouthful of dark blood finally flowed out from his mouth, which only made him look slightly better.

In recent days, his skills had increased greatly, especially after understanding the fifth step of Yaoguang School mind cultivation method, he was now not far from the Nirvana Realm, but there were times he felt strange, just like when Danyang Zi blew up his Soul earlier, under that kind of impact, he clearly could not bear it, but at that time it seemed… just like when he was at the Canglan City battling the Zuoqiu family, when that Nascent Soul Realm cultivator hit him with a palm, it was obvious he could not survive, but he had entered into an unconscious state for a short time, then when he woke up in an instant, he was unscathed.

This was not because his body could withstand powerful forces, but more like… he was dead but had come alive under the control of some strange power. Thinking of this, Xiao Chen shivered, and a chill swept across his body in an instant. This was not a good omen…

Suddenly, there was a sound in the distance. Xiao Chen frowned and the sound disappeared, and after a while, it sounded again, and then disappeared again, then it slowly and intermittently approaches.

Xiao Chen put away the emotions just before, a smile hung on the corner of his mouth, with two fingers he picked up a small stone next to him, and flipped it with force. The stone flew with a swoosh, and a weird cry was heard, “Oh man! You wanna die! Stupid kiddo! ”

Xiao Chen pretended to sneer and said, “So sneaky, if you are not treacherous, you are stealing.”

Zhiluan rubbed its head, flew over, and glared at him angrily, Xiao Chen also glanced at him and said, “What? They sent you over to spy on me?”

“You stupid kiddo, when did your mouth become so mean?” Zhiluan said angrily and sat down. But it got up quickly from the coldness, sitting on the ground was as cold as sitting on ice.

Xiao Chen took a deep breath. For a year, everyone’s views about him had changed, and probably only this Leopard Cat Spirit would not. He asked, “Is Xian’er OK?”

Zhiluan rubbed its head that was hit by him with a stone, and slowly said, “She’s doing very good!” And it muttered, “It’s just that Mu Shaoai is so detestable…”

Xiao Chen’s eyes became cold, and then said, “What’s did he do?”

It was already been freezing cold, and Zhiluan was scared by his coldness again, and said, “Relax, not even with ten guts he would dare to do something to the little girl. It was just that the previous time I went to the kitchen to find something to eat and he locked me up in the room deliberately. This man is really abominable! ”

Xiao Chen smiled lightly and said, “You deserve it.” He asked again, “You are here for the extraordinary treasure as well?”

“Who the hell is willing to come here!” Zhiluan complained and said, “The extraordinary treasure is just one reason, and more importantly, about half a year ago, 31 people went missing for no apparent reason. Qing Chen that old man suspected that it was related to the Corpse Refinery Sect locating here and sent Eleven Yu here to look it up. Didn’t even think about who I am for me to come here with a little kid…”

Xiao Chen’s expression gradually became dignified. 31 people had disappeared on the same day, and they were all born on July 7th, and this had happened before a few hundred years ago. What was going on…

Zhiluan was still at the side muttering and complaining. It saw that Xiao Chen was silent for such a long time, asked, “Kiddo, why ain’t you speaking?”

Xiao Chen frowned. “Leopard Cat Spirit, I think this is unusual; go back immediately and tell them, don’t go further into the mountains anymore.”

“Not like they will listen to me!” Zhiluan snorted, and murmured, “That Eleven Yu can be such one-track mind, said that the task the master has given has to be accomplished. Following him is even more unlucky than to follow you!” Then he glanced at Xiao Chen again and said, “Stupid kiddo, are you also going into the depths to find the extraordinary treasure? ”

Xiao Chen’s eyebrows were tightly locked, everyone was eyeing that extraordinary treasure, it was not just a groundless rumor, but it was difficult to tell what it really was and it was necessary for him to see for himself… Zhiluan exclaimed, “You, you, you kiddo really intended to go! Holy meow! Do you know what sort of place Ghost-wailing Hill is?”

“You know?”

Zhiluan coughed, its claws behind its back and walked back and forth at the cave entrance. It said proudly, “If you are willing to ask me nicely, I can tell you anyway.”

“Dear Immortal Zhi, the boy would like to know the details.”

Zhiluan coughed, looked around, walked to his side, tiptoed and whispered in his ear, “Kiddo, haven’t you noticed something strange about this place? Within hundreds of miles of the radius is being shrouded by a Negative Qi, and this Negative Qi is different from the Negative Qi we noticed the last time in that Valley of Devilish Aura…”

Xiao Chen’s brows grew deeper and deeper. Indeed, he was very sensitive to the Negative Qi, and he had felt a Negative Qi from the moment he came here and it gets heavier to the deeper he walked into the mountain. But the Negative Qi he felt in the Abyss of Devil’s Aura previously seemed to have come from the Ghost Realm, however, the Negative Qi here did not come from the Ghost Realm, but…

“Resentment!” Zhiluan’s claws placed in front of its chest, and it spoke the word very seriously. Xiao Chen gave him a side-eye and said, “When did you learn to read mind?”

Zhiluan snorted softly. “Whichever side you kiddo’s eyebrows move, I know what you were thinking.”

“Then guess what I’m thinking now.”

“You are thinking now that since the Corpse Refinery Sect is located here, they need to gather a lot of Malicious Grudges to refine their Corpse Puppet, so it is normal to have a bit more resentment nearby, isn’t it?”

“Is that not right?”

“No!” Zhiluan stretched out its hand and said very earnestly, “It’s not that the Corpse Refinery Sect being here that has caused the areas around to have extremely heavy resentment, but it was because of this, the Corpse Refinery Sect has chosen to form their sect here!”

After hearing what he said, Xiao Chen’s eyebrows were gradually locked up again, and there were three Malevolent Qi in the world, Tainted Qi, Turbid Qi, and Resentment Qi. Among them, Resentment Qi, if people were extremely unwilling and resentful at the time of death, they would send out a Malicious Grudge. If this Malicious Grudge could not find a host for a long time, it would gradually develop into Resentment Qi and diffused into the world.

Once there were corpses nearby that did not decompose infected with such Resentment Qi, it would gradually become Walking Corpse after a certain period, which was equivalent to zombies in the eyes of mortals. Corpse Refinery Sect refining Corpse Puppet was also based on this principle, a Malicious Grudge was injected into the corpses, but whether it was a Walking Corpse or an artificially made Corpse Puppet, they did not have the souls and senses, and were born of a Malicious Grudge.

The heavier the Malicious Grudge, the more powerful the Corpse Puppet. A Corpse Puppet of a hundred years’ Malicious Grudge could defeat a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator. If it was a Corpse Puppet that had gathered millennia of Malicious Grudge, it would simply be unthinkable, if it was ten thousand years of Malicious Grudge… He believed that the Corpse Refinery Sect did not have this ability yet.

“Humph, kiddo, do you know how powerful it is now? Still going to the depths of the mountains?” Zhiluan looked proud of his solemn expression at this moment.

“Go!” Xiao Chen patted his hands on his legs and stood up.

“Meow! What the meow!” Zhiluan jumped in shock and said, “Why are you as one-track mind as that Yu Eleven? The Resentment Qi outside is already so heavy, what about Ghost-wailing Hill? There can be a Millennium Walking Corpse! Kiddo, you want to die! ”

Xiao Chen looked out at the vast sky and said, “I have to figure out some things… And, I also happen to be missing a Corpse Puppet, and it would be good if I could catch a Walking Corpse of a thousand year’s Malicious Grudge.”

“Catch, catch the Millennium Walking Corpse?” Zhiluan was stunned, then it suddenly lay on the ground, hit it while pointing at him, laughed and said, “You want to catch the Millennium Walking Corpse! Hahaha!”

“I’m actually hearing a Nascent Soul Realm kiddo saying that he was going to catch the Millennium Walking Corpse! Hahaha! This joke I can laugh for a year!”

Zhi Luan laughed at him while hitting the ground and pointing at him. It was in tears of laughter. Xiao Chen frowned and glared at it, saying, “Ain’t you annoying? I was just joking, stupid cat; you eat too much and get sick! Go away!” Then he kicked it and Zhiluan rolled on the ground a few times.

Zhiluan was still laughing, “Do you know what the Millennium Walking Corpse is like? Let me tell you, if there is a Walking Corpse with more than a thousand years’ Malicious Grudge, it cannot be killed. Even if you killed it, it will immediately resurrect with this millennium Malicious Grudge. Haha, you actually want to catch a Millennium Walking Corpse! I’m going to laugh for a year! ”

“Wait! What did you say!” Xiao Chen suddenly felt the heat all over his body and then shivered, and then a layer of sweat had formed on his back.

The Walking Corpse was also called a zombie in the mortal world. It gathered the Resentment Qi from the heavens and the earth, and was born from the Death Qi, the Unlucky Qi of the heaven and earth. In the mortal world, it used the resentment as its power and fed on blood. According to the ancient Mao Mountain strange skills, a zombie with Malicious Grudge of more than a thousand years could resurrect countlessly, could fly and move in the ground, and could even produce its own spiritual intelligence and cast spells. It was called the Flying Zombie and was feared by Cultivators.

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