Chapter 28: Reversing Heaven's Authority

  A faint light shines in the mirror, directly illuminating the skull on the stone pedestal.

  In the skull, a small orange flame was lit as the beam of light shone in.

  The flames sprouted and grew larger, in the blink of an eye, transforming into a blazing inferno of soul fire.

  The light in the mirror converged and returned to calmness, and both sides of the mirror resumed their normal appearance.

  In Jiǔ's heart, however, a shocking storm surged, and the soul fire of the remains that had been bestowed with eternal silence was rekindled. What kind of heaven-defying power is this? It's simply unbelievable!

  Jiǔ Dāi stared blankly at the skeletal remains on the stone pedestal, where the soul fire was burning more and more fiercely, with orange flames bursting forth from its skull, filling the air with a thick, deadly aura.

  Slowly, the soul fire enveloped and rebirthed the entire human skeleton in its flames, a scene similar to that of the sunset's past evolutions.

  A gigantic skeleton engulfed in soul fire slowly sat up, and after an endless number of years of its soul fire being extinguished, it once again possessed a revived undead life that would continue to burn with soul fire.

  The skeleton walked down the stone pedestal, attached to it and picked up the skull of the steed on the other side of the pedestal. In the fierce burning soul fire on the skeleton, a small flame split out, floated in the air, and gently moved into the huge skull of the steed.

  A miraculous scene appeared, and the skull of the mount beast also 'cracked' with a loud noise, re-igniting the soul fire, which then extended outward, wrapping around the entire skeletal body of the mount beast, reforging it.

  The two skeletons of human and beast were gradually shrinking after being refined by the soul fire, but they became whiter and more lustrous. Many subtle changes occurred on both the human-shaped skeleton and the beast-shaped skeleton.

  Including a giant bone bow about two meters long behind the human skeleton, a blood-colored light bowstring is born, and a cloud of fog is born under the four hooves of the beast-shaped mount.

  In the end, the humanoid skeleton was re-cast by the soul fire into a normal human height, with the left forearm bone being strangely crimson red, clearly distinct from the rest of the body.

  The beast's skeleton was forged into the size of an ordinary horse, with thick limbs and a heavy skeletal body. Bony armor grew at the joints, and on its forehead, a curved horn protruded slowly upwards from the center, making it look like a rhino but also somewhat horse-like.

  In the sense of Zhu Jiu, there is a thousand years of dead force condensed and burning in the soul fire of the beast-shaped mount, while in the human-shaped skeleton's soul fire, there are more than 4,000 years of dead force condensation.

  It seems that after these two skeletons' soul fire reignited, they quickly absorbed the remaining death energy in their skeleton, and are now respectively at the lower and middle ranks of orange soul.

  Examining the Sea of Recognizing Characters, I discovered that under the character "Sea", beside the shadow image of the setting sun, a small new image had appeared - it was the shape of a human skeleton sitting on a steed.

  It wasn't until now that Jiu understood, the purpose of guiding himself for over ten days to find and revive the skeletal knight was actually to make it his second undead servant. What's so special about this skeletal knight that it's worth putting in so much thought?

  And yet this guy is clearly a human and a beast, how come the recognition talisman only counts them as one head of demon corpse, is this one of the wonders of Knight Demon Corpse?

  Jiǔ Pò couldn't wait to flip through the soul memories of Yāo Shī, but unfortunately, there was still the threat of the old jiangshi returning at any time. It would be best to leave quickly.

  Through the recognition of the sea symbol, he gave a command for the new demon corpse to follow him and leave. Zhu Jiu took the lead in walking out.

  Suddenly, the knight's corpse aura behind him surged violently, his death force breaking through 6,000 years in an instant, directly approaching the seven thousand year death force threshold of the top-grade orange soul corpse.

  Jiǔ shùn jiān dà jīng, xuán fēng bān zhuǎn guò shēn tǐ, fā xiàn shēn hòu de qí shì yāo shī yǐ jīng zuò le zài xióng zhuàng de zuò qí shòu bèi shàng.

  After the two merged, the soul fire also connected through the adjacent skeletal connections. A slender orange soul fire extended from the head of the mount, from the back of the neck to the back, and then from the waist of the knight's undead body, a thin line connected to the knight's skull, the entire picture was eerily beautiful and strange.

  What's even more unusual is that after the fusion of their soul fires, the power of death contained within them also merged together. It wasn't just a simple addition, but rather the combined force of the humanoid corpse's 4,000 years of dead energy and the mount's 1,000 years of dead energy resulted in an additional nearly 1,000 years of power, bringing it infinitely close to the level of a high-quality Corpse Guard.

  At this time, the knight's corpse mouth opened and closed while sitting astride the beast's back, and the thick death energy that filled the entire tomb was swallowed into the knight's soul fire, making his skeleton even more crystal clear.

  The knight's undead body reclaimed the death energy that had originally scattered from its own body, raised its head and let out a silent roar, its soul fire violently fluctuating. After a while, it remounted and followed behind Zhu Jiu, its massive hooves striking the ground with a dull thud.

  I wish that in Jiuxin's heart a hint of unspeakable joy arises, shining brightly like the Treasure Mirror, shining brightly like the Treasure Mirror! Having found such an extraordinary corpse, it is indeed not ordinary.

  Overjoyed, yet still vigilant, he quickly exited the tomb of the demon corpse, with the setting sun still faithfully guarding outside the Black Tower.

  Just as Jiuzheng was about to sneak out of the valley, a sudden, emotionless, mournful and savage howl echoed from the direction of the valley entrance. The old zombie had actually come back.

  Now that he had emerged from the narrow tomb, whether to hide or conceal was up to his own heart's desire. Zhu Jiu let out a light laugh, and the recognition talismans rolled into motion. The evening sun and the knight's wraith disappeared one after another, all being recalled by Zhu Jiu into the recognition talismans. Zhu Jiu himself also chose a stone to conceal his figure.

  In the blink of an eye, the old zombie's figure appeared in front of the black tower. This old guy looked a bit disheveled, although he had won against his opponent and returned, it was a miserable victory. His body was severely injured, with a hole pierced through his waist and abdomen, revealing the pure black death energy that permeated his internal organs.

  One wound on his leg was particularly severe, exposing the internal white bones, and had seriously affected Lao Jiang's moving speed.

  At the sight of this guy's miserable appearance, he had a sudden movement in his heart and got up with the idea of taking advantage of him.

  The old zombie returned to the vicinity of the Black Tower, sensing that the death energy nearby had dissipated. The ground no longer emitted pure death energy, and it seemed abnormally enraged. Its soul flames expanded and contracted violently, fluctuating wildly.

  Jiǔ pā zài bù yuǎn chù tōu xiào qǐlai, diàodòng shí hǎi fú lóng qiāo qiāo fàng chū le yǐn rù xū kōng de xī yáng.

  The old zombie was completely unaware and still angry about the loss of the earth's dead energy.

  Just as Lao Jiang was about to raise his head and let out a furious roar, a sinister pale green bony claw silently extended from the void behind him.

  Until the bony claws launched a sneak attack, the old zombie suddenly realized it, but it was too late. The back of its neck was scratched out with several deep blood marks by the sudden attack of the bony claws.

  The old zombie quickly turned around, and there was nothing unusual behind it, but just now it had clearly been ambushed by another evil corpse.

  This old fellow's combat experience is exceptionally rich, transforming the soul flames into a flame barrier, enveloping his entire body within. This kind of defense, regardless of whether or not he can discover his opponent, is the most effective.

  Jiu Pa sighed secretly in the distance, the deeper the realm of the demon corpse, the more impossible it was to leapfrog and fight. The sunset's claw could blow away an opponent two small realms higher than itself when it was at the Corpse Gradation boundary, but now facing an old demon corpse that was two small realms higher than itself, it was just a normal injury.

  The silhouette of the setting sun slowly emerged from the void, and the old zombie opposite immediately sensed it clearly, pouncing towards the setting sun!