Chapter 29: Four Years Flew By

  An old zombie with a hole in one leg is severely wounded and no longer as agile as before when pouncing on the sunset.

  The sunset mainly used dodging in the battle with the old zombie, and did not hard connect. It often borrowed the ability to hide into the void to delay time.

  The old zombie had no way to win for the time being, getting more and more furious, gradually being lured by the sunset to a position not far from Zhu Jiu's hiding place.

  Jiǔ Yuǎn hid behind the stone, mobilized his magical powers to drive the recognition sea talisman, using the void as paper and his fingers as a brush, drawing a mysterious symbol in mid-air.

  This is a rune that can temporarily restrict the movement of the evil corpse, drawn by Jiuxi with the power of unity and emptiness, having a restraining effect on the evil corpse.

  The time of confinement is determined by the boundary of the ghostly corpse, and with the strength of the high-quality corpse guard, this talisman can only be confined for a few seconds.

  The talisman was controlled by Zhu Jiu, flying out of thin air and instantly imprinting itself on the old zombie's forehead. The old zombie was indeed immobilized, unable to move.

  Just then, Zhu Jiu Xin received a silent and eerie knight corpse riding on horseback.

  As soon as he came out, he turned his hand over and grasped the long bone bow behind him, quickly raised it to the front, and pulled out a bone arrow from the blood-colored small arm bone with his right hand. The entire action was smooth and swift, like flowing clouds and water. The arrow body flashed out of the bow and shot straight at the old zombie's injured leg.

  At this time, the old zombie's forehead seal character flashed and disappeared, just recovering his mobility, but the arrow feathers that shot out in a flash were already too late, and he was hit by an arrow.

  With the power of a Knight Lich, this arrow shot at the old zombie's leg was extremely lethal, and the blood-colored bone arrow of the Knight Lich was extraordinary, with explosive damage from the flame spell.

  The old zombie's leg was shot and instantly injured, the already heavily wounded leg bone broke directly, the injured leg only had tendons, bones and skin connected, completely losing its supporting force.

  The knight shot an arrow, and it was quickly retrieved by Zhu Jiu's flying speed, hiding the recognition token again.

  This fight with an unknown opponent made the old zombie more cautious, and it retreated a few steps on one leg, just as it was about to burn its soul fire to recover from its injuries. The sunset suddenly appeared out of nowhere, adopting a despicable sneak attack tactic, not giving the old zombie a chance to breathe.

  The old zombie could only rekindle the soul fire to envelop its entire body, but this defensive mode of soul fire consumed too much and was absolutely unsustainable.

  Both sides fell into a brief truce, and in the end, Jiuyi relied on the old zombie's mobility disadvantage and the knight's long-range cold arrow tactics. He called out the setting sun god to harass and disrupt, and after two days, he exhausted the old zombie until it lost its combat effectiveness. After falling to the ground, the soul fire core was absorbed by Xi Yang and the knight.

  The sunset and the knight shared the zombie's soul fire core, after refining it, the sunset gained 600 years of dead force, the dead force gathered in the soul fire has broken through the 2000-year mark, and its strength has increased again.

  Knight Corpse after absorbing the soul fire of Lao Jiang, with its original six thousand years of death power that was already close to the upper rank of Corpse Guard, the orange core of its soul fire had a hint of yellow, officially breaking through to the upper rank of Corpse Guard.

  The undead are dead, and there is no longer any danger around. Jiǔ Ràng wishes the sunset to protect the surroundings, and can't wait to flip through the memories of the knight.

  The memories contained in the Knight's Soul Fire have become vague and incomplete after being reawakened by the Corpse Mirror, and the information they contain is not much.

  It took nine minutes to finish reading, and I secretly thought:

  "It turns out that the Knight is a heteromorphic corpse, and its mount is also a part of its body composition. If they are separated, it will not be in an intact state, and its strength will greatly decrease. The mount beast and bow and arrow seem to have something unusual about them, will they gradually reveal themselves as they evolve?"

  Fang Ye looked at the knight standing beside him and said:

  "Since you are one with your steed, you're a born knight, so let's just call you Knight."

  After a day or two, Zhu Jiu led Xi Yang and the Knights to hunt down the orange soul corpses in the nearby canyon, accumulating death energy for Xi Yang and the Knights.

  When the fifteenth day arrived, Zhu Jiu touched the transmission token, a light screen fell to the ground, and Zhu Jiu took in the setting sun and the knight, stepping into it.

  Returned to the Corpse God Sect and greeted the guards at the first floor of the Refining Law Hall, then rested in his own five-story residence for a while before taking out cultivation books from the bookshelf to study.

  Jiǔ was unwilling to waste a single minute, frantically absorbing all the knowledge that could be learned, not only in cultivation, but also in the history and geography of this world, and even many legends circulating in the cultivation world.

  Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another four years have passed. Jiu has been on the Corpse God Path for two months short of six years.

  Within four years, Zhu Jiu's magical powers have advanced by leaps and bounds. After breaking through the Unity Boundary in the second year, he entered the middle stage of the Unity Realm. A year ago, he broke through to the upper stage, and now he is at the peak of the Unity Realm.

  Among the disciples of the same generation, only the demon-like Su Xingchen was above Zhu Jiu. She had already entered the third stage of cultivation, the Realm of Manifestation, where the symbols of the Sea of Recognition could appear in the real world.

  This boundary can manipulate talismans to directly attack the enemy or defend, initially possessing extraordinary divine powers, and having many wonderful uses, only the user of the talisman knows clearly.

  The specific power of the Symbolic Realm and the accumulation of the first two stages of the Symbolic Seal are related. Generally, the more symbolic knowledge is accumulated, the greater the power of one's own Symbolic Seal will be when it reaches the realm of manifestation, with more changes and unpredictable mysteries.

  Jiǔ zhī dào zì jǐ yǐ jīng dào le tiáo dòng qián shì de gǎn shī fú wén bāng zhù shí hǎi fú liè zēng jiāo lěi de shí kè.

  Translation:

  Jiu knows that he has reached the moment when the soul of his past life is about to be transferred, and the help of the Hurried Corpse Charm will increase the accumulation of the Sea of Knowledge Charm.

  He believes that when the Sea of Recognition Talisman has absorbed all the Corpse-Chasing Characters and evolved to the realm of manifestation, the thickness of its accumulation will be unmatched by few.

  I look forward to the great power of the deeply accumulated knowledge and experience of the nine pairs after advancing to the next level.

  In the four years, Knights and Sunset also made progress. As Zhu Jiu's cultivation deepened day by day, the heavenly yuanqi drawn by the Shenhai symbol was constantly infused into the body of the two demon corpses, allowing them to make rapid progress as well.

  The sunset broke through the two-thousand-year-old orange soul, successfully breaking through one level. The soul fire now possesses over four thousand years of pure dead force, and is already a mid-grade undead guard. Its combat power has greatly increased, and it has begun to hunt some slightly weaker high-grade undead guards.

  The knight's four years of accumulation not only solidified his undead guardian realm, but also continuously increased his death force to over 8,000 years, pressing against the threshold of the demonic undead commander.

  For four years, Zhu Jiu had been experimenting with the Knights' strange mounts in every way, and finally discovered that this guy's mount was a kind of strange weapon born with his body.

  It can transform from a mount state into a set of hard bone armor worn on the knight's body to form an effective defense.

  This guy's archery is combined with his techniques, carrying continuous flame damage. His bloody forearm bone is a quiver, from which he can draw out bloody light arrows, unfortunately each arrow feather consumes more than a thousand years of dead energy.

  At present, the Knight can shoot a maximum of six arrows in succession before needing to recharge.

  Four years have passed, and Zhu Jiu has grown from an awkward teenager to a young adult. Perhaps due to the lack of sunlight within his sect, Zhu Jiu's complexion is pale, not handsome but with bright eyes, sharp eyebrows, and a high nose bridge that makes him appear exceptionally calm and collected, making people dare not underestimate him.

  For four years, he had been killing his opponents in the annual assessment, and with his frequent requests to enter the Corpse Demon Realm to accumulate experience, he had a notorious reputation among the young generation of the Corpse God Sect.

  Also because of Zhu Jiu's two-headed demon corpse's strange and demonic charm, which was different from the others, he also got a title as Little Demon King!

  In the fifth floor room of the Corpse God Dao Cultivation Hall, Zhu Jiu gently put down the evil spirit pen in his hand, and the overnight busy work did not make him look tired at all.

  Looking at the newly drawn talisman for summoning corpses, a hint of satisfaction rose from the corner of his mouth.