Chapter 27: Sudden Breakthrough on the Battlefield

  "Escape, can you escape?" The zombie spoke in a human voice, eerily terrifying, making one's hair stand on end.

  "Chirp!"

  A phoenix cry, Fu Qingxuan held the Phoenix Ancient Sword and slashed at the zombie. A wave of scorching heat seemed to erupt like a volcano, burning the air with crackling sounds.

  Fu Qingxuan's full-strength blow only managed to momentarily halt the zombie's speed.

  "Ahh!"

  Fu Qingxuan's artifact was a top-grade fire-attribute artifact, dealing significant damage to the ghostly creatures in the tomb, although not fatal, it still scorched them. Suddenly, it opened its foul-smelling and terrifying giant mouth, spewing out a ball of green light towards Fu Qingxuan.

  Fu Qingxuan swung her sword and cut off a wave of flames, dodging the incoming green light. The green light hit the wall, corroding it instantly, and the green gas was nauseating to smell.

  "Xiangjie, be careful, this is corpse poison. Once infected, we're done for. Let's work together to break through this wall and get out of here as soon as possible." Fang Yan warned Fu Qingxue, looking at the smoking green gas.

  "Got it, this guy is really disgusting." Fu Qingxuan's delicate eyebrows furrowed as she dodged the zombie's attack, her hand wielding the Phoenix Ancient Sword slicing towards the slightly rotten grave.

  "Boom!"

  This Feng Huang ancient sword is indeed a top-grade artifact, far surpassing Fang Yang's spiritual soldier by several levels. With one sword strike, the sealed tomb was blasted open with a fissure about a foot long.

  "No, this tomb seems to have some kind of seal or restriction on it. The damaged area will heal quickly and we can't leave this place." The split wall was wriggling for a moment before recovering, Fu Qingxuan's brow furrowed incessantly.

  "Stop struggling, you can't escape. Just surrender and let old ancestor take your life." The zombie monster sneered.

  "Xuan sister, lend me your top-grade Phoenix Ancient Sword for a moment, I think of a way to break through the seal here." Fang Yan furrowed his brow, this Shadowless Sword Master wanted to possess him, but because he had cultivated the Pure Yang Technique, the possession failed. However, Fu Qingxuan's Phoenix Ancient Sword was a top-grade fire-attribute artifact, if combined with his Pure Yang Technique and used to cast the Water Shadow Sword, even if it couldn't heavily damage this zombie, they should still be able to leave this place!

  "Fang Yan, take the sword." Fu Qingxuan trusted Fang Yan extremely and didn't worry that he would seize her Phoenix Ancient Sword at all. With a toss, the Phoenix Ancient Sword fell into Fang Yan's hands.

  "Old ghost, take my Water Curtain Heavenward Slash!" Fang Yan grasped the Phoenix Ancient Sword, as if holding a cluster of flames. The scorching pain made him want to discard the sword, but he circulated his pure Yang energy and the burning sensation in his hand gradually dissipated. Next, he unleashed a Water Curtain Heavenward Slash at the zombie.

  The zombie swung its arm to block, the two strong men collided, and a loud roar burst out. Fang Yan retreated more than ten steps in a row, colliding with the wall of the tomb, while the zombie also retreated four or five steps, with a charred patch between its arms from being burned by the fierce flames.

  Fang Yan's vital energy surged, and he didn't even bother to wipe away the blood from his mouth. With his right hand raised high, the Phoenix Ancient Sword was imbued with wave after wave of true energy. The intense sword aura caused the surrounding air currents to spin rapidly, churning ceaselessly. A phoenix shadow appeared on the surface of the sword, as if it were about to burst forth and shatter the blade.

  "Cut!"

  One sword slashed out, the coarse and unmatched sword energy seemed to be a burning flame. The phoenix's virtual shadow let out a sharp whistle, broke through the sword, and shot out like a meteor, heavily hitting the zombie's chest.

  With one blow, it seemed to have drained all of Fang Yan's strength. The zombie was blasted off with a loud bang and crashed into the rocky wall of the ancient tomb. Fang Yan urged Fu Qingxuan forward.

  "Xuan sister, quickly, use Blood Blade to break open the seal on the door."

  "Boom! Boom! Boom......"

  Fu Qingxuan swung her sword and slashed at the seal on the door, causing a continuous rumbling sound.

  "Brat, you actually managed to injure me. With my cultivation of seven layers of Qi Refining, I'm still a bit weak when using this top-grade artifact. If you were a practitioner at the level of Violent Qi, perhaps I would have been wary of you. But now, you're no match for me in a fight, so you can die with ease." The zombie's dark energy surged as it struggled to its feet from the recessed rock wall, its face twisted with malevolence.

  "Eightfold Qi Refining!" Fang Yan's mouth cornered with blood, this zombie was impervious to swords and guns, its strength boundless, fundamentally not something he could handle, unless he entered the Eightfold Qi Refining state.

  "Break through!" Fang Yan knew the gap between him and his opponent, and the only way to resolve this crisis was to break through. For others, it might be difficult to break through, but for him, as long as he paid a small price, he could do more.

  "Activate the equivalent exchange system, and convert all inventory of spiritual herbs into experience points." Fang Yan opened up the Xianjie system interface in his mind, clicked to activate the equivalent exchange subsystem, and converted all the spiritual herbs in his backpack into experience points for leveling up.

  "Ding! Congratulations, host successfully upgraded to Qi Refining Period 8th layer, remaining 20.1 experience points, internal organs suffered minor shock damage, activate repair system for automatic repair?" Fang Yan didn't hesitate and exchanged all the spiritual medicine and herbs on him into experience points. When the experience points reached the upgrade standard, Fang Yan clicked upgrade without hesitation. In an instant, Fang Yan felt refreshed and clear, the cold system prompt sounded in his mind.

  "Repair." Fang Yan responded lightly and now still had experience points, which could completely repair the injuries on his body.

  Fang Yan broke through to the 8th layer of Qi Refining, and all the experience points accumulated on his body were consumed. The injuries he had suffered were repaired by the system, and he was restored to his peak state. The sharp aura on his body grew even stronger, like a sharp sword out of its scabbard, ready to deliver a fatal blow to his enemies at any moment.

  One step forward, Fang Yan's sword seemed slow but was actually fast as it chopped out.

  "Dripping water penetrates the stone."

  "Boom!"

  The massive sword energy not only knocked the zombie flying, but also pinned it to the wall, unable to move. What's even more terrifying is that this sword energy didn't dissipate, and instead seemed to wrap around the zombie's chest like a blazing flame, filling the entire tomb with a pungent smell of char.

  "Kid, didn't expect you to make a breakthrough at the last minute. You've reached the 8th level of Qi Refining, and your strength has increased significantly. Not bad innate talent, the Old Ancestor is getting more and more hopeful about this body of yours." The zombie's body was charred beyond recognition, but after the fierce flames dissipated, it spoke in a human voice without any signs of weakness.

  "Rooooaaaar!" As the zombie's voice fell, a sharp whistle followed, and a green airflow burst out of its dark bones and flesh, wrapping around the charred and burnt chest. The eerie atmosphere grew even more intense, but in just a few breaths, the muscles torn apart by the sword energy began to slowly heal.

  "Die!"

  Fang Yan grasped the Phoenix Ancient Sword in his hand, tapped his foot on the ground, and flew out, transforming into a red light that shot out.

  "Hiss!"

  This sword, Fang Yan directly inserted into the zombie's broken chest, with all his might urging the Phoenix Ancient Sword, a raging fire burned, wrapping the zombie in it, becoming a human-shaped torch.

  "Rustle rustle!"

  The flames had a restraining effect on the zombie's body, and as Fang Yan continued to pour in his true energy, the flames on the Phoenix Ancient Sword grew stronger and hotter, causing the opponent's bones and flesh to start softening like wax, dripping down sticky corpse water.

  "Roar!"

  "Get out of my way." The zombie roared, one fist heavily chopping towards Fang Yan's face, and one foot kicking his chest. Along with the furious roar, a terrifying and unparalleled power burst out from the zombie's body, directly blasting Fang Yan and the Phoenix Ancient Sword flying out of the zombie's body.