16. Taoist Friends (1)
"Brush", Senior Brother Yao ...... No, it should be Huang Chang who turned over and jumped up, the sword behind him was already in his hand, pointing straight at the figure who made a sound.
There was a trace of chagrin in his heart - when Yao Xiu was killed, he was only a second-level Qi refining cultivator, and now he has almost recovered his original strength. It's good that martial arts cultivators are more capable of fighting, but the various skill levels of immortal cultivators are not high after all. After turning into a corpse demon, there have been some changes in all aspects of talent, such as strength has increased a lot, the body has become harder and tougher, and it is almost no longer injured, but the visual and auditory sensitive response to these has declined more than the original - the so-called loaded "zombie template", of course, is it more powerful and more durable, but the movement is slow and slow.
And one of the most important abilities of immortal cultivators: spiritual sense...... Yao Xiu was not good in the first place, but now it is even worse. If it weren't for Huang Chang's own strong soul and slightly making up for some of these shortcomings, this "Senior Brother Yao"'s sensing ability would probably be similar to that of those ordinary mortals.
And this is also the most difficult thing for Huang Chang to accept every time he "possesses" Yao Xiu - since he stepped into the mid-stage realm, he has been used to using his divine sense to detect the surrounding situation at any time. But when using Yao Xiu's body, he had to return to the state of ordinary mortals who only relied on his five senses to understand the world around him, and it felt like he was suddenly blind, and it was really difficult to adapt.
That's why he is slow to sense the movement of the outside world, he was bumped into by two mortal girls a few days ago, and today he was actually discovered by a certain "Taoist friend" when he was practicing...... It's really embarrassing for the other party to say hello before reacting.
Huang Chang already had murderous intent in his heart, even if he didn't consider his relationship with the corpse demon, he must not be exposed, just because there was a formed corpse demon here, he must not show any clues outside. Otherwise, it will not be a good thing to summon a righteous knight who will kill demons and eliminate demons, or to seduce an underworld cultivator who wants to refine a ghoul puppet.
Although he wondered why the guy made a "greeting" that was clearly self-inflicted, Huang Chang still did not hesitate to act. This corpse demon body has been warmed by him until now, and the martial arts of the iron-clad swordsman in the past have now recovered, and he has already jumped in front of the figure, and he is about to swing down with his sword.
However, the man on the other side neither resisted nor fled, but squatted on the ground and hugged his head, and only shouted:
"Eh, fellow Daoist, don't do it, I don't have any malicious ......"
The heavy sword as wide as the palm of his hand stayed on top of the opponent's head, and Huang Chang was really a little confused - this guy called him "Daoyou", but his action reaction was completely no different from that of a mortal, and the instinctive action after encountering an attack was actually to hold his head and squat to defend?
...... Let's see what kind of thing it is, it's easy to kill him anyway.
The tip of the sword picked at the opponent's chin, and Huang Chang motioned for the other party to raise his head. When the man raised his face and saw the other party's face, Huang Chang was stunned for a moment, and the sword in his hand couldn't help but hang down.
- The guy's face was rotten and fleshy, and in some places Bai Sensen's bones were exposed. Half of his lips were gone, revealing half of his rotten teeth. And on one side, a big hole in the cheeks was also rotten, and there were faint white maggots drilling in it, which looked weird and disgusting.
Of course, it can't be a living person who can grow like this, and this is clearly a corpse demon. But its eyes are similar to normal people, the black eyes and the whites of the eyes are quite distinct, and they are still spinning around in the bones.
What's even more surprising is that corpse demons are usually unconscious, only have the instinct to kill and hate all life. And although this guy's speech is a little leaky, and his voice is very hoarse and ugly, his speech is very clear, and he is no different from ordinary humans.
A big goal of corpse demon cultivation is to recover the sanity of normal humans, such as Huang Chang's current cultivation of "Senior Brother Yao". But normally, if you can do this, at least you need a corpse general at the level of Fa Yuan, and if you are unlucky, you may not even be able to drag it to the Jindan Corpse King.
And the ...... in front of him With a tattered body and weak limbs, he is clearly just the lowest zombie. This kind of thing is often seen in places like mass graves or old grave hills in this world. Huang Chang had dealt with this kind of thing in the battle of the Golden Pavilion Temple before, and even killed thousands of them, but he had never seen anyone with his own sanity.
However, the world is so big that there are no surprises, and what is not lacking in this world is all kinds of "exceptions", a zombie with normal sanity...... It's not too weird. Since the era of the Yin Shang Dynasty, there have been countless emperors, generals, rich and nobles, who did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to build mausoleums with witch arrays, precisely to achieve this - resurrection after death, still have sanity.
There are very few that can be achieved, but there are still some successes after all—if there were no successful examples at all, this trend would not have lasted for tens of thousands of years, and it is still prevalent in the southern Chu State today.
was quite puzzled in his heart, but Huang Chang had no killing intent for the time being-since the person in front of him was "the same kind" as him, he didn't have to worry about the other party summoning external forces to trouble him. And just this guy himself...... Even if you don't use a weapon, you can crush its skull with one hand.
Seeing that he put away his weapon, the corpse demon also breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and said with a smile:
"It's okay, you're really a sober person. Hey, it's not easy, I've been here for so long, and I've finally met a fellow believer...... Ahem, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I haven't spoken for a long time, and I don't know what to say......"
Huang Chang squinted and listened to it for a long time, and finally knew one thing - this guy was a chatter. He wanted this guy to shut up, but only a few hoarse growls came out of his mouth, and then Huang Chang reconfirmed in frustration that his body couldn't speak yet.
It stands to reason that if it is between two natural corpse demons, there should be some way to communicate, but after all, the body of this "Senior Brother Yao" is the soul of a living person, and the chatter on the other side, looking at its non-stop chattering, does not look like it still retains the instinct of the corpse demon.
After enduring it silently for a moment, but hearing that the guy was still babbling, Huang Chang finally couldn't bear it anymore, and with a "bang", he pulled out the big sword again.
The ugly corpse demon finally shut up in fright, and at the same time covered his head with his hands, looking ready to be beaten with his head in his hands. But instead of being beaten, it saw the tip of the sword dance, and drew three words on the ground:
"Who are you?"
The talkative corpse demon was stunned for a long time, staring at a few words on the ground for a long time and didn't speak again, Huang Chang was wondering if this guy was illiterate, but when he saw the other party jump up all of a sudden, he smiled very excitedly:
"Haha! So you're literate, that's great! Come on, let's find a place, I'll tell you slowly......"
- So Huang Chang was dizzy.