Li Qingshan said, "This boat is not bad, Little Ann likes it too!" Little Ann was lying on the side of the boat, concentrating on the wing-like rudder that was moving in the water. Chapter 72
Zhang Lanqing smiled and said, "I made this myself. This child is called Little Ann. Won't she be in danger if she stays with us?"
Li Qingshan patted Little Ann's head and said, "She can take care of herself, why doesn't she use a propeller?"
"What is a propeller?"
Li Qingshan explained a little, and Zhang Lanqing understood. He immediately fell into deep thought, "This structure is very unique, it seems to be compared to a normal oar …"
Li Qingshan said, "Be careful!"
Zhang Lanqing was distracted, and the boat directly crashed into the rock wall. When he regained his senses, he quickly turned the boat around and patted his chest, "That was close."
Hao Pingyang said, "Clear your head, don't become muddle-headed when you think about machinery!"
Zhang Lanqing said, "I will definitely test it out when I get back. Qingshan, you will definitely achieve something if you come to the Mo family."
Li Qingshan said, "Maybe!" This could also be considered as using other mountains' stones to improve one's own jade!
In the place where the boat had just passed, on both sides of the cave, where the light couldn't reach, a pair of bright green eyes lit up. It was actually a dried up corpse. Its entire body seemed to have fused with the rock walls and was covered in moss. After so many years, even the stench of the corpse was gone, and there was no breath, even Li Qingshan did not notice it.
It seemed to have received some order, and struggled to leave the rock wall, but its movements suddenly stopped. It saw a white prayer bead floating not far in front of it.
Even after being refined, it only had the consciousness to obey orders, and the desire for flesh and blood, but it still felt an instinctive fear. The Skull Prayer Bead penetrated its head, and a red light shone from its body, turning its flesh into fire, and its bones into water, merging into this small prayer bead.
Somewhere in the depths of the cave, a skinny old Taoist opened his eyes. He had just awakened a corpse, but he had lost his sense of it. That feeling was very strange. That slight fluctuation seemed to signify fear.
Of course, this was an extremely absurd thing. How could a corpse understand fear? Although the soul was still bound to the body, it had long lost the ability to feel fear. It was just an illusion.
Then, for some reason, he recalled his experience at the giant sinkhole outside Ancient Wind City.
He was a cultivator who chased after corpses. Although he was infamous and ranked at the top of the blacklist, he was not bold enough to go around killing people and refining corpses. Once he crossed a certain limit, the Hawkwolf Guard would send even stronger guards to kill him. The cavern could not stop truly powerful cultivators.
Hence, most of the time, he was a gravedigger or a corpse robber. Once he heard about what happened in Ancient Wind City, he would immediately set out. There were a thousand corpses there, and there were even quite a few Qi Practitioners among them. He would definitely be able to find the best materials to refine the corpses. However, when he arrived, all he saw was an empty sinkhole. There was only shock and fear in his heart. He rejoiced that he had not arrived in time.
Fear was an emotion he had not felt for many years.
With a thought, he thought back to the morgue. The body of a Body Practitioner was quite tempting, but he had never trusted Zhuo Zhibo. As a result, he was extremely careful. The traps of the mohist disciples were childish and laughable to him. Although his Submerged Shadow sword had been destroyed in a moment of carelessness and he was forced to flee, he was utterly furious, but he was not afraid. In his lengthy life, he had faced many more severe failures and dangers than this.
However, just when his fake body successfully fooled his opponent and his true body successfully escaped from the morgue, he saw a strange sight. An extremely beautiful child sat on the ridge of the roof under the moonlight, staring at him quietly as if he had completely seen through his concealment technique. He did not give off any powerful aura, but the pair of calm, dark eyes made him tremble from the depths of his soul, as if he had encountered a natural predator.
However, he escaped from the gaze very soon. The trembling feeling seemed like an illusion, but the sight was deeply embedded in his mind, unable to disperse even after a very long time.
He felt like there was some sort of connection between these images, but he was unable to understand it no matter what. Sacred Hall
He shook his head. He had only lost an insignificant corpse. How could he have so many thoughts? Discarding all distracting thoughts, he revealed a sinister smile. Those intruders would soon die and become a part of his zombie army.
He supported a stone coffin beside him. The stone coffin was engraved with runes that extended all the way to the ground and was locked down by heavy chains.
With this treasure, no one could kill him, not even Zhuo Zhibo!
Little Ann leaned on the side of the boat and gently stirred the water. She stealthily scooped up the Skull Prayer Beads, but when she turned around, she saw Li Qingshan glaring at her. She stuck out her tongue.
The Skull Prayer Beads were not ordinary spiritual artifacts. It was more like a part of her body, so it could fly very far away and even look and listen in her place.
Frankly speaking, she did not really like the smell of zombies. They were somewhat dry and somewhat similar to the specialty food of a certain place that she had taken her to eat some time ago, a kind of dry and hard pancake. However, the advantage was that it was easier to burn and not as noisy.
Hao Pingyang suddenly said, "Something is coming!"
The few of them looked forward. Zhang Lanqing patted the lantern, and the light merged into a beam like a searchlight, piercing through the darkness. Vaguely, something could be seen floating on the surface of the water. It was densely packed together, a field of white. It did not float down with the current, but rather floated on the water surface, as if waiting for the boat to arrive.
"Corpses!" He Yishi exclaimed.
Those white things were floating corpses that had swollen from being soaked in the water. They looked like fat people floating on the water surface, covering the water surface. It was impossible to tell how many there were.
Hao Pingyang said, "Don't let them get close!"
The few of them took out their Thousand Mechanism Crossbows and fired Fire Crow Bolts at the floating corpses. Whoosh whoosh whoosh, the floating corpses exploded one after another.
Li Qingshan pulled out the Wind-entwining Saber and infused it with true qi, wanting to unleash a wind blade. However, the Wind-entwining Saber did not react at all. He knocked on the blade and confirmed that it was completely broken. In his hands, an inferior-grade spirit artifact really couldn't withstand the torment. Although he could use true qi to achieve the same effect, it would consume too much true qi. The gains did not make up for the losses.
Zhang Lanqing handed a Thousand Mechanism Crossbow and a few boxes of Fire Crow Bolts to Li Qingshan. "I'm going to steer the boat. You use it!"
"Alright!" Li Qingshan took the Thousand Mechanism Crossbow and fired furiously at the water surface, blowing up seven or eight floating corpses. He had learned archery before, and his accuracy was better than Jin Yuan and Jin Bao's, earning him a few praises.
Li Qingshan suddenly felt a gaze on him. He turned around and saw Little Ann looking at the Thousand Mechanism Crossbow with anticipation, no longer looking at the oars.
"Try it!" Li Qingshan handed the Thousand Mechanism Crossbow to her. Little Ann happily took it.
Hao Pingyang hurriedly stopped him. "Don't mess around!" He complained that Li Qingshan did not know the gravity of the situation. How could he give such a dangerous weapon to a child? The Thousand Mechanism Crossbow was extremely powerful. If Little Ann lost control and fired it recklessly on the boat, it would be terrible.
He extended his hand towards the Thousand Mechanism Crossbow in Little Ann's hand, but he missed. He was stunned. Looking back, all he saw was that Little Ann had already arrived at the bow of the boat, shooting at the floating corpses. Her aim was extremely good too, basically killing a floating corpse with each arrow.
Li Qingshan patted Hao Pingyang's shoulder. "I said she can take care of herself. She can take care of you too!"
Hao Pingyang's eyes widened. This kid was so mysterious. Even the child beside him was so strange.
With Little Ann taking action, the others put down the Thousand Mechanism Crossbow to save some Fire Crow Bolts. They watched her performance from the side and praised from time to time, "Nice one!"
Jin Bao smiled complacently. "Is this the Zombie Daoist trying to use these little tricks against us? Looks like it's nothing special. " However, before he had even finished speaking, he smelled a foul stench. The stench was so intense that it almost made him dizzy.
Hao Pingyang said, "Hold your breaths. The stench is poisonous!"
The boat just happened to arrive where the floating corpses had exploded. Li Qingshan could clearly see that although the floating corpses had been destroyed and cleaned up, the gas within them had been released, turning into a heavy, faint, green gas that filled the cavern. The further they advanced, the thicker the gas became. Even the lantern was unable to penetrate it.
They all held their breaths in a hurry. As Qi Practitioners, they could circulate their true qi through their bodies, which could completely replace breathing. However, as the gas grew thicker, their eyes began to tear up. Even their skin felt like it was burning. Even without Hao Pingyang's reminder, they had already released their true qi to protect themselves instinctively.
Just as everyone was busy fending off the gas and their vision blurred, undercurrents surged underwater. Li Qingshan was the first to sense it. "There's something underwater!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. Waves surged, and cyan hands so rotten that their bones could be seen reached out from the water. They grabbed the oars and then the railings of the ship, climbing up the ship. Heads without eyes or noses were exposed, and they let out terrifying whimpers.
Just as He Yishi aimed his Thousand Mechanism crossbow at the railings of the boat, a gust of wind blew over from above. He raised his head in a panic and saw a dried corpse pass through the poisonous gas, lunging towards him from the pitch-black ceiling.
"There's one up there too!" Hao Pingyang bellowed. He swung his Yellow Dragon's Cannon of Devouring Light and sent a dried corpse flying.
Li Qingshan raised his head. Withered corpses hung from the jagged stalagmites at the top of the cavern, lunging down one after another.
On the two sides of the cavern were specks of green light. Corpses broke free from the restraints of the walls, opening their withered mouths and lunging towards the boat. The quiet cavern seemed to come alive in that instant, turning into a terrifying hell. Vicious corpses littered everywhere.
He Yishi and the others raised their Thousand Mechanism crossbows, but they didn't know where to aim.
Although they had said that they wanted to wipe away their previous humiliation, battle awareness wasn't something that could be obtained just by saying it. It required countless battles, or a talent like Li Qingshan's.
Clearly, they didn't have either of these things. Jin Bao pulled the trigger in a panic. He almost hit his companions, but he didn't hit a single zombie.
The Wind-entwining Blade drew an arc of light in the air, decapitating two dried corpses. Li Qingshan said, "I'll deal with the ones above. You guys crouch down and focus on dealing with the ones underwater." They hurriedly crouched down. Needless to say, Hao Pingyang raised his cannon and sent the zombies leaping towards them flying.
Before they could even stabilize themselves, shrill screams came from the bow of the boat, rapidly approaching.
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