Liu Hong, Wang Lei, and the others saw Li Long rush out of the door, so they followed.
However, unlike Li Long, they couldn't see in the dark, so they could only see a blurry shadow. Liu Hong was shocked and stopped moving. Wang Lei caught up and rushed towards the shadow, "Who is it?!"
"Be careful!"
Li Long stepped out and released his True Qi, which turned into a palm and grabbed Wang Lei.
Wang Lei felt a huge force and flew back involuntarily. The place where he was originally standing suddenly exploded into a big hole. Mud and rain splattered everywhere. Wang Lei's heart was cold. If he still stood there, he wouldn't even have a whole corpse left.
"A tenth layer Qi Practitioner!"
Xiong Batian was shocked. He didn't expect that there would be a tenth layer Qi Practitioner in this small village. He threw the head in his hand like a hidden weapon and quickly retreated. He had cultivated for so many years and was only at the eighth layer. Even if he cultivated for another ten years, he might not be able to reach the tenth layer.
"Where do you think you're going?" Li Long's body flashed, avoiding the head and was about to chase.
Bang, bang, bang, bang!
The head exploded in the air, and countless bone fragments flew everywhere. It was more fierce and dangerous than any hidden weapon in the Jianghu. Li Long had True Qi to protect his body, so he was not afraid of such a move. However, there were still Liu Hong, Wang Lei, and a group of Iron Fist disciples behind him. If he ignored them, none of them would survive.
He took a step back and waved his hands. There were no moves to speak of, but his movements were natural and casual, as if he was farming in a field. His True Qi surged, and the bone fragments flew away.
There were a few screams. There were still a few Iron Fist disciples who were hit. Although they weren't fatal, the wounds immediately turned black and hardened. They twitched and fell to the ground, dead in an instant.
"Corpse poison!"
Li Long's pupils shrank. If it was a Qi Practitioner, as long as they could hold on for a while, they would be able to save them. He could still save them, but these ordinary disciples were no different from mortals. How could they possibly resist it? The poison attacked the heart and sealed the marquis with blood.
At this time, even Liu Hong didn't have much time to react. He just watched as Wang Lei ran out. They flew back, and in the blink of an eye, more than twenty heads were flying in front of him. They exploded together.
The two brothers, Li Hu and Li Bao, ran to the door while panting. "What happened?!" He narrowed his eyes, and with the help of the light from the lantern, he saw the fallen Iron Fist disciple. He immediately screamed like a pig being slaughtered, "Murder!"
The extremely penetrating voice made the entire courtyard of the Li family boil with excitement before spreading through the entire Crouching Ox village. Many people woke up from their dreams.
Liu Hong asked, "Who was that just now?"
"I don't know!"
Li Long's expression was solemn. If the other party was a cultivator who cultivated in the art of refining corpses, then slaughtering an entire village to refine corpses would not be strange. However, this matter was clearly not so simple. Otherwise, they would not have beheaded the villagers.
With their cultivation as a tenth layer Qi Practitioner. Even if they were disciples of the school of Agriculture who were not skilled in battle, killing an eighth layer Qi Practitioner would not be a problem. However, once they began fighting, the Crouching Ox village would definitely suffer heavy casualties.
And, from the traces of the other party's attack, it made him worry. With a flash of light, a hoe appeared in his hand. He called out loudly, "Who are you? Why have you come to my Crouching Ox village? Do you know the name of Li Qingshan?"
"Hmph, Li Qingshan, it's not like you're Li Qingshan! The matters here have nothing to do with you, so why do you have to risk your life for mortals? Let's mind our own business! "
Xiong Batian's voice rang out from the other end of the village.
"I'm from the Crouching Ox village, so how does it have nothing to do with me? You can still flee right now, or I'll definitely take your life."
Hearing that, Li Long immediately understood what was going on. He could not help but feel both furious and mocking. This person definitely had grievances with Li Qingshan. As long as he left the Crouching Ox village, Li Long would immediately pursue him. He would definitely kill him!
"If that's the case, then you can stay here and die with the Crouching Ox village!"
Xiong Batian's tone was startlingly bold. He rolled up his sleeve, and to no surprise, there was a string of copper rings for controlling corpses on it. His other hand was the same. With the flow of true qi, the copper rings lit up together.
Li Long suddenly felt a tremendous aura of corpse. He flew into the air on his artifact, and his heart sank. Sure enough, it was as he had expected.
A dense swarm of Corpse Soldiers appeared out of nowhere, radiating with an aura even colder than the autumn rain. Although most of them were regular zombies, not even zombies, having not been refined at all. They were just walking corpses transformed from corpse poison and corpse qi, there were a total of one or two thousand of them. There were quite a few Iron Plate corpses among them.
Against an army of corpses like that, even tenth layer Qi Practitioners would be exhausted to death unless they could kill the controller as soon as possible. However, the enemy was surrounded by layers upon layers of zombies, so they had to be extremely careful.
The humans and daemons had been at war for several years. Coupled with the natural disasters and banditry caused by it, the number of people who had lost their lives was well over ten million. The art of refining corpses was widespread in the world. Only when the disaster of Burial Mound mountain occurred did this trend settle down slightly.
However, basically every single Qi Practitioner in the Clear River prefecture possessed a copper ring for controlling corpses. The enemy had used corpse explosion and corpse poison right from the start, clearly specialising in this cultivation method, which allowed him to control even more zombies.
"Today, I swear I will leave no one in the Crouching Ox village alive to avenge my father. You still have time to flee right now, or once you fall into the encirclement, only death awaits you!"
Xiong Batian was like a general on the battlefield. With a wave of his hand, the army advanced, slamming into the huts one by one. Rumble! The earthen walls were directly smashed through, unable to stop the flood of corpses. They actually wanted to flatten the entire Crouching Ox village!
Liu Hong's face changed drastically. He had gone through many trials and tribulations of the jianghu, but he had never seen such a terrifying sight before. It was like a terrifying, colossal beast was lunging towards him from the darkness. Wang Lei shuddered in fright. His legs trembled as he called out at the sky, "Junior brother!"
"Be careful, everyone!" Li Long said and flew in the direction of the army of zombies.
At this moment, the Iron Fist disciples who had been poisoned to death suddenly opened their eyes and slowly crawled up from the ground. The people in the surroundings immediately scattered. Li Hu and Li Bao even scrambled away, pissing their pants.
Liu Hong bellowed out and used the Charge of the Iron Cavalry, landing a punch on the corpse's head. With a thump, the corpse's head split open like a watermelon, and the corpse collapsed on the ground again.
He leapt about and punched out like the wind, pushing his martial arts to the limit. Every single punch landed on a head, and the corpses that were about to crawl up collapsed on the ground again.
These were just normal walking corpses that were transformed from the zombie poison. Although they were very strong and did not fear death, their reactions were slow. Against a Jianghu expert like Liu Hong, they could not do anything. He was not a threat at all.
The Iron Fist disciples erupted in cheers. Liu Hong stood majestically on the corpses. His back was already drenched in cold sweat. He calmed himself down, "Don't be afraid, everyone. It's just a few corpses!"
What Li Long was facing right now was not just a few corpses, but thousands. There were men and women, young and old. They crowded around him, and they even let out meaningless roars, which combined into a terrifying buzz.
The continuous autumn rain had already stopped at some point. The clouds dispersed, and an autumn moon shone down with cold light. It illuminated the tiny Crouching Ox village, but it was like a nightmarish scene.
The wave of corpses ignored all obstructions. They advanced rapidly. Some walking corpses fell to the ground, but they were trampled by the corpses behind them. In the blink of an eye, they were reduced to a pile of meat paste. Screams rang out from the collapsed houses. However, they immediately stopped and were torn apart by the zombies.
Sweat seeped out from Li Long's palms. However, after experiencing the Exhibition Matches of the Nine Prefectures, he had become much more mentally prepared for a situation like this. He was not in much danger today, but if he could not stop the corpse army, he would only be able to escape with a small number of people. His other family members would all die here. He took out a handful of seeds. With a wave of his hand, the seeds scattered.
The buildings in Crouching Ox village were not densely packed. There was quite a lot of empty space between the houses, which had been opened up as vegetable gardens. A seed fell into a vegetable garden and immediately sprouted, growing rapidly and turning into a clump of black thorns. It continued to grow and spread, enveloping the entire vegetable garden in the blink of an eye.
The other seeds were the same. Clumps of thorns grew endlessly, forming a wall of thorns. The black thorns were different from regular thorns. Every single spike was long and sharp, shining with a metallic lustre.
Xiong Batian did not care. Zombies did not even fear death, let alone pain. He dove headfirst into the thorns. Originally, he thought he would be able to break through them easily with the terrifying strength of the zombie army.
However, the roots of every single thorn extended several meters into the ground, and they were constantly extending. The thorns themselves were as tough as metal, producing an ear-piercing sound as they were pulled.
The thorns were like monsters that had been startled awake, dancing about madly. The thorns wrapped around and pierced. Regular living corpses were directly pierced and ground to pieces, reduced to chunks of flesh on the ground. It was like a meat grinder operating at full speed. When they came across refined zombies, they could also entangle them firmly, pulling them into their bodies.
The school of Agriculture was not skilled in battle, but they had their own method of defeating enemies, which was based on these wondrous plants. They had to collect plants with offensive abilities first before nurturing their seeds over a long period of time. They possessed powerful life force, so as long as they landed on the ground, they would grow rapidly. What Li Long had just Just Now scattered was a handful of "Iron-Blooded Thorns" seeds.
However, plants needed to be rooted firmly into the ground, so they could only be used for defence most of the time. They could not differentiate between friend and foe, so they were very difficult to control. Apart from the cultivator, anyone else would be attacked if they entered the thorns. However, they were perfect for situations like this.
Li Long's spirit was lifted and he gained a little more confidence. He took out a handful of seeds and scattered them, but this time, no change could be seen on the ground.
"Let's see how long you can last!"
Xiong Batian mobilized the army and concentrated their attacks on the areas with relatively fewer thorns. At the same time, he took out a bronze bell and shook it forcefully. The urgent bell rang out, and the zombies became even more frenzied. They advanced recklessly, forcefully ripping apart the thorns.
Although the thorns had killed a large number of living corpses, the corpse qi in their bodies was fatal to plants as well. The thorns all withered away.
The army of zombies charged through the thorns like a flood breaking through a dam. They wanted to devour the tiny Crouching Ox village.
The leading zombie took a step forward with his left foot and stepped on the ground. Pressure spread from the surface into the ground. Before anyone knew it, a sweet melon-like fruit had grown there. Sensing the pressure, it exploded loudly, sending the zombie flying and affecting the surrounding zombies. Boom!
Boom! Boom!
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