Chapter 539 Playing for Time

The Sixth Elder smiled sadly. He was the one who had caused the Seventh Elder to be killed. However, he did not understand how the Magic Mosquito had attacked the Seventh Elder while it was absolutely on his body.

However, he could never get to know the answer. His whole body withered in an instant as if it had been dehydrated. Everything went dark in his sight, and he completely lost consciousness. However, his eyes were wide open with resentment, and he died with a grievance.

“Sixth Brother, is that you? What’s going on?”

With the flash of a figure, the Fifth Elder appeared in front of the mummified corpses of the Sixth and Seventh Elders like a ghost. His eyes finally revealed a look of sorrow, mixed with a trace of unspeakable fear.

They had only been apart for a short period of time, and in seconds, they were separated forever. The Fifth Elder’s lips trembled as he whispered in a low voice, “Don’t worry, Sixth Brother and Seventh Brother, I’ll tear that kid into pieces to avenge you. Wait for me, I’ll take you back to our sect.”

After saying that, the Fifth Elder squatted down and was about to pick up their bodies. Suddenly, with a flash of red light, the Magic Mosquito rushed to the Fifth Elder from under the Sixth Elder’s body like lightning.

“Humph, you evil beast. There is no way that you can trick me.”

The Fifth Elder, who seemed to be off his guard, suddenly grabbed the Magic Mosquito with a layer of spiritual light covering his palm. Seeing the Magic Mosquito struggling desperately in his hand, he showed a complacent look on his face. He laughed before saying, “Do you really think I don’t know that you were hiding under Sixth Brother’s body? What a pity. Beasts will always be beasts and are stupid. Don’t you know that the Natal Spiritual Gu in my body can sense your existence? Hahaha!”

“It’s too early for you to be happy.”

A faint voice suddenly sounded in his ear. The Fifth Elder was so shocked that he suddenly raised his head. He looked around but found nobody. His hair stood on end as he shouted, “Who is it? Come out. Don’t play tricks.”

“It’s me!”

A beam of red light suddenly emerged from under the Seventh Elder’s body and shot toward the Fifth Elder quickly.

A strange smile appeared on the Fifth Elder’s face. He said, “Although I don’t know how you hide yourself, I don’t think it will still work after you played so many such tricks.”

While speaking, the Fifth Elder reached out his free left hand and grabbed the approaching Magic Mosquito like lightning and laughed wildly, “Ding Ning, when I saw the dead bodies of my Sixth and Seventh Brothers, I guessed that you have two Spiritual Gu Kings. I didn’t expect it to be true. Haha, I have to thank you for this.”

“Give my Spiritual Gu Kings back!”

Ding Ning roared angrily, suddenly showed up, and punched toward the Fifth Elder.

The Fifth Elder laughed heartily and gathered all his strength to his fist to meet Ding Ning’s fist. However, he suddenly saw a complacent smile on Ding Ning’s face, which showed him that Ding Ning had succeeded in his conspiracy.

A strong uneasiness arose in his heart. When he was about to retreat, he suddenly felt a pain in his neck, and he began to lose his vigor quickly.

The Fifth Elder’s face was full of disbelief. “I can’t believe… I can’t believe there’s one more…”

Ding Ning looked at him with pity and sighed. “Since I have two Spiritual Gu Kings, why can’t I have three ones? If you didn’t withdraw your Spiritual Energy shield, I believe even one hundred Spiritual Gu Kings can’t hurt you.”

The Fifth Elder suddenly showed a look of understanding and said with a bitter smile, “So the reason why you deliberately appeared to attack me was to force me to gather my Spiritual Energy in my fist, so that the third Spiritual Gu King could take the opportunity to attack me. It’s… it’s reasonable that I’ll die!”

After saying that, the Fifth Elder’s body began to shrink fast and was instantly turned into a mummy. The speed of his body shrinking was so fast that it would shock everyone. After all, there were three Magic Mosquitoes sucking his blood at the same time.

“Well, if you were at the peak of the Sky Martial Arts Realm, the Magic Mosquitoes wouldn’t have been able to kill you. Unfortunately, you are only at the late stage of the Sky Martial Arts Realm.”

Ding Ning said faintly, but the Fifth Elder could no longer hear it.

In the late stage of the Sky Martial Arts Realm, only 75% of True Qi of the cultivators could be transformed into Spiritual Energy. Thus, the cultivators in this stage didn’t have enough spiritual aura during the battle, and the protection shield made of spiritual aura could not cover their bodies completely. It was true of the Fifth Elder, and due to this reason, the Magic Mosquitoes had found his weakness.

Once the elder reached the Peak of the Sky Martial Arts Realm, his True Qi could be transformed into Spiritual Energy completely. He would be able to launch attacks and defend himself at the same time, and the Magic Mosquitoes couldn’t injure him anymore.

Ding Ning looked at the three mummies, and there was a hint of pity in his eyes. Killing others was not what he wanted, but if someone wanted to kill him, he had to fight back. Nevertheless, those mummies looked too miserable.

“I’ll send you guys to reincarnation. I hope all of you can be good people in your next life!”

Ding Ning sighed softly. After the Magic Mosquitoes devoured all the Gus in their bodies, a beam of light flashed in his hands. For the first time, he used the Reincarnation Talisman. He threw out three Reincarnation Talismen, which fell on the three mummies respectively.

Three transparent figures with dull eyes drifted away, rose higher and higher in the sky, and disappeared in the air.

“Reincarnation? Is there really such a thing like Reincarnation?” Looking at the disappearing souls, Ding Ning’s eyes were full of confusion.

After coming to the Eighth Elder’s dead body and sending him to the Reincarnation, Ding Ning piled up the four dried corpses and melted them with Corpse-decomposing Water. In the blink of an eye, the four living lives had become a pool of pus and disappeared from this world forever.

“Corpse-decomposing Water? You’re really a malicious kid!”

An angry voice came from a distance, but Ding Ning was not surprised at all. When this group of people was just a hundred meters away, he had noticed them. However, he couldn’t run away, for he wanted to buy some time for Luo Zhicheng to ask for help.

Seeing that six old men coming at him in different directions, two of whom were at the Peak of the Sky Martial Arts Realm while the rest of whom were at the late stage of the realm, Ding Ning didn’t change his expression, but his heart sank to the bottom.

Especially the old man who carried a stone coffin on his back, he exuded a sense of danger that made Ding Ning’s heart palpitate. This old man was a strong expert who could break into the Real Martial Arts Realm at any time.

“Were you the one who killed my grandson?”

Zhai Ying stared at Ding Ning with a chilling look, and the words sounded like they were squeezed out of his throat, like the sound of iron rubbing against each other, which made the hair of those who heard it stand on end.

“Your grandson? Who is he?”

Ding Ning asked innocently. He was eager to prolong the useless conversation so as to buy more time for Luo Zhicheng.

Unfortunately, Zhai Ying did not give him any chance at all. He sneered and reached out to open the coffin with a punch, while muttering, “Go and harvest flesh blood.”

In great horror, Ding Ning saw a zombie with iron-gray skin and golden fur all over its limbs sit up from the coffin. The zombie opened its eyes all of a sudden, and its turbid eyes were like those of the dead fish, looking extremely creepy.

“Bang!” A loud bang sounded.

The zombie jumped up to more than three meters high and landed steadily on the ground. It opened its mouth, revealing its two fangs. It stamped heavily on the ground and rushed to Ding Ning quickly.

Ding Ning felt dizzy and almost fainted from the foul smell of corpse in the zombie’s mouth. He held his breath and threw a hard punch at the zombie’s face.

“Bang!” There was another loud bang.

This punch landed squarely on the zombie’s face, but Ding Ning felt as if he had hit a huge iron bell. His arms went numb and his fist ached.

However, the zombie didn’t get hurt at all and was just thrown back several steps. It then stamped hard on the ground and charged at Ding Ning again.

“F*ck, its body is so hard!” Ding Ning always thought that his body was strong enough for he had refined his body as a weapon, but compared with the zombie’s body, it seemed that his body was much weaker than the zombie’s.

“Now, I do want to see how hard your body could be.” Ding Ning reached out his hand to take out his silver saber and slashed at the zombie fiercely.

“Clang!”

The result shocked Ding Ning. The zombie’s body was really hard that his saber, which was much sharper than the usual weapons, only left a white scratch on the zombie’s body.

The zombie continued to rush toward Ding Ning fearlessly. Ding Ning forced himself to swing his saber and hold the zombie off. What depressed him most was that the zombie was slow at the beginning because of its stiff joints, but as the battle went on, the zombie’s stiff joints became more and more flexible.

For a moment, Ding Ning was in a panic and kept stepping back.

Wu Liduo frowned and leaned to whisper in Zhai Ying’s ears, “It’s not safe to stay here for a long time. We’d better finish the battle as soon as possible. Let’s take this guy down and retreat quickly.”

“Be patient. Since my Golden Zombie has made its move, it’s impossible for it to return with empty hands. If we intervene, it will be unhappy.”

Zhai Ying said in a calm tone and even didn’t look at Wu Liduo.

Wu Liduo was so angry that he almost spat out a mouthful of blood. “F*ck, isn’t it just a stupid zombie without any intelligence. It will be unhappy? What a load of shit!”

Wu Liduo held back his anger and said, “We’re in Yan Jing. If we’re delayed for too long and the National Warrior’s Mansion find us…”

“I know what I’m doing, so don’t mention it again. You’re the Old Sect Master of the Demon Cult. Isn’t it natural for you to avenge your disciple? You have reasons to do so even if the National Warrior’s Mansion comes to question you. What’s there to be afraid of? What’s more, he is just a naive kid. How could you be so shameless to ask all of us to fight him together?”

Zhai Ying felt displeased and scolded him impatiently.

His words were so convincing that Wu Liduo’s face turned red and he opened his mouth several times but said nothing.

In his heart, Wu Liduo cursed all the female ancestors of Zhai Ying. “You’re just with a zombie. If the worst happens, you’ll die with your zombie. But all the elders of our Demon Cult are here, if they die, our sect will fall.”

The others of the Demon Cult were also full of anger, but because the strong in the ancient martial world should be respected and Zhai Ying was from the Corpse-driven Sect, a sect that they could not afford to offend, those from the Demon Cult could only obey Zhai Ying’s order of not besieging Ding Ning. They could only curse him in secret and hope the people of the Corpse-driven Sect would die a terrible death.

However, they didn’t know that even though Zhai Ying looked calm at the moment, in fact, he also felt nervous, and his calves kept twitching.

Nevertheless, he could not utter what he was thinking. Old Weirdo Chixia’s order still echoed in his ears. “You have to draw the people of the National Warrior’s Mansion out before you retreat. Otherwise, I’ll kill everyone in your Corpse-driven Sect.”

Zhai Ying was afraid of the Holy Medical Family more, compared with the National Warrior’s Mansion. After all, the latter was a reasonable organization that kept the order of society. However, the Holy Medical Family was brutal. They could easily find an excuse to destroy the Corpse-driven Sect.

After weighing the pros and cons carefully, Zhai Ying had no choice but to force himself to play a villain no matter how afraid he was at the moment. He played for time by controlling the zombie, who was fighting against Ding Ning, and waited for the arrival of the people from the National Warrior’s Mansion. Then, he could resign himself to his fate.

Since he was the one that caused the disaster, at worst, he would die there, which was better than his whole sect being slaughtered by the Corpse-driven Sect. Of course, the National Warrior’s Mansion was a reasonable organization, so he still had a big chance to escape unscathed.

Although the zombie’s body was strong, Ding Ning’s body was not weak. What’s more, the zombie’s attack skill was very simple and hadn’t changed much, so it could not pose any threat to Ding Ning at all.

Though Ding Ning was a little puzzled at the reason why these people were not willing to attack him together, maybe because of their pride or their conspiracy, he was happy to fight the zombie to buy some time for the reinforcements to come. Otherwise, if these people were shameless to attack him together, he was afraid that he would be smashed into pieces before he could use his trump cards.

In Yangui Hall, Old Weirdo Chixia, who had been standing by the window, murmured in a low voice, “It’s almost the time.”

Yan Hui looked at his master blankly. Just as he was about to ask, Old Weirdo Chixia’s figure flashed, and he disappeared from where he was just now.

“Master, where are you going?”

Yan Hui was surprised. He shouted loudly but didn’t receive any response. There was a confused look on his face. “Didn’t Master say that he wanted to test something? Did he have to do it personally?”

In the great hall of the National Warrior’s Mansion in Mount Yan, two old men at death’s door, one of whom was tall while the other was short, sat cross-legged on two futons. After looking at each other, the tall old man sitting on the right side yelled angrily at the three figures with feverish looks that were standing in front of him, “Pojun, Qisha, and Tanlang, go to teach these two small sects a good lesson since they dared to neglect the dignity of our National Warrior’s Mansion and break the Peace Agreement by making troubles in Yan Jing. Be sure they will remember the lesson forever!”