Chapter 230 - Aura Zombie


    The headless zombie nheless walked a short distance before falling to the ground with a "putong" sound. Remaining there, it slowly transformed into a pile of white ashes in the mes.


    Liu Ming raised his hand and beckoned at the pile of ash.


    With a "sou" sound, a ck steel te flew out from the pile, hastilynding in his hand.


    Liu Ming merely lowered his head and sized up the steel te in his hand with a few nces. Then, with a jerk of his body, he flew back.


    "Fellow, this Steel Zombie is..." The moment Liu Ming''s two feetnded on the ground, the fat man dressed in ck stammered out a few sentences.


    But with a wave of his hand, Liu Ming cut the fat man off before he could finish his sentence and flung the steel te towards him. He asked, face expressionless:


    "Is this the instrument of which you had spoken about? If it is, then open the seal for me at once; I don''t want to listen to any more of your nonsense.”


    "Yes, it is the instrument that must be used to open the seal. I’ll go and undo the seal right now." Though Liu Ming didn’t mention the Steel Zombie that came from the coffin, the fat man dressed in ck still trembled. Receiving the steel te, he gave it a couple looks before rushed to respond, tripping over his words.


    He immediately proceeded to the center of the cave. With one hand holding the steel te high above his head, he opened his mouth and spit a ball of essence blood. With that, words began to pour from his mouth in a long recitation.


    His incantation was strange - cryptic - but carried an indescribable rhythm.


    With a "pu" sound, white light suddenly shot out from the ordinary-looking steel te. The light grew brighter and brighter until it finally escaped from the fat man''s grasp with a tremble and shot towards the top of the cave.


    The white light shed away and the steel te disappeared into the top of the cave without another trace.


    A momentter, countless white light symbols gushed from the top of the cave. They drizzled downwards and disappeared one-by-one into the cave’s floor without a trace.


    After a muffled rumble from underground, the entire cave started to tremble slightly. A five-colored formation emerged from the ground. With just one turn, an extremely terrifying restrictive aura unfurled from it.


    At the same time, the ground at the center of the formation disintegrated into countless tiny pieces and arge dark hole was formed. The faint whistles of ghouls sounded faintly from inside it.


    “This is the entrance to the Aura Pit?” Liu Ming was looking at the dark hole and a glint of fire passed through his eyes as he spoke.


    “Should be.” The fat man dressed in ck was looking at the dark hole as well. A simr hint of excitement yed across his face as he spoke.


    “Alright then, in that case, you go ahead and enter it.” Liu Ming nced at the fat man dressed in ck and spoke.


    “Fellow wishes for me to descend first?” Hearing these words, the fat man dressed in ck’s face hardened slightly.


    “What, were you thinking of having me go down first? Don’t worry, I will have the two of them go down with you.” Liu Ming’s eyebrows were raised as he spoke.


    “Alright, I will go down first.” The fat man seemed to understand that he was utterly without recourse and forced his face into a smile.


    As he cautiously neared the dark hole in the ground, he peeked out. After taking one look at the hole. He forced himself to dive in. The flying skull and bone scorpion also followed close behind.


    After a short moment, Liu Ming, not sensing any danger urring to the bone scorpion and flying skull, also flew into the dark hole.


    The hole was not deep and Liu Ming arrived before another tunnel in only a couple breaths’ time.


    However, aside from the small area controlled by the formation on which he hadnded, everywhere else was full of dense dark smoke, which prevented one from seeing the cave clearly.


    The fat man dressed in ck, the flying skull and the bone scorpion were all waiting obediently at the center of the formation.


    “This doesn’t remotely resemble Pure Aura Qi!” Liu Ming scanned the thick dark smoke surrounding the formation and spoke with brows raised.


    “I know that this certainly is not. However, the Aura Pit is presumably somewhere nearby. Why don’t the four of us look for it!” The fat man dressed in ck looked out at the dark smoke on all sides and spoke with some hesitation.


    “Look around? Alright. You go ahead and step outside and try to find out what this dark smoke is and then we’ll talk.” Hearing the fat man’s words, Liu Mingughed coldly as he responded.


    “Fellow must be joking! This ce has been outfitted with a restriction to block this dark smoke– they should be avoided from being in contact with.” An unrestricted expression of embarrassment showed on the fat man dressed in ck’s face when he heard Liu Ming’s words.


    However, at this moment, the dark smoke, which had previously appeared still, suddenly began to stir and began to flow in the same direction, congealing there.


    A momentter, the dark smoke, originally havingpletely permeated the cavern, suddenly withdrew and concentrated at the top of a deep pit seven or eight meters in diameter not far from them.


    Within the ball of dark smoke, a magnificent golden throne floated in the air. A figure sitting upon it and gradually raised its head to face Liu Ming’s direction.


    His gaze was like lightning!


    It was a thin, feeble youth d from head to toe in a yellow robe. He also carried a silver sword at his waist. His face was very pale but his features were remarkably delicate. His face also carried a faint resemnce to that of the fat man dressed in ck.


    The ball of dark smoke, after rotating for only a few breaths’ time,pletely disappeared into the youth’s body.


    Seeing such a strange, spooky situation, Liu Ming unwittingly let out a cold breath.


    But before he could decide how to respond, the fat man dressed in ck, who had been standing obediently to the side the whole time, suddenly jumped up without warning and ran madly into the center of therge pit, at the same time yelling out:


    “Your Prince Majesty, save me! I am your humble descendant! It is I who opened the seal and specially came to release you!”


    While his body appeared to be quiterge, he moved with unrivaled agility。 With a few leaps, he had impressively arrived within a few meters of therge pit.


    Seeing this, Liu Ming’s face darkened.


    With a strangeugh, the flying skull, which remained by his side, nodded abruptly.


    The strand of long hair which remained tightly connected to the fat man dressed in ck’s body was instantly pulled taunt.


    With a “pu” sound, the fat man dressed in ck’s heart to which one end of the strand of long hair was attached, was shattered in one pull. This caused him to yell out in pain before producing a ball of blood from his open mouth.


    But, after stumbling about for a moment, he returned to his normal state and continued to leap around as before.


    Seeing this, Liu Ming couldn’t help but stare, mouth agape, in shock.


    “Ha ha, child, you couldn’t have imagined this. I actually have two hearts. The mystery and power of Beast Transformation Technique is not something that you can imagine. You restricted no more than a grafted monster heart, and I had switched it with my own heart long ago. My main reason foring here this time was not for the buried treasures of our ancestors, but rather to release the prince who has been here for a thousand years.” With a jerk, the fat man dressed in ck jumped into the air just in front of the golden throne before turning his body and speaking with a loud, smugugh in Liu Ming’s direction.


    Hearing this, Liu Ming’splexion turned ugly.


    But right at this moment, the fat man dressed in ck suddenly let out a cry of pain. An emaciated hand pierced through his chest from his other side, a faintly beating fresh red heart clutched in its fingers.


    “How can this be, ancestor? You….” The fat man dressed in ck couldn’t believe his eyes, but hebored to turn his head around. Behind him was only the thin, feeble youth and no one else.


    The one who had pierced through his heart was indeed none other than the youth who sat on the golden throne.


    “Are you aware that you havemitted two wrongs?” The corners of the youth’s mouth twitched and formed a very strange expression.


    “You…” Eyes wide, the fat man dressed in ck felt the energy throughout his body quickly psing and spoke only a single word, unable to say more.


    The thin, feeble youth continued to speak unhurriedly:


    “First of all, under no circumstances should you be nearly this close to me. Do you know how many years it’s been since this body has tasted fresh blood? Even if it were my own son standing so close to me, I would slowly devour him bite by bite. Second, I am certainly not the ancestor of whom you speak. This body’s original owner, that so-called prince of a dynasty past, went crazy and killed himself a thousand plus years ago due to extreme loneliness. I am merely the new owner of this body, who was bornter. Of course, I have absorbed a few figments of that royal prince’s memory. However, as you have exerted so much bitter effort to open the seal, I will have you die a quick death; otherwise, I would naturally have to consume you bit by bit, as fresh meat is tastiest when enjoyed in this way.”


    As the youth spoke thisst sentence, his fingers suddenly clenched together, breaking the fat man’s heart into pieces. He then raised his arms abruptly, grabbed the fat man dressed in ck around the waist in one motion and ced the fat man on his knee before lowering his head and biting into the fat man’s neck, sucking in his blood voraciously.


    Seeing this, Liu Ming’s facial expression changed several times. Suddenly, with a jerk of his body, he soared into the air and flew towards the opening through which he had entered the pit.


    There was a “peng” sound.


    As soon as he had neared the entrance, a ck light barrier suddenly materialized in front of him.


    “Don’t waste your energy. Unless I leave here first, this ce will automatically seal itself off. Of course, given your strength, breaking through this barrier will not take you long, but that would also require me to allow you that amount of time.” The thin, feeble youth finally wiped away the blood dripping from his mouth, exposing two enormous fangs which he bared at Liu Ming as he casually spoke to him.


    “Are you a zombie?” Liu Ming’s face was quite dark but he nced at the center of therge pit which appeared to be of an endless depth and spoke slowly.


    At the same time, he shed at the air in front of him with the light green sword he carried in one hand and after a “ding dang” sound rang out from his other sleeve, a silver chain flew out from it and began to slowly wrap itself around his body.


    The long hair on the flying head started to rise as its eyes started to sh silver. the white bone scorpion bowed lower and its tail started to wobble unsteadily.


    “Aura Zombie! Yes, this body of mine certainly counts as one. That year, my body was destroyed by my archenemy and my remaining soul was sealed off with this Aura Pit. I never thought I would see the day that I could escape and I certainly never imagined that there would be someone who would activate this Aura Pit once again. In addition, they would send me an Aura Zombie body so obediently. Hah! It looks like the heavens have not forsaken me after all!” Hearing the words spoken, the thin, feeble youth suddenly smiled like a madman.