Chapter 279 - 116: Immortal Golden Body, Ancient God Seed

Chapter 279: Chapter 116: Immortal Golden Body, Ancient God Seed

’I’ve finally found it!!’

Staring at the two special energy signatures on his Tracking map.

Lin Yi was overjoyed.

The Mosquito Avatar had been flying for so long, exploring for so long.

Now, it had finally picked up a different kind of signal!

Although he couldn’t yet tell what the two light signatures represented.

But as long as it wasn’t those damn zombies, he could be hopeful!

’Whatever it is, I’ll go check it out first!’

Without a moment’s hesitation!

The Mosquito Avatar’s wings vibrated at a high frequency, emitting a nearly inaudible hum. It transformed into a streak of light, almost invisible to the naked eye, and shot toward the coordinates of the two tempting light signatures on the map at full speed!

A distance of twenty kilometers was but a moment’s journey for the Mosquito Avatar, which was now a Fourth Grade Demon Beast with astonishing speed.

In the blink of an eye.

It had arrived at its destination!

The sight before him left Lin Yi slightly stunned.

It was an astonishingly huge, dried-up lake.

The lakebed wasn’t soil, but was paved with countless huge, smooth white jade tiles!

However, the relentless erosion of a thousand years had stripped the tiles of their former glory, covering them in thick dust and cracks. The once-shimmering lake water was long gone, leaving behind only a vast and desolate jade basin.

At the edge of the dried lakebed, the remains of a colossal tree stood like a silent, black giant.

The great tree had clearly been dead for a long time. Its branches were gnarled and twisted, devoid of any greenery. Its entire form was an ominous, jet-black color, as if it had been soaked in ink.

What was even more terrifying was...

The thick, almost tangible, yin-cold corpse qi that emanated from it. Wisps of black energy coiled around its withered branches—

This giant tree... had also turned into a zombie!

It had become a terrifying Zombie Tree Demon!

It stood rooted in place, exuding a chilling, grim aura that made one’s skin crawl!

Perched on the highest branch of the giant Zombie Tree—a bare limb stretching toward the sky like a demon’s claw—was a massive bird’s nest, which also reeked of decay.

Five massive zombie birds, each the size of a giant eagle, circled aimlessly and listlessly above the withered tree and the dried lakebed. All their feathers had fallen out, revealing festering, pus-oozing skin as they let out grating, hoarse cries.

Lin Yi quickly used his Tracking skill to check the energy fluctuations of the five Bird Demon zombies.

Two at Fourth Grade Perfection, three at Fourth Grade Middle Stage!

’Two big ones, three small ones... like a family. They’re all ordinary zombies!’ Lin Yi quickly concluded. ’They’re not the two special light signatures!’

His gaze refocused on the giant Zombie Tree itself.

’Even a Tree Demon can become a zombie?!’

Lin Yi was shocked to his core.

’It’s a hundred, even a thousand times harder for a plant to reanimate than it is for a Demon Beast or a human! This Tree Zombie... it must be an absolutely terrifying existence!’

A powerful sense of alarm washed over him.

Lin Yi suppressed his shock and pushed the Mosquito Avatar’s invisibility ability to its absolute limit.

The Mosquito Avatar seemed to melt into the void, leaving no trace of its aura or any fluctuations. Silently and with extreme slowness, it approached the giant Zombie Tree, which was emitting a vast, yin-cold energy.

Thanks to its perfect invisibility, neither the Zombie Tree with its terrifying energy fluctuations nor the rotting zombie vultures circling overhead noticed a thing.

As the distance closed.

The Mosquito Avatar’s senses finally locked onto the sources of the two special energy signatures!

One signature, astonishingly, came from the enormous and sinister Zombie Tree itself!

It was as if a sea of death was hidden within it, its energy surging and yin-cold.

The other signature, however, was even more peculiar!

It didn’t come from the Tree Demon, but from beneath the ground, entangled in its massive root system!

The Mosquito Avatar’s compound eyes pierced through the darkness, focusing on the base of the roots.

There, in the center of the coiling, thick, twisted black roots, a figure sat quietly cross-legged.

No, it wasn’t a complete person, but a... skeleton!

A complete, humanoid skeleton!

Its entire frame was a pure, dazzling gold, as if forged from the finest metal. It shimmered in the gloom, radiating a faint golden light that felt solemn, sacred, and inviolable!

This sacred aura formed an extremely strong, almost blinding contrast with the gloomy corpse qi pervading the area!

The other special energy signature was emanating from this very golden skeleton!

’This... What is this?!’

Seeing this scene through the Mosquito Avatar’s vision, Lin Yi was so deeply shaken he almost cried out in alarm!

’A Pre-Qin Qi Cultivator?!’

’The legendary... Golden Body?!’

’My heavens! This Pre-Qin Qi Cultivator actually achieved such an unbelievable level of bone Refinement?!’

Lin Yi’s shock was beyond words.

’This level of power... it’s simply heaven-defying!’

Then.

A profound sense of fear washed over him.

Whether on the first floor, the second, or this perilous third floor, every single zombie he had encountered, without exception, had been reanimated from the corpses of the Demon Race.

Humans?

He hadn’t even found a single incomplete human corpse!

Much less a human zombie!

And now, a brilliant, dazzling human skeleton—a Golden Body—sat cross-legged before him, completely unconcealed!

The shock was terrifying!

’Could this be the first Qi Cultivator zombie to appear?’

’If a being like this turned into a zombie, who could possibly stop it?’

The Mosquito Avatar continued to approach silently in a state of absolute invisibility, carefully scanning the Zombie Tree Demon and the Golden Body skeleton.

Just as he was observing with full concentration.