Chapter 280 - 116: Immortal Golden Body, Ancient God Seed

Chapter 280: Chapter 116: Immortal Golden Body, Ancient God Seed

His keen senses picked up on an extremely subtle anomaly!

’Wait... something’s not right!’

Lin Yi’s consciousness suddenly focused.

The Qi Cultivator’s golden skeleton, though radiant with golden light and brimming with latent energy, showed not the slightest sign of reanimation.

It sat there silently cross-legged, as if it had been that way since time immemorial, a completely inanimate object.

The energy fluctuations it emitted were filled with a sacred aura, nothing like the corpse qi of a zombie!

This Pre-Qin Qi Cultivator’s Golden Body had not turned into a zombie!

Upon realizing this,

Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

’It’s a good thing it didn’t turn into a zombie, otherwise, that would have been far too dangerous!’

’That special point of light... its source isn’t the Golden Body itself!’

Lin Yi instantly locked onto the key detail.

The Mosquito Avatar’s compound eyes, like the most precise of scanners, moved quickly over the Golden Body’s skeleton.

It carefully traced the form of the Golden Body’s skeleton.

Soon, it locked onto the target!

He saw that the seated Golden Body’s skeleton had its hands formed into a profound and ancient lotus Dharma Seal.

And there, cupped carefully in the center of its ten finger bones—which looked as if they were cast from pure gold—was what appeared to be a small, round object!

Lin Yi’s heart suddenly pounded!

He controlled the Mosquito Avatar, light as a feather, to carefully circle around the front of the Golden Body and fly above the hands forming the seal.

Peeking through the gaps between the finger bones—

A seed, about the size of a pigeon’s egg and lustrous white like jade, lay quietly in the palm of the golden finger bones!

Incredibly,

in this pocket world of an ancient tomb, silent for a thousand years and saturated with corpse qi,

the seed had not withered or decayed. Instead, it radiated an incomparably pure life force, practically bursting with vitality!

That special point of light was emanating from this tiny seed!

’What... what kind of Divine Object’s seed is this?! After a thousand years surrounded by corpse qi, how can it still possess such vigorous life?!’

Lin Yi gasped, and a wave of immense joy instantly overwhelmed him!

’This is an absolute treasure!’

He instantly thought of the Thunder Essence Fruit Tree in Taihang Mountain.

’Didn’t that grow from a seed the Monkey King took from an ancient tomb?’

’The miraculous nature of this white seed before me might even surpass that!’

’What’s there to hesitate about?’

’I have to take it! Right now! Immediately!’

Lin Yi made up his mind without the slightest hesitation!

The Mosquito Avatar’s two forelimbs, sharp as refined steel, shot out like lightning, precisely and gently clamping onto the lustrous white seed!

’Got it! Retreat!’

Just as Lin Yi’s thought formed, about to command the avatar to retreat,

However—

something changed abruptly!

The instant the seed left the support of the Golden Body’s hands, it was as if an invisible switch had been flipped!

HUM!

The Zombie Tree Demon, which had been like a slumbering behemoth, suddenly shuddered violently!

The black corpse qi covering it erupted like a boiling sea of ink!

Countless withered branches, originally still and resembling black pythons, instantly came to life. With ear-piercing shrieks that tore through the air, they blotted out the sky, stabbing madly toward the Mosquito Avatar like innumerable spears of death!

Although the Mosquito Avatar could turn invisible,

the seed could not.

Its position was instantly revealed!

The temperature in the entire space plummeted to freezing point. A bone-chilling cold, like steel needles, pierced the mosquito’s carapace, and even Lin Yi’s consciousness attached to it felt a sluggish chill!

KAAAW!!!

Almost simultaneously,

the five vulture zombies circling aimlessly in the air also went berserk. Ghostly green flames flickered in their rotten eye sockets as they instantly locked onto the white seed suspended in mid-air and let out shrill, ear-piercing shrieks.

Like five black cyclones of death, they dove down madly from different angles!

In an instant, an inescapable net was cast!

From above, below, left, and right, there was nothing but lethal killing intent!

The Zombie Tree Demon’s branches blotted out the sky, its corpse qi surged, and the five vulture zombies sealed off all escape routes!

’Not good!’

Alarm bells screamed in Lin Yi’s mind!

Facing the combined pincer attack of this unfathomably powerful Zombie Tree Demon and several vulture zombies, a direct confrontation was suicide!

At the critical moment,

Lin Yi’s consciousness erupted like a volcano!

’Thunder Escape! Activate!’

Without the slightest hesitation, the Power of Thunder and Lightning stored within the Mosquito Avatar instantly erupted!

CRACKLE!!!

Along with a crisp, deafening clap of thunder, the Mosquito Avatar, along with the white seed in its grasp, abruptly transformed into a dazzling silver flash of lightning!

Its speed soared to the absolute limit in that instant!

WHOOSH!

The flash of lightning vanished in an instant!

It threaded the needle, narrowly passing through the gaps between the countless lashing black branches and the pincer attack of the vulture zombies!

Moving at a speed beyond what the naked eye could follow, it vanished from the spot in an instant!

RUMBLE!

Countless black branches whipped violently at the empty air, creating dull, heavy thuds and cracking deep gashes into the ground.

The vulture zombies’ talons also grasped at nothing but air, only fetid pus dripping from them.

The giant Zombie Tree’s branches thrashed madly through the air, creating scalp-numbing cracks. The vultures’ furious shrieks echoed over the dry lakebed, but having lost their target, they could only vent their rage in vain.

The lightning flashed, covering a vast distance in an instant.

The Mosquito Avatar continued its escape until it could no longer feel the terrifying corpse qi and shrieks from behind.

Only then did it stop on a relatively safe hillside littered with jagged rocks.

It carefully landed on a relatively flat, reddish-brown rock.

It gently set down the white seed, which still radiated a gentle vitality, like a Bright Pearl.