Chapter 2248 I? (Second Update)

The corpse that suddenly appeared gave Lii You quite a scare.

Although her Skill was quite impressive, running missions at night was a regular thing for her, and she’d run into all kinds of dangerous situations!

But she was still a girl, and having a corpse suddenly rush over like that was truly terrifying!

And hearing that it wasn’t Yan Cheng and the others, Lii You also let the boulder hanging in her chest drop a little.

“How long has this person been dead?”

Lii You warily swept a circle around them, and only when she saw no other abnormalities, no people or beasts, did she turn back and ask Lin Tian.

She knew Lin Tian had studied Traditional Chinese Medicine, so he should know a bit about this.

However.

Just from the corpse in front of her, with all those livid corpse spots, the fallen teeth, and the sunken eyes, she could tell it had been at least a month, if not longer.

If it had only been a week, or half a month, there would still be a rancid stench of decay!

But the corpse before her was dried up and shriveled!

What confused Lii You most was that this corpse wasn’t rotting!

“This guy isn’t dead, he’s a Living Corpse, but in this state he’s been like this for at least half a year!”

Lin Tian let out a cold laugh, shook his head, and said, “However, he’s scrap now, a discarded corpse.”

“Ah…”

Lii You was completely stunned.

She couldn’t make sense of a single word of that.

“Living Corpse? What the hell does that mean? Are you saying he isn’t dead?”

Lii You’s beautiful eyes widened, her face full of shock.

Those words were way too horrifying!

That was obviously a corpse—how could it possibly not be dead!

“He really isn’t dead. If you don’t believe me, go feel his pulse.”

Lin Tian nodded as he replied.

Lii You opened her mouth but just stood there blankly.

This was the first time she’d encountered something so bizarre!

She glanced at the somewhat frightening corpse, took a deep breath, and stepped forward to probe the pulse at his neck.

She carefully started sensing, and after a long while Lii You just froze there.

After a moment, she finally withdrew her hand, stood up, and stared at Lin Tian in shock.

“He… he really isn’t dead! How is that even possible!”

Lii You was so frightened she instinctively backed up two steps—this was simply beyond belief.

A person—never mind turning into something like this—even a normal person, if they were thrown out here like this, would starve to death in ten days, half a month at most!

Yet this guy… was practically a dead corpse already!

It had to have been at least a few months, right?

And he still wasn’t dead!

It was utterly bizarre!

“He’s a Living Corpse. From a normal person’s perspective, he’s already dead, but his bodily functions haven’t died yet. He can still breathe, his heart is still beating, and his mind can still form thoughts!”

Lin Tian looked at the Living Corpse on the ground and explained to Lii You, “And the reason he hasn’t died after so long is because there’s a special energy supply within his body. Even in another half year, he’d still be able to think and breathe, just like a corpse that can’t move. As for how that’s done… it’s refined using an Immortal Technique. In other words… he was refined directly from a living human.”

Immortal Technique?

Refining living humans?

Lii You lost her composure all over again. She sized Lin Tian up for a while, then swallowed and said, “You mean those people from the Immortal Mountain Sect? They’re said to be existences like immortal beings! Don’t tell me you’re also…”

Lin Tian smiled but didn’t explain.

Yet in Lii You’s eyes, that was as good as an admission.

She drew in a sharp breath of cold air.

The look in her eyes when she gazed at Lin Tian changed completely in an instant.

“Th-then… can you fly?”

Lii You blinked her beautiful eyes. A strange thought suddenly popped into her head, and she hurriedly asked.

“Don’t follow me in any deeper—it’s too dangerous. You stay here on the flank to provide cover and wait.”

Lin Tian still didn’t answer her question. He just smiled faintly and said, “If Yan Cheng and the others are all right, they might have escaped back here.”

Lii You paused for a moment when she heard that.

She was silent for a while and also felt Lin Tian had a point.

With her level of strength, if she followed, she might just become a burden!

“Wh-why did he end up as a discarded corpse?”

Lii You pointed at the Living Corpse on the ground and pressed Lin Tian for an answer.

By now she could roughly understand that this Living Corpse had probably been refined by some Immortal Mountain sect.

“Something must have gone wrong—his meridians and the Array Patterns refined inside him ruptured, so he was abandoned.”

Lin Tian casually explained, then said, “Enough, you wait here. With your Skill, ordinary fierce beasts can’t touch you. But in case people come, it’d be best if you stayed hidden somewhere up on the valley ridge. Once I find Yan Cheng and the others, I’ll try my best to hurry back and meet up with you.”

With that, Lin Tian took a single step and flew up into the air!

Lii You already had her suspicions, so there was no need to hide anymore.

Besides, he’d be leaving in two days anyway, so it didn’t matter!

“This…”

Lii You stared blankly as Lin Tian vanished like a streak of Jinghong into the Void of the night sky, dumbfounded on the spot.

At this moment.

Lin Tian flew through the Void, and his Divine Sense shrouded the entire stretch of land.

Along the path he was flying, there were Living Corpse auras everywhere.

“Corpse Valley. It’s probably those people who captured Yan Cheng and the others. I just hope… I’m not too late.”

Lin Tian muttered coldly to himself, and a chilling killing intent flowed off him.

Back then in Yanjing.

In the Dead Spirit Swamp, he had run into people from Corpse Valley.

And they had even worked with the Linghu Family, specializing in the trade of Living Corpses!

At that time, Lin Tian killed Corpse Valley’s genius Disciple Nong Zhenxuan, but in the end that Corpse Valley Evil Wen Quan still managed to escape.

Now, people from Corpse Valley had appeared again!

Refining living humans into corpses was vicious to the extreme!

Not to mention they were using the living lives of their own trainees!

“Courting death!”

Lin Tian’s eyes were razor-sharp with killing intent as he coldly muttered.

He flew for dozens of kilometers.

Finally, he stopped at the edge of a forested peninsula by a riverside and landed silently.

This was a forested mountain ridge peninsula, the size of several football fields, surrounded by a huge river.

And this place faced south while sitting north. Aside from the southern side, it was encircled by mountain ridges.

From a Fengshui perspective, this was absolutely a treasured land!

Thus.

At the central area of the peninsula, there was a massive I.

Although it was now almost indistinguishable, nearly fused into one with the mountain ridges.

But when Lin Tian’s Divine Sense swept over it, he could still make it out somewhat.

Most importantly, there were two groups of people fighting down below.

Each side had roughly a dozen people.

But it was a completely one-sided slaughter!

One group consisted of a dozen ferocious-looking men, wielding all sorts of strange and sinister Spells and Magic Artifacts, every move wreathed in Corpse Qi.

Corpse Valley people!

When Lin Tian saw the emblem on their clothes clearly, his expression grew even colder.

Facing these Corpse Valley Cultivators was another group of sect Cultivators. Out of the dozen or so, only a few were men; the rest were mostly women!

They wielded bone-pale Bone Swords, and their strikes were just as ruthless and eerie.

But their strength was a bit inferior to the Corpse Valley people’s. As the battle dragged on, they were being driven back step by step, and quite a few already lay in pools of blood.

Was there some treasure inside this I?

Watching the two groups clash, Lin Tian couldn’t help but look toward the massive I, secretly astonished.