The news of the severely injured mutated commander-level Ghost Corpse King seems to have spread, and more and more teams are entering the Land of Ashes in the Burning Plains.
A large number of high-ranking personnel are rapidly searching everywhere.
The Python Team of the Azure Dragon Guild had just killed a Ghost Corpse King and, without time to rest, continued heading south.
"The Light Guild should have severely injured the Ghost Corpse King in the southern cemetery, it shouldn't have gotten far!" Captain Liu Xu confidently said.
However, when the Python Team arrived at the cemetery, they found that every snowy grave was already occupied by other teams!
"No way, so many people are here to hunt the Ghost Corpse King?" Team member Zhang Li said disappointedly, "This setup is almost like fighting a king-level BOSS!"
Liu Xu frowned, his gaze sweeping over the other teams around, "It's been two hours since the news of the Light Guild's defeat, so naturally more people know about it."
"And this isn't just any commander-level BOSS, it's a mutated one, rumored to drop super rare items. Anyone with strength would be tempted to come."
Another team member looked at a distant team and exclaimed, "Wow, it's the Transcendent Squad of the Free Guild, the Yan Emperor Squad! Captain, you were right, such enticing rewards even attract transcendent professionals."
Liu Xu impatiently said, "Damn it, it's already overcrowded here, who knows where that Ghost Corpse King is hiding!"
Not just the Python Team, even those transcendent professional squads were like headless flies, searching each grave.
The Yan Emperor Squad had just exited a tomb chamber, and from their furrowed brows, it seemed they hadn't found satisfactory results.
"Yan Team, should we check elsewhere?"
The man called Yan Team, his eyes shimmering with a restrained golden light, used a piece of silk to wipe the blade of his longsword, having just slain several blood zombies, ghouls, and Ghost Corpse Kings, inevitably stained with blood and filth.
"The Land of Ashes is so vast, it might be hard to find." He sighed lightly after thinking for a moment, "The cemetery is already more crowded than ghosts, the Ghost Corpse King is probably not here, let's check the mass grave."
"Ah, a mutated commander-level, it's so rare to encounter, we have the strength but can't find it, who knows who will get this huge bargain!"
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Hu Yan's calculations pointed to one near Wind Cry Cliff, another at Shanyin Lake, and a third in an unnamed basin.
According to him, in feng shui, desolate wilderness and low-lying areas also gather yin energy, and although their yin-gathering ability is not as strong as cemeteries and graveyards, they are precisely the places they need to search.
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"Kai Team, which one should we go to first?" Hu Yan asked.
The three locations he filtered out were all about the same distance from their current position.
Jiang Kai paused and looked at the map again, "Wind Cry Cliff is closest to this cemetery, it was the original lair of the Ghost Corpse King, there must be many teams searching nearby now."
"Further west is Shanyin Lake, it's possible someone has already searched there, and reaching the basin requires crossing several small mountains, it's not well-known, maybe no one has gone there yet."
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Kai said, "There are too many teams here now, they've probably searched many areas, let's take a chance and go to the basin first!"
"Alright!"
The team immediately set off straight for the unnamed basin.
Half an hour later, the five of them crossed mountains and ridges, finally reaching the center of the basin.
Upon arrival, the five instinctively surveyed their surroundings.
Sure enough, no one had searched here yet.
This place was on the western side of the Burning Plains, with lower terrain, and because several small mountains blocked it, the temperature here was lower than most of the Burning Plains.
"Further west, over those mountains, is back to the King's Valley map." Hu Yan mentioned, "So this can be considered a transitional zone, occasionally some King's Valley monsters appear."
Weiwei nodded, "The beasts of King's Valley have a strong territorial sense, they should only occasionally appear here, and the environment here isn't conducive for the heat-loving monsters of the Burning Plains to settle, so this place is indeed remote."
Yuan Zhu frowned, "Since it's not suitable for the monsters of the Burning Plains to live, would the Ghost Corpse King really come here?"
Hu Yan shook his head, "I'm not sure either, but in terms of yin-gathering ability, this place isn't weak."
While everyone was observing their surroundings, Ruan Yu suddenly frowned, looking at a certain spot in the dense forest, quite surprised.
"Look, there's actually an old grave here!"
Jiang Kai and the others immediately looked in the direction, and sure enough, they saw a mound of earth there, with a half-broken wooden plaque in front of it, the other half missing.
The wooden plaque read "Tomb of Someone."
"The Ghost Corpse King resides in a tomb, but this grave is too small, can it really house a commander-level Ghost Corpse King?" Yuan Zhu wondered.
Before he finished speaking, suddenly, the mound on the lonely grave began to rise slightly.
Jiang Kai and the others felt the ground beneath them tremble!
The tremor spread widely, almost covering the entire valley.
Jiang Kai's eyes widened, from the movements beneath their feet, it wasn't hard to judge that some "big thing" underground was awakening!
"It's here! Ruan Yu, Hu Yan, Weiwei, fall back, Zhu, prepare for battle!"
The Fire God Squad immediately took action. Three retreated, leaving Jiang Kai and Zhu behind.
"Zhu, I'll ambush, need to hide first, you hold the line here." Jiang Kai said, then slipped into the nearby forest.
In an instant, only Zhu was left around.
Yuan Zhu felt the ground shaking, his emotions fluctuating more and more intensely.
Suddenly, a thick arm broke through the lonely grave, bursting out from the ground!
The skin of that arm was a bizarre black-purple, with large areas of decay, and black pus oozing in many places.
The arm alone was larger than Yuan Zhu's entire body!
Yuan Zhu gripped his sword with both hands, eyes wide, lips turning purple, swallowing hard.
Next, the arm hooked onto the ground, and with a powerful pull, a massive head emerged from the ground.
The head's flesh was extremely shriveled, the entire left side of the face seemed to have been torn off, exposing sticky, black decaying muscle, with numerous maggots wriggling inside!
As its head emerged from the ground, its blood-red eyes locked onto Zhu.
"Ugh!" It let out a low growl, like vocal cords rubbing together, then opened its mouth wide, jaws stretching at an exaggerated angle, and a long, thick, flexible tongue over a meter long licked its lips...
"Oh, oh my god!" Yuan Zhu began to tremble all over.
"It's coming, it's really coming, oh my god... I can't hold on anymore..." Yuan Zhu's mind was reaching its limit.
To be honest, lasting this long was already a huge improvement from before, but facing the Ghost Corpse King alone, Yuan Zhu ultimately couldn't hold his ground.
Taking advantage of the fact that the creature hadn't fully emerged, Yuan Zhu, with trembling hands, pulled out a liquor card, materialized it, and downed it in one go.
This time, he drank it all in one gulp, afraid of drinking too little!
Ruan Yu's second-tier brewing product was indeed extraordinary, the strong liquor burned his throat, and moments later, Yuan Zhu's eyes were ablaze.
Fueled by alcohol, Yuan Zhu's entire state changed immediately.
His eyes no longer held the previous fear, but were filled with immense confidence.
He switched to holding the sword with one hand, quickly and powerfully twisting his neck, producing crisp cracking sounds.
Yuan Zhu's lips curled into a slight smirk, he snorted coldly, "No matter what demon or ghost you are, I, Yuan Zhu, am the world's number one war god!"
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