The terrifying killing intent clashed in the air like a raging torrent!

The corpse ghost that the madam had become was indeed fierce and powerful, but the zombie master who had fused with the heart of his beloved was no pushover either. Their fists and palms collided, creating explosive sounds like thunder, making one's head buzz!

Boom!

The zombie's physical strength was absurdly powerful. With a punch of unimaginable force, it sent the corpse ghost flying!

However, the corpse ghost was not willing to be outdone. While constantly clashing with the zombie, it also attempted to use its spiritual power to interfere with the zombie's actions!

The zombie's movements slowed slightly, and the corpse ghost immediately left several claw marks on its body!

The skin was instantly torn open!

...

Zhao Yi and Luo Qili dragged the body of the Paper Chief, constantly moving away from the battlefield!

"This paper man is really tough. Its head was cut off, yet it's still not dead."

Zhao Yi looked at the paper man bleeding on the ground and tried to stick its head back on!

Seeing the paper man's head reattached, its eyes regained their sparkle, and Zhao Yi knew it had worked!

"There's still an arm..."

Luo Qili eagerly brought over the paper man's arm and stuck it back on in a similar manner.

The chief tried to sit up but was extremely weak.

"It needs a blood transfusion."

Zhao Yi took out a scalpel, showing a reassuring smile.

Luo Qili felt something was off in Zhao Yi's gaze and turned to run, but Zhao Yi grabbed her by the collar and pulled her back!

"Damn it!"

"Zhao Yi, you bastard..."

Before Luo Qili could finish cursing, Zhao Yi sliced open her wrist with a knife!

Blood spurted out, splattering all over the paper man.

"Alright, alright!"

"I'm running low on blood... I'm going to die, die, die..."

Luo Qili was full of anxiety!

Zhao Yi was too ruthless, the cut on her wrist was deep!

Blood gushed out!

She felt her strength being rapidly drained.

Seeing it was almost enough, the tendrils at her wrist wound immediately closed up, sealing the cut.

Zhao Yi then cut open his own wrist, following the same method, and transfused some blood into the Paper Chief.

"Chief Che, listen to me... Although your master is very strong now, the corpse ghost has accumulated too much resentment. It hasn't fully adapted to its power yet. Once it does, your master will surely die!"

"The only way to kill it is to dispel the resentment on it!"

"We are too weak to get close to them, but you might have a chance for a strike..."

"This Linglong Heart contains the master's love for the madam when he was alive. If you send it into the corpse ghost's chest, it can dispel the resentment on it..."

Zhao Yi handed the damaged Linglong Heart to the Paper Chief, who glanced at it with a sharp gaze!

Its face, painted with bright colors, began to bleed, and the eerie smile on its face became more sinister!

Soon, blood completely stained its body!

Its aura became increasingly terrifying!

The two knew that Chief Che was going all out!

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The two heavily injured specters beside the second madam also roared and flew swiftly towards Chief Che!

Their ghostly power surged, and their life force completely dissipated!

They... wanted revenge for the second madam!

With the power of these two specters, Chief Che finally returned to peak condition!

Even stronger!

Watching the two fighting to the death in the distance, Chief Che waved his hand!

The guandao came!

The paper-made guandao at this moment faintly shimmered with a metallic luster, filled with ghostly energy, and the wails of countless souls could be heard!

It flew into the chief's hand, then burst with intense killing intent, aiming straight for the distant corpse ghost!

This strike concentrated all of Chief Che's power!

Including its life force!

"Courting death!"

The corpse ghost, seeing the trash it had dealt with so easily before daring to cause trouble again, was furious. It forced the zombie back at a cost and turned around to strike!

Splat!

The paper-made guandao, this time, was far sharper and harder than the corpse ghost had anticipated!

It severed the corpse ghost's arm, split it in two, and pierced its chest!

Crack!

The blade of the guandao was about to cleave the corpse ghost's heart, but it was caught by a layer of teeth outside the heart!

The power of those teeth was terrifying, blocking the guandao!

The corpse ghost grabbed Chief Che's neck with one hand, sneering:

"What a pity..."

"A weak ant like you, even if you risk your life, what can you do to me?"

It pinched the Linglong Heart held by the Paper Chief with its other hand, sneering:

"Trying to use such a weak thing... to deal with me?"

"Naive!"

Just as it was gloating, a sharp scalpel suddenly stabbed into its back!

The smile on the corpse ghost's face froze.

It slowly lowered its head.

That unassuming scalpel... had actually cut through its hard teeth and dug out its heart!

The corpse ghost's eyes widened in rage!

"No...!!!"

It turned fiercely to kill the little thief behind it, but the next moment, Zhao Yi stuffed a bloody heart into its chest cavity!

Immediately, a warm power permeated its entire body, and the corpse ghost's expression was one of shock and pain, as its body ignited with golden flames!

"Ahhhhh!!!"

It screamed, and Zhao Yi flashed his signature bright smile at the retreating corpse ghost.

"Sorry... the one in Chief Che's hand was just an empty shell, I took out what was inside."

The corpse ghost gritted its teeth, trying to muster its last strength to kill Zhao Yi, but a cold, large hand grasped its head!

Its eyes contracted sharply, knowing it was doomed!

Smash!

The hard head was crushed by the zombie's hand!

The endless resentment gathered in the air, still not dissipating, charged fiercely at Zhao Yi, who wore a smug grin!

However, it didn't see... Zhao Yi smiling even more brightly!

The river-like resentment enveloped Zhao Yi, pouring in from all directions, trying to possess Zhao Yi and take over his spiritual world!

They howled, bit, injected...

However, when all the resentment flooded into Zhao Yi's spiritual world... it seemed to melt away like snow, leaving no trace!

Zhao Yi's originally pale complexion now looked much better.

"Not bad..."

He licked his lips, seemingly unsatisfied.

In front of him, Chief Che stood with the guandao in hand, quietly in the wind, glancing up at the bright moon hanging in the sky.

The night wind was slightly cold, the dark clouds had somehow dispersed, leaving a solitary jade plate shining.

It was somewhat desolate.

"Master... this old servant, will go first..."

The paper man smiled at the zombie, its body turning to ashes, scattering in the wind.

On the ground, only the cold bodies of the madam and the second madam remained.

The zombie slowly knelt on the ground, reaching out to touch Su Mei's face, and after a long time, let out a soft sigh...

...

[Congratulations to Player Zhao Yi and Luo Qili for completing the main quest. Based on contribution, Zhao Yi receives 300 experience points, and Luo Qili receives 200 experience points. The air wall is now open.]

[Congratulations to Player Zhao Yi and Luo Qili for completing the side quests, receiving the 'Battery of Stalled Time Energy' (different players receive different rewards).]

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Live Streaming Room:

: The final twist was amazing! If Zhao Yi hadn't taken out the master's heart from the Linglong Heart in advance, it would have been a total wipeout!

: Damn, my brother Zhao vividly demonstrated what it means to be skilled and bold!

: I'm a fan now! This Zhao Yi is incredible!

: By the way, how did Zhao Yi kill Bal before? The stream lagged, damn... such an exciting counter-kill, it could definitely make the forum's top ten of the year, and it got lagged out!

: No idea... maybe a super item, it's normal for a guild like the Slacker Guild to give some treasures to a newcomer with potential like Zhao Yi.

: Slacker Guild? Isn't that a useless guild? What treasures could they have?

: The Slacker Guild is indeed a useless guild, but the few veterans in it are all top-tier combatants in the Bone Zone...

: ...

...

A hand gently pressed on the zombie master's shoulder.

"Not long ago, I asked the second madam a question."

"She said she always loved the master."

"At least now, she and her beloved can be together forever."

Zhao Yi comforted the zombie's emotions.

To prevent it from going mad.

Perhaps due to the influence of the second madam's heart also containing love for the master, the zombie, though sad, was very rational at this moment.

"My greed killed her... She shouldn't have paid the price for my foolishness..."

The zombie sighed deeply.

After burying the bodies of the two madams.

The zombie thanked Zhao Yi and Luo Qili.

When Zhao Yi inquired about those strangely dressed people who had come to the Wang Mansion mentioning immortality, the zombie master was dazed for a long time.

It finally shook its head and said:

"I can't remember clearly."

"They wore clothes similar to yours."

Zhao Yi raised an eyebrow.

Dressed like us?

Not from this era?

The zombie master led Zhao Yi and Luo Qili to the second floor of the main house, telling them about some things it still remembered:

"When they came to me, they gave me some documents on corpse refining. Some things I didn't quite understand. They said they were from some Skull Church, a name I'd never heard of in the martial world..."

"They told me that my heart, after refining, could fully resurrect Ah Qian, and I myself, as long as I followed the corpse refining book, could turn myself into a living dead. Even without a heart, I wouldn't die..."

"I was too greedy... Ah Qian and I were childhood sweethearts, our relationship was closer than family. At forty, she died in childbirth along with the baby, and I couldn't accept it. I preserved Ah Qian's body with medicine and searched the martial world for all kinds of strange arts to revive her, eventually obtaining a mechanism technique from the Gongshu family..."

"It contained methods for creating Flesh Puppets, exactly what I needed, so in my madness, I turned Ah Qian into a Flesh Puppet..."

"Then, to fully resurrect Ah Qian and reunite with her, I prepared to turn myself into a living dead... As long as I had no heart, the living dead would never become a zombie and wouldn't harm others, but I still feared accidents, so I had Chief Che and Mei'er prepare glutinous rice and sticky rice..."

"But in the end..."

Wang Zhan laughed bitterly.

Zhao Yi picked up the conversation.

"In the end, there was an accident."

"You became a living dead, and coincidentally resonated with the madam's heart, placing the heart that harbored the Flesh Puppet's resentment into your body, turning into a zombie, and started a massacre in the mansion..."

"If you hadn't prepared in advance and had glutinous rice ready, no one in the mansion could have subdued you... right?"

Wang Zhan looked at Zhao Yi with slight surprise.

"Indeed."

"Poor Chief Che, who fought with me all his life, never enjoyed wealth or official status, and lost his life because of me..."

"To protect the others in the mansion, he hanged himself on the second floor, his battle soul and killing intent possessed the paper man, and with the glutinous rice Mei'er prepared, they trapped me on the second floor..."

"At that time, I had almost lost my mind, and Mei'er would feed me her heart's blood every midnight to barely keep a sliver of my consciousness."

Wang Zhan's tone was sorrowful.

Su Mei, to preserve a sliver of his consciousness, was also using the methods in the corpse refining book to slowly turn herself into a living dead...

After all, a living person couldn't obtain their own heart's blood.

Zhao Yi and Luo Qili finally understood that Su Mei wore such thick clothes to cover the blood hole on her chest.

She didn't eat glutinous rice because she was already half a living dead and had an aversion to glutinous rice.

As they talked, the three arrived at the second floor of the main house.

The scene inside made Luo Qili and the live streaming audience's scalps tingle...

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