The Demonic Cultivator In Zombie World novel Chapter 444

Before him lay the ruins of an ancient sect.

The sight was bleak, filled with nothing but wreckage and devastation, the ruthless passage of endless years leaving its mark.

Dried bloodstains clung to broken bricks and shattered tiles. The remains of mummified corpses sprawled in disarray across the ground.

The air was thick with the unsettling stench of antiquity, and the atmosphere seemed to hold the remnants of a brutal battle that had occurred long ago. Even though countless years had eroded everything, the scene left behind still sent a chill down one's spine.

Chu Xuan turned his gaze to the stone door behind him. There were numerous dried blood handprints smeared across it. Clearly, many body-refining cultivators of the Eight Extremes Palace had tried to escape but were slaughtered here. He sighed lightly and continued forward, cautiously exploring. Before long, the gathered Gu insects sent back reports, indicating that they had detected the sound of chewing ahead.

Chu Xuan silently approached and soon saw a corpse demon crouched on the ground, greedily devouring the body of a dead cultivator. The cultivator's eyes were wide open in death, evidently having been ambushed by the corpse demon and not even realizing his fate until it was too late.

The presence of a living being nearby made the corpse demon stop its feeding and turn its attention to the surroundings. However, it didn't have time to rise before Hu's massive body, like a storm, swiftly closed the distance.

With a powerful punch, Hu struck the back of the corpse demon's head, obliterating it instantly.

Following Chu Xuan's signal, Hu quickly extracted a black crystal ball from the corpse demon's chest. This object was called a Corpse Demon Pearl. It was the token obtained for slaying a corpse demon. In the end, the number of Corpse Demon Pearls a person collected would determine their eligibility to obtain the Eight Extremes inheritance.

Furthermore, the pearls contained intense yin energy, which could also be used to forge powerful spirit tools, though one would need the crafting formulas to do so.

After dispatching the corpse demon, Chu Xuan and Hu continued forward. Thanks to the vast network of Gu insects he had scattered ahead, Chu Xuan was always able to detect the presence of corpse demons and eliminate them swiftly. Along the way, he came across the gruesome remains of several cultivators, most of whom had been torn apart and devoured.

With Spiritual Qi and spiritual sense suppressed, ordinary cultivators were no match for the corpse demons in one-on-one combat. The Eight Extremes Palace's purpose was simple. Only body-refining cultivators could obtain the Eight Extremes inheritance. They were unwilling to allow the inheritance to fall into the hands of the fragile Qi cultivators. Perhaps, this was the last stand of the Eight Extremes Palace.

"It seems many people have already entered the Eight Extremes Palace through the stone doors before me. I need to speed up and kill more corpse demons. If the number of Corpse Demon Pearls isn't enough, others will definitely get the inheritance before I do."

As this thought crossed his mind, Chu Xuan couldn't help but recall the figure of Moon True Master. This person had long since begun trying to attract and control body-refining cultivators, clearly already aware of the existence of the Eight Extremes Palace.

Moon True Master would undoubtedly be the greatest obstacle in Chu Xuan's quest for the Eight Extremes inheritance.

Three days later.

Chu Xuan had obtained two Corpse Demon Pearls and shook his head slightly. In these three days, he had only managed to kill a little over twenty corpse demons. What struck him as odd was that these demons were all of similar strength, roughly equal to a body-refining cultivator at the thirty-seventh level of body refinement. There were no particularly powerful or weak ones among them.

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Moreover, their attack patterns were remarkably consistent. None seemed to specialize in ambushes or overwhelming assaults; they all appeared to be cut from the same mold.

"If they are all this level of strength, sweeping through the Eight Extremes Palace doesn't seem like it would be difficult," Chu Xuan mused.

Just as he was about to continue forward, his Gu insects alerted him to movement ahead. It seemed a large group of people was approaching from a distance.

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