Chapter 323: Chapter 186: Wifey, I’m Your Biggest Fanboy From Now On
Lu Yuan had clearly felt something just half a meter away from him.
’How could I turn my head and see nothing?’
’Don’t tell me this isn’t a Xingzi with a physical body, but one with a Void Body?’
’If that’s the case, then this is real trouble.’
Without using a few Spells, it would be truly difficult to see with the naked eye.
Lu Yuan took out two Camphor Leaves from his System Space, rubbed them on his eyes for a moment, recited a Mantra, and stomped on the ground three times.
He let out a great shout. "Open!"
Lu Yuan’s eyes shot out two beams of infrared light, like laser eyes, scanning the surroundings.
There was nothing unusual in the area.
Just as Lu Yuan looked up, a massive figure came crashing down from above.
Lu Yuan leaped back several meters, barely dodging it.
Lu Yuan now carried a Tooth Card issued by the Court; he held a Fourth Grade Official Position, after all.
’How can this Xingzi get so close to me?’
’After my promotion from County Magistrate to Prefect, my resistance to Xingzi should be even stronger.’
’Why are all the Xingzi I run into these days so ridiculously powerful?’
It wasn’t that Lu Yuan had gotten weaker, but that the Xingzi had gotten stronger.
Back in the small villages, the most he’d encounter were minor Xingzi with about a hundred years of cultivation.
As Lu Yuan’s official rank rose, ordinary wild Xingzi couldn’t even get within several hundred meters of him.
Once Lu Yuan stabilized himself, he finally got a good look at the Xingzi a short distance away. It was a corpse.
A Flying Corpse! And a Void Body at that!
To put it bluntly, a Flying Corpse is a corpse that can fly, with at least seven or eight hundred years of cultivation.
They usually move by hopping to conserve energy.
But in battle, they fly to evade the attacks of a Celestial Master.
Most Celestial Masters, if unprepared, wouldn’t be carrying long-range attack equipment.
That’s why one rarely hears of a Celestial Master managing to subdue a Flying Corpse.
Furthermore, a Flying Corpse wasn’t like an ordinary one. Unlike lesser corpses, it was not only unafraid of sunlight and blades, but it could also use some Magic.
A smart Celestial Master who encountered one of these things wouldn’t wait around; they would have already turned tail and run.
Lu Yuan looked at the Flying Corpse. The flesh on its face had rotted away so much that the bone was clearly visible, and its fingers had degenerated into a skeletal state.
When it had a physical body, it probably only needed a few more decades of cultivation to evolve into a Wandering Corpse.
He reckoned its physical body had been destroyed, but the ball of resentment in its throat was never dispersed, so it became a Void Body and started cultivating again.
Looking at this Void Body Flying Corpse, Lu Yuan estimated it must have over a thousand years of cultivation.
Lu Yuan held his dagger horizontally in front of him, his waist slightly bent forward in a defensive stance.
His mind raced, trying to figure out how to subdue this Void Body Xingzi.
’If this thing were physical, I could just slash it with a blade or blow it up with gunpowder. At least I could break through its defenses.’
This was the first time Lu Yuan had ever seriously fought a Void Body Xingzi with such a high level of cultivation.
Lu Yuan flicked several Talismans, sending them shooting toward the Flying Corpse hovering in the air.
The hovering Flying Corpse spewed Flame from its mouth.
The eerie blue Flame instantly illuminated the entire street.
The shadows of all the surrounding objects flickered in and out of view.
From the perspective of a passerby, the scene would have looked like Lu Yuan randomly throwing things into the air, followed by a Flame inexplicably appearing out of thin air.
An ordinary person couldn’t see the Flying Corpse at all.
Lu Yuan relied on his footwork to dodge the Flame.
The few Talismans turned into specks of fire and fluttered to the ground.
Lu Yuan couldn’t help but curse inwardly. ’The Talismans can’t even get close to it. What am I supposed to do?’
Lu Yuan gripped his dagger and swung out several streams of Sword Qi. The Flying Corpse blocked them with just its hands, a testament to a toughness that Sword Qi couldn’t breach.
Lu Yuan was unwilling to give up, but for the moment, he had no way to defeat it.
Lu Yuan put away his dagger, formed a purple Flame in his hand, and hurled it violently at the Xingzi in the air.
He hurled the purple Flames one after another, like he was firing off energy blasts, relentlessly throwing them out.
The Flying Corpse wasn’t intimidated in the slightest, countering with blasts of eerie blue Flame from its mouth.
The streams of Flame collided, scattering to both sides of the street.
Despite the huge commotion, not a single onlooker appeared. Who would dare open their window to watch this spectacle?
The flickering light on the street cast shifting patterns inside the houses, like flashes of lightning during a nighttime thunderstorm.
Lu Yuan looked at the flames scattered across the street. If he kept fighting, it would be difficult to gain the upper hand, and he would only end up burning down the common folk’s shops and houses.
So, Lu Yuan held back and chose not to continue the confrontation.
Lu Yuan pulled two pellets from inside his pants and smashed them hard onto the ground.
With a BANG, a cloud of dust and smoke erupted.
Lu Yuan activated his Holy Body for protection, turned, and ran toward the west side of the city, disappearing into the thick fog.
As he ran, Lu Yuan thought to himself that his last move had been a bit desperate.
’The street was already filled with thick fog, why did I need to throw two smoke bombs?’
’Was that a case of style over substance?’
’In movies and TV shows, people always throw a few smoke bombs before they escape. It’s a required step before running away, right?’
Relying on his powerful physique and his cultivated Holy Body, Lu Yuan moved with incredible speed.
The Flying Corpse sensed the sounds Lu Yuan made in the fog below and followed him closely from the air.
In the thick fog, Lu Yuan’s vision was limited, and he couldn’t see any sign of his wife.
He wanted to call out but couldn’t.
It was the middle of the night, and the people on both sides of the street were all asleep. Lu Yuan would be pretty embarrassed if he started shouting his head off.
Years of civilized upbringing kept Lu Yuan from doing something that would disturb the public.
While fleeing, Lu Yuan muttered to himself, "If I wasn’t worried about my wife running into danger, I’d definitely stay and fight you to the end!"
