Chapter 11: A Terrifying Aura of Ghosts!

Suddenly, a dark shadow flickered across the open ground of the small courtyard, causing Gu Mo to instantly cry out that something was terribly wrong.

A life-or-death crisis was right before his eyes, but the moment Gu Mo tried to get up and fight back, the excruciating pain all over his body made him bare his teeth in unbearable agony.

At this moment, Gu Mo didn't even have the strength to lift the Heaven-Measuring Ruler. It seemed that the heavy slap delivered by the wandering zombie had beaten him completely defenseless.

To make matters worse, the ghost energy within Gu Mo's body had also run entirely dry.

'Could it really be that I'm about to kick the bucket? Hallelujah, God save me!'

At the critical moment, Xiao Yulou suddenly let out a fierce roar. Simultaneously, a bizarre dark shadow darted out like lightning from the sleeve of Xiao Yulou's black Taoist robe.

"Sanqing Zhurong's Fire!"

Clack—

A tiny spark the size of a sesame seed traced a perfect arc in the air before landing on the stone steps. Seeing this, a gasping-for-breath Xiao Yulou instantly blushed furiously, wishing he could smash his head right into the concrete steps and splatter his blood on the spot...

At the most hair-raising, split-second juncture, a muffled thud was heard!

The scene froze right there.

The wandering zombie's terrifying pair of iron claws looked as though they were about to pierce straight through Gu Mo's throat, but a bizarre dark shadow violently crashed into the wandering zombie, knocking it flying away.

Thud, thud, thud~

The wandering zombie rolled heavily toward the entrance of the small courtyard like a bouncing ball.

Left dumbfounded, rooted to the spot, and trembling like a chaff-sifter, Gu Mo was instantly left in utter disarray in the chilly wind blowing against the base of the wall.

Raising his eyes to look under the moonlight, a towering ghost shadow radiating black Qi was standing firmly in front of Gu Mo.

Wasn't this precisely Gu Mo's walking corpse of a big brother?

Blood is thicker than water after all!

Although the two 'brothers' Gu Mo and the corpse shared no genuine biological ties, if anyone wanted to bully Gu Mo, they first had to ask the one acting as his 'cheap big brother' whether he agreed or not!

In an instant, recognizing his walking corpse big brother, Gu Mo felt his eyes fill with hot tears, leaving him completely speechless. Even though thousands of words were stuck in his throat, he couldn't utter a single one.

Hoo-hoo~

Opening its terrifying bloody maw wide, the walking corpse big brother standing before Gu Mo exhaled a thick medicinal herb scent accompanied by a surging wave of freezing coldness.

Gack-gack-gack~

Then, the walking corpse big brother turned its head mechanically to examine Gu Mo, its dark gaze seemingly asking whether Gu Mo was alright.

Seeing this, a profound sense of heartache welled up on Gu Mo's face. Had it not been for his own damned extreme-yin destiny, how could his 'cheap big brother' have ever become this ghostly entity?

...

Crack-crack-crack~

A few crisp sounds of bones cracking suddenly echoed from the entrance of the small courtyard.

Looking up, the wandering zombie, which had been thoroughly battered into a daze, had already straightened its posture. Yet the position of its head and body somehow looked rather wrong...

With its neck twisted 180 degrees, the wandering zombie only needed to lower its head slightly to look directly at its own buttocks. This mind-numbing, bone-chilling sight was quite terrifying indeed!

If it were an ordinary person, they would have been thoroughly dead long ago.

But what was this ghostly thing before them?

That was the legendary wandering zombie, an advanced evolutionary variant of a walking corpse.

How could it have so little screen time? That was looking down on it far too much!

Subsequently, the wandering zombie standing at the courtyard entrance slowly raised its withered, pitch-black iron claws, placed them against its head, and gave them a ferocious twist.

Crack-crack-crack~

After slightly adjusting its neck, the wandering zombie stood intact right where it was, coldly staring at the three figures in the courtyard.

A muffled sentence also escaped the wandering zombie's mouth.

"Why are you so damn derp!"

In an instant, the blood-pumping, terrifying atmosphere of the courtyard battlefield was instantly blown away by this heavily accented remark.

Who knows just how mentally retarded and chuni the Xiangxi witchcraft practitioners behind this wandering zombie truly were!

Black Qi billowed, and a chilling wind swept past.

The wandering zombie standing at the courtyard entrance did not immediately launch a new round of attacks. It seemed that in the eyes of this ghostly entity, killing the three figures before it was as easy as pie.

And those eyes gleaming with a bizarre red light calmly surveyed its prey right there!

For a moment, the hyper-tense battlefield felt as though the battery had been popped out of a clock, freezing in place...

Not knowing how much time had passed, the wandering zombie at the courtyard entrance slowly reached its hand into its coarse cloth robe. A blood-stained piece of paper along with a bright, glittering object was tossed toward Gu Mo.

Seeing this, the latter picked them up with extreme puzzlement and took a look.

Coming into view, the girl in the photograph wore a sweet smile, with her signature cute canine teeth exposed beside her lips. As for that bright, glittering object, it was precisely the Valentine's Day gift Gu Mo had once given to Li Hongyan.

Upon seeing these two items, Gu Mo instantly flew into a towering rage, his eyes widening to the size of bull eggs with fury.

Li Hongyan... was she dead?

No, no, no!

She must have simply been captured!

Numerous conjectures surged and tumbled wildly inside Gu Mo's mind like a tidal wave.

This blatant provocation instantly re-ignited Gu Mo's fierce wrath and stirred up a ruthless desire for vengeance!

"To hell with it!"

With an explosive roar, Gu Mo's body was instantly possessed by this powerful urge for revenge. Suddenly, he reached behind his waist and pulled out the Soul-Attracting Gourd.

With a loud pop!

Uncapping the lid, Gu Mo forcefully poured the surging, refined souls straight down his throat.

Instantly, a bone-chilling cold swept through every single nerve in Gu Mo's body, sparing not even the leg hair beneath his hospital gown.

Witnessing this from the steps where he lay incapacitated, Xiao Yulou was scared out of his wits. Heaven knows what kind of monstrosity Gu Mo was about to transform into next!

In a flash of lightning, the wandering zombie at the courtyard entrance abruptly dashed forward, seizing the initiative.

A terrifying iron claw tightly seized Gu Mo's walking corpse big brother by the throat and hoisted it high into the air. But why didn't it attack Gu Mo first?

Could it be that this wandering zombie also feared fighting on two fronts and intended to wipe out the weakest target first?

Hoo-hoo~

Choked by the throat with its feet dangling off the ground, the walking corpse big brother could only raise its own terrifying iron claws and scratch wildly. Unfortunately, the wandering zombie was 'tall and mighty'; no matter how the big brother tried, it couldn't inflict even the slightest scratch.

With a slight exertion of force from the coarse-black-robed wandering zombie's iron claw and a crisp snap, the walking corpse big brother was instantly decapitated.

Glug, glug, glug~

The head of the walking corpse big brother rolled directly to the side like a soccer ball.

Hoo-hoo-hoo~

Lacking a head, the body of the big brother still kept scratching about with its gale-force, terrifying iron claws. Meanwhile, the head rolling nearby actually opened its bloody maw wide, spewing forth a thick wave of chilling ghost energy.

Witnessing this tickle-like attack, the wandering zombie spoke in a deep voice.

"Why are you so damn derp!"

No sooner had the words fallen than a booming roar echoed as towering green ghost flames erupted by the base of the wall!

Looking closely, these towering, ghastly ghost flames were exceptionally violent, soaring a full seven or eight meters high!

How should one describe it?

The ghost flames previously flickering around Gu Mo's body were like the flame of a 'cheap ordinary lighter'. But the surging ghost flames now surrounding Gu Mo were like the high-temperature flames blasted from a 'jet-torch lighter'.

These drastically different ghastly flames were simply not in the same league!

And Gu Mo, standing coldly by the base of the wall, felt as though he were situated in an ancient glacial cave. The surrounding temperature plummeted dramatically, as if trying to freeze the entire space completely solid!

Gu Mo's 'mental patient hospital gown' was instantly incinerated into nothingness by the green ghost flames shooting up to the heavens. A pair of little yellow duck briefs was momentarily exposed. Within a breath's time, those fleeting little yellow duck briefs also turned to ash and vanished with the wind.

Abandoned at the base of the wall were none other than the fiercely burning Soul-Burning Lamp, the Soul-Attracting Gourd, and the Heaven-Measuring Ruler.

The entire scene was instantly engulfed by these bizarre, ghastly ghost flames!

Looking at Gu Mo's facial features, could he still be considered a living human?

At this moment, Gu Mo wore a ghostly visage! The long hair on his crown stood entirely on end, fluttering wildly in the blast of the surging ghost flames. On his wax-white face, only his blood-red eyes and a terrifying, bloody maw remained.

Lying on the steps with a thread of life left, Xiao Yulou felt his little heart turn ice-cold.

"We're done for, we're totally done for!"

...

Cutting to the scene, high atop the mountain peak, Old Master Chu Changhe turned pale with fright and roared at the top of his lungs.

"Old Ghost, something's not right here!!"

Hearing this, Gu Yanzhi, who never parted from his cigarette, merely smiled faintly.

"What are you panicking for? Number Eight, the 'Yuxu Taoist', has already calculated it—my grandson is destined to live to the age of three thousand! Mere little wind and waves are nothing to speak of!"

Hearing this, Old Master Chu and the saber-wielder standing beside Gu Yanzhi were left utterly bewildered...

Switching back to the small courtyard.

Whoosh~

A green shadow flashed. The wandering zombie holding the walking corpse big brother was abruptly and heavily grabbed by the throat.

Then, with a deafening crash,

an eight-meter-deep crater was blasted straight into the small courtyard. The wandering zombie was tightly seized and suppressed by Gu Mo!

And Gu Mo, wearing his ghostly visage, slowly curled the corners of his mouth into a demonic, seductive smile, resembling entirely a fierce and malevolent ghost from the netherworld!

Crack-crack-crack~

The earth at the edge of the deep crater instantly split open, spreading like electrical currents racing across the ground.

Whoosh!

The deep well in the courtyard instantly spewed a alkaline water column over ten meters high!

For a time, ghost Qi billowed ominously, leaving onlookers dumbfounded and tongue-tied.

Hearing a swift whoosh, the ghostly wandering zombie suddenly executed a shadow-shifting technique, appearing atop the white stone horse in the courtyard.

Looking closely, the coarse black robe on the wandering zombie vanished into thin air like ash with the wind. The exposed zombie skin looked pitch-black like coal, yet shimmered with tiny points of starlight.

Those blood-red eyes stared exceptionally coldly at Gu Mo, filled with disbelief.

Suddenly, a gust of fierce wind swept past.

The wandering zombie hurriedly attempted another shadow-shifting maneuver, only to find that before it could even flash away, it was once again tightly grabbed by the throat by the berserk Gu Mo.

"Why are you so d..."

Before the wandering zombie could finish the last syllable, a thunderous explosion rang out!

Having descended like a mountain god, Gu Mo directly transferred the towering, jet-like ghost flames raging on his own body onto the wandering zombie.

Instantly, those towering, ghastly ghost flames illuminated the restless night...

Choked by the throat, the wandering zombie—despite its extreme speed and agility—was utterly helpless and unable to move under the incineration of these ghastly ghost flames.

Ugh~ woo-woo-woo~

Heart-wrenching, terrifying screams echoed incessantly, making one's hair stand on end, leaving them dumbfounded and slack-jawed!

Even Xiao Yulou, who was gasping on the steps and had seen all sorts of grand spectacles, broke out in a heavy cold sweat.

Within a few breaths, the black skin exposed on the wandering zombie gradually flaked off and withered away, revealing bare white bones. The air also became heavily saturated with the intense, pungent scent of medicinal herbs...

Half a cigarette's time later, the legendary wandering zombie had been reduced to a motionless skeleton of black bones.

Subsequently, the walking corpse big brother—equally shaken—directed its own fleshly body toward its head.

Two crisp bone-snapping sounds were heard, and that wax-white, withered head was actually reattached just like that, without the slightest gap!

Fortunately, nobody was passing by right now; if any living person were to witness this incredible scene, they would surely be scared out of their wits!

Suddenly, the berserk Gu Mo tightly clamped down on the pitch-black skeleton of the wandering zombie as chilling gusts of wind blew. That copper-skinned, iron-boned corpse skeleton finally turned to ash and scattered with the wind.

Hum—!

A bizarre red light suddenly erupted from Gu Mo's stark-naked, eerily green chest. That damned Soul-Extinguishing Seal had appeared once again!

Meanwhile, in a distant corner, a masked man clad in a black robe stood quietly, gripping a gleaming Miao saber tightly in his hand...