Green mountains.

Sky view.

The charnel house.

The huge zombie tiger lay in the center of the charnel house.

The tiger was motionless as if asleep.

Since eating zombie meat, the zombie tiger's condition has deteriorated day by day, and now it is completely unable to move.

Hou Dongsheng reached out and stroked the zombie tiger.

This tiger is hardening every day, that is, becoming a zombie.

It shouldn't be long before this zombie tiger turns into a real mandrill.

Fortunately, I didn't eat zombie meat...

Zombies only eat fresh flesh and blood. Once they eat zombie meat, they will gradually transform from zombies into zombies.

In fact, if a living person eats a zombie, he will become a zombie.

From this point of view, zombies have great attributes of living beings, somewhere between life and death.

Perhaps we shouldn’t call them zombies, but living zombies like Daochang Xiao Liu did.

Both a living person and a zombie.

Hou Dongsheng put the zombie tiger back into the body bag, and then went to the forest to hunt alone.

Before the essence is condensed, new flesh and blood must be hunted, otherwise the body will not be able to replenish its vitality, and the body of the living corpse will wither...

Half a month later...

West wing room.

Zheng Bing, whose whole body was wrapped in blood energy, had mana surging like a tide in his body, and blood-colored true energy surged through his meridians.

The mana gathered and the pass was rushed through.

Level 4 of "Blood Talisman Demonic Scripture".

Zheng Bing opened his eyes, full of surprise.

The fourth level of Qi refining!

I finally reached the middle stage of Qi refining.

By the middle stage of Qi refining, Zheng Bing was able to learn many small spells, and he no longer had to use mundane martial arts in battles as before.

These spells include fire bomb, blood shield, light body, corpse suppression...

Among them, the blood shield technique is a compulsory spell. The monks of the Blood Corpse Sect control the battle of refining corpses. When releasing the refining corpses to fight, they usually put a blood shield on themselves, so that they will not be easily killed.

Because Luo Jintang was too confident and did not put on a blood shield during the battle, he was instantly killed by Tiger Mandrill.

Half a day later.

Ancestor Hall.

Taoist priest Liu Shouzhen finally returned to Qingyang Temple from Yunlan Mountain.

Liu Shouzhen: "That's really good. You have actually reached the fourth level of Qi Refining. How did you do it?"

Liu Heng: "I got a Yuheng Pill, and with the help of the pill, I broke through to the fourth level of Qi Refining."

"Yu Heng Pill? No wonder... But with your qualifications, a Yu Heng Pill shouldn't break through so quickly." Liu Shouzhen still looked puzzled.

Liu Heng: "Master... I'm calm."

Liu Shouzhen: "What does it mean to make peace?"

"Just let nature take its course, follow the fate of everything, and practice the exercises, and you will naturally get twice the result with half the effort." Liu Heng said leisurely.

Liu Shouzhen actually saw a trace of transcendental freedom and ease in his disciple's demeanor and behavior.

I must have read it wrong.

Liu Shouzhen rubbed his eyes and looked at Liu Heng again.

Well...right this time.

He is still his naughty disciple.

I saw Liu Shouzhen saying with a serious face: "The Supreme Lord said: Man follows the earth, earth follows the heaven, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature. Therefore, we cultivators must let nature take its course in order to conform to the Tao.

The original intention is not only to improve the skills faster, but also to avoid going crazy. This is the natural Taoist mind..."

"But knowing and doing the Tao are two different things!"

"Any decent cultivator from a well-known family knows the natural Taoist heart, but throughout the ages, no immortal cultivator has been able to obtain the natural Taoist heart. On the contrary, some mortal warriors have been able to obtain the natural Taoist heart..."

"To cultivate immortality is to fight against heaven and fight for life. Since it is against heaven, how can we let nature take its course? If we want to let nature take its course, then we should not practice cultivation at all and just lie in bed and wait for death. Immortal cultivators compete with heaven and earth.

, it is impossible to have a natural Taoist heart by competing with others!"

"Liu Heng! Are you going to lie down in bed and wait to die?"

Liu Heng: "Uh... no."

Liu Shouzhen: "That's right. It's impossible for us immortal cultivators to obtain the natural Taoist heart. Don't just use it to bluff me as a teacher after seeing some mysterious words in Taoist books. You need to know what to eat as a teacher."

"The salt is more than the rice you have eaten; the bridges you have crossed are more than the roads you have walked."

Liu Heng: "Oh...I know."

Liu Shouzhen: "Didn't anything happen in the temple during the month that I was away?"

Liu Heng: "Well... there are two more people in the temple, and they both want to worship at Tianqingmen."

"Do you have spiritual roots?"

"A four-spirited person named Zheng Bing. She used to practice the "Five Elements Qi Refining". Now she is practicing the "Blood Talisman Demon Sutra" Qi Refining Chapter. Her cultivation level is the same as mine. She has just broken through the fourth level of Qi Refining."

Liu Shouzhen: "The Blood Talisman Demonic Sutra? Is she a disciple of the Blood Corpse Sect?"

Liu Heng: "She is a disciple of Luo Jintang."

"If you bring Luo Jintang's disciples to the Taoist temple, aren't you afraid that Luo Jintang will come knocking on your door and settle accounts with us?"

"Not long after you left, Luo Jintang had a duel with Hou Dongsheng. Because he underestimated the enemy and did not equip himself with a shield, Hou Dongsheng controlled the mandrill to attack him from behind and killed him with a sneak attack."

Liu Shouzhen: "Is it really a mandrill?"

Liu Heng: "That's right...the tiger mandrill lurked in the grass and suddenly appeared and killed him with one blow. I think Luo Jintang will probably be killed even if he doesn't underestimate the enemy."

Liu Shouzhen: "Hou Dongsheng is not an ordinary person who can kill Luo Jintang. Who is he?"

Liu Heng: "Maybe he is not a human being at all."

Liu Shouzhen: "Why do you say that?"

Liu Heng: "Master, do you still remember the living corpse I told you?"

"of course I remember."

Liu Heng: "That day, Hou Dongsheng and Luo Jintang were fighting. Hou Dongsheng used a corpse rope to deal with the bloody corpse. I threw the corpse rope in Qingliu Town."

Liu Shouzhen: "You ran away that day. It's normal for the rope to be tied up to be picked up by this person. It doesn't mean that this person is a living corpse."

Liu Heng: "On that day, the living corpses caused chaos and Qingliu Town was almost in danger of being slaughtered. However, it was put down by a mysterious person afterwards. The mysterious person was most likely Hou Dongsheng."

Liu Shouzhen: "Then why do you say he is not a human being?"

Liu Heng: "Hou Dongsheng knows nothing about Taoism, but his strength is astonishing. The most important thing is that the tiger mandrill is too flexible. After all, mandrills are also zombies. A zombie can actually lurk + sneak attack

, this can only be done by a living tiger. I think that tiger mandrill is not a real mandrill at all, but a living corpse tiger!"

Liu Shouzhen: "Don't fool me."

Liu Heng: "Master... I have other evidence that I suspect he is not a human being."

Liu Shouzhen: "What evidence?"

Liu Heng: "He doesn't eat. He has lived in the Taoist temple for nearly half a month, and I have never seen him eat. People are like iron, and rice is like steel. Those who don't eat are not human."

Liu Shouzhen: "Ignorant! Do you know about fasting? Once a cultivator reaches the foundation-building stage, he can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to nourish his body, without eating at all."

Liu Shouzhen: "Uh...what did you just say? You said Hou Dongsheng lived in the Taoist temple for half a month?"

Liu Heng: "Yes."

Liu Shouzhen: "Why does he want to live in our Taoist temple?"

Liu Heng: "Master... Zheng Bing and Hou Dongsheng both want to join the Tianqing Sect and become disciples of the Tianqing Sect. They live in the Taoist Temple and are waiting for you to come back."

Liu Shouzhen: "..."

On the third day after returning to the Taoist temple, Liu Shouzhen met Hou Dongsheng.

The first time he saw Hou Dongsheng, Liu Shouzhen recognized his disciple's judgment.

It's really possible that this guy isn't human.

A normal living person does not need to tie himself tightly with bandages.

Under that bandage, there is most likely a living corpse that cannot be seen.
Chapter completed!