First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!
Chapter 339: Crooked-Mouth Old Man: Oh No! My Water Corpse Flying Zombie!

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Exam psychology manifested at this moment.

Lu Ding raised his hand and drew the character 'Front' in the air.

His foot landed firmly.

But there was no movement from the side. He looked over.

Di She was sweating profusely as he drew the character 'Present'.

Due to special restrictions, neither side could see what character the other had drawn.

But they could see that Lu Ding's trio had steadied their footing.

This meant they were correct!

The 'Present' character stabilized.

He stepped onto it.

Instantly, the mercury lake beneath Di She churned violently, sending massive waves crashing against the shore, cutting off his path forward.

His face twisted in shock!!

"How could it be wrong!!! How could it possibly be wrong!! Isn't it 'Present'!？？？It couldn't be wrong!!!"

"The Nine-Word Mantra's eighth character isn't 'Present'!!?"

Lu Ding's laughter rang out, dripping with mockery.

"Hahahaha.....So you're the one who learned from your master's wife, huh? 'Front, Soldier, Fighter, All, Array, Line Up, Present'?? Your master's wife wasn't local, was she?"

Lu Ding truly couldn't take it anymore.

How could this classic scene reappear in this world.

Both versions of the Nine-Word Mantra were authentic.

But!!

The first version was mistakenly copied by foolish Japanese envoys during the Tang Dynasty.

They copied 'Advance' as 'Present'.

The original meaning was about battle formations.

But copying it as 'Present' changed it to a defensive posture.

Changing two characters completely altered the meaning.

And he's still wondering why it's wrong~ why it doesn't work~

No wonder it failed.

"Why, why, why did I get it wrong with a ninety percent chance!!!"

"Am I really this unlucky!?"

Suddenly.

Di She realized something.

His streak of bad luck seemed to have started when the Di family fell.

Ever since he was interrupted during cultivation and woke up.

Everything had gone wrong recently.

No!

Wrong wasn't the right word.

Unlucky. Extremely unlucky!

"Unlucky? Good, that was my doing."

This was one effect of the [Misfortune Pillar].

For someone like Di She with considerable fortune, being affected by the [Misfortune Pillar] wouldn't kill him.

But he'd suffer a year of terrible luck, the kind where even drinking water would choke him.

Continuously draining his fortune.

Unless someone truly had immense fortune.

They couldn't avoid this fate.

If such a person existed.

And they provoked Lu Ding enough to warrant the [Misfortune Pillar].

Lu Ding would drop everything to ensure their demise!

Thus.

A death sentence!

Closed loop.

Watching Lu Ding finish drawing the final character 'Advance'.

And stepping onto it.

The mercury lake immediately erupted with towering waves.

The ink-marked net on the golden coffin began glowing red.

The feng shui of this place started changing.

Di She stared fixedly at Lu Ding, his eyes bloodshot!!

"WHY! ARE! YOU! DOING THIS TO ME!!!!?"

As he roared, Di She's aura surged violently.

The barrier between Divine Palace Ninth Layer and Si Ming was crumbling.

Just as Di She was about to break through to Si Ming.

The golden coffin at the lake's center creaked.

The lid slowly lifted.

Through the gap, a pair of blackish-brown hands with sharp nails pressed against the lid's underside, trying to push it open!

The terrifying aura seeping through the gap far surpassed Si Ming, slightly exceeding ordinary Earth Observation level.

Corpse energy billowed.

Di She, currently breaking through to Si Ming, was frantically absorbing spiritual energy from the surroundings.

Under these circumstances.

Spiritual energy, the specially prepared mercury vaporizing from the lake, and the corpse energy.

All three merged and flooded into Di She's body.

Pushing his realm past Si Ming in one step.

With several explosive booms......

The golden coffin lid flew open.

A flying zombie wreathed in corpse energy slowly rose into the air.

Freshly ascended to Si Ming, Di She's aura churned violently.

The mercury lake's restrictions deactivated at this moment.

The Nine-Word Mantra was the key to releasing the imprisoned flying zombie, the mercury lake being the protective mechanism.

Now that the lock was opened, the protection naturally ceased.

The flying zombie and Di She now flanked Lu Ding's trio.

Perhaps because Di She absorbed too much corpse energy during his breakthrough, when the flying zombie emerged.

It completely ignored him, its bloodthirsty aura focused solely on Lu Ding's group.

The surrounding space turned red under the influence of corpse energy.

Lu Ding glanced at both sides.

Grabbing Yan Feifan and Wutian, he hurled them toward the wall with tremendous force.

Upon contact, Yan Feifan's 'wall-piercing' ability activated instantly, merging completely into the wall and vanishing without trace.

No hesitation, no lingering, no wasted words.

But Wutian used the wall to disperse the momentum.

The massive force instantly created spiderweb cracks across the stone surface.

He leaped back to Lu Ding's side.

"Amitabha, Benefactor Lu might have underestimated me."

Clapping his palms together, golden light immediately suffused Wutian.

The red dot between his eyebrows expanded until it resembled a spider lily marking.

Now, Wutian embodied the living Buddha.

Lu Ding gave him a look: "Fine, hold it off for a few seconds. After I personally finish him off, I'll join you immediately."

Concentric circles of light exploded behind him amid rolling black smoke and shockwaves!

His gaze locked onto Di She:

"I've endured you long enough, you like to scream?!"

In the massive tomb chamber, four figures instantly engaged in rapid movement.

The flying zombie attacked, spewing torrents of corpse energy - lethal to those insufficiently strong.

Wutian formed hand seals, two fingers circled, three fingers upright before his mouth, unleashing a lion's roar.

"OM!!!"

Soundwaves exploded, scattering golden lotus petals.

Nearby.

Di She's charge seemed utterly pathetic to Lu Ding!!!

As flesh energy billowed, Lu Ding raised his hand into dragon claw form.

Spiritual energy manifested dragon scales across his body.

From the churning black smoke behind him, the Sin Dragon opened its mismatched pupils.

"You dare!!!"

Obscure bone scriptures materialized as crimson characters swirling around Lu Ding, radiating terrifying malevolence.

No holding back!!

One move!

Just one move!

He would annihilate this fool who dared charge him fresh after breaking through to Si Ming.

Destroy! Shatter!!! Pulverize!!!!

Absolute domination.

Making him experience unimaginable horror!

Sin Dragon's Claw!!!

The dragon claw met Di She's hastily formed hand seal.

Instantly, the seal shattered.

Then Di She's hand shattered, his meridians shattered, his spiritual energy circulation shattered, shatter shatter shatter!!!

Di She, intoxicated by power and hatred, sobered up.

But too late.

Against insurmountable power, regret was a luxury - death his only destination!

The terrifying force completely obliterated Di She's physical form.

Amid the shower of flesh fragments.

Using the charge's momentum, the rings along Lu Ding's spinal dragon erupted with flesh energy, propelling him into a drifting arc trailing crimson light, slicing a silver curtain through the mercury lake.

BOOM!!!!

Without the slightest pause!!

The silver curtain exploded as Lu Ding shot toward the flying zombie like a cannonball.

Meanwhile.

Yunhai.

Villa.

The Crooked-Mouth Old Man's eyes snapped open in the darkness!

"Oh no, my water corpse flying zombie!!"

No time to think, he blasted upward instantly!

The villa's roof shattered into pieces.