Super Invincible Immortal Doctor
Chapter 581: There’s Someone Behind_1

His hands were folded over his body, holding a Blood Ruyi.

Even after a thousand years, the body of the tomb owner had not decayed looking like a person who had just died. This must surely be the result of some secret art that preserved the body from decay for a thousand years.

"Blood Ruyi! It really is here."

Su Chengyu’s face brightened in joy as he took the Blood Ruyi. As for the other burial offerings in the coffin, he did not intend to take them.

The household treasures he obtained this time during his tomb raid were quite substantial. Su Chengyu wasn’t a graverobber and didn’t intend to disturb the coffin and remains, which he considered a form of respect for the tomb owner.

However, right after Su Chengyu removed the Blood Ruyi, the already dead tomb owner suddenly twitched and then abruptly sat up with his eyes open.

All he had were lifeless eyes. He leapt from the coffin, causing Su Chengyu to immediately take flight in retreat.

"He came back to life?!"

Lin Chuxue and Yu Yanshu’s faces changed drastically. Even though they had seen zombie films, this was the first time they had seen a real zombie.

After the tomb owner jumped out of the coffin, his body immediately sprouted purple hair, his hands grew purple-black nails, and he had fangs protruding from his mouth. His body reeked of corpse aura. Opening his mouth, he roared and an arrow made from the purple-black corpse aura shot towards Su Chengyu.

The corpse aura of zombies is highly toxic, and even cultivators fear it to some extent. Su Chengyu slapped his palm and shattered the arrow formed with corpse aura with a burst of energy.

Zombies have different levels. The lowest is the white zombie. These zombies are slow, stiff, afraid of sunlight and fire, and are easy to deal with.

Above the white zombies are green zombies. They are covered in green fur, are swift, can spit out the corpse aura to attack, fear neither water nor fire, are astonishingly powerful, incredibly defensive, can withstand the astral energy of a Great Grandmaster and extremely fierce.

However, cultivators can restrain green zombies with their magical fire and magical weapons.

The green zombies are followed by black ones, which are covered with black hair. Their bodies are hard to harm with magical fire, and they’re immune to the effects of many magical weapons. They can move over roofs and up walls and are ruthlessly fierce.

But this tomb owner has purple-black corpse hair on his body, indicating he’s a purple zombie. Impervious to swords and spears, immune to magical fire and spells, even cultivators find these a challenge.

This purple-haired zombie should be equivalent to a Martial King Realm expert, something that Su Chengyu never expected.

With his current power, Su Chengyu could neither deal with a Martial King Realm expert nor a Purple Zombie.

The owner of the tomb had been a Martial Saint Realm powerhouse, and after a thousand years his body had absorbed Earth Evil Yi Aura, turning him into a zombie. This made him somewhat less powerful than when he was a Martial Saint in his lifetime, but nevertheless formidable.

Swift as lightning, the tomb owner attacked Su Chengyu, who didn’t dare to take it lightly. He brought out his Dragon Slayer Sword and struck with it. When the indestructible Dragon Slayer Sword met the tomb owner’s body, sparks flew, and it made a clanking sound but failed to hurt him.

"He’s incredibly powerful! ChuXue, Yaner, you two get out of here, I’ll hold him off!"

Su Chengyu wasn’t keen on risking his life against the tomb owner. Once Yu Yanshu and Lin Chuxue made it safely out of the ancient tomb, Su Chengyu planned to destroy the tomb and bury the tomb owner underground.

"Be careful!"

Having said that, Lin Chuxue and Yu Yanshu raced towards the entrance of the tomb passage. With the Dragon Slayer Sword in his hand, Su Chengyu was able to hold off the zombie for a while.

Su Chengyu’s swordsmanship was fierce and sophisticated, his sword qi overflowing. While his sword kept slashing the tomb owner’s body, it was unable to cause any harm. Meanwhile, he constantly had to keep alert for the corpse aura.

For a cultivator, mana is the source of all power, for a martial artist, inner strength forms the source of all power, and for a zombie, corpse aura is equivalent to the cultivator’s mana or the martial artist’s inner strength.

Su Chengyu thrust his sword straight forward, but the tomb’s master seized the Dragon Slayer Sword. The immense strength overwhelmed Su Chengyu, causing him to lose hold of the hilt and the sword was snatched away by the master of the tomb.

The tomb master tossed the Dragon Slayer Sword aside and resumed spitting out corpse qi. Faced with this strong attack, Su Chengyu had to avoid it.

The Dragon Slayer Sword flew back into Su Chengyu’s hand. He immediately swung another slash, forcing the tomb master to retreat a few steps. Then, he clenched several talismans in his hand. The talisman fire rose and blew towards the tomb master with extraordinary momentum.

The tomb master was instantly engulfed in a sea of fire, but the talisman fire was incapable of inflicting any harm on him. The tomb master calmly walked out of the fire step by step.

"Truly worthy of being the Purple-haired Corpse, indeed hard to deal with."

Su Chengyu cursed under his breath, swinging several continuous slashes and pushing his mana to its limits. The tomb master punched out, its dominating power breaking all of Su Chengyu’s sword attacks. The overwhelming force sent Su Chengyu flying and crashing into the wall.

Even though he was safeguarded by the True Dragon’s Reverse Scale, this punch, as powerful as one from the Martial King Realm, made Su Chengyu feel overwhelmed, his qi and blood roiling uncontrollably.

Without waiting for Su Chengyu to catch his breath, the tomb master attacked again with a punch. Su Chengyu was well aware that, relying on his own ability, he could not defeat the Purple-haired Corpse no matter what.

Even if he used the talismans left by Ye Qingci, it was still unlikely that he could kill this Purple-haired Corpse.

Su Chengyu could only try his best to buy some time. Fortunately, he was swift and nimble and, with the True Dragon’s Reverse Scale protecting him, he could go toe-to-toe with the Purple-haired Corpse for a while.

"Sword, go!"

Su Chengyu manipulated a sword technique, and the Dragon Slayer Sword flew out to engage the Purple-haired Corpse in a fight, only to have its sword arc completely shattered by a single punch.

Su Chengyu took out the talismans, chanting and casting a spell. Eight talismans flew out and formed an array when they touched the ground.

The Purple-haired Corpse gripped the Dragon Slayer Sword in his hand. He attempted to snap the sword with both hands.

However, the Dragon Slayer Sword itself was a divine artefact that had slayed countless demons, it was not something the Purple-haired Corpse could snap, so he had to toss it away again.

Su Chengyu summoned back the Dragon Slayer Sword, the sword’s glow intensified. With hands forming signs, he shouted out, "Array, activate!"

He set up a sword array. The eight talismans instantly formed a lock array, confining the Purple-haired Corpse, trying to kill him with sword qi.

Su Chengyu knew very well that this sword array would only be able to hold the Purple-haired Corpse for a moment before he broke it with brute force.

He planned on making his escape from the third layer of the tomb first, then seal off the tunnel with all his strength, trapping the Purple-haired Corpse inside.

Su Chengyu quickly dashed towards the entrance of the tomb. Unexpectedly, instead of escaping, Lin Chuxue and Yu Yanshu walked back out from the tomb.

"Why did you both come back? Didn’t I tell you to flee?"

Su Chengyu was somewhat anxious. This Purple-haired Corpse was extremely strong, impossible to kill or confront, he could only think of first getting away.

"Someone’s coming from behind!"

Lin Chuxue said with a somewhat pale face.

Upon hearing this, Su Chengyu’s brow furrowed. He looked towards the tunnel and saw a tall shadow, step by step, approaching the tomb.

A warning bell rang in Su Chengyu’s heart. This shadow gave him an extremely dangerous feeling, causing great unease in his heart. Meanwhile, the Purple-haired Corpse, trapped in the sword array, had already broken the array and let out a roar.