The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 337 - 228: Resident Evil_2

Chapter 337: Chapter 228: Resident Evil_2

The small golden cauldron floated up and down, with dragons and phoenixes coiled around it, its patterns ancient and intricate, dazzlingly magnificent.

The Autumn Water Longsword hummed with a resonant sound, floating autonomously in the air. Sword qi intertwined, cold light flickered, and the aura of slaughter shook the soul.

The music of the ancient green jade zither was melodious, gentle and beautiful, fresh and expansive, brimming with charm. A vague phantom of a celestial maiden appeared, plucking the strings, playing an ancient tune.

The crimson gold divine bell was ancient and grand, emitting a long, melodious sound, clear and lingering, like a blazing sun hanging in the skies, cleansing the heart and uplifting the spirit.

There were too many treasures, a dazzling array that overwhelmed the senses.

"No wonder it’s the Heavenly Court, there are so many treasures in just a small shard of it." Zhou Yuan felt a heartfelt sense of astonishment.

"This is only a corner of Dancheng, not even the core area." Ye Wushuang had long recognized that this place was Dancheng of the Heavenly Court.

"Oh? Then what might the treasury of the core area hold?" Zhou Yuan couldn’t help but ask.

"Things beyond your imagination." Ye Wushuang replied.

Apart from weapons, many precious materials were displayed in this area, dazzling and rare, exotic metals.

After ransacking the weapons section, they moved to the cultivation technique section, which was rather desolate compared to the previous area, without any flashy effects, only a few bookshelves filled with books, ancient and quaint.

"We’re rich! We’re rich!" Everyone roared with laughter, dancing in excitement.

Knowledge was priceless; these cultivation techniques containing cultivation systems were the most valuable of all!

Having swept through the second floor, they moved to the third floor of the treasury.

As soon as they stepped in, a pleasant medicinal aroma wafted through, refreshing and invigorating their whole bodies.

Looking around, the shelves were filled with alchemy furnaces, neatly divided into several sections.

Ye Wushuang strode directly to a shelf in the deepest part and pointed to an alchemy furnace on the topmost layer, "Help me take it down."

Zhou Yuan manipulated dark matter to retrieve that alchemy furnace. On the furnace, a few bold characters were engraved.

——Creation Golden Elixir!

"Thank you." Ye Wushuang removed the lid of the furnace, and at that moment, a burst of golden light shot out from the furnace.

"Wow, a golden legend!"

Zhou Yuan couldn’t help but remark.

He looked into the furnace and found that the Creation Golden Elixirs were milky white, instantly puzzled, "Why is the Creation Golden Elixir white? What was that golden light just now?"

"Oh, that. It’s a little trick of alchemists; they make it so that opening it emits golden light to make the elixir seem more valuable, making buyers feel it’s worth the price, and so they can show off to others."

Ye Wushuang explained, "Although it’s called a Golden Elixir, it’s always been white, like Wife Cakes have no wives in them, Husband and Wife Lung Slices have no husband and wife, Fish-Flavored Shredded Pork has no fish, and Lion’s Head Meatballs have no lion in them.

The Creation Golden Elixir is also not a ’golden’ elixir."

"...Alright, so what’s it for? Can it stabilize your status?" Zhou Yuan asked.

"No, it just tastes good; I’ve been hungry for so many years and was craving it." Ye Wushuang, calm and collected, grabbed a handful of Creation Golden Elixir and popped them into her mouth, chewing like she was eating candy beans.

It was still a familiar taste.

Zhou Yuan: "..."

Going through the elixir storage, they finally arrived at the place where the alchemy furnaces were kept.

More than thirty alchemy furnaces of various shapes and attributes were displayed on the shelves, which inexplicably reminded one of souvenir shops at major tourist spots.

"Hmm?"

Ye Wushuang stared at an alchemy furnace in the center, somewhat surprised, "The prototype of the Eternal Divine Furnace?"

"Is it powerful?" Zhou Yuan hurriedly asked.

"The real Eternal Divine Furnace is powerful; it’s an Immortal Artifact crafted by an alchemist after achieving enlightenment, with a history of killing True Immortals in battle. But this is just an imitation by later generations, lacking the essence.

Compared to the real Eternal Divine Furnace... it’s like comparing a Caterpie to a Rayquaza, they look similar but are fundamentally different."

"What? It has killed True Immortals in battle?" Everyone was stunned, momentarily forgetting that Ye Wushuang had just used a Pokémon analogy.

Afterward, they packed up all the alchemy furnaces, and Zhou Yuan immediately began his demolition work.

Benefiting from the high-level prohibitions once set up in the treasury, the spiritual energy within the construction materials hadn’t dissipated too much. Once it was all dismantled, it could sell for a hefty sum.

But just as Zhou Yuan was halfway through his enthusiastic demolition, a strong sense of foreboding suddenly gripped him.

Anxiety spread in his heart, and the air became oppressive in an instant, as if something evil, twisted, and hideous had descended upon the world.

"Corpse Immortal..." Ye Wushuang whispered.

"What?" Zhou Yuan frowned.

"Go outside and see for yourself."

They rushed toward the outside of the treasury, and before reaching the gate, they saw the extraordinary individuals from forces like the Eternal Gene Squad rushing in, their faces pale with terror, as if they had seen something horrific.

"Alive...they’re alive!"

An extraordinary individual swallowed, stammering: "The dead, the dead have all, all come back to life!"

[A drop of blood from a Corpse Immortal seeped into this secret realm, causing all the creatures that once died here to open their eyes.

Welcome to—Resident Evil!]

Swish!

Zhou Yuan swung his staff at an area on the first floor of the treasury, where several rotting and hideous blood corpses suddenly stood up out of thin air!

Bang!

They had just come back to life when Zhou Yuan smashed them to smithereens with his staff. The return to ruins opened, devouring all the flesh and blood remnants to prevent any chances of revival.

"If they die now, they won’t come back again." Ye Wushuang reminded.

"Well, that’s good news." Zhou Yuan swung his staff again, smashing another batch of revived blood corpses.

"Uh...I have bad news." The captain of the Eternal Gene Squad held a detector, where dense crimson dots glowed, forming a solid red screen!

He swallowed hard and said with difficulty: "It looks like there are over a hundred thousand zombies revived here."

"Damn..."

Everyone felt a dizziness overcome them.

Dancheng, once part of the Ancient Heavenly Court, naturally had a large population. Even though this was just a corner of Dancheng, it had housed more than a hundred thousand people!

And most of them were cultivators!

Even if their ranks weren’t high in life, they were real cultivators, extraordinary. Once revived, they became elite monsters among the zombies, each one on the level of a mid-tier boss in apocalypse stories!

Not to mention over a hundred thousand of them...

Just thinking about it made people’s scalps tingle.

"It’s even worse news. This is only the number of blood corpses revived within this shard of the Heavenly Court. Now, all the beings that died in the entire secret realm have revived, including those Quasi-Immortals from before!" Bai Xiao said gravely, looking at the alert from the Control Bureau on her phone.

Dull thunder rumbled from the distant horizon, resonating in everyone’s souls with a vast echo.

"Tier-9 is taking action..." Ye Wushuang looked up, her gaze piercing through the void, seemingly seeing the grand battlefield.

"Blood corpses’ strength will decline after revival; even Quasi-Immortals cannot maintain their previous realms, several Tier-9s working together can slay them without trouble." She said.

"I think we should focus on ourselves first, over a hundred thousand blood corpses, how do we escape?" Someone grabbed his hair with a pale face, already a bit desperate.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, a dragon roar echoed outside, and a terrifyingly domineering aura spread across the sky and earth, followed by deafening booms and vast waves of energy.

Someone was fighting!

After a long time, a massive Golden Dragon flew over, its body covered in blood, countless grievous wounds, blood cascading like a waterfall.

Chen Guangxi, turned into a human shape, rushed into the treasury, her whole body soaked in blood.

"Urgent, something big has happened!"

"We know, all the bodies have revived."

"No, there are a bunch of 7th tiers revived!" Chen Guangxi said, spewing a big mouthful of golden blood, her aura weakening.

Everyone felt the world go dark again.