376: Unkillable mummies

"Qiqi!"

Fang Yuan's roar arrived almost simultaneously with the lightning.

As he tore through the dim yellow sky and landed beside Zhang Qiqi, the sight he saw made his pupils suddenly shrink.

Zhang Qiqi's pretty face was pale, with a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth. She was doing her best to maintain a blue water Dragon composed of majestic water spiritual energy, which was tightly entwining a strange humanoid creature.

The creature was completely withered, like a mummy dried for thousands of years. It was wrapped in tattered cloth strips, and at the joints, one could even see exposed, dull-colored bones.

Its eye sockets were two bottomless black holes, but Fang Yuan could sense a pure, frenzied desire for slaughter from within them.

Most alarming was that the energy fluctuations emitted by this Dried Corpse had actually reached the Golden Core Stage!

"Boom!"

At the moment Fang Yuan arrived, a hoarse low growl came from the Dried Corpse's throat, and its withered arms suddenly struggled.

A burst of unreasonable, overbearing power erupted!

The water Dragon condensed by Zhang Qiqi was actually torn apart by it, dissipating into a sky full of water vapor.

"Pfft!"

Zhang Qiqi was sent flying back as if struck by a heavy blow, but was caught just in time by Fang Yuan.

"Are you okay?" Fang Yuan asked in a deep voice, lightning already flickering in his eyes.

"Be careful! This guy... can't be killed!" Zhang Qiqi panted, her voice filled with shock and disbelief.

"Unkillable?"

Han Li and Liu Lian's figures landed right after. Hearing this, they were both stunned.

At that moment, the Golden Core Stage Dried Corpse seemed to regard Fang Yuan and the others as new targets. Its legs kicked off the dark red sand, and it turned into an afterimage, lunging straight at them!

"Seeking death!"

Chen Pingan's burly body descended from the sky, crashing heavily in front of the Dried Corpse like a meteorite. His blood-Qi surged, and he threw a simple, unadorned straight punch, the wind from the punch even creating a sharp sonic boom.

"Bang!"

The fist collided solidly with the Dried Corpse's withered chest.

The Dried Corpse's body exploded upon impact, turning into countless fragments and dust, scattering in all directions.

"That's it?"

Chen Pingan withdrew his fist, somewhat stunned.

He felt that although the opponent's strength was great, its body was as fragile as if it couldn't take a single hit.

However, in the next second, everyone's expressions froze.

They saw the fragments and dust scattered on the ground, as if pulled by some invisible force, beginning to converge frantically towards the center.

The dark red sand writhed, recombining with those bone fragments and tattered cloth strips.

In just two or three breaths, a perfectly intact Dried Corpse stood before them once again!

It twisted its neck, making a "crack" sound as if stretching its limbs. Its empty eye sockets were still locked onto everyone, its killing intent not diminishing in the slightest.

"Holy shit!" Han Li couldn't help but swear. "What the hell is this? A specialty of Mars?"

"Again!"

Chen Pingan roared and charged again.

This time, Lu Miaomiao, Ning Que, and over a dozen other Kunlun Students who had arrived also attacked simultaneously.

For a moment, Sword Qi crisscrossed, Talismans flew, and fist winds howled!

Multicolored spiritual energy brilliance completely submerged the Dried Corpse.

Roars and explosions were incessant, and the entire desert trembled violently.

This attack was more than ten times more intense than Chen Pingan's single punch just now.

When the light dissipated, only a huge deep pit remained on the spot; the Dried Corpse had long been blasted into nothingness.

"It's finally dead now, right?" a female student from the Talisman Department patted her chest with lingering fear.

But before she could finish, at the bottom of the deep pit, the red sand began to writhe again.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the Dried Corpse stood up for the third time, completely unharmed!

A chill rose from the bottom of everyone's hearts.

This had already exceeded their understanding of life and combat.

This wasn't recovery or regeneration; it was a "reshaping" almost at the level of rules!

As long as this land existed, this Dried Corpse seemed to be an eternal and indestructible existence.

"Everyone, get back!"

Just as everyone's minds were shaken, Xie Wangsheng's calm voice rang out.

He pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. The lenses reflected the dim yellow sky, appearing exceptionally bright.

He hadn't participated in the siege just now, but had been quietly observing from the side.

"Brute force cannot kill it." Xie Wangsheng stepped forward slowly, his expression extremely grave. "What we are attacking might just be a controlled Puppet. Its core, or rather the source that allows it to keep 'resurrecting,' is not on its body."

"Then what should we do?" Lu Miaomiao asked urgently.

"Since it can't be killed, then trap it."

As Xie Wangsheng spoke, his hands had already begun to rapidly form hand seals.

"Everyone, listen to my command! Form a Formation! Chen Pingan at the Qian Position, Lu Miaomiao at the Kun Position, Zhang Qiqi at the Kan Position... The rest of you find your positions and use your spiritual energy as a guide to help me construct the 'Eight Directions Dragon-Locking Formation'!"

The combat proficiency of the Kunlun Students was fully demonstrated at this moment.

Without any hesitation, everyone immediately followed Xie Wangsheng's instructions, quickly dispersing and occupying their respective Formation positions.

"Roar!"

The Dried Corpse seemed to sense the threat and roared as it charged toward Xie Wangsheng, who was closest to it.

"Stop it!" Fang Yuan shouted. A thick purple bolt of lightning descended from the sky, accurately striking in front of the Dried Corpse and blasting a charred pit, blocking its path.

Liu Lian's eight Flying Swords turned into streams of light, like eight nimble fish, constantly weaving and harassing around the Dried Corpse, kicking up clouds of dust. Although they couldn't cause substantial damage, they greatly slowed its movements.

The others also displayed their own Divine Abilities. No longer seeking a one-hit kill, they used all their attacks for containment and restriction.

Taking this opportunity, Xie Wangsheng's Formation was already formed!

"Rise!"

He gave a low shout and pressed both hands down hard!

Hum—

Centered on the Dried Corpse, within a hundred-meter radius on the ground, countless complex and profound golden Talisman runes suddenly lit up, connecting into a whole.

Eight thick golden pillars of light shot into the sky, converging in mid-air to form a huge golden light shield that emitted a majestic suppressive force, firmly trapping the Dried Corpse inside.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

The Dried Corpse frantically slammed against the light shield. Each impact caused the shield to shake violently, but the energy constituting the Formation was provided by dozens of Kunlun Students together, continuous and inexhaustible. No matter how it collided, it couldn't be shaken in the slightest.

Looking at the impotently raging Dried Corpse inside the Formation, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief.

The crisis was temporarily averted.

"What exactly is this thing?" Han Li wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, looking at the monster in the Formation with lingering fear.

Fang Yuan shook his head, his gaze scanning the boundless red desert, his voice low: "This thing doesn't feel 'alive.' It's more like a guardian, or... a cursed prisoner, bound here by some force, endlessly attacking all intruders."

His words made everyone's hearts sink again.

Xie Wangsheng's deduction was confirmed.

'The Company' had transported them here, and it was definitely not random.

This ancient star called Ancient name for Mars hid secrets beyond their imagination.

"Then we now..." Liu Lian looked at Xie Wangsheng. His Dao Heart had become increasingly steady after the incident with Katie, and he was now thinking more about how to break the deadlock.

Xie Wangsheng didn't answer immediately. He closed his eyes, and his vast Spiritual Sense spread out in all directions like an invisible tide, carefully investigating.

After a moment, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked in a certain direction of the desert.

"I've found something."

His voice wasn't loud, but it made everyone's hearts skip a beat.

"Every time it resurrected just now, I could feel an extremely subtle fluctuation of spiritual energy." Xie Wangsheng pointed into the distance, his tone certain. "That energy didn't appear out of thin air, but came from a fixed direction."

He paused, his eyes behind the lenses flashing with light.

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