28: Chapter 28 One cannot become a revered figure without reciting poetry!

Watching Ling Yao pull a rope out of her Storage Pouch, Su Yi's vision went black. A useless teammate is actually right by my side?

Looking at the nearly fifty-meter-high stone slab, Su Yi felt a bit desperate. Only after Foundation Establishment could one learn auxiliary flight techniques like sword flight. At the Qi Refining stage, one could at most use True Qi to float four or five meters high. Facing the stone slab in front of him, it was simply impossible to fly up.

"You damn well untied the rope, so how are we supposed to get up now?" Su Yi roared at Ling Yao.

Ling Yao immediately retorted, sounding somewhat aggrieved: "Why are you yelling so loudly? Just jump up, isn't that enough!"

"??? There's such a move?" Su Yi's brain couldn't react in time.

Ling Yao broke free from Su Yi's hand, channeled her True Qi to stimulate her blood flow, pushed off with her feet, and leapt directly into the air.

This jump was a full twenty meters high. Just as she was about to land, Ling Yao slammed her feet onto the stone slab separating the front chamber from the middle chamber, and using the rebound force, she leapt directly onto the stone slab separating the back chamber of the Ancient Tomb.

After landing on the stone slab, Ling Yao looked down at Su Yi, who was still on the ground, and said matter-of-factly: "Didn't I make it up?"

Su Yi's worry immediately turned to joy, and he shouted ingratiatingly at Ling Yao: "Great skills, Heroine! Hurry and bring me up with you!"

"No, if I carry you, I won't be able to use the leverage!" Standing atop the stone slab, Ling Yao shook her head and said.

Watching the boss Dry Corpse, which had dismantled all the Puppets into parts in just a few moves, Su Yi gritted his teeth. With agile movements, he dodged the Dry Corpse, which was finishing off the last Puppet, and returned to the front of the stone slab beneath Ling Yao's feet.

"Quick, throw the rope to me!" Su Yi shouted at Ling Yao.

"Oh!" Ling Yao hurriedly threw the rope down.

"No, sister, you threw the whole rope down, so how are you going to pull me up?" Su Yi caught the rope, looked at it completely thrown down, and was stunned.

"You only told me to throw the rope down, you didn't tell me to pull you up!" Ling Yao retorted righteously.

"Awesome!" Just as Su Yi was about to curse back, he felt the hairs on his body stand on end.

In his mind, an image instantly appeared of the Dry Corpse swinging its right arm at him from behind!

The effect of his Mythical Talent, Born Alluring Talent, activated!

"Water Wall Technique!"

Su Yi used the skill without thinking, and a wall made of water instantly blocked his back.

Splash! The water wall, as fragile as paper, was instantly torn apart by the Dry Corpse, and its sharp claws, carrying a foul wind, lunged directly at Su Yi's head.

"Water Clone!"

Amidst Ling Yao's scream, the Dry Corpse's sharp claws instantly smashed Su Yi's head.

And the smashed head, like a popped water balloon, instantly spilled water all over the ground.

Su Yi had narrowly been swapped to the back of the Dry Corpse.

"Water Arrow Technique!"

"Water Whip Technique!"

Two attack skills quickly struck the Dry Corpse; although they had some effect, it was only a minor one.

The Dry Corpse merely swayed its body before turning around and continuing to lunge at Su Yi.

Su Yi panted slightly, feeling his adrenaline spike. He had almost died before accomplishing anything!

Good news: The skills he had just unleashed at the 3rd Level of Qi Refining were able to affect the Dry Corpse.

This meant the Dry Corpse hadn't even reached the Realm of 9th Level of Qi Refining to have an automatic Protective Aura.

At most, it was just an elite minor boss at the 8th Level of Qi Refining.

The bad news: all four skills were on cooldown, and Su Yi was now out of moves!

"Damn it!" Su Yi's bloodlust was also ignited. He pulled his sword from his Storage Pouch, ready to have a close-quarters showdown with the Dry Corpse before him.

After all, he had been playing "immortal path" for ten years, and in the game, he played as a Sword Cultivator!

Having struggled and crawled his way through "immortal path" for ten years, could he really be afraid of a Dry Corpse that was at most Level 8?

If word got out, he'd probably be laughed to death by other players!

Skillfully projecting his True Qi onto the blade, Su Yi held the sword with both hands, watching the lunging Dry Corpse with a serious expression.

Just as Su Yi was preparing to charge forward and strike first, a short figure instantly dropped from the stone slab.

"Thousand-Catty Drop!"

With a delicate shout, Ling Yao landed heavily on the Dry Corpse in front of her. Her strength at the 4th Level of Qi Refining, combined with a blue-quality combat technique and the downward acceleration, instantly stomped the Dry Corpse to the ground.

"Run!" Ling Yao shouted at Su Yi, then performed a sparrow flip to dodge the sharp claws swung by the Dry Corpse.

"So touching, I'll keep clinging to your thigh in the future!" Seeing Ling Yao jump down from the stone slab to save him, Su Yi felt a wave of emotion and immediately bolted.

The bloodlust that had just surged up vanished without a trace.

Ling Yao was truly worthy of her future title as Empress.

Having only cultivated for two days, she was already able to rely on the martial arts she learned yesterday, self-teaching how to coat her fists in True Qi, and was evenly matched with the Dry Corpse for a time!

However, the 4th Level of Qi Refining was ultimately separated by four Realms from the 8th Level of Qi Refining.

Furthermore, Ling Yao's cultivation time was still short, and her combat experience was almost zero.

Though she briefly traded blows with the Dry Corpse, it was limited to just trading blows.

Relying on her body nourished by True Qi, Ling Yao, who moved like a dragon around the Dry Corpse, gradually began to feel overwhelmed.

After a few rounds, Ling Yao was panting, nearly grabbed by the throat by the Dry Corpse's claw.

"Hurry up and think of something, Su Yi, I can't hold on any longer!" Ling Yao shouted at Su Yi, who had just run to the area beneath the stone slab in the distance.

At this rate, if the fight continued, his Empress thigh was going to break!

Su Yi couldn't care about much else and directly took out Spirit Stones from his Storage Pouch.

Sticking his hands into the box filled with Spirit Stones, the System's voice immediately rang out in his mind repeatedly:

"Ding, EXP + 1000!" "Ding, EXP + 1000!" "Ding, EXP + 1000!" ...

The Spirit Stones in the box kept disappearing, and the continuous notifications rang in Su Yi's ears, causing the corners of his mouth to curl up wildly.

Watching the EXP on his attribute panel jumping wildly, Su Yi couldn't help but sigh; indeed, risk and opportunity were directly proportional!

Just looking at this skyrocketing EXP, it made perfect sense that an 8th Level of Qi Refining Dry Corpse was squatting in this grave!

Ling Yao, who was entangled with the Dry Corpse, immediately cursed in frustration: "I'm about to be beaten to death, you damn bastard, why are you spacing out!"

Rolling his eyes at Ling Yao, who was being suppressed by the Dry Corpse—what did the little girl know?

Su Yi silently chanted in his heart: "Level Up!"

In an instant, Su Yi felt the True Qi in his Meridians increasing frantically, and his Dantian was continuously filling with True Qi.

"Ding, 4th Level of Qi Refining!"

The True Qi filling his Dantian began to rotate spontaneously!

"Ding, 5th Level of Qi Refining!"

The True Qi around Su Yi's body surged again, and the rotating True Qi in his Dantian swallowed Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi at an even faster speed.

"Ding, 6th Level of Qi Refining!" "Ding, 7th Level of Qi Refining!"

Until the True Qi around Su Yi began to calm down, Su Yi let out a long breath, and the final notification rang in his ears: "Ding, 8th Level of Qi Refining!"

Having leveled up 5 times in an instant, Su Yi, feeling high-spirited, couldn't help but whisper:

"Surrounded by an Ancient Tomb, life and death hang in the balance, trapped on a dangerous cliff, refining the Dao essence!"

"Breaking Realms repeatedly by my own will, only near death do I realize the fate of creation!"

"With a great enemy before me, I break through the shackles, I devour Spiritual Qi and step onto the snowy peak!"

"In one morning of enlightenment, I rise above the clouds, reaching out to pluck the clouds towards the blue sky with my bare hands!"