383: Competing with each other

For Chen Tianming, he had plenty of blood jade, so a few pieces here or there didn't matter.

The key was that by using just these two pieces, he could gain their respect and trust—why wouldn't he do it?

Wu Wenlong said, "Since Brother Chen doesn't mind, then we won't stand on ceremony."

After speaking, Wu Wenlong and the others picked up the blood jade and consumed it.

As the blood jade hit their throats, it immediately melted into their stomachs.

"Ah, how refreshing!"

Wu Wenlong felt an intensely strong warmth coursing through his body, making him unable to hold back a cry of pure satisfaction.

"This is too comfortable!"

"It tastes so good!"

"Hahaha, this is so satisfying!"

"I've never felt this comfortable in my life!"

...

Listening to their heartfelt exclamations and seeing how excited they were, a smile appeared on Chen Tianming's face.

He then secretly employed a mysterious cultivation technique to refine the blood jade that Wu Wenlong and the others had absorbed into their bodies.

As the blood jade was refined, Wu Wenlong and the others' bodies began to burn hot.

Chen Tianming had no intention of using this blood jade right now; the aftereffects were too great.

However, his divine sense had already detected that their constitutions were very special, so this bit of pain was nothing to them.

"Shall we continue inside now? There really are good things here!"

Having gained the benefits, Wu Wenlong became even more eager and urged the others to hurry inside.

"I'll lead the way," Chen Tianming said with a smile.

As Chen Tianming led everyone inside, he had already scouted this area; there was no major danger, so there was no need to be particularly worried.

However, some debris was scattered about in those places, clearly left behind from the previous battle.

"Brother Chen, sorry for the trouble."

Looking at these items, Zhou Xun mistakenly thought they were traces of Chen Tianming's battle, and he felt even more guilty.

He thought to himself that he really wasn't much of a person, having assumed Chen Tianming was just tagging along to freeload on the treasures. Now it seemed that he and Wu Wenlong were the ones who were actually like that.

Thinking of this, he truly felt incredibly guilty.

"Hehehe, it's nothing."

Chen Tianming waved his hand and smiled.

As Chen Tianming picked up the items, Wu Wenlong and the others excitedly charged in again, and Chen Tianming followed after them.

However, Chen Tianming didn't notice that when they had gone in earlier, those corpses hadn't been cleared away.

Therefore, the moment he entered, a black shadow flew out from the pile of corpses.

It opened its mouth and shot a cloud of white mist toward Chen Tianming.

Zhou Xun and the others also noticed the abnormality and hurriedly ran back.

"Chen Tianming, watch out!"

Wu Wenlong shouted.

But it was already too late; the black shadow had already attacked and reached Chen Tianming's side.

This black shadow was none other than that zombie.

Chen Tianming hadn't paid attention, and he was surrounded by the white powder.

"Thwack."

Chen Tianming was struck directly by this force, and he fell to the ground.

At this moment, the zombie flew above Chen Tianming's head, opened its mouth, and bit down toward his head.

Seeing that the situation was bad, Zhou Xun hurriedly shouted, "Chen Tianming, watch out!"

But how could he be a match for this zombie? The black shadow opened its bloody maw and bit toward Chen Tianming's neck, seemingly wanting to bite it off.

But that was just a thought; the black shadow didn't actually bite Chen Tianming.

"Thwack."

The zombie was knocked back, and then three skulls suddenly emerged from the back of the black shadow.

"Rumble."

The skulls opened their mouths and spat out flames, burning the black shadow to death.

Wu Wenlong and the others were stunned.

"Wait, what is going on right now? Is this considered infighting?"

"I'm not sure, but this has nothing to do with us. While they haven't reacted yet, let's leave quickly!"

Zhou Xun didn't want to get involved in such trouble, and his first thought was to leave this place of right and wrong immediately.

"Okay, let's leave first."

Wu Wenlong nodded, and they rushed toward the outside.

"Whoosh."

Just as Wu Wenlong and the others rushed out, a black shadow darted out from the side, blocking their path.

"Ah."

Zhou Xun exclaimed, "What is this thing?"

"It's a type of zombie; we need to be careful."

Wu Wenlong said with a grave expression.

"Regardless, we have to try to know. If we're afraid of this, we can forget about finding treasures."

Zhou Xun gritted his teeth and said.

Although it wasn't a particularly powerful zombie, it was still a troublesome thing.

These undead things were quite difficult to deal with. After all, most attacks were useless against them, and they didn't possess that strange flame.

Therefore, their attacks were extremely weak against these zombies, not even as effective as one of Chen Tianming's casual strikes.

"Let's not think about fighting; let's just run!"

Zhou Xun glanced in Chen Tianming's direction and selectively ignored Wu Wenlong's words.

In the past, they had indeed chosen to evade danger because their strength was insufficient, and they didn't want to use too many secret techniques.

They both wanted to hide their true abilities, so their first reaction to difficulty was avoidance.

But now, Chen Tianming had brought them an extraordinary influence. If they didn't seize the opportunity, they might miss out on a great chance.

"Brother Chen, we're coming to help you!"

Saying this, in reality, the two of them swarmed over, just wanting to shake off the person behind them.

After all, they couldn't withstand the zombie's power, so they had no choice but to get someone else to help.

And Chen Tianming was the best choice among them.

"Bang."

"Thwack."

The zombie engaged them in battle; their martial arts were about the same.

It's just that the zombie was very strange; if they wanted to kill the zombie, they had to take it down first.

Therefore, Zhou Xun attacked desperately, and Wu Wenlong and the others were no pushovers either, resulting in a stalemate for the time being.

"Still not working!"

Zhou Xun said indignantly. He hadn't expected his own abilities to be so poor; despite having absorbed the blood jade, his strength still hadn't increased at all.

"Zhou Xun, I feel that this zombie's strength is very high."

Wu Wenlong said, frowning.

After all, the force coming from his hands made him feel it was absurd; it was completely different from the previous power.

"Yeah, this isn't going to work. Let's stop holding back. Wu Wenlong, would it kill you to use your secret technique!"

Zhou Xun shouted angrily, his heart filled with rage.

Upon hearing this, Wu Wenlong made a bitter face and said, "Brother Zhou, we still need to be careful here. You know as well as I do that after using the secret technique, I'll be weakened. What will I do later on?"

"Hmph, you might be afraid of that, but I'm not. Use your ultimate move; you'll definitely be able to kill this zombie."

Zhou Xun said coldly.

After speaking, Zhou Xun lunged toward the zombie.

They were both of equal strength and had absorbed the same blood jade; who would win and who would lose was truly uncertain.