Chapter 330: Panic in Sand City (Part 7)

“Ahh!”

Chu Miaoyi let out a startled scream.

Lin Xue quickly pulled her into her arms.

“It’s just a mummy, why the panic?” Shui Miao said calmly. “They aren’t scary. They were ordinary people just like us when they were alive.”

As Shui Miao finished speaking, streams of black mist began rising from the sand.

In an instant, within a radius of several kilometers, numerous mummies emerged from the sand.

Everyone was shocked, as if they had entered a terrifying, unfamiliar world.

“There are actually so many moving mummies!”

Wang Yong muttered in disbelief. Such scenes were only something he had seen in movies before. This was his first real encounter.

“How can this be?” Xiong Ying questioned. “Generally, mummies don’t move. Only zombies move, but zombies don’t appear in deserts because deserts are full of yang energy and are very dry. Unless there’s actually an underground sand city here?”

Xiong Ying couldn’t continue speaking as he realized this explanation didn’t make sense. This phenomenon had exceeded the scope of his knowledge.

At this point, he started to believe that what Shui Miao had said earlier was actually true.

But why did Shui Miao know so much?

The only explanation was that Shui Miao had truly become a semi-immortal, possessing the special ability of foreknowledge. His cultivation had completely surpassed human imagination.

So, how had Shui Miao cultivated so rapidly? Xiong Ying couldn’t help but suspect that Shui Miao hadn’t become so powerful through the cultivation method of the Five Elements. If that method were truly so powerful, why was he still stuck at the same level?

Seeing one mummy after another crawling out of the sand like ants, hundreds of mummies gathered around them in no time, approaching from all directions. Everyone quickly pushed aside their distracting thoughts, feeling nervous, worried, and afraid.

At this moment, Shui Miao calmly said, “They were all people who wanted to enter the sand city to seize treasures. Unfortunately, they were killed by evil spirits before they could enter the city and were dragged underground to become the puppets of the evil spirits, helping them harm others here.”

“Oh no! Shui Miao! At a time like this, you’re still talking so casually. Hurry up and think of a way to save our lives!” Wang Yong shouted anxiously. He certainly didn’t want to die here. Although he had previously acted so bravely, treating life and death as a joke, when it came to the moment of life and death, he couldn’t help but feel worried and scared.

Who wouldn’t want to live?

Normal people would think this way, even if they knew there was a soul after death.

Shui Miao smiled faintly. “Since that’s the case, everyone, start fighting.”

“What? You can’t deal with them?” Wang Yong’s eyes widened.

Shui Miao looked at a mummy rushing toward him and calmly said, “This is a great opportunity for your training. Although I can easily eliminate them, I think I should give you all this opportunity instead. Remember, these mummies are essentially zombies. However, there is a continuous supply of yin energy from underground. I will use my energy to suppress the yin energy and create a safe zone within a five-meter radius. You can then fight freely. Even if they have corpse poison, it’s okay because we still have a doctor here.”

The doctor, of course, was Watson.

Upon hearing this, Watson instinctively nodded.

The safe zone Shui Miao mentioned was an area of wind formed by his mastery of the essence of wind. Any mummy that entered the safe zone would be blown away by the wind.

Indeed, a few mummies that approached were blown backward by the wind for over ten meters.

“Attack!”

Seeing this, Jiang Zhihao was the first to excitedly rush toward the mummies. However, the mummy casually waved its hand and sent Jiang Zhihao flying back.

“Master, they’re so strong!”

Jiang Zhihao, with his old body, nearly had his bones broken.

Shui Miao chuckled and said, “This is your training. You fool, charging straight at them like that. Who else would they hit if not you? Don’t underestimate these mummies. They carry heavy yin energy, and their strength is five to ten times that of a normal person. To fight them, you must utilize their stiff movements and attack their skeletons, preferably severing their connection to yin energy.”

“Let me try!”

Rongjie grabbed an iron rod and rushed toward a male mummy. As the mummy swung its arm down, Rongjie quickly ducked and took the opportunity to strike the mummy’s waist with the iron rod, instantly breaking it in two. However, the mummy wasn’t dead; its limbs were still moving.

Seeing the mummy still alive, Rongjie was startled and quickly retreated.

At this moment, Shui Miao spoke again, “Don’t look at these mummies as if they were living people. They have souls. Souls are invisible and intangible to ordinary people, but souls need a host body. What you need to do now is to find every possible way to destroy their host bodies. Once their host bodies are destroyed, I will teach you how to deal with their souls.”

“I understand!”

Rongjie nodded, then continued to attack the mummies with her iron rod.

Jiang Zhihao, Sun Hao, and Jiang Tao also joined in.

This time, they were smarter. They no longer confronted the zombies head-on but dodged around them and struck their mummified bodies when they had the chance. The zombies’ arms were very solid because they were filled with a large amount of yin energy, but their waists and legs were very fragile. A heavy blow would easily break them.

Lin Xue was also eager to join. She pulled Chu Miaoyi along, and the two of them fought the mummies together.

Everyone started fighting.

Watson, who rarely exercised, saw the women fighting the mummies and naturally didn’t want to be left behind.

Wang Yong licked his lips, took out a Luoyang spade from his backpack, and joined the fight.

Xiong Ying, however, didn’t go to fight the mummies. He approached Shui Miao and asked, “Kid, how did you become so powerful?”

“Now isn’t the time to talk about that.”

Shui Miao needed to focus on controlling the situation. How could he have the time or mood to chat with Xiong Ying?

This battle against the mummies was not only a test for everyone but also a test for Shui Miao himself.

Xiong Ying was momentarily stunned and then closed his mouth.

He knew that he could no longer talk to Shui Miao as he used to. Now, Shui Miao was a high-level cultivator, while he, as the grandfather, was too weak. All those useless words, Shui Miao simply ignored.

Xiong Ying silently stood aside, his heart filled with complex emotions.

Shui Miao was also helpless. He had to be ruthless; otherwise, everyone would be laughing and joking around, unable to focus on the training with a single-minded determination.

Soon, everyone’s movements became more agile, and dealing with the mummies became easier.

The battle between the group and the mummies quickly reached a fever pitch.

At first, the yin energy underground wasn’t too much, but as time passed, the yin energy kept accumulating. Shui Miao, with a flicker of thought, activated his Soul Devouring Power, forcefully suppressing the yin energy. He transformed a large amount of yin energy into pure spiritual energy, channeling it to everyone, making them stronger and more excited with each passing moment.

Xiong Ying also sensed the enhancement of spiritual energy. His thoughts gradually shifted, and he couldn’t help but join the battle against the mummies.

Half an hour later, the desert around them was littered with severed limbs. Without the nourishment of yin energy, these limbs were gradually exposed to sunlight and became true mummies.

Shui Miao was still sitting cross-legged, using his Soul Devouring Power to probe deep underground, searching for traces of the evil spirits.

“Boom!”

“Boom! Boom! Boom…”

Suddenly, the earth began to shake. Under the tremors, the severed limbs gradually sank into the sand.

Everyone quickly gathered behind Shui Miao.

“Shui Miao, it seems like we’re sinking?”

Xiong Ying felt that the entire area around them was sinking, and the speed was getting faster and faster.

“Everyone, don’t panic. The evil spirit wants to bury us here, but that’s just a daydream.” With a flicker of thought, Shui Miao summoned a sudden storm in the sky. Clouds gathered, followed by thick, black clouds. Then, gusts of hurricane-force winds descended from the sky, growing stronger and stronger. The winds blew away large amounts of sand, along with the severed limbs of the mummies, sending them all into the air.

No one knew why such a hurricane had suddenly appeared, unaware that it was Shui Miao’s doing.

Dozens of hurricanes, like black dragons, sent thousands of meters of sand into the sky within just three to five minutes, revealing a massive ancient city rising from underground.

“Ahh! We… we’re being lifted by the wind?!”

Xiong Ying was both surprised and delighted, very excited because he guessed that the wind was definitely related to Shui Miao. Just imagine, if Shui Miao could summon such a hurricane, his cultivation and power were terrifyingly immense, comparable to a celestial deity!

“Ahahaha… There really is an ancient city down here!” Wang Yong laughed excitedly. “Wow, I’ve been grave robbing for many years, but I’ve never experienced such an unbelievable method. I want to cultivate! I want to cultivate!! Shui Miao, you’ll be my master from now on, and I’ll be your disciple… Hahaha…”

Wang Yong felt that changing the title from “adoptive father” to “disciple” would be a sure thing, and Shui Miao would definitely agree.

“Miaoyi, did you see that? Did you see that?” Lin Xue grabbed Chu Miaoyi’s arm, repeatedly whispering into her ear: “I told you Shui Miao wasn’t ordinary, but none of you believed me. Now you have to believe, right?”

Jiang Zhihao and the other two were so moved that tears welled up in their eyes. To follow such an extraordinary master was truly a blessing from countless lifetimes, a fortune earned through eighty generations of their ancestors!

“…”

Watson, as well as the others, Rongjie, and the rest, were too stunned to speak.

The hurricane blocked out the sky and the sun, lifting the entire sand city from underground.

“Be quiet! Everyone, be quiet!”

Shui Miao suddenly roared, his brows furrowed tightly as he concentrated, channeling massive amounts of Soul Devouring Power to suppress a massive, uncovered bronze coffin beneath the sand city… At this moment, a continuous surge of powerful yin energy was gushing out from beneath the coffin…

“Roar…”

Inside the bronze coffin, it was as if a terrifying ancient demon king was sleeping!