Chapter 584 Weird Zombies

Ziyun stretched out his hand to the root of purple salvia and gently dug it a few times.

Then, his hand followed the root and pierced directly into the rock and soil.

Ziyun lifted it hard, and an inch-long, ginseng-shaped, black root was pulled out.

At the end of the root mass, there are dozens of slender roots, which are wrapped around a white bone.

The white bones were extremely thick, and they looked like the corpse of some kind of monster. When Ziyun pulled out the purple salvia, he took the white bones out with him.

The strong corpse aura that Song Wen sensed came from this corpse.

This made Song Wen's vigilant heart relax a lot.

"Is purple salvia parasitic on corpses?" Song Wen asked, looking at the purple salvia in Ziyun's hand.

Ziyun replied while taking out the jade box and putting away the purple salvia.

"Yes. Wherever purple salvia grows, there must be a human or monster skeleton."

Song Wen and Zhuyin looked at each other. This was information that Ziyun had not revealed before.

Ziyun stood up and walked forward.

"Let's go further."

This cave was deeper and more complicated than Song and Wen had imagined. A branch road suddenly appeared in front of them.

"Which way should we go?" Ziyun asked.

Looking at the two caves with no difference, Zhuyin said.

"Let your earth dragon explore both passages. If there is no difference, just choose one."

Ziyun nodded, and under her instruction, the earth-walking dragon jumped into one of the caves.

Soon after, Tu Xinglong returned.

After a brief communication with Tu Xinglong, Ziyun pointed to the cave road on the right side ahead.

"This passage gradually extends downward, and the other extends horizontally."

"The one going down." Song Wen said.

Ziyun glanced at Song Wen with a strange expression.

"It's extremely yin. If you go too far underground, aren't you worried about encountering a fourth-level golden corpse?"

Song Wendao said, "The secret realm will only be open for a month. We don't have much time to spend our time in these caves."

Ziyun looked at Zhuyin, "Zhuyin, what do you think?"

"I think Ji Yin is right. There is no risk in exploring secret realms and searching for elixirs," Zhuyin said.

"Okay, then it's up to you." Ziyun said.

Tu Xinglong and Song Wen's third-level mid-level ghost king were exploring the way ahead. Three people walking side by side, in the middle. Behind is Zhuyin's Ghost King.

After walking for more than ten miles, Zhuyin suddenly said.

"The number of corpses scattered here seems to have increased significantly."

Just as Zhuyin said, before finding the first purple salvia, the three of them had not encountered any corpses. Now, almost every mile or two, a corpse appears, both human and monster.

"Where did these bones come from deep underground? Especially these human bones. The secret realm of Phantom Valley is not originally from the human race. Ziyun, could it be that the monks of your sect who explored the secret realm in the past died here unfortunately? Zhuyin asked.

Ziyun shook his head, "These corpses are not from the Liangyi Sect. The Liangyi Sect discovered this secret realm, but it only explored it a dozen times in a thousand years, and the total number of fallen monks was less than ten."

"Then where did these bones come from?" Zhuyin asked.

"It should be left by the people who originally practiced in this secret realm. The corpse energy here is very strong. Whether it is a human or a monster, the corpse will become fossilized after death, which greatly slows down the rate of decay of the corpse." Ziyun said The speculation in my mind.

"According to your guess, there must have been a massacre before this secret realm was abandoned." Zhuyin said.

Ziyun wanted to say something, but suddenly his face changed slightly.

"Be careful, there are zombies ahead."

Immediately, her expression relaxed again.

"It's just a bronze corpse at the early stage of the third level, which has been solved by my earth dragon."

The three of them walked two miles and saw the dismembered bronze corpse.

The bronze corpse looks extremely weird, about one foot tall, with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a horse. What's even more peculiar is that there is not a ponytail behind the horse's butt, but a long snake's tail.

"What kind of creature is this?"

Ziyun frowned, with a hint of disgust in his eyes.

After Song Wen observed for a moment, he shook his head and said.

"I'm afraid this is not a naturally born creature, but an artificially cultivated creature."

Song Wenhui guessed this because he had seen artificially cultivated human snakes when he was in Liangyi Sect.

Ziyun looked confused, "How do you determine that it was artificially cultivated? Rather than artificially spliced ​​and refined after death?"

Zhuyin pointed at the broken horse body of the copper corpse and said.

"Look at the place where its human body and horse body are combined, the bones have grown together. This shows that it was already like this when it was alive. Moreover, no one will refine one. It is neither human nor beast. The corpse puppet will only be lost, and it will consume a lot of resources, but you will not get a powerful corpse puppet. "

"But... who would try to merge humans and monsters into one? What are the benefits of doing so?" Ziyun looked puzzled.

"In the ancient books building on Wuji Island, there are many ancient books originating from the Temple of Hades. I have seen such records in one of the ancient books. There is a place called the 'Alien Beast Pavilion' under the Temple of Hades. Specializing in human-animal hybridization," Zhuyin said.

"Why do they do this?" Ziyun asked.

"I don't know about this. There is no record in ancient books." Zhuyin said.

"Could this be where the Underworld Temple's Alien Beast Pavilion is?"

"It's possible."

Song Wen listened to the conversation between the two and did not interrupt.

He suddenly remembered that when he was in the secret realm of the Hades Temple on Fang Zhu Island, he had seen a resentful spirit that was a mixture of humans and several kinds of monsters.

At that time, he thought that it was the pollution of the ghost mist that caused the souls of humans and monsters to merge.

Now it seems that this is not the case. Those resentful spirits already looked weird when they were alive.

Therefore, artificially cultivating new creatures was not the first initiative of the Beast Control Sect. The Divine Blood Sect had already done this many years ago.

The Beast Control Sect cultivates humans and snakes in order to fuse 'Xuan Qi'.

What is the purpose of the Divine Blood Sect cultivating new creatures?

"Don't worry about the Alien Beast Pavilion. We'll hurry up and look for Purple Salvia." Zhuyin said.

Ziyun was about to say something, when his expression suddenly became a little weird, a bit of surprise and gloominess.

"What's wrong?"

Zhuyin saw the change in Ziyun's expression and asked.

Ziyun said, "Tu Xinglong discovered another purple salvia."

Zhuyin looked happy, "Where is it?"

"Come with me." There was an imperceptible strangeness in Ziyun's tone, as if he was somewhat reluctant.

After the three of them walked two miles, they saw another purple salvia plant in a depression on the cave wall.

This purple salvia plant has six leaves.

"It turned out to be a 600-year-old purple salvia." Zhuyin exclaimed in a low voice.

She turned to look at Song Wen, "Ji Yin, who will take this purple salvia, you or me?"

"Fellow Taoist Zhuyin, you take it first," Song Wen said.

"Okay." Zhuyin nodded unceremoniously, stepped forward, and picked out the purple salvia.

Ziyun looked at Zhuyin's movements, and an unnatural look flashed across his face.

Although she had the upper hand in the order of distribution, the age of the purple salvia miltiorrhiza she obtained could only depend on luck.