Chapter 53: Listen to You

Li Chuyi and Ziyuan both widened their eyes at the struggling rabbit in their hands.

They thought that it would take a lot of effort to catch a rabbit with its flexibility and alertness, but what they didn't expect was that it was easy to catch it.

It wasn't because Li Chuyi's kung fu had improved and his legs had become faster, but because this rabbit didn't hide at all. Not only did it not hide, but after discovering Li Chuyi running towards it with a ghost howling, the rabbit rushed towards Li Chuyi with a mouth full of fangs.

That's right, a mouth full of fangs. If it wasn't for the appearance of a rabbit, Li Chuyi would have thought it was a mad dog.

The rabbit's fur was dark, and many places were bald. Where there was no rabbit fur to cover it, its dead gray skin was exposed, the dead gray of a dead person.

Not only that, this rabbit also had a pair of blood-red eyes, not the bright red of ordinary rabbits, but a blood-red with bursts of blood.

The rabbit's feet have long black nails, and the sharp nails flicker with cold light, which makes people who see it believe that if it grabs it, there will be no good results.

And in the rabbit's mouth, which is also divided into three parts, a mouth full of terrifying fangs is exposed. Looking at the interlaced teeth like canine teeth, Li Chuyi's first thought is the spirit of the formation that looks like a lamb in the Five Goats Tomb, which left a deep impression on him. He doubts whether this rabbit is a distant relative of the sheep.

The strangest thing is that the rabbit's movements are not flexible, but very stiff, so that Li Chuyi can catch it in his hand without any effort. The caught rabbit is not honest, twisting its body wildly, baring its fangs and biting Li Chuyi continuously, but its ears are caught, and all its struggles are in vain.

Looking at this vicious rabbit, Li Chuyi and Ziyuan's first feeling was...

"Zombie?!" The two looked at each other and said in unison.

After that, they both fell silent, staring at the rabbit that looked like a zombie.

Suddenly, Li Chuyi took out a knife and stabbed the rabbit in the heart. The rabbit, which should have been dead, did not react at all. Instead, it seemed to be enraged and struggled even more violently.

"Oh my goodness, it's really a zombie!" Li Chuyi finally confirmed it.

"This is a dead place, and it's not surprising to have zombies. But, zombie rabbits, this is the first time I've seen them, and I've never heard of them before." Ziyuan frowned slightly, "Unless they have been sacrificed, there is no record of naturally formed zombie rabbits in the "Book of the Netherworld". This kind of life is too weak to withstand the process of transformation into a zombie. The first time the death energy enters the body, it will be corroded into a pool of pus."

"What if the rabbit has cultivated into a spirit? If it is a rabbit demon, can't it withstand the death energy entering the body?" Li Chuyi asked.

Zi Yuan shook her head slightly and said, "That's impossible. If it cultivates into a spirit and becomes a demon cultivator, then even if it turns into a zombie, it will be the half-human, half-rabbit body of the demon cultivator, or their original body. Look at this rabbit, it's so small, it's the same size as an ordinary rabbit. Have you ever seen a demon cultivator's original body so small? Besides, if he is really a demon cultivator, do you think you can control him so easily with your Taoism?"

"Then what do you think is going on?"

"I don't know either." Zi Yuan shook her head slightly.

Li Chuyi rolled his eyes. Looking at the rabbit in his hand, Li Chuyi licked his lips and said in a strange tone: "I don't care how he turned into a zombie now, I just want to know, can I eat it?"

After waiting for a long time without hearing Zi Yuan's answer, Li Chuyi turned his head and saw Zi Yuan looking at him expressionlessly, and suddenly his face was full of resentment.

"I'm just joking. This is a zombie. How can I eat zombie meat? Right? It will kill people. Haha, ah ha ha, just a joke, ah ha ha, ha ha ha."

Zi Yuan still looked at him expressionlessly. After a long silence, she said, "I am ready to practice the Netherworld Book with you at any time. Don't worry."

Li Chuyi shut up immediately.

Looking at the zombie rabbit in his hand, Li Chuyi felt helpless. He caught such a thing, but he couldn't eat it. If he let it go, it might bite people. For a moment, he didn't know how to deal with it.

After thinking for a long time without any idea, Li Chuyi turned his head to look at Ziyuan and asked, "What do you think we should do?"

Ziyuan looked at the rabbit silently, thought for a long time, and said, "I may have a way to know where we are now. There is a soul-stealing method in the "Book of the Netherworld" that can invade the soul of others to find out information. Although this rabbit has no consciousness, it should have memories. I can try to invade its mind and see if it can remember anything useful."

"So perverted?!" Li Chuyi almost shed a mouthful of water, looking at Ziyuan eagerly and asked, "Can you teach me?"

"Yes." Ziyuan said.

Li Chuyi smiled and was about to say something, but he heard Ziyuan's cold words, "Die first."

Suddenly, Li Chuyi's face fell. He secretly hated that the old ghost who created the "Netherworld Book" was really a piece of shit. He even made racial distinctions. He couldn't come up with something harmonious that everyone could learn.

Zi Yuan glanced at him and said, "I have also dabbled in this soul-stealing method. With my cultivation, I can't use it yet. But this rabbit is not a cultivator, nor an ordinary creature. The resistance of its soul should not be that strong. I can give it a try."

"Will it be dangerous? If not, forget it. I don't want to hurt you again because of this broken rabbit." Li Chuyi's face was full of tension.

Zi Yuan's heart warmed up. Although this little fat man was weird and occasionally had a brain twitch, he was sincere to her and treated her like his own family. This made Zi Yuan's cold heart, which had long ceased to exist, feel warm and long-lost.

With a slight smile, Zi Yuan said, "It's okay, don't worry. Although I have just started practicing ghost arts, the dead energy in my body is the result of decades of cultivation, but I just don't know how to use it. You protect me, I need to prepare." After that, Zi Yuan sat down cross-legged. Seeing this, Li Chuyi said no more. He held the rabbit in one hand and swung the other hand in the air, in the best position to attack at any time, looking around vigilantly. Not long after, Li Chuyi felt a strange feeling coming from Zi Yuan. This feeling was very erratic, but it did exist, making his soul feel threatened. Li Chuyi knew that this should be because Zi Yuan had not yet fully mastered the soul-stealing method, so she would emit such a strong breath during the spell, affecting the people around her. Secretly using his own profound skills, Li Chuyi turned the breath of a black line lingering in his body into a layer of shield, covering his mind and guarding his soul. After a long time, Ziyuan suddenly opened her eyes, and a strange light that made people dazed emanated from her eyes. She opened her mouth slightly, and uttered a few strange syllables. As she spoke, the strange light in Ziyuan's eyes became brighter and brighter.

Ziyuan stared at the rabbit's eyes steadily, and the rabbit gradually calmed down after looking at Ziyuan, and stopped struggling.

"Gathering is the spirit, and dispersing is the soul. The spirit and soul are restless, open the heart, and the soul-separation spell!"

With a "soul-separation spell", Ziyuan raised a slender jade finger and tapped the center of the zombie rabbit's eyebrows. Suddenly, the color of Ziyuan's eyes changed, becoming the same blood red as the zombie rabbit.

Li Chuyi knew that Ziyuan succeeded. Just when he was relieved, he saw that Ziyuan's face was suddenly full of hideousness, and her ghost body, which was no different from that of ordinary people, was even more volatile, and bursts of purple mist floated out of her body and dissipated in the air.

"It's bad, it's backfired!" Li Chuyi's heart sank. At this moment, it was obvious that the spell failed and was backfired. Zi Yuan was a ghost body that condensed death energy with ghost power, so she exuded waves of her own Yin death energy. If she were a cultivator with a physical body, her internal breath would be disordered and her body would be bruised.

For a moment, all kinds of thoughts passed through his mind. Li Chuyi thought about everything he had learned and knew in the past, but he could not find a way to save Zi Yuan. Even if there was, he could not use it with his current cultivation. Moreover, even if he could barely use it, he would not dare. The Taoist said that the two situations in which a cultivator was backfired by his own spells and the demons in his heart were disordered during cultivation were the most dangerous, and outsiders could hardly intervene. Unless the cultivation level is much higher than the other party, otherwise it will continue to make things worse and even harm itself.

Just when Li Chuyi was at a loss, Zi Yuan's eyes suddenly cleared, and she pinched a spell in her hand, forcibly interrupting her spell. After a mouthful of thick purple mist, Zi Yuan looked haggard, but her eyes were clear.

A Taoist robe was slapped on the zombie rabbit to freeze it. Li Chuyi hurried to Ziyuan's side and asked anxiously, "How is it? Where does it hurt? What do you need me to do?"

Seeing Li Chuyi's nervous face, Ziyuan felt warm in her heart. She smiled slightly and said in a weak voice, "Fortunately, it's not serious. It's just a little hidden injury. It should be fine after recuperation."

Seeing that Ziyuan was fine, Li Chuyi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Then he looked at Ziyuan deeply, with a rare serious face, and said, "In the future, you are not allowed to do things that you are not sure of, especially things that I can't help with after a problem occurs. You are absolutely not allowed to do it!"

Seeing Li Chuyi like this, Ziyuan wanted to say something, but the warm feeling in her heart made her nod obediently for the first time.

"I listen to you."