Chapter 17: Breaking Five Arrays in Succession, Subduing the Enemy with a Magic Treasure!

To return to the story, Zhang Cheng stepped back to rest, while the Jiangshi Wang followed closely behind, stepping into the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Array.

Daoist Priest Qianhe was already standing upon the ritual altar; he held a peach-wood sword in one hand, and an Earth Command Flag and Water Command Flag in the other.

He performed the Big Dipper pace, a footwork pattern that follows the sequence and positions of the seven stars of the Big Dipper.

Immediately following this, Daoist Priest Qianhe chanted rapidly: "I invoke the Ancestral Master's command, to hasten to the Penglai realm, to summon the Penglai immortals, to arrive at this altar with all speed!"

Golden light was seen blooming within the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Array, followed immediately by the flashing of the five elements' radiance.

The corpse Qi surrounding the Jiangshi Wang seemed to boil like hot water, dissipating like water mist, and emitting a "hissing" sound.

The Jiangshi Wang was enraged; he leaped about rapidly, attempting to smash the golden light barrier surrounding him.

Daoist Priest Qianhe naturally would not allow this, and immediately waved the Earth Command Flag and Water Command Flag, chanting: "When water is prosperous and meets earth, it must become a marsh. When water is weak and meets earth, it must become a blockage. Decree!"

A large amount of water was seen gushing from the ground within the array, rapidly submerging the Jiangshi Wang, but soon, the floodwater quickly sank into the ground, the earth turned into a swamp, and both of the Jiangshi Wang's legs sank into the mire.

"Roar!"

Feeling that he had been toyed with, the Jiangshi Wang let out an angry roar, a massive amount of corpse Qi erupted, and he leaped straight out, the ground also returning to normal.

"Boom!"

The two flags in Daoist Priest Qianhe's hands exploded instantly.

"Ah!"

Daoist Priest Qianhe was slightly startled, then immediately picked up the Fire Command Flag and Wood Command Flag and shouted: "When strong wood meets fire, only then is its stubbornness transformed. Decree!"

As soon as his voice fell, a great fire appeared in the array, surrounding the Jiangshi Wang on all sides.

The Jiangshi Wang also sensed the danger and hurriedly gathered his corpse Qi to defend.

But as the flames closed in tighter, the Jiangshi Wang grew anxious and immediately spat out his life-source corpse Qi from his mouth; the corpse Qi then formed a storm, blowing away all the flames.

The two command flags in Daoist Priest Qianhe's hands were destroyed once again.

He could only pick up the final Gold Command Flag and shout: "Decree!"

Blades, spears, staves, and clubs immediately appeared in the array, but they were of no use at all against the Jiangshi Wang.

The Jiangshi Wang swatted away those blades, spears, staves, and clubs, and the last command flag in Daoist Priest Qianhe's hand was destroyed.

Following this, the Jiangshi Wang swung his claws and smashed the Eight Trigrams mirrors on both sides, and the Eight Trigrams diagram on the ground was also destroyed.

Daoist Priest Qianhe immediately performed magic to open another array, but after only a moment, the array was broken again.

In the next two quarter-hours, all the arrays set up by Daoist Priest Qianhe were broken by the Jiangshi Wang.

Daoist Priest Qianhe hurriedly shouted: "The arrays are all broken, and that Jiangshi Wang is also injured; everyone, attack together!"

"Ha!"

Daoist Priest Qianhe let out a great shout, leaped down from the ritual altar, and thrust his sword out, only to be instantly swatted away by the Jiangshi Wang.

The Jiangshi Wang immediately extended a claw, wanting to swat Daoist Priest Qianhe to death, but Daoist Priest Simu immediately shot out a beam of golden light, blocking the Jiangshi Wang.

Daoist Priest Qianhe immediately performed a backflip and retreated repeatedly.

Master Yixiu immediately followed, throwing out the Buddhist prayer beads in his hand, which struck the Jiangshi Wang.

Daoist Priest Huang also launched an attack from behind the Jiangshi Wang.

The four of them continuously employed their respective methods, entangling the Jiangshi Wang.

Jingjing said anxiously: "Jiale, you go help too."

Jiale hurriedly said: "I can't, if I go up I'll definitely just be a hindrance. I don't know if Brother Sheng is recovered yet."

While the two were talking, Zhang Cheng had just finished switching his Fire Crow Pot; seeing the four of them entangled with the Jiangshi Wang, he knew the situation was extremely critical.

Before Zhang Cheng could even move, Daoist Priest Huang, who had the weakest magic power, was struck and injured by a single move from the Jiangshi Wang, and was rescued from the battlefield by Daoist Priest Qianhe.

He hurriedly ran over and shouted: "Daoist Priest Qianhe, you go first, I will treat Fellow Daoist Huang."

Having said that, he could only use one hundred merit points to exchange for a bag of premium glutinous rice, took out a handful, and applied it directly to Daoist Priest Huang's chest.

The intense pain caused Daoist Priest Huang to let out a miserable scream, and he immediately fainted.

Zhang Cheng turned his head and shouted: "Jiale, take good care of Daoist Priest Huang!"

Jiale and Jingjing hurriedly stepped forward to lift Daoist Priest Huang and retreat.

Meanwhile, Zhang Cheng rushed in front of the Jiangshi Wang; the Jiangshi Wang immediately beat back the others and charged straight at the most hateful Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng immediately drew his peach-wood sword and thrust it out, only to be swatted away by the Jiangshi Wang's claw, and the zombie immediately swatted another claw toward Zhang Cheng's head.

Zhang Cheng was overjoyed; he gripped the Five Thunders Command, struck a palm against the Jiangshi Wang, and shouted: "Decree!"

The Jiangshi Wang was instantly paralyzed, while one of Zhang Cheng's arms was also directly dislocated by the Jiangshi Wang's strike.

"Ah!"

Zhang Cheng cried out in pain and retreated repeatedly; enduring the pain, he dropped the peach-wood sword with his other hand and pulled out the Fire Crow Pot.

He bit off the bottle stopper with his mouth and shouted at the immobile Jiangshi Wang: "Three Qi of Mighty Essence, commanding the thunder troops.

Subduing ghosts and specters, transforming with spiritual power.

Flying fire for ten thousand miles, raising mist and driving clouds.

By the decree of the Supreme Deity, annihilate ghosts and gods.

Hasten, hasten, like the law!"

As his voice fell, a blast of intense fire rushed out, instantly igniting the Jiangshi Wang; in the blink of an eye, the Jiangshi Wang turned into ash and dissipated with the wind.

"Killed one Furry Zombie, obtained one thousand five hundred merit points."

Hearing the prompt, Zhang Cheng's mind relaxed, and he immediately collapsed to the ground. To eliminate the Jiangshi Wang this time, he had spent over one thousand five hundred merit points; fortunately, he could make it back from his underlings.

"Wow! Ah Sheng, you brought out a new magic treasure again!" Daoist Priest Simu shouted with envy, "Is this what you called 'a little bit'?"

Zhang Cheng was already sweating from the pain; he endured it and replied: "It is indeed 'a hundred million' bits. Hiss, hurry and help me treat my arm, it's dislocated."

Daoist Priest Qianhe immediately stepped forward, picked up the bottle stopper from the ground, and plugged the Fire Crow Pot.

Then he helped Zhang Cheng reset his arm.

"Crack."

In just a few seconds, Zhang Cheng felt his left hand again. He first thanked Daoist Priest Qianhe, then said, "Now that the Jiangshi Wang is dead, the remaining zombies are nothing to worry about; just burn all the zombies in the town."

Daoist Priest Simu laughed and said, "Rest assured, it's a small matter. My junior brother and I can go handle it. Baldy, you stay here and protect them."

Master Yixiu shook his head and immediately ran out to check on Daoist Priest Huang.

Zhang Cheng also came to check on Daoist Priest Huang. Daoist Priest Huang had already woken up and hurriedly asked, "What happened to the Jiangshi Wang?"

Master Yixiu held down Daoist Priest Huang, who was trying to get up, and laughed, "Donor Huang, no need to worry. The Jiangshi Wang is already dead, and Fellow Daoist Simu and Fellow Daoist Qianhe have gone to deal with the zombies in the town."

Upon hearing this, Daoist Priest Huang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This time, it was a close call but without any real danger."

Zhang Cheng asked, "Daoist Priest Huang, we will be setting off shortly for Maoshan to attend the wedding of Uncle Nine and Zhe Gu. Are you going?"

Daoist Priest Huang laughed, "Since the matter in Tengteng Town is resolved, I naturally must go and have a cup of wedding wine. Zhe Gu has finally gotten her wish."

"Hahaha."

Half an hour later.

"Thirty-seven zombies burned to death, obtained 3,700 points of merit."

"The zombie disaster in Tengteng Town has been resolved, congratulations on obtaining a Captain's Gift Box."

Zhang Cheng secretly rubbed his hands together; as expected of a team dungeon, the rewards are truly bountiful.

He now suddenly had 4,700 points of merit. He didn't know what would come out of this gift box, but he imagined it would be an extraordinary magic treasure or cultivation technique, or at the very least, a large amount of merit.

But all in all, this was a huge windfall!

The spell battles and formations in this were all made up; I hope everyone will go easy on the criticism. Thank you! Thank you! OTL

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