Chapter 19: Repelling the Zombie Tide

Seeing this scene, Chen Yusheng instantly snuffed out the thought of slaying the Zombie King.

The Zombie King was extremely wary of his methods, not giving him any chance to get close at all.

He felt the talismans in his embrace—thirty Soul-Calming Talismans, and now fewer than ten remained.

In his current state, charging up to the Zombie King was almost an impossible feat.

His mind raced. Trying to force his way out of the zombie group right now was no different from seeking his own death.

It seemed he could only retreat for now.

Chen Yusheng made a snap decision, turned around, and prepared to withdraw to the garage.

But the moment his gaze swept across, his footsteps abruptly halted.

Outside the underground garage entrance, several cars were actually parked.

Judging by their appearance, they had clearly been left behind by that group from before.

"Go!"

Chen Yusheng flung out a Soul-Calming Talisman with a flick of his hand, and taking advantage of the gap as the Zombie Group collapsed to the ground, he immediately sprinted toward the cars.

He wasn't trying to drive away—sangshi were everywhere around, and a car simply couldn't get out.

He charged toward the cars for only one purpose—to find food.

Earlier, in order to forcibly suppress over a hundred sangshi, he had consumed a massive amount of essence blood, and now his body was on the verge of collapse.

He had to replenish himself with a large amount of food as quickly as possible to make up for the lost blood.

The True Qi he cultivated could rapidly digest food and stimulate his bodily organs to produce blood.

If he still couldn't find food, even if the sangshi didn't attack in, just surrounding him here would be enough to starve him to death.

Chen Yusheng rushed to the car, and the Warding Off Evil Talisman in his hand happened to run out of energy at that moment, instantly failing.

Almost the same second the Warding Off Evil Talisman vanished, he immediately activated his last Warding Off Evil Talisman.

A flash of golden light—the ordinary sangshi that had been stirring restlessly once again retreated in droves, not daring to approach within ten meters.

Chen Yusheng had no time to bother with them. He swiftly pulled open the car door and frantically rummaged through the inside.

The next moment, wild joy appeared on his face.

There really was food in the car!

A large pack of jerky and compressed rations, with a big bucket of purified water placed beside them.

Without a word, Chen Yusheng grabbed the food and water and immediately sprinted back toward the underground garage.

At the same time he withdrew into the garage.

In the distance, the little loli in the pink skirt gazed with deep eyes at the garage entrance, as if pondering something.

Around her, several dozen Mutant Zombies flanked her on both sides, standing respectfully motionless.

Until Chen Yusheng's figure completely vanished inside the garage, she still gazed motionlessly.

About a minute later.

"Hiss—!"

A piercing shriek tore through the sky.

Having received the order, the sangshi surrounding the area began to withdraw one after another.

……

Inside the garage, Chen Yusheng advanced rapidly, stepping over sangshi collapsed all over the ground.

The ordinary sangshi following behind him were all sent crashing to the ground by a few Soul-Calming Talismans he flung out.

Soon, he found a relatively safe corner, immediately circulated his True Qi, condensed a Qi Blade, and began cutting the zombie hides.

Before long, several dozen palm-sized pieces of zombie hide had been neatly cut out by him.

After finishing all this, he ducked into a dead corner free of sangshi, stuck a Warding Off Evil Talisman on the wall, and then took the zombie hides and swiftly began drawing talismans.

Just as he was buried in drawing talismans, the sangshi he had knocked down earlier had already gradually woken up, once again half-surrounding him.

Seeing that they weren't being controlled by the Zombie King to launch a fierce assault, Chen Yusheng couldn't be bothered to deal with them.

An hour later, over forty newly made talismans had already piled up in front of Chen Yusheng.

Most were Soul-Calming Talismans, with a few Warding Off Evil Talismans mixed in.

"Strange, why isn't that Zombie King controlling the Zombie Group to attack me?"

Chen Yusheng was somewhat puzzled.

He had been skinning and drawing talismans in the garage for almost an hour, yet the Zombie King hadn't directed the sangshi to launch a single fierce attack.

Whatever scheme the Zombie King was plotting, it was naturally best if it didn't come looking for trouble.

Another hour of high-intensity talisman drawing had once again consumed a massive amount of his essence blood. Combined with the fact that what he'd eaten in the morning had long since been used up, an unbearable wave of hunger swept through his entire body again.

He immediately took out the water and food and began wolfing them down.

He ate extremely fast, barely chewing, swallowing everything down directly.

After eating and drinking his fill, he immediately sat cross-legged, circulating his True Qi to accelerate the digestion of the food.

Under the rapid circulation of True Qi, the food in his belly was broken down at lightning speed, energy continuously channeled to his bone marrow, stimulating his bone marrow to frantically produce blood.

As Chen Yusheng focused on cultivating, his pale complexion gradually regained its ruddiness.

Half an hour later, the food in his belly was completely used up, and he once again picked up food and continued eating and drinking.

Eat, cultivate, digest, produce blood.

After several hours of this cycle, the blood lost from his body was finally completely replenished.

If one were in a bright place, one could clearly see that Chen Yusheng now had a ruddy complexion and vigorous qi and blood—long since no longer the pale, half-dead appearance from before.

"Soul-Calming!"

Chen Yusheng raised his hand and drew a talisman in mid-air, casually flinging it toward the Zombie Group surrounding the area.

Golden light spread outward, and a large swath of Sangshi collapsed to the ground at the sound.

Taking advantage of the fallen Sangshi, Chen Yusheng immediately stepped forward, condensed a True Qi Air Blade at his fingertip, and sliced toward the Sangshi's head.

He discovered that the Qi Blade formed from True Qi was incomparably sharp—cutting through an ordinary Sangshi's head was as easy as cutting tofu, and countless times faster than using a fire axe.

However, using the True Qi Air Blade to cut Sangshi consumed a great deal as well; roughly cutting through ten Sangshi would burn through one strand of True Qi.

After a quick calculation, he decided to first kill all the fallen Sangshi, then slowly extract the Cores—more efficient that way.

Killing Sangshi was simple; he only needed to drive the True Qi Air Blade into a Sangshi's head to make it drop dead on the spot.

Chen Yusheng estimated that it took roughly killing fifty Sangshi to burn through one strand of True Qi.

Moreover, the killing speed of the True Qi Air Blade was far faster than the fire axe.

In less than ten minutes, the several hundred ordinary Sangshi lying on the ground had all been completely slaughtered by him.

Roar roar roar—!

While he was working, the Sangshi ten meters away kept roaring and snarling at him.

But cowed by the oppressive might of the Warding Off Evil Talisman, not a single ordinary Sangshi dared to cross the line.

Just as Chen Yusheng was about to start digging out the Sangshi Crystal Cores.

Roar roar roar—!

A burst of frenzied snarling suddenly came from deep within the garage.

Chen Yusheng looked up. Relying on his faint night vision, he saw several giant Sangshi with abnormally massive builds roughly shoving aside the ordinary Sangshi and charging madly toward him.

The giant Sangshi were immensely strong; the ordinary Sangshi blocking their path were either sent flying from the impact or trampled flat on the spot.

Besides the giant Sangshi, he also saw three slender, agile-type Sangshi, stepping on the densely packed heads of the Sangshi, leaping forward at high speed—much faster than the giant Sangshi by a wide margin.

Seeing this, Chen Yusheng immediately retreated, swiftly pulling back to a corner of the garage.

In less than thirty seconds, the three agile-type Sangshi charged straight into the range of the Warding Off Evil Talisman.

Roar roar—!

Suppressed by the Warding Off Evil Talisman, the agile-type Mutant Zombies let out agonized snarls.

Chen Yusheng didn't hesitate in the slightest; he raised his hand and flung out two Soul-Calming Talismans.

Golden light flashed, and the three agile-type Sangshi instantly collapsed and didn't get back up.

At this moment, a full five giant Sangshi had also charged up close.

Chen Yusheng remained just as clean and decisive, throwing out three Soul-Calming Talismans in succession.

As the three Soul-Calming Talismans detonated simultaneously, these five ferocious Mutant Zombies soon fell in unison right before him.

Looking at the motionless Mutant Zombies not far away, Chen Yusheng's eyes lit up.

"These are all top-grade corpse-refining materials—I can't afford to waste them."

"My blood has already been replenished, so I can refine these Mutant Zombies right now."