Jin Zhangwu!

Chapter 29: Jin Zhangwu!

Fang Yuan felt his breath choking as he came across the tattered corpse of a little boy.

Raah! Raah!

Before Fang Yuan could calm down, he suddenly heard a rough sound. His face turned pale as a zombie was slowly approaching toward him.

Fang Yuan lived in a peaceful world and never had to fear about his life, but the same couldn't be said about the situation before him. There was no organization like the Federation in the Mutou world, and the communication system between the cities was way more backward than the Qingtian continent.

For the first time in his life, he could feel death approaching him, and as the zombie drew closer, his body started to shut down.

When the zombie was only a step away from him, he had given up on everything and was ready to die, just hoping for an instant death. Suddenly, the faces of his parents and siblings flashed in his mind. Out of nowhere, a burst of energy appeared in his body, and he tried to escape.

The thought of battling the zombie never rose in his head since he could sense the vast difference between the two sides. He wasn't sure about the power level of the creature, but he was certain that the zombie was at least at the peak of middle level in the first grade.

He was only at the third level of Qi Refining, so even tens of him wouldn't be able to do anything in that situation. A zombie naturally had a strong physique, but only due to its slow speed, it wasn't much of a threat to the people at the same level. But for Fang Yuan, the zombie was the announcement of death.

As he backed away more and more, the feeling of death slowly dissipated, but he suddenly froze. The zombie turned his attention to the tattered corpse of the little boy after losing Fang Yuan.

To be more precise, it was the corpse below the boy's. Fang Yuan's heart skipped a beat since living zombies had no attraction to a corpse, but they only cared about the living.

A bad feeling emerged in his heart, and the scene Fang Yuan didn't want to see appeared before his eyes. When the zombie tried to move away from the parts of the boy, its rough movement alerted the baby.

The baby started crying, having no idea of what cruelty the future had in store for him.

Fang Yuan's eyes turned red since he couldn't let a baby die in front of his eyes. He immediately activated [Vine Bind]. Since he had just recently purchased the skill, he wasn't too proficient in the skill, so it would take three seconds for him to activate it fully.

Three seconds were too long since even a casual touch of the zombie's claws would cut the baby, so he could only take a dangerous route.

The Qingtian continent was a safe paradise for humans, but it wasn't that way always. It was only a few hundred thousand years ago that the Federation was formed, and humans and monsters stood on the same pedestal of power.

Before that, it was common for a monster tide to destroy a city. Unlike humans, monsters were born with skills so they could instantly activate them, whereas humans had to master the skill for instant activation. The benefit was that humans could unleash more power from the same skill compared to the monsters, but when it came to monster tides, not everyone had the opportunity to train their skills to mastery level.

At that time, Master Jin Zhangwu rose in prominence and created a way for humans to instantly activate the skill without mastering it, but it wasn't cheap. To do that, it required burning the blood essence of the cultivator.

Blood essence was important to a cultivator since if too much was burned, the future path would be cut off for the cultivator.

After the establishment of the Federation, the knowledge of burning blood essence to activate any skill instantly became known to every citizen.

Fang Yuan had also learned that knowledge, so he instantly activated the skill, losing his blood essence. He slightly struggled in his mind about doing that since it would be harmful to his future, but after seeing the zombie about to harm the baby, all those thoughts disappeared.

If human masters hadn't stopped caring about their lives and fought with monsters, maybe the humans would have become extinct from the Qingtian continent.

His blood essence was burned at a rapid rate as vines emerged from the ground and tried to bind the zombie.

Even if Fang Yuan could instantly activate the skill, the power difference between the two sides was too high for the skill to do much. He also knew it, so as soon as the vines bound the zombie, he rushed toward the baby.

Roar!

The zombie broke the vines in no time and roared in anger, but immediately, a new round of vines appeared and replaced the broken ones.

Fang Yuan's face turned pale, but he gritted his teeth and picked up the baby.

Puchi!

Fang Yuan suddenly felt an unprecedented amount of pain as the zombie no longer cared about the baby and attacked him.

Zombie's attacks carried potent poison, so his body started to shut down. Fang Yuan couldn't let himself fall into that situation after doing so much, so he growled and burned his blood essence beyond the limit.

The next moment, the number of vines quadrupled and forced the zombie on one spot. It brought a quick window of a few seconds to Fang Yuan, so without caring about anything, he ran.

The baby in his arms kept crying, but Fang Yuan didn't care and kept running.

Roar!

The zombie roared as it freed itself and also followed Fang Yuan. Its speed was only slightly slower than his, so the gap between the two sides was slowly increasing.

Fang Yuan didn't look behind and kept running. His speed started to slow down as a wave of weakness engulfed him. He not only had lost too much essence but the corpse poison was also rioting inside his body. The gap that had widened between him and the zombie started to close up.

(Chapter End.)