CHAPTER 357: CHAPTER 369: CORPSE KING’S LOCATION LOCKED, COMMENCE ACTION!

Night.

Dinner time.

In the hall, by the dining table, Ji Ruxue was using a small spoon to continuously shovel egg fried rice into her mouth.

A few minutes later, Ji Ruxue put the last spoonful of egg fried rice into her mouth, chewed it, patted her round belly, and jumped off the chair.

"Daddy, I’m done eating, I’m going back to my room first!"

Ji Ruxue glanced at her father, who was sitting on the sofa with his eyes closed, knowing he was controlling zombies for hunting. After calling out, she walked back to her room and closed the door.

At this moment, Lu Chuan was indeed controlling his Corpse Puppets for hunting, especially the Agile Type ones like Lightning One.

Now, these Corpse Puppets were swiftly roaming in the Jiulian Mountain behind the town, searching for traces of Fierce Beasts, especially looking for the sight of a four-tier Mutated Fierce Beast.

The main purpose of Lu Chuan’s hunt was for the four-tier Crystal Core, but during today’s day hunt, he hadn’t encountered a single four-tier Mutated Fierce Beast.

This even made him suspect whether there were no four-tier Mutated Fierce Beasts in the vast Jiulian Mountain at all. After all, four-tier Mutated Fierce Beasts are quite rare; it wouldn’t be surprising if Jiulian Mountain didn’t have any.

However, after returning, Lu Chuan felt somewhat unwilling, deciding to take advantage of the night to search Jiulian Mountain again, just in case he might have a harvest.

Moreover, as long as he could find enough four-tier Crystal Cores, he could easily increase his fifth-tier Corpse Puppets, which currently had only four, and he thought that was a bit too few.

Unfortunately, the hunting situation in the coming period was destined to completely disappoint Lu Chuan.

His Corpse Puppets like Lightning One almost flipped over half the Jiulian Mountain but still didn’t see even a shadow of a four-tier Mutated Fierce Beast, with the strongest encountered being only third-tier.

In the bedroom, Ji Ruxue was sitting cross-legged on the bed, looking at the moonlight outside the window. She slowly closed her eyes to begin today’s cultivation.

Immediately, calming her breath and focusing her mind, Ji Ruxue started operating the Glazed Breathing Technique, continuously absorbing the Energy Factors from the outside.

As Ji Ruxue operated the Cultivation Technique, the energy in the room swiftly surged, as if pulled by some powerful force, transforming into streams of energy flowing towards Ji Ruxue.

The Glazed Spirit Pill inside her body slowly rotated, quickly refining the torrents of energy that flowed in, into glazed-colored Spiritual Power.

Strands of Spiritual Power traveled through her meridians all over the body, finally returning to the Glazed Spirit Pill.

As time passed, Ji Ruxue’s aura gradually and slowly increased, the strong aura of the nearby fifth-tier tough to hide.

It’s important to know that the path of evolution, before and after the fifth tier, is as different as night and day, worlds apart.

Reaching the fifth tier, trying to improve one’s cultivation further becomes much more difficult, and the progress speed can no longer be as fast as it was at lower tiers.

Often, cultivating for years might not lead to a breakthrough in realm.

Fortunately, the Glazed Breathing Technique Ji Ruxue practiced ranked among the top Cultivation Techniques, with terrifyingly strong effects of absorbing external energy.

Otherwise, relying solely on inhaling external energy for cultivation might be slower than a turtle’s pace.

The room was extremely quiet. Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Ji Ruxue suddenly frowned and opened her eyes, a flash of doubt in her gaze.

The next moment, Ji Ruxue’s expression turned serious. With Spiritual Power surging inside her, she formed a hand seal, using the Spirit Communication Technique to control over a dozen insect moths outside the window to investigate the entire town.

She watched as more than ten insect moths spread their wings and flew high, quickly scattering in the night, heading to different locations within the town.

In the room, Ji Ruxue, through the perspective of the moths, observed everything in the town, looking for any potential anomalies.

"Strange, clearly there’s no one, but why do I always feel like I’m being watched!"

Ji Ruxue frowned, a puzzled look on her face.

She had just used the moths to search the entire town several times and hadn’t found anything suspicious, nor had anyone entered the town.

This was too strange.

"Could it be my illusion?"

Ji Ruxue’s eyes moved slightly, suspecting it might be due to the massive depletion from last time in the Li River city area, causing her Spiritual Power not to fully recover yet.

Ultimately, Ji Ruxue suppressed her doubts in her heart, deciding not to think about it anymore, closing her eyes and falling back into cultivation.

Meanwhile, outside, on the distant street, the ordinary zombie that had formed from Zhao Bin was following a group of zombies, slowly leaving this street.

Just like that, two days passed.

Lu Chuan and the others gradually got used to Zhao Lin’s departure, and every time they cooked, Lu Chuan would correspondingly reduce the amount.

These two days, Lu Chuan took Little Qiqi into the mountains to hunt as usual.

Since they couldn’t find four-tier Mutated Fierce Beasts, Lu Chuan had no choice but to make the third-tier Fierce Beasts in the mountains suffer.

Of course, during the hunt, Lu Chuan did not forget to train Little Qiqi’s close combat abilities. He often selected some low-damage Fierce Beasts as sparring partners for Little Qiqi, allowing the little one to use the Blood Evil Blade Technique in actual combat.

Rumble~

In the evening, a long convoy drove into the town again, quickly stopping in front of the courtyard.

Under Lu Chuan’s control, Corpse Puppets began unloading the vehicles packed with Fierce Beast carcasses, taking them to the neighboring courtyard for disassembly.

At the same time, some Corpse Puppets picked up buckets full of well water to wash the beast blood-streaked vehicles.

Lu Chuan, on the other hand, was holding a bag full of Crystal Cores with one hand while pulling Little Qiqi with the other as he walked into the courtyard.

At this moment, at the end of the street, a gaze was fixed on Lu Chuan’s back, watching until he entered the courtyard.

Among the zombie horde, Zhao Bin slowly lowered his head, retracting his gaze, his eyes filled with joy.

Through these two days of observation, he had indeed discovered something.

Since this little girl wasn’t the Corpse King, a human being able to live among a group of Evolved Zombies must have some connection with the true Corpse King.

That means, those close to the little girl are likely the Corpse King.

Through this period of observation, he could always see that little girl following alongside a particularly strange-looking zombie.

From its appearance, it looked very human rather than zombie-like; however, in his perception, this person was undoubtedly a zombie.

Even possibly, the Corpse King.

Because, although this zombie appeared to have a similar build to a regular zombie and didn’t have a strong aura, it could move freely among a group of high-tier Evolved Zombies and was very intimate with that little girl, not something simple at a glance.

This was the reason Zhao Bin had locked onto it as the Corpse King.

Moments later, Zhao Bin, maintaining his zombie guise, separated from the surrounding zombie crowd, slowly walking towards the town’s outskirts.

Now, having determined the Corpse King’s location, he must immediately return and report it to the captain to prevent this Corpse King from running again.