Although Wang Xuan had already heard it once, he still pretended to be greatly surprised and said, "I never imagined that this world would have such a secret! If the demon from another world wants to destroy our world, I, Wang Aotian, will absolutely not stand idly by?"
"Wang Aotian?" Upon hearing this name, Yuan Tiangang suddenly felt a strange sensation.
Li Yuanba, on the other hand, didn't think much of it. Now that he had broken through to the perfect Innate Realm, he had long wanted to find some enemies to fight.
Moreover, according to Yuan Tiangang, after killing the zombies created by the otherworldly invaders, one can receive a reward from Heaven, making oneself even stronger!
Li Yuanba couldn't wait to go and fight the zombies!
Chapter Seventy-Six: The Ancient Battlefield of Changping!
Wang Xuan only knew part of the information about the otherworldly invaders from Yuan Tiangang.
This time, the three of them were going to deal with the invaders from another world, and Yuan Tiangang naturally held nothing back, revealing all the information he knew.
The ancient bronze coffin fell to the northern grasslands, but with the chaos of the Five Barbarian Tribes, the powerful beings from another world inside the bronze coffin also went south, absorbing death energy and malevolent energy to strengthen themselves and cultivate zombies.
Ultimately, the will of Heaven in this world paid a heavy price to suppress the powerful beings from the other world in Changping.
In order to stop the ancient bronze coffin from continuously eroding all living beings, Heaven even specially created a small secret realm to seal the powerful beings from other worlds within it!
"Changping? Could it be the ancient battlefield of Changping?!"
The notorious butcher Bai Qi massacred 400,000 surrendered soldiers at Changping, and there are still many mass graves of 10,000 people at Changping to this day.
Is it really okay for Heaven to seal away powerful beings from another world at the ancient battlefield of Changping?
Of course, if given a choice, Heaven would like to go somewhere else. But that powerful being from another world was no pushover; he simply stayed put on the ancient battlefield of Changping and refused to leave, leaving Heaven with no options.
Two days later, they arrived at the ancient battlefield of Changping.
Wang Xuan surveyed the land but found nothing unusual. However, he didn't jump to conclusions. With a thought, his mind merged with the Heavenly Dao talisman.
With the help of the power of the Heavenly Dao Talisman, Wang Xuan was finally able to sense that the space in front of him was different, as if it were separated by a layer of glass, and he could vaguely see some blurry scenes.
It was a desolate and barren land, where it seemed as if human figures were moving back and forth!
"This barrier doesn't seem very strong. If I were to activate the power of the nascent Heavenly Dao and unleash strength comparable to the Perfected Dao Realm, it would be enough to break this barrier!" After sensing the strength of the barrier, Wang Xuan made a judgment in his mind.
Even without Wang Xuan's intervention, Yuan Tiangang had already stepped forward.
This place is a barrier set up by the will of Heaven, and Yuan Tiangang, as the representative of the will of Heaven, naturally has a way to open this barrier.
Yuan Tiangang walked to the barrier, sat cross-legged with his palms facing the sky, and silently communicated with the will of Heaven.
After a few minutes, a corner of the barrier began to ripple, forming visible water ripples.
Yuan Tiangang stood up and pointed to the rippled area, saying, "That's the entrance to the secret realm. We'll go in from there."
No sooner had he finished speaking than Li Yuanba walked in carrying his enormous golden hammer, seemingly engaged in a fierce battle with something.
When Wang Xuan and Yuan Tiangang entered, they found the ground in a mess, with a "person" dressed in tattered clothes lying motionless on the ground.
Wang Xuan looked closely and saw that the "person" was covered with dense white hair, had four huge canine teeth at the corners of its mouth, and emitted a nauseating stench.
Not only that, but there were even maggots wriggling inside his body!
This is not a living person at all; it is clearly a corpse that has been dead for who knows how long and has undergone a transformation into a zombie!
The white-haired zombie was clearly not very strong; Li Yuanba knocked it down with just one hammer blow. The immense force of tens of thousands of pounds struck the white-haired zombie, deforming its body.
However, the zombie's physical body was extremely strong. Even when tens of thousands of pounds of force were thrown at its body, it could not be killed, but it was rendered unable to move.
Yuan Tiangang quickly walked over, took out a peach wood sword, and stabbed it into the zombie's forehead.
Strangely enough, Li Yuanba's force of tens of thousands of jin was not enough to completely kill the zombie, while Yuan Tiangang only needed to stab it lightly, as if it were tofu.
Then the entire white-haired zombie started to burn, and soon turned to ashes!
Seeing the puzzled looks on Wang Xuan and Li Yuanba's faces, Yuan Tiangang quickly explained, "Although these zombies are very troublesome, there are ways to deal with them."
According to Yuan Tiangang, the zombies in this area are divided into purple zombies, white zombies, green zombies, and hairy zombies.
Among them, the purple zombie is the weakest of the zombies. It is afraid of light, fire, chicken blood, dogs, and even people. If ordinary people deal with it properly, they can also eliminate it.
After the purple zombies have feasted on blood, they grow white fur and become white zombies. The strength of white zombies is roughly equivalent to that of a martial artist at the acquired realm, but they are still countered by the peach wood sword and are afraid of lightning and fire.
If a white zombie absorbs the essence of the sun and moon for decades, as well as corpse energy and malevolent power, it can transform into a green zombie, comparable to a martial arts master at the innate realm!
Rumor has it that above the Green Zombie is the Hairy Zombie, which requires hundreds of years of absorbing the essence of heaven and earth to form. This level of zombie has completely surpassed the Innate Realm and is comparable to a third-tier martial arts master!
With Yuan Tiangang's explanation, Wang Xuan roughly understood the level and weaknesses of the zombies in this place.
In the following period, the three of them began sweeping through the Changping battlefield.
Whenever a zombie was spotted, Li Yuanba would be the first to rush forward. With his perfected innate realm, his physical strength was tens of thousands of pounds. A few blows from his hammer would knock down both white and green zombies.
Yuan Tiangang followed closely behind Li Yuanba, wielding a peach wood sword to completely eliminate the zombies.
The peach wood sword in his hand was made of thousand-year-old lightning-struck wood, and after being blessed by the will of heaven, it had undergone a fundamental transformation and reached the level of a magical artifact.
As they continued to kill zombies, Wang Xuan could clearly feel a powerful energy descending from the heavens and continuously flowing into their bodies!
This is a reward from Heaven!
If they keep killing zombies to gain experience points, even without the cultivation method for the third level of martial arts, they can still build up their strength to a level comparable to a third-level master by relying on the world's origin!
Wang Xuan watched with longing, and a sudden thought occurred to him: "I wonder if I could steal a portion of the world origins of Li Yuanba and Yuan Tiangang?"
After Li Yuanba killed another green zombie, a wisp of pure world origin descended from the sky.
Wang Xuan subtly touched the Heavenly Dao talisman in his robes, and the nascent Heavenly Dao within the talisman suddenly activated, emitting wisps of network to absorb the origin.
When the origin of the world finally fell into Li Yuanba's body, only 20% remained, while the remaining 80% was absorbed by the nascent form of the Heavenly Dao.
"Strange, why is there so much less of the world's origin this time?" Li Yuanba looked up at the sky in confusion, but there was nothing he could do but accept his fate.
Two days had passed in the blink of an eye. During these two days, Wang Xuan and his team had killed hundreds of white and green zombies.
The will of Heaven in this world was not stingy, bestowing down a massive amount of world origin. Although Li Yuanba and Yuan Tiangang's cultivation did not break through, their strength increased by forty to fifty percent under the blessing of the world origin.
Wang Xuan quietly made a fortune, extracting most of the world origins from Li Yuanba and Yuan Tiangang. Under the harmonization of these world origins, Hua Xiong's remnant soul within the Heavenly Dao Talisman was finally completely refined, and the nascent Heavenly Dao was instantly elevated to a level comparable to the early stage of the fourth rank.
As the master of the nascent Heavenly Dao, Wang Xuan naturally received its feedback, further advancing his cultivation and reaching the perfect Innate Realm.
Chapter Seventy-Seven: Warm Heart
Wang Xuan's cultivation finally broke through to the perfect Innate Realm, and both his physical strength and true qi increased by a full 50%.
The surge in power made it difficult for him to control perfectly in a short time, and his aura suddenly emanated outwards, which was noticed by Yuan Tiangang and Li Yuanba beside him.
"Congratulations on your breakthrough in cultivation, fellow Daoist!" Yuan Tiangang congratulated Wang Xuan with a smile.
In Yuan Tiangang's view, Wang Xuan's strength was previously weaker than theirs, and bringing him along was just for show. Now that Wang Xuan's strength has broken through to the perfect Innate Realm, if the three of them join forces, they should be able to put up a fight even if they encounter Mao Jiang.
Wang Xuan was also in a good mood, and he thanked Yuan Tiangang with a smile.
Although the ancient battlefield of Changping had become the lair of the otherworldly invaders, there weren't many zombies lurking on the periphery. After Wang Xuan and his group had been sweeping through the area for over ten days, killing nearly a thousand low-level zombies, they could no longer find any more.
"Master Yuan, we've already killed off all the zombies on the outer perimeter. Why don't we go directly to the core area of the Changping Ancient Battlefield?" Li Yuanba, somewhat unsatisfied, suggested to Yuan Tiangang while brandishing a pair of golden drum-shaped hammers.
Yuan Tiangang thought about it and did not express any objection.
After all, their purpose in coming to the ancient battlefield of Changping was to clear out a group of zombies and cut off the wings of the otherworldly invaders.
Hundreds of years have passed since the bronze coffin fell into the Sui and Tang world. During these hundreds of years, some zombies have evolved into hairy zombies comparable to the third level of martial arts, and they have taken up residence in the core area of the Changping ancient battlefield.
With Wang Xuan and his group's current strength, sweeping around the outer perimeter of the Changping Ancient Battlefield is not very dangerous, but if they go to the core area of the Changping Ancient Battlefield, they may even be wiped out!
Yuan Tiangang was naturally aware of all this, but he had no choice. The high-level zombies in the core area of the ancient battlefield were constantly eroding the Heavenly Will seal, attempting to release the otherworldly powerhouses sealed by the Heavenly Will.
If we don't go in and eliminate a batch of high-level zombies soon, the entire world may fall into chaos once the otherworldly powerhouse inside the bronze coffin breaks free!
After the three of them walked forward for about ten miles, they suddenly saw a seven-colored, glazed light curtain appear in front of them.
The light curtain was about a hundred meters high, forming a wall that enclosed nearly ten thousand acres of land in the middle.
This is the core area of the ancient battlefield of Changping, where the invaders from another world were sealed.
The seven-colored light curtain is the second seal set up by Heaven's will, facing inwards but not outwards. The outer surveillance can enter the seal without hindrance, while the zombies inside cannot get out.
Looking at the seven-colored light screen, Wang Xuan couldn't help but secretly admire it. The second seal covered a smaller area and its power was more concentrated; even a third-level expert who had entered the Dao through martial arts would find it difficult to break out of it!
If it weren't for the fact that the nascent form of the Heavenly Dao within him had evolved once again, becoming comparable to a master at the Transcendent Realm, he really wouldn't have dared to go in rashly.
What if he goes in and can't get out?
Yuan Tiangang glanced at Wang Xuan and Li Yuanba again and said with great solemnity, "Once we enter the core area of the Changping Ancient Battlefield, it will be a matter of life and death! But Heaven will not let us down. As long as we can kill a few hairy zombies, the source of power bestowed by Heaven will be enough to allow us to advance our cultivation further and completely break through to the Innate Realm!"
Wang Xuan rolled his eyes. Yuan Tiangang's words could only fool Li Yuanba. After all, entering it was fraught with danger, and if one died inside, everything would be lost.
Although that's what he thought in his heart, Wang Xuan said with righteous indignation, "For the sake of all living beings, I would not hesitate to risk my life even if it meant facing death nine times over!"
"Good! Fellow Daoist, you are indeed a kind and warm-hearted person!" Yuan Tiangang exclaimed, and without further delay, he strode towards the seven-colored light screen.
The moment his body touched the seven-colored light screen, it was as if he had merged into water, disappearing directly into it.
Seeing this, Wang Xuan and Li Yuanba quickly followed.
Upon entering the heart of the ancient battlefield of Changping, Wang Xuan was immediately awestruck by the sight before him.
A bronze coffin floated dozens of meters in the air ahead. The coffin was about ten feet long and covered with rust, looking ancient and weathered. One glance at it sent chills down one's spine.
Beneath the bronze coffin, there were at least eighteen figures standing silently.
Sixteen of the figures were covered in thick, long hair and had four huge canine teeth in their mouths. They exuded an aura that even Wang Xuan found frightening.
Wang Xuan instantly realized that all sixteen figures were comparable to Mao Jiang who had entered the Dao through martial arts!
Compared to the sixteen hairy zombies that were comparable to the third level of martial arts, the other two zombies made Wang Xuan even more wary, because half of the hair on their bodies had fallen off!
"Good heavens, these two zombies are already comparable to the peak of the Dao Entry Realm. Once all their hair falls off, they will probably be similar to the Transcendent Martial Dao!" Wang Xuan looked at the large group of zombies and then at his group of three.
If they don't use the Heavenly Dao Talisman, their fate looks grim; they're definitely doomed!
Even a brute like Li Yuanba couldn't help but feel fear at this moment, and turned around to run away.
But at this moment, Yuan Tiangang hurriedly reminded them: "Don't panic. Although there are many zombies here, most of them are affected by the seal and cannot move."
"We only really need to deal with one or two of those Mao Jiang!"