The most terrifying aspect of the Green Mosquito Cloud was its sheer number of mosquitoes. Unless a cultivator wielded fire techniques, even the most skilled and powerful fighter would eventually leave a gap for the mosquitoes to exploit, leading to a bite.
Once bitten by a Green Mosquito, unless one was at the Core Formation stage or possessed the antidote, death by poisoning was inevitable!
And the antidote was only in the possession of the Demon Sect disciples. Therefore, in the incense master's eyes, no matter how formidable Lin Li's swordsmanship was, he was certain that Lin Li would die against the Green Mosquito Cloud.
However, what he had never anticipated was that Lin Li, as a sword cultivator, had mastered Elder Zou's renowned technique from the Xuantian Sword Sect: Jinghong Sword!
Jinghong Sword!
When cultivated to its peak...
With a single flash of brilliance, golden light bursts forth!
Everything within the golden light's domain becomes a sword domain!
Within the sword domain, all living beings are subjected to an unending assault of golden sword energy!
Although Lin Li had not yet cultivated the Jinghong Sword to its pinnacle, enveloping an area several meters around him and wiping out the Green Mosquito Cloud was more than enough!
Now that the Green Mosquito Cloud had been destroyed, the Demon Sect incense master was shocked but far from disheartened.
"Red-Haired Zombie! Appear!"
The incense master shouted, suddenly slapping out a dark green talisman marked with blood-red patterns!
The talisman exploded with a booming sound, shrouding the area in a thick fog!
"Roar!!!"
A massive roar echoed from within the smoke!
A red-haired zombie, similar in appearance to the green-haired zombies Lin Li had seen earlier but with faint red hairs on its body, charged out from the mist!
"The Red-Haired Zombie! It can only be forged from a cultivator's corpse that has been buried underground for over a thousand years! Once refined, it becomes immune to weapons and can fly through the air, just like a Core Formation cultivator! Though it doesn't possess a Core Formation cultivation level, it has the ability to fly like one. No enemy can escape the grasp of a Red-Haired Zombie!"
The incense master laughed maniacally. "Haha! A single Red-Haired Zombie might not be enough to defeat you. However…"
At that moment, the ten attendants behind him all shouted in unison: "Appear! Green-Haired Zombies!"
Ten zombie talismans were simultaneously unleashed!
The talismans exploded, releasing a dense fog from which ten green-haired zombies rushed out!
"A single Green-Haired Zombie might not be your match," the incense master yelled, "but when ten of them form the Green-Haired Zombie Formation, each zombie's strength will double! Their speed will increase, and their coordination will be flawless! You, on your own, will never escape unscathed under the coordinated assault of ten zombies!"
"And my Red-Haired Zombie will serve as the formation's core! As the formation's center, its power will increase five to six times!"
"Even a single Red-Haired Zombie is a deadly threat to any cultivator without Core Formation. Now, as the core of the Green-Haired Zombie Formation, with its power multiplied by five or six times, how can you possibly stop it?!"
"Go, Red-Haired Zombie! Green-Haired Zombies, kill that damned sword cultivator!"
The incense master, along with his ten Demon Sect corpse manipulators, shouted in unison.
"Roar!!!"
Eleven zombies formed a formation and charged at Lin Li, their roars shaking the sky!
Faced with this scene, Lin Li's heart tensed but also filled with anticipation!
"Bloodthirsty Sword, oh Bloodthirsty Sword! You've evolved again through killing!"
"Now, it's time to show your true strength!"
With these thoughts running through his mind, Lin Li roared: "Come at me! I'm not afraid of you, hahaha!"
With that, Lin Li charged straight toward the Green-Haired Zombie Formation!
"Lin Li is being reckless this time," Ye Fan thought, shaking his head. "Not every fight should be met head-on. Especially now that I've gained the passive skill Poison, which likely only works on living beings. The Green-Haired Zombie Formation is made up of dead things, so the poison probably won't affect them."
"If Lin Li used the active skill Slaughter, his attack power would greatly increase in that state, making it easier to break the formation. However, doing so would expose his trump card."
"A trump card is called that because no one knows about it, allowing it to catch enemies by surprise. If the enemy knows your trump card, they'll prepare for it, and it won't have the same impact when revealed."
"The core of the Green-Haired Zombie Formation is the eleven corpse controllers. While breaking the formation may be difficult, taking out those eleven individuals should be a breeze for Lin Li at this point!"
"It's just a matter of when Lin Li realizes that brute force isn't always the answer."
As Ye Fan pondered, Lin Li had already rushed into the Green-Haired Zombie Formation.
Initially, Lin Li thought that since the Bloodthirsty Sword had evolved, it would be far more powerful than before. After all, he had experienced the terrifying power of the Slaughter skill after the sword's first evolution.
After this second evolution, Lin Li figured that the Green-Haired Zombies shouldn't pose much of a threat to the newly evolved Bloodthirsty Sword.
However, to Lin Li's surprise, these individually weak Green-Haired Zombies had, after forming the Green-Haired Zombie Formation, indeed become as powerful as the incense master had boasted.
Lin Li's sword strikes only produced the sound of metal clashing against metal, leaving behind nothing but shallow marks on the zombies' bodies. It was nowhere near enough to defeat or kill them.
At this moment, the Red-Haired Zombie, serving as the formation's core, lunged at Lin Li!
The Red-Haired Zombie's speed, already impressive with its ability to fly, had now been multiplied five or six times as the formation's core!
Its speed became even more terrifyingly swift, making it difficult to keep up with.
It was obvious that its attack and defense were now far superior to the Green-Haired Zombies!
However, at this point, Lin Li couldn't even take down a single Green-Haired Zombie...