At this moment, Lu Chenxing, who was in the secret realm, had arrived at Zombie Village. Looking down from the mountainside, there was a small village below, with about thirty to forty households.
“It seems I can only scan it little by little with my spiritual power,” Lu Chenxing muttered. With so many households, he definitely couldn't search them one by one. Fortunately, with the power of the Source of Spirit, his spiritual power's detection range had already reached over a hundred meters, which was completely sufficient.
Along the way, he wasn't idle either, adapting to various changes in his body and familiarizing himself with his evolving talent while traveling.
Effect Two: Weaving. You can complete the Weaving or reconstruction of spells and formations using logic you can understand. The more complete the logic, the less mana is consumed and the stronger the power.
This core effect had changed again, adding the words “and formations.”
All professionals could set up formations upon reaching Tier 3, such as sword formations, talisman formations, and so on. Mages could also set up magic formations.
Although general mages would produce a magic formation when using powerful magic, that was not strictly speaking a magic formation.
True magic formations had various functions, similar to the formations in cultivation, with effects such as trapping enemies, killing enemies, creating traps, illusions, healing, cultivation, and summoning.
For mages, magic formations were the foundation for mastering forbidden spells, because a mage's magic power was limited. Even a Tier 7 mage's magic power could not support the use of a complete forbidden spell. So why could a Tier 6 mage use forbidden spells to kill enemies?
The answer was by utilizing the power of magic formations. By using a magic formation to arrange elements in a certain order, simultaneously amplifying the control of magic power over elemental energy, and supplementing it with long incantations, one could successfully use forbidden spells.
Generally, setting up a formation required a lot of materials and time to achieve the desired effect.
However, Lu Chenxing did not need to, as his long-dormant talent effects three and four were now active!
Effect Three: Compensation. You can use double the mana consumption to offset the materials and cost required to cast special spells, but you cannot use materials to cast magic.
Effect Four: No Incantation. You can instantly cast magic without the need for complex incantations.
No materials, no incantation, and instant cast, it only consumed double the magic power, which was not an issue for him at the moment.
“I'll deal with the magic formations later. First, let's resolve the current situation.” After Lu Chenxing confirmed that there were no professionals in Zombie Village at the moment, he enveloped himself in Wind Element and glided directly down the slope.
Before he even got close, he saw various zombies wandering in the village. A monstrous stench, accompanied by a decaying and stale aura, assailed him!
The zombies below were all ragged, emaciated, and entirely blackish-green. Some had lost all their internal organs, but were still able to move freely.
Their eyes were like black holes, with wisps of black mist swirling within them, as if they had no pupils, yet seemed to be able to see their surroundings.
Amidst this decaying and stale aura, Lu Chenxing was enveloped in Yin Power, silently landing in the middle of the village. Then, his vast spiritual power surged out like a tide, and the area within a hundred meters instantly became clear down to the finest detail.
Lu Chenxing strolled through the horde of zombies. These zombies seemed not to have noticed this living person at all, still wandering aimlessly through the village.
As Lu Chenxing ignored the surrounding zombies and began searching for the black book, a very old zombie slowly turned its head, looked at his back, and a faint flicker of ghostly light flashed in its eyes.
The village was not large. Under the hundred-meter radius of spiritual power perception, it was quickly scanned once.
However, Lu Chenxing found that apart from some dusty and long-unused household items, there was almost nothing else around.
This made him keenly aware that something was wrong, because quite a few professionals had died in Zombie Village, and they would have left behind some things, such as weapons, swords, and so on. But now there was nothing at all, and even the bodies were gone?
“It's one thing for weapons and such to be picked up, but bodies that died in a zombie horde like this wouldn't be picked up, would they?” Lu Chenxing rubbed his chin, pondering to himself.
At the same time, his spiritual power and Wind Element simultaneously informed him that the surrounding zombies were closing in on his position, having intentionally or unintentionally surrounded him.
Lu Chenxing looked at the flawless Yin Power covering him, and he already had the answer in his heart. There was only one way to discover him now, and that was to see him with their eyes.
However, the zombies' eyesight was almost nonexistent; their actions relied on the capture and desire for life aura. Therefore, it wasn't the zombies who discovered him, but someone else!
“Come out, you've already decided to act, do you still think I haven't noticed?” Lu Chenxing said leisurely, with his arms crossed.
Seeing the zombies not respond, but only approaching him, Lu Chenxing subtly moved his feet. Earth Element, imbued with Yin Power, silently spread underground. A moment later, he curled his lips and softly said, “Found you.”
With the concealment of Yin Power, he no longer needed to be as hesitant as before. He directly activated Space Element and instantly teleported towards the underground cave he had detected!
The surrounding zombies, upon seeing their target vanish from the spot, all humanely revealed a hint of astonishment in their eyes, but it instantly disappeared. Then, the zombies that had originally formed a circle around him began to wander aimlessly again.
At this moment, Lu Chenxing had arrived inside an underground cave. The cave was not large, only wide enough for two people to walk side-by-side at most. The entrance was located in an inconspicuous patch of weeds outside the village, covered by a large stone, so generally no one would notice it.
“It seems this fellow who inherited the Demon Venerable's legacy has still fallen into the evil path,” Lu Chenxing sighed as he looked at the dark and deep cave.
People always overestimate their own resolve, believing they can maintain their original intentions in the face of various temptations. Previously, it indeed seemed to be the case, but most people could maintain their original intentions because they hadn't encountered temptations that could shake them.
In his previous life, Lu Chenxing had seen countless ambitious emperors through history, who were full of vigor and ambition in their youth, but in their old age began to frantically pursue immortality, even neglecting state affairs for it.
Later generations scoffed at them, believing their minds were unstable, but only when one reached the realm of holding supreme power and lying with beauties, only to find oneself already old and frail, could one understand the panic of that time.
However, while Lu Chenxing expressed understanding for such matters, he did not agree with them. Just like now, although he had no other opinion about this person who received the Demon Venerable's legacy but fell into the evil path, it did not prevent him from killing the person and taking the legacy.
