Fearing that Su Ling might injure it, the creature used all its limbs to leap into the air.
Su Ling already felt the biting wind brush against her cheeks. As the zombie’s fangs, capable of tearing off half her facial flesh, descended, she leaned back, raised her Tang dao, and slashed at the zombie’s limbs. She then kicked it.
Seeing the Tang dao about to sever its limbs, the zombie abruptly changed direction and twisted away.
Su Ling’s kick was perfectly timed. The zombie, struck on the ground, rolled over and landed steadily.
After being repeatedly hit by the zombie’s mental attacks, Su Ling became enraged. She looked at the zombie and directly used mental control on it.
The zombie, which had been preparing for another sneak attack, suddenly stopped in its tracks.
It raised its sharp, clawed hand and patted its own head, a forceful and violent motion.
Unable to alleviate the discomfort from the mental attack, it grew agitated and increased the force of its head-patting. Then, in its frustration, it began smashing its head against the floor.
When it realized nothing it did could ease its discomfort, it suddenly looked towards Su Ling.
As the zombie turned its gaze on her, Su Ling contemptuously beckoned it with a finger.
This was a highly provocative gesture. To the mutated male zombie, it seemed to understand the meaning of the gesture.
It instantly became enraged. Ignoring its throbbing head, it charged at Su Ling like a wild, maddened beast, disregarding all caution.
Su Ling’s mental attack continued unabated. Although she was also affected, she could still endure it.
This time, with the initiative in her hands, Su Ling unleashed a devastating onslaught.
With one slash, she severed the zombie’s arm. While the zombie was stunned, another blow fell, and its other arm landed on the ground.
Then, she directly cut it in half at the waist. The zombie was instantly split into an upper and lower half.
As it was bisected, the contents it had consumed spilled onto the ground, and a foul stench immediately filled the air.
The smell was so potent it could be considered a gas bomb.
Choked by the stench, Su Ling retreated several steps and put on a mask, which slightly alleviated her discomfort.
The zombie’s upper torso lay on the ground. It tilted its head and looked at Su Ling, utterly unable to comprehend its defeat.
It bared its teeth and glared fiercely at Su Ling, wanting to fight her again.
Unfortunately, with its hands severed and its body split in two, it could only lie on the ground, unable to move.
Su Ling walked towards the zombie with her Tang dao, crouched down, and examined the half-severed face up close.
Its face was still human, but the skin below its neck had already taken on the appearance of a zombie.
This zombie was clearly stronger than any other she had encountered before.
After all, it was the corpse king that had scratched Gu Shangse and then escaped, so it was not to be underestimated.
Su Ling’s eyes were filled with a burning curiosity as she looked at the corpse king’s eyes. She wondered what color the crystal core beneath its head would be.
With this thought, Su Ling’s blade descended, sending the corpse king to its maker.
As the corpse king’s head was split open, Su Ling reached in and rummaged around, finding a round, lustrous crystal core.
The moment she touched the crystal core, she could distinctly feel that it was different from any crystal core she had obtained before.
When she extracted the crystal core from the brain matter and wiped it clean with the zombie’s clothes, a black crystal core lay quietly in her palm.
Looking at the black crystal core in her hand, Su Ling’s hand trembled with excitement.
This was a black crystal core, the apex of all crystal cores.
This single crystal core could provide sufficient energy for her mobile fortress for a very, very long time.
Gazing at the black crystal core, Su Ling thought that she should now be able to construct her rudimentary mobile fortress.