Otherworldly Desert Dust

"At three o'clock, there's a high-voltage power plant!" Lu Xian said.

Wu Hen and Taiya had already left the war chariot; they were stomping through the Corpse Tide, moving towards the direction mentioned by Lu Xian.

Normal Corpse People could no longer harm either of them. The Crown Radiance on Wu Hen's body could even repel the horde of corpses, and the layer of Light Gauze on Taiya would automatically purify and incinerate the Corpse People.

Soon, the two saw the high-voltage field Lu Xian spoke of. The tall Energy Electric Towers standing amidst the Corpse Tide were particularly conspicuous. Here, the horde of corpses seemed to have been baptized by high voltage, turning into tightly packed conductors. Giant currents would occasionally strike from afar, bringing up a string of splendid electric sparks.

And the Corpse King Wu Hen heard about was in this high-voltage field.

Wu Hen quickly pinpointed its location, carrying Taiya to the top of one of the electric towers. With one glance, he saw a frenzied corpse laying atop a huge high-voltage storage unit, greedily sucking up the high-voltage energy formed by the entire power plant.

"High-voltage Electric Corpse King?" Wu Hen was extremely surprised, not expecting these mindless walking corpses to start utilizing the city's energy and converting it into their own weapon.

But that was good too, his own Thunder Arm Guard also used this type of energy, and he believed this High-voltage Electric Corpse King could provide a significant upgrade to his own weapon.

The skin of the High-voltage Electric Corpse King was like copper and aluminum, with no rotting flesh seen anywhere, somewhat exuding the aura of an electromagnetic tyrant. Its pair of eyes radiated high-voltage electricity, wherever its gaze landed, terrifying sparks of electricity could be seen flickering!

The High-voltage Electric Corpse King had already noticed Wu Hen and Taiya. It stopped sucking the energy; the whole power plant dimmed, but the atmosphere around it was no less intense than a high-energy power plant entering a berserk state. As it moved towards Wu Hen, thousands of currents in the air, like sharp electric spears, stabbed towards him.

Wu Hen didn't hesitate at all, swiftly dodging behind Taiya.

Taiya, having her eyes covered, didn't know what was happening.

She only felt the air around her turning into waves of numbing sensation, not too different from some skin therapy she had once received in Lan Guang Temple, quite comfortable actually.

"Straight ahead, blast it!" Wu Hen started controlling Taiya, letting her unleash a powerful Light Spell.

Taiya chanted. The chant transformed into Light Spell Notes, each containing energy comparable to a small nuclear bomb. When they flew towards the area where the Corpse King was, it was practically a nuclear bombardment!

Most of Taiya's skills were of wide coverage, so the cooperation between Wu Hen and her was very enjoyable. Just by telling Taiya a clock direction, around defining the distance, slightly adjusting the bombardment angle and artillery arc…

Indeed, it was a rather excellent Light Girl Cannon!

After a nuclear-level barrage of light energy, the power plant was no longer recognizable, with iron and aluminum scraps floating in the air, and the High-voltage Electric Corpse King clearly lost its previous arrogance, its electrical energy starting erratic movements, leaving its control.

Wu Hen was also secretly astounded.

Was Taiya's lethality that strong?

That was a special Corpse King after all; how did it turn into a big wreck after being purified by her Light Spell?

"I'll harvest it, you play around with the Corpse Tide for a bit here. Except for our war chariot's direction, feel free to attack anywhere else, I need Mutant Condensed Liquid to evolve weapons," Wu Hen told Taiya.

With her eyes covered, Taiya was the most powerful Light Goddess on this land, purifying these smaller Corpse Tides more easily than a harvester reaping wheat.

After getting Wu Hen's approval, Taiya started chanting Light Spells with her eyes closed. One after another, Light Spell Nuclear Bombs surged within the Corpse Tide, and massive amounts of energy mushroom clouds exploded in all directions, purifying tens of thousands of Corpse People into ashes.

In no time at all, this whole city debris zone actually appeared empty, not a single Corpse Person moving on top, while the ruins of the city were exposed, twisted like a series of garbage dumps piled under their feet.

There used to be living people in the city debris, but they had quickly joined the Corpse Tide family; however, those newly mutated ones were purified immediately. If merits were materialized, there should be a wildly jumping merit number above Taiya's head, continuously +1+1+1+10086.

Of course, merits could not be materialized, but Mutant Condensed Liquid was indeed real. Guo Hong and Lu Xian had also started the war chariot's air suction, sucking up the Mutant Condensed Liquid, which was abundant like liquid gold, into the vehicle. Box after box of Mutant Condensed Liquid, after being processed on their expensively purchased refining platform, were extracted to become Advanced Mutant Condensed Liquid, equivalent to artificial Yuan You Mineral, although not usable for evolution, but could reinforce their weapons, armor, and war chariot.

"Lord Wu Tian's wisdom is remarkable, letting Lan Guang Temple purify the Corpse Tide, the efficiency is too high. Those Corpse People that we need expensive bullets to kill, as soon as the Light Spells from Lan Guang Temple touch their skin, they are directly turned into ashes. We're not stuck in a Corpse Tide, we're mining in a gold mine," Lu Xian excitedly said, watching box after box of Mutant Condensed Liquid being processed into expensive Advanced Condensed Liquid, realizing the hard days he had been through.

Guo Hong also smiled broadly.

This was real gold panning.

Not searching for scarce golden beans in a vast desert of sand, but extracting the essence in these densely packed, thousands of miles long Corpse Mines. Now, even though their life evolution had only reached Sixth Rank, their equipment were all Advanced Mutant Gear, their combat ability equivalent to Seventh Rank Life. They estimated that it wouldn't take long before they could evolve their weapons to Eighth Rank mutants.

"Not scared anymore??" Guo Hong looked back at the excited Lu Xian.

"Not scared anymore, even kind of thrilling," Lu Xian said.

This feeling of picking up money using a loader, no matter how many or ugly the Corpse People were, it could make one secrete a large amount of dopamine.

…

Within a ten-mile radius, no Corpse People could be seen.

All purified into Condensed Liquid.

Although Taiya's spells deployed were not considered very powerful, their force was terrifying to the utmost, feeling as though the highest layer of resentful atmosphere had a bright crack appearing.

On the other side, Wu Hen had already harvested the severely damaged High-voltage Electric Corpse King.

The Corpse King injected his purple Mutant Condensed Liquid directly into his Arm Guard. Soon, a massive high-voltage electric field appeared around Wu Hen, expanding to a radius of one kilometer around him. This kilometer was filled with high-voltage electric currents and formed numerous Energy Electric Towers. These towers burst with exaggerated clusters of electric particles' pulses, a scale no less than a Thunder Tribulation Array!

Wu Hen was very satisfied with this, and the Thunder Arm Guard was thus enhanced to Eighth Rank.

Life Eighth Rank, Mutated Weapon Eighth Rank; even facing the Mutant Royal Species of Ninth Rank, he could contend fairly.

However, the Corpse Queen was a Tenth Rank life form, and Wu Hen still needed to improve further.

Of course, if he couldn't improve, it didn't matter, Taiya was the natural enemy of Corpse Kings, and with her, the difficulty would be greatly reduced.

"Solved, let's continue on our way," Wu Hen said.

"Amazing, you resolved a Corpse King so quickly!" Taiya praised.

Wu Hen smiled.

He realized that he had underestimated the combat strength of this temple concubine.

Previously, she had faced him and thus appeared quite flustered, as he indeed surpassed this level of real strength.

But when Taiya faced the Corpse King, she was truly a God on this land.

No wonder Dai Jing had to deal with Lan Guang Temple along the way; with Lan Guang Temple around, her plans would be greatly compromised, as the Temple was the nemesis of this mutated soil.

"Let's go," Taiya said as she removed her eye mask.

There were no Corpse People within a five-kilometer radius; naturally, she didn't need to cover her eyes.

"Wait, I think I heard something." Wu Hen halted, focusing his gaze on the fluctuating city ruins beneath.

In the ruins, there were alive people moaning.

Wu Hen followed the direction of the moans to locate their position.

Soon, from the direction he was listening, came the slow beating of a heart.

A heartbeat meant these were not Corpse People.

Most likely, they were survivors of this city, demolished by the Corpse Tide.

To rescue or not to rescue?

Wu Hen fell into hesitation; if he was to rescue, he had to bring the person to the vehicle, because leaving them outside, they wouldn't survive the thousand-mile Corpse Tide, making his rescue redundant.

"Let's go take a look, do a good deed, and help him out as well," Wu Hen said.

"Oh, okay." Taiya nodded and followed Wu Hen deeper into the ruins.

Beneath the ruins, a slab of reinforced steel supported a hollow space.

Below this space, a bearded uncle was pinned down by heavy debris, his hand holding a sharp metal shard, seemingly about to amputate his own leg.

"Uncle, wait," Wu Hen noticed that he was trying to amputate to survive, so he stopped him.

The bearded uncle's eyes were full of dimness, even seeing people coming to rescue, he was utterly dazed.

He knew well the area he was stuck in, the thousand-mile Corpse Tide, what he was about to see that moved would only be Corpse People...

Yet, at this moment, two living people appeared, a man and a woman, the man dressed simply, the woman even lavishly dressed, he even doubted if his mind, fatigued from too much strain, was hallucinating, seeing a man and a woman who had just left a banquet.

"We were just passing by. Do you want to live, or do you want liberation?" Wu Hen said to the uncle.

Passing by??

The uncle felt his brain was about to overheat.

Who would just pass by a thousand-mile Corpse Tide???

"Save him, he might be a city's Guardian," Taiya then said.

"Oh?" Wu Hen raised his eyebrows.

Every city had a Guardian providing life energy and weapon energy, Taiya could see that the man could survive in the Corpse Tide because the Guardian material on him forced the corpse group to keep their distance.

"Don't amputate your leg; we need to get out of the Corpse Tide, and if you become disabled, it would hinder us. We will rescue you," Wu Hen immediately decided to rescue.

It turned out to be an unexpected gain, a city's Guardian, which was also a small Yuan You Mine!