Chapter 97: The Power of the Earth

Outside, everything was shrouded in fog, and not only was the road unclear, but everything else was also blurred.

I only vaguely knew that there should be a large bamboo forest outside, because in the mist, the bamboo was faintly visible.

“Why is the fog so thick?” I couldn’t help but complain in a low voice. This is completely different from the world inside the compound, where there isn’t even a hint of fog.

But it didn’t matter. I just picked a direction and ran in a random direction.

The key to the plan is not what I am doing here? As long as… I ran frantically all the way, in such thick fog, even if someone was on the opposite side, they would have to run about two meters away to see me.

So, along the way, I saw almost 7 or 8 black-clad people wearing conical hats, and I almost had to run into them before I could get past.

When they saw me, they would almost instinctively reach out to pull me. The advantage was that the fog was so thick that they couldn’t see me at first, and they had to get very close. In addition, their reaction seemed to be really slow, as if they had to look at something until two or three seconds later before they knew what to do.

So, when I encountered these black-clad people who occasionally came out to block my path, I almost always ran through them violently, and they almost never had time to catch me.

After running in the fog for about five minutes, I felt a wave of pain in my body. Even though I avoided being caught in this “rough” way, I still have to admit that these black-clad men have a “terrifying” side.

It was like running into a cold iron block, and they were really incredibly strong.

Their existence reminds me of a secret branch of the Taoist mountain lineage, the Taoist necromancer, a technique that has almost been lost—the art of necromancy.

Because these black-clad people are not zombies at all, and they are not the “living dead” that defy the heavens, as described in the story of Liu Er, their behavior is more like that of a corpse.

If my guess is true, it’s simply… Although the fog here is not ‘alive’ and is not like the morning fog in the outside world, which will wet people’s clothes, this idea still makes my clothes damp, wet by the cold sweat on my body.

You have to know that zombies have some instinct, and the more advanced they are, the more intelligent they are. Even if they are more powerful than the undead, they still have weaknesses. When they can’t beat you, they can scare you, surprise you, or bluff you, and they can find a way to escape.

However, these zombies… are completely without weaknesses. The only way is to destroy them.

One corpse is fine, but if there are so many of them… The more I think about it, the more anxious I feel. This is something that Lin Xiaohua never told me. In her words, these black-clad people are just a trivial matter to her. She simply…

Lin Xiaohua is really something. I couldn’t help but let out a low wail. Maybe I can understand her. All she wants is for the people she follows not to follow death. It’s enough to successfully prevent something. These undead are really irrelevant to her.

This woman is too independent.

My thoughts were in a complete mess, but I didn’t dare to stop walking. Perhaps it was because I was too engrossed in my thoughts that I didn’t realize that there was another person in black standing in front of me until I was very close, probably about a meter away.

The difference was that this black-clad man had a purple snake embroidered on his chest, which was so glaring that it was shocking to the eyes.

But at such a close distance, I had no time to think about it, and I couldn’t stop in time. I could only grit my teeth and choose to rush past.

But this man in black was not like those in black at all. He was very slow to react. As soon as he appeared, he reached out a hand and grabbed at my lapel. I instinctively twisted my body, and he followed by leaning his body at an angle.

In the end, I had to be faster, and in the split second when we passed each other, he grabbed my hem.

With a ‘swish’, the black-clad man tore off a corner of the Hanfu, which was actually very expensive. But his strength was so great that the moment he pulled off the corner of my Hanfu, I couldn’t help but follow his strength and stumbled backwards.

Fortunately, I didn’t fall, otherwise I would have no chance to turn the tables.

But the black-clad man didn’t pause at all, and he threw the corner of the robe in his hand away, and then he came at me again at great speed.

I stumbled because of my body, and this time there was no way to avoid it. The next moment, I felt a hand like an iron clamp grab the hem of my shirt on my chest and pull me in a direction I didn’t know.

It was completely irresistible. Was this purple snake-clad man a higher-level corpse cultivator? I sighed softly. I couldn’t afford to lose, and there was no room for losing in this operation.

Before, I didn’t want to fight, I just wanted to preserve my strength, but now it seems that I can’t. Thinking about this, I couldn’t help but sigh again. The secret arts that my master passed down to me include one that targets the body. Although Taoists value great power the most, this so-called great power refers to the combination of spiritual power, mental power, and qi power (the power generated by practicing qi itself).

When my master passed on the secret art, I once wondered why he would pass on a secret art that targeted the body. At this moment, I had to sigh that my master was a “god.”

So, I let the purple snake in black clothes drag me along, and at the same time, I began to recite the mantra in my mouth, and a breath of energy in my body began to rush towards the back of my head in a specific way.

This is why I said that the sword takes a detour. The back of the head is a very vulnerable location. If you hit the back of the head with a heavy object, the basic situation is death.

If you use internal energy to hit the back of the head, you could accidentally paralyze yourself. If it weren’t for a special technique, I wouldn’t dare to do it at all.

However, the reason why this technique can produce miraculous results is that it must also ‘stimulate’ the back of the head. As we all know, the back of the head is the ‘action brain’ that controls the human body. Under certain stimuli, it can burst out with amazing power, and then go crazy and squeeze the human body’s potential to squeeze people in general.

There have been many miracles in this world, such as the mother who lifted a car and the old man who suddenly carried an oxygen tank on his back.

I carefully followed the specific method of channeling, using the incantation. From the outside, it looked as if my eyes were glazed over, and I was just being dragged along by this black-clad man… But the method was extremely fast to complete. After the breath paused for a moment, it suddenly hit my back of the head… and my brain started to buzz.

Next, I felt as if I had taken the world’s most powerful stimulant, and my entire body burst with incredible power. I stopped suddenly, and in accordance with the final step of the spell, I stomped my foot, and a more powerful force suddenly filled my entire body.

If it were just about one’s own potential, how could it be called the secret technique of the Li family? The earth is the most powerful and heavy, naturally containing a force that is like the pulse of the earth, capable of triggering the most disastrous earthquakes!

In order to draw on the power of the earth, one must “open” one’s body, and the key to this is in the back of the head.

With three stomps, I suddenly felt the power fill my body, reaching its limit in an instant. I reached out and grabbed the hand of the purple-clad man who was holding me back.

“Enough, it’s time to stop.” Stimulated by the sudden power, my mind was so excited that I couldn’t control it, and I became irritable. This was an irreversible side effect of this technique, which my master had explained before.

But how could the black-clad man let go of me? His hand was still gripping my clothes tightly, and he was still trying to pull me along.

I looked at him with a sneer, then stood still, holding his hand with more force than I realized, and then whispered, “I said enough. Don’t you understand?”

Accompanying my voice was a sound of bone-grinding that made my teeth ache!

Even so, the man in black was willing to let go, but the power I suddenly unleashed was beyond his control. Under my guidance, his hand slowly moved away from my body, and a piece of my torn clothing was still hanging on his palm.

The sound of the bones breaking gradually grew louder, like the sound of someone crunching on bones.

If it were a living person, how could they possibly withstand the consequences of a crushing fracture? But the black-clad man seemed to feel nothing, and he roared, and his other hand reached for me again.

“Really,” I sighed, then suddenly exerted a lot of strength and pulled.

With a “crack” sound, the black-clad man’s arm was twisted at a strange angle and was snapped off, leaving it behind me.

Then, I rushed over and knocked him off balance. When he stumbled, I grabbed his shirt and lifted him up, then threw him to the ground.

This is the power of secret arts… and I only opened the back of my head. The master said that the limit is to open all 72 major acupuncture points!