Chapter 1087 - Gains at the Bottom of the Lake

Admittedly, this jiangshi was really very powerful—it ignored all damage, showing no pain or fear, like a crazed demon. It was a perfect fighting machine.

However, Chen Fan was stronger. The jiangshi’s attacks could hardly hurt him, so it was more like he was pummeling it.

Cornered, the jiangshi let out a fierce roar and unleashed bursts of toxin. A terrifying aura swept out crazily at once.

“

Hmph

.” Chen Fan sorted coldly and decided not to waste time on it, lest Huo Qi and the others free their hands to find trouble with him.

Immediately, the Holy Spear of the Sun appeared in his hand. It was an exceptional quality Grade-9 treasure with extremely fierce and extreme Yang properties, the nemesis of dark creatures like jiangshi.

The terrifying spear light pierced through the lake water and struck the jiangshi.

The jiangshi began to dissolve as the power of the sun gradually corroded its flesh and blood.

In a desperate lunge, the jiangshi charged at Chen Fan. It felt neither pain nor fear—only the obsession to kill.

By then, Chen Fan had gathered his full strength and thrust the spear forward with explosive force.

The spear was like a golden sun dragon, evaporating the lake water as it darted toward the jiangshi.

Boom, tch!

The terrifying spear light instantly tore the jiangshi’s protective corpse qi apart and made it explode. Its body was split into pieces, annihilated.

After slaying this jiangshi, Chen Fan dove deeper. When he saw the situation there, his hair immediately stood on end.

The lakebed was a bed of corpses. They were strewn everywhere, densely packed together. One simply couldn’t count how many corpses were down there.

Only a minute fraction of those corpses had transformed into jiangshi.

However, there were just too many corpses here. So, even if only a fraction had turned into jiangshi, their numbers were still overwhelming.

If a Red Spider Lily grew on a corpse, the transformation was complete; if not, the corpse was still dormant, slowly becoming a jiangshi.

The best solution, in truth, was to destroy all the corpses entirely.

In this situation, even if they hadn’t awakened yet, it was only a matter of time.

Bursts of fighting noises came from the distance—experts from various forces fighting over the Red Spider Lilies, inadvertently waking up those jiangshi.

Chen Fan’s gaze turned solemn, having come to a realization.

The essence of each jiangshi was concentrated in the Red Spider Lily. In other words, removing the flower weakened the jiangshi significantly; otherwise, they would be nearly unbeatable.

These Red Spider Lilies fed on the energy stored in the jiangshi’s corpse core.

Every time they bloomed, they absorbed energy; when they wilted, the energy would return to the corpse core, making them a little stronger. The cycle would continue until eventually, they returned to their peak.

The flowers acted as cultivation converters.

Yet, one thing still puzzled Chen Fan—this phenomenon didn’t seem natural. It felt as if the Red Spider Lilies had been deliberately planted here by someone.

When this thought came up in his mind, his irises contracted violently.

If this had occurred naturally, so be it—but if someone had deliberately planted the Red Spider Lilies, that was truly terrifying. Who would do such a thing, and why?

If these jiangshi were let out into the world, it would unleash a full-scale undead calamity—an unimaginable disaster.

Chen Fan shook his head, choosing not to dwell on it. He began collecting the Red Spider Lilies.

But harvesting them wasn’t easy. Each attempt meant fighting off jiangshi that had already awakened; it was a constant struggle.

With such a large swathe of densely packed corpses, one could imagine how brutal the battle here must have been.

Chen Fan’s luck was pretty good; in just an hour, he had collected about a dozen lilies.

Now and then, divine wills swept past him, which meant that Beishan Xue, Huo Qi, and other experts were keeping a close watch.

Even when competing for the Red Spider Lilies, they refused to let him out of their sight, probably afraid that Chen Fan would run away.

Gui Ku retracted his divine will and gaze and said to Huo Qi with a chuckle, “Brother Huo, that brat Chen Fan has made quite the harvest, with more than ten Red Spider Lilies. His speed isn’t far behind ours.”

He had been monitoring Chen Fan. He knew exactly how many Red Spider Lilies Chen Fan had harvested.

“Hoho, let him take his time to slowly harvest them. They will only end up in our pockets. Just treat it as him working for us, his last bit of usefulness before he dies,” Huo Qi said absent-mindedly.

From their point of view, Chen Fan had no chance of escaping.

Gui Ku chuckled, his smile sending shivers down people’s spines. “That’s true. With all the Red Spider Lilies we’ve gathered—and once we add that brat’s head to the mix—we’ll break into the Legendary realm soon, hehe.”

“You’re right. Being in the Legendary realm will put us among the elite of the holy cult. Now, we have to collect as many Red Spider Lilies as possible. These treasures can’t be found elsewhere. Without the Yellow Spring lake forming from all the corpses here, this would have been impossible.”

Currently, the lakebed was divided into five zones, each controlled by a different force.

The experts of four overlord class experts, as well as the group from the Blood Heavenly Demon Sect, each occupied a large area, killing jiangshi continuously and collecting the Red Spider Lilies.

Although these jiangshi were very powerful, with quite a few quasi-Legendary level jiangshi appearing, Beishan Xue, Huo Qi, and the others were all top experts, with a lot of battle experience. The jiangshi couldn’t threaten them at all.

And they tried not to awaken more than one jiangshi at a time. The moment a Red Spider Lily was seized, their subordinates would strike in unison, leaving the jiangshi no room to act.

No matter how powerful a jiangshi was, facing the combined attack of these people, it couldn’t withstand the assault—unless it had already stepped into the Legendary realm.

As a result, these people progressed smoothly and quickly.

Chen Fan had just collected another ten Red Spider Lilies when the Yellow Spring water suddenly surged upward, forming a column that shot toward him.

He immediately took a step and punched out, dispersing the water column.

He thought it was experts like Beishan Xue ambushing him, but it turned out to be a jiangshi.

This wasn’t what surprised Chen Fan, however. What surprised him was that the Red Spider Lily on this jiangshi was still vibrant.

That meant the jiangshi hadn’t awakened because its flower was taken. It had awakened on its own.

Thinking of this, Chen Fan felt alarmed. He sent his powerful divine will sweeping across the bottom of the lake, and his hairs stood on end.

He discovered that the jiangshi at the bottom of the lake seemed to be showing signs of awakening, seemingly triggered by the presence of living beings like himself.

They were waking up... early.