Great Demon Leader: Start By Refining Flying Zombies

Chapter 37: Sworn Revenge

Inside the capital city, amidst the misty rain, on top of a towering pavilion.

Qin Long's hand rested on his long sword, the other hand behind his back. His clear pupils reflected the dark clouds on the horizon, as if he had been gazing in one direction in the city for a long time.

Pandora stood beside him, holding a bowl filled with crimson liquid, which she sipped on with great enjoyment. Her expression was one of pure delight.

The two of them were each doing their own thing, and the air was quite tranquil.

At this moment, the black-robed figure that had appeared at the city gate earlier swiftly flipped down from the eaves outside the pavilion.

He removed his ghost mask and discarded his black robe, revealing the attire of a martial arts hero and a remarkable face. This person was Liang Xiao.

He walked forward and sniffed at the bowl in Pandora's hand, then playfully tapped her forehead.

Pandora glared at him and quickly hid the bowl behind her back.

"You have no taste. If you want to drink, drink human blood and cultivate some demonic energy. Why drink bloodberry juice?"

At this time, Qin Long dispelled the emotions that had been building up in his eyes and turned around, patting Pandora's head where she had been tapped, and said,

"Liang Xiao, don't bully Pandora. She has been working hard in her cultivation. I estimate that she is about to break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining. Don't let the zombies under your command catch up to her in terms of magical power!"

Qin Long's touch caused the Flying Zombie to emit a purring sound like a small cat. Its small fangs were slightly exposed, and it even made a grimace at Liang Xiao.

This creature's intelligence had been increasing in recent days.

Liang Xiao clenched his fist, feeling a bit awkward, and asked strangely, "Qin Long, how did you become so skilled at teasing Pandora? Although it sounds strange to say that, this girl doesn't have much humanity. If I weren't spiritually connected to her, I would probably have been bitten too!"

Qin Long snorted and did not answer that question.

"Old ghost, come out and take a look." Liang Xiao, who now had a certain status, immediately thought of calling his grandfather.

"Hehehe, could this Flying Zombie have bitten a rare deep-sea blood crystal? Although it hasn't finished digesting it yet, that trash human blood is completely useless to her!"

On Liang Xiao's left hand, there was an exquisite bracelet. The Hundred Calamities Daoist transformed into a wisp of green smoke and peeked out from it, staring at Pandora's flat abdomen, casually commenting a few times, and then retracting back into the Universe Bracelet.

Deep-sea blood crystal? Liang Xiao was surprised. That thing was a rare treasure for practicing blood cultivation techniques, not the impure blood essence of living beings, but a natural product of the heavens and earth.

"You gave this to her? It must have been from your recent adventure. But that thing is useful to you too. I heard that when combined with Spirit Medicine, it can refine essence and marrow. Yet you just let Pandora nibble on it like that."

Liang Xiao patted his head, feeling a bit regretful.

"Pandora's absorption of the deep-sea blood crystal is thorough. It has enhanced her foundation and intelligence. It's not a loss. Since she belongs to you, she also belongs to me. Enhancing her strength seems appropriate to me."

Qin Long's expression remained calm.

Liang Xiao glanced at her and teased, "I don't seem to have agreed to your request to offer myself to you yet. You're already assuming the role of the mistress so quickly?"

"I remember you said you were very picky about your Dao companion and needed to think it over. But I'm not worried."

"Could it be... you're going to reject me?" Qin Long suddenly approached Liang Xiao, her face so beautiful that it was impossible to tell her gender. She was very close to the infatuated Liang Xiao, naturally exuding a captivating effect.

She extended a slender finger and tapped on his chest, her red lips slightly parted. "Your heartbeat has quickened!"

"That's because your breath stole the air in front of me!"

Liang Xiao pushed away this annoying woman without a good temper. To say that he wasn't moved would be a lie. This person's appearance almost perfectly matched his aesthetic preferences.

Although Pandora was also beautiful, her exotic appearance and her identity as a zombie made Liang Xiao see her as a capable bodyguard and an aesthetically pleasing vase.

Qin Long, on the other hand, was different. She truly stirred Liang Xiao's heart. Her exceptional talent and luck could potentially accompany him further on the path of cultivation.

Perhaps for ten years, perhaps for a hundred years, or even a thousand years.

Because of this, Liang Xiao refused to easily agree.

Because the woman in front of him was as proud as a hawk, and at this moment, she had just left the nest and had yet to soar into the sky.

He instinctively didn't want to be underestimated and didn't want to become a fleeting scenery on the other person's path to immortality.

Because from the current level of his cultivation, he seemed to have reached a high position.

Several months had passed, and Qin Long had already broken through to the eighth level of Qi Refining. Although she explained that it was because she had swallowed a Rank Four Spirit Pill during a fortuitous encounter, which slightly accelerated her progress in the Qi Refining stage.

But this speed couldn't be described as just slightly faster; it was truly terrifying.

In less than a year, she reached the Late Stage of Qi Refining!

It should be noted that after Liang Xiao obtained the resources from the trip to the Earth Fire Great Hall, her cultivation speed also increased significantly, but she only managed to barely break through to the Mid Stage of Qi Refining - the fourth level of Qi Refining.

In comparison, the difference was like night and day.

"Regardless, I am very grateful to you. I am not alone until I have avenged my great enmity."

Suddenly, Qin Long lowered her gaze and stopped teasing Liang Xiao. Instead, she leaned slightly against him with a touch of sadness.

Liang Xiao hesitated for a moment, then raised her hand and gently embraced Qin Long's back. After a while, she felt a slight dampness on her shoulder.

This stubborn woman actually cried. She had been so terrified when she was possessed that she didn't even cry.

Liang Xiao was not good at dealing with this kind of situation. At this moment, she just turned her face to the side, accompanied Qin Long, and quietly watched the endless drizzle in the capital city.

Qin Long came from a prestigious swordsmanship family in the Yan Kingdom, but her influence was not great, not even comparable to the mortal family that Liang Xiao came from.

She had only mentioned to Liang Xiao that her fortuitous encounter was being chased by someone and falling off a cliff.

With such a dramatic plot, Liang Xiao naturally paid more attention to the fortuitous encounter rather than being chased by someone.

In fact, that day was the darkest day in Qin Long's life.

The martial arts factions under General Yan Wuxie's command had learned that the Qin family's legitimate daughter had extremely high martial arts talent and unparalleled beauty, so they came to ask for her hand in marriage. Unexpectedly, they were sternly rejected by the Qin family's patriarch.

In anger, they actually annihilated the entire Qin family, leaving Qin Long with no way to escape.

With such a great enmity, she would not rest until it was avenged.

Most people in the martial world only knew that the top experts on the Divine Weapon List were outstanding and far surpassed their peers, as if they were from a different world.

They thought that their own martial talent was not enough or that they didn't cultivate seriously enough.

But they didn't know that the most powerful people were always the hidden cultivators who concealed their identities.

Even if one cultivated martial arts to the Innate Realm, they were still ordinary people. How could they possibly defeat cultivators?

Among them, Yan Wuxie, as a member of the royal family, had another identity. In reality, he was a cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Using his noble status, he gathered pure women from the Yan Kingdom.

Using them as cauldrons, he cultivated demonic cultivation techniques.

Following Qin Long, Liang Xiao had successively overturned the martial factions under Yan Wuxie's command in the past few months, cutting off his wings.

At the same time, she seized the time to cultivate, all for the sake of seeking revenge against him.

"I deliberately showed myself at the city gate before. Yan Wuxie should have received the message by now and should be gathering his troops and preparing," Liang Xiao said in a calm tone.

"Good. I don't want to assassinate him. That would be too easy for him. I want Yan Wuxie to know clearly that the person who will kill him has arrived!"

Qin Long left Liang Xiao's shoulder, and the trace of tears on her face was instantly evaporated by her cultivation. She tightly gripped the hilt of her sword, her tone filled with killing intent.

"Break through a thousand troops, block ten thousand arrows, crush the General's Mansion, and cut off Yan Wuxie's head to avenge your family!"

"I'm more than willing to accompany you in such a straightforward matter."

Liang Xiao raised her hand and with a flick of her finger, a burst of scorching fire erupted, instantly igniting the wanted order that had been taken down from the city gate. She watched as its ashes drifted away in the distance.

(End of this chapter)