Chapter 941 - 283: Undead Tide (Part 2)
Thousands of zombies surround this place layer upon layer, and their numbers continue to increase, continuously increasing.
"Huh?" Big Horn realized something was amiss, stopping his action of gnawing on the corpse, and raised his head to observe the surroundings.
Su Changxing patted his shoulder with his hand, soothing him, saying, "Don’t mind it, they’re all our own people, keep eating."
"None of these guys can escape, they’re all our prey!"
Like frogs boiled in warm water, by the time the extraordinary creatures tried to escape, preparing to break through the encirclement of the undead tide, it was too late.
An extraordinary creature, whose outward appearance resembled a large tree and whose body was entwined by roots, tried to charge through the front. With its massive form, it crushed through over ten or twenty meters, zombies hanging all over it, but eventually still came to a halt.
It wasn’t just contending with the strength of a dozen or so zombies around it but the collective strength of the entire undead tide exerting pressure on it.
Continually struggling, with tree roots bound around it, it swatted away the surrounding zombies.
Its power was immense, often smashing a zombie’s head with just one strike, but with one after another required him to constantly swing its arms, consuming power in the process.
It could no longer move forward, forced to stand still, continuously clearing the surrounding zombies as they surged forth, constantly waving its limbs. As time went on, its movements grew increasingly sluggish, zombie corpses piling up into mounds, yet more zombies climbed onto its body, clawing and biting, dragging it bit by bit into the abyss.
"Ah!!"
A powerless wail.
Finally.
It fell, toppled within the swarm of zombies, engulfed by the undead tide, its body gradually dismembered, though cut into pieces, no blood or flesh was spared, and the extraordinary crystal remained in place.
By now, the number of zombies accumulated by the undead tide had exceeded ten thousand, and those extraordinary creatures surrounded within displayed restless emotions, yet dared not actively break through; otherwise, they would end up like that large tree again.
"Huh."
Big Horn stood with its head tilted, proudly urging those few extraordinary creatures to surrender.
Of course.
This kind of persuasion was meaningless; not every extraordinary creature possessed self-awareness like Big Horn. They were inherently twisted and brutal, impossible to yield to any beings, insane until destruction.
How extraordinary.
Su Changxing roughly estimated that the gathered zombies were about enough and urged the undead tide to launch an attack on the surrounded extraordinary creatures.
This was a once and for all method.
Including the corpses on the ground, there were nine extraordinary zombies here; searching for them one by one would take great effort. Now, gathered together, it’s convenient to wipe them out in one go.
The undead tide launched an encircling attack, the originally mutually hostile extraordinary creatures forced to unite against these everyday trash.
Unexpectedly.
The undead tide colluded with several Tier Nine extraordinary zombies, not controlled by Su Changxing, but indirectly influenced by the undead tide itself, which possessed independent will built upon the weak will of each zombie.
It’s more accurate to say Su Changxing was controlling the will of the undead tide, rather than each individual zombie.
Within the circle of extraordinary creatures, the battle with the undead tide seemed to be at an advantage, Zombies fell every second, either bodies torn or heads bitten off, but as long as these extraordinary creatures couldn’t break through the encirclement of the undead tide, they were doomed to fall here, despairingly amidst the endless tide.
The process lasted roughly half an hour, over a thousand zombies died, the death rate of zombies abruptly slowed down, as zombies continuously gathered here, making the number of the undead tide increase rather than decrease.
Su Changxing saw the time was about right, patted the nearby Big Horn, signaling, "Go and finish them."
Under the immense pressure of the undead tide, only a straw was needed to crush these extraordinary creatures.
Big Horn was that crucial straw.
A colossal-headed extraordinary creature, covered in bloodred, muscle patterns visible, crawling on the ground, burdened beyond carry by the undead tide, with more than ten large and small bites all over its body, blood all over.
It still struggled to push back the tide.
Big Horn hid in the undead tide, silently leaping from behind, crouching on the big-headed creature’s back, split its flesh with claw-like razor blades, and suddenly yanked out its spine.
Facing the undead tide, the big-headed creature had no spare attention for Big Horn, and once the spine was pulled out, it collapsed to the ground, as if losing strength, engulfed by the undead tide, tearing the flesh.
"Ah!"
It let out a wail, a wail of reluctance, unwilling to be killed by these zombie trash, and unwilling to be ambushed by Big Horn, a weaker creature.
Big Horn stood up from the corpse, an expression of excitement and rigidity on its face, claws covered in blood, carrying the smile of a butcher.
In this manner, he slaughters the extraordinary creatures surrounded by the undead tide, one by one; his frontal combat ability was not very strong, but his ability to ambush from behind was top-notch, possessing extremely strong attack capability to break through most defenses.
Finally.
The last extraordinary creature fell amidst the undead tide, and the tide suddenly calmed down as if losing their target, all standing idly.
Su Changxing breathed a sigh of relief, relaxing; this ability required him to control with all his body, maintaining tight tension with his spirit, unable to fight simultaneously while controlling the undead tide.
But he believed that as he mastered this ability more deeply in the future, he should be able to fight simultaneously or possess more powerful spiritual power.
Spiritual Power is the foundation for this control-based ability. Having more powerful Spiritual Power can greatly amplify this ability’s might.
A zombie retrieved an extraordinary crystal from the extraordinary creature’s corpse, presenting it to Su Changxing. He took the extraordinary crystal, placing it in his backpack.
Due to consuming a large amount of extraordinary crystals in a short period, his body already reached a saturation state; the speed of digesting extraordinary crystals became extremely slow, taking at least a few days before he could consume the next one.
This was a normal phenomenon; although zombie-type creatures could rapidly grow by devouring energy, there was a limit and required time.
Su Changxing was not in a hurry; now he possessed the ability to protect himself, not being easily killed by anything he encountered, having ample time, gradual progress is even better.
Su Changxing led the undead tide in the direction of the Mechanical Giant Elephant’s departure, not particularly interested in the Mechanical Giant Elephant, simply intending to scavenge.
The Mechanical Giant Elephant attracted many extraordinary creatures, leaving behind numerous extraordinary creature corpses, thereby attracting more extraordinary creatures forward.
This was a good time to harvest extraordinary crystals; if enough extraordinary crystals could be hoarded, he could assault Tier Seven.
His zombie clone could back-feed power to the main body, but required the extraordinary level to reach a certain degree, at least Tier Six.
Big Horn encountered a similar situation, having devoured too many corpses in a short period, leading to overconsumption, unable to eat anymore.
Su Changxing had to use the undead tide to carry these extraordinary creature bodies forward; leaving them on the ground might result in them being eaten up in no time.
He led the undead tide following the Mechanical Giant Elephant’s trail forward, the road left devastated, indeed discovering some Tier Eight extraordinary creature bodies, and other extraordinary creatures disputing beside the corpses.
Smarter ones, seeing the massive undead tide, abandoned the corpses on the ground and turned to run, whereas some continued gnawing the corpses until surrounded and realized, too late to run away.
Just like that, Su Changxing continuously gathered eighteen Tier Eight extraordinary crystals, the further he walked, the more Tier Eight extraordinary creature numbers increased, significantly stronger than they had encountered before.
The undead tide numbers gathered over twenty thousand, but the speed rather slowed down; extraordinary creatures here were more powerful and tougher to deal with.
"At this rate, we’re likely to encounter Tier Seven creatures, can’t go any further."
Su Changxing stood atop a giant rock, looking towards the sunset in the distance, estimating that it’s best to stop here; although the undead tide was powerful, encountering Tier Seven creatures would be a different matter.