The Elven Cultivator

Chapter 369: Chapter 335: Bone Mountain

The next second, the lightning infused in the claw gauntlets suddenly burst forth, emitting a short CRACKLE that completely annihilated the two floating spectral lights. The Undead Monster instantly stiffened and swayed before collapsing into a pile of shattered bones. It hit the dust with a dull thud and stopped moving entirely.

Morrek followed closely by Una’s side. The metal staff in his hands swung in a heavy arc, striking another Undead Monster squarely in the chest. A muffled boom erupted as the skeleton flew backward. When it landed, bone fragments scattered in all directions, its chest armor completely shattered.

Both sides quickly fell into a chaotic melee.

The disciples each took on one or two Undead Monsters, firmly holding the upper hand. The team members from the Vassal Races showed no weakness either. Although their individual combat power was inferior to the Taichu City disciples, they had the advantage of numbers. With two or three of them handling a single skeleton, they could barely hold their ground.

However, the most eye-catching performance on the battlefield belonged to Ivy. She didn’t use a weapon. Instead, she pressed her fingers together like a blade and slashed downward at the empty air ahead. A clear, moonlight-like blade aura poured from her fingertips, smoothly sweeping across the dust and bone piles in front of her.

The moment the beam of light touched the shattered armor, bone fragments, withered flags, and dust along its path, they silently parted to both sides as if cleaved down the middle by flowing water. The dozen or so Undead Monsters blocking its path were not spared either. They were neatly sliced open from shoulder to hip, the cut surfaces of their bones as smooth as if they had been polished.

CLATTER!

The corpses fell to the ground, shattering into pieces. In just an instant, a large clearing appeared within the densely packed horde of Undead Monsters.

"So powerful!"

"What kind of Technique is that?"

"Is this the Taiyin Body..."

Witnessing this scene, the disciples couldn’t help but murmur in awe. They had only heard about how outstanding Ivy’s talent was, but this was their first time truly witnessing her strength. It was far more formidable than they had anticipated. The key point was that Ivy had only been cultivating for six or seven years at most. To possess such power in such a short Time... The might of the Taiyin Body far exceeded their understanding!

Una crushed an Undead Monster’s skull with one claw. From the corner of her eye, she subconsciously glanced in Ivy’s direction, a complex feeling welling up in her heart. She had started cultivating two years earlier than the Half-Elf, yet her strength was actually inferior. At the very least, she knew she absolutely couldn’t take that previous strike head-on. This was the gap in talent. No matter how hard one worked at cultivating, it was difficult to make up for it.

As for Ivy’s strike just now, Una actually knew some information about it. During her free time, she had once heard her teacher mention that Ivy cultivated the top-tier Cultivation Technique, Taiyin True Understanding. That move just now was almost certainly the core martial art attached to this Cultivation Technique, the Taiyin Blade Chapter.

After Ivy made her move, the pressure on everyone present immediately plummeted. The Half-Elf maiden had killed more than half of the Undead Monsters all by herself. In just over a dozen breaths of Time, the hundreds of Undead Monsters were completely wiped out by the group. Only a few people in the team suffered minor injuries, and no one died. After drinking a potion, their injuries quickly healed as if they had never happened.

Taking advantage of the moment to catch their breath, the disciples began to search around the battlefield. They inspected the skeletal remains one by one, flipping through the scattered armor fragments and broken weapons. But after a full sweep, everyone frowned.

"A bunch of paupers. They’ve got nothing," a disciple said, kicking a broken sword hilt by his foot with obvious disappointment. "It’s all just ordinary weapons."

Another disciple flipped a shield over, threw it back onto the ground, and shook his head. "They don’t even count as Magic Equipment, let alone Spiritual Weapons."

Una noticed Ivy frowning slightly as if pondering something. "What’s wrong?" she asked.

Ivy glanced at her. "Logically speaking, a place like this where a large number of Undead creatures gather should have dense Yin Qi. But along the way, I haven’t sensed even a tiny bit of Yin Qi."

Yin Qi was what the Dawn Continent called Death Qi.

Reminded by Ivy, Una only realized this in hindsight. Indeed, although the air in this wilderness was damp and cold, it was very clean. There was absolutely no trace of Death Qi to be seen. This was definitely not a naturally occurring situation. Even so, since they had already come this far, they couldn’t just turn back because of a slight anomaly.

The group quickly regrouped and continued to advance across the plains, only this time they were even more cautious than before. The dust gradually thickened beneath their feet, and the broken flagpoles and armor fragments along the way became increasingly dense.

At the same time, the number of adventurers’ corpses also increased. Battered corpses covered in wounds lay haphazardly on the ground. Judging from the traces of the wounds, the Time of death wasn’t that long ago.

After encountering corpses once again, Ivy suddenly spoke up. "Something’s not right."

Una stared blankly for a moment. "What’s wrong?"

Ivy’s gaze swept over the corpses on the ground. "The postures of these corpses are a bit strange."

Everyone fixed their eyes on them, recalled the corpses they had seen along the way, and quickly realized it as well.

"The postures of those corpses... they all look like they were caught and killed while running away."

"The key is that the direction they were fleeing in was opposite to the entrance. This is very abnormal."

"It’s like they were a herd of driven beasts..."

The crowd looked at each other, expressions of shock and uncertainty appearing on all their faces. However, with too few clues, they could only temporarily suppress their doubts and continue forward. And the further they went, the more corpses there were.

It wasn’t long before the view ahead finally underwent a Transformation. On the grayish-white horizon, a blurry outline slowly rose.