However, Long Haochen couldn’t show weakness at this moment. Seeing the Zombie King retreat into the zombie horde, he immediately understood that the Zombie King was afraid of his attribute. He gritted his teeth, not allowing himself to reveal any sign of weakness. The intense Sun Fire rose again, even more powerfully than before.

Ya Ting’s spellcasting was also completed at this moment. A strange golden-red halo instantly appeared above Long Haochen’s head, then slowly descended, enveloping his body. Instantly, Long Haochen’s Glorious Holy Armor completely turned golden-red, and the Sun Fire around his body no longer rose and danced, but turned into a golden-red liquid, directly forming a halo around his body.

This liquid halo, like a moat protecting a city, slowly rotated. The light element around Long Haochen’s body was so dense that the entire area within dozens of square meters turned a faint gold.

The Zombie King gasped. It could feel that this human was far inferior to itself in strength, but this human’s Light attribute was the strongest it had ever seen. It was simply too powerful. It really didn’t know what would happen if that golden-red liquid touched its body. It would probably lead to severe damage to its soul.

With so many minions, although the Zombie King desperately wanted to kill Hao Yue, it valued its own life even more. It immediately stopped charging forward and instead directed its zombie minions to charge at Long Haochen.

Just as Ya Ting had said, zombies were indeed much stronger than skeletons. These zombies quickly charged up the mountainside, and as soon as they approached the luminous aura around Long Haochen’s body, their speed immediately slowed down. However, they still slowly leaped towards Long Haochen, trying to attack him.

Ya Ting knew best what state Long Haochen’s body was in. She knew that Long Haochen needed her to cast spells to recover. With a flash, she immediately came to his side. With her staff pointed forward, ordinary Light Arrows constantly flew from the top of the staff, each strike targeting the zombies’ heads, because that was where their souls gathered.

Instantly, golden lights flew across the mountainside, and one zombie after another was destroyed by Ya Ting’s Light Arrows. They couldn’t resist this kind of Light magic at all. Ya Ting’s gaze, however, remained fixed on the Zombie King, who was commanding its subordinates from within the zombie horde. The reason she didn’t use powerful magic was to guard against a sudden attack from the Zombie King.

Long Haochen got a breather and hurriedly adjusted the spiritual power within his body. After his awakening, his own strength had greatly increased again, but he had not yet had a chance to adapt. Moreover, he had suddenly encountered such a powerful being as the Zombie King, so he had suffered quite a loss.

Fortunately, his external spiritual power had also made considerable progress with this awakening. Otherwise, he would have lost his fighting ability after that blow.

After simply moving his body, Long Haochen immediately felt much better, and the rich Light element within his body quickly healed his injuries. His combat power quickly recovered to more than 80%.

With a flash, Long Haochen stepped forward and came to the front, and the Light of Purification in his hand swept out again. It was still the Light Slash Sword, but this time it was the Light Slash Sword plus the Light Ripple.

Instantly, at least a dozen zombies were cut in two under the Light Slash Sword. However, a terrifying scene also appeared: although the zombies’ bodies were cut in two, the severed parts were still crawling on the ground, attacking Long Haochen.

“What strong vitality.” Long Haochen thought to himself. Ya Ting hurriedly said, “Their vital point is in their heads. Nowhere else is fatal.”

“Okay.” Long Haochen responded. The light on the Light of Purification in his hand flashed again, this time changing to Demon Slayer Flash, accurately piercing the heads of the zombies and destroying their soul fires.

The zombies’ defense was incomparable to that of the skeletons. Their heads were very hard. Ya Ting’s Light Arrows were even more effective than Long Haochen’s Demon Slayer Flash, because she chose the eyes of these zombies. However, after Long Haochen attacked, he immediately felt the huge threat from the Zombie King, so he naturally didn’t dare to focus more energy on dealing with ordinary zombies, and couldn’t wholeheartedly fight them. Sometimes, the Demon Slayer Flash stabbed into the zombies’ frontal bones and couldn’t pierce their heads, requiring an additional attack.

However, it was impossible for these zombies to hurt Long Haochen either. The magic Ya Ting cast on Long Haochen was called Sun Ring, a powerful sixth-tier Light-based magic that integrated offense and defense. In addition, Long Haochen and Ya Ting themselves had strong Light attributes. Any zombie approaching Long Haochen within a certain range would be directly scorched by the Sun Ring, and their bodies would quickly turn into a cloud of ashes. And for every zombie scorched, the intensity of the light element on the Sun Ring would also weaken.

The number of zombies was increasing, and the powerful zombies that Ya Ting had mentioned earlier were gradually appearing.

Wraith Zombies were zombies that were extremely fast and could launch mental attacks. The detestable thing about these zombies was that they were more intelligent than other zombies. They didn’t actively attack Long Haochen and Ya Ting, but instead tried to bypass them from the side and directly enter the cave.

This undoubtedly greatly restrained Long Haochen’s actions, preventing him from leaving the entrance for even a moment.

Moreover, these Wraith Zombies came and went like the wind. Because Long Haochen couldn’t leave the cave entrance, his Demon Slayer Flash sometimes couldn’t hit these Wraith Zombies.

In addition to Wraith Zombies, the enemies Long Haochen and the others were facing head-on had also become Metal Zombies. The appearances of these Metal Zombies were very obvious: iron-gray Iron Zombies, bronze-colored Bronze Zombies, silver Silver Zombies, and the most terrifying Gold Zombies.

The reason why Gold Zombies were terrifying was that they could actually use some Necromantic magic. This Necromantic magic itself was already quite strong, and it was also long-range, so Long Haochen had no energy to rush out and kill them.

Iron Zombies were at least at the fourth tier of strength, Bronze Zombies could reach the fifth tier, Silver Zombies were sixth-tier in melee combat, and Gold Zombies were sixth-tier in ranged attacks. These powerful frontal zombies launched attacks together, making it increasingly difficult for Long Haochen to cope.

However, although these zombies were powerful, Long Haochen could still resist them for the time being. The most annoying thing to him was a zombie that was entirely purplish-red and had a large belly.

Only two of these zombies had appeared, but it was these two that almost breached the defenses of him and Ya Ting working together.

These zombies were not fast, and they didn’t directly participate in the attack. They were even directly thrown at Long Haochen by the Gold Zombies.

When Long Haochen’s attack landed on the first of these purplish-red zombies, its body instantly exploded, and large patches of purplish-red liquid splashed everywhere.

The Sun Ring on Long Haochen’s body disappeared under the erosion of this purplish-red liquid. Without the protection of the Sun Ring, Long Haochen was immediately in danger, forcing him to use the Spotless Circular Sword to barely repel the surrounding zombies.

And when the second of these purplish-red zombies flew over, Ya Ting was unable to dodge and a few drops of the purplish-red liquid fell on her body. She immediately let out a scream, and a bright mist rose from her body, but her aura clearly began to weaken. She had suffered a not-insignificant injury.

“This is a Poison Explosion Zombie.” Long Haochen finally knew. After Ya Ting called out this name, she gritted her teeth and retreated, quickly dispelling the poison from her body.

The purplish-red poison was very domineering. Even the rocks on the ground were corroded and showed small depressions, and it was accompanied by an extremely unpleasant smell. Even more terrifying, it could corrode spiritual power. Long Haochen’s Holy Light Barrier, enhanced by Light Ripple, couldn’t resist its corrosion at all. After the two Poison Explosion Zombies appeared, Long Haochen and Ya Ting’s situation had become precarious.

However, at this moment, Long Haochen’s own combat power was also fully displayed. His left hand raised the Glorious Holy Shield to block, and his right hand, the Light of Purification, was sure to kill a zombie with every attack. The rich Light element constantly burst out from his body, as if his spiritual power was inexhaustible.

Facing him head-on were four Silver Zombies. The silvery-white bodies of these Silver Zombies were extremely tough. Even if the Light of Purification, which was elementally effective against them, struck them, it would only leave a mark. Moreover, these higher-level zombies were very clever. Once Long Haochen launched a powerful skill like Holy Sword, these Silver Zombies would immediately pull a zombie behind them to block for them, while they quickly retreated.

Fortunately, there weren’t many Gold and Silver Zombies. Until now, there had only been four of each. Even so, Long Haochen was beginning to find it more and more difficult to cope.

If it weren’t for Hao Yue, if it weren’t for the Zombie King commanding the zombies to attack from afar, Long Haochen would have been confident in killing these eight powerful zombies. But where would there be so many “ifs”?

Thrust, Charge, and Momentum – these skills were simply unusable for Long Haochen now. He used the Divine Protection Parry and Consecutive Parry the most, followed by Shield Bash and Light Slash Sword, which were small and very practical skills.

Even so, his spiritual power was being consumed continuously. Long Haochen even vaguely saw the Zombie King quietly approaching the battlefield, obviously looking for an opportunity to give him a fatal blow.

With a cold snort, the Light of Purification in Long Haochen’s right hand once again transformed into a powerful Demon Slayer Flash. Whenever he launched similar attacks, those Silver Zombies had a good method. Each of them directly pulled two ordinary zombies to block Long Haochen’s attacks, and it was difficult for the effect of Holy Light Fire to land on these Silver Zombies. Even if the power of Holy Light Fire did touch their bodies, the Gold Zombies behind them would immediately use the body fluids of other zombies to help them put out the fire, and their cooperation was extremely tacit.

Therefore, although Long Haochen had killed a large number of zombies, the pressure he was under was increasing.

(To be continued)