"This carriage ride is not cheap. The last time I took it was three years ago. This time, thanks to your favor, I get to experience it again," Wei Jian said with a smile.

"Senior Brother Wei, are there any tips for selecting corpses later?" a female disciple asked coquettishly.

Wei Jian smiled but did not speak.

The young man who first comprehended qi sensing, Rong Xuejian, said, "The grass corpses you can select have their heads exposed.

Look at the array patterns carved on their heads. The deeper the patterns, the older they usually are."

"You know a lot, but having a long age doesn't necessarily mean it's good," Wei Jian smiled and said, "Selecting a grass corpse also depends on personal fate, others can't help."

Soon after, the carriage arrived at the foot of Corpse Planting Peak.

The mountain was shrouded in gray smoke, thick miasma, and the vegetation and mountain body were completely obscured.

"This is the Clearing Miasma Pill. Take one, and it will be effective for three hours," Wei Jian distributed the Clearing Miasma Pills to everyone.

Lou Yi put it away without intending to take it.

The group climbed the mountain, visibility not exceeding fifty feet and constantly decreasing.

They arrived at a pavilion, inside which sat a black-robed elder in meditation.

"Elder Zhuang," Wei Jian bowed respectfully.

The elder was dressed in black, ageless, with jet-black hair and yellow eyes, expression cold and stern.

He said nothing more and waved his hand, causing a wooden spade to appear at each person's feet.

This precise control of magic left many disciples inwardly excited.

"Each person can only dig up one corpse. Violators will be expelled from the sect." The elder in black said only this one sentence.

The group immediately scattered, entering the Corpse Forest to seek their fortunes.

As they went deeper, they found the miasma thickening, reducing visibility from fifty to less than thirty feet.

After a few steps, Lou Yi noticed a corpse buried next to his feet.

Only the shiny bald head was exposed, covered with dense black networked patterns.

'Energy +2, would you like to absorb it?'

Such a prompt suddenly appeared in the Attribute Panel.

This corpse seemed aged, far more than a week, yet energy could still be extracted?

Previously, Lou Yi could only gather energy from corpses that met two main conditions:

First, they died unnaturally; second, they had not been dead for long, usually within a week.

This was the first time encountering one outside those conditions.

The corpses refined by the Corpse-Driving Sect were indeed exceptional.

"No." For the first time in his life, Lou Yi refused the suggestion of the Attribute Panel.

It was easy to see that absorbing the energy would not be beneficial for the corpse.

Wei Jian had mentioned that the Corpse Forest was the foundation of the Corpse-Driving Sect.

He would not damage the sect's foundation for personal gain.

He was not that desperate for energy, truly not.

Moreover, who knew if a sect master would notice after doing so?

As he moved deeper, more prompts like '+2', '+5', '+3' came, but Lou Yi did not act rashly.

His heart was stirred; did the energy level indicated by the Attribute Panel reflect the strength of the corpse?

If so, he should choose the corpse with the highest value.

With this plan in mind, Lou Yi further expanded his exploration range.

The deeper he went, the lower the visibility became, unable to see even two feet away.

Moreover, the miasma seemed to block the five senses, making sounds and smells hard to detect.

"Ah..."

With a quiet cry, he felt a warm, soft body fall into his arms.

In an instant, their eyes met, each seeing the other's surprise.

"Is it you?"

The one who bumped into Lou Yi was none other than General You's daughter, You Qingyi.

Light as if without bones, her skin was snow-white, exuding a faint fragrance.

She quickly stood up from Lou Yi's embrace, smoothing her hair somewhat unnaturally.

"Sorry, I can't see anything here."

"It's alright, be more careful."

After this minor incident, the two parted ways.

With Lou Yi's current level, he wouldn't easily be bumped into by others.

However, the strong perception of a martial artist just told him there was no danger, so he didn't dodge.

'Energy +5, would you like to absorb it?'

'Energy +13, would you like to absorb it?'

Lou Yi suddenly stopped in his tracks.

The energy of thirteen points was the highest he had encountered thus far.

He walked around the target Spirit Corpse, forcibly memorizing the location, continuing to search inside.

If he couldn't find a higher one, he would choose this body.

"Alas, they all seem similar, let's choose this one."

Lou Yi saw a somewhat familiar young man digging out a corpse nearby.

The male corpse lay motionless, eyes tightly closed, requiring brute force to carry it out.

As time passed, people continued to dig up corpses and carry them out of the Corpse Forest.

Lou Yi remained unmoved, continuing to search.

Perhaps due to his going too deep, when he reached a position close to the mountain top, the Attribute Panel no longer gave any prompts.

'Seems there's no corpse buried here. Never mind, I'll choose the one with the most energy just now.'

With this thought, Lou Yi turned to leave but abruptly stopped in his tracks.

'Sss... sss...'

A very subtle rustling sound came, just slightly louder than ants crawling on the ground.

If not for Lou Yi's senses far surpassing normal, he wouldn't have noticed it at all.

He stepped toward the source of the sound, narrowing his eyes slightly at what he saw before him.

A bald head, marked with black lines, was exposed above ground, with the rest of the body hidden in the earth.

There was indeed another corpse buried here.

But oddly, the Attribute Panel gave no indication—was it an oversight, or was there another reason?

Hesitant over whether to dig it up, Lou Yi suddenly heard the rustling again.

'It's moving; it wants to come out.' This thought flashed through his mind.

So, he hesitated no more, grabbed the wooden spade bestowed by the elder, and started digging, doing his old work.

With a few swift movements, he unearthed a male corpse covered with black, irregular lines.

The corpse was hairless, browless, beardless, its eyes tightly shut, having a regular appearance but a resolute expression, looking about thirty.

Its skin was pale, lips purple.

The body had a streamlined musculature, not much different from a veteran martial artist, hinting at the great strength hidden beneath.

Lou Yi reached out to squeeze the male corpse's arm to carry it out.

The other suddenly shifted slightly to the side, its eyes snapping open, with amber yellow pupils surrounded by a ring of bright red!

'Whoosh!'

The male corpse extended a pale hand, abruptly grabbing at Lou Yi!

Due to its speed, it even made a sharp sound as it cut through the air.

'Snap!'

The next moment, Lou Yi had grabbed it by the neck, lifting it up, its limbs flailing wildly like claws.

"What on earth?"

Others' corpses were extremely still, needing their owners to carry them out.

The one he unearthed seemed peculiar, even trying to counterattack?

Lou Yi wouldn't indulge it, gripping the male corpse by the neck, forcibly dragging it outward.

Outside the Corpse Forest, a lively scene was taking place at the moment.

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