My Zombie Husband

Chapter 83 Fall out

Translator: Cheryl_M

“It’s the newly formed demonic essence. Haha, What a big surprise!” Xia Mingyu jabbed at Zhao Yun with his elbow, suggesting him to look at the bright red bead. “Yun, I want that one.”

“Sure.” Zhao Yun jumped down with him. Xia Mingyu grabbed the red bead with his spare hand. Instantly, the silver vines attacked him crazily. The Tiyue Tang Sword wrapped by the demonic flame became incomparably sharp, which easily cut off the silver vines.

The bright red bead held in his palm reflected the young man’s deep purple eyes. Because the situation was urgent, he didn’t have the chance to wear his colored contact lenses. Zhao Yun clearly noticed that something was wrong, so his gaze at the young man became much more complicated.

The burning demonic flames burnt the silver vines to charcoal in the blink of an eye. The main root of the silver vines didn’t move any longer. Xia Mingyu used his Tiyue Tang Sword to make a hole, turned around, put the demonic flame back into his hand and sheathed the Tiyue Tang Sword before walking out with Zhao Yun at ease.

“Yu!” The moment Xia Mingyu exited the main root of the silver vines, he was held into the arms by Wu Jiuge. Wu Jiuge was still wearing a female outfit, so Zhao Yun didn’t recognize him. On the contrary, Xia Mingyu did. He was stunned for a moment and when he composed himself, he saw the gloomy face of Zhao Yun.

“Wu… Wu Jiuge, you can let go of me now…” Xia Mingyu retreated uncomfortably. Except for Zhao Yun, he had never hugged anyone in the status of Evil Soul, but he obviously thought too simple.

Wu Jiuge whispered to his ears in a purposefully low voice, “I sensed the Qi of Evil Soul just now. Zhao Yun… Anyway, you go with me later.”

It seemed that Wu Jiuge could tell the Qi of the demonic flame. Yet, he trusted Xia Mingyu too much that he regarded Zhao Yun was the Evil Soul. Xia Mingyu frowned, hesitating whether to explain. As he looked up, he happened to meet the teasing look of Cao Pi behind Wu Jiuge.

Oh shoot. There were so many people coveting him right now. He might get into big trouble if he acted recklessly… Gosh, what a bummer…

However, someone came to help him out. Sun Yaxin and Chiji came down from the cliff.

“What are you doing? Hey, why are the silver vines dead?” Sun Yaxin leaned over to the dead silver vines curiously and began to look into them. Wu Jiuge let go of Xia Mingyu, and then intentionally stayed beside the young man. Zhao Yun didn’t say a word but just looked at Xia Mingyu with a poker face.

Xia Mingyu bypassed them two in secret and walked to the main root of the silver vines. The silver vines shouldn’t have died. Without the demonic essence, the silver vines should have turned to normal vines and been unable to leave the place. However, since it hindered Xia Mingyu from getting the demonic essence. The Evil Soul was not a pushover, who always remembered to stamp out the source of trouble.

With the demonic essence in his palm, the Qiye Bead worked really well, which made the spirit transferred into his body constantly and thus relieved his exhaustion due to the insufficient soul power. Xia Mingyu was aware that apart from Zhao Yun, who was not in the know, and Wu Jiuge, who guessed wrongly, Sun Yaxin, possessed by another soul wouldn’t feel about the Evil Soul. Chiji had known that he was the Evil Soul. Then what about Cao Pi?

Xia Mingyu took out his Tiyue Tang Sword to cut off the fundamental root of the silver vines. Then he turned around and aimed at Chiji with the Tiyue Tang Sword.

“Hm?” Apparently, his sudden action took the others present by surprise. Xia Mingyu smiled. Perhaps the Heavenly Soul might not know why the silver vines, which were so far away, happened to appear in the place where they had hidden themselves. However, the Evil Soul knew that the silver vines were obviously attracted by Chiji.

“Are you done feigning?” Xia Mingyu’s purple eyes became cold and brutal. Blood Demon was a kind of demon too and it also had its own consciousness like werewolf, which was the most difficult one to control. He didn’t care about it at all, but since Chiji was coveting the Heavenly Soul, he couldn’t let go of her then.

“Oh, Mingyu, what are you talking about? I can’t understand.” Chiji seemed not worried at all. With a smile, Xia Mingyu’s eyes turned cold. He was about to stab at her with his Tiyue Tang Sword when Zhao Yun grabbed his hand.

The teenager looked at him in astonishment. His purple eyes were apparently shown. Xia Mingyu thought of that and quickly turned around. “Let go of me.”

“Something seems wrong with Mingyu. What is it? Let me guess. Oh, right, the silver vines were impetuous and impenetrable. How did they suddenly die just now? “Chiji was trying to mislead the people present with her half-narrowed eyes. Even Sun Yaxin started to ponder.

“Swish!” With the snake knife aiming at Zhao Yun, Wu Jiuge walked over with murderous eyes, “Let go of Yu.”

As soon as Wu Jiuge finished his words, Sun Yaxin also aimed his spear at him. It was like a drama. The situation suddenly became weird. Only Cao Pi looked like watching a play.

“Yu, what on earth is going on?” Zhao Yun asked without letting go of his hand. In his memory, Xia Mingyu wouldn’t try to hurt anyone. Even the King of Corpse didn’t notice that Chiji was hiding under the human skin.

Xia Mingyu glared at Chiji and silently put away the Tiyue Tang Sword. Now was not the best time to strike attack at her. Otherwise, Chiji would definitely disclose that he was the Evil Soul. Nevertheless, he couldn’t just let her sow discord all the time.

“She had something that attracted the silver vines.” Xia Mingyu suddenly approached Chiji, then whispered to her ears in a language that was only understandable by him and her, “Don’t think you can succeed. I hate unobedient subordinates.”

“Haha, is that so? Then, you must keep it in mind that the supply of magic cannot be cut off, or I’m not sure what will happen then.” Chiji smiled slightly. Xia Mingyu snorted coldly, and then took out a lipstick from her bag. “Don’t worry about this, because I will definitely kill those who covet my power.”

“The lipstick has lanolin in it, something that the silver vines liked.” Xia Mingyu shook the lipstick on his hand, threw it away with disdain and then showed the demonic essence, “Without the essence, of course it would die.”

Xia Mingyu cleared off their doubts, put the demonic essence back into his pocket, and walked to the other side alone. The rest people also withdrew the weapons and followed him silently.

They stepped onto the path of the tomb. It became dark again. Xia Mingyu was a little fretful for he was not sure when Chiji would activate the Qiansi Gu to let it transform faster. While thinking about it, he suddenly heard the sound of cracking wheels from the tomb, but clearly, he didn’t trigger any mechanism.

“Oh my god, I’m sorry. I triggered it accidentally.” Chiji innocently moved her foot away that triggered the mechanism. Before everyone could stop it, they heard a loud rumbling sound. Xia Mingyu was flung off-guard by Wu Jiuge, and when he was lying with his back against the ground, he saw that the path became beyond recognition.

The six of them were separated at once. Xia Mingyu looked at Wu Jiuge and Cao Pi in front of him. When he thought of Zhao Yun and the other two who had gone somewhere, he couldn’t help sighing. The trip was full of trouble indeed.

Wu Jiuge’s clothes had been broken when he was fighting with the silver vines before. As he flung at Xia Mingyu, his clothes were more heavily torn apart, leaving the clothes before Wu Jiuge’s chest and thigns rather ragged. Xia Mingyu looked at him and found a scratch at his collarbone, which seemed to be injured by the silver vines.

“Tsk, how long will you two remain that posture?” Cao Pi leaned against the stone wall, seeing one of them lying above the other. When he saw Wu Jiuge’s bare legs, his eyes darkened. Then he took off his coat and then threw it to Wu Jiuge.

Wu Jiuge’s head was covered by the coat. He tightly gripped his snake sword vigilantly and yet found that Cao Pi didn’t mean to take any further action. Xia Mingyu lay on the ground for a while and also couldn’t help saying, “Wu Jiuge, your dress is ragged. Put on the coat to cover it up…”

“It’s fine.” Wu Jiuge actually meant that they were all men, so he didn’t care that much. However, Cao Pi wouldn’t think so. He didn’t know that Wu Jiuge was not a woman, so he just glanced at them with a mocking look, “Don’t think about doing it in the tomb. It’s time to leave.”

“Crap!” Xia Mingyu blushed suddenly and couldn’t help cursing. Seeing Wu Jiuge’s calm reaction, Xia Mingyu was sure that he didn’t understand what Cao Pi actually meant at all.

Wu Jiuge took the coat away from his head and hesitated for a moment before wrapping his lower body with it. As for the broken part of the dress on his chest, he didn’t mind it at all. It was not a big deal to expose a bit of his collarbone.

“The path in this tomb has changed. That mechanism is unusual.” As Cao Pi spoke, a corpse appeared nearby. The three of them stopped by the corpse. The corpse was beginning to decay, full of holes through which a lot of white maggots were crawling in and out.

There were quite a few things next to the corpse. Cao Pi began to look over the things. “This person was not with us. The equipment is different. Luoyang shovel? He was from the South Sect…”

“The South Sect… He was with Mu Feng.” Xia Mingyu looked at the tomb in front of him and took the lead. Cao Pi and Wu Jiuge followed him. They could find a corpse once in a while on the way, exactly the same as the one they saw at first.

It wasn’t until they saw a corpse with its head and body seperated at the corner that they three were all shocked.

“The injury… It looks like someone twisted his head away alive.” Cao Pi checked the injury on his neck, saying, “His belly was penetrated and his heart was ripped out.”

“Strange. Why is this body different?” “Xia Mingyu looked at the surrounding stone walls and soon found something unusual. Part of the blood on the ground was missing. Probably it was transferred to other places when the path was switched. Seemingly, this person met a powerful monster alone, and the others were either starved or killed…

“Be careful!” Cao Pi’s voice came from behind. Xia Mingyu turned his head and saw the corpse standing up strangely. Wu Jiuge was held in Cao Pi’s arms. Wu Jiuge didn’t look alright with his arms covered with some green spots.

“Corpse poison? How come?” Xia Mingyu asked in surprise, and at the same time, he took out the Tiyue Tang Sword and quickly took care of the corpse. The corpse was chopped into two halves and was no longer able to move. He stood aside as a foil. He also stabbed though the brain with the Tiyue Tang Sword and threw it into the distance just in case that the head might move too.

“It should have been left behind by the thing that killed that person. It is stronger than the ordinary corpse poison. Wu Jiusi will die if not cured.” Cao Pi said calmly. Wu Jiuge’s face became worse and worse, and his breath was not stable either.