"Hey, what’s your name? Gu Gu Ga Ga?"

With one hand, Chen Xuantian used the Returning Void Hand to continue controlling the opponent, while with the other hand, he poked this guy’s face with the sword. He found that the Dragon Abyss Treasure Sword couldn’t even leave a mark on her face, which made him feel a bit uneasy.

"Gu Gu Ga Ga!"

The Zombie Sister was still struggling desperately. Not only did her flesh not dissolve, but she was also biting ferociously at the tendrils. However, her Devouring Tiger and Ripping Dragon bite couldn’t leave the slightest mark on the tendrils, and she couldn’t break free at all.

Although he didn’t quite understand why the Returning Void Hand couldn’t strike this guy back to the Void with one move, at least this little girl still had some semblance of a nose and a face, indicating that the situation wasn’t too dire.

So, Chen Xuantian let Cui Cui tie up Gu Gu Ga Ga for the time being, dangling her in midair as a human shield. Then he had Mian Mian protect his body, guarding against attacks from other directions, and finally sent Meimei to lift the coffin lid.

"Bang!" With a loud noise, the gold and silver jewelry buried with the coffin scattered all over the ground, revealing a huge hole underneath, covered by the coffin. At a glance, it seemed like a deep, bottomless underground cave, leading to an unknown destination.

"Gu Gu?"

The Zombie Sister stopped struggling for a moment, staring at the cave with a look of confusion.

Seeing her calm down, Chen Xuantian gestured for Cui Cui to loosen her grip slightly, no longer covering the Zombie Sister’s mouth, and pointed at the cave, asking,

"It wasn’t there before, right?"

The Zombie Sister was bewildered,

"It wasn’t... how do you know?"

Chen Xuantian smirked,

"Although zombies don’t have brains, a thousand-year-old Flying Corpse can still become a spirit, gradually developing Spiritual Wisdom like demons and regaining the intelligence they had in life.

Though, to be honest, you didn’t seem too bright in life either, but you shouldn’t be dumb enough to be trapped for eight thousand years without thinking to lift the bed and see if there’s a way out."

Before he finished speaking, Cui Cui suddenly swung the Zombie Sister, flinging her outside like a cannonball, straight through the tomb’s passageway, and just as she was about to fly out the tomb gate, as expected, "DONG!" she collided with an air wall and was bounced back.

"Gu Gu Ga Ga!!!"

The Zombie Sister was furious, baring her teeth and claws as she lunged at Chen Xuantian.

But her power was clearly severely weakened now, and the tendrils had grown as thick as giant pythons. They punched and kicked Mian Mian, causing no harm at all, unable to get close.

Obviously, during their tug-of-war earlier, although they couldn’t refine her back to the Void, her entire body of Vigorous Qi had been absorbed by the tendrils. Her speed and strength had lost the Inner Strength boost, and now she was just recklessly flailing around with her formidable physical attributes.

Chen Xuantian wasn’t relying on defense to hold his ground, nor was he rushing to fight back. Instead, he used this opportunity for practical training with the Returning Void Hand.

While tightly protecting his body with Mian Mian like a fat leech acting as a meat shield, he operated the long arms of Meimei and Cui Cui, stretched out like monkeys to tug and move, flitting around the tomb, seamlessly dodging the Zombie Sister’s pouncing and collisions.

The Zombie Sister wasn’t entirely foolish, quite aware that her Physical Strength had been drained by the evil tendrils. After attacking for a while without effect, she realized that Chen Xuantian was using her to practice leveling techniques, and she decided to stop. She gritted her teeth and ran back to her room, lifting the stone slab in the corner to dig out a pile of lichen and mushrooms for healing and nourishment on the spot.

Chen Xuantian followed and looked on,

"Blood Ganoderma Corpse Mushroom, Visual Flesh Tai Sui Emperor Dragon Mushroom... Wow, not bad, you’ve got some top-tier stuff that’s hard to find even with a lantern. No wonder you’ve been preserved God’s wise for thousands of years, with such well-nourished Qi color. They’ve really invested in raising you." 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

The Zombie Sister glared at him fiercely, focusing on stuffing things into her mouth to replenish Qi.

Chen Xuantian knew that relying solely on these wild delicacies wasn’t enough to satisfy a zombie, but looking at the piles of jars and bottles scattered around, he also understood that the Immortal Elixirs here were once accumulated like mountains but had long been eaten empty by her over these years. Clearly, the person who set this up had calculated everything neatly to this day. Judging from how the Zombie Sister was bounced back by the air wall earlier when she tried to escape, this Yellow Gutter Filling inevitably also contained highly profound Ancient Dao layouts, impossible to break free without becoming a Female Ba.

However, it seemed that the Zombie Sister was quite clear-headed, not exhibiting the madness of a vengeful spirit or evil ghost. And since she couldn’t get out, the people outside must have diverted the river and excavated the tomb, causing corpse energy to leak and turn into living dead. It wasn’t her doing. Thus, rather than saying she was deliberately imprisoned here, unable to transcend, it seemed more like the person who arranged this was using her as the Array Eye in the setup to suppress something else...

So Chen Xuantian returned to the hole beneath the coffin, took a look, and calculated,

"Do you remember who arranged your tomb?"

The Zombie Sister spat out a mushroom, cursing,

"I’m dead, how would I know!"

Chen Xuantian wasn’t surprised either. Honestly, with so many scheming in this setup and the Heavenly Mechanism being chaotic, the most innocent one was this Zombie Sister. It was clear from just one calculation that she was buried here as a child for corpse cultivation, and one blink of an eye, she’d been imprisoned for thousands of years. Her entire life was stuck in a tomb eating wild mushrooms, engaged in spirit marriages, and being refined into a Female Ba. About the catastrophe ahead, she had no idea what was coming or whether she could survive it. Even if she crossed the tribulation, she’d likely be drawn into the Three Great Sects’ struggles, caught between the Mystic Sect and Demon Sect, never truly finding liberation.

But there’s no helping it, in this Taiji Realm’s harsh reality: all beings under heaven are merely chess pieces, and this world is merely the chessboard for the Supreme God to play on, with beings of all kinds calculated within the game.