Is this what a zombie is?

88. Spiritual Belief Totems

Only cultivators and awakened beings with spiritual power can directly see the five-clawed golden dragon surging in the clouds; ordinary people cannot see it with their naked eyes.

But anyone with Chinese blood flowing through their veins will experience an indescribable, intense tremor at this moment, a sudden, overwhelming feeling of excitement.

It was as if some ancient memory deep within my bloodline had been awakened.

Not just this entire city, but the entire land of China, and even the entire planet Earth, all Chinese people who have Chinese blood and faith in China.

Countless people, whether resting at home or traveling, stopped what they were doing.

They seemed to hear ancient, grand, and solemn prayers echoing in their ears.

"May the weather be favorable...May the country be prosperous and the people at peace..."

May the world be at peace... and may prosperity last forever...

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At Dog Head Ridge, Nangong Erya got out of the car into the face of a gale strong enough to blow a person away, her high ponytail dancing wildly in the wind.

Lawyer Luo, who followed closely behind, looked rather disheveled. His sunglasses couldn't withstand the strong wind, so he had no choice but to put them away.

The two of them looked up at the dark sky at the same time.

Deep within those churning, dark clouds, a dazzling golden light unexpectedly tore through the thick cloud layer.

"hold head high--!!!"

A high-pitched, majestic dragon's roar, seemingly from the ancient wilderness, transcended physical barriers and resounded directly deep within their souls.

A sacred and majestic five-clawed golden dragon, its enormous body appearing and disappearing amidst the raging lightning, its golden scales shimmering with a light that was too dazzling to look at directly.

It simply existed there, and an indescribable, heavy pressure descended like the sky collapsing.

Faced with this oppressive aura, both Nangong Erya and Lawyer Luo felt a sinking feeling in their hearts; it was a suppression stemming from their bloodline.

"The five-clawed golden dragon totem... has actually been activated."

As a descendant of the Four Spirits family, Nangong Erya understood better than anyone what the five-clawed golden dragon totem meant.

It is not just a totem, but also represents the people of this land and the national cohesion over thousands of years.

It is faith, national spirit, and also destiny, the national fortune often mentioned in many online novels.

Li Lianying's actions have gone beyond the scope of calamity and seriously threaten the foundation of this land.

"Walk!"

Nangong Erya did not linger. Every second she delayed brought Li Lianying's conspiracy one step closer to success. She knew very well that what she had to do was to stop him as quickly as possible.

Before she finished speaking, her figure had already transformed into a pink afterimage, leaping into the deep darkness, with Attorney Luo following closely behind.

The deep pit stretched vertically downwards, and the howling wind whistled past their ears, but for Nangong Erya and Attorney Luo, this was nothing more than an appetizer.

After falling about 100 meters, the two landed lightly on a damp, rocky ground.

This is a wide passageway carved out by human hands. On the walls, the ghastly green zombie fungus, like living moss, densely covers every corner.

They emitted a faint green glow, flickering on and off, like countless evil eyes lurking in the darkness, watching for intruders.

"At the end of this road, continue down for several hundred meters, and that will be our destination."

With the precise location provided by Cat Master, the guide, Attorney Luo, quickly pinpointed the location and route.

"I'll clear the way."

Nangong Erya spoke succinctly and took the lead.

She slowly extended her fair right hand, palm facing up.

"call--"

A cluster of sky-blue flames suddenly rose up in her palm.

The Southern Fire of Li, the primordial fire inherited from the Vermilion Bird lineage, is the absolute nemesis of all evil and filth in the world.

However, not every member of the Nangong family can inherit the title; sometimes it's normal that only one person can succeed in several generations.

Roar--

In the darkness, countless figures emerged.

Zombies, all of them are zombies, from the lowest level walking corpses and jumping corpses, to purple zombies, green zombies, hairy zombies, and even bronze-armored zombies and silver-armored zombies.

Hundreds of zombies, a complete variety of species, representing all of Li Lianying's wealth accumulated over two hundred years.

The ghostly glow of zombie fungi spewed from their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses converged into a thick, green poisonous mist, which corroded even rocks with a hissing sound.

If an ordinary task force were to enter, they would likely be wiped out within a minute of being overwhelmed by this massive fungal infection, and soon they too would be infected and become new members of the zombie army.

Then, unlike Nangong Erya, she casually pushed the Nanming Li Fire in her palm forward.

The sky-blue flames transformed into a towering wall of fire several meters high in front of her, completely blocking the passage and preventing the zombie fungus from getting any closer.

Then Nangong Erya ran quickly, and as she moved, the wall of fire pushed forward.

Well, what happened next can only be described as a complete rout.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any deafening roar.

Wherever the wall of fire passed, everything fell silent.

Those fearless zombies, upon contact with the blue flames, didn't even have time to utter a scream before they melted and vaporized like ice and snow exposed to sunlight.

Whether it's a corpse harder than steel or an insidious zombie fungus, they don't even qualify as a speed bump in the face of this absolute purifying flame.

It ignites upon contact and burns to ashes upon contact.

The wall of fire advanced forward, ploughing through the entire passageway.

When the flames subsided, the passageway was empty, leaving only a layer of fine black ash and scorched, crystallized rock walls.

They swept through the enemy without any resistance whatsoever.

Lawyer Luo followed behind, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "It's so good to have a thousand-year-old tradition."

The efficiency of Nanming Li Huo in clearing monsters is truly remarkable.

The two didn't stop; one was responsible for the squeaking, and the other for the indiscriminate killing, carving a bloody path through the enemy lines.

Faced with absolute power, Li Lianying's ambushes and traps became useless jokes.

Soon, at the end of the passage, the outline of a magnificent underground palace appeared before the two of them.

"boom--!!!"

The gate to the underground palace was violently blasted open, and Nangong Erya and Lawyer Luo appeared at the entrance.

Inside the main hall, in the most prominent position—on the dragon throne—Ai Yi, upon seeing the two people at the entrance, was so moved that two streams of tears flowed down her cheeks.

If his body hadn't been completely controlled, leaving him no right to speak, he probably would have shouted, "Comrades, you've finally arrived!"

On the high platform, Li Lianying and "Jiang Chen," whose body had been possessed by the Blood Coral Tai Sui, both looked astonished.