After two days of recuperating from her injuries, Lin Xuan was constantly being held by Xia Feng and given various blood-nourishing soups and medicines. She began to regret that she had gone too far in her pretense.

Actually, after Xiao Huang licked her wound that day, she was fine after a nap. What happened later was just her usual fussy and dramatic behavior with her brother.

After drinking tonics and supplements for two days, Lin Xuan finally started having nosebleeds, and Xia Feng stopped giving her water.

In the past two days, Lin Xuan had seen zombies flash by in the mirror several times. Lin Xuan guessed that this might be a mid-level zombie that was about to evolve into a high-level one.

Lin Xuan and Xia Feng hadn't seen the zombie in the previous week. Perhaps it was because Lin Xuan had converted the energy around the pagoda into energy cakes and collected it, which led to the zombie being drawn out.

But the zombie severely injured Lin Xuan, and they were bound to have a fierce battle.

On the third day after Lin Xuan was injured, her wounds healed without a trace thanks to Xia Feng's occasional licking of Xiao Huang and the various nourishing soups.

Lin Xuan was also radiant and full of energy. She decided to go out with her brother to confront the thing that dared to ambush her.

After seeing the figure flash by in the mirror again, Xia Feng and Lin Xuan left the space back to back.

Lin Xuan had previously entered the space while suspended at the top of the tower, and this time she also emerged in mid-air. Her invisible vines quickly hooked onto the top of the tower, bound Xia Feng, and then intertwined to form a platform beneath them for them to stand on.

Xia Feng, exuding a murderous aura, surveyed the area around the pagoda. The nine-story pagoda remained eerily quiet, with no mutated creature daring to intrude.

The two remained silent, standing in the air for a long while. Suddenly, a murderous aura rose from below, and Xia Feng frowned deeply. "They're here!"

Accompanied by murderous intent, a whirlwind swept towards the two, with wind blades hidden within it, instantly shattering the vines supporting their feet.

Xia Feng reacted quickly, reaching out to push out a whirlwind to block. The two whirlwinds collided in mid-air, and the resulting shockwave threw the two of them away.

Lin Xuan quickly used vines to pierce the ground, stabilizing the two of them. After sending Xia Feng to the ground, she concealed herself, moving away from the battle to facilitate a surprise attack later.

Xia Feng, meanwhile, faced off against the zombie that had severely injured Lin Xuan. His eyes were filled with killing intent, but the monster opposite him was no less formidable.

The zombie's body was covered in bulging cysts, which rose and fell like a heartbeat. Its thick limbs supported the cyst-covered torso, and Xia Feng couldn't even tell where the head was.

Without hesitation, he stepped forward to face the attacking zombie head-on. With no outsiders present, he activated all five of his supernatural abilities and lashed out at the monster.

The Wind and Thunder Twin Blades were aimed directly at the monster's face. Xia Feng's body was covered with a layer of hard metal. His steel claws grabbed one of the zombie's arms, and he used a mound of earth to seal the monster's lower body. He pulled hard, and lightning crackled around the joints. The monster's arm was torn off alive.

"Hehehe————"

The monster, having lost a limb, roared angrily to the sky and quickly created a whirlwind that broke through the earthen wall binding its body, leaping backward a great distance before daring not to approach again.

However, Xia Feng was determined to kill it. Lightning bolts struck it repeatedly, wind blades chased after it, and the ice on the ground was churned up from time to time. The soil buried under the ice was turned up and wrapped around the zombie's remaining three limbs.

The zombie fled in a sorry state, no match for Xia Feng at all, yet it was easy to kill but not kill, making it quite troublesome.

The monster was afraid of the mounds of dirt that kept tangling around it, so it used its remaining legs and arms to climb the tower. Before it had climbed halfway up, Lin Xuan used her invisible vines to whip it so hard that it fell off the tower.

The zombies had just fallen from the pagoda when they faced the earth spike and wind blade traps set by Xia Feng. If they landed on them, they would inevitably be torn to pieces.

But this thing was exceptionally agile. It landed in mid-air, quickly grabbed a protruding corner of the tower, and with a powerful push, launched itself straight out, avoiding Xia Feng's subsequent attack.

Xia Feng relentlessly chased after it, continuing to beat it up from behind.

Seeing that things were going badly and the zombie was about to run out of the pagoda circle, Xia Feng was not going to let it escape like that. He pressed one hand to the ground and used his earth-elemental ability to raise a high earthen wall in front of the thing to block it.

The monster, cornered and enraged, turned around and charged straight at Xia Feng. Xia Feng slapped it hard across the face and slammed it to the ground. Several powerful lightning strikes followed, smashing the zombie into the ground, almost turning it into a meat patty.

The flattened zombie finally quieted down, and it was unclear whether it was truly dead. Lin Xuan, clinging to the pagoda, stretched out a vine to poke it and confirm, but the mess was too disgusting to touch.

Just as Xia Feng was hesitating whether to finish off the enemy, a sudden change occurred. The mass of flesh suddenly swelled up, accompanied by a sharp whirlwind that stirred up sand and stones all around.

Lin Xuan's invisibility vines failed to retract in time and were broken into several pieces. With a snap, they retracted, and Lin Xuan quickly disappeared again, blending into the air.

At the center of the whirlwind, the monster continued to expand and grow, becoming several times larger than before. Its limbs also regenerated, and a round, head-like fleshy ball bulged out from its torso.

Xia Feng knew he couldn't let the monster grow, so he used his superpower to throw it at the growing lump of flesh without restraint.

Lin Xuan was hanging on the tower and couldn't help. There were no mutated plants growing nearby, and Lin Xuan had no energy to borrow. She could only watch from afar as her brother fought against the zombie that was about to evolve into a higher level.

Yes, this zombie is probably about to advance to a higher level, Lin Xuan judged as she looked at the ever-expanding ball of flesh.

The energy in this area is so rich that it's not surprising that this zombie, which has been lurking here, absorbed energy to advance its level.

Lin Xuan guessed correctly. This zombie was originally nestled in the Buddhist pagoda with the most concentrated energy, quietly absorbing it, waiting to upgrade into a higher-level zombie.

Who knew that Lin Xuan, the master of empty promises, would steal all the surrounding energy? How could it not be angry?

Because of Xia Feng's relentless attacks, the monster's advancement was extremely difficult, and its growing body was constantly being attacked, with flesh and blood flying everywhere.

After barely managing to grow limbs, it simply ignored everything and fled, managing to enter the nine-story pagoda in a few leaps.

If Xia Feng enters the tower, he won't be able to unleash his attacks, allowing that thing to successfully evolve into a high-level zombie. High-level zombies are not easy to deal with; in his previous life, even with the Ice and Fire Song team, Xia Feng couldn't kill a single one.

Xia Feng activated his earth-elemental power to dig up the foundation beneath the pagoda, intending to topple it and deprive the zombie of its shelter.

Lin Xuan flipped down from the pagoda, and for some reason, she suddenly had a thought. The invisibility vine connected the nine-story wooden pagoda, and the whole thing was stored in the underground warehouse of the space.

The pagoda suddenly vanished, revealing an evolving zombie digging at its base...

Zombie, Xia Feng, and Lin Xuan were all stunned for a moment.