"If you don't believe me, you can see it for yourself. Try absorbing a little power from the Gory Wind Source, and you'll surely feel it," Laura instructed Audrey, who appeared reluctant to believe.
"Okay, I'll give it a try!" answered Audrey enthusiastically. The truth was that she itching to have a try since she thought it would grant her a lot of benefits.
Once Ricky gave his permission, Audrey drew a tiny amount of power from his Gory Wind Source.
However, as soon as the power entered her body, Audrey felt like she was trapped in a world full of killing, and she was immediately overwhelmed. Her head throbbed like it was about to explode, while her meridians expanded as if they would burst any moment.
It was lucky that she drew only a minute amount of that power, or else it might have killed her on the spot. She then used all her strength to push out the power she had stubbornly taken. The pain dissipated as soon as the power disappeared.
"That was horrible! The massacring power felt like it was trying to tear me apart," Audrey gasped out as she grasped her chest with her trembling hands.
"Well, do you believe me now?" Laura asked dryly with an eyebrow raised.
"Yeah, yeah. I believe you," agreed Audrey, sounding breathless and still in a state of shock.
"Soar, you must be careful when you refine that power. Its blood vitality is so potent that it might corrupt your mind if you aren't careful," Laura reminded Ricky, looking at the boy seriously.
"Thank you for reminding me. I promise I'll be very careful," responded Ricky.
After that, Audrey led the group forward as they continued looking for more tokens.
They needed to find one more token, at the least, because Helen also wanted to participate in the Misty South Palace's selection.
After traveling for a few days, the group arrived in the depths of the Corpse Lair.
Of course, they had encountered a lot of dangerous things along the way. They ran into two hordes of powerful Blood Zombies and Devil Zombies.
As it was, these zombies didn't have psychic intelligence, so the group could run away from them.
In addition, Audrey's Sense Mutant helped them conceal their auras, which allowed them to escape the zombies undetected. That meant they had nothing to fear unless they came upon incredibly powerful zombies. As they went on their way, they also noticed other people, who weren't in their group, as they met their tragic ends.
The group tried to save some of those warriors as best as they could, but some unavoidably fell into the hands of the strong zombies. In the more gruesome instances, Ricky and his companions could only watch in horror, as these zombies tore those hapless warriors into shreds.
Finally, they arrived at another blood-colored space where Audrey sensed the tokens near a crevice.
They had already gone deep into the Corpse Lair. They made it so far that the only people who could rival them would probably be the members of the Black Flaming Phoenix tribe.
In this place, the growls and snarls of the zombies echoed eerily from time to time.
As they traveled longer and longer, they noticed that the deeper they went into the Corpse Lair, the more zombies were there.
"The token must be in the center of this space. But before we get to it, there are some obstacles we need to face," Audrey informed them with a frown.
"What are you talking about?" asked Laura at once, looking perplexed and alarmed.
But before her voice disappeared, shrill roars resounded through the air, and massive figures jumped out of the blood-colored gorge.
They were none other than the zombies.
The Blood Zombies had blood-colored skin, while the Devil Zombies had darker skin that looked almost black.
Amid the chaos, about fifty zombies abruptly appeared, surrounding them in a wall of crimson and black.
But Ricky and his companions shifted their gazes on the two bigger zombies positioned in front of the zombies, who seemed to be their leaders. One was a Blood Zombie and the other was a Devil Zombie. Both the two stood twice as tall as their own kind, leaving no doubt that these two were the strongest.
Judging from their auras, the two leaders both had the strength of the one-star middle spiritual emperor at peak state.
"I can sense two tokens inside those two's bodies," Audrey told her companions and pointed at the two bigger zombies.
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