Chapter 2: The Bright Moon Princess (Discussion Recommended)

  Carrion worms feed on the rotting flesh of corpses, but they are unable to gnaw through the skin and flesh of high-level undead like liches, unless...

  Zi Bei didn't have time to think much, and suddenly turned around and jumped under the food corpse worm nest. At this moment, the silver corpse's attack followed suit.

  Zi Bei's movements slowed down by half, and when he dodged the attack, his body lost its balance and fell to the ground. However, the silver corpse worm nest was struck by the silver corpse and shattered into powder, releasing countless small finger-sized black corpse-eating worms.

  The silver corpse didn't care about the flesh-eating worms at all, and pounced on Qi Bei's body like lightning, opening its stinky big mouth to bite his throat.

  It was at this moment that Zhen Bei's right hand, with a faint golden glow, suddenly stabbed into its mouth. To be clear, when zombies attack at close range, they don't use their claws first, but rather their sharp teeth.

  A stream of stinky black liquid flowed out of the zombie's big mouth, covering his face and body, but he couldn't care less.

  Zombies can't be killed unless their heads are chopped off, and Qi Bei's attack only injured the silver zombie but couldn't kill it.

  However, just because Zhi Bei can't kill it doesn't mean these enraged corpse worms can't kill it either.

  One by one, the corpse worms drilled into the silver corpse's huge mouth, its huge mouth was stuck with bone spears and couldn't be closed.

  Although the Silver Corpse is as hard as iron on the outside, inside it's no different from any other corpse.

  In the blink of an eye, Yin Shi and Qi Bei were both covered by the corpse-eating insects.

  The silver corpse struggled for a few moments before becoming completely still, its internal organs and brain having been devoured, leaving only its skin and skeleton intact.

  At this time, the corpse worm began to disperse, they want to rebuild their destroyed nest.

  Zi Bei closed his eyes and remained still. Suddenly, several corpse worms drilled out of his nostrils, followed by a few more from his ears.

  "Call"

  Zi Bei let out a mouthful of turbid air, and the oral cavity and esophagus where the corpse worm had crawled began to itch and go numb. He was a living person, and the corpse worm didn't eat the flesh and blood of the living, so after crawling around his body for a circle, feeling his fresh flesh and blood, it crawled back out again.

  Zi Bei pushed open the empty shell of Yin Shi, his face had already started to turn green, and his lips were starting to turn purple. To say the least, he not only had to thank the Corpse Worms for gnawing away at Yin Shi's flesh, but also for gnawing away at the rotting flesh on his wound, otherwise, the area of decay would have been even larger.

  "I hope these low-grade spirit beads will be effective, otherwise I'll become the Corpse Worm's dinner." Qi Bei smiled wryly and sat up, taking out a few spirit beads to place on his wound.

  The Soul Pearl is not just an energy bead, it also has a major effect, which is to absorb corpse poison.

  After a while, Qi Bei furrowed his brow, and indeed, he had been right. The toxicity of the silver corpse was too strong, and these cyan-colored Soul Pearls were limited in their effect.

  Qī Běi's gaze swept around in a circle, fortunately, there were no undead nearby. However, the undead wandered aimlessly, and it was possible that some would pass by after a while.

  Finally, Qi Bei's gaze locked onto the silver corpse beside him, and with one swift motion, he yanked it over, prying open its massive jaws and shaking them downwards.

  A silver bead fell from its mouth, emitting a cold silver glow.

  "Haha, heaven won't destroy me." Qi Bei burst out laughing, he had escaped another calamity.

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  The imperial city of Jinling has eighteen main roads, each ten zhang wide, like eighteen arteries that crisscross the entire city.

  Among them, the first main road of Golden Leaf is Huang Dao, which leads directly to the Imperial Palace. On the left side are the offices of various departments of the imperial court, and on the right side are the residences of the core ministers of the imperial court.

  The imperial palace has eighteen main halls and one hundred and eighty palaces. The Sleeping Moon Palace is where the emperor's most beloved daughter, Princess Mingyue, resides.

  Eight months ago, the turmoil caused by that undead wizard had gradually subsided, but inside and outside the Moonlit Palace was still heavily guarded.

  The Houhuayuan in the Mengyue Palace is full of rare flowers competing with each other in beauty, and their fragrance is intoxicating.

  The sound of the piano was like flowing water, filling the Mengyue Palace and making people's hearts involuntarily drunk with it.

  In the Rain Listening Pavilion, Princess Mingyue wore a silver-white long dress, sitting elegantly in front of a seven-stringed zither. Her slender fingers danced on the strings like spirits, and the sound of the zither flowed from her fingertips, forming a long river.

  A snow-white small dog-like animal ran and played in the flower bushes with the sound of the piano, very cute.

  After a long time, Princess Mingyue put down her hands, and the sound of the guqin floated away. She looked up at the sky, and her beautiful eyes shone with a sharp and proud gaze that contrasted sharply with her calm expression.

  At this time, a white light flashed over, and it was the little dog that was playing in the flower cluster. The speed was almost terrifying.

  "Moon, you have a deep mind and a hundred million brave soldiers in your heart." Suddenly, a majestic and thick voice sounded behind Princess Moon, and the great emperor Harnos, wearing a golden beast cloak, appeared out of nowhere.

  The little dog in Princess Mingyue's arms suddenly jumped up, its transparent eyes flashing with electricity, and a purple electric arc shot out at the majestic Emperor Hanmo.

  Hanmo's eyelids didn't even twitch, and the purple lightning bolt was blocked by an invisible air wall a few meters away from him, dissipating into thin air.

  "The young unicorn is indeed a loyal guardian, worthy of being a seventh-tier magical beast. Kati must have spent a fortune to take you on as an apprentice." Harmos burst out laughing.

  The Moon Princess turned around, stroking the smooth velvet fur of the single-horned young beast, her cherry lips slightly raised, saying: "Did Father Emperor enjoy it? I heard that Father Emperor pursued Master in the past, but ended up getting a nose full of ash."

  Cough cough

  Hanmo Dadi coughed twice and immediately changed the subject: "Mingyue, did Kati say when she would take you to Tongtian Mountain?"

  "It's probably about half a year from now, Master said he has something to take care of." Princess Mingyue said lightly, but her tone revealed a sense of longing and anticipation.

  Tongtian Mountain, one of the five great sacred places, a paradise for magicians.

  "It's been half a year, shouldn't the Nort family calm down by now?" said Harnmo.

  At the mention of the Nuo De family, Ming Yue Gong Zhu's slender eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if she had thought of something unpleasant.

  "Moonlight, are you still holding onto the promise that Father made to give you to Qi Bei as his wife?" Han Mo said.

  "Father Emperor, although Qi Bei saved me once, I don't like it this way." Princess Ming Yue thought of Qi Bei and that silly smile on Nuo De's face, feeling a wave of discontent.

  "Zi Bei. Nuo De has been missing in the Wraith Mountains for eight months, and that thing with his wraith magic can't last much longer. Once the wraith magic dies out, Zi Bei. Nuo De is finished, he's probably nothing but dust by now. However, if I don't put on this show, I won't be able to appease the Nuo De family. For now, my plan is still in progress, since we can't take down the Nuo De family in one blow, we can only temporarily yield, after all, we've endured for 800 years." Han Mo's eyes burned with fierce flames, he didn't hate the Nuo De family, on the contrary, the Golden Leaf Empire's current prosperity couldn't have been achieved without their contributions. However, their power had grown too great, to the point where every emperor was uneasy at night.

  "What if he comes back?" Princess Mingyue sighed, knowing her father's ambition. The Golden Leaf Empire was now in a period of stability, the beastmen empire to the west had split and been embroiled in civil war for thirty years, the newly formed Saint Anar Alliance to the south was not yet a threat, and the ambitious Goths to the east were blocked by the Golden Fortress that had taken over 500 years to build. This was the perfect opportunity to consolidate power within the empire.

  "Full moon, you also overestimated that trash too much, haha." Harmos burst out laughing. If Nord could single-handedly kill his way out of the Mountains of the Dead, wouldn't even an apprentice mage be able to instantly kill a mage like Wang Pin?

  Princess Mingyue smiled slightly, what she said might not have much meaning.

  "Father, is that old tiger from the Norden family still causing trouble in the Mountains of the Dead?" Princess Mingyue asked, referring to Qi Bei, Norden's older brother. Huaian, Norden was eight years old when he could tear apart a fierce tiger, ten years old when he became a true primary warrior, and twenty years old when he was already a high-level warrior, truly a genius. His temper was fiery, but rough with refinement, earning him the nickname "Norden the Fierce Tiger".

  "Hey, An. Nord, the young master of the capital, is quite a character. He and his useless younger brother are incredibly close, and even after eight months, he still won't give up searching... Ming Yue, why did you bring him up out of nowhere? Are you interested in him?" Han Mo said with a smile, mentioning An Nord with an undisguised tone of admiration and regret.

  The Princess of Bright Moon smiled faintly, but the loneliness in her eyes had already revealed her attitude. In this city, there was no one who could catch her eye, especially since she would soon be heading to Tongtian Mountain to become a disciple of the sacred land.

  "Father, I heard that the old tiger is going to be engaged to the eldest daughter of the Wind family. Rui Xue seems to be heartbroken." Princess Ming Yue said, with a hint of implication, Rui Xue being the eighth princess, who has always had feelings for Huan An Nuo De.

  "Hmm..." Khamos's deep eyes fluctuated slightly as he was considering something.