The term "Tianshi" holds a very high position in Chinese Taoism. It is a level of patriarch, and if someone is called a "Tianshi", they have received the true teachings and are a master.
The deity's statue has considerable divine power. If consecrated, it can naturally protect the household. If it was drawn by a Tianshi or a person with magical powers, its divine power would be at a higher level.
However, statues of powerful Tianshi are almost invisible and cannot be bought on the market. It's very difficult to get hold of one.
Zhuzi also didn't know where he had obtained such a statue from. It must have been quite expensive. This was a beautiful trump card he played!
The statue landed lightly on the ground, and Zhuzi sat cross-legged, and the surrounding aura had changed significantly. The corpse shaman naturally also felt it and kept growling low towards Zhuzi.
"In return for the grace of the immortal and the earth, Li Dunzhuzi, a disciple of the mortal world, seeks the powers of the Tianshi!"
Zhuzi cut his finger with a dagger, then dripped blood onto the painting. The drop fell precisely on the Tianshi's face. Suddenly, a dazzling red light appeared, and in my blurred vision, it seemed like a figure was floating up from the painting.
The corpse wizard appeared even more nervous, suddenly plunging the wooden staff in his hand into the ground, causing a large amount of powder to scatter. This powder, upon landing, transformed into patches of green flames. Standing behind the flames, he clasped his hands together and spewed strange black water from his mouth, causing the flames to suddenly burn wildly. The tongues of flame even leapt to the ceiling!
Then, the corpse wizard pushed his hands forward, and the flames quickly spread towards us.
"The fire is coming over!" Shen Mengtian shouted.
"Stand behind me, with the protection of the celestial priest, you will be safe!" Zhuzi bellowed, and a few of us hurriedly ran over and stood behind Zhuzi.
An amazing scene unfolded—when the burning flames reached us, they surprisingly couldn't burn within a meter around us, as if there was a vacuum zone, preventing the flames from reaching us, encircling us.
"Why can't the fire burn through here?" Shen Mengtian, the primary school teacher, exclaimed, wide-eyed and speechless.
"This is a righteous field, inviolable to outsiders!" Zhuzi pointed forward, and the blurry figure in my eyes seemed to float up and fly towards the flames, opening a path in the middle. He actually divided the burning flames into two sides.
"Subdue the zombie, the power of the celestial priest!" Zhuzi shouted, and the blurry figure immediately headed towards the corpse wizard and quickly collided with him. The previously fierce and intimidating corpse wizard suddenly softened, kneeling down as if a huge stone was weighing on his shoulders.
"It knelt down, how powerful!" Luoqiong exclaimed.
"This zombie has some cultivation, it may be a monster left over from the Zhongtian Gate of the past. My divine power is temporarily unable to suppress it. Fatty, get ready for a celestial strike from behind. Help me!" Zhuzi's expression turned fierce, turning back to shout at the fatty, who promptly nodded and turned around to prepare.
The kneeling corpse wizard was still resisting. Zhuzi turned to me and said, "Xiaoshan, you and Luoqiong take the trident and go up. If possible, pierce this guy's forehead for me. The zombie's energy gathers mostly at the brow. If you can pierce this place, you can hurt its yin energy. But you have to be careful, this guy is about to fight back like a trapped beast, don't let it hurt you!"
After Zhuzi finished speaking, I picked up the trident from the fatty and nodded, walking forward along the path with no flames in the middle. The corpse wizard lowered his head, but his eyes were fixed on me.
"You, damn you."
He kept muttering incoherently. I quickly walked forward, with Luoqiong following behind, and arrived in front of the corpse wizard. This guy's back was almost broken from the unseen force, but he still didn't give up resistance. Without a word, Luoqiong picked up the trident and stabbed at the corpse wizard's brow! However, unexpectedly, the corpse wizard raised his head and let out a frenzied roar at us. Terrifying black energy emanated from his throat. I pushed Luoqiong away urgently to avoid the attack of the black energy.
"Kill me... I am... immortal..."
He said coldly. Then, he tried to stand up from the ground. I heard Zhuzi shouting at me from behind, "Xiaoshan, don't wait, the power of the celestial priest is waning, this guy is about to break free! Hurry!"
There was no time for me to hesitate, so I picked up the trident in my hand and stabbed it into the corpse wizard's brow. At that moment, the corpse wizard let out a stunning roar, and all the black cloth wrapped around him was shattered. A terrifying black energy blew me and Luoqiong out, and we fell next to the flames.
"It's over!"
Pearl called out from behind, and when I turned back, I saw her pale face, spitting out blood, and the portrait of the Heavenly Master in front of her actually started burning on its own. Obviously, it was due to the decline of divine power.
Looking again, the necromancer who had freed himself from the master's body looked like dried black meat, very thin, like a pockmarked tree trunk. Skin was wrapped around the flesh. It had also turned black, and it was difficult to distinguish between flesh and bone. It stood up straight, swaying its head, making a "cracking" sound.
"You... want to kill me... damn it!"
The enraged necromancer quickly ran towards me. I tried to evade, but he still grabbed my ankle and then flung me away violently. I almost fell into the sea of fire. At this moment, Luoqiong leaped up from the ground and pounced on the necromancer. She was about to thrust a triangular spike into the necromancer's forehead, but he slapped her on the back, causing Luoqiong to cough up blood and fall to the ground.
"Ah!"
The necromancer roared furiously. Because the portrait of the Heavenly Master had been destroyed, the flames around us began to burn towards the center. I clutched my chest and dragged Luoqiong back.
"Kill!"
The necromancer roared in anger, chasing after us with big strides. Initially, I thought this guy was weak. But the actual situation turned out to be completely beyond my expectations. Not only was his body not weak, it was damn strong.
"Fatty, are you okay?"
I shouted to Fatty while dragging Luoqiong, but we couldn't run fast enough.
At this moment, Fatty turned around. His face had changed, its skin turning a blazing red, indicating that the possessed spirit had taken over! He strode towards us and immediately faced off against the necromancer.
The possessed Fatty and the zombie necromancer were both invulnerable, engaging in a brutal brawl. Fatty was taller than the necromancer, landing every blow on the necromancer's head, while the necromancer kept striking Fatty's abdomen. The two of them seemed like two machines, with each punch producing a dull "thud", as if metal was colliding.
I pulled Luoqiong back to where Pearl was, realizing that this couldn't go on. Fatty could only hold on for at most two minutes; any longer and he could go into shock like the last time.
We had to win within two minutes! My mind was in chaos. What to do? How to defeat the necromancer? How to penetrate its forehead?
I was like an ant on a hot pan, constantly pacing back and forth. But with each passing second, Fatty was in danger. At this moment, my eyes fell on Shen Mengtian, who was standing behind Pearl.
"Shen Mengtian, do you have a rubber band and a needle?"
I asked.
She hesitated for a moment, then nodded and handed me the rubber band she had in her hair and a large needle on her collar. I took them, and from the corpse of the pale-faced monster on the ground, I tore off two pieces of bone and tied the rubber band around it, making a simple slingshot.
"What are you doing with that thing?"
Pearl asked strangely.
"Just watch, I was a pro at this when I was a kid!"
I said, walking a few steps forward and standing at the edge of the fire, while Pearl took out some Mo Tanjiao's artifacts and scattered them around us to drive away the approaching flames.
I raised the slingshot and placed the needle on the rubber band. The distance was a bit far, but if Fatty could lead it over here, that would be great.
"Fatty, lure it over here."
I yelled loudly.
The fat guy was retreating towards me, fighting, raising my slingshot and aiming at the zombie's forehead. I used to shoot sparrows with a slingshot, but I never thought that I would have to kill a zombie this way today! I pulled the slingshot taut, aimed and shot it out suddenly. The needle whizzed through the air and hit the zombie's forehead accurately, but it couldn't pierce the zombie's skin, instead bouncing off!
"Are you stupid? How tough is a zombie's skin!"
Zhuzi cursed.
I just smiled, the slingshot and needle were just a cover, the real purpose was this! At this moment, I had already thrown the three-sided spike, and the fat guy grabbed it and held it firmly in his hand!