Han Shuo could not bear to see such a perfect looking young girl being defiled by the Water Elite Zombie. However, just as Han Shuo was about to turn around and look away, he suddenly sensed an unusual transformation happening to the young lady inside the Ice Goddess statue.
Han Shuo observed that the energy within the young girl with smooth and fair skin was rapidly flowing into the Water Elite Zombie. The Water Elite Zombie pressed his body against this naked young lady, not to perform some obscene act as Han Shuo had imagined, but to quickly absorb the energy inside the young lady through skin contact.
Han Shuo stared blankly before quickly coming to his senses and becoming overjoyed. He stopped his silent cursing of the Water Elite Zombie and became equally excited about the Water Elite Zombie.
The young lady was brimming with some sort of exotic icy water energy, but she did not contain the slightest bit of divine energy imparted by the Ice Goddess. This was somewhat strange and contrary to what one might expect.
Earlier, when he had tried to break the Jade Frost Cage, Han Shuo had tried to make the Water Elite Zombie absorb the divine energy inside the cage. However, since the Water Elite Zombie was unable to establish a connection with the divine energy in the Jadefrost Cage, the plan failed.
Therefore, this time, when Han Shuo saw that there was a young lady inside the Ice Goddess statue, he did not think of sending Water Elite Zombie to absorb the energy. But now, it seemed that even though the Water Elite Zombie could not absorb the divine energy that the Ice Goddess bestowed upon her worshippers, it could absorb the water element and the exotic energy from this icy water mixture.
In the Water Elite Zombie's embrace, the young lady was enveloped in a white cloud of water vapour. The energy within the lifeless young girl's body flowed into Water Elite Zombie's body in tiny streams.
Han Shuo could feel the excitement coming from the Water Elite Zombie, his eyes glowing with power. As he absorbed the energy from the young lady, he transmitted to Han Shuo, "Thank you father, thank you father!"
"Um, you seem to be quite lucky!" Han Shuo remarked, feeling somewhat ashamed of his dirty thoughts.
"Father, I believe he will be able to fuse his energy into the formation after this!" metal elite zombie relayed as he stood next to Han Shuo.
When Metal Elite Zombie reminded him of this, Han Shuo was delighted. Fire, Metal and Earth Elite Zombies had successfully fused their energies into the Penta-Elemental Undead Formation. However, since the Water Elite Zombie and Wood Elite Zombie had arisen rather late, in addition to not possessing treasures of their respective attributes, they had never been able to fuse their energies with the other three Elite Zombies.
The Water Elite Zombie was now absorbing the energy intended for the Ice Shrine to create a god. Once the Water Elite Zombie completely absorbed the energy, Han Shuo had no idea what realm he would reach, but he was certain that he would make a giant leap in his evolution. Successfully fusing his energy into the Penta-elemental Undead Formation wouldn't be too difficult by then.
As Han Shuo's heart soared, he suddenly sensed abnormal activity among the people of the Ice Shrine. A group of experts tending to their injuries, led by Ice Celestial Corey, suddenly gathered in a helter skelter.
The wall where the disciples had left began to crackle and expand again.
Han Shuo immediately realised that his plan had been exposed. This statue of the Ice Goddess made by the Ice Shrine must have had some sort of connection with them that Han Shuo was unaware of. As the young lady's energy rapidly drained away, the disciples must have been alarmed.
From the way things were going, Han Shuo knew that bloodshed was inevitable. A cold thought flashed through his heart. Immediately, he walked up a distance with the metal elite zombie that created the tunnel for him.
At that moment, the energy of the young lady inside the statue had not been fully absorbed by the Water Elite Zombie. Whether or not he would evolve to his full capacity now depended on how much time Han Shuo could buy for Water Elite Zombie.
"Father, I want, I want that energy!" Still hugging the young lady and rapidly absorbing the energy from her body, Water Elite Zombie greedily transferred it to Han Shuo like a child demanding candy.
"Hurry up and make every second count. Quickly absorb this energy and forget about everything else!" Han Shuo urged. He understood what this energy meant to the Water Elite Zombie and was prepared to fight with all his might to buy him enough time.
Finally, the platform expanded completely. The group of Shrine of Ice disciples gazed at the magnificent carving of the Ice Goddess in the centre of the mountain.
Apart from the few Shrine of Ice disciples who were leaving, there was also the group that Han Shuo had last met in the Dark Dragon valley.. With just one look at these few, Han Shuo was certain that they had been involved in the distant battle at the Place of Extreme Fire over the past few days.
When this group was finally completely crushed, Han Shuo seized the opportunity and attacked their souls with his consciousness and mental power. Caught off guard by his attack, they suffered severe injuries. When they had met before, their bodies had been ice-cold, but they had appeared completely normal. But now their faces were as pale as the dead.
In contrast to their unflappable demeanour during the great battle at the Dark Dragon Gorge, their bodies were emitting an incredibly chaotic aura. It was a sign that they had not yet fully recovered from their injuries.
"Oh my Goddess! What, what is that thing?" one of the disciples screamed, trembling from head to toe, one hand on his chest and the other pointing at the Water Elite Zombie clutching the young lady tightly.
As this disciple's scream rang out, other Shrine of Ice disciples on the platform also witnessed the situation below. All of these disciples, including Ice Celestial Corey, immediately erupted in rage, fury and shock. Their screams and cries filled the entire chamber.
"How did that disgusting thing get inside the Goddess' statue?" Ice Celestial Corey roared in anger. A slap landed on the face of a student standing to the side. He spat a mouthful of blood and fell off the platform.
Whoosh whoosh! Before the subordinate made contact with the ground below, the magical boundary around the Ice Goddess statue was suddenly triggered, sending a few icicles ripping through his body. Before any blood could gush from his wounds, his body was completely frozen and shattered into pieces as he fell to the ground.
"Lord Corey, please spare us. We really have no idea what happened. If you kill us all, it will be impossible to complete the Godmaking Project!" one of the disciples cried out in fear, kneeling before Ice Celestial Corey.
Ashen and furious, Ice Celestial Corey, who was ready to kill all the disciples who had come down to replenish the energy crystals, had already grabbed another disciple by the neck and was ready to kill him for his negligence. However, after hearing this loud plea for the sake of completing the project, he finally restrained his impulsive urge.
"Enter the statue of the goddess with divine energy and kill the evil thing. I want its soul to suffer!" Ice Celestial Corey said angrily after throwing the man in his hand. He seemed very angry.
Of course he was. This God-making project that the Ice Shrine had been working on for over a hundred years was about to be completed, and Ice Celestial's cherished wish to surpass the Church of Light and the Church of Calamity was about to be fulfilled, and such a disaster had to happen at this crucial moment. After years of waiting, he was as angry as anyone could imagine.
"Yes, yes, my Lord!" Even the true experts who had spent years striving to serve the Ice Shrine trembled with fear at the violent fury of Ice Celestial Corey. They hastily agreed and began to take care of the Water Elite Zombie.
Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh!
Suddenly, loud whooshing sounds could be heard. Several sharp bone spears flew into the sky. Like scattered bamboo splinters, rows of bone spears shot towards Ice Celestial Corey and the others.
"Damn it!" Corey shouted in a stern voice. He hastily drew his ice-cold longsword. As the sword's rays flashed through, sparking, the translucent cold air solidified into a wall of ice, blocking the bone spears.
"You useless fools, get out of here!" after hastily blocking a wave of bone spear attacks, Ice Celestial rained down curses as he kicked the disciple kneeling at his feet.
Despite being priests of the Ice Shrine, the disciples who had previously entered the chamber had mainly studied alchemy, drugs, magical arrays, and all sorts of complicated, abstruse subjects. Only then could the project of creating a god be realised. But they were not very strong.
Under Han Shuo's wide-ranging attack, it was quite possible that one or two of them would be careless enough to get killed. If he lost the people who had painstakingly studied the God Creation Project for many years, it was very likely that the project would be doomed to failure. Therefore, although Ice Celestial Corey wanted to kill them all at once, for the sake of the God Creation Project, he had no choice but to put their safety on a podium.
Ice Celestial Corey cursed at them while pushing and kicking with his hands and legs, forcibly pushing these disciples, who possessed true expertise in their fields of study, back into the tunnel from which they had come. Then, like a madman, he shouted, "Come out, Bryan! I know it's you, you filthy, miserable necromancer!"
Ice Celestial Corey's usually calm and unflappable demeanour was full of rage. At this moment, he almost resembled Han Shuo in his demonic stupor, no different from a madman. Even his few subordinates around him were stunned by his ferocity.
"Go after those few who are fleeing. Kill them all!" Han Shuo calmly gave the order to the elite metal zombie to kill all the researchers. After that, he calmly walked out through a split tunnel.
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