Yun Nian woke up startled from her Cultivation, immediately sensing the familiar corpse qi that had suddenly arrived. She instantly grasped her blade and stood up.

She immediately left the room, only to see that although the sky wasn't dark yet, the Inn was empty just like last night, and those things had vanished completely.

Yun Nian turned and entered Xi Mo's room. Seeing that he was at a critical juncture in his recovery and hadn't noticed the changes outside, the hand gripping the wanghen blade tightened involuntarily.

Since she couldn't avoid it, she would... risk everything.

After setting up a simple Breath Concealment Formation around Xi Mo, Yun Nian turned and walked out of the Inn.

The Red-Haired Zombie, which had only one arm left yesterday, seemed to know their location and ran straight toward them, letting out an extremely furious roar upon seeing Yun Nian walk out of the Inn.

The Red-Haired Zombie's return, regardless of the change between day and night, suggested it wasn't an illusion created by a Formation. The whistle sound heard yesterday was likely used to command these zombies, meaning someone must be directing them from behind the scenes.

If someone was directing them, why did they let them go yesterday but not today?

The surrounding streets were deserted, so silent that it seemed no living person had ever existed there. Yun Nian looked up, facing the Red-Haired Zombie. Seeing that it was only roaring at her and delaying its attack, she raised her voice and asked, "Since Senior knows we are here, why do you hesitate to show yourself?"

The Red-Haired Zombie bared its teeth toward Yun Nian, then charged straight toward the Inn.

Clearly, its target was Xi Mo.

Yun Nian clenched her fists inside her sleeves. Watching the Red-Haired Zombie approaching step by step, the next moment, the roar of a fierce wolf echoed through the empty street.

Shrouded entirely in blood mist, a fierce wolf composed of stark white bones stared chillingly at the Red-Haired Zombie before it. The flames in its eyes leaped with excitement; it desperately craved the malice on the zombie's body, but it dared not charge forward because it hadn't received the command.

Yun Nian gritted her teeth and looked at the Red-Haired Zombie, saying, "Don't go any further."

The Bone Burying Wolf grows stronger when facing strength. As long as the enemy possesses malice, it will continuously evolve. Moreover, a zombie nurtured by malice like this is a great tonic for the Bone Burying Wolf.

She had always deliberately suppressed the Bone Burying Wolf's power, fearing that it would become too strong and exceed her physical capacity, but now she had no choice but to release it.

"This is..." In front of the light screen, the man's eyes widened in surprise. He leaned forward to look, his gaze becoming extremely solemn. "There is actually such a Spirit Beast in the world... No, no, no, this is not a Spirit Beast..."

After pondering for a moment, the man picked up the Bone Whistle hanging around his neck.

A sharp whistle sound pierced the sky. Upon hearing it, the Red-Haired Zombie seemed to go suddenly mad, baring its fangs and charging toward Yun Nian.

At the same time, the Bone Burying Wolf also rushed quickly toward it, sinking its fangs into the Red-Haired Zombie's body and instantly tearing off a piece of its flesh.

The Red-Haired Zombie, whose cultivation was as high as the Golden Core Stage, was like a lamb awaiting slaughter beneath the Bone Burying Wolf's sharp teeth. The bone claws, made of some unknown material, scorched the zombie body like a branding iron the moment they stepped on it, causing black smoke to rise.

Zombies feel no pain, yet the Bone Burying Wolf still knew how to torment it. Watching its body being bitten off piece by piece, and realizing that its own corpse qi had no effect on the Bone Burying Wolf, the Red-Haired Zombie naturally couldn't stop roaring in fury. However, the angrier it became, the more excited the Bone Burying Wolf grew.

Yun Nian frowned tightly. Seeing that the time was right, several beams of white light condensed into threads in her hands and shot toward the Bone Burying Wolf.

"Awooo—" The Bone Burying Wolf roared angrily. The next moment, its white skull turned, and its eyes glared fiercely at Yun Nian.

Yun Nian gritted her teeth: "You dare rebel!"

The next moment, hundreds of white lights flew out from her sleeve toward the Bone Burying Wolf. But in the following instant, the Bone Burying Wolf moved like the wind, nimbly dodging the beams of white light and charging straight toward Yun Nian.

"Roar—" The sharp wolf claws went straight for Yun Nian's face, aiming to shatter her Sea of Consciousness.

Bound by a contract, the Bone Burying Wolf naturally dared not kill Yun Nian; after all, if Yun Nian died, it would also vanish from the world. But destroying her Sea of Consciousness was a different matter.

White light instantly gathered into a shield in front of her. When the wolf claws struck the shield, the Bone Burying Wolf immediately howled in pain.

Touching its body to something that restrained it inevitably melted away some of its flesh and blood.

However, even in pain, the Bone Burying Wolf did not give up attacking Yun Nian. Its white bone claws fiercely struck Yun Nian's protective shield repeatedly. With every strike, a piece of white bone turned to dust. The Bone Burying Wolf was unwilling to give up; it was formed by the accumulation of malice from heaven and earth, transcending the Six Paths and unbound by worldly constraints. How could it willingly submit to a mortal!

Yun Nian's situation was no better. The Bone Burying Wolf was already powerful, and after absorbing so much malice from the Red-Haired Zombie, every single attack now shook her meridians. Blood continuously flowed from her mouth, and her previously healed old injuries relapsed. In just a moment, she was covered in blood.

On the ground, without the support of its body, the corpse qi emanating from the Red-Haired Zombie had dissipated and could no longer pose a threat.

Now the only threat was the Bone Burying Wolf right in front of her.

In those eyes condensed from bright yellow flames, there was resentment, covetousness, and hatred, wanting to tear Yun Nian to shreds.

"Pfft—" Another mouthful of fresh blood sprayed out. Yun Nian slowly closed her eyes, and the Yun Family Forbidden Art gradually surfaced in her mind.

Calm the heart, quiet the Qi—

Yun Nian clenched her jaw, forming hand seals. The bones in her fingers began to crackle. Her bloodshot eyes met the Bone Burying Wolf's gaze. The next moment, the seal was complete, and the white light instantly intensified, surging toward the Bone Burying Wolf.

At the same time, all the strength in Yun Nian's body seemed to be instantly drained. She abruptly collapsed to the ground, unable to move. If not for the two blinks of her eyes staring blankly at the sky, she would have been indistinguishable from a dead person.

The white light restrained the Bone Burying Wolf like a net. The power of the rule made the blood mist around it thinner and thinner. It howled in pain, progressing from initial defiance to begging for mercy. However, this time, Yun Nian was determined not to spare it.

After the power of the Spirit Binding Technique had completely worn off, the Bone Burying Wolf's body was entirely stripped of its former majestic presence. All that remained was a white skeleton frame and the dim flames inside its skull eye sockets.

The sky darkened.

The Bone Burying Wolf lay defeatedly on the spot, turning its head away to avoid looking into Yun Nian's eyes.

"How truly interesting..."

A strange voice suddenly fell. Yun Nian's heart immediately lurched. She looked in that direction, seeing a black robe, and looking further up, half a skull face came into view.