Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle-Chapter 266: The Appearance of a Soul Type Healing Treasure! (Please Follow)

Chapter 266: Chapter 266: The Appearance of a Soul Type Healing Treasure! (Please Follow)

Second floor of the Bronze Hall.

Xiao Ye, Cheng Bingxi, and Nangong Siyao stepped out of the Teleportation Array and immediately smelled a pungent, rotten stench. The rotten odor shot straight into their minds, making them feel *both psychologically and physically sick*.

"Ugh!!"

Xiao Ye forced down his urge to vomit, pinching his nose as he said, "Damn, it smells like stinky tofu that’s been soaking in a cesspit for three days and three nights, and then someone actually tries to eat it."

Cheng Bingxi and Nangong Siyao kept waving their little hands, trying to fan away the rotten smell.

"It’s so disgusting, it reeks,"

"I’m about to puke."

Xiao Ye said, "Block your sense of smell, activate internal breathing."

At the Venerable Realm, one could use their internal energy to activate internal breathing, automatically converting oxygen and carbon dioxide.

With their sense of smell blocked and internal breathing activated, the three immediately felt lighter. Then they walked to the edge of the high platform and looked around.

A scene of extreme visual impact unfolded before their eyes.

Beneath the platform, they saw countless zombie-like Demon Beasts and humans, their eyes lifeless, shambling slowly and aimlessly across a boundless swamp.

The swamp gave off a thick, visible yellow moldy vapor.

Before the trio could get a better look at the situation, a surge of force pushed them away, throwing them off the Teleportation Array platform.

Above the Teleportation Array platform, two boxes appeared.

Maybe due to the rules of the Bronze Hall, information about the treasures inside the boxes automatically transmitted into their minds.

Venerable Level Soul-Type Healing Treasure! Venerable Level Supreme Treasure for Reconstructing the Body!

Xiao Ye was *overjoyed beyond belief*.

*He finally saw the Soul-Type Healing Treasure he’d been longing for!*

As long as he passed this floor’s trial, he’d be able to get his hands on both of these things.

As for the other item—the supreme treasure to reconstruct the physical body—this kind of natural treasure was even rarer than the Soul-Type Healing Treasure, its value immeasurable.

"Crap!" Cheng Bingxi cried out, "Those zombie Demon Beasts and zombie humans are all headed our way!"

On the endless swamp around them, literally tens of billions of zombie Demon Beasts and zombie humans bared their bloodthirsty fangs, moving stiffly but rushing at the three of them at breakneck speed.

Their speed matched ten times the speed of sound, breaking through the air in an instant.

The three of them immediately and wordlessly drew upon their Contractual Power, activating their templates to begin summoning their Contracted Beasts.

"Roar!!!"

A clear, resonating dragon’s roar erupted across the sky over the swamp. A dazzling Golden Dragon, over a kilometer long, appeared in midair.

Rabbit eyes, deer antlers, the mouth of an ox, camel head, tiger paws, eagle claws, fish scales, snake body.

In its massive golden vertical pupils shone a profound majesty.

The dense array of scales sparkled with radiant golden light, bathing the murky swamp below in a luminous glow.

Venerable Realm Five-Star Venerable Five-Clawed Golden Dragon!

Dreamlike colors spontaneously appeared on the ground; an aura of life and death filled the air. A colossal being, over a hundred meters tall, appeared, with nine tails of different colors swirling and waving around its body.

Venerable Realm Five-Star Sovereign Nine-tailed Celestial Fox!

"Oh my god, this dirty, stinky swamp water better not get my fur all gross," the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox shrieked. Its energy erupted, floating in midair.

The mass of reeking zombies on the ground missed their leap, then changed direction and sprang toward the beasts in the sky, baring teeth and claws, launching attacks at both Summoned Beasts.

The most primitive form of attack, biting, tearing with hands!

[Earth Element Control][Water Element Control].

The Venerable Five-Clawed Golden Dragon unleashed its innate skill, the earth of the swamp shot upward like countless swords, impaling every kind of zombie indiscriminately.

Puff puff puff! Puff puff puff!

The swamp’s watery pools turned instantly to sharp, hardened ice, skewering the zombie Demon Beasts and zombie humans alike, right through their bodies.

In a blink, only the Venerable Realm One-Star zombies were left with a window of survival. Any zombies within ten miles of the beasts had their heads pierced and fell dead, life or death unknown.

But from beyond ten miles, new waves of zombies surged at them, incredibly fast.

With sharp eyes, Nangong Siyao said, "Uh-oh, those zombie hordes farther out are Venerable Realm Three-Star, and there’s just as many as before."

"Looks like the next zombie waves are just gonna get stronger and stronger, until we run out of energy."

"How do we even pass this trial?"

"Is it a kill count, or do we just have to last for a certain amount of time?"

"Or maybe it’s both?"

Right then, tens of thousands of Venerable Realm Two-Star zombies entered the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon’s attack range.

[Earth Element Control][Water Element Control] struck again, zombie after zombie pierced through by hardened earthen and icy spikes, stabbed through body and brain, wiped out to the last one.

Xiao Ye frowned, *feeling a bad premonition*.

*The Five-Clawed Golden Dragon was burning through energy way too fast.*

*Every wave cost nearly a tenth of its energy reserves.*

*A few more waves and the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon would be totally drained.*

Sure enough, the next zombie wave reached Venerable Realm Four-Star, even stronger than before.

*There was no way they could keep fighting like this.*

*So Xiao Ye guessed this was probably a time-based trial.*

Inside the Summoned Beast’s mind, Xiao Ye’s consciousness suddenly had a burst of inspiration—he thought up a plan.

"Let’s all exit Summoned Beast mode, I’ve got an idea," he said quickly.

Nangong Siyao asked urgently, "The zombies will be right on us in half a second—Xiao Ye, are you sure about this?"

Xiao Ye said, "No problem."

Reassured, the two women instantly exited Summoned Beast mode and returned to their human forms.

In a flash, Xiao Ye, Nangong Siyao, and Cheng Bingxi all reappeared in the air around the high platform.

[Illusion-Reality Conversion: transform self and objects, freely switching between two states]

At that critical moment as the zombies leapt at them, the three of them shifted into Phantom State.

This was the innate skill passed down from Liu Ya’s Mythical-Grade Ancestor Phantom Spirit Cat Summoned Beast.

In Phantom State, it was as if they existed as illusions—no physical body, unseen, untouchable, undetectable by divine sense or perception, immune to all kinds of attribute attacks to a certain degree, including physical attacks, mental attacks, magic attacks, and so on.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" "Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

The tide of zombies passed right through them, as though through empty air, arcing down from the sky and crashing to the ground below.

To these Venerable Realm Four-Star zombies, there was no way to detect the Illusion-Reality Conversion innate skill, so to their senses, the three humans had just vanished into thin air—like they’d left the area entirely.

With their targets gone, the zombies slowed and stiffened up again.

The outer zombie swarms stopped charging toward them.

Xiao Ye let out a sigh of relief and said with a laugh, "If we hang out here long enough, we should be able to pass the trial, right?"

At that moment, a pair of Contractors appeared on the Teleportation Array atop the high platform, a young man and woman around thirty-five years of age. They, too, were rejected by the platform’s power and plunged into the sea of reeking zombies.

"Ugh!" "Shit!"

"What the hell is that smell, this is killing me."

"Crap, there’s neurotoxin in the air—don’t touch these zombies, get off the swamp ground, or we’ll get turned into zombies by the neurotoxin!"

"Rumor has it that the Bronze Hall second floor is a time-based trial, as long as we stick it out long enough, we’ll make it!"

The two shouted in panic and shot into the air.

But behind them, countless zombies sprang up at once, lunging at them with snapping jaws and grasping hands.