Great Cloudwater Lake was hardly recognizable, now that the mist had dispersed and the glitter of the water was gone. It was forever transformed.

Sword intent raged within and sharp sword qi bubbled on the surface. It was now a forbidden dominion that employed boundless sword intent to shred anything that encroached upon its territory. Not only that, but countless sword zombies emerged, swimming back and forth like schools of fish.

The Sword Barrow’s explosion had removed the restrictions on these creatures, thereby freeing them. Being named zombies, they possessed foggy, mostly vacant minds, but also instincts of their own. While the lake might now be a land of death for living creatures and other kinds of zombies, it was positively heaven on earth for the sword zombies.

“It’s not impossible for those sword zombies to be resurrected!”...