“Whatever that was… is that what you were hurt by?” Qing Yu withdrew her three connate spirit roots before asking.

“Not quite,” the Azure Dragon King chuckled ruefully. “I was injured by a rotten kun from the underworld… don’t worry, I’ve slain it already.”

“A rotten kun?” Lu Yun blinked.

“When a kunpeng dies in the underworld in its fish form, it turns into a corpse. When decay sets in, that corpse transforms into a rotten kun—an extremely powerful zombie. If it was allowed to enter this world, its corpse poison would pollute everything it made contact with. Both the earth and sky for millions of kilometers around would be turned into zombie spawning grounds.

“That’s why I had to kill it,” sighed the Dragon King....