There’s no time to delay. Everyone, send a message immediately and report the matter of “Dao Nie.”
This stirred up a thousand waves with one stone. Not only were some families and sects shocked, even the Dao Court was shaken by it.
In the Tian Shu Pavilion, the elder looked at the celestial phenomena instrument, made deductions in his heart, and then slowly nodded, saying:
“It is the sign of Dao Nie…”
He took out a jade slip, activated several seals, and then instructed a disciple, saying:
“Give this to the Dao Soldier Department.”
The disciple respectfully accepted it, sealed it well with a secret box, dared not delay, and immediately transmitted it to the Dao Soldier Department.
The Dao Soldier Department held an emergency meeting and then issued an order:
From the border of Li State and Small Wild State, as well as the borders of the nearby Black Mountain State, Li Mountain State, Great Wild State, and Barbarian Border, ten Foundation Building commanders and two thousand first-grade Dao soldiers are to be drawn. They are to hurry day and night to South Yue City on the border of Small Wild State, suppress the corpse mine, pacify the corpse disaster, and kill without pardon anyone who obstructs them!
And the central Dao Court also issued a summons:
Within a five-hundred-li radius of the Small Wild State border, any cultivation forces with a fixed grade sealed by the Dao Court must dispatch at least one Foundation Building cultivator to South Yue City to assist in the battle, eliminate the corpse mine, and exterminate the corpse king.
After the matter is done, merits will be discussed and rewards given.
If there is any failure to respect the order, the family or sect will be demoted by one grade, and there will be no qualification for promotion for a hundred years…
Once the order was released, forces from all sides were stirred, and cultivators were alarmed and moved.
The momentum of a coming storm gathered at South Yue City…
On the high pavilion of the Tian Shu Pavilion, the elder stood alone, his gaze deep, raising his head to look at the sky. After a long time, he only muttered in a low voice:
“Gui Dao Ren, eh…”
Within his gaze was a trace of surprise.
“He can actually raise a Dao Nie, not even a hundred years… another great demon head…”
“But… is Dao Nie so easy to raise, eh?”
“Is it Gui Dao Ren’s problem, or has this heavenly way… had a problem…”
The elder silently looked at the sky.
But in the sky, wind rose and clouds surged. Within the blue sky and white day, it was fundamentally impossible to know what profound mystery was hidden. Under the magnificent blazing sun, not a trace of a sign could be seen.
The elder’s brows furrowed even tighter.
Outside, wind and clouds changed, and undercurrents surged among forces on all sides.
Within the corpse mine, however, it was as always.
Until evening, Zhang Quan was still shaking the bell to refine the corpse, Lu Cheng Yun was still drawing arrays, and Mo Hua was also doing the same, covering and drawing Lu Cheng Yun’s arrays.
In the bronze coffin, the corpse qi was thicker, and the majesty heavier.
But the three layers of control over its body were also gradually deepening…
Until three days later, the corpse king was about to be refined.
In the Ten Thousand Corpses Altar, Zhang Quan couldn’t help but feel proud, and this time he laughed wildly, saying:
“Not long after the corpse king awakens, it will be under my control! The entire Small Wild State border will be filled with floating corpses, becoming the true Small Wild ‘Corpse’ border, and I, Zhang Quan, will become the Corpse Dao old ancestor of this state border!”
“Brother Lü, Lu Cheng Yun!”
“I will let you know, the truly shortsighted person is you!”
After Zhang Quan finished laughing, he left.
After Zhang Quan left, Lu Cheng Yun appeared.
With a calm expression, he strengthened the spirit pivot evil array once more, and then looked towards the place where Zhang Quan had left, laughing coldly:
“Playing tricks in front of me? You’re courting death!”
After Lu Cheng Yun finished his cold laugh, he also left.
The last one to appear was Mo Hua with his big blinking eyes.
He skillfully opened the coffin, drew arrays, and used the proper spirit pivot array to suppress Lu Cheng Yun’s evil array, enhancing his own control over the corpse king.
After drawing, a mischievous smile appeared on Mo Hua’s small face, and he giggled:
“Let’s see whose orders this big zongzi will listen to when it’s refined!”
Mo Hua carefully finished drawing the arrays, carefully sealed the coffin, and tiptoed away from the Ten Thousand Corpses Altar.
After leaving the altar, Mo Hua thought for a moment, and then used the little tiger again to deliver a strip of paper to the little senior brother and little senior sister.
The paper strip read:
“Three days later, on July 15th, the corpse king will be refined, and the Ten Thousand Corpses Array will open.”
Mo Hua stuffed the paper strip into the little tiger’s body.
The little tiger received the order and climbed upwards with “huchi huchi” sounds.
Mo Hua’s heart still had some worries.
In the corpse mine, there were so many zombies. He didn’t know how many people the little senior brother, little senior sister, and Sister Si Tu had mobilized.
If there weren’t enough people, that would be troublesome.
They wouldn’t be able to control Lu Cheng Yun, subdue the zombies, or suppress the corpse mine. Once there was a riot, the consequences would be unthinkable.
But Mo Hua thought about it repeatedly and felt that it was fundamentally impossible to have enough people.
The existing strength was fundamentally no match for Lu Cheng Yun.
He couldn’t think of where else cultivators could be summoned from…
“Never mind, it doesn’t matter.”
Mo Hua sighed in his heart.
He had already done what he could do.
As for the remaining matters, he, a small Qi Refining cultivator, was fundamentally powerless.
He could only do his best and leave the rest to fate.
Now the most important thing was to find a way to escape.
Mo Hua had planned everything long ago:
“As long as someone attacks the corpse mine and both sides start fighting, the situation will become chaotic, and I’ll just find a way to slip away!”
At that time, with great enemies present, Lu Cheng Yun wouldn’t have time for anything else and definitely wouldn’t care about him.
If he hid himself and dismantled Lu Cheng Yun’s arrays, he could escape smoothly.
As for the visualization map…
He would see if there was an opportunity. If not, then he would forget it.
The visualization map was indeed a good thing, and he had always coveted the map in Zhang Quan’s ancestor.
But his small life was more important. He couldn’t take any more risks just for one visualization map.
In this mine well, there were so many zombies. In the Ten Thousand Corpses Array, there were still dozens of iron corpses. Zhang Quan was eyeing him greedily, and Lu Cheng Yun also had bad intentions towards him…
Under such heavy crisis, it was better to be a bit cowardly.
Mo Hua nodded.
After escaping, he would make long-term plans…
First, he would slip out, then find people to help, and with support, he would slip back, secretly manipulate the corpse king, and see if he could take the opportunity to “yin” Lu Cheng Yun.
He thought about it again and felt there were no flaws, only then did he feel at ease.
But Mo Hua didn’t expect that something would still go wrong.
And this accident came suddenly and unexpectedly…
The next day, he was still hiding behind the altar.
Zhang Quan was still shaking the bell to control the corpse.
Just after shaking the bell, Zhang Quan spat out a large mouthful of blood. His originally pale face instantly became deathly pale, but he was still laughing loudly, chanting from his mouth:
“Success! Success!”
Mo Hua didn’t quite understand.
“What success? Why is Zhang Quan so happy?”
Next, Zhang Quan walked directly to the front of the altar and suddenly uncovered the yellow cloth!
Mo Hua was startled. He looked closely and found that under the yellow cloth was indeed a corpse.
This corpse was ferocious in appearance, with a malicious complexion, very similar to the face in the wall painting.
It was indeed the Lu family’s old ancestor, “Lu Po Pi.”
Its eyes bulged out, filled with bloody threads, unbearably ugly. And its chest had a large hole dug out, with no heart or pulse inside.
Mo Hua’s heart turned slightly cold.
His previous guess was not wrong.
They were indeed refining the Lu family’s old ancestor into a corpse king!
Refining the corpse in the bronze coffin was refining the heart and pulse, while sacrificing the corpse on the golden altar was sacrificing the corpse body.
Zhang Quan cupped his hands and said:
“Senior Lü, that fellow Lu Cheng Yun deceived and harmed you, letting zombies dig mines and making you do these coolie ‘foremen’ jobs.”
“This is an insult to you!”
“But I am different. I will let you become the leader of ten thousand corpses, become the corpse king of this Small Wild State border, let cultivators in the entire border lose their guts at the mere mention of your name, and let your prestige shine for a hundred years!”
Zhang Quan spoke eloquently with ambition.
Mo Hua frowned, “What’s happening?”
Didn’t they say the corpse king would only be refined three days later?
What did Zhang Quan mean now?
Opening the coffin in advance?
Mo Hua secretly looked at Lu Cheng Yun, who was hiding behind the altar, and found that his expression was also a little excited, but not surprised.
It seemed he also knew that today was the day the corpse king would be refined.
Mo Hua was dumbfounded.
So, only he didn’t know?
July 15th, the corpse king opens the coffin.
This was the unified story of Zhang Quan and Lu Cheng Yun before.
The two of them conspired and both said so.
Mo Hua eavesdropped and heard the same.
Yet, he didn’t expect that Zhang Quan was deceiving Lu Cheng Yun, but Lu Cheng Yun knew clearly and didn’t expose him, so the only one who was deceived in the end was Mo Hua, who had been eavesdropping.
Mo Hua was a bit speechless and a bit helpless:
Who told him he was an outsider in refining corpses? Outsiders are just easy to be deceived by insiders.
On that side, Zhang Quan had already opened the coffin. And opening the bronze coffin, he took out a dark, black-green, blue-veined, array-pattern-dense heart from the coffin, held it up solemnly, and respectfully stuffed it into the corpse of the Lu family’s old ancestor on the altar, the one whose heart and pulse had been dug out.
The stern heart and pulse trembled strangely.
A muffled sound.
After condensing blood threads, it was like needle and thread, sewing itself, tightly sewing itself with the corpse body.
The sound of the heart beating was louder.
The sound was clearly not loud, but it made Mo Hua feel a sense of suffocation.
Mo Hua quickly covered his ears.
But this sound seemed to ring in his heart, possessing a terrifying majesty that could make the dead submit.
At the same time, Zhang Quan bowed and kowtowed, murmuring a curse from his mouth.
This was a Corpse Dao curse.
It was muffled and gloomy, not like a human voice.
Mo Hua fundamentally didn’t understand, but as the curse entered his ears, his chest felt stuffy and he wanted to vomit.
Mo Hua supported himself with difficulty, not knowing how long it passed. The chanting of the curse and the sound of the heart disappeared simultaneously. There was a dead silence in the altar.
Zhang Quan’s expression suddenly became frantic.
And the Lu family’s old ancestor on the altar suddenly opened its eyes!
Lu Cheng Yun, hiding in the dark, smiled sinisterly, his eyes also revealing a cold light.
The last day of the month, in order not to break the promise, I’ll add a chapter today.
But it will be a bit late.
I’ve been writing slowly recently, I’m really sorry.
(End of this chapter)