Youbao Chapter 17: Earth-nourishing Corpse Pill (6)
I like to guess, but at this time, I hate this word so much.
Guess...how should I guess?
Who are you? I no longer thought about who was in the Changping Ancient Battlefield. Anyway, that was the Zhou family's business and had nothing to do with me. In comparison, I was more concerned about the identity of the person in front of me.
The corpse-carving lineage never had a name. You can call me Zhou Xuehai or any other name, whatever you like, he said.
You are not Zhou Xuehai.
Of course I am not Zhou Xuehai. He laughed even more happily and said: It would be great if you were also from the Zhou family.
What he said was incomprehensible. Why should I be a member of the Zhou family? Moreover, even if I was a member of the Zhou family, what good would it do him?
Aren't you going to refine the Corpse King? At this point, I wasn't too scared. With so many people around, I didn't believe he would dare to kill me.
I want to refine a corpse king, otherwise why would I go through so much trouble to mix with you guys and risk being killed by the corpses? He turned his head and looked at the tomb of Emperor Yan, and suddenly said: According to the ancient books of my corpse burial lineage, the ancient ancestor Emperor Yan did exist. His physique is so strong that it is unmatched in ancient and modern times. If such a body is refined into a corpse king, how powerful it will be.
He spoke seriously, and although he had a smile on his face, his words were shocking. Was he serious?
This is a pity for the corpse-carving lineage, that we cannot witness the strongest corpse king's physique. He turned his head and looked at me: Am I right?
This man is a madman. I made such a judgment, because only a madman could say such a thing. But at the same time, I was relieved. At the very least, it was obviously impossible for the ancestor Yan Emperor to refine a corpse king.
But I still have a question: why did the Corpse Refiner appear here, and who was the one who controlled the Demon-Subduing Sword in the Changping Ancient Battlefield? Could it be that the Corpse Refiner lineage has more than one successor?
This is very likely. There are countless descendants in the Zhou family, so how could there be only one undertaker who could snatch the Demon-Subduing Sword from them?
What people imagine is often very different from reality. He suddenly said this.
This sounded familiar, as if someone had said it to me not long ago, but for a moment, I couldn't remember who said it.
Do you want to know where the old Taoist priest went? He raised a question that I cared about the most but had never thought of.
How do you know where he went? I asked in confusion. No matter how you look at it, the old Taoist priest and the undertaker in front of him could not have any intersection. Unless, as I guessed, the old Taoist priest already knew the identity of the undertaker, and everything was done for us to see.
At this moment, I finally understood why I felt that the undertaker's words just now were familiar.
Because what you guess about this sentence is often very different from reality, as the old man of the Zhou family said not long ago.
Is this a coincidence?
There are more and more mysteries, like a whirlpool, and I am a small boat in the whirlpool. If I am not careful, I may die. This whirlpool is not for me to step into.
It seems that you only care about who I am, not where he went. The undertaker shrugged helplessly: If you want to know whether your guess is true, you can go to Xishuangbanna again. The old man who refines corpses may give you an answer.
Xishuangbanna...Gamu...
How is this matter related to Gamu? Did something happen after I left?
This is also possible. Although I am the descendant of the Basuo lineage, I don't know anything. The old Taoist priest can kill me with one hand, so if he wants to cheat, he will only cheat old man Gamu.
But why did he lie to Gamu?
The more I speculate, the further I find myself from the truth.
The more I think about it, the more confused I get. The undertaker didn't intend to help me solve my puzzle, but instead asked another question: Do you know why I am here?
I don't know. I shook my head honestly.
He laughed out loud: Of course I came to find you. Have you forgotten that the blood of the Eight-thread lineage is very spiritual?
I was shocked. Was this guy really going to kill me in broad daylight in front of so many people?
Don't worry, I don't intend to kill you, but if you resist, I can't say for sure. He took out a small pot with a wide mouth from his arms and shook it at me, then took out a small knife the length of a finger and handed it to me: Do it yourself, if I do it, I might be careless.
I feel like Tang Seng now. Not the long-winded monk in A Chinese Odyssey, but the Tang Seng that everyone wants to eat in Journey to the West.
The old Taoist priest likes to bleed me when he has nothing to do. Now a undertaker comes and actually comes to me specifically to bleed me.
The most important thing is that I cannot resist, let alone complain, otherwise the bleeding will become fatal.
I gritted my teeth and cut my arm. When half a pot of blood had flowed out, I covered the wound and returned the pot and knife to him.
The undertaker put away the pot with a smile and said: "Since you have cooperated so well, if you want to know why I am here instead of in Changping, you can go to the Changping Ancient Battlefield to see it yourself. When you get there, you will know the reason."
After saying this, he turned and walked away, in no hurry, as if he was just taking a walk.
Compared with the old Taoist priest, this treatment is really ridiculous. The old Taoist priest bled me and at least gave me a blood-replenishing pill, but he did nothing and didn't even say thank you.
With this attitude, if you threaten me with a knife again next time! Threaten me again! Threaten me again... I will bleed you.
I don’t know if the blood-replenishing pill that the old Taoist priest gave me had a special effect, but every time I bled, the wound would quickly clot and form a scar.
Seeing that the bleeding had stopped, I put down my sleeve to cover the wound, looked in the direction where the undertaker disappeared, and then left.
I came to the Tomb of Emperor Yan by chance, but I met the undertaker by chance. The conversation with him made me even more confused.
Perhaps because the undertaker did not hurt me too much, the fear in my heart was greatly reduced, and within the next few minutes, I decided to go to the Changping ancient battlefield.
At this time, it was only an hour since the four members of the Zhou family left, so it should still be in time to rush there.
As long as we get there, perhaps all the answers will be known.
The ancient battlefield of Changping can be regarded as a place name. In fact, the area near the Mausoleum of Emperor Yan is also considered to be within the scope of Changping.
However, the Changping I mentioned refers to the place where 400,000 Zhao soldiers were buried alive. It was the center of the entire ancient battlefield and the first place people would think of when they mention Changping.
The area where 400,000 Zhao soldiers were buried alive was so vast that even the locals could not tell where it started and where it ended. Most of the corpse pits excavated by archaeologists were places where hundreds of people were buried. Compared with the death toll of hundreds of thousands, this number of people is not worth mentioning.
Therefore, many people believe that there must be a grave of more than 100,000 corpses under Changping. However, as time goes by, the place that makes people shudder just by thinking about it has been hidden somewhere.
The corpses I saw with the Jade Pendant must be a huge corpse pit. Only a very evil place that has lasted for hundreds of years can be so evil that even generations of heavenly masters and monks cannot completely destroy it.
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been using the Jade Pendant more recently, but even without its help, I can still vaguely feel where I want to go.
Changping Ancient Battlefield, the place where the Qin Empire's God of War Bai Qi was most notorious. From a distance, I could see the black air in the sky appearing and disappearing. In the air, a bright light suddenly appeared, as fast as thunder.
This place is in the wilderness and no one comes here.
I walked forward cautiously, looking at the black fog. I felt that there was a vicious creature lurking in it. Perhaps it was the corpse king that the undertaker had mentioned.
Corpse King, this name doesn't sound good. Raising corpses on the ground can at least be considered self-defense, but a corpse king is a thing that is raised with corpse pills and feeds on the resentment of the dead. I absolutely don't believe that it won't hurt people.
No one knew where the four members of the Zhou family had gone, and no one was seen in the wilderness.
Occasionally, a low whistling sound would come from nowhere, like the wind, or like a monster roaring.
At this time, a person was walking towards this side from a distance.
I was startled and looked around, then quickly found a pile of dirt to hide behind.
The man walked slowly, and it took him ten minutes to get to me. When I saw his face clearly, I was shocked.
The person who came turned out to be Zhou Guangyun!
Shouldn't he and the three Zhou family members take back the Demon-Subduing Sword together? Why did he go out alone?
I came out from behind the mound and called out to him, but he seemed not to hear me and just kept walking forward.
I saw that his face was dull, like a frightened child.
I called him again, and he finally heard me, but he still looked at me blankly, without saying a word or moving.
Why are you here? Where is Mr. Zhou? I asked.
He looked at me with lifeless eyes and said blankly: Dead, all dead.
Dead!? Both Mr. Zhou and Zhou Guangji are dead? How is this possible...
Although the Zhou family's magic is not as good as the old Taoist's five elements method, it also has its merits. Moreover, with the previous generation of the family head, Mr. Zhou, in person, how could all three of them die here?
Changping Ancient Battlefield, what happened during the one hour I spent at the Yan Emperor's Tomb! ?
What happened? I grabbed Zhou Guangyun's arm and asked.
All dead... all dead... Zhou Guangyun murmured: Those who were alive are all dead... The damned ones are alive...
What do you mean? I was sweating with anxiety.
They are all dead! They are all dead! He is alive! Zhou Guangyun suddenly yelled like crazy, tears and snot mixed together and flowed out.
Who is alive? Is it the corpse king who has been refined? I grabbed him and asked anxiously.
Zhou Guangyun seemed crazy and didn't listen to my questions at all. He kept repeating "everyone is dead".
I was furious and anxious listening to this, but there was nothing I could do. Zhou Guangyun was acting crazy, crying and laughing, talking nonsense, and I couldn't understand him.
The black fog in the distance kept shrinking, and faintly visible figures were moving in it, not just one or two.
Then who is it?
Just as I was wondering, Zhou Guangyun suddenly shook off my hand and ran away. As he ran, he was still shouting: They are all dead! They are all dead! They are alive again! Haha! They are alive again! They are all dead...
I heard the clanging of metal and steel, and I wanted to chase Zhou Guangyun, but I was attracted by the sound. I followed the sound and was immediately horrified.
