Youbao Chapter 29: Heavenly Corpse Vein (1)
However, with his three punches and two kicks, how could he be a match for the old Taoist priest when he just woke up? He was kicked in the chest and flew several meters away. The old Taoist priest took a step forward, grabbed his ankle, and slapped the Five Elements Hall Master to the ground like a broken sack as I watched in horror.
Blood splattered everywhere and the Five Elements Hall Master groaned in pain.
The old Taoist kicked him in the stomach: Where is Gamu.
Um, um... I don't know! The Five Elements Hall Master shouted incoherently.
The old Taoist priest didn't waste any words with him and kicked him on the leg. There was a cracking sound, and the Five Elements Hall Master howled miserably.
The old Taoist priest was like a killing god at this moment, and the murderous aura all over his body made people shiver. Looking at the bloody and howling Wuxing Hall Master on the ground, I shrank my neck and dared not think about anything.
Even the zombie lineage is involved. Did Gamu send stone beasts to the four major lines? The old Taoist priest asked again: Tell me where he is, and I can let you go. Otherwise, I don’t know many ways to torture people in this world, but I can still use a few tricks.
However, no matter how the old Taoist tried to coerce and bribe him, or even used brutal force, the head of the Five Elements Hall still refused to tell him where Gamu was. At most, he said that only the head of the family knew.
The old Taoist priest naturally didn't believe such words. Although the Five Elements Hall Master looked like a rotten fish now, he was actually very strong. If the old Taoist priest hadn't successfully attacked him before and put a ban on him, temporarily imprisoning his Taoist power, it would take a lot of effort to torture him like this.
The old Taoist priest finally gave up when the Five Elements Hall Master was on the verge of death.
What kind of secret is it that makes you willing to do this and not even afraid of death? The old Taoist frowned, looking puzzled.
Hehehe... A big secret, a big secret. I won't tell you even if I die. The Five Elements Hall Master laughed like crazy.
The old Taoist priest shook his head and slapped him on the back. The Five Elements Hall Master was silent immediately. I was shocked: You killed him?
No. The old Taoist took out two pills from his bosom and stuffed them into the mouth of the Five Elements Hall Master, silently chanting a spell and pointing a finger at the back of his head. Then he stood up and said: He has no grudge against me. Killing him will make me an enemy of the zombies. It's not worth it.
I breathed a sigh of relief. Although I knew that in this circle, killing and being killed were normal, just like the old man of the Zhou family and the two brothers Zhou Guangji, who died in Changping without , if the old Taoist priest really killed someone in front of me, I would probably have nightmares at night.
He refuses to speak, what should we do?
Wait. The old Taoist said calmly: When the time comes, we will naturally find him.
The master of the Five Elements Hall was left lying there alone, not knowing whether he was dead or alive. The old Taoist took me directly back to the Five Elements Taoist Temple.
Just as he said, he did nothing after returning. Every day he just looked at the scenery and practiced some health-preserving boxing, as if he no longer cared about the stone beast.
I wanted to urge him several times, but seeing how leisurely he was, and considering all the miracles that had happened before, I couldn't help but choose to believe him.
Perhaps, what the old Taoist priest said was right. When the time is right, we will naturally find him.
But, can we wait for the right time in this broken mountain? There is a lot of feces and urine from birds and beasts.
The old Taoist priest didn't take out the stone beast held by the Five Elements Vein to study it again, as if it was just an ordinary stone. Seeing him doing this for two days in a row, I was too lazy to ask.
However, on the third day, the old Taoist priest who was practicing the health-preserving boxing suddenly stopped, rushed over, pulled me and took a step forward.
I didn't have the courage to ask while I was shrinking the earth, until we stopped at the foot of a mountain, then I had the chance to ask: What happened?
The old Taoist priest looked up at the mountain in front of him: I found him.
He is on this mountain? How did you know? I was extremely puzzled. The old Taoist priest always surprised me and I couldn't understand it no matter how hard I tried.
The Master of the Five Elements Hall ate my elixir. You wait here, I'll go up and take a look. If you don't see me coming back, don't run around. If someone asks you, just say you're lost. After giving these instructions, the old Taoist priest started climbing the mountain.
Awesome! Awesome! I couldn't help but sigh, isn't this almost the same as satellite positioning? It seems that in addition to being a taxi driver and a courier, I can also work as a private detective. No wonder so many people want to learn Taoism, it's too easy to make money.
The mountain in front of me was extremely steep, with edges as sharp as a knife and extremely smooth. The entire mountain was slightly black in color, and when I got closer, I could smell a faint fishy smell. This smell was very familiar, and I thought about it carefully, and suddenly I felt that it was almost exactly the same as what I smelled on the zombies that night.
Could it be that this place, like the Wei family mansion, belongs to the zombie clan?
Looking up, the old Taoist priest was like a wild goose with wings, tapping his toes lightly on the ridge of the mountain and floating up. His graceful figure made people unable to help but applaud.
Soon, the old Taoist priest came back, and I asked him: "Why didn't you get to the top? I think you're only halfway up."
The old Taoist frowned again without blushing or breathing heavily: Someone has broken my medicine. Unless we take action, it will be useless.
Then, the old Taoist stared at me with a serious face: "You have to remember that the four veins of the Heavenly Corpse are not simple. Even when my master and junior brother were here, they were very afraid. This kind of family with a long history has a deep foundation. It is not allowed to offend unless it is absolutely necessary. The last time I injured the Five Elements Hall Master and asked him questions, it was already an offense. If I rush forward again, it will be out of control and there will be no room for easing.
I nodded, thinking of the seemingly ordinary old men in the Wei family and their palace-like house.
Is Gamu up there? I asked again.
The old Taoist shook his head and said: "I'm not sure. The smell of zombies is mixed, and it's hard to detect the smell of bronze-armored corpses. It would be great if there were masters of the Heavenly Master Dao. With their skills, they would be able to easily distinguish bronze-armored corpses."
Then we...wait?
The old Taoist nodded, and went with me to find a forest. Then he took out a few talismans painted with cinnabar, pinched the spell and shouted softly: The five elements of heaven and earth, the earth covers all spirits, hide!
Several talismans fell to the ground, but I didn't feel any change. The old Taoist priest sat on the ground calmly, looking at the mountain ahead. This old man, is he trying to trick me? Muttering, I also squatted down to look at the mountain with him.
Since you can't confirm that Gamu is here, why did you suddenly come here? I asked while squatting and getting bored.
The old Taoist said that he had sensed Gamu's location through the Five Elements Hall Master before, and that the Five Elements Hall Master had moved a lot during the time he was rushing here. So he had to go up the mountain to confirm, but the elixir was broken and he couldn't sense anything.
Perhaps, Gamu left before we came.
Or maybe, he didn't actually go up the mountain at all, and the Master of the Five Elements Hall came here only after meeting him.
But it is undeniable that this is the closest we have been to Gamu in this period of time.
Is this mountain famous? When I approached it just now, I smelled the same stench as the zombies.
Well, this is the residence of the walking corpse lineage. The old Taoist said: After the four lines of the heavenly corpse separated, the walking corpse lineage chose this place as the family's habitat. This place is close to the mountains and water, and the terrain is concave. It is a rare place to gather yin, which is very helpful for refining walking corpses. The only remaining golden-winged corpse of the walking corpse lineage is hidden in the place with the heaviest yin energy at the foot of the mountain.
Golden-feathered corpse? What is that?
The old Taoist explained: To become a walking corpse, the first thing is to transform into a corpse. This kind of corpse transformation is not a living corpse transformation, but a corpse that has just died due to the retention of resentment or special stimulation. In simple terms, it is very similar to the zombies in the movie, but the movement is much smoother than in the movie, and there is no need to jump at all. The walking corpse has thick skin and can absorb the essence of the stars and the moon to practice under the moonlight. It can also form many kinds of walking corpse formations. This is why the walking corpse is not as strong and strong as the bronze armor corpse and the sky corpse, but it can still occupy one of the four meridians. The five-element corpse formation I saw that day was just one of them. Without the two corpses of gold and earth, the remaining three could not be considered a formation at all.
But also because of this, among the four major veins, the walking corpse vein has the largest number of people.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was a turbulent time and many people died. So the zombies went out in large numbers to collect suitable corpses, which caused a lot of trouble. The blood-sucking zombie case at that time was spread among the people because of this.
It was precisely because the Walking Corpse Clan had the most contact with the Qing Dynasty at that time and was influenced to a certain extent that the Walking Corpses were divided into four categories: red, blue, white and gold.
The red-winged corpses are naturally the weakest, and the gold-winged corpses are the strongest. If the gold-winged corpses form a corpse formation, no matter which type, one or two bronze-armored corpses cannot resist. Even the heavenly corpses of the main heavenly corpse lineage can only fight against three gold-winged corpses. However, there is only one gold-winged corpse left in the walking corpse lineage, and the situation is over. But the situation of the other three lines is similar, otherwise, the walking corpse lineage would have been taken back by the Zhong family long ago.
I nodded, but my heart was in turmoil. I didn't expect that the famous zombie incident in the Qing Dynasty was actually caused by the walking corpse lineage going out to collect corpses. People's words are scary, and I think that there must be support from the Qing government at that time. Otherwise, with the power of the Tianshi Dao, Longhu Mountain, Maoshan and other Taoist sects, it would be a piece of cake to destroy the walking corpse lineage. Even if the four Tianshi lines were combined into one, I'm afraid they would not be able to fight against so many sects that exorcise demons.
Speaking of Maoshan Sect, the last time we were fighting with the Walking Corpses in the courtyard, I seemed to hear that someone invited Lord Mao. Isn't that the ancestor of Maoshan Sect?
The old Taoist priest was not very clear about this and it was probably another secret history.
We waited for a long time at the foot of the mountain, and occasionally saw one or two people coming down the mountain.
I was getting a little anxious waiting, so I suggested that the old Taoist priest capture a tongue and interrogate it. But the old Taoist priest said that the higher the level of the zombie, the more it can control other zombies. And the zombies are one with the human, and if we disturb the Golden Winged Zombie, it will be difficult to end it.
Perhaps, this is why the Wei family is unwilling to deal with Gamu. The old Taoist said: If Gamu really uses the Corpse King to push the Bronze Armor Corpse to the top level, then the Wei family will definitely be willing to exchange Gamu's return to the family at any price. And the Wei family will also use the momentum of two top-level Bronze Armor Corpses to directly attack the main branch Zhong family.
If the four major sects were ranked according to their strength, how would they be ranked? I asked curiously. Because among the four major sects, there was one that the old Taoist priest had never mentioned.
