Chapter 7: The Stinking Corpse

  Out of the side room and into the main hall, Jiucheng said, "You see if this brother can still be saved." I didn't make a sound, only saying to look at the next one.

  Arrived at Liu Jin's home, he happened to be in a frantic and crazy state, having become an idiot, using his hands to play with his own feces in his own courtyard.

  This guy is more disgusting than the last one, but since I took on this job, I have to do it well for him.

  "Niu Dao Chang, look at this!" The nine of them looked like they still had some lingering sadness.

  It seems I have to make a trip to Qinling Mountains.

  This little full is dyed with corpse spots, and there is also a path, nine out of ten it looks like being bitten by something, and six catties are obviously possessed. If you don't go to Qinling to see what's going on, I won't be able to save this person either.

  Ninety percent of them heard that I was going to Qinling and were frightened, their faces turned yellow. "Master Niu, we can go anywhere, just don't go to Qinling, okay?"

  "You think I want to go?" I thought to myself, with my mediocre skills, if it weren't for the fact that I got entangled in this matter of three brothers, I would have risked my life to run to Qinling, who doesn't know what kind of place that is?

  After going to Qinling, I really regretted it a bit.

  Last time we talked about me going to Qinling to find the antidote, to be honest, now that I think back, it's really a bit absurd. The Qinling of 90 years ago is different from now, the city modernization didn't keep up, and the tourist areas are still deep mountains and old forests. Who knows what kind of monsters can be seen or not seen inside?

  Since I promised, for the sake of this face, no matter what, I have to go. Those three old grave robbers are indeed pitiful, I'll just comfort myself by thinking I'm doing it for justice.

  Although nine-tenths of the leg had rotted, it still couldn't be cut off in a hurry. I used our Lingshan Sect's Jade Fat Ointment to treat it, and although it couldn't completely cure the rot, at least it reduced the speed of the decay.

  These three people are still about 90% mobile, the rest are half dead and can't find that place even if I'm 90%.

  No need to say more, in the 90s, guns were still very easy to get, nine out of ten families had a privately stored Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, five rounds per burst. In their old village chief's house, they managed to get their hands on an old Arisaka rifle left behind by the devils back then. I was wondering how they got these antiques. And that Arisaka rifle is still usable?

  That Type 38 rifle fired seven rounds, one of which was used for testing, and barely managed to fire. As for whether it can kill those monsters in the deep mountains and old forests, I reserve my opinion.

  Under the leadership of Jiucheng, first tampering with cars, then tampering with horse-drawn carriages, and finally taking bus No. 11, they finally arrived at the foot of Qinling Mountain. As a Taoist priest, it's not good to guard the Taoist temple properly, wear Taoist robes, hold a Taoist fan, and carry a spear to wander around the world.

  "This forest is so dense, I'm afraid if someone goes in, they might not be able to come out."

  Jiucheng smiled and said, "Niu Daozhang, can we see the situation clearly from here? Can we not go in?"

  It seems that at the beginning, this little guy was miserable. As soon as he arrived at the foot of Qinling Mountain, he was scared to death. The wild things in the forest were simply overwhelming, "With just a little noise, you're scared like this, are you still a man?"

  I may be standing and talking without feeling tired in my waist.

  The little guy was entangled in fear and morality, cautiously following the route they had taken before, I held that 56-style semi-automatic rifle and walked forward.

  It's a sunny day with the sun shining brightly, but in this forest, it's still chilly and windy, sending shivers down one's spine.

  "Are you sure you're going the right way?" I also feel a bit uneasy in my heart.

  "I'm just going by memory, as for whether we can find it or not... " As soon as I heard this, I burst into a rage. Since I was here on vacation, "What the hell, how can you do things without even a bit of confidence? You want to get us lost and have us die here, with no one to collect our bodies."

  "Niu Dao Chang, look, isn't that him?"

  I focused my attention, and the five big locust trees stared at me, just like five giant gods staring at me. The straight and sturdy tree trunks emitted a terrifying aura.

  "Run fast!" I shouted loudly, because suddenly a feeling came from nowhere, this place is absolutely not simple. But it was too late.

  After wandering in the forest for an entire afternoon, I still can't escape these five locust trees.

  In broad daylight, under the scorching sun, with birds chirping loudly everywhere, I still managed to encounter a "ghost hitting the wall". To use the words of young people today, I was totally mind-blown.

  Jiucheng pulled on his crying tone, "Niu Daozhang, what can we do? Are we going to be trapped here to death?" To be honest, I was also scared in my heart. This Qinling is really a place that eats people. Since ancient times, those who died here could probably hold a battle of Tongguan.

  I'm thinking to myself, if I fall again, I reckon I'll really be done for, and even an iron shovel won't be able to scrape me up.

  "What's all the fuss about, isn't he still alive? Day in and day out, learning from others to rob tombs. With your level of skill, you have the nerve to rob tombs? You're really spitting on the face of a master thief."

  "I didn't dig up anything in the past either, nothing out of the ordinary happened." Jiucheng got anxious.

  "Alright, alright, spare me the embarrassment."

  "Niu Dao Chang, you'd better think of a solution quickly, it's going to be dark soon and we won't be able to get out then."

  "Shut up, let me think." Why can't I escape from these five locust trees? Are there ghosts or monsters here? Five locust trees, five locust trees... Oh my seventh maternal uncle's grandfather, as soon as I arrived at this broken place, I bumped into this thing. Is this the Five Locust Array of the Lingshan Secret Method?

  "It's all over, I need to calm down, I need to calm down."

  "Those five pagoda trees are where we camped initially, see how open and nice the location is. It's just that... it feels a bit eerie." As he spoke, Jiulian leaned against me slightly.

  I made a quick wit, "Let's go."

  I should understand what's going on now, this matter, still has to start from Wu Huai Zhen.

  In ancient times, large-scale wars often broke out, with heavy casualties all over the place. To prevent the corpses from turning into evil spirits, Feng Shui masters would use the Wu Huai Fan Yang method to shock the corpses back to their senses.

  From the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo in Northern Song Dynasty to the first year of Jingde, Song and Liao launched a long-term war. In the Battle of Gaoliang River, the Song army was defeated, and Emperor Taizong of Song fled.

  At this critical moment, Emperor Taizong of Song mysteriously met with an old man who presented a plan to defeat the Liao army.

  After the Liao army broke into the city, they buried all the dead bodies of the Song army and began to celebrate their victory. A soldier who had drunk too much went out to relieve himself, and a gust of cool wind blew over, making him feel a chill on his back. He listlessly pulled up his pants and prepared to go back and continue drinking.

  In the blink of an eye, a black shadow flashed by, and the soldiers followed. In just a few seconds, the air was filled with the smell of blood. A large troop suddenly appeared from nowhere, taking advantage of the moonlight, these people had dull eyes, wore Song army uniforms, grasped steel knives, and charged forward in big strides.

  The alarm sounded, and a big battle began. Some of these mysterious men had their arms cut off, stabbed several times, but still maintained their combat effectiveness. The Liao army was defeated for a time.

  The general stood on the gate tower and witnessed an incredible scene, this army was not someone else, but the buried corpses of the Song army by the Liao army, but who knew, how did they come back to life.

  In ancient times, every military strategist understood yin and yang, pulse theory, and Feng Shui layout. This was a required course for military strategists.

  The Liao army's military advisor received intelligence and came to investigate. It turned out that someone had set up a trap in the pile of dead bodies, which was called the "Standing Corpse Formation".

  Using the corpse-raising technique will shorten one's lifespan by five years, ten years, twenty years, or fifty years as different levels. Therefore, not many people dare to use this technique, fearing that the corpse won't rise but they themselves will instead.

  A distance of one zhang is called a zhang ting, which costs five years of life; a distance of ten zhang is called a fen ting; a distance of 100 zhang is called a li ting; and a distance of 1,000 zhang is called a gong ting.

  The Liao army's military advisor finally found out that this Feng Shui layout originated from Chi You, but this layout had been lost for thousands of years, and it was unknown where the Song army got it from. As for the method to counter it, there was no way to find it either.

  The Liao army is based on the structure of the human body's liver, spleen, kidney, viscera and stomach, evolving into a formation that is like the five internal organs of the human body, relying on each other, acting on each other, connecting with each other, influencing each other, absorbing, digesting and excreting.

  To set up this formation, you need to find something that not only has a vital energy, but also has a balance of yin and yang. During the day, it can absorb the positive energy to suppress the evil spirit, and at night, it can release the negative energy to weaken the evil soul. In this way, even the most powerful formation will be just for show.

  Finally, there is one thing that has this ability, and it goes without saying that it is the mastermind of this formation, the Huai tree.

  The pagoda tree is called the pagoda tree because there are ghosts on the pagoda tree, and the word "pagoda" is written like this.

  Wood, with the function of tonifying yang and dispersing yin. If it's used to tonify yang and disperse yin for ghosts, what would happen? In Feng Shui, this is called "cutting off evil spirits". As for evil spirits, a scientific explanation should be electromagnetic chaos. The earth produces electrons everywhere, sometimes due to certain reasons, causing electrons to malfunction, resulting in chaos, chaos is free accumulation, if not guided, it will produce reverse effects. This cutting off evil spirits, might be to cut off this reverse effect.

  In this way, the Wu Huai Yang Bureau appeared. This bureau became a necessary product for each army in the future. As long as it was a pile of dead people, they had to set up the Wu Huai Yang Bureau. Simply put, it was a matter of planting a locust tree, and how to plant this locust tree was a more nuanced topic.

  Nine out of ten people passed it on, "Isn't this a corpse? How come I was still there at first?"

  "You must have dug up something you shouldn't have. This Wu Huai formation serves multiple purposes, and here, it's definitely for guarding the tomb. Digging into a tomb will surely trigger a trap, as soon as you dare to dig, you'll immediately disrupt the layout of the grave, and if you don't get cursed, I'd be surprised."

  Jiucheng suddenly remembered, "I remember now, we dug a hole under that locust tree and cooked rice back then."

  "It's all matched, everything is matched."

  Now, what needs to be done is to break this Five Huai Formation, dig out the stinky corpse, take the meat of the stinky corpse and boil it into oil, apply it to Xiao Man and Jiu Cheng's wounds. Once this Five Huai Formation is broken, Xiao Man and Liu Jin will also recover.

  "Right, 90%, your leg looks like it was bitten by something."

  As soon as this is mentioned, nine out of ten people turn pale, I take a glance and see that I've fallen for it.

  "Cow, cow way long, fast, fast, fast dizzy me, fast ah."

  "What's wrong, 90%." I thought that this scar was probably from a zombie bite.

  That stinky corpse came back to life, right on Jiucheng's body.

  "Hahaha, hahaha, hahahaha." Jiucheng burst out laughing. At this moment, I was flustered and at a loss for what to do. I quickly pulled out the talisman I had drawn earlier and stuck it on Jiucheng's face. But Jiucheng didn't buy it at all.

  "Little doll, come to Lao Dao quickly." "Hehehe, hehehe." Ninety percent of the voice changed, becoming desolate and evil.

  "Slap slap." Two slaps were given, "90% chance, wake up quickly."

  "You little brat, you dare to hit me? Today, Old Dao will make you die for me." As he spoke, Jiucheng's hand reached out and tightly grasped my neck.