Volume 1: Rebellion in Chang'an Chapter 100: Rebellion of Corpse Puppets
Taidu City.
One of the county towns under Zhenjiang Prefecture.
The person in charge of guarding the North City area this month is Qin Tianhan, a cultivator who has completed the foundation building stage.
Under his command is a 20-man city guard squad.
Every human city built by Daxia has a city guard.
These city guards are open to all cultivators with clean backgrounds, whether they are independent cultivators or cultivators from a family, and can apply to join the city guards.
After joining the city guard, as long as you perform your duties and take turns on duty, you can enjoy the quota of spirit stones, elixirs and other cultivation resources issued by Daxia.
The duty of the city guards is to protect the humans in the city.
They not only had to guard against attacks from monsters and beasts in the wilderness outside the city, but also had to supervise the fights among monks within the city.
As usual, Qin Tianhan stood on the city wall, gazing into the distance at the dark wilderness outside the city.
Everything is calm.
Qin Tianhan has become accustomed to this situation.
He has been a member of the Taidu City Guard for sixty years and has never encountered any major trouble, let alone a monster attacking the city.
On normal days, the worst that would happen was when they encountered monks attacking in the city and they would need to step in to punish them.
Without special reasons, Daxia strictly prohibits monks from fighting in the city.
But monks are a group of people who have never had any taboos.
Therefore, fighting between monks in the city would happen once or twice every three days.
As long as no mortals were accidentally injured, they would reprimand them and ask them to pay some spirit stones as a fine, and that would be the end of it.
This job is much easier than you might think.
Qin Tianhan's eyes couldn't help but wander, and he started to calculate in his mind.
After he had the good fortune to advance to the foundation-building stage as a casual cultivator, the resources required for the cultivation of a foundation-building cultivator were beyond the budget of a casual cultivator like him.
Feeling that it was not easy for a casual cultivator to practice, he thought over and over again and finally decided to enlist in the city guards of Taidu City.
Although the rules of the City Guards are extremely strict and they are not as free as independent cultivators, the treatment of the City Guards is good .
Not only is there a quota supply of resources, but there are only four months in a year where rotation is required, and the rest of the time can be allocated freely.
Under such conditions, he actually cultivated step by step to the perfect state of foundation building.
Now I am only over 130 years old. If I prepare well for 10 to 20 years, I will still have a chance to try to break through to the Golden Elixir stage.
Once one becomes a Jindan cultivator, it is like a fish leaping over the dragon gate, and one is considered a powerful figure in Taidu City.
It is extremely rare for a casual cultivator to achieve such a level.
Thinking of such a prospect, Qin Tianhan couldn't help but reveal a bit of complacency on his face.
"Hmm? What is this? Is something rotten?" Qin Tianhan, who was daydreaming, twitched his nose subconsciously.
There was an extremely faint fishy and rotten smell in the air, which he smelled.
Humans have six senses, namely eye consciousness, ear consciousness, nose consciousness, tongue consciousness, body consciousness, and mind consciousness.
The six senses each have their own uses, but the most important one is spiritual consciousness. The cultivation techniques are extremely precious and difficult for ordinary people to obtain.
The cultivation of the five senses other than spiritual consciousness is extremely time-consuming, and the increase in combat power is not as direct as spells.
Generally speaking, monks would choose to spend their time practicing techniques to accumulate spiritual power, or practicing spells to increase their combat effectiveness.
Few people would practice the art of the five senses.
But Qin Tianhan is an exception.
The reason why he was able to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage as a casual cultivator was because he had practiced an auxiliary technique to train his nose sense.
After practicing this technique, although his combat power did not increase, because his nose sense was far superior to that of ordinary cultivators, he could often smell the scent of some monsters in the wilderness and avoid dangerous places.
You can even use the unique flavor of the elixir to find those elixir that are hidden deeply and difficult to find.
It was also because of this that he was able to accumulate enough resources on his own and break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
He deeply felt the magical effect of nose consciousness, so even after he became a foundation-building cultivator and mastered the ability to project spiritual consciousness, he did not relax the practice of nose consciousness.
As it turned out, this choice was not wrong.
Because the distance of his spiritual sense is limited, many times, his nose sense can sense things that his spiritual sense cannot detect.
For example, now.
"No!" Qin Tianhan's face darkened.
Because this smell of decay is different from the smell of ordinary rotting objects, it... is more like the stench of a corpse!
Qin Tianhan's background as a casual cultivator made him extremely cautious in what he did.
Perhaps other people would not take it seriously when they smell this smell. After all, it is not strange to have the smell of a corpse in such a big city, right?
But Qin Tianhan won’t.
"Follow me." Qin Tianhan's face darkened, and he led his monks to follow the direction where the smell of decay came from.
Although the city guards felt a little puzzled, they would not disobey orders and quickly followed.
After searching for the source of the rotten smell for a while, Qin Tianhan was stunned.
The rotten smell he was looking for was becoming stronger and stronger, which meant that he was about to find the source of the smell.
However, Qin Tianhan twitched his nose slightly.
At this moment, the air was filled with the same smell of decay in all directions.
In just a moment, the whole city seemed to be filled with the fishy and rotten smell.
What shocked him even more was that beneath the strong smell of decay, he also smelled a faint smell of blood.
A bad premonition arose in his heart.
They did not stop and continued to rush towards the source of the first rotten smell.
What kind of ghost is causing this trouble?
"What... is that?!" a monk said with trembling teeth, pointing to a place not far away.
In the night.
A huge humanoid monster was standing in the distance, with blood on his face. His skin was strangely pale and his facial shape was distorted.
The eyes on the head were glowing with an extremely ferocious red blood light, and its mouth was full of sharp fangs that gleamed with the luster of gold and iron.
The skin all over his body is like a layer of pure black hard armor, which looks extremely tough.
At such a distance, not only Qin Tianhan, but other cultivators also smelled the strong stench of decay and blood emanating from his body.
This huge monster was grabbing a mortal, burying its fangs in the mortal's throat and swallowing and sucking the blood.
The mortal shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye and turned into a mummy.
"Blood...blood zombies!" A city guard monk who came from a cultivation family and had a broad vision answered in a trembling voice.
A blood zombie would naturally not frighten him so much.
——Behind the blood zombie, there are countless black shadows, although the size of those black shadows is much smaller than that of the leading blood zombie.
But, that number is too much.
The houses in this area had long since collapsed and were in pieces, turning into ruins, with the ground littered with mummified bodies of mortals.
The reason why there had been no sound before was because this place had been covered by an extremely crude sound-blocking barrier at some point in time.
The scene before him was like hell on earth, which made Qin Tianhan horrified and shocked.
Even the foundation-building cultivators seemed insignificant in front of such a large number of corpse puppets.
At this moment, the corpse puppets saw the city guard team led by Qin Tianhan and immediately rushed over enthusiastically.
Their instincts made them feel that there was more powerful and attractive blood flowing in the monk's body.
The essence and blood of the monks will have a more obvious effect on their evolution.
For Qin Tianhan, the scene of countless corpse puppets rushing towards him was like falling into an ice cave, which he would never forget.
"Send a smoke signal!" Looking at the horrifying scene in front of him, Qin Tianhan's face twitched violently and he roared angrily.
Then, Qin Tianhan quickly retreated, took out a talisman from his storage ring, and threw it upwards with his spiritual power.
The talisman instantly shone with light and turned into a billowing red smoke that shot up into the sky.
Even though it was covered by the darkness of night, it still couldn't conceal the glow of the red smoke.
Wolf smoke talisman!
A talisman used to send out a warning signal.
As soon as Qin Tianhan joined the city guard, he received this talisman.
Only when encountering a major event such as a large number of monsters attacking the city, is it necessary to use the wolf smoke talisman to announce the incident to the entire city.
This talisman has not been used for so many years. Finally, tonight, the wolf smoke talisman was activated for the first time!
Under Qin Tianhan's roar, the city guards finally reacted and took out the wolf smoke talismans and sent out a warning signal.
For a moment, smoke of war was everywhere.
…
Corpses attack the city!
An unpredictable number of zombies attacked the city!
This is a chaos and a disaster!
Along with the night came thousands of corpses of unknown origin.
Among them, there are first-grade corpse puppets that are equivalent to Qi-refining cultivators: Iron Corpse and White Corpse; there are second-grade corpse puppets that are equivalent to Foundation Establishment cultivators: Wandering Corpse and Flying Corpse; there are even third-grade corpse puppets that can fight against Jindan cultivators: Blood Corpse and Incorruptible Bone!
Although they are of different levels and types, all of these corpse puppets have a pair of red and ferocious eyes.
In the night, they are like red stars, but they make people who see them feel cold all over and their scalp tingling.
These corpse puppets were like a tide, covering the mortal houses in the city.
Corpse puppets use blood as their source of power, and can even evolve and enhance their own strength after swallowing a certain amount of blood.
They ruthlessly ran over humans one by one, ignoring their struggles and screams, biting off their throats and frantically eating the blood and essence in their bodies.
