Youbao Chapter 42: Calculation (6)
I lifted the curse and asked the old Taoist how long it would take him to leave.
The old Taoist said: The Nine Bends and Three Souls Formation has just started to work. There is no nine turns at this time. If people are doing it, the speed will be much slower. Waiting for another quarter of an hour will be the best time.
We stood ten miles away, waiting for a quarter of an hour to pass. This time was neither long nor short, and the old Taoist stood there like a piece of wood, which was very boring.
Soon, a quarter of an hour later, the old Taoist priest grabbed my arm and took a step forward. When he took the second step, we were at the foot of the mountain.
Without waiting for the Taoist priest to remind me, I cast a spell and fell directly into the passage.
After the old Taoist priest came down, he seemed to feel embarrassed and said: You run fast.
I knew he couldn't see, so I laughed and slapped him on the face. It was so cool, I had finally realized what I had wanted to do for so many days but hadn't dared to do.
The old Taoist priest was naturally unaware of anything and just said: Follow me, it's a mess here, if you take the wrong path you might lose your way.
I subconsciously said "oh", then remembered that he couldn't hear me. The old Taoist priest didn't care whether I was around or not, and walked forward in the passage.
He was so fast that I couldn't catch up with him even with all my might. I was so scared that I immediately withdrew my magic and shouted: "Don't run so fast, I can't catch up with you!"
After he shouted this, the old Taoist priest came out from the corner in front: You are running so fast even though I can't catch up with you, I thought you had wings.
The old man was obviously upset when he saw me coming down quickly. I cursed inwardly and said: No, aren't you afraid of being discovered?
Why don't you cast the spell quickly? Are you waiting to be discovered? The old Taoist priest said impatiently.
I was choked by his words. Well, why bother to compete with an old man?
After casting the spell, the Taoist priest's speed slowed down noticeably, and I still had enough energy to follow him.
However, the spell only lasts for about 40 minutes, and we will be buried in the pile of corpses in a short while. If we reach the limit and cannot get out of the mountain, the old Taoist can run, but I will probably be tickled to death.
Besides, I don't know what the Taoist priest wants to do when he sneaks in. The phrase "act according to circumstances" is the most deceptive.
As the Taoist priest turned left and right, I felt dizzy. I really admired him for being able to find the entrance to such a strange maze. At this time, the Taoist priest's pace slowed down even more, and I ran ahead of him without noticing.
There was a corner ahead, and I rushed out, just in time to see two people and two corpses guarding there. The black cloth on the zombies' heads had been taken off, and they stood there, like door gods in this empty passage.
The old Taoist priest seemed to be unaware and continued to rush over at a very fast speed. I was just thinking about whether to show up to warn him, but I saw him reach into his arms, take out a dozen pieces of talisman paper, and wave his hand to throw them out.
The five elements of heaven and earth, invite the gods, command the mountain gods, and let the earth and trees take root. The five elements are forbidden, imprisoned! The old Taoist shouted softly, and I immediately saw countless yellow-brown branches suddenly protruding from the mountain wall at the corner, wrapping around the two corpses of the walking corpse vein. A ball of yellow gas rose from the ground, covering their figures. Then the yellow gas suddenly flashed, and there was a brown stone.
Hurry up, the forbidden spell can only last for half an hour, and we will be in danger if they come out later. The old Taoist turned the corner and tapped the stone wall at the corner. When he finished speaking, he had already flown out more than ten meters.
I stared at the big brown stone in a daze . It was so magical. I originally thought that I was already very powerful because I had mastered the Taoist magic of the Eight Ropes, but compared with the old Taoist priest, I was just like a child.
Taking another look at the pile of yellow stones, I shook my head, sighed self-deprecatingly, and chased in the direction of the old Taoist priest.
Maybe the entire clan of the Walking Corpse Clan is really maintaining the operation of the formation, so there are only those two people guarding the passage. We turned a corner again, and we could see the huge space in the belly of the mountain in front of us.
The old Taoist slowed down his pace, carefully took out five pieces of talisman paper, raised his hand and drew a spell. The talisman paper floated up slowly, forming a five-cornered shape to seal the entire cave entrance.
After doing this, the old Taoist walked to the entrance of the cave and stuck his head out.
I wanted to ask him why he dared to use the talisman, wasn't it said that the Golden Wing Corpse's perception was extremely sharp? But then I thought, the old Taoist said before that once the formation was in place, the Golden Wing Corpse's perception would be disturbed. It wasn't a big movement, so it was hard to detect.
Leaving the old Taoist here to observe from a high vantage point, I relied on the magic of not seeing anything to fall down from the cave entrance and quickly ran towards the formation.
The people here moved very quickly, and there were hundreds of them. There were also some single-person-sized holes around, and a rough count showed that there were probably thousands of them. And in each hole, there was a person and a corpse.
No wonder the old Taoist said that the walking corpse vein has the most . Although the Wei family's house is large, there are not too many people. Moreover, no matter how big the house is, can it be compared with the whole mountain?
Nearly a thousand people and zombies guarded the surroundings to maintain the basic operation of the formation. The truly powerful red, blue, and white feathered corpses were responsible for the key to the formation. As for the most powerful golden feathered corpse, the old Taoist said it was hiding underground and had not been seen yet.
I don't know anything about formations, I can only see that the zombies are standing in unique positions. Black, gray, or even blood-colored mists are emitted from their bodies and input into the entire formation.
In the center of the formation was a pool filled with dark red blood. There were unconscious adult men being dragged over, their heads chopped off one by one, and then their bodies were thrown into the pool.
I looked around and found that there were at least two or three hundred of these men. It was hard to imagine that such vicious things could happen in modern society.
Four very special zombies stood in four corners. What surprised me was that they were wearing the uniforms of Qing Dynasty military officers. They wore flower-feathered general hats on their heads, with a white feather sticking out from the top of the hat. They looked very imposing and didn't look like zombies at all.
The old Taoist priest said that the walking corpse lineage had once mobilized in large numbers in the late Qing Dynasty and collected many corpses during the turbulent times. Moreover, they had close ties with the Qing government. It seems that what he said was true.
I have heard that the more powerful a person is when he is alive, the more powerful he will be when he becomes a zombie after death. Therefore, many powerful zombies in Hong Kong and Taiwan movies were generals or royal relatives when they were alive.
I don’t know what type of creature the four white-feathered corpses in front of me belong to.
I can't see the Heavenly Yin Corpse Formation that the old Taoist priest mentioned, because I don't feel anything unusual. Perhaps, this is the magical part of the Eight Ropes Taoism. Even though the person is right in front of me, no one can see him, and he is not invaded by any magic.
I turned my fist around and saw nothing special. The golden immortal skeleton I imagined was not here, and the gloomy corpse king was nowhere to be seen.
What on earth does the Walking Corpse want to do? I couldn't help but wonder.
The hacking incidents continued, and I was chilled to the bone watching from the sidelines, but I was powerless to do anything. Even with the old Taoist priest's methods, they didn't dare to break in, and my three punches and two kicks...
After watching for a while without any results, I returned to the passage. The old Taoist priest was still standing there watching quietly, and I didn't know what he was thinking. I waited anxiously on the side, and it seemed that my Eight Ropes would soon reach its limit. Now my head was aching slightly, which was a warning sign to leave.
At this moment, the blood pool in the distance suddenly exploded, and I heard someone shouting: It's too late! Push them all in!
The able-bodied men who were originally lined up in a row and waiting for death in a daze were now dragged by a large number of disciples of the Walking Corpse Clan and thrown directly into the huge pool of blood.
As soon as they entered the blood pool, they immediately regained consciousness, waving their arms and legs and howling in agony in the dark red water. However, most of them could only make one sound before their bodies turned into blood and gradually disappeared into the pool.
It was too cruel. I clenched my fists. It was simply inhumane.
Hundreds of men were pushed down, and at the same time, the blood pool was getting more and more turbulent, as if something was swimming underneath. I passed by there just now, but I didn't dare to go down to see because it was too scary. If there was nothing else but human hands, feet and internal organs floating around, I would probably be scared to death right there before I reached my limit.
The zombies with red and blue feathers absorbed the mist faster and began to tremble uncontrollably.
Suddenly, teams of disciples from the Walking Corpse Sect rushed into the formation. They were holding all kinds of strange things, including black wood, water of various colors, things that looked like sand, and even something that looked like cloth. When I looked closely, I saw a pile of hair at the end of the cloth, and then I realized that it was the skin of someone or an animal.
At this time, the huge mountain belly was already filled with people and zombies. A gloomy and majestic incantation sounded: The ancient road has spirits, and the corpse law is one of them. Now I will offer a blood sacrifice to invite the spirits to enter my execution ground. The nine-bend formation is falling, and the three souls will come out! Start the formation!
The objects held by the disciples of the Walking Corpse Clan spontaneously combusted without fire and turned into ashes in an instant. At the same time, mists of various colors rose up and floated in the vast space of the mountain. The fluctuations in the blood pool became larger and larger, and in the end, hundreds of twisted human figures rose into the sky from the pool.
They were howling, baring their teeth and claws, and were completely unrecognizable.
Faced with this horrifying scene, the old Taoist priest only murmured: It has finally begun.
I glanced at him and felt a little uneasy.
However, Lao Dao's words also shocked me. Is it only the beginning after this?
I stood beside him, quietly watching the slightly chaotic formation below. Ghosts were flying everywhere, and although they had no form, they were extremely terrifying. The disciples of the Walking Corpse Sect acted as if they didn't see anything, sitting cross-legged on the ground, closing their eyes and chanting spells.
Their voices were too quiet, and when combined, they could only make a constant buzzing sound, like chanting. I saw that the red and blue-feathered zombies that had been shaking constantly had calmed down , but the corpse gas emanating from their heads was even stronger.
The four white-feathered corpses were majestic, like generals guarding the border, and they continuously exhaled monstrous black corpse gas from all sides of the blood pool. Only at this time could it be seen that they were corpses and not humans.
