Chapter 226: The Mummy Listens Better Than a Human

Chapter 226: The Mummy Listens Better Than a Human

Chapter 226: Mummies are more obedient than humans
At this moment, the sound of bells was heard from the front, and Tian Lin and Zhou Jin's faces changed.

Zhou Jin raised his hand and the flying sword instantly broke into the forest fog, but after the flying sword entered the forest for two meters, not only was its figure obscured by the fog and corpse qi, it also lost contact with Zhou Jin.

However, the sound of bells ahead was still approaching this side in the forest.

"run!"

After Tian Lin finished speaking, he and Zhou Jin ran out of the mass grave together.

As soon as Zhou Jin came out of the mass grave, he coughed and spat out the detoxification pill in his mouth.

Although he had a detoxification pill in his mouth, a small amount of corpse qi still entered his body.

At this time, his face turned blue, and his hands felt as if they had dug coal, and also had a burnt feeling.

Tian Lin stood beside him, watching Zhou Jin sit cross-legged and meditate to expel the corpse qi.

After more than an hour, Zhou Jin finally stood up from his meditation.

He looked at Tian Lin in surprise and couldn't help but praise him: "Although Junior Brother is only at the initial stage of foundation building, his true energy seems to be stronger than mine."

Tian Lin explained: "Maybe it's because I practiced the Sealing Earth Art? The Sealing Earth Art is the magical power of the Xiangxi Sect. This magical power refines the dead air. Although the dead air and corpse air are not the same thing, the corpse air should be included in the dead air.

Therefore, as long as I hold my breath and concentrate, holding the detoxification pill in my mouth, the corpse qi cannot easily harm my body."

Zhou Jin nodded and accepted Tian Lin's explanation.

By this time, the sky was already dark and everything was silent. The chilly and gloomy atmosphere of the entire mass grave forest was particularly thick at this moment.

In the mass grave forest, strange roars were heard, which sounded like those of humans or animals and were extremely terrifying.

"It seems that it is extremely difficult to find an ownerless mummy at the moment. Let's walk around a bit more. If we really can't find a mummy, we'll have to cheat by spending spirit stones."

The two of them flew high into the sky on their swords and found that all the people living in these mountains were already resting.

Only the disciples of Class C and Wu were flying their swords like shooting stars, shuttling back and forth between the mountains in the night sky.

"Don't think too much. Ownerless mummies won't appear in these places. Even if we are lucky enough to encounter one, it is far from enough for the six mummies we want to capture."

Zhou Jin sighed, and Tian Lin took over and said, "Shall we go find that woman now?"

"Okay, let's go now."

After Zhou Jin finished speaking, he instantly flew towards the village where the woman was during the day.

It was late at night and there was no one around, only the big river outside the village was still flowing.

At the entrance of the village, a lantern was hung on an old locust tree.

Zhou Jin and Tian Lin approached the old locust tree and performed rituals towards the shrine under the tree.

Zhou Jin hesitated for a moment, took out three incense sticks from his storage bag and handed them to Tian Lin, while he himself lit the incense sticks with his true energy first.

When he inserted the incense sticks into the incense burner in front of the shrine, Tian Lin also stepped forward and inserted three incense sticks into the incense burner.

The two men bowed to the wooden statue in the shrine again, then strode into the village.

The sound of dogs barking was heard because of their arrival. As the dogs barked one after another, candles were lit in four or five households.

The gate at the east end of the village near the entrance was the first to open. An old man came out and bowed to the two men, saying, "My two Taoist friends, why are you visiting Huilong Village so late at night? I wonder what brings you here?"

Tian Lin and Zhou Jin returned the greetings, and Zhou Jin said, "I spent spirit stones to buy six mummies from a woman in the village during the day, and I came to pick them up tonight."

While he was talking to the old man, Tian Lin's eyes were looking towards the yard at the west end of the village.

There were several coffins parked outside the yard, and a pile of huge logs were piled among them.

Tian Lin had helped the woman "move" some huge trees in the river during the day, and recognized several of them as the driftwood that had flowed down from upstream during the day.

Sure enough, the gate over there opened, and a woman holding a lantern was seen, with a Qi-refining practitioner in clothes walking towards this side in front of her.

The Qigong practitioner was a strong middle-aged man. He first bowed to Tian Lin and Zhou Jin, then bowed to the old man and said, "Second uncle, these two are the guests that Qiao'er told you about today."

The old man nodded and said:

"So you are a disciple of the Taoist sect. Please forgive me for my impoliteness."

After he finished speaking, he said to Tian Lin and Zhou Jin, "I have prepared all the mummies you two requested. When will you come to inspect them?"

Tian Lin said: "It is better to do it sooner rather than later. Just don't blame us for bothering you, fellow Taoist."

The old man took the lantern from the woman's hand and walked towards an ancient well in the village holding the lantern.

At the same time, many men in the village were awakened and walked towards this side.

But among the people present, only the old man was in the middle stage of foundation building. These people knew the identities and cultivation levels of Tian Lin and Zhou Jin, so they did not dare to approach.

Only the old man brought Tian Lin and Zhou Jin to the mouth of the ancient well. When Tian Lin and Zhou Jin leaned towards the ancient well, a cold wind blew out from the well, making their hair fly.

"There's corpse qi in here. Is that where the mummy is hiding?"

The old man said: "This corpse well is used for keeping coffins and corpses. We corpse drivers use this corpse well to keep the dead bodies we drive back from outside.

It is thanks to this well that we, the corpse-drivers, can survive in this land."

After he finished speaking, he waved to the man in the coat to come over. The man walked to the ancient well, picked up a thick rope at the mouth of the well, and tied the rope to the wheel head.

As the handle was turned, the rope wrapped around the wheel head several times, and the thick rope that reached the bottom of the well finally straightened.

After a series of teeth-grinding creaking sounds, the man groaned as the rope below continued to wrap around the wheel head.

In the dark well, a black coffin was pulled out of the well.

Zhou Jin pulled Tian Lin back two steps to avoid the corpse gas gushing out of the well.

However, the old man in the middle stage of foundation building was not afraid of these. He took two steps forward and grabbed the bottom of the coffin with both hands.

As the old man in the middle stage of foundation building exerted force with his arms, he pulled the coffin out of the ancient well at an angle.

There was a 'bang' and the coffin fell to the ground with a dull sound.

The coffin was tied tightly with thick ropes all over, but a vibrating sound came from the coffin, and the tightly bound ropes seemed to loosen.

The old man cut the rope connecting the coffin to the wheel head, and the man in clothes then picked up the second rope at the wellhead and wrapped it around the wheel head.

Tian Lin looked at the dozen thick ropes at the mouth of the well and asked, "A dozen mummies are hidden in this ancient well?"

The old man looked at the ancient well and said:

"There are only nine mummies, and the remaining ones are corpses that have just been buried in the well. If we are lucky, we may be able to raise a few more mummies in less than two months—"

"How long will it take for a mummy to turn into a zombie?"

Tian Lin continued to ask, and the old man said, "That also depends on the quality of the corpse qi in the place where the corpse is raised. For example, our ancient well can only raise mummies but not walking corpses.

The mass grave over there is a perfect place to raise zombies."

At this time, the second coffin was pulled up, and the old man followed suit and pulled up the second coffin.

Once these coffins are above ground, the contents seem to come alive.

But the coffin that was pressing them down was not simple, otherwise it would be difficult to trap the mummies inside with just the thick ropes tied to the coffin.

While the men were pulling the third coffin, Tian Lin asked the old man:

"As far as I know, these corpse qi are extremely harmful to the human body. How do corpse drivers rely on their magical powers to stay with mummies and corpse qi for a long time without getting hurt?"

The old man said: "The disciples of Xiangxi Sect cultivate dead energy, which is in no way inferior to the five elements of true energy. But we corpse drivers are not so lucky, and we have to rely on taking medicine to suppress the dead energy.

But as time goes by, something will go wrong. You two must have been to the mass grave. In fact, it was an ordinary place in the early years.

But because there were so many corpse-carriers burying corpses, it gradually became a major place for corpse-carriers, so that corpse-carriers with low cultivation levels dared not go deep into it. "

Soon, six coffins were taken out of the well.

Strictly speaking, the people of Huilong Village made a profit by spending fifteen mid-grade spirit stones to buy six low-grade mummies.

But these all-black coffins are made from corpse qi and are actually more valuable than mummies.

Therefore, it was impossible for the old man to give all the mummies and the black coffins to Tian Lin and the others.

He said to the man in the robe, "Go find six coffins and let the two disciples of the Immortal Sect inspect them."

The man waved for someone to go to his house to get the coffin.

Soon, six unpainted coffins were carried over.

At the same time, the old man had cut the rope on the first black coffin.

As the rope was untied and the coffin lid opened, a ragged corpse with sparse hair jumped out of the coffin and turned into a shadow and pounced towards the nearest old man.

The old man stood still, and when the mummy came closer, he bit his index finger and pointed at the mummy's forehead.

The mummy fell backwards to the ground with a thud. Only a pair of green eyeballs were moving, and the body could not move at all.

"Look at his teeth, look at his eyes, look at his nails—"

The old man walked up to Tian Lin and the others and introduced them, "This corpse is very beautiful no matter from which angle you look at it."

Tian Lin couldn't see what was so beautiful about it, but they just wanted to use the mummy, and they didn't care if it had broken arms and legs. They simply said:
"Then please help us bury this mummy."

A middle-aged man came out from the other side, picked up the mummy on the ground, and put it into a newly brought, unpainted thin coffin.

At this time, the second coffin was opened.

I saw a woman jumping out of the coffin.

The old man stepped forward and pointed at the woman, then introduced her to Tian Lin and the others, "This mummy is even more extraordinary. She was born a noblewoman. If she hadn't cultivated, she would have been a top-grade mummy.

Look at her breasts, her face, and her skin. You can stay in your room and play with it yourself."

Tian Lin was somewhat speechless and said, "For no reason, would someone play with a corpse?"

The old man gave Tian Lin a strange look and said, "In this world, mummies are much more obedient than humans."

(End of this chapter)