Gao Chang, the patrol commissioner of Nian Du, watched the Nightmare Wood from afar.
The branches and leaves of the Nightmare Wood swayed, its crown covering a radius of more than ten mu, and more than a thousand corpses hung from its branches—some dancing in the air, others walking on the ground. This scene made even his scalp tingle a little.
He had never seen such a neat formation-breaking feat.
From the moment Chen Shi was ambushed by the candle-lighter and dragged into the Heaven-Woven Earth-Ensnaring Great Array, to Chen Shi killing the candle-lighter, charging through the array, killing people, breaking the array, releasing the Nightmare Wood, and blocking the array, it had all happened in one smooth, flowing motion!
He had also never seen such a murderous intent.
More than a thousand experts from the Banshan Sect and the Hundred Refinements Hall had been almost completely buried, with only five surviving!
Among these thousand-plus people, six or seven hundred were elite grave-robbing experts carefully selected from the entire Western Ox Continent. By day, they were village fortune-tellers, street-roaming geomancers, peddlers carrying bamboo poles down to the countryside, coffin shop owners, or knife-sharpeners.
By night, they were gentlemen holding Luoyang shovels, entering the dark tombs of the dead to dig up graves and rob tombs.
They traded in the jewels of tombs, kept blood-jade against their chests, and even raised evil spirits.
With all their skills, they came and went without a trace.
Yet outside the city of Nian Du, in this battle of broken formations, the grave-robbing elite of the Western Ox Continent had been nearly wiped out!
The remaining four or five hundred people were weapon-forging and treasure-refining experts carefully selected by the Hundred Refinements Hall, and they too had been almost completely buried!
Even for the garrison