The People of Huangzhou Had Extremely Advanced Ideas

While I was sleeping, I saw two groups of zombies.

The undead were armed with shovels, rakes, and other farm tools, which they appeared to have stolen from the villagers' homes. These tools had become weapons, making them extremely dangerous.

"To be honest, this is truly a desolate place. You wouldn't encounter something like this anywhere else. I've learned something new," Lu Yang joked, a smile playing on his lips. He drew his Qingfeng sword, his expression relaxed, the Sword-Ray's gleaming in the candlelight.

Despite the considerable number of zombies, who were armed and surrounded the ancestral hall, these two were dignified Golden Core stage elders who could establish small Aristocratic Clan and become patriarchs in the countryside. They were not likely to be trapped by the zombies in the countryside.

"No wonder the villagers wouldn't let us stay in the village. They were afraid of danger, weren't they? They even said we'd be eaten by corpses. Are they talking about our current situation?"

Although the villagers weren't very nice to him, Meng Jingzhou wasn't one to hold grudges, so helping the village solve their problems was nothing out of the ordinary.

"Look, there's a woman among the corpses!" Lu Yang exclaimed in surprise, pointing to one of the disheveled female corpses.

Meng Jingzhou was completely bewildered. "Who distinguishes between male and female corpses when someone dies? Isn't it normal to find a female corpse?"

"What I mean is, aren't you currently suffering from karmic backlash and unable to meet women? Now that you can meet female corpses, it means that your karmic backlash is limited to living people; corpses, Demon Race, and the like don't count. If you can't solve the problem in the Desolate State, you can go to the Demon Realm for a while, until you reach the Spirit Transformation stage."

"Screw you! I don't believe Senior Sister won't come!" Meng Jingzhou roared, taking the initiative to attack the living corpse.

"Crushing Fist!" Meng Jingzhou clenched his fists, forming horn shapes, and thrust them fiercely at the living corpse.

Boom--

The zombies exploded, and the zombies that were pouring into the ancestral hall were sent flying by this punch, revealing a passage.

"Huh, these corpses are so tough." Meng Jingzhou was surprised. He thought these corpses were wild zombies from somewhere, with fragile bodies that could be easily smashed by a single punch.

"Fairy, these zombies aren't contagious, are they?" Lu Yang originally wanted to stop Meng Jingzhou from making a move and find out if there was any danger before taking action, but now it seemed a bit too late.

"What do you mean by 'contagious'?" The Immortal Fairy was puzzled by Lu Yang's question.

"Even a living person bitten will turn into a living corpse."

The Immortal Fairy looked at Lu Yang with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot, not understanding why he would think that, "Of course not, or rather, I've never even heard of such a thing. Why would you think that?"

"A sudden inspiration."

Only after ensuring he wouldn't get infected did Lu Yang feel safe and ready to fight.

Upon engaging in combat, Lu Yang discovered that these living corpses were exceptionally tough, undoubtedly crafted by a master craftsman.

"But you think you can eat us? You're dreaming!" The two laughed and threw all the living corpses out of the ancestral hall.

From the zombies' perspective, they surrounded Lu Yang and his companion, but from Lu Yang's perspective, they surrounded the zombies.

"None of them will escape! Today, my brother and I will rid the people of this scourge!"

Just as the two were about to unleash their ultimate techniques to wipe out the group of living corpses, they heard an old voice ring out from not far away.

"Young men, please have mercy! They mean no harm!"

The visitor was an elderly person who had initially refused to let the two stay overnight.

"I was just trying to scare you two by saying they eat people. They actually wanted to go to the ancestral hall to eat the offerings, and it just so happened that you two were there!"

Upon hearing this, the two were both taken aback. After thinking about it carefully, it seemed that the zombie had never intended to attack them from beginning to end.

The two tentatively stopped fighting and found that the zombies indeed did not attack them, but instead bypassed them and entered the ancestral hall.

After the zombies had all entered the ancestral hall, the two approached the old man and inquired about the reason.

The old man sighed and said, "I am the village chief of Jianshi Village. You two may find it hard to believe the explanation about the living corpses, so please watch first."

Then the zombies rushed into the ancestral hall, circling around the hot steamed buns. Before long, the buns became cold and lost all their heat, and the zombies finally stopped.

When we left the ancestral hall, we saw the living corpses carrying shovels, rakes, plows and other tools, walking out of Jianshi Village in unison.

The three followed the zombies, but they didn't go far. When they reached the edge of the fields, they stopped and picked up shovels, plows, and other tools to till the land.

Some of the living corpses even used carrying poles to jump into the river and tirelessly irrigate the land.

Some of the zombies, lacking tools, squatted on the ground pulling weeds and pinching pests.

The zombies had a clear division of labor, resembling diligent old farmers.

After planting the crops and completing their tasks for the day, the zombies took their farming tools and walked from the fields to the village entrance, and from the village entrance to the cemetery at the end of the village. They used their tools to dig holes and bury themselves in them.

Lu Yang: "..."

Meng Jingzhou: "..."

The two rubbed their temples in pain, thinking they were hallucinating.

"Do the people of your desolate state use living corpses to farm?"

This is far more advanced than other states; even their Ask Dao Sect can't compare.

They Ask Dao Sect to use the Blue-eyed Water Buffalo clan and the Third Elder to plow the land.

The village chief of Jianshi Village explained helplessly, "It's not what you two imagine. We are just ordinary people; how could we possibly afford to support so many living corpses?"

"Actually, we don't know where these zombies came from. It was just one night when we Lower Vehicle at the village entrance when we saw a group of zombies walking towards us. At first, everyone was very scared and thought the zombies were going to attack us."

"But after contacting them, we found that these zombies didn't intend to harm anyone. They probably ran out of energy and stopped coming from our village."

"Although there are no corpse-drivers in our village, I followed one for a while when I was young and learned a little bit. So I tried steaming buns to feed these living corpses."

"This method really worked, and the zombies started moving again. At this point, someone suggested that we make the zombies plow the land. I thought this was a good idea, so I drove the zombies away and asked them to plow the land."

"So, we rested during the day and steamed a pot of buns in the evening, placing them in the ancestral hall. At night, the living corpses would crawl out of the graveyard, absorb the yang energy from the buns, and begin to cultivate the land. Because everyone was still afraid of the living corpses, every household would close their doors at night."

"Once the planting is finished, the zombies will automatically bury themselves inside, and this process will repeat itself the following night."

"To be honest, life has become much easier since the zombies started farming for us, and we have more free time to do other things."

"Then why won't you let us stay overnight?"

The village chief honestly confessed, "We're just afraid you'll discover unclaimed zombies here, report it to the authorities, and then the authorities will find them owners. Once they find owners, won't it just become our land again?"

"We originally intended to scare you away, but instead of leaving, you stayed at the ancestral hall. I realized that the truth would be exposed no matter what, so rather than have you injured by the zombies, I decided to step in and explain."