Zhang Qijie and Qu Bamei had turned everyone in Chen Village into Zombies to cultivate the Heavenly Corpse Great Method. The entire village had become an enormous formation. Nourished by the ever-thickening corpse energy, even the Zombies the young man had hacked to death with his sword could soon piece themselves back together, revive, and climb up from the ground.
Because they had perpetrated such a tragedy right under his nose, Shi Feiyang had sealed the village inside and out with Immortal Arts, then imposed further control from afar. Within the village, the two women vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but no matter how closely they investigated, they could not discover the cause. Moreover, the further they progressed in the Heavenly Corpse Great Method, the less time they spent lucid, leaving them little energy to get to the bottom of it. They were simply waiting to perfect the method, then lead their horde of corpses into Sunflower Gorge for a slaughter that would wash away their old humiliation.
Before long, they would have to enter their coffins and sink deep underground, becoming zombies completely before returning from death. That would be the most dangerous stage, and they had agreed to serve as each other's Dharma Protector.
After his chance entry into the state of "Union with the Dao," Shi Feiyang's cultivation realm had advanced again. Sitting in Two Forms Palace, he surveyed the surrounding several thousand li as clearly as the lines on his palm. Flying blossoms and falling leaves—nothing escaped his sight.
Of the Four Evils of Bianshan, only the Ghost Mother Sect showed any restraint. The other three ran rampant without scruple.
But all four were religious sects rather than schools of cultivation. They had beliefs and organized power, with countless fanatical followers beneath them. Executing the