Before long, the two women of the Shroud Sect had killed all the One Hundred and Eight Boys once. When they saw the boys they had just killed charging back into the village from outside, they were astonished and killed them again. Not long afterward, the boys appeared a third time, and the women began to feel frightened.
Zhang Qijie ordered six zombies to seize one boy each and interrogated them. "Who exactly are you? Were you the one who came here just now? How can you come back from the dead?"
Coming back from the dead was precisely the ultimate goal their Shroud Sect pursued.
The zombies' claws gripped the boys tightly beneath their ribs, their nails hooking into the bones and causing unbearable pain. At first, the boys remained defiant, but when Zhang Qijie pierced their shoulder blades with the Earth Corpse Hook, they collapsed, limp with agony, wishing they were dead.
They had never suffered torture like this. They could only confess everything, answering whatever Zhang Qijie asked.
After hearing them out, Zhang Qijie and Qu Bamei were horrified. "There's a Two Forms Palace in Sunflower Gorge, with a Primordial Yang Great Emperor inside who can summon you from another world and even create bodies for you?"
They had never even heard of such divine powers!
"Nonsense! How could such a Spell exist in this world?" Zhang Qijie and Qu Bamei cut off all six boys' heads and stacked them together. Then they lit a bonfire on the ground and cast the primordial spirits into it, preparing to use them to refine Corpse Banners.
Hidden in the shadows, Gongye Huang had been entrusted by Shi Feiyang with rescuing any boy whose primordial spirit was captured. He reached out and scooped them away. The bonfire swayed violently as