Seven days later, Red Flower Ghost Mother Zhu Ying finished refining her magic treasure. After emerging from seclusion, she asked everyone what Shi Feiyang had been doing during that time.
Cang Baoniang told her that Shi Feiyang had not come to Ghost Mother Mountain to wreak havoc with his spells these past few days, but he had tightened his grip on the prefectural and county towns.
Shi Feiyang had set up two organizations, the Heavenly Corpse Sect and the Central Plains Escort Agency, and stolen all the business of the Shroud Sect, Ghost Mother Sect, Black Fiend Sect, and Boatmen's Guild!
"He's gone too far!" Zhu Ying said. "Let's go to Sunflower Gorge right now! My magic treasure is finished. With the four of us working together, even if we can't kill him, we can at least destroy his lair and ruin his physical body. We'll show him that the Four Evils of Bianshan aren't to be trifled with!"
She was ruthless herself, taking pride in the word "evil" without the slightest reservation.
Then they drew up a plan, and all four sects mobilized together.
First, the Boatmen's Guild gathered a hundred thousand members to cross Dongting Lake from the North, pass through Changsha, and encircle Sunflower Gorge from the northeast.
The Shroud Sect brought out every zombie on Badou Mountain. After centuries of accumulation, they numbered well over a hundred thousand, including flying corpses, armored corpses, and walking corpses. They followed the mountain paths to attack Lotus Gorge from the South.
The Black Fiend Sect mobilized its followers to attack from the east, charging in through the entrance at Lü Village.
The Ghost Mother Sect also committed its full strength, opening the ghost caverns on Ghost Mother Mountain and releasing the hundred thousand evil ghosts inside. Its followers were