After Wu Longjie gave the order, the righteous path's Earth Rank Spirit Tamers mobilized, searching far and wide for the Profound Yin Sect experts who had committed crimes that cried out to heaven, and hunting them down.
Nearly a month soon passed, and reports and intelligence from every region came fluttering in like snowflakes.
"Ghosts and monsters plague Yingshan. Zombies devour people, roaming in groups of three or five, or bands of seven or eight. Deaths and injuries are common throughout the countryside."
"Yingshan's terrain is mostly hilly, with rolling ridges and townships scattered throughout. Travel between villages and towns is difficult, yet nothing impedes the epidemic. It has now swept through eighteen towns, large and small, in the southeast, reaching as far as Yuwu Great City. The death toll exceeds eighty thousand."
"Zombies now wreak havoc, devouring people in broad daylight and openly roaming the roads. Their rampages are difficult to curb. Terrified commoners have attempted to muster forces to defend themselves, erecting wooden barricades or attacking with blades and bows, yet they remain no match..."
"Zombies have extraordinarily tough flesh and skin, and none of the vital points of an ordinary flesh-and-blood body. Sometimes dozens, nearly a hundred, gather to surround their victims and kill them in the roads; sometimes groups of three or five wander about, entering homes and biting people and livestock. Countless commoners have died beneath their claws and fangs, and inevitably rise as corpses after nightfall. Local custom favors burial for the peace of the dead, so bodies are laid on mats awaiting interment, bringing disaster upon their neighbors. Fathers and sons turn upon one another, husbands and wives kill each other-tragedies that defy the very bonds of humanity..."
"Though the corpse hordes are fierce, the merciless epidemic is worse still. Over these past