After Li Wei finished speaking, she pulled Mingye out with greater force, but found that she felt resistance coming from her wrist, so she turned her head in surprise.
"Why aren't you leaving? You don't really want to marry that old bastard, do you?"
Li Wei immediately became anxious and quickened her pace to persuade him, "That old bastard is quite strong, but he is a very bad person. He has already kidnapped three wives in other villages and is still not satisfied. Now he wants to marry you."
You'll definitely regret it if you marry her...
Mingye listened quietly as Li Wei criticized Gao Fenghai, but in his heart he was thinking of a way to escape.
"Thank you, young lady, but I have my own plans."
Don't worry, I won't let Gao Fenghai take advantage of me!
Upon hearing this, Li Wei had no choice but to release Mingye 'Mingye hand, looking at him with curiosity, a thousand Thought flashing through her mind.
"Are you saying this because you're a spy sent from another village?"
"However, your strength is too weak. Although you have Perfected Body Tempering Realm, Gao Fenghai is a master of the Late True Spirit Realm. Once he arrives, even if you want to resist, it will be useless."
Because they lack a dantian, in the eyes of other cultivators, Mingye and Chen Mu would only be at the Body Tempering Realm. Even though their physical bodies seemed stronger than those of ordinary Body Tempering Realm cultivators, the Body Tempering Realm was still just that—the Body Tempering Realm —and they could never be a match for the True Spirit Realm.
"It's hard for me to explain to you... Anyway, I have my own way, you should just leave!"
Mingye was speechless and could only urge the other party to leave.
Just as the two were struggling, a series of gong sounds suddenly rang out from outside the door.
Thump thump... thump thump...!
"Damn it! It's Undead Tide! Wasn't the last Undead Tide only two years ago? How come it's here again so soon!"
Upon hearing the sound of gongs and drums, Li Wei's expression changed drastically. She no longer cared about Mingye and immediately turned and ran out the door.
Mingye also sensed something was wrong, turned around, and exchanged a glance with Chen Mu behind the screen.
"Shall I go out and take a look?"
Mingye Dao.
"I'll go with you. It's a complete mess outside right now, and they probably don't have the time or energy to deal with us."
As a soul cultivator, even with his strength sealed, Chen Mu's senses far surpassed Mingye's. He noticed that the villagers around him were running around in all directions, and the warriors who were originally guarding the vicinity had also fled, estimating that there was an invasion from outside.
After Chen Mu finished speaking, he immediately pulled Mingye out of the room.
After the two left the house, they walked through the residential area and saw the playground outside.
Several troops were assembling on the training ground, each with about five hundred men. The leading force was a unit composed entirely of the Nether Clan warriors. The core members of this unit all had Qi Nourishing Realm cultivation, and their equipment was far superior to that of the other units.
Several other teams, mainly composed of the Human Clan and a level below them in strength, were deployed to defend the village gates under the command of their village leaders.
The village was built against a huge stone mountain, so the defensive line was not long. Several thousand soldiers guarded a few gates, and traps and spikes were set up in front of the gates, thus completing the defensive line.
"It seems the enemy is quite strong. Let's climb up that sentry post and take a look."
Chen Mu saw a tall wooden sentry post ahead with no one around, so he pulled Mingye up with him and climbed up.
After climbing to the sentry post, Chen Mu looked up and was startled by the sight in the distance.
Thousands upon thousands of undead creatures are charging toward the village in hordes. The most numerous of these undead creatures are skeletons, followed by undead, rotting wolves, vampire bats, and so on.
"How could so many undead appear at the same time? And why are they attacking the village in hordes?"
Chen Mu asked in surprise.
Given the intense Death Spiritual Power in this world, it's not surprising that undead would be born.
However, the birth of undead is very random, they usually act alone, and they can evolve by devouring each other, so normally they will never travel together.
But now, with a living example right before his eyes, he felt his understanding of the undead had been shattered.
"No matter why, it's not a good thing for us."
Fortunately, we are in a village now; if we encountered them in the wild, we would be in serious trouble.
Mingye sighed softly.
Even in their prime, they would have had to temporarily avoid the onslaught of these tens of thousands of undead, let alone now. If they were in the wild now, their chances of survival would be slim.
"The situation isn't optimistic either. Those soldiers below probably won't be able to hold off so many undead."
Chen Mu surveyed the defensive formation below and shook his head in disappointment.
Although these soldiers were individually quite strong, their equipment was too rudimentary. Many of the lower-ranking soldiers even used stone weapons and wore only thin linen clothing.
In this state, it would be quite an achievement to achieve a one-to-one battle loss against the invulnerable undead.
Only the most elite Nether Clan army is somewhat better; if their leader commands them well, they still have a chance of victory.
"Look! The little girl who was just trying to save me is over there. We have to save her no matter what."
Mingye's eyes lit up, and he pointed downwards towards Chen Mu.
Following Mingye's guidance, Chen Mu also saw Li Wei. She was following behind a middle-aged Human Clan man, holding a weapon and staring intently at the gate.
He observed silently without speaking, clearly agreeing with Mingye's suggestion.
Pat pat...!
Tens of thousands of undead creatures, with chaotic steps, rushed towards the village gate, charging towards the guards.
"Release the arrows!"
At a command, the village's few hundred longbows fired arrows, striking the undead creatures but only slowing their movements slightly.
"Kill them!"
By this time, some of the fastest undead creatures had already fallen into the traps. The village warriors, armed with weapons, engaged in a fierce and brutal battle with these undead creatures.
"This military leader's command is too rigid. If this continues, even if we manage to kill all these undead, more than 90% of the village's soldiers will be killed or wounded."
Although Chen Mu is not as good as a military genius as Wei Shan, he is still a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time. Moreover, the scale of the wars he has commanded is much larger than this. Therefore, he can basically predict the outcome of the war based on the fact that the two sides have just made contact.
"So what do we do now? Should we change our base?"
Mingye frowned and said.
Chen Mu originally intended to use this village as his first stronghold for his rise to power, but he never expected that the plan would fall apart before it could even be implemented. It really is true that plans can't keep up with changes.
"Let me think of another way. After all, if this village is wiped out, it might not be easy for us to find another stronghold."
Chen Mu didn't want to give up and secretly began to make plans.
Just then, Li Wei's army also mobilized. Carrying a huge cleaver half the length of a person, she charged into the battlefield with heroic spirit and engaged in fierce fighting with the undead.