"A zombie king? I wonder how powerful he is."
As Lin Yu packed his belongings, he muttered to himself that he had dealt with many evil spirits with Uncle Nine, but he had never encountered such a ferocious creature before.
As soon as Lin Yu stepped out of the room carrying the peach wood sword and tucked away the talisman, he saw Wen Cai standing beside Uncle Nine.
Judging from her expression, she wanted to go with him, but was rejected by Uncle Nine, and didn't even dare to raise her head too high.
"Wen Cai, you must guard the mortuary well while I'm gone. Don't let anything go wrong, do you hear me!" Uncle Nine's voice was a few decibels deeper than usual, and Wen Cai nodded hurriedly with each sentence.
It seems that Uncle Nine isn't planning to bring any of his disciples this time. After all, they're Golden Armored Corpse, and bringing a few people along wouldn't be helpful; in fact, it would require him to protect them.
Seeing Lin Yu approach, Uncle Nine stopped giving instructions, his gaze sweeping over the equipment in Lin Yu's hands before turning to Wen Cai: "It's not that Master doesn't want you to go, but this time we've run into Golden Armored Corpse. Going there would be a waste of time. You might as well stay and guard the mortuary until I return."
Wen Cai then raised his head and nodded vigorously. "Master, I understand! I will definitely take good care of the mortuary and wait for you to come back!"
"Xiao Yu, keep a close eye on your two senior brothers at the mortuary. Don't let them cause trouble," Uncle Nine instructed, taking the magical artifact from Lin Yu's hand.
Lin Yu immediately stood up straight. "Master, let me go with you. I'll test my newly learned divine ability to see if it can deal with the Golden Armored Corpse."
Uncle Nine glanced at him, pondered for a moment, and then nodded. "Alright, more people mean more help."
Qiu Sheng arrived late, only to find his master and junior brother packing their luggage and preparing to set off.
As soon as he stepped into the courtyard, he saw the yellow cloth bag in Uncle Nine's hand and the peach wood sword beside Lin Yu, and immediately became anxious, rushing over in three steps. "Master! Where are you going? Why didn't you call Wen Cai and me?"
"Your Uncle Four Eyes is in danger. I'm going to rescue him. You and Wen Cai, guard the mortuary." Uncle Nine gave Qiu Sheng these instructions once again.
Wen Cai tugged at his sleeve and whispered, "Master said that the Golden Armored Corpse is extremely powerful. If we go, we'll only cause trouble. We'd better guard the mortuary."
Qiu Sheng pursed his lips, glanced at Uncle Nine's serious expression, then looked at his junior brother. Seeing Lin Yu nod at him, he reluctantly said, "Then... then you guys have to be careful! Junior brother, remember to take good care of Master!"
Uncle Nine hummed in agreement. "Don't worry, Lin Yu and I will keep an eye on things. You two, don't cause any trouble at the mortuary."
"Yes, Master!" Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng replied in unison.
Lin Yu waved to the two men and followed Uncle Nine, saying, "Senior brothers, keep an eye on the house. We'll be back soon."
Lin Yu followed Uncle Nine out of the mortuary gate. Uncle Nine held a compass and used the Maoshan Thousand-Li Tracking Technique. After the compass needle spun for a moment, it pointed precisely in a direction.
Having found his direction, Uncle Nine shifted his footwork, his figure instantly becoming elusive. With a light touch of his toes on the ground, he appeared several meters away.
"Keep up." Uncle Nine shouted without turning his head, but his voice clearly reached Lin Yu's ears.
Lin Yu immediately used the Shrinking the Earth into an Inch, appearing behind Uncle Nine in the blink of an eye. It looked like Lin Yu was taking a stroll, but he steadily kept up with Uncle Nine's speed.
The master and apprentice sped along the official road, one after the other. The trees along the roadside rushed past, and even passersby only saw two blurry shadows flash by, thinking they were seeing things.
In less than half a day, the two left the province, and in the afternoon, the master and apprentice arrived at the location of Four Eyes Xinli— Black Wind Pass in Central Guizhou.
Before you even get close, a pungent stench of corpses wafts over on the wind. The smell is more than ten times stronger than that of an ordinary corpse, mixed with the putrid odor that makes your stomach churn.
Lin Yu's expression turned somewhat solemn. His Primordial Spirit had already sensed that there were no living people left in the surrounding area.
Lin Yu looked around and saw that the vegetation in the mountains ahead had turned grayish-black, with leaves curled up and lying on the ground. Even the soil had a deathly brownish-yellow hue. This place was truly turning into a dead zone.
The deeper the two went, the heavier the aura of death became. After walking for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, a dilapidated mountain god temple finally appeared ahead. The temple door was ajar, and faint sword light could be seen flashing inside.
Uncle Nine recognized the person inside as Four Eyes by his aura. Just as he was about to push open the door, it was suddenly smashed open with a loud crash. A figure wielding a copper coin sword lunged forward, shouting, "Another one! Take this!"
"It's me!" Uncle Nine quickly stepped aside and shouted at the same time.
The figure paused, and only after seeing Uncle Nine's face clearly in the light from outside the door did he breathe a sigh of relief, and the copper coin sword in his hand clattered to the ground.
Lin Yu looked closely and saw that it was indeed his Uncle Four Eyes. His hair was disheveled, his Daoist robe was torn in several places, and there were blood-stained strips of cloth wrapped around his arms. His face was frighteningly pale, obviously because he had been holding on for a long time.
Inside the temple, the ground was covered with newly transformed zombies. Since it was broad daylight and the sun was shining outside, these zombies dared not go out, so they gathered in large numbers inside the temple.
Four Eyes wanted to take advantage of the daytime, when the corpse energy was suppressed, to quickly eliminate as many zombies as possible, but he didn't expect to end up in such a mess.
He underestimated these zombies that had transformed from Golden Armored Corpse.
This Golden Armored Corpse belongs to the Five Elements Zombie category. It is an anomaly among zombies, possessing the metal element among the Five Elements.
The zombies transformed by it all possess a trace of metal element, making their attack and defense ridiculously high. Ordinary Daoist magic is useless against them. It's already a blessing from the ancestors that he, a corpse driver, survived dealing with so many mutated zombies all by himself.
Uncle Nine helped Four Eyes up and glanced around the temple. He saw more than a dozen scattered remains of walking corpses lying on the ground.
"Senior brother! You've finally arrived!"
Four Eyes stepped forward, his voice trembling, "I was blinded by rage just now and didn't see clearly that it was Senior Brother. I'm so sorry, so sorry."
"Don't speak yet, let me treat your wounds." Uncle Nine took out a talisman from his bundle and stuck it on the wounds on Four Eyes' body where the zombie had scratched him.
After dealing with the corpse poison, Lin Yu stepped forward and used the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts to treat his Uncle Four Eyes's wounds.
Lin Yu then drew a talisman in the air with two fingers together. As the talisman entered Four Eyes's body, Lin Yu activated his "Medicine" supernatural power and blew a breath of immortal energy onto Four Eyes.
Four Eyes let out a muffled groan, and a bluish halo appeared around the wound. The originally hideous wound began to shrink and heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After resting for a moment and recovering his strength, Four Eyes sighed and said, "We've really messed up this time. That thing wasn't an ordinary Golden Armored Corpse; it was a Five Elements Zombie!"
"The armor on its body was so hard it could block a peach wood sword, and it could also control the walking corpses around it. I almost got killed in the blink of an eye. Luckily, there was our ancestral master, otherwise, senior brother, you wouldn't be able to see your lovely junior brother."
Four Eyes spoke, tears instantly streamed down his face.