This scene interrupted Four Eyes' thoughts.
He circled the formation twice, marveling, "This formation is truly magnificent! It's far more sophisticated than any I've seen in Maoshan!"
"Uncle-Master, you're joking again. How could an array made of these withered branches compare to the ones in Maoshan?" Lin Yu could only conclude that his uncle had been isolated from the world for too long and had truly never seen anything of value.
Uncle Nine, listening from the side, kept shaking his head. This uncle and nephew, one so naive and the other so overly modest, were truly...
He cleared his throat, interrupting the two. "Alright, stop joking around, it's time to prepare the materials for luring the corpse."
His gaze swept across the desolate woods outside the mountain god temple, his brow furrowing slightly. "I just walked around the area, and I haven't seen a single person in dozens of miles. There are very few living creatures either. It seems they've all been ravaged by zombies."
"So, our previous plan to lure zombies with the scent of living people might not have been enough?" Four Eyes immediately realized, and the ease on his face faded.
"Okay, you two go into the woods and collect some animal blood. Only by mixing the strong blood and our living aura can we attract the zombies from the surrounding area." Uncle Nine nodded; they could only try using animal blood and the aura of the three of them.
"But there's no container to put it in." Four Eyes looked around, trying to find a container.
"Here you are, Uncle-Master." At this moment, Lin Yu took out several pottery jars from somewhere and handed them to Four Eyes.
"... Where did you get this?" Four Eyes only realized what was going on after taking the pottery jar.
"That's how it turned out." Lin Yu casually picked up a stone, tapped it with his finger, and it transformed into a ceramic jar.
This is what he transformed using the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts. Although it is still essentially a stone, it is now a pottery jar.
"No... you guys secretly cultivated immortality without me!" Four Eyes stared dumbfounded at the scene, then turned to question Uncle Nine. "It's only been less than two years, and the world has changed so much?"
"Alright, hurry up and prepare the materials. This is Xiao Yu's own opportunity, don't ask around." Uncle Nine waved away the mischievous Four Eyes.
Finally Lin Yu and Four Eyes split up and ventured into the woods. However, the scene inside was even more horrific than they had imagined. The ground was littered with mangled animal carcasses, some of which were blackened and rotten, and there were very few living creatures to be found.
The two searched separately for nearly two hours, until the setting sun dyed the forest dark red, before returning each carrying two full blood jars.
"Why did it take you so long?" Uncle Nine was relieved to see the two of them finally return. He had thought they had encountered zombies before they came back.
"Almost all the living creatures in this forest have been eaten by zombies. We searched for a long time and only managed to collect this little bit." Four Eyes said somewhat dejectedly.
"Besides a few rabbits and pheasants hiding in the crevices of the rocks, we didn't even see a snake! What a bunch of zombies!" After complaining, Four Eyes cursed the Golden Armored Corpse, saying that the area had been completely ravaged and devoid of any living creature.
Uncle Nine picked up the blood jar and smelled it, but didn't say much. He had sensed it from the beginning, so he didn't feel the same resentment as Four Eyes did now, but Uncle Nine also wanted to get rid of this evil spirit as soon as possible.
"That's enough. This amount of vital energy, combined with the three of us being alive, is enough to lure them here." With that, he pulled a Ki-Attracting Talisman from his robes, affixed it to the blood jar, formed a hand seal, and uttered a low shout, "Rise!"
The talisman instantly burst into a dark red flame, and the blood in the jar also began to glow faintly, a strong smell of blood wafting out on the wind.
"If this little bit of blood attracts too many zombies, I'm afraid this double formation... won't be able to withstand it." Four Eyes Uncle Nine begin arranging the blood, Si Mu couldn't help but glance at the formation again, his fingers unconsciously rubbing the hem of his Daoist robe.
"What's there to be afraid of? Good and evil are locked in a lifelong struggle. Those who cultivate the Tao must be prepared to die." Uncle Nine didn't care at all. As long as he could expel these evil spirits, what did death matter?
"Senior brother, you can't say that. As long as we're alive, we can always make a comeback."
"It's easy for you to die, but what if you didn't kill that zombie? So you should be more cautious in your actions." Four Eyes Reversal of Heavenly Gang, he started lecturing Uncle Nine.
"You don't need to tell me!" Uncle Nine glared at Four Eyes.
Soon the sun set, and it gradually got dark.
In the early hours of the morning, when yin is at its peak and yang is at its weakest.
By this time, after an afternoon of fermentation, the smell of blood had spread throughout the woods.
The strong, fishy smell made it seem like a massacre had taken place here.
Sure enough, after a short while, dense footsteps came from the distant woods, accompanied by a series of hoarse roars.
Four Eyes nervously swallowed, gripping the peach wood sword tightly in his hand, as if only then could he feel safe.
Lin Yu looked up and saw a dense mass of dark figures surging toward him from the darkness. Some of the zombies were dragging their broken legs, and some had their arms hanging limply at their sides, yet they still rushed forward with stiff steps. They stretched as far as the eye could see, like a sea of people.
"Here we are! Everyone, take your positions!" Uncle Nine shouted in a low voice, taking the lead as he walked to the core of the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation, holding his peach wood sword upright in front of him.
Lin Yu also formed golden chains and stood on the side of the formation.
Four Eyes ran to one of the positions in the Six Ding and Six Jia Formation, clutching several Corpse-Suppressing Talisman in his hand, muttering, "Please don't break the formation."
As soon as the first batch of zombies stepped into the array, the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation lit up with five-colored golden light. Five beams of light—green, red, yellow, white, and black—shot out from the array's eye, lashing the zombies like whips. Instantly, more than a dozen zombies were whipped to ashes.
Immediately afterwards, the golden light of the Six Ding and Six Jia Formation also burst forth, and the twelve paper figures became even more lifelike, their lively eyes as if real gods had descended.
The twelve divine generals moved through the formation, and any walking corpses that approached were suppressed by the power of the gods and were burned to ashes in no time.
The Jiazi Deity's Leige, the Jiaxu Deity's Bronze Shield, the Dingchou Deity's Fire Whip, the Dinghai Deity's Water Blade...
Each deity possesses its own unique power.
"Junior nephew, this formation feels like it's summoned real divine generals." Four Eyes the twelve paper figures displaying their divine power.
So far, not a single zombie has been able to break through the formation. This paper doll is even more powerful than him, making him seem quite useless.
Lin Yu wasn't idle either. With a flick of his golden chain, which lashed out like a nimble serpent, he coiled around the first few fast-moving zombies. A burst of Golden Light of Merit instantly purified them.
Uncle Nine became even more brutal, charging directly into the horde of corpses, leaving behind severed limbs and dispersing the corpse energy wherever he went.
Four Eyes originally wanted to throw a few talismans to help, but seeing Lin Yu and Uncle Nine fighting so easily in the formation, the talismans he threw out didn't even touch the zombies.
Finally, he simply retreated to the back, cupped his hands around his mouth, and shouted, "Go, senior brother! Go, junior brother! Shoot accurately! Don't let them get in!"
He shouted enthusiastically, but didn't throw out a single talisman.