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Chapter 390 Witchcraft
The three of them watched helplessly as the flight attendant was torn in two, her red, white, green, and black clothes scattering all over the ground.

However, these people were quite experienced. Zhou You took a step back, drew his sword to protect Feng Qianlin, while Chen Xun stepped forward and his fist slammed down like a heavy cannon!

Behind the flight attendant's body, the 'commoner' had his mouth wide open, a slit running from the corner of his mouth all the way to his neck—his head had been forcibly split in two.

As for his hands.
Then, like a mantis, it transformed into two sharp blades, and then, with its half-head raised, it slashed down with lightning speed!
Chen Xun took a deep breath, activated his external martial arts skills, and withstood the blow. Then, he pressed down with his fist, smashing the half-head into the neck.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye; the attacker was completely finished in the blink of an eye.

However, none of them relaxed.

Looking at the mutated corpse that resembled a monster, Zhou You asked Chen Xun.

"This one... was also an assassin sent by Yu San?"

However, before Chen Xun could speak, Feng Qianlin frowned and slowly said.

"It doesn't seem like it. If you really think about it, this person is more like an ordinary citizen who has been transformed. Wait a minute."

Hearing the echoing screams, Feng Qianlin seemed to realize something, and his expression suddenly changed drastically.

"They won't... Yu Sanzhi, he's gone mad! Isn't he afraid of being besieged by the whole world? Even the Empress Dowager can't protect him after doing something like this!"

Zhou You closed his eyes and used all his strength to unleash the Jing Shen Food Offering Song.

Then, his brow furrowed deeper and deeper.

The senses are filled with an overwhelming aura of hostility—such a quantity leaves only one possibility.

Yu Sanzhi truly defied all conventions and transformed all the ordinary people on the entire train into monsters!

Now, Zhou You finally understands where his unease came from.

But that doesn't make sense. I've been inspecting the carriages every day to prevent accidents, so where did this guy start?
Chen Xun remained silent, kicked the thing aside, and then spoke.

"The carriage is no longer safe, Shang Jun, what should we do now?"

Feng Qianlin pondered for a few moments, then quickly spoke.

"We can't stay here any longer. If they really turn all the civilians into accomplices..." Thinking of the innocent lives lost, his face instantly turned grim. "Jumping out of the vehicle won't work; they can stop at any time. In the open field, outnumbered, we'll have nowhere to escape. So we must first control the front of the vehicle and then hold our ground there. That damned bastard! He actually dared to do that!"

"Alright, what's done is done, there's no use regretting it now."

Zhou You patted Feng Qianlin on the shoulder, then quickly tidied up the things in the carriage, and then winked at Chen Xun.

The big man stopped dwelling on the past grievances and took the lead, with Zhou You following behind and Feng Qianlin being protected at the back of the group.

Because of the drawbacks of steam trains, the closer the carriages are to the front, the more smoky they become. Therefore, these first-class carriages are placed in the last few carriages, the middle carriages are for ordinary passengers, and the front carriages are for freight cars, the fuel room where coal is stored, and the locomotive.

As mentioned before, this carriage was an extended version specially purchased by the Qing government to save face. Even without any obstacles, it would take a normal person quite a while to travel back and forth. However, now...
Stepping into the next carriage, a thick, almost tangible stench of blood immediately assaulted my nostrils. Looking around, I saw tattered limbs and entrails everywhere—but surprisingly, there were no enemies in sight.

Chen Xun frowned, picked up a piece of flesh with his fingertip, and then examined it carefully.

"It appears to have been torn apart from the inside, with no external injuries. It doesn't look like it was slaughtered, but rather a self-inflicted mutation."

But Zhou You found something else.

That was a tobacco pouch used for smoking opium.

Ordinary people naturally wouldn't use any fancy tobacco pipes, and they wouldn't have any jade or other decorations on them. They would just have a plain copper pipe bowl and a matching wooden pipe stem.

But that wasn't what caught Zhou You's attention.

Instead, it was a piece of opium paste tied to it.

As a modern person, someone who has received a normal education and historical education, Zhou You utterly dislikes this stuff and has never touched it before, but now, after careful observation...
I gently wiped it off, then took a small piece and smelled it.

At first glance, it still smells like opium, but there's also a strange fragrance in it.

Zhou You cast a spell and set it on fire.

This time the aroma was much stronger; just a little inhalation made me feel as if something inside my body was stirring.

He now finally understood where the strange changes in these ordinary people came from.

These bastards have really figured me out!
Looking up, Chen Xun had also reached a conclusion.

"In terms of the number of people, there's no problem, but all the corpses are missing more than half their original weight. So where did the rest go?"

The moment those words fell, Zhou You noticed something.

—Something that hangs from the ceiling.

"Master Chen, watch out from above!"

".What?"

The question had barely been uttered when the thing fell!

But Chen Xun was, after all, a master of external martial arts. After receiving the hint, although he hadn't quite understood it yet, his body reacted before he could think. He threw a cannon punch and sent the thing flying before it could crush him.

Only now did he get a clear look at what that thing looked like.

That was indeed a corpse.

The corpse was pieced together from seven or eight pieces of remains, with flesh rotting and internal organs exposed, resembling a spider!

"Damn, how did that bastard even make this thing?!"

Chen Xun cursed angrily, took a lunge forward, and his fist instantly went from still to moving. Then, with a twisting palm strike from the Pi Gua Fist, he aimed for the center of that thing.

However, his invincible skills failed to come into play for the first time.

Chen Xun felt as if he had struck cotton – the large amount of fat and flesh dissolved his force, even sucking his arm into it like a vortex, before two blade-like limbs rose and then swung down in an instant!
Chen Xu immediately channeled his inner energy, using his hard qigong to withstand the blow—however, unlike before, two deep gashes were still slashed into his shoulder.

It should be noted that under the blessing of the wrathful form of Acala, his body is as hard as steel—even ordinary divine weapons cannot cut even three inches into it.

And now, this thing has actually breached our defenses?

But Chen Xun did not show any panic on his face. He even tensed his body and used his flesh to clamp down on the two limbs. Then, when the other party tried to pull away, the fist that was embedded in the fat suddenly trembled.

Like an implosion, a huge gash immediately blew out of the monster's body, but it still raised its other limbs, attempting to cut off Chen Xun—or at least fight to the death!
Otherwise.

At that moment, a flash of sword light swept across the scene. Under the towering blade, those limbs were instantly severed—and in the next second, a yellow talisman was affixed to the monster's forehead.

This thunder talisman was funded by Feng Qianlin and was drawn entirely from top-quality materials.

Even though Zhou You's talisman skills are only at the beginner level, with such a wealth of materials, its power is sufficient!
In the blink of an eye, a flash of lightning appeared, and with the smell of burning filling the air, the thing finally collapsed.

Seeing that it was still twitching, Chen Xun punched it down, turning it into a pulp.

Only then did he slowly exhale.

"Such bizarre magic is absolutely not found in the Han region, but I seem to remember hearing about it before, Shang Jun."

Having witnessed the whole thing, Feng Qianlin nodded. Although his face was pale, he remained relatively calm and spoke slowly.

“That’s right, I have indeed heard of it. This is probably a shaman from the grasslands, and perhaps even a great shaman.”

Since that spider, monsters made of various human bodies have suddenly become more common.

There are those with their limbs broken off and connected together like taro worms, those simply piled up with fat like a mountain of flesh, and many more that are indescribable, some of which can make your hair stand on end just by looking at them.

Zhou You and his team only had one way of dealing with these things.

That means killing if possible, and trapping those who cannot be killed with talismans and paper figures, then taking the opportunity to break out.

just.

Human strength is finite; even a towering cliff, though advantageous, cannot ultimately eradicate evil.

Chen Xun had several more bloody gashes on his body, while Zhou You was already starting to pant heavily.

This is not his own body after all, and he has only recently recovered from that serious injury!

Fortunately, Chen Xun was strong enough, and with the cooperation of the two, they eventually made it through.

Turning his head to look, Chen Xu nodded as well. Zhou You took a deep breath and spoke directly.

"A golden incense burner burns with precious incense, flower banners flutter as paper money is burned, this journey is a long one with no return, leading the dead across the altar to the Western Paradise!"

The funeral procession, which hadn't even had a chance to warm up, immediately set off. However, Zhou You didn't sing the rest of the lyrics; he just had these things block the gap. Then, Chen Xun turned around and kicked the front door of the car open!

As expected, the train conductor had perished, half of his body hanging from the roof of the train, his pink intestines dragging on the ground.

His head was held in a withered claw, being toyed with like a ball.

Sunlight streamed through the car windows, illuminating the 'great shaman's' face.

It's hard to call this a human being.

Perhaps it should be said that this creature's upper body is indeed human, but its insect-like body, composed of various corpses, with countless arms that have turned into segmented limbs striking the ground, looks just like an extra-large centipede.

Upon seeing Zhou You and the others enter, it casually tossed the head it was holding aside, and a large mouth immediately opened below, swallowing the thing whole.

With a few crisp 'crunch' sounds, everything fell silent again.

Amidst the coal dust filling the air around the engine, this thing looked at the three of them—mainly Feng Qianlin—and then asked a question.

The sound was sharp and piercing, like something being rubbed on a blackboard.

"Second Master Feng?"

Feng Qianlin replied calmly.

"It's me. By the way, why aren't you soaking in cow dung? What are you doing here?"

The great shaman grinned.

"I only want to find a way out in the great calamity to come. For this, I can only borrow Master Feng's life!"

And in the next instant, its body moved suddenly.

The human body leaned back, and the insect-like body composed of corpses transformed into the vanguard, then...
Beneath that grotesque shell, dozens of gaping mouths, reeking of a foul stench, opened wide.

Both Zhou You and Chen Xun knew this was a life-or-death struggle, so they didn't waste any words. One threw a punch, and the other raised his sword, and they went straight to meet the attack!
Otherwise.

Less than a few breaths after exchanging blows, both of their expressions darkened simultaneously.

Something's not right about this.

To put it simply, in terms of strength, this thing is far stronger than the monsters assembled by the common people before.

And they need to be even more cunning!
To deal with Zhou You, those large mouths stretched out numerous sticky tongues, not in a hurry to launch any offensive, but simply trying to distract him—after all, no matter how sharp the sword is, it won't do much good when it's hitting something so weak.

But it used a different method to deal with Chen Xun.

Behind this great shaman, where coal used to be piled, now lay a mountain of corpses. With its dense array of segmented limbs, it swiftly dismantled the corpses, then pieced them back together, stitching them together in just ten breaths to create a monster that looked much like the one outside.

Of course, with such a rushed production, the quality is naturally much lower than that of outsiders, but...
Keeping Chen Xun in check is enough.

Ultimately, this burly man still had to protect Feng Qianlin—and most importantly, time was not on their side.

Zhou You had only been in the White Gate for a short time. Although the funeral procession used luxurious materials, he didn't have his master's operational skills, so he could only hold them off for a while.

If those things outside really break through, and they are surrounded, they will only have one way out: death!
Chen Xun naturally understood this problem as well. He casually smashed a monster with a palm strike, then wiped the blood from his face and suddenly said in a low voice to Zhou You, who had been forced back.

"To be honest, I really don't like you."

I know, but why are you bringing this up at a time like this?
Chen Xun didn't care about his reaction and continued.

“I don’t know why Shang Jun cares so much about you, a stranger, nor do I know why he took such a big risk to tell you everything. But now, I can only choose to believe him—I’m afraid I’ll have to trouble you with what happens next.”

Feng Qianlin, who was behind him, was stunned for a moment, and then his expression changed drastically.

"Old Chen, what are you doing!"

Chen Xun ignored him and took a deep breath. As his blood rushed to his head, his face instantly turned into that of a demon.

Then, a roar erupted.

"You son of a bitch, I'll show you what it means for our Kuchan Temple to kill in order to protect life!"

(End of this chapter)