Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 157 The Corpse Driver

Lei's head was pressed against the ground, his eyelids slowly closed, and he died.

Tang Shanshan's face was pale. Watching the man who had risked his life to save her die before her eyes, a strange sense of sorrow welled up in her heart...

As the senior brother, Feng felt the most intense pain when he faced Lei's death.

He held Lei's upper body in his arms, tears streaming down his face, and said, "If I really wanted to leave the monastic life and live like an ordinary person, I could have just found someone else. Why did it have to be this bandit's sister..."

Old Master Jiang slowly walked over, leaning on his cane. He had seen the fight from afar. Although the four of them, Feng Yu Lei Dian, were skilled, it was unlikely that they could defeat both Li Che and Zhao Dao Wang at the same time.

The failure of this young man named Lei was an inevitable outcome.

Master Jiang glanced at the wound on Tang Shanshan's shoulder, then looked at the young men he had just recruited behind him and said, "Lock her in the woodshed, apply some hemostatic medicine to the wound, and we'll head to Tiger Head Mountain now."

There's not much to say about what happened.

Tang Shanshan is the sister of a bandit and colluded with the Ninth Steward to covet the Jiang family's property. She is guilty in the first place, but we just don't want to kill her so easily...

If no evidence is found after breaching the stronghold, let it fend for itself.

Sigh, this young man named Lei is still too impatient...

The scene reeked of blood.

Feng handed the body to his junior brother Yu, then looked at Master Jiang and said, "I'll go up the mountain with you to fight the bandits!"

Master Jiang said calmly, "You wouldn't be thinking of using underhanded tactics to avenge your junior brother, would you?"

With a sorrowful look in his eyes, Feng picked up the grappling hook from the ground and said, "My junior brother died because of that woman. We know we're in the wrong, even if Master were here. I just want to go to the mountain stronghold myself and see for myself whether my junior brother's love for this woman named Tang Shanshan is good or bad..."

The four characters, Wind, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning, all have quite different personalities.

During their stay at the Jiang family's residence, although Master Jiang's attention was focused on Li Xuan, he also secretly observed the behavior of these four people...

After a moment of silence, Master Jiang said, "Since that's the case, then you can come up the mountain with me. But let me make this clear: if you do anything that is detrimental to us, don't blame me for taking your head off with one sword."

The wind said, "I have no objection."

The night was darker.

Fifty-four people set off from the Jiang family in a grand procession. Because they were dressed in black, they were not easily noticeable unless one listened for their voices.

They left Fukang County and entered the woods.

What came into view was a scene of devastation, with part of the forest burned down, and several corpses could even be vaguely seen on the ground.

As a former head constable, Master Jiang had some experience as a coroner. He poked the corpses back and forth with a piece of wood, his expression becoming unnatural. He said, "There was almost no blood left in their bodies. You could say they were bled dry while they were alive and then abandoned here."

Looking at the familiar clothing of the corpses, Feng sighed and said, "They were my master's disciples. On the night of Young Master Jiang's wedding, in the general's tomb in the forest that was robbed, a corpse transformed into a flying zombie, which was extremely ferocious. It killed all the disciples. During the chase, my master encountered a swamp gas explosion that caused a fire. That's when we got separated."

Upon hearing this, the Sword King clasped his hands in a fist salute to the corpses and said, "I see, my apologies!"

He turned to look at Feng and asked, "Since you are fellow disciples, why leave these corpses exposed here? Why not collect them, put them in coffins, and build a grave?" Feng replied, "We... actually don't have much money left. Before leaving Maoshan, we had already discussed what to do if we met with misfortune. If we had money, we would buy land and coffins to bury our fellow disciples; if we didn't have money, we would just dig a hole and bury the bodies wherever we wanted..."

The Sword King asked in confusion, "It's been quite a few days, and the corpse is still here."

The wind's sound wasn't as strong as it had been at the beginning. Feeling guilty, it said, "We got separated from our master and thought he had perished in the fire. We just wanted to find a place to stay and then forgot about it."

When Dao Wang heard the words "forgot", he was completely stunned. His fellow disciples' corpses were still lying in the wild, how could he have forgotten them?

Master Jiang glanced at the skeletons at the scene and said, "These are all chivalrous people. Once the matter at Tiger Head Mountain is settled, I will arrange for someone to come here to clean up and erect a grave for them."

The coffin shops in the county are spreading rumors every day that the Jiang family is raising zombies. Let's get them some business first to shut them up.

The group continued forward and discovered more than a dozen rotting skeletons dressed in tattered hemp clothing. Their bodies were torn apart and lying haphazardly, and there were large amounts of dried blood on the surrounding grass and trees.

Master Jiang looked at Feng and asked, "Are these also your fellow disciples?"

The wind shook its head and said no: "We are not wearing these clothes..."

Li Xuan, who was walking in the group, said, "These are bandits from Tiger Head Mountain. Tang Long actually wanted to take advantage of the night of the Jiang family wedding to break into Dafangbo Village and rob a bunch of people, but unfortunately, he encountered a zombie attack on the way and the plan failed."

Master Jiang was already used to Li Xuan knowing a lot, so he wasn't surprised and nodded, saying, "He only has himself to blame..."

……

On Tiger Head Mountain, in the mountain village.

In the hall, Tang Long was drinking and eating meat with a Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest had his hair styled in a topknot, sported a small mustache, and wore a red Taoist robe. His eyes gleamed with cunning. He held a wine pot in his left hand and a chicken leg in his right, his mouth glistening with oil as he ate with great relish.

Tang Long said, "Since you are known as the King of Corpse Transport in Western Hunan, I wonder when you will make a move to get those wax corpses of the Jiang family moving. I will definitely reward you handsomely afterward!"

The Corpse-Driving King put down his wine jug and said, "Making a corpse move is not an easy task. It requires a lot of preparation, especially to make someone else's corpse move. I need a lot of mineral ink and special bells! These things, combined with incantations, can generate a magnetic field that spreads outwards. For the best effect, the distance must be close, such as finding a secluded place in Dafangbo Village."

When Tang Long first met the Corpse Driver, he was shocked by the other's ability to control corpses, which completely shattered his worldview.

He believed he could defeat the corpses even if he fought with all his might, but it would come at a price! For now, he would agree to whatever demands the Corpse-Driving King made. Once he obtained the Jiang family's gold, he would make sure the Corpse-Driving King left Fukang County alive, whether by poisoning or ganging up on him…

The Corpse-Driving King was no pushover either, and naturally had his own plans.

When he arrived, he had already inquired about the Jiang family, the target family, in Fukang County. They were the wealthiest family in Fukang County, but now their main branch was dwindling and there were only a few people left. However, they were still extremely wealthy, so many people had their eyes on the Jiang family and even married their daughters off to them in order to compete for their property.

The bandit leader Tang Long was colluding with an inside man in the Jiang family to marry off his sister to them. However, it seems that a zombie appeared that night, which delayed things.

Zombies?

The Corpse Driver sneered inwardly; they were just corpses with slightly stiffer bodies that could move.

(End of this chapter)