From the beginning of this turbid world, the Taoist priest descended the mountain.

The head of the temple was stunned when he saw a young man dressed in a gray-white short jacket jump down from the tree.

Cloth shoes, shorts, and coarse cloth clothes—he doesn't look like a rich person at all.

His bulging muscles and the vibrant energy of blood emanating from him when he gets close.

This person is clearly a skilled martial artist who has not yet reached the "Ming Jin" level.

Could they be working for the county magistrate? But how did the county magistrate know they were stealing corpses in Qingshi Town?

Suddenly he seemed to remember something.

"You are the mortuary..."

Lin Ye sneered; he actually recognized him.

Then I absolutely cannot spare your life!

Lin Ye struck out with a palm, the palm whistling past like a blade.

The lamplighter wanted to do something more, but the forestry department didn't give him a chance.

"boom--"

With a single palm strike, he instantly killed the leader of the cult.

At this time, Lin Ye's vital energy and strength were both at level six. While he wouldn't be considered incredibly strong, his vital energy was certainly abundant and surpassed that of ordinary people.

With his usual practice of the "Five Animals - Walking Monkey Play", he doesn't need any specific boxing techniques.

The force of a single palm strike is naturally terrifying.

Moreover, there is a story in the martial arts world that "Tongbei Quan originated from monkeys," and the Tongbei Quan style, a major style of boxing in the north, was also passed down after observing monkeys.

Given the existing foundation in forestry, things are indeed converging at this point.

With a single palm strike, he killed the head of the altar-teaching class; the forestry worker stretched his neck.

Now only two living corpses remain, locked in a stalemate with the "evil spirit" summoned by the head of the jar of lamps.

He had been hiding in the tree watching for a long time. The methods of those people from the Tan'er Sect were strange, so he did not choose to make a move immediately.

After witnessing the corpse rise to life and the living dead injuring people, he became even more determined to sit back and watch the tigers fight.

They're all fated old men from the Tan'er sect; their deaths are no loss.

However, there is some explanation for why the lamp head summoned the evil spirit to suppress the living corpse.

"Corpses arise from evil spirits, and heavy evil spirits suppress corpses."

This was indeed recorded in my master's notes.

But then, there was a line of tiny characters. It was an annotation left by either the master or the advisor, indicating that this method only applied to ordinary living corpses.

If the corpse becomes a zombie, using evil energy to suppress it will only backfire.

Based on the Maoshan Thatched Cottage Notes. Traditionally, Maoshan Taoist priests have categorized corpse transformation into: living corpse, zombie corpse, flying corpse, and uncorrupted bone (ba).

The living dead are those who died with resentment and were resurrected by magic or some other reason.

Once a zombie reaches that level, only a Taoist priest from Maoshan who has been ordained, received a Dharma name, and understands true magic can deal with it.

As for the latter two, if you encounter them, you can only dream of your next life.

At this moment, Lin Ye looked at the two things and bit his lip.

It's not easy.

If you move the evil spirit first, you will be attacked by two living corpses. If you move the corpse, you will be attacked from behind by the evil spirit.

But after thinking it over, I decided to first calm the corpse down; the evil spirit could still be dealt with.

As it happened, he brought three talismans from his senior brother.

Having practiced the Five Animals and Ape Technique so many times, Lin Ye moved with great agility, leaping and hopping as he affixed two talismans to the corpse's head.

At this moment, the [Life Furnace] on his body was burning to its peak.

When a malevolent aura rises from behind, and a demonic head lunges at you.

He rolled up the talisman with his fingers, turned around, and raised his hand to deliver the "Old Ape Points the Way" move, pointing it at the "Evil Head Demon" that was lunging at him.

In an instant, golden light radiated from the talisman, and in the darkness, Lin Ye seemed to hear the sound of Taoist scriptures being recited.

In the blink of an eye, the evil spirit was dispelled by the talisman.

Lin Ye also discovered today that the yang energy from his life furnace, transmitted through the Shaoyang Hand Meridian to the talisman, seems to enhance the talisman's effect.

(The "Spirit Head Evil Technique" is one of the three arts created by the "Southeast Evil Spirit True Lord" to seize the Dharma body of the "Heavenly Year Chasing True Lord." The other three are "Gu Technique," "Teng Technique," and "Evil-Subduing Technique." The Tan'er Sect gathered a group of people with all five "turbidities" to refine and improve this evil art. One of them discovered that using one's own flesh, blood, and skin as the "root of the technique" could greatly accelerate the cultivation speed. Therefore, they abducted women to bear children for them, and those children born with the "Three Yin Eight Characters" were considered "material.")

(After repeatedly encountering the malevolent energy of "Seeing Turbidity," you finally obtained a [Turbid Item] called "Evil Yin Umbilical Cord.")

Lin Ye glanced at it but didn't read the text carefully.

After all, there were three living corpses waiting for him to deal with in this desolate place.

One is inside the coffin, and two are outside.

If we leave them to roam freely in this desolate place, and something unexpected happens, then we'll be in big trouble.

Now, the two talismans have immobilized them, while I have become the "evil spirit" here to restrain this thing.

Leaving is not an option, nor is staying.

It's all the fault of the head of this sect; he has no real skills, only some beastly and evil magic. If you destroyed both of them and kept only one, it would be easier for you to deal with it.

But now there's a bit of a problem.

But just then, a drumbeat rang out.

Then came the sound of footsteps; there were quite a few people, at least a dozen.

"Friend, what superb martial arts! I am Ma Buyu of the Ma family. May I ask which master in the martial arts world you are a disciple of?"

Upon hearing the sound, Lin Ye's heart immediately skipped a beat; there were actually other people there.

Have I become the prey of the hunter's gun?

Fortunately, the voice didn't sound like a local from Echeng; it even had a slight accent from outside the Great Wall.

A young man dressed in a white suit and shiny leather shoes emerged from the woods, seated on a sedan chair carried by two men. He was fiddling with a gold watch, observing the forest with keen interest.

Lin Ye sized up the young man for a few moments, then tentatively asked, "Are you a senior disciple of the Ma family from beyond the Great Wall?"

The Ma family of Jiangcheng on the Han River came from beyond the Great Wall and settled down in Hanyang by virtue of their ability to carry spirits and travel to the underworld.

The Ma family's branches are spread throughout the cities of Hanyang Province, but as Sanbao said, a Ma family disciple can earn twenty silver dollars for each job he does.

The moment the visitor called him "Senior Brother," his face lit up with joy. It seemed this friend knew his stuff; if he did, things would be much easier.

Sure enough, compared to those Taoist priests with high noses who seemed to come from nowhere, these brothers from the martial arts world were much more approachable.

Not only are his skills superb, using his blood and energy to dispel evil spirits, but his constant use of "senior brother" adds to his affection.

He immediately got off the sedan chair, walked to Lin Ye's side, and took Lin Ye's hand.

"Haha, we're all just trying to make a living in Hanyang. Brother, you're quite skilled. May I ask which martial arts school you're a disciple of?"

"My family has mastered a few Tongbei techniques. I couldn't stand the behavior of these sorcerers from the Tan'er Sect and couldn't help but take action. Since you are a senior brother from the Ma family, I wonder if you have any countermeasures for this."

Lin Ye calmly withdrew his hand and then pointed at the two living corpses.

Since he's mistaken for a martial arts practitioner, let's just go with the flow.

Upon seeing this, Ma Buyu smiled and said, "Junior brother, do you know the origin of these three living corpses?"

"Please enlighten me, senior brother."

"The three of them were disciples of the Canal Gang in Hanjiang City. After they died in a magical duel, their resentment was too strong. Therefore, a corpse driver was invited from western Hunan to take them back to their hometown for burial."

Lin Ye listened silently. The corpse driver from western Hunan had already been harmed by Tan'er's sect. Before he died, he even managed to force out the corpse driving technique.

But he had heard that these three corpses were supposed to be martial arts practitioners, so how did they become disciples of the Incense Burner?

Thinking of this, he looked at Ma Buyu and asked again, "Senior brother, what is the meaning of this disciple's offering of incense?"