Zombie World: Starting as an apprentice of the Thunder King

Just then, the courtyard gate was suddenly pounded on loudly.

Shi Shaojian ran to open the door, and a middle-aged man stumbled in, his clothes covered in mud and his face bearing traces of blood, as if he had been scratched by tree branches.

"Master! Master, save me!" The man knelt down with a thud.

Shi Jian frowned: "Stand up and speak."

The man stood up, his voice trembling, and said, "I'm from Liu Family Village at the foot of the mountain. Something's happened in the village!"

"The night before last, something was found in the Li family's cemetery at the east end of the village. Someone saw a dark figure crawl out of the grave and kill the guard dog of the Li family's old house. The dog had two big holes in its neck, and all the blood was sucked out!"

Lin Bei's heart skipped a beat. Two huge holes? Could it be a zombie?

Shi Jian's eyes turned cold: "Did you see clearly what it was?"

"I...I didn't see clearly, I just said it was a dark shadow, hopping around," the man said, trembling. "Last night, the Wang family's cow at the west end of the village was also bitten, with two holes in it, and the blood on the cow's neck was sucked dry."

"The village chief sent me to invite you, saying that if we don't do something, someone in the village will die."

Shi Jian stood up, walked to the offering table, and took out a cloth bag from under the table, which contained his usual ritual implements.

"Shaojian, go and bring the tools. Lin Bei, bring the talisman you drew."

Lin Bei ran back to the house, emptied out all the talismans stored in his bundle, and counted them.

One hundred and twenty exorcism talismans, sixty corpse-suppressing talismans, and thirty house-protecting talismans.

He divided the talisman into three parts, stuffed two parts into his bundle, kept one part close to his body, and carried a demon-slaying sword!

Shi Shaojian was also ready, with a Bagua mirror hanging on his chest and a stack of talismans tucked into his waistband.

The three followed the villager out of the mountain gate and hurried along.

Liujia Village is located north of Qingzhu Mountain, just over two mountains away. The village is small, with forty or fifty households, built against the mountainside, with an old locust tree at the entrance.

Before even entering the village, Lin Bei could smell a strange odor.

It smelled like the stench of rotting meat, but it was different; the stench was mixed with an indescribable fishy smell.

"Stop smelling it, that's the stench of death!" Shi Jian said coldly. "If ordinary people are exposed to it for too long, the stench will seep into their bodies, causing anything from a serious illness to death, turning them into walking corpses!"

The villagers following behind were so frightened that they retreated one after another, looking at the village entrance and hesitating whether to go in or not!

"Hey, why don't you come in and show us the way!" Shi Shaojian shouted when he saw the villagers standing there motionless.

The villagers looked away somewhat. "Hehe, Taoist priest, why don't you go in yourselves? I still need to go weed the fields later!"

"It's almost evening, why are you weeding? Aren't you afraid ghosts will come after you?" Lin Bei teased. "Alright, as long as you're not exposed to corpse energy for too long, there won't be any problems!"

"Just get some sunshine tomorrow!"

Only after hearing Lin Bei's words did the villagers dare to bring the three of them inside!

The group continued walking eastward along the village road, and the further east they went, the stronger the aura of death became.

Shi Jian stopped in front of a grave. The tombstone was new, the soil had been loosened, and a large crack had appeared in the soil behind the grave, exposing the coffin lid. There were five finger-sized holes in the coffin lid.

Shi Jian squatted down to look at the holes and gestured with his hand.

"A black zombie!" Shi Jian stood up, his face not looking good. "The corpse aura is very strong. It's been there for at least three to five years. I don't know why it's only come out now."

Lin Bei asked doubtfully, "Master, you told us about zombies last time, that black zombies are very powerful?"

Shi Jian looked around and said, "It depends on the situation. White zombies are the weakest and slow to move. A single exorcism talisman can take care of them. Black zombies are much stronger than white zombies. They have thick skin and thick flesh. Ordinary talismans are like tickling them."

Shi Jian glanced at Lin Bei: "That fifty-year-old ghost you fought last time couldn't last ten breaths against a black zombie."

Lin Bei's heart skipped a beat.

"Stay close to me and don't wander off." After saying that, Shi Jian followed the corpse energy and headed towards the back of the mountain.

The back hill is a mass grave, with a few dozen scattered graves, most of which don't even have tombstones, just a mound of earth.

The aura of death was extremely strong here, and Lin Bei couldn't help but cover his nose, while Shi Shaojian also frowned.

Shi Jian stopped and stared at the largest grave in the middle of the mass grave.

The tombstone in front of the grave was half-crooked, a large hole had been cracked in the soil on the grave mound, and the coffin lid was broken all over the ground.

A black mist, invisible to ordinary people, billowed out of the cave.

"This zombie senses human presence and is about to emerge!" Shi Jian said in a deep voice.

Roar! ! !

As soon as he finished speaking, the black mist suddenly surged, and a deep roar came from the coffin, like the howl of a wild beast, but even more muffled and eerie.

Lin Bei felt a chill run down his spine, his hair standing on end.

boom!

The coffin lid suddenly burst open! A black figure leaped out of the coffin and landed straight on the ground.

It was a humanoid monster, covered in stiff black hair, with dark, shiny skin that looked like it was cast in iron.

Its fingernails were half a foot long, like five curved daggers, gleaming with a cold light. Its mouth was open, revealing two long, sharp fangs, with dark red bloodstains hanging on them.

The eyes were grayish-white, without pupils, but Lin Bei could feel them staring at him.

This...this is a zombie?

A sense of fear rose in Lin Bei's heart; this zombie was far stronger than that old ghost!

Roar! ! !

Just then, the black zombie roared to the sky, and a fierce aura rushed over, pressing down like a wall.

Lin Bei's mind went blank, and he froze, feeling weak in his limbs, unable to even move a finger.

Shi Shaojian was in no better shape; his face was deathly pale, his lips were trembling, and he could barely hold onto the Bagua mirror.

"wake up!"

Shi Jian shouted loudly, his voice like a thunderclap, which made Lin Bei's mind tremble and the feeling of being frozen instantly dissipated.

"Your mind is unsettled, and your Daoist heart is unstable." Shi Jian strode forward and blocked his two disciples' path. "Watch closely, and you'll see what true Maoshan Daoist magic is."

The zombie sensed Shi Jian's presence, turned its grayish-white eyes towards him, let out a low growl, and leaped three feet into the air, pouncing towards Shi Jian.

Instead of retreating, Shi Jian advanced, his hands forming a mudra, his ten fingers moving rapidly.

"Heaven and earth are boundless, the universe borrows its power. Thunderous might, heed my command! Lightning Bolt Fist!"

A blinding blue-white light suddenly erupted between Shi Jian's hands, crackling with electricity like two electric snakes leaping in his palms.

He pushed his hands forward, and two bolts of lightning shot out, slamming hard into the zombie's chest.

boom!

The zombie was sent flying, crashing through two pine trees as thick as bowls behind it, before slamming to the ground. Two charred holes were blown into its chest, emitting black smoke.