Uncle Nine: You were supposed to drive corpses, so you summoned the Monkey King!

The Five Emperor Coins exploded inside Nintendo's belly.

Extreme Yang magic power mixed with pure Yang essence blood and black dog blood surged wildly within its body.

A muffled groan came from inside Nintendo.

Its swollen body shrank back, and yellowish-green liquid spurted out from its mouth, nose, and cracks in its body.

A pungent smell of formaldehyde and a burnt odor permeated the Wild Man Gully.

Soil and dead leaves were blown away and hit the surrounding tree trunks with a thud.

Lin Chen stood up, brushed the dirt off his Taoist robe, and looked ahead.

Nintendo lay convulsing by the pit, its iron shell beginning to crumble, large chunks of hard skin peeling away to reveal the shriveled, blackened flesh beneath. The bones that Lin Chen had broken couldn't reattach themselves and hung limply.

"Is that all?" Master Four Eyes walked over, dragging his bronze greatsword, and poked Nintendo's thigh with the tip of the sword.

The sword tip easily pierced through the black flesh and embedded itself in the bone.

There were no sparks flying, and the rebound force was gone.

Uncle Nine walked to the edge of the pit and looked down for a moment.

"The evil foreign drug in this wretched child's body has been forced out." Uncle Nine wrapped the remaining red rope back around his wrist.

"The extreme yang fire tempered its skin, but also forced the medicine into its internal organs. Lin Chen just dispersed the stagnation of the medicine, and finally, the five Five Emperors Coins became the catalyst to ignite the medicine."

Uncle Nine took out an ordinary corpse-suppressing talisman from the cloth bag, pinched it between two fingers and flicked his wrist.

A yellow talisman was pasted on Nintendo's forehead, and a golden light shone on the surface of the talisman.

Nintendo, which had been writhing and roaring on the ground, froze.

"Frozen!" Daoist Four Eyes chuckled, patting Lin Chen on the shoulder. "Good lad, those punches you took weren't for nothing. This tin-skinned turtle has degenerated into an ordinary zombie!"

Seeing that the zombie had stopped moving, Mama, who was hiding in the distance, emerged from behind a tree and swaggered closer.

"Hey, I knew it! How could a mere Nintendo possibly turn the world upside down?" Mama said, hands on her hips.

"If I hadn't disrupted its feng shui with my virgin urine just now, would you have been able to succeed so easily?"

Uncle Nine turned and glared at Mama.

"How dare you say that? If you hadn't been so incompetent and lost the body, would so many people have died in Li Family Town?"

Mama stiffened her neck and pointed at the Nintendo on the ground.

"The body has been found! It's been immobilized now. I'll tie it up with a chalk line right away and head back to the Ren family to report and collect the final payment."

As he spoke, he went to call his apprentices, Ah Hao and Ah Qiang, to come and carry the body.

Master Simu slammed the bronze sword into the ground.

"Hand over? Are you blind? This thing has been soaked in foreigners' medicine, and Lin Chen just broke 70% of its bones. It's not even a complete corpse now. Do you think the Ren family will pay for carrying this pile of rotten flesh back?"

Mama stared at the Nintendo on the ground, its jaw collapsed, its limbs twisted, and its body covered in charred, rotten holes.

He swallowed hard, still stubbornly refusing to admit it.

"Then...then I'll make it some paper effigies and put on some makeup..."

"Foolish!" Uncle Nine scolded. "Although it's no longer protected by the foreign medicine, it has absorbed the blood of living people, and the corpse poison has seeped into its bones. If this scourge is left alive, it will rise from the dead and harm people if the talisman is accidentally dropped. It must be burned immediately!"

"Don't burn it!" Mama exclaimed anxiously. "How am I supposed to explain this to the Ren family? I've done all this work for nothing, and I'll even have to pay them back!"

Lin Chen stood to the side, watching Ma Madi's behavior, and shook his head.

Lin Chen walked to the edge of the pit. The lightning-struck wooden sword hadn't worked well against the armored creature.

Now that this thing has degenerated into a regular zombie, there aren't so many rules anymore.

Lin Chen drew the lightning-struck wooden sword from his back and infused it with his magic power.

"Lin Chen, what are you doing!" Mama shouted.

Lin Chen didn't look at him, gripped the sword with both hands, and swung it down at Nintendo's neck.

The lightning-struck wooden sword, imbued with the righteous energy of heavenly thunder, sliced ​​through Nintendo's withered flesh, severed its cervical vertebrae, and splattered black, foul blood onto the soil.

Nintendo's head rolled to the side, and the corpse energy in his neck cavity was ignited by the power of lightning, turning into a ball of flame that burned along his withered body.

"You...you chopped its head off!" Mom was so angry she was jumping up and down. "My final payment! My money!"

"Uncle-Master, keeping this thing will only cause trouble. I'll perform a ritual to help it pass on to the afterlife, so you won't be treated like a swindler and beaten out when you return to the Ren family." Lin Chen put away the lightning-struck wooden sword.

Master Simu laughed out loud and gave a thumbs up.

"Well done! This kind of evil spirit should be eradicated completely. Damn it, you should thank my apprentice for saving your life."

Uncle Nine watched Lin Chen's actions.

Those who cultivate the Tao should avoid indecisiveness, and Lin Chen's temperament makes him a good candidate for cultivation.

"Alright, stop howling." Uncle Nine looked at Mama. "I'll write to the Nintendo family to explain the situation regarding the Nintendo mutation. You lost the body first, so you can settle that score with the Nintendo family yourself."

Mama plopped down on a rock and sighed.

A series of hurried footsteps came from outside the woods.

Captain Cao led a dozen or so security guards armed with long guns and short batons as they cautiously crept in.

Seeing the dismembered and burning zombie on the ground, Captain Cao breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and jogged over.

"My goodness! These Taoist priests are truly divine beings descended to earth! This great scourge has finally been eliminated!"

Captain Cao, all smiles, repeatedly bowed to Uncle Jiu and Simu, finally fixing his gaze on Lin Chen with a deep bow and scrape.

"Young Taoist priest, you are incredibly brave and invincible! Just now in the yamen, you were like a heavenly warrior descending to earth. I, Old Cao, am completely convinced!"

Lin Chen looked at Captain Cao and patted the dust off his hands.

"Captain Cao, the zombies have been eliminated, but this job has taken a toll on us."

Captain Cao paused for a moment, then patted his chest.

"Don't worry, young Taoist priest! You saved Li Family Town, so I'll pay your fee on behalf of the town! Tell me, how many silver dollars?"

Lin Chen held up three fingers.

"The service fee is separate. I just performed a ritual to exorcise a demon and owe the gods in heaven offerings: thirty beggar's chickens, five jars of fine daughter's wine, plus two roast suckling pigs. Deliver them to the inn before dark."

After hearing this, Captain Cao's face twitched twice.

The offerings were even more lavish than those for the Lunar New Year celebrations in town.

Captain Cao looked at the pile of ash on the ground that was still emitting black smoke, then at Lin Chen's arm, and nodded repeatedly.

"No problem! No problem! I'll have someone get it done right away, and it'll be delivered before dark!"

Lin Chen turned to look at Mama.

"Master Ma, your two apprentices were running around in the yamen just now and trampled on several of my high-level corpse-suppressing talismans. You need to pay for the materials of these talismans."

Mom had just finished feeling the pinch of paying the final installment when she heard that she had to pay more money, and her eyes widened in surprise.

"You're robbing me! I don't have any money!"

Master Four Eyes raised his bronze sword and slammed it down at Mama's feet, creating a crater in the ground.

"Will you give it to me or not?" Si Mu glanced at him sideways.

She shivered slightly, then fumbled in her pocket and pulled out two silver dollars, tossing them to Lin Chen.

"I'm so unlucky to have run into you two bandits!"

Lin Chen took the silver dollar and put it in his pocket.

Sunlight pierced through the leaves and shone into Yeren Gully.

The wreckage of Nintendo was reduced to a pile of white ash by the sunlight and the flames of the lightning-struck wood.

"That's it for today, let's head back to the inn." Uncle Nine turned and walked towards the town with his hands behind his back.

The group returned to the inn in Lijia Town.

Lin Chen took a hot shower, changed into a clean coarse cloth Taoist robe, and sat cross-legged on the bed.