Who Let Him Cultivate?!

Chapter 406: Chapter 405: Unusual Living Corpse_1

After hearing the village chief’s story, the two men had a eureka moment: “No wonder these living corpses are so hardy, unlike any ordinary person could refine. So they were lost.”

“Are lost living corpses a common occurrence?”

The village chief shook his head: “How could it be? I’ve lived eighty years and this is the first time I’ve seen ownerless living corpses. I’ve only heard people mention it before.”

“May I ask, what are the reasons for a living corpse to become ownerless?”

“I’ve heard people say there are only two reasons. Either the owner is dead, so the living corpse loses control and wanders aimlessly day after day, or the owner willingly releases control of the living corpse. Otherwise, it is because the living corpses revolt and eat their owner.”

“Judging from the living corpses in our village, they’re not bloodthirsty and don’t seem to fit the third scenario.”

“Is there a way to find the master of the living corpses?”

Upon hearing Lu Yang ask this, the village chief showed a conflicted expression on his face, his eyebrows furrowed deeply, then he sighed.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

“There is.”

“Each corpse-driver leaves a unique imprint on the living corpses they control to claim ownership. The living corpses in our village all have the same imprint on their right wrists, like this.”

The village chief squatted on the ground and drew three interlocking circles with his finger. In the center of the circles, he wrote the character for “ghost”.

“If the owner of the living corpses is still alive, they would have the same pattern on their right wrist.”

“Although I only reached the peak of the second layer of Qi Refinement and my cultivation level is limited, in my youth, I studied under a brilliant corpse-driver master. My master reached the peak of the sixth layer of Qi Refinement!”

“During my time learning from my master, I learned to recognize the patterns of corpse-drivers in surrounding counties, none of them had this style. As for corpse-drivers from other places, I have never seen.”

This was also one of the reasons why the village chief didn’t report the incident. The living corpses were not left by any local corpse-drivers, so even if he reported it to the government office, they wouldn’t be able to find the owner of the living corpses.

“Elder, have you heard of the Corpse Chasing Sect?”

The village chief laughed. “How can I not know about the Corpse Chasing Sect? Thirty years ago, I was fortunate enough to get a distant glimpse of a disciple from the Corpse Chasing Sect. He was truly a distinguished young talent, far beyond someone like me who struggles even to understand the basics of corpse-driving.”

“Do you know the location of the Corpse Chasing Sect?”

“That’s quite far.”

The chief pointed west. “The Corpse Chasing Sect is located at the very center of our Wild State. From here if you keep going west, it’s about eighty million miles.”

Meng Jingzhou nodded. “It seems we still have a few more days of travel.”

Having the old horse made the eighty million miles not seem very far. He remembered when he first left home, traveling from the Imperial City to the Seek Dao Sect, the journey was not much more than eighty million miles, and only took a few days.

Whether they traveled fast or slow depended on the mood of the old horse.

At first, Meng Jingzhou thought they were traveling fast because the carriage had a spatial array method that could freely traverse space and shorten the distance. He later found out that while the carriage was indeed a treasure, the real reason they traveled so fast was due to the old horse.

“Now that we know about the existence of these living corpses, could you allow us brothers to stay overnight?”

“Alright, since my wife has passed away and our children have moved to live in the county, hosting you two would only require adding two more quilts.”

The two rested and adjusted in Firmstone Village for one night. The next day, they bid farewell to the village chief and set off on their journey.

“You two were quite lucky last night.” Fairy Eternity stretched lazily, contorting her body to stretch her muscles and bones.

Although the concept of muscles and bones doesn’t apply to a spirit form, old habits still persist even after death.

“Lucky?”

“Yeah, the group of living corpses you encountered last night were carefully refined by a great cultivator. They’re just unattended, and combined with their lack of Yang Qi, they don’t have much energy to move. They can only maintain basic activities daily through large buns, otherwise, you two wouldn’t have been able to beat them.”

“If I’m not mistaken, the group of living corpses acting together could be a match for one at the Unification stage.”

“Unification stage!” Lu Yang was astonished. He knew that the living corpses they encountered last night were formidable, but he didn’t expect them to be able to compete with those at the Unification stage.

Even if Lu Yang didn’t understand the art of refining living corpses, he knew that refining living corpses of this level must be done by a cultivator at the Unification stage.

These living corpses were a battle tool of a Unification stage corpse-driver. How could they be left behind carelessly?

Did a corpse-driver at the Unification stage die?

The thought of this sent chills down Lu Yang’s spine.

Nowadays, people rarely fight fiercely to the death. Unification stage cultivators rarely kill each other openly. Let alone, Unification stage cultivators are incredibly strong with many methods to protect their lives. Unless there was a huge gap in strength, like between his master Daoist Buyu, the Grand Elder, Qiu Jin’an and an average Unification stage cultivator, it would be very difficult for a Unification stage cultivator to kill another one at the same stage.

Meng Jingzhou saw Lu Yang’s changing expression and couldn’t help but ask curiously: “What’s wrong?”

“You should still remember that I have Fairy Eternity within me.”

Meng Jingzhou was there watching when Fairy Eternity resurrected.

Meng Jingzhou blinked his eyes, clapped his hands, and showed a newly-awakened-expression.

“Ah~ I remember now, you have an ancient immortal within you. What did the immortal say?”

“…Wait a minute, let’s put aside what the immortal said for now. Why do you look as if you just remembered it?”

“You can’t blame me for this.”

Meng Jingzhou scratched his head in embarrassment and started counting on his fingers. “In my imagination, a person with an ancient immortal within them should be constantly blessed with extraordinary luck, armed with ancient incomplete magic artifacts as weapons, possess a variety of astonishing secrets, familiar with many kinds of cultivation methods, unbeatable amongst their peers, often making stunning remarks, having insights beyond their level, being embraced by beautiful women, and when they go to secret realms, it’s like going home and so on.”

“From what I’ve observed, you don’t really fit these characteristics. The only one that fits is being unbeatable amongst your peers, but this doesn’t really stand out much within our Seek Dao Sect.”

“Oh right, you do know about the ancient secrets that can only bluff the Nine Nether Cult.”

Lu Yang: “…”

Yes, I also want to know the reason.

“What did the immortal say?”

“She said that the group of living corpses we encountered last night match up to the Unification stage in combat power.”

Meng Jingzhou’s pupils constrict slightly, clearly having the same worry as Lu Yang.

How could living corpses of this level randomly appear outside?

Something must have happened that people don’t know about!

“Let’s find a big city and ask around, see if there have been any battles, or if a cultivator in the Unification stage has fallen. Surely, something of this level won’t occur without leaving any traces.”

Lu Yang nodded, he had the same thoughts.

“By the way, since you have an ancient immortal within you, can you help me ask her if she knows a way to solve my backlash of causality?” Meng Jingzhou looked expectantly at Lu Yang. Yes, without the help of Eldest Senior Sister, there is still the help of an ancient immortal.

Ancient immortals with celestial abilities should be able to solve a small backlash of causality easily, right?

“I’ve asked.”

“What did she say?”

“She told you to go die.”

“?”