Chapter 224: Puppet Soldiers

However, this custom had been practiced for several years, yet the false god still hadn't found a suitable body.

So much so that Zheng Linggui later didn't even have the interest to choose personally. She just let the Archbishop help her choose, and if one was passable, she would bring them over to use for a few days. If she got tired of them, she could discard and replace them at any time.

And tonight, the Archbishop was surprised to find that there were two stunning beauties among the brides.

The Archbishop kept Lin Qingyue for himself and gave Dongfang Qi to Zheng Linggui as a vessel for her soul.

When Zheng Linggui saw Lin Qingyue for the first time, she didn't fully recognize her.

It wasn't until she used evil arts to bewitch and draw out the hidden illusions in Lin Qingyue's heart that she realized that the Demon Monarch Qingyue, who had made the entire Immortal Cultivation World tremble with fear back then, had returned!

At this moment, although she could feel that Lin Qingyue was completely different from the tyrant of the past, her power was much weaker than before.

But Zheng Linggui was still afraid of her, so she only dared to use dark means and did not dare to confront her head-on.

After Lin Qingyue saw through the illusion, she tried to use words to affect her state of mind:

"And your father, he was like my father, an Immortal Venerable in the Immortal Cultivation World. The faith power he enjoyed was no less than my father's. Even he felt that your actions were betraying your master and destroying your ancestors!"

"So what?" Lin Qingyue said coldly, "You hypocrites are allowed to slaughter the lower realms at will, but I am not allowed to slaughter you? Hmph, I will kill anyone I don't like, and I will destroy any sect I don't like! What does it matter if one cultivates immortality or demonhood?"

"But you are a member of the immortal sect! From childhood to adulthood, you enjoyed the rich cultivation resources of the immortal world and were regarded as a heaven-defying talent by the major sects. You should have been a defender of the Dao and repaid the Immortal Cultivation World. Why did you sympathize with those lowly mortals? They are so stupid, only fit to be our nourishment, continuously contributing faith power to us. You traitor, you should be cut into a thousand pieces, fall into the Wujian Diyu forever, and never be reincarnated!"

"Too much nonsense!" Lin Qingyue flipped her palm, and the Nether Umbrella flew back into her hand.

After hearing the "swish-swish" sound, the flying knives at the tips of the 12 umbrella ribs all shot out, attacking in all directions.

But no matter from which direction the attack was launched, the black-robed person could easily dodge it.

Her soul was like a light smoke, dispersing and gathering, gathering and dispersing, unable to cause any damage at all.

"Hahahaha..."

The sinister laughter surged from all directions, and her rampant voice filled every corner of the hall.

"I said, you can't kill me! Do you see this palace? This is the Yun Gong of the past; I built an identical Yun Gong. I want the glory of the Immortal Cultivation World of the past to reappear in this world!"

"I want everyone in this world to believe in me, the Great God Guiyuan! Whether you are Lin Qingyue or the Demon Monarch of the past, today I will make sure you don't walk out of my temple!"

While speaking, a clear whistle was heard, followed by dense footsteps outside the hall.

Dongfang Qi hurriedly urged Lin Qingyue: "Be careful, she doesn't know what dirty tricks she will use again!"

Lin Qingyue said: "She can use any tricks. I could kill her once back then, and I can kill her again today! Just a lonely ghost who has lost her physical body! She actually dares to play god in front of me?"

The next moment, countless soldiers in armor poured into the hall from all directions.

Although these people were dressed as soldiers, the styles of their armor were different, and they did not look like soldiers from the same country.

These messy soldiers had sunken faces, only whites of the eyes without pupils, and a rotten aura exuding from their whole bodies. They were completely walking corpses.

Yet these walking corpses moved very quickly, and in an instant, they had surrounded them, holding weapons and hacking at Lin Qingyue and Dongfang Qi.

"Careful!" Dongfang Qi swung his long sword, and the sword Qi cleanly cut off the heads of several puppets.

Unfortunately, even without heads, those puppets still swung their weapons and kept hacking.

Lin Qingyue hurriedly said to Dongfang Qi: "These are puppets, they have no sense of pain and cannot be killed. The only weakness is in the spine; after cutting the spine, the upper body cannot stand upright."

Dongfang Qi heard this, and with a swing of his sword, he cut off the lumbar spine of several puppets beside him.

Thus, the upper bodies of those puppets snapped and folded with a "crack," and the movements of their hands were lost. Although their two legs were still walking, they could no longer form a threat.

On Lin Qingyue's side, the Nether Umbrella continuously flew out blades, cutting off the lumbar spines of more than a dozen puppets in succession, and then another knife cut off their knees, completely making them lose their mobility.

Before long, the area around the two was piled with the remains of puppets.

However, more puppets kept pouring into the hall.

Not only were puppets pouring in from the windows, front, and back of the hall, but even puppets were climbing in from the roof.

These rotting walking corpses were dense, endless, and could never be killed off.

Dongfang Qi hacked at the puppets in front of him while saying: "These puppets must be the secret weapons that the Guifang Kingdom used to be invincible and annex many small countries!"

Lin Qingyue said: "It's about what I expected. And looking at their clothing and attire, they come from different countries. They should be soldiers from the wars between the Guifang Kingdom and other countries over the years, made into puppets after dying in battle. It is simpler to refine dead people into puppets, and the poison of the Flying Corpse Silkworm required is also less."

"How insidious and vicious! This is no god, clearly a devil—Yueyue, be careful!"

While speaking, Dongfang Qi used his sword to knock down several puppets that climbed down from the roof and tried to attack Lin Qingyue.

Lin Qingyue was also very annoyed at this moment. In terms of strength, she and Dongfang naturally completely crushed these puppets. But there were too many of them.

The number of puppets they had hacked down was no less than a thousand, and these thousand tattered corpses were piled up around them, plus the continuously pouring in puppets. This made the space around them smaller and smaller, and soon the two could only fight back-to-back.

Dongfang Qi said: "This won't work! Our strength cannot withstand such consumption, not to mention that if this continues, the entire hall will be occupied by puppets! To capture the bandits, capture the king first; we must find a way to force Zheng Linggui out!"

Lin Qingyue suddenly caught a glimpse of sword light attacking Dongfang Qi from the side.

"Dongfang Qi, be careful!"

Dongfang Qi was dealing with the puppets in front, and when he reacted, he saw Lin Qingyue's umbrella fly to his side, resolving that attack for him.

But Lin Qingyue herself revealed a flaw because of this and was actually hacked to the ground by a puppet.

"Yueyue!" Dongfang Qi's eyes were about to split, watching helplessly as Lin Qingyue fell. ===== CHAPTER 225 =====