Chapter 541: Clues Emerge

Someone is launching a sneak attack!

Lu San felt a chill in his heart and gripped the mace.

These things could be seen, but they were not ghosts, and he couldn't hear any heartbeats; they were all walking corpses controlled by someone.

The Prince of Shu's Mansion, the Chengdu underworld...

Which side had come to cause them trouble?

Lu San didn't have time to think. His ears twitched slightly, and hearing sounds coming from the rooms of Sha Lifei and Wang Daoxuan, he felt completely relieved.

Subsequently, he exerted force with his feet.

Clatter!

He crashed through the window and leaped out, simultaneously shouting loudly: "Something is launching a sneak attack, everyone from the escort agency, don't come out!"

What Lu San said was very particular.

He said "something," not "people."

He even specifically reminded the people from the escort agency not to come out.

But many times, people don't believe the truth, and these escorts were already dissatisfied with them to begin with.

Hearing the sound, they instead grabbed their weapons and rushed out.

"Friends outside, which path are you from?"

"Idiots, look at what that is?!"

The sky tonight was cloudless, and the moonlight was bright, so they could see the things crawling on the wall as soon as they looked up.

A chill rose from the bottom of their hearts, making their scalps explode.

"Careful!"

"It's walking corpses!"

These escorts often took on Mystic Sect escort missions, so they had some discernment and immediately recognized the things on the wall.

These were not zombies, but walking corpses.

These walking corpses usually hadn't been dead for long, neither rotting nor stiff, and because of residual obsessions and the gathering of Yin Sha Qi, they had risen.

They were far more agile than zombies and would chase blood Qi to pounce on people, but they were also flesh and blood, and ordinary people could kill them with knives.

Therefore, the escorts were only startled and quickly reacted. Some threw ropes, others took iron claws.

They had dealt with this kind of thing before.

As long as they restricted their movement, hacked them to death with knives, and then burned them with a fire, they could be completely resolved.

"Idiots, scatter quickly!"

But Lu San cursed angrily when he saw this.

These were walking corpses, yes, but would the enemy send ordinary walking corpses to launch a sneak attack?

However, it was already too late.

Swish!

An escort had already thrown a rope. It spun in the air, looped around the head of a walking corpse, and dragged it off the courtyard wall.

At the same time, two escorts slashed out with their knives.

Pfft!

As the blade light flashed, black smoke and dust scattered.

Those two escorts bore the brunt and were immediately enveloped by the smoke and dust. They immediately screamed, clutching their necks, their faces turning sauce-red, as if they couldn't breathe, and they died with blood flowing from their seven orifices.

"There's poison, retreat quickly!"

The escorts covered their noses with their sleeves and retreated.

However, those walking corpses moved, crawling on their hands and feet like wild beasts, leaping down from the courtyard wall.

Seeing this, Lu San shook the bone beads in his hand and simultaneously formed seals, muttering non-stop, chanting spells to drive away evil.

"Heh! Heh!"

These walking corpses were also interfered with, dizzy and disoriented, rolling and bumping on the ground.

At the same time, Wang Daoxuan pushed the door open and walked out.

He was already wearing a Daoist robe, holding a golden coin sword, stepping on the Big Dipper steps, with a yellow talisman on the tip of his sword that ignited without wind, and he pointed it at the head of a walking corpse.

Pop!

With a crisp sound, the walking corpse fell directly to the ground and stopped moving.

These walking corpses were all hidden with a large amount of poison powder by someone using evil methods, so they couldn't be dealt with by brute force; they would explode at a touch.

But to Wang Daoxuan, it was easy.

The golden coin Dharma sword drove away evil and removed Sha, directly dispersing the Sha Qi.

Seeing this, Sha Lifei stepped forward to help.

He didn't use weapons either, pulling on a rope, using the Red Fist grappling method, turning his hands left and right to bind the approaching walking corpses.

Pop! Pop! Pop!

The two cooperated, and the walking corpses fell one after another.

And Lu San didn't step forward.

He held the mace, staring sharply at the surroundings, his ears trembling slightly, and then suddenly turned around, pulling a steel spike from his waist and throwing it.

Whoosh!

The sound of breaking air accompanied a scream.

On the roof behind, a man in black had just poked his head out when he was directly pierced through the head and fell to the ground.

But at the same time, two more men in black appeared, holding hidden weapons, wanting to shoot the fallen poison corpses.

Boom!

Before they could react, the roof suddenly exploded, tiles flew everywhere, and a pair of large hands dragged them into the room.

It was Wu Ba who had made a move, directly dragging them into the room and smashing them hard onto the ground, their chest bones shattered and their internal organs broken.

"Roar!"

After killing the two, Wu Ba let out another roar, lowered his body, and broke directly through the wall.

In the alley outside the mansion, a Daoist was setting up an altar to perform magic. On the bluestone street, candles flickered, and a few small coffins were placed.

This person was the evil Daoist controlling the walking corpses.

His magic had been broken by Wang Daoxuan. The small coffins on the ground in front all appeared with cracks, and he was clutching his chest, sitting on the ground and vomiting blood.

Besides the sneak attackers, there were two protectors, both dressed in black night-traveling clothes, holding long spears.

Wu Ba breaking through the wall also gave them a fright.

The two reacted extremely quickly, shaking their long spears simultaneously, one attacking the upper path, one attacking the lower path.

This alley wasn't wide, and their spear flowers were like a rain waterfall. Coupled with the distance of the long spears, they could easily force people back.

Unfortunately, they encountered Wu Ba.

Wu Ba's large feet exerted force, coupled with his heavy body, like a fragrant elephant crossing a river, making the ground rumble, and a violent momentum rushed toward them.

Whoosh!

A massive board axe whistled out, directly shattering the long spear of one person, and simultaneously spinning, it hacked into his chest.

Blood splashed everywhere, and that person's upper body was directly split open.

The other spearman felt his scalp tingle.

He used the Yang Family's "Rain of Pears" spear, having already stepped into the dark energy, and was considered a good hand anywhere.

But this was the first time he had seen such an unreasonable, violent fighting style.

Wanting to pull his spear and escape was already too late.

He saw Wu Ba's massive body whistling toward him. His left arm reached out backhanded, snapping the long spear with a crack, and simultaneously his large hand slapped out.

This was the Eight Trigrams "Facing the Wind and Greeting the Sun Palm."

Anyone with a bit of sense, seeing Wu Ba's physique using this, would quickly retreat to avoid its edge.

But this man, whether in skill or reaction speed, was far inferior to Wu Ba and was directly slapped in the head.

Boom!

With a muffled sound, the other party's head was directly sent flying, and his headless body fell to the ground with a thud, blood spurting out.

This was Wu Ba's fighting characteristic.

His physical talent was astonishing, and his fighting style was violent, like an old bear entering a chicken coop, leaving a mess every time.

"Spare my life!"

The sorcerer performing the magic was scared until he wet his pants. His legs went soft, and with a scream, he raised both hands.

Finally, he felt a pain in his ankle, was dragged upside down by Wu Ba, strode back into the courtyard, and was flung onto the ground with a wave of his hand.

Inside the courtyard, the battle had long since ended.

With Sha Lifei's cooperation, Wang Daoxuan easily broke all the poison corpses, and the remaining sneak attackers all died under the flying needles in Lu San's hands.

The only living person was this sorcerer.

The escorts from the Shunyuan Escort Agency watched, dumbfounded.

They were also good hands in the martial world, but facing this situation, they would still prioritize saving their lives and retreat into the house to deal with it carefully.

But these people before them were simply cutting vegetables, under no pressure at all. So this was the Twelve Yuan Chen...

Looking at the murderous Wu Ba, covered in blood, several escorts swallowed their saliva and retreated unconsciously.

Many times, people always make a mistake: measuring things they have never seen with their own scope of cognition.

They only traveled around Chengdu, escorting goods.

They were called people of the martial world, but what they saw were often the bottom layers.

The Twelve Yuan Chen had been quite famous in the Shu martial world recently.

But how powerful they were, they had never witnessed, and coupled with Sha Lifei and the others being polite, they had underestimated them.

No wonder Escort Chief Wang was so polite to these people...

What they didn't know was that what they saw today was still far from the true strength of Wang Daoxuan and the others.

After all, Sha Lifei was too lazy to even move his fire gun.

Not a single mistake, not a single omission, read it all at once!

"Speak, who sent you?"

Sha Lifei kicked the sorcerer over, pulled out his Guan Mountain knife, held it to his throat, and asked coldly.

"Spare my life, let's talk nicely..."

The sorcerer was covered in cold sweat, his eyes wandering.

"If you don't want to speak, then don't!"

Sha Lifei didn't talk nonsense, exerted force on his hand, and directly cut a bloody gash on his neck.

The best way to ask for a confession is not torture, but to break their psychological defense while they are panicked.

"Don't, I'm from the Prince of Shu's Mansion!" The sorcerer shouted quickly.

Sha Lifei and Wang Daoxuan looked at each other, not surprised.

Although they had just arrived in Guanxian and were stirred up by the Prince of Shu's Mansion to find trouble with the yamen, the two sides hadn't met.

But "Young Master Wuxiang" had personally visited and knew their relationship with the Shunyuan Escort Agency.

If the Chengdu underworld had launched a sneak attack, they wouldn't have sent just this many people.

At this time, Wang Tianzuo also walked over, his body still somewhat weak, and asked coldly: "You are here to find trouble with me, why?"

The sorcerer gritted his teeth: "We were looking for Old Brother Lu. He visited you before he died. We wanted to know if the thing was with you?"

Wang Tianzuo narrowed his eyes: "Looking for what thing?"

The sorcerer was silent for a moment: "We don't know either, we were just following orders from above."

After speaking, he begged bitterly: "This brother, we are all just making a living in the martial world. We are also just working for others, please raise your hand..."

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly looked terrified, as if he had seen something terrible, trembling all over, veins popping on his face.

Pfft!

He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and died on the ground.

Wang Daoxuan frowned, immediately stepped forward, pushed aside his clothes, touched his chest, felt a lump, and shook his head: "It's a Jujube Pit Curse!"

Wang Tianzuo was furious upon hearing this, gritting his teeth and saying indignantly: "The Prince of Shu's Mansion is bullying people too much!"

Their Huang Ling Sect had previously found an ancient coffin from the Wuxian Kingdom, which was why they were ambushed by the Prince of Shu's Mansion and almost triggered a conflict with the Tiefu Temple.

But they couldn't afford to offend the Prince of Shu, so they could only swallow this bitter pill.

He hadn't expected that coming to Guanxian, first his close friend was killed, and now they were coming after him, simply giving no one a way to live.

At this moment, Wang Tianzuo really wanted to go to their door and fight to the death.

However, he looked at the terrified escorts around him and thought of his family in Chengdu, so he could only sigh and cupped his hands: "Many thanks to you all for your help. This place is dangerous, I must leave overnight."

"What are you saying, Old Brother."

Sha Lifei shook his head with a smile: "We have nothing to worry about, but you still have to mix in Chengdu. This matter isn't suitable for you to participate in."

"It's good to leave early. Leave the rest to us."

Wang Tianzuo sighed and didn't say anything more, just cupped his hands solemnly and turned to order: "Pack up, let's leave overnight!"

The escorts were naturally willing. They quickly picked up their already prepared luggage, wrapped their companion's corpse in a straw mat, and snuck out the door.

Wang Tianzuo had quite a few connections in Guanxian. He didn't go through the city gate but came to a nearby car and horse shop, spent some silver, and left Guanxian along a secret passage.

The exit of the secret passage was by the river.

They didn't dare to take the land route and directly borrowed a few fishing boats, taking advantage of the night to drift down the river.

Not until they had left Guanxian for a long time did the escorts breathe a sigh of relief.

"Escort Chief."

Old San hesitated and walked up, whispering: "I spoke without thinking, don't take it to heart."

"What you said was right."

Wang Tianzuo looked toward Guanxian and sighed: "People say the older you get in the martial world, the more timid you become. We have families to support, and we can't afford to lose..."

As he spoke, he stared blankly into the distance and stopped talking.

At this moment, he had the thought of retiring...

Guanxian, inside the Shunyuan Escort Agency mansion.

"Daoist, should we take revenge?"

After the escorts left, Sha Lifei asked.

"No need."

Wang Daoxuan was deep in thought: "The Prince of Shu's Mansion's intelligence was wrong; they didn't know we were here. They should all be outside the city."

"Business is important. Let's change to another place to stay. Tomorrow morning, we'll go out to inquire for news. Finding the reincarnation of True Lord Erlang is more important."

"Don't forget, the Prince of Shu's Mansion can still command the yamen."

"That's true."

With a plan, the group immediately left the mansion and hid in an abandoned residential house in the east of the city.

Just as Wang Daoxuan had expected, not long after they left, the Guanxian yamen sent a large team of yamen runners, holding torches, and surrounded the Shunyuan Escort Agency mansion.

But all they could find was a ground full of corpses.

"Search!"

"They must still be in the city!"

After the Guanxian constable consulted with the man in black beside him, he immediately gave a loud order, holding torches, and searched and questioned every household.

After searching all night and seeing no clues, they returned to the yamen in frustration.

With such a big commotion, the county town was naturally filled with panic.

The next day, there were clearly many fewer people on the street.

To please the Prince of Shu's Mansion, the Guanxian Magistrate sent out yamen runners again to patrol every street intersection. If they encountered a stranger, they would go up and interrogate them.

"Stop, what are you doing?!"

"You, come over here!"

The officials were as fierce as tigers, and the common people were terrified.

"Damn it, a bunch of dog slaves!"

On the second floor of an inn in the distance, a man with a face full of flesh cursed through a crack in the window, then turned his head and cupped his hands: "Don't worry, everyone. Since you are friends of Escort Chief Wang, I won't say a word about anything!"

The person speaking was a local martial world big shot in Guanxian, named Hou Xuan, who had also been helping Sha Lifei and the others inquire about news these past few days.

"Many thanks."

Sha Lifei had long been familiar with this person, so he didn't talk nonsense and asked directly: "Brother Hou, we want to know, did anything major happen in Guanxian thirty years ago?"

Hou Xuan was confused: "What does Brother Sha mean?"

Sha Lifei hinted: "Did any martial world experts suddenly disappear, or did any wealthy family have an incident?"

Hou Xuan pondered for a moment: "I don't know what you all are looking for, but speaking of thirty years ago, there really was a strange incident."

"Oh?"

Sha Lifei's eyes lit up: "Please speak, Old Brother."

After Hou Xuan sat down and drank a cup of tea, he said in a deep voice: "Not many people know about this."

"I wonder if you all have heard of the 'Ghost Opera Troupe'?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 542 =====