Chapter 157: Corpse-Driving Craftsman

In the Yinjian, Lu Daoguang was taking his cousin to search for traces of gold and jade materials in the desolate land.

Behind them were thousands of heavy-armored Zhiren and a Zhiren General newly made by Lin Feng, but the main purpose of these Zhiren was to suppress the ghosts coming from around.

"Second Brother, did you remember wrong? There is not even a hair in this ghostly place!"

Noticing that the soldiers and generals behind were dealing with some ghosts wandering over, Lu Daoguang's cousin asked Lu Daoguang beside him with a guilty conscience.

"Don't talk nonsense, I have a count in my heart!"

This scared Lu Daoguang, who was burying his head to identify various traces on the ground, and then he straightened his face and replied to his cousin.

"You have a count in your heart, so tell me the wind! This is going to worry me to death!"

However, his cousin didn't buy it, because they had left the camp for almost half a day, and they hadn't found anything at all.

If this drags on, I'm afraid that the adult will think they are running around on purpose. If they can't find anything, they shouldn't have agreed to it back then!

"Humph, hurry, hurry, hurry, only know how to worry every day!"

"Didn't you see that I have already found some fox tails?"

However, this made Lu Daoguang a bit unhappy. His cousin's courage was still too small. Being so impatient, how could he achieve great things in the future?

"What fox tail?"

Hearing Lu Daoguang say this, the Zouyinren asked immediately.

"Look carefully at what is on the ground?"

Lu Daoguang came to an empty space on the side and pointed to some traces on the ground and said to his cousin.

"Seems to be footprints?"

There was a series of traces on the ground that looked quite special, like human footprints, but the heels could not be seen.

"Hehe, you say what kind of coffin those corpse-driving guys use?"

Finding these footprints, Lu Daoguang felt that he was ten-tenths sure of completing this mission, and then said to his cousin quite proudly.

"Wood? Stone?"

The topic jumped from footprints to coffins, making the Zouyinren a bit unable to turn around, so he said two things stupidly.

"Bah! Ordinary wood and stone are useless!"

"Yin wood, black jade, and dark gold are the things to make top-grade coffins!"

"I know very well that those corpse-driving guys have special places to get black jade and dark gold in the Yinjian!"

"Hehe, we just need to find them now, and then directly let the general beside me catch them, and finally force them to tell where they dug the black jade and dark gold!"

Lu Daoguang was angry first, then said his plan to his cousin with incomparable pride.

"High! Really high!"

After listening to Lu Daoguang's words, the Zouyinren widened his eyes instantly, and then gave a thumbs up without hesitation.

"Hehe, it's time to let those corpse-driving guys see the means of our Zouyinren!"

Lu Daoguang was quite proud, then immediately chased along this string of footprints. To ensure that these traces were left not long ago, he identified them for a long time, and this time it was absolutely not wrong.

Seeing the two continue to move, the Zhiren army behind immediately brought the ghosts just suppressed and followed.

Black Stone Mountain, where a large number of corpses are working stiffly and numbly.

Every corpse here looks purple-blue, cold and infiltrating, and a faint stench permeates the air.

However, the source of this stench is not the large number of corpses, but the incense lit every distance inside and outside Black Stone Mountain. 【1

These incense sticks were as thick as a thumb and reached about the length of an arm; when each stick burned, it would emit a bit of smoke and a peculiar, putrid odor.

Because of these special incense sticks, no Guiyi approached the entire area around Black Stone Mountain.

"Ding-a-ling~"

Suddenly, a lonely sound of copper bells came from the outskirts of Black Stone Mountain. Upon hearing these bell sounds, they felt somewhat familiar, but if one listened carefully, there would be an inexplicable feeling of hair-raising dread.

"Swish~ Swish~ Thud~"

Soon, a team of twenty people slowly approached Black Stone Mountain, but looking closely, eighteen of these twenty people were actually corpses with stiff bodies and yellow talismans pasted on their faces.

Only two corpse-driving craftsmen, wearing gray cloth shirts, brown bamboo hats, and wooden shoes, moved at the front and back of the team.

The complexions of these two corpse-driving craftsmen looked similar to those of the Yin-walking people; both presented a deathly pale blue-white color, and their bodies were filled with corpse Qi. Apart from their movements being constantly stiff, they were no different from the corpses beside them.

Soon, they entered the territory of Black Stone Mountain. The corpse-driving craftsman in front immediately found a rock and sat down: "Damn it, I'm never coming to this hellhole again!"

"Our luck was truly terrible this time; we were almost targeted by five fierce Gui!"

The other corpse-driving craftsman also had lingering fears, a look of retrospective terror appearing on his dead-like face.

"It's a good thing this Corpse-Yin Art worked, otherwise we would all be finished!"

"......"

Following their arrival, several corpse-driving craftsmen walked out from within Black Stone Mountain, though these few appeared to be much stronger.

"Why are you late this trip?"

One of them looked at the newly arrived corpses in front of him and asked the two casually.

"Alas, I beg Lord Jiang to investigate clearly. We took a long detour this trip, and even then, we were almost targeted by Gui!"

The two corpse-driving craftsmen immediately began to pour out their grievances, nearly weeping and wailing as they complained.

"Enough! You weren't followed by anything on your way here, were you?"

However, the leader was clearly unmoved; he waved his hand to have the corpses taken away, then stared at the two and asked directly.

"No! Absolutely not! The two of us specifically took a detour through the Soul-Bewildering Array; those Gui couldn't tell which way to go!"

But no sooner had his words finished than a violent tremor suddenly erupted from outside Black Stone Mountain.

Immediately, over a thousand soldiers clad in black armor were seen destroying the Soul-Bewildering Array he had mentioned with incomparably tyrannical force.

"Hahaha, we've struck it rich! Struck it rich! I never expected to actually find Black Stone Mountain!"

A voice of immense surprise followed, but the expressions of the corpse-driving craftsmen present instantly turned exceptionally cold.

"Who goes there! This is the territory of the Jiang family of Xiangzhou. Do you dare to ruin my Soul-Bewildering Array because you want to make an enemy of the Jiang family?"

That Lord Jiang stepped out, and at the same time, eight strong corpses with a black-iron color appeared beside him, guarding him in the center like stars surrounding the moon.

"Hehe, the Jiang family of Xiangzhou, it's exactly you lot I'm looking for!"

"General, he is the third son of the Jiang family, Jiang Henian. Once we take him, this black jade mine will be ours!"

Seeing Jiang Henian step out, Lu Daoguang's eyes instantly lit up, and he then spoke loudly and obsequiously to the paper figure general beside him.

"It's you! Lu the Second, you dirt-rat, you are courting death!"

Jiang Henian recognized Lu Daoguang's identity at this moment and was furious; he immediately commanded the two iron corpses to rush over and capture him.

"Clang~ Clang-clang-clang~"

"Puchi~ Thud~"

However, the next moment, several heavy-armored paper figures struck instantly, their battle blades colliding directly with the two iron corpses.

After a few moves, these two iron corpses were slashed apart on the spot, a scene that left the several corpse-driving craftsmen inside Black Stone Mountain dumbfounded.

Those were iron corpses! Not only were they immensely strong, but they were also impervious to blades and spears, and they were tireless; their strength was comparable to a real person!

Now, they were just chopped into pieces by a few small pawns of the opponent like cutting melons and vegetables...

After the heavy-armored paper figures slashed the iron corpses, Jiang Henian was also stunned. Previously, relying on the iron corpses in his hands, he was simply an invincible existence among his peers, but now his trump card seemed to have become a joke.

The next moment, before he could even react, the general wearing mighty armor had already stepped forward and arrived before him in an instant.