Chapter 163: Underworld Operation

The next day, Lu Daoguang and the others from the Underworld, having rested for the night, were now fully prepared to set out.

"Lord Lu, can I choose not to go?"

However, Jiang Henian was feeling a bit cowardly at this moment; he was still somewhat unwilling to face the people of his own clan.

"You can! Of course you can!"

"If you don't want to go, that's fine, as long as those generals agree, there's no problem!"

But Lu Daoguang would not let him escape so easily, pointing with a mocking smile toward the army of paper figures behind him.

"Th-that, never mind then!"

Jiang Henian glanced at the paper figure generals behind him, and as the memories from yesterday resurfaced, he immediately shook his head.

Although he had not been in contact with these soldiers for long, he already understood that they were all puppets of that Lord!

What is a puppet?

It is a dead object that has no emotions, knows no pain, and only knows how to complete its mission!

Trying to negotiate or plead with these puppets was one hundred percent useless; as a corpse-driving craftsman, he was all too familiar with such things.

"Then what are you waiting for? Lead the way in front! Hurry up!"

Seeing him shake his head, Lu Daoguang's expression changed instantly as he spoke to him like this.

"Yes, yes, yes, I'll lead!"

Hearing Lu Daoguang's coercion, Jiang Henian gritted his teeth and agreed; as the saying goes, when one is under the eaves, one must bow their head.

If he continued to dawdle like this, he feared those generals would come over personally to make him lead the way.

After leaving the military camp, Jiang Henian identified the direction and pointed it out to the paper figure general.

Lu Daoguang also observed the location; after all, he had already asked Jiang Henian for the whereabouts of that dark gold yesterday.

Even if he went to find it himself now, he could find it, it would just take a bit more time.

The reason he was pressuring Jiang Henian so much now was to make the other party turn against his own side more thoroughly, otherwise, it would be troublesome if he pulled some petty tricks of outward compliance but inward defiance later.

"Flap~ flap~"

Then, the paper eagles spread their wings, and the scout paper figures began to scout the path ahead.

"Rumble~"

The army of paper figures rode their warhorses and began to advance into the distance with the two of them; now that they knew the specific direction, there was naturally no need to wander around aimlessly like yesterday.

After leaving the military camp, the speed of the paper figure army became faster, and because there were scout paper figures in the sky to scout the path, the vast majority of dangerous areas and anomalies could be avoided in advance.

"Whoosh~"

However, just as the paper figure army arrived at the foot of a certain mountain of white bones, a strong, ghostly wind blew past.

Darkness descended in an instant, and Jiang Henian and Lu Daoguang both felt as if they had fallen into an incomparably dark cavern.

"Boom~"

The next moment, the paper figure army took action, and thousands of heavy-armored paper figures charged directly toward a fierce anomaly that had suddenly appeared.

The fierce anomaly that suddenly appeared looked like a dwarf, covering its eyes with both hands; anyone who approached this fierce anomaly would immediately lose their vision, and even their hearing and sense of smell would be greatly affected.

But normal senses were not very important to the paper figures; they would only mechanically complete their orders.

As the paper figure general took action, a terrifying prison filled with various torture instruments appeared instantly in the darkness.

This prison was exceptionally vast, everyone inside was like an ant, and the surrounding bars were like giant pillars.

The torture instruments in the prison looked rusty and revealed a sense of decay, but their power was quite extraordinary.

Ancient shackles forcibly fell onto this fierce anomaly, causing the fierce anomaly, which could otherwise have wantonly destroyed the heavy-armored paper figures, to pause instantly.

Then, several rusty chains appeared out of thin air and began to wrap around the fierce anomaly, directly pinning its limbs and head in a spread-eagle shape.

"Wah~ wah~"

After the chains pulled away the hands it had originally used to cover its eyes, the terrifying and twisted face of this anomaly was immediately revealed.

On the face of this anomaly, a ferocious word "Death" seemed to have been carved by some sharp weapon.

This "Death" was still bleeding, the flesh on its face was turned outward, and the eye sockets, having been gouged out alive, were filled with terrifying power.

Anyone who saw this face would involuntarily begin to reach out and claw at their own face.

Lu Daoguang and Jiang Henian were the same at this moment; although they tried their best to control their hands, their fingers were getting closer and closer to their own eyes.

Fortunately, at this moment, a giant guillotine appeared out of thin air, and as this guillotine fell toward the trapped fierce anomaly below, the fierce anomaly was instantly chopped in two, and the strange power it was emitting was also forcibly severed.

"Hoo~ hoo~"

"Damn it, I was almost blinded by myself!"

Having suddenly broken free, Lu Daoguang immediately gasped for air; the power of the fierce anomaly was truly terrifying.

Just a moment ago, he had already been running outward with Jiang Henian, but he had uncontrollably looked back, and then his whole person lost control.

"Click, click, click"

As the heavy-armored paper figures began to clear the battlefield and suppress the fierce anomaly, the place soon returned to its original state.

"Let's go, let's go, lead the way quickly!"

"Alright! Right away!"

Having recovered, Lu Daoguang immediately signaled Jiang Henian to leave this place, and then the paper figure army set off again.

Soon, a valley appeared before them; it was much like Black Stone Mountain, with the smoke of incense filled with a foul, rotting odor everywhere.

"This is the place; may I go over and try to persuade them?"

Looking at the valley before him, Jiang Henian's expression was somewhat stiff, but he still said this to Lu Daoguang beside him.

"Can you persuade them?"

Lu Daoguang looked at him sideways and asked in return.

"Th-this... perhaps they will be willing to defect once they hear of that Lord's strength?"

Jiang Henian still wanted to struggle a bit more, because he knew that the person guarding this place was an elder of the clan, and the other party possessed a Golden Corpse comparable to a Fierce Ghost.

However, he had just seen with his own eyes the army of paper figures beside him directly suppress a Fierce Ghost; if a fight were to break out, that Golden Corpse would likely not be saved either.

Losing a Golden Corpse would be a heavy loss that the Jiang Clan could hardly bear, so it would naturally be best if it could be preserved.

"Hehe, don't blame me for not warning you, this Dark Gold Mine already belongs to my lord!"

"Regardless of whether you can persuade them or not, this place isn't going anywhere!"

Lu Daoguang did not know what scheme he was planning, but it would naturally be best if he could take this Dark Gold Mine directly.

"Yes, this subordinate understands!"

Hearing him say this, Jiang Henian breathed a slight sigh of relief, then went directly to the outside of this valley and shouted loudly: "Third Great-Aunt, your nephew Jiang Henian has arrived!"

As his voice spread, some Corpse-Driving Artisans and corpses soon walked out of the valley shrouded in thick smoke.

"Old Three? Why are you running here instead of staying at Black Stone Mountain?"

"Who are they?"

"This is the clan's top-secret mine, how dare you bring outsiders here!?"

"..."

Seeing Jiang Henian and the army of paper figures behind him, these Corpse-Driving Artisans' expressions changed instantly.

Even if they did not know exactly what had happened, they were clear that the other party was definitely here with ill intent.

Hearing the scolding from other clansmen in his ears, Jiang Henian's face flushed, but he still bit the bullet and continued to shout: "Third Great-Aunt, listen to me, these troops belong to a great figure!"

"Do you see the general behind me? He is a true Supreme Human expert! On the way here, he suppressed a Fierce Ghost with a casual wave of his hand!"

"That great figure has many more generals like this one under his command, and there are also tens of thousands of soldiers with strength comparable to True Human experts; we have no way of winning at all!"