Chapter 576

"Swish swish~ Crack!"

The hundreds of tiny poisonous insects, comparable to mosquitoes, flew at an extreme speed. In the blink of an eye, these insects enveloped the Zhiren Xiaowei and began to burrow into his body to gnaw away.

"Hehe, it's your bad luck to encounter my Tanshi Gui-eating insects. Regardless of whether you are a puppet or a Daobing, this Daoist will eat you clean!"

Seeing those poisonous insects successfully burrow into the Zhiren Xiaowei's body, the dwarf old Daoist let out a strange laugh. His method of cultivating and driving poisonous creatures could be said to be exceptionally vicious; an ordinary Guidao Xiushi would be caught immediately if they were the slightest bit careless!

"Hmph! Die!"

However, just like before, the Zhiren Xiaowei did not care about the poisonous insects on his body at all and once again raised his blade to kill the dwarf old Daoist.

After all, the Zhiren Xiaowei had no flesh or blood to begin with, and facing the invasion of the poisonous insects, the power of the Tanshi Gui within him also began to take effect.

The black ink marks covering the Zhiren Xiaowei turned directly into tiny evil ghosts, beginning to devour those poisonous insects in return.

At the same time, the Zhiren Xiaowei reached the dwarf old Daoist. This time, however, the various Guiyi powers on his body were released without reservation; surging ghost fire burned around him, invisible black mist shifted constantly, and deadly threads spread wildly.

These various attacks caused the previously self-satisfied dwarf old Daoist to scramble in a panic. He hopped left and right, looking exceptionally comical, while a large number of strange poisonous creatures continuously displayed various terrifying abilities.

This point alone showed that the dwarf old Daoist's strength was relatively strong; otherwise, the Zhiren Xiaowei would not have been unable to take him down.

"Waa waa waa!"

"You've infuriated this Daoist!"

"Why haven't you been bitten to death yet!"

"My Tanshi Gui-eating insects!"

"..."

However, the other party was clearly not having an easy time either. A large number of his poisonous creatures were directly shredded by the Zhiren Xiaowei, and those Tanshi Gui-eating insects were also swallowed by the power of the Tanshi Gui.

In the end, he could only flee and defend in a wretched state under the Zhiren Xiaowei's attacks. However, at this moment, a hand as if made of steel suddenly reached over from behind. The moment the dwarf old Daoist saw that hand, his mind went blank.

"Spare me! My lord, spare me!"

He shouted almost instinctively, but that large hand did not care about that at all, directly slapping him onto the ground as if swatting a mosquito.

"This subordinate failed to handle the task well; I hope the General will punish me!"

The Zhiren Xiaowei, who had been attacking, immediately knelt on one knee to plead guilty to the slowly appearing Zhiren General. His reason for pleading guilty was that it had taken so long to deal with such a Guidao Xiushi.

"This person has special abilities; it is not strange that you wanted to capture him alive. However, let this be the last time!"

Facing the Zhiren Xiaowei's plea, the Zhiren General did not say much, but directly waved his hand to have the surrounding Zhiren soldiers take all the people away.

A moment later, this army of Zhiren appeared before Lin Feng, and the dwarf old Daoist was forcibly woken up.

At this time, surrounded by a dozen Zhiren Generals and watched by the exceptionally fierce-looking Heizhu, the dwarf old Daoist no longer had his previous aura, shrinking into a ball and becoming a living quail.

"Reporting to the Venerable Master, all the arrivals have been captured. This subordinate is currently interrogating those mortals, and since I saw this person is skilled in driving poisonous creatures, I brought him here."

Then, the Zhiren General came to Lin Feng, cupped his fists, and said this.

"Hmm."

Lin Feng nodded slightly, then cast his gaze upon the dwarf old Daoist.

Driving Guiyi creatures was not a rare method; at the very least, there was a heritage of Gui beast masters in the Rengian world, and through this heritage, one could tame Gui beasts similar to the Gui-faced owl or Gui wolf beast.

However, the fact that the other party could cultivate various poisonous insects was indeed somewhat different, and his heritage could be considered to have some value to Lin Feng.

"Hand over your heritage, and you may be spared from death!"

Lin Feng then spoke directly to ask the other party. According to the intelligence he had gathered, this dwarf old Daoist was also a Guidao Xiushi who had come to Zhao Guo in recent days.

However, his background was nothing special; in any case, it was not a top-tier sect, and it was not worth Lin Feng remembering.

"Yes, yes, yes! This old Daoist will present it immediately!"

"This is the Beast-Taming Scripture..."

Hearing Lin Feng say this, the dwarf old Daoist no longer cared about the prohibition against leaking sect heritage. He immediately crawled up from the ground and tremblingly took out a piece of leather that was dark green in color.

Needless to say, this contained some secret methods for cultivating Guidao poisonous creatures. At the same time, the old Daoist was afraid that Lin Feng would go back on his word, so he even took the initiative to explain some of his own insights.

Lin Feng had the Shuangzi Gui beside him take the item, while as for the other content, he had someone record it; at this stage, he had no interest in studying these things himself.

Seeing that the other party was sensible enough, Lin Feng did not want to kill him; a living person was ultimately more useful than a dead one.

"Not bad, you are sensible."

"Since that is the case, I will give you a chance. From now on, serve me; you can be a member of the vanguard army. If you can perform meritorious service, you will naturally be able to regain your freedom."

Lin Feng did not say what the price of betrayal was, but the other party clearly already understood.

The dwarf old Daoist immediately knelt and kowtowed, shouting loudly about his benevolence, after which Lin Feng found him annoying and had him dragged away.

"This person is assigned to your command. If he dares to have any ulterior motives, just execute him; no need to report to me!"

Finally, Lin Feng gave instructions to a Zhiren General beside him, then had someone take out a map to begin preparing for the next move.

Now that Zhao Guo had arranged for personnel to come over, regardless of their reasons, it was clear that the loss of contact with this group would attract even more people.

Lin Feng did not care about this, but rather than letting others come to his door, it was better for him to strike first.

"Within the next three days, I want you to take the provincial capital. Announce to the outside world that this place was the territory of the Spirit-Controlling King thousands of years ago, and now that the Spirit-Controlling King has awakened from thousands of years of silence, he will reclaim his former territory!"

"For those cities, if they surrender, they can be spared from slaughter, and various officials and wealthy gentry can retain their property. But if they dare to resist, when the city falls, all officials, powerful gentry, and Guidao Xiushi will be executed without exception, and all property will be confiscated!"

Lin Feng pointed his finger at the area of the provincial capital on the map and then spoke to the Zhiren Xiaowei beside him.

In the history of the land of Zhao Guo, there indeed existed a figure named the Spirit-Controlling King, and he might even have been a Guidao Xiushi with decent strength. It was just that back then, for the sake of immortality and becoming stronger, that guy began to build underground mausoleums on a massive scale, which led to a large-scale rebellion.

In the end, that Spirit-Controlling King also went missing in the flames of war. Some rumors said he had hidden in the underground mausoleums, while others said he was already dead.

In short, there were all kinds of ethereal legends, but for Lin Feng, he only needed to borrow the other party's name as a basis to launch an attack on the entire Zhao Guo!

"As you command!"

As Lin Feng's words fell, the Zhiren Generals under his command immediately took orders. Subsequently, the Zhiren army began to assemble and split into several routes to march toward various directions of the Chishi County city!