Chapter 438: Crisis

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Baihua Restaurant.

Baihua Restaurant was located on the west side of Hanshui City and was one of the top twenty large restaurants in Hanshui City. The restaurant was most famous for its more than 150 kinds of seasonal fresh flowers, and because of the different seasons, the taste of the Baihua wine was different in each season.

Qiu Jinan stepped into the Baihua Restaurant. The Baihua Restaurant was overcrowded and bustling, the noise so loud it was as if it were about to flip the restaurant over. The waiter was as busy as a small spinning top, constantly going back and forth between the lobby and the back kitchen.

Qiu Jinan finally found an empty seat in the corner.

"Excuse me, is anyone sitting here?"

Sitting opposite him was a diner with a round belly. He was eating happily, his forehead covered in sweat.

The diner looked up at Qiu Jinan, his face unfamiliar: "No one, sit."

"Didn't expect it. It's not even mealtime yet, and there are so many people coming to eat." Qiu Jinan chatted with the diner while waiting for the waiter to come over.

The diner was not good at talking and focused on eating, responding to Qiu Jinan in a disjointed manner.

The waiter brought the menu over. Qiu Jinan flipped through it casually and returned the menu to the waiter: "A bowl of rice, five signature dishes, five of the most expensive dishes, and a pot of hundred-year-old Baihua wine."

"Alright, guest, please wait a moment."

Qiu Jinan didn't wait too long. A bowl of rice, ten delicious dishes with color, fragrance, and taste were placed on the table, along with a pot of mellow hundred-year-old Baihua wine, making the diner opposite him drool.

"Guest, if you have nothing else, I will take my leave."

The waiter was about to greet other guests when he was stopped by Qiu Jinan: "Waiter, I am a living person. How can I eat dead people's things?"

The waiter looked blank, not knowing what Qiu Jinan was talking about.

Qiu Jinan snapped his fingers, and slight cracking sounds rang out one after another, as if someone had stepped on a lake that had just frozen, the ice breaking and revealing the true appearance of the lake.

Looking at the lobby again, where was there any prosperous restaurant or bustling guests?

The guests were hanging their heads, with one-meter-tall little people riding on their necks, dancing and gesturing.

The fat diner sitting opposite Qiu Jinan had an exaggeratedly large belly, the whole person looking like a ball.

The waiter was as thin as a stick, weak and unable to withstand the wind, and a gust of wind could blow him away.

What was placed in front of Qiu Jinan was not delicious food, but maggots and raw meat, still squirming in the plate.

Only the white rice had not changed, except that three chopsticks were inserted into the white rice.

Qiu Jinan's smile grew wider: "Two Ghost Kings, a Bloated Ghost, a Starved Ghost, and some small miscellaneous soldiers under them. With this lineup, you still want to deal with me?"

The fat diner and the waiter no longer disguised themselves, revealing eerie smiles on their faces.

A little person silently rode on Qiu Jinan's neck...

Corpse-Driving Sect.

Four cultivators in simple clothing appeared together in front of the Corpse-Driving Sect. They ignored the alert disciples, seized the time to act separately, and headed to four locations in the Yin Corpse Mountain Range.

Boom—

Boom—

Boom—

Boom—

Fierce battles erupted in four places simultaneously.

"Damn it, that scoundrel Huang Ming secretly found out our location!" Elder Gai was furious. They hadn't even started to search the Corpse-Driving Sect before they were attacked.

The four Corpse-Driving Sect elders were caught off guard, but fortunately, they reacted quickly and summoned all their living corpses.

One of the simple-looking cultivators sneered: "Heh, just a sect that accidentally obtained our inheritance, and you dare to dream of opposing us?"

"You are people from the Wushi Sect!" Elder Gai saw the clothes of these cultivators and heard them say this, his pupils shrinking.

Their Corpse-Driving Sect started from a stroke of luck. The founder of the Corpse-Driving Sect accidentally broke into a secret realm, avoided three fatal crises, and obtained an inheritance—a complete corpse-driving technique.

And this inheritance came from a sect in the Great Yu Dynasty called the Wushi Sect. According to Great Xia's classification of the Wushi Sect, the Wushi Sect belonged to a super-grade sect, with a Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivator sitting in town.

The Wushi Sect was destroyed in the wars of conquest at the beginning of the founding of the Great Xia, leaving behind only a legacy that was obtained by the founder of the Ganshi Sect.

The ancient cultivator rubbed his ring, and one after another, sealed living corpses broke their seals, carrying antiquity and deathly aura, crossing over more than one hundred thousand years of history to wage war against their descendants.

Four, eight, sixteen, twenty... a full twenty living corpses appeared, besieging Elder Gai and the others!

"Then let us elders see how much skill you juniors have learned."

A majestic figure stood in the sky above Hanshui City, directly above the Governor's mansion.

This person walked with a tiger's stride and a dragon's gait, as if a born emperor; every gesture revealed dominance and ferocity.

His presence was too strong; everyone in the entire Hanshui City couldn't help but look up at the sky, and seeing that majestic man who could rival the sun, a sense of panic inexplicably rose in their hearts.

"After preparing for so long, the plan was leaked after all. Huang Ming and Meng Tian, these two pieces of trash who fail more than they succeed!"

Murderous intent flowed in the eyes of the emperor-like figure; had he not been unable to contact the two, he would not have come out early.

A little later, just a little later, once the activation conditions for the grand array were completed, the plan would have been seamless.

"Oh well, where in the world is there a perfect plan."

"The Heavenly Disaster Venerable failed and was trapped in Qingzhou; it is said that a sudden expert captured him."

"In these days, I have already investigated Hanshui City; there is no one in the city who poses a threat to me."

"To be safe, I shall establish a rule here: within one day, no information can be transmitted out of Hanshui City."

Adding a time limit can make the execution of the rule stronger.

Lu Yang looked up, watching the emperor-like figure flying in the sky, his head aching.

At the first moment the Decayed Fairy reminded him, he tried to call for his Senior Sister, but unfortunately, he was a step too late. This place had been subjected to a rule established by the emperor figure; his Shape-Mimicry Fist could not borrow power from his Senior Sister, and thus his Senior Sister could not know the situation here.

"Logically speaking, isn't this thing called the Tribulation Transcendence stage very rare? How come I can run into one everywhere? Governor Lu even said this place was the safest; why do I feel like this place is the most dangerous?"

"Perhaps it's because my status as the Young Sect Master is too high, and they are all rushing to see me."

"Hey, you said you're already the Young Sect Master; should I also mix in a position at the Heavenly Court Sect?"

"How about you be the lackey of the Young Sect Master?"

"Get lost."

Old Ma felt the aura of Tribulation Transcendence coming from the air and wondered if it should retire?

Meng Jingzhou's father entrusted it to be Meng Jingzhou's Dao Protector; it felt this matter was quite simple and agreed in one breath.

Recalling the beginning of taking Yun Zhi to the Congwendao Sect, to resurrecting the Decayed Fairy at the Yanjiang Branch, encountering an ancient Tribulation Transcendence stage in Qingzhou, and now encountering an ancient Tribulation Transcendence stage in Huangzhou.

It felt it had been too arrogant.

Man Gu had always had great confidence in Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou; with two Senior Brothers present, nothing would go wrong, so it appeared very calm.

Zhao Po was the most panicked among the four; he had just encountered the Dayu Body Integration stage expert, True Lord Meng Tian, in the morning, and in the afternoon, he encountered a Dayu Tribulation Transcendence stage expert.

What kind of luck was this?

He felt his luck had been very bad lately; when did it start getting bad?

(End of chapter)