358: Chapter 156 Debts of Sin Must Be Repaid_5 358: Chapter 156 Debts of Sin Must Be Repaid_5 Jue Ying fell silent for a moment, then frowned slightly and said, “I need to go into the mountains to find those Corpse Generals from the coffins.”
Lan Pili, puzzled, asked, “Find them?
What do you want them for?”
“I want to ask them about the situation here.”
“Ask them?” Lan Pili couldn’t understand Jue Ying’s thoughts at all and said, “How could they possibly tell us?
Even if they do speak, they will definitely lie.
What’s the point of asking them?”
“I know they will lie, but we can still deduce something from their words, even if they are lies.
Otherwise, we are always reactive.
If they could slaughter a town last night, what if they intend to slaughter another town tonight?
Are we just going to watch them kill off one town after another?
By seeking them out, at least we’d have the chance to analyze the possible movements of the four Corpse Generals.”
“Analyze?
What were you doing earlier?
Now you want to remedy the situation.” Lan Pili, glancing at the town devoid of any sign of life, spoke somewhat irritably, “If you hadn’t released those four Corpse Generals, this wouldn’t have happened.”
For a moment, Jue Ying was at a loss for words under the questioning.
Lan Pili was right, he was indeed the cause of all this.
“Enough, blaming each other is pointless,” said Cao Zhen, looking at the two of them, “As of now, we should focus on figuring out what to do.”
“Let’s still go ask, asking will at least give us a chance to deduce something.” Jue Ying was still intent on asking.
After contemplating for a moment, Cao Zhen and Lan Pili also took off flying, as no better plan seemed available.
No sooner had they taken flight than they spotted a figure swaying towards them from a distance, well before they reached the mountain range where a hundred coffins were guarded.
“How could there be someone in such a secluded place, and his clothes, that’s a constable.
Something’s not right with him.”
Jue Ying’s figure flickered and he instantly flew ahead to meet the approaching figure.
The man was clad in the tattered garb of a constable, his original appearance nearly indiscernible.
His face and body were covered with slashes, and a trail of fresh, crimson blood dripped continuously from his wounds, signaling his extreme weakness.
Seeing someone land in front of him, the feeble light in his almost shut eyes flared, and using his slightly bent long sword as support against the ground, he cried out to them, “Sirs, hurry, go to our Linquan Town.
Last night, our town was bloodbathed by a group of Zombie Soldiers, only I, I alone managed to escape.”
After speaking, he collapsed to the ground with a thud, having drawn his final breath.
In that instant, it was his last burst of returning light before death.
“Another town…” Lan Pili, looking at the fallen constable, turned to the others and said, “Now we know of two towns that have been bloodbathed.
In each, there must have been two Corpse Generals in charge, but in total there are four Corpse Generals, so where are the other two?
“What have they done?
Could they too have bloodbathed another two towns?”
Jue Ying immediately caught on and said to the others, “Precious Spring Town and Linquan Town are not far apart.
Wait a moment.”
As he spoke, he took a blank scroll from his bosom, a scroll without any text or drawings.
The next moment, mana surged from within him.
With a wave of his hand, clods of earth rose into the air, which he then casually infused into the scroll.
Suddenly, on the scroll, images of mountain ranges began to emerge, then he reached out towards the distance, collected a droplet of water, and once again inserted it into the scroll, revealing rivers.
Jue Ying continuously cast Dharma Seals at the scroll.
In just a short while, the scroll turned into an exquisitely detailed sand table, displaying mountains, rivers, lakes…
with all features revealing themselves.
“This place…” Cao Zhen pointed at the sand table and said, “This mountain, and this river, this area forms a natural geomantic Formation.”
“A geomantic Formation?”
Jue Ying and Lan Pili, utterly confused, turned to Cao Zhen and asked, “How come we didn’t notice it?”
“It’s normal for you not to notice since not all Cultivators are skilled in geomancy or Formations.”
Cao Zhen pointed and said, “Look here, the mountains being embraced like a jade belt, Fortune Star shining down.
The rivers or roads surrounding this Formation are curved as if around the waist of a high official, intertwined affectionately with the houses and mansions.
Therefore, those who dwell here are bound to be rich or noble,
If it’s a Formation, then the town’s residents will have smooth financial luck and will find it easy to accumulate wealth.”
Lan Pili and Jue Ying grew even more puzzled: “According to that, this place is extremely auspicious, so how could…”
“This location is indeed an excellent geomantic Formation, but if a few people in the Formation die, it will generate evil energy, and if the Formation remains uninhabited, it will not be auspicious but instead become ominous!
In such a case, this locale being isolated, with the Dragon Deity not gathering, surrounded on all sides and buffeted by eight winds, the Dragon Deity unsettled…
and once the nearby townspeople are nearly all killed, say around five towns’ worth of people, then this formation will become extremely ominous!”
Hearing this, Lan Pili and Jue Ying also quickly grasped the reality: originally a geomantic auspice and natural Formation, it would turn ominous upon the death of people, and if left uninhabited afterward, it would become a dire Formation!