Chapter 50: Night Talk
"What?" Although Lin Chen had been prepared for all the strange things of the Wang family, Mu Xiaochuan's words still surprised him. The so-called place of zombie cultivation is, to put it bluntly, a place to breed zombies.
Raising zombies originally belonged to the ghost path, and it was not unusual. However, most of the people who are stiff are skinny, and their demeanor and appearance are also a little more evil. Just like the thin old man Lin Chen met before, he was not like that originally. It's just that the day after tomorrow due to the cultivation of the ghost path, the aura on his body has also changed, and his appearance has also changed greatly.
However, the appearance of the people of the Wang family is not special, and even the skin color is better than that of ordinary people, so you know why.
"Yes, it's the place to raise stiffness" Mu Xiaochuan turned his head to look at Lin Chen, put down the teacup in his hand, shook his head and continued, "This Wang family looks no different from other immortal cultivators on the surface, but in fact, where they really are, but here" Mu Xiaochuan said and stomped his feet.
"Underground, so that's the case" Lin Chen suddenly realized, it turned out that the real location of the Wang family was underground, no wonder the plants here were more lush than other places. This also explains why when Lin Chen used the Spirit Eye Technique to observe these trees, he would find a trace of gray gas, it turned out that these gray gases were not owned by plants, but came out of the ground.
"Well, it's underground," Mu Xiaochuan hummed incommittably, and then said, "It wouldn't be surprising if the Wang family simply cultivated zombies. After all, you and I are only the tip of the iceberg in the cultivation realm, and only I know that there are as many as five big cities like Tiger City, and there are countless other small cities."
"Oh, you mean there's something weird in this?" In fact, Lin Chen vaguely felt that this Wang family was by no means as simple as raising zombies, otherwise Mu Xiaochuan would not be so nervous. However, after all, Lin Chen was new to this place, and many of them were his own inferences, so it was okay not to say anything.
"I don't know if Brother Chen knows about being stiff?" Mu Xiaochuan turned to stare at Lin Chen, and this sentence popped out of his mouth word by word.
"Alive, do you mean us" Lin Chen's body took two steps back, not that he was pushed by someone, but that Mu Xiaochuan's news was too shocking.
You must know that zombies have existed since ancient times, whether it is flying zombies, drought fish, or even corpse puppets that were separated later, they are all a kind of zombies. No matter what kind of zombie it is, there is a common characteristic, that is, dead things, of course, zombies are not counted as cultivating the day after tomorrow to open their spiritual wisdom again, and this type of zombie is collectively called dead zombie. Even when Zhu Lanlan was refined into a blood corpse that day, it was only a coincidence that she retained a trace of consciousness, and it could not be regarded as alive. And this sanity will quickly dissipate over time, until it finally becomes a walking corpse completely.
But I didn't know that the senior master actually found another way and opened up a way to live a stiff way. The so-called living zombie is actually to turn the living into zombies, this kind of zombie not only has its own thinking, but also can cultivate on its own, whether it is a zombie of a higher level or a combat power, it is far more than a dead zombie.
You must know that although it is theoretically possible to open the spiritual intelligence when you advance to a higher level the day after tomorrow, and the spiritual intelligence is not lower than that of ordinary people. However, not to mention that it is extremely difficult to open the spiritual wisdom after death, the consumption alone is not something that ordinary people can afford.
However, the living zombie is different, not only can it be cultivated on its own, but its own spiritual wisdom has been preserved. Even some of the zombies can use some simple magic weapons. If two monks fight, and one of them suddenly releases a live zombie, it is tantamount to an extra helper out of thin air, a helper who knows how to fight without manipulation. And the strength of this helper is still very strong, and this Nima still doesn't let people live.
However, due to the need to use human sacrifices to refine the dead, the methods were too cruel. The other sects in the cultivation realm were also very fearful, so the senior master who had opened up the living zombie was finally besieged and killed by more than a dozen masters, and the refining method of the living zombie was also destroyed in public. But even with one block of ten, in the end, the man still killed three people and severely injured two people, which shows how terrifying this zombie is.
It's just that I don't know where the Wang family learned about this evil method of refining living people into zombies, and they have been operating here for an unknown number of years.
"Brother Hey Chen, why do you think their Wang family treats us loose cultivators so kindly, do you think they really have such good intentions?" Mu Xiaochuan's reaction to Lin Chen seemed to have been expected, and when he first learned the news, his reaction was not much better than Lin Chen's.
"So that's the case, no wonder the Wang family cares so much about our loose cultivators, it turns out that they want to use us to refine the living stiffness, then all of this makes sense!" After all, Lin Chen has been trained since he was a child, although this news is indeed amazing, but it is only a momentary gaffe, and he quickly calmed down. At this time, listening to Mu Xiaochuan say this, the problem that had plagued Lin Chen for a long time was finally completely explained.
When Lin Chen was following Mu Xiaochuan in Tiger City, he wondered that he was obviously only the strength of the middle of the Kaiyuan Dynasty. The strength of the four men in black is comparable to their own, and there is no reason why the four of them have not discovered themselves. At that time, if they were all alive and unable to release their divine sense to investigate like normal monks, all this seemed reasonable.
There is also Wang Wanfu's clothes, which are nothing special at first glance, just the copper coin coat often worn by secular shopkeepers. But in retrospect, the clothes on Wang Wanfu's body are no different from the shrouds in the world.
Besides, the so-called living room is colored in red ochre, and there is no gold and jade in the hall, gold and jade have been used to ward off ghosts and suppress evil since ancient times, but a Xiuzhen family in the Wang family only took some wood carvings to decorate, and those wood carvings Lin Chen looked at carefully, just some ordinary carvings, and there was nothing precious. Lin Chen originally just thought that the Wang family wanted to show simplicity in this way, but now that he thinks about it, I'm afraid this is not the case.
The last is the cup of tea, Wang Wanfu said that it is the Huaiyu tea leaves in the back mountain. Locust trees and elm trees have mostly been hidden by evil things since ancient times, and the leaves of locust elm are inevitably contaminated with a little yin qi. No wonder Wang Xiaoya and Wang Wanfu persuaded themselves to drink tea at that time, it turned out to be like this.
As soon as he thought of this, Lin Chen didn't feel a cold sweat, and reached out to wipe the beads of sweat that rolled down both sides at some point. Fortunately, as soon as he entered the Wang family, he found the strangeness in it, and he was cautious and did not get into the way.
"Komaki, I still have something unclear, please tell me the truth."
"You say!" Mu Xiaochuan nodded, it seemed that Lin Chen was not a stupid person. He just broke a layer of window paper a little, and Lin Chen was able to figure out the weirdness in it, and it was really reassuring to cooperate with such a person. In fact, Mu Xiaochuan also saw that Lin Chen was an old acquaintance, and his strength was much higher than his own, and he was cautious, so he did not follow the way of the Wang family for the time being, so he and Pan Tuo wanted to escape with Lin Chen.
"Since the Wang family has been entrenched for many years again, and it is deeply rooted, the strength is naturally not something that you and I can shake at will. If they really need a source of survival, they can forcibly take you and me in, and they don't have to go to such great lengths" The only thing Lin Chen doesn't understand now is why the Wang family is so desperate to deceive their trust? If it is really as Mu Xiaochuan said, then the Wang family can secretly and directly attack. Why bother?
"I was also puzzled by this question at the beginning, and it wasn't until that day that I was blocked by Wang Xiaoya and them in Huju City that I understood the reason" Mu Xiaochuan took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and said for a long time, his mouth was a little dry.
Lin Chen was not in a hurry, so he sat quietly like this, waiting for Mu Xiaochuan's next words. Sure enough, Mu Xiaochuan, who had finished drinking the tea, opened his mouth and continued
"Although the Wang family's refining is alive and stiff, it is possible to forcibly take away some loose cultivators, but after all, this place is not far from Huju City, and if they go too far, it will inevitably attract the attention of others. Moreover, one of the most important things in refining is that the person being refined must be willing, otherwise even if the refining is successful later, it will become a living zombie with resentment. Such a stiffness could devour the Lord at any time!"
"Willingly? Who would be stupid enough to be made into a zombie by someone voluntarily!" Lin Chen looked a little unconvinced, he didn't blame him for this, after all, this kind of thing was impossible to think about.
Mu Xiaochuan was not angry, but patiently explained, "What I mean by willingness is that you must not have a trace of disgust with the Wang family until you completely lose your sense of self."
"What you mean is that the Wang family is actually cultivating these living bodies, and when the time is ripe, the person who comes will naturally lose their sense of self at some point and become a living corpse. Then the Wang family will use this corpse to refine and control it?" Lin Chen was secretly surprised, the cultivation realm was really capable of producing people, and there were no surprises! I don't know how the senior who opened up the stiffness came up with it at the beginning, the key is that he succeeded.
"Yes, that's it!" Mu Xiaochuan said lightly with certainty.