Chapter 488: Zombie Mining

Lu Chengyun's voice was very light, but Mo Hua still heard it.

Finding people to feed a diagram was not considered a rare thing; back in Row Corpse Village, Zhang Quan had done it.

But Lu Chengyun's smile was too gloomy, which made Mo Hua very suspicious.

If it was just a general killing of people to feed a diagram, for Lu Chengyun, it shouldn't be a big deal; his expression should also be indifferent, not to the extent of showing this kind of expression.

Mo Hua rubbed his little chin.

Find people to feed a diagram?

Who did he want to find?

"Mine cultivators? Corpse cultivators?"

"Zhang Quan, and... me?"

Mo Hua was startled.

Thinking this way, it seemed reasonable.

The evil spirits that jumped into everyone's sea of consciousness all said that their divine sense was a great supplement, most suitable for feeding a visualization diagram.

Perhaps this Lu Chengyun had no good intentions from the start?

Mo Hua pondered in his heart.

Although it was just his own guess, he couldn't afford not to be vigilant...

After Lu Chengyun's divine sense recovered, he drew the Ling Shu Evil Array again at Mao hour, then sealed the bronze coffin, got up, and left.

After Lu Chengyun left, Mo Hua waited for another cup of tea's time, confirming that Lu Chengyun was already far away and wouldn't return in a short time. Then he quietly left the altar and came to the bronze coffin.

The bronze coffin was sealed again.

Mo Hua walked around the coffin, knocked and hit it, but still didn't understand how this coffin opened and closed.

He felt a little regret.

When Lu Chengyun came, he didn't notice how he opened the coffin.

When he left, he also forgot to see how he sealed the coffin.

Now that he couldn't open the bronze coffin, he couldn't figure out the secrets inside.

"Next time, I'll figure it out..."

Mo Hua muttered silently, then also quietly left the Ten Thousand Corpses Altar.

After returning to his room, Mo Hua immediately jumped onto the bed, sat cross-legged in meditation, and sank his divine sense into his sea of consciousness.

Within his sea of consciousness was a patch of virtual white.

Within the virtual white, there was a golden lock array, locking a wisp of green smoke.

It was the thought body left behind after Iron Corpse Elder was blasted and killed.

Mo Hua seized the time, manifested the Melting Fire Array, and roasted this wisp of green smoke little by little, burning it little by little, refining it into pure divine thought, and sucking it into his mouth.

Just like this, he "roasted" and ate it at the same time.

He continued until this wisp of green smoke was completely roasted and swallowed.

Some bloodthirsty, greedy, and evil thoughts surged in Mo Hua's heart.

Mo Hua skillfully meditated, his heart like a bright mirror, without a speck of dust, rejecting and removing these杂念 evil desires one by one.

With the evil thoughts all gone, a surge of pure divine thought surged into Mo Hua's sea of consciousness.

Mo Hua's divine sense was enhanced a bit more.

This bit of enhancement made Mo Hua's divine sense take another step forward at the peak of twelve patterns, infinitely close to thirteen patterns, but still always just a little short...

Mo Hua opened his eyes and sighed.

Divine sense growth was really difficult.

He had "eaten" another Foundation Establishment divine thought, but still couldn't make his divine sense reach thirteen patterns.

Perhaps this Foundation Establishment divine thought was too weak?

Or maybe after being refined once by himself, the remaining divine thought was even less, so he fundamentally "ate" it incompletely?

Mo Hua blinked his eyes.

Perhaps, he had to "eat" Zhang Quan's old ancestor to make his divine sense reach thirteen patterns?

But how to eat it?

Mo Hua's big eyes rolled, and his belly started brewing bad ideas again...

Zhang Quan's ancestor diagram was personally collected by Lu Chengyun and regarded as a treasure, so it wouldn't be easy for him to get his hands on it...

Then he could only think of other ways.

He might want to use me to feed the diagram...

Mo Hua lay on the bed, propping up his little legs, carefully pondering...

While pondering, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't communicated with his little senior sister for a long time.

Some things needed to be said to his little senior sister and little senior brother in advance.

Mo Hua quickly got up, took out a sheet of paper, and spread it on the table.

Then he began to write down some key clues.

For example, Lu Chengyun's relationship in the Lu family.

The transaction between Lu Chengyun and the Lu family old ancestor.

The Lu family old ancestor was refined into a corpse.

Some situations with the Ten Thousand Corpses Array... etc.

Mo Hua put away this paper strip. In the evening, he quietly found the little tiger again, put the paper strip in the little tiger's mouth, and let it crawl outside to deliver the letter to his little senior sister.

The next day, the little tiger crawled back again, holding another paper strip in its mouth.

This paper was white and delicate, with shallow embossed gold patterns; it was commonly used by his little senior sister, and Mo Hua recognized it at a glance.

Having a paper strip transmitted back meant that the little tiger's letter had been delivered.

Mo Hua nodded, opened the paper strip, and wanted to see what his little senior sister had written.

But after opening the paper strip, he found that there were only four simple words on it:

"Not back yet?"

Behind it, she also drew a small face with slightly furrowed brows.

Mo Hua was slightly startled.

He then realized that he had unconsciously stayed in the Corpse Mine for quite a few days.

His little senior sister and little senior brother should be worried about him, so they were a little anxious.

Master and Kui old... should not be anxious.

After all, Master could pinch and calculate, and he probably knew everything he was doing.

He just didn't know how their meals were without him there.

Was there anyone to brew tea for Master, was there anyone to fry pine nuts for Kui old...

And Big White, he didn't know if his little senior brother had given it good fodder.

And Instructor Yan...

Mo Hua thought about it, suddenly missed Master and them a little, and also felt that it was time for him to think of ways to leave the Corpse Mine early.

Moreover, Lu Chengyun was refined and elegant on the surface, but had a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs inside. Although he was polite to him, he probably had no good intentions either.

It was better to get out early and not play with him.

Mo Hua then replied with a paper strip, which said:

"Coming soon!"

Behind it, he drew a small tiger head, looking very much like a tiger.

Mo Hua guided the little tiger with his divine sense to deliver the letter.

Then he began to consider what he should do before going back.

The Ten Thousand Corpses Array, the bronze coffin, the Corpse Mine...

All of these needed to be destroyed, otherwise they would surely leave endless trouble.

The corpse cultivators inside the Corpse Mine who killed people to refine corpses also needed to be eradicated.

And the zombies inside also needed to be properly handled, preferably all burned off, to prevent them from devouring flesh, spreading corpse poison, and poisoning South Yue City...

"But how many zombies are there exactly in this Corpse Mine?"

Mo Hua only knew there were many, but how many specifically, he really couldn't count.

The stone hall, including the Ten Thousand Corpses Array, should only be a part.

The Corpse Mine was larger than Row Corpse Village, and the arrays inside were also more complex than in Row Corpse Village. With Lu Chengyun watching, his hands and feet were tied, and he couldn't investigate many places.

And outside the Corpse Mine, there were still mine shafts, and there might be even more zombies in the mine shafts...

Know yourself, know your enemy.

If he didn't investigate clearly how many zombies there were, he couldn't make a move.

Even a Foundation Establishment cultivator, if trapped by hundreds and thousands of walking corpses, would undoubtedly die if unable to escape.

What's more, there were numerous Iron Corpses in the Corpse Mine.

Even if the Dao Court mobilized Dao soldiers to suppress the Corpse Mine, without knowing the inside story, it would not be easy to deploy.

Mo Hua thought for a while and decided to first go and look at the mine shafts outside.

Outside the stone hall were mine shafts, separated by a large door.

On this large door, there was a bloody evil array.

At the same time, there was also a key.

This key was discovered by Mo Hua later.

The key was made of white bone and placed on a gatekeeping corpse cultivator's body.

The array, Mo Hua couldn't touch temporarily for fear of alerting the enemy and alarming Lu Chengyun, but the key could be stolen.

Mo Hua took advantage of the gatekeeping corpse cultivator's wholehearted dedication to refining corpses, unable to be distracted. He controlled the little tiger, stole his key, and then secretly used the key to open the large door of the stone hall.

Outside the large door were the mine shafts.

It was pitch black, damp, gloomy, with extremely heavy corpse qi, but also extremely noisy.

Mo Hua walked out of the stone hall, along the mine shafts, and after a while, he came to a huge mine pit.

It was the same as Mo Hua had guessed, but also a little different.

The walking corpses were indeed mining, but there were too many, too many mining walking corpses...

The mine pit was extremely vast, and in the middle of the pit, densely packed, were all walking corpses.

Their clothes were tattered, their skin rotten, and one by one, they were all holding mining picks and digging inside the mine!

They were dead people, yet doing things that living people did.

Most of them were miners before death, and after being refined into corpses after death, they were still miners, even busier and more tireless than when they were alive.

Countless zombies were mining...

This noisy scene seemed like the human world, and also like the underworld.

The mine mountain cultivators were clearly alive, yet forced by life to be numb like walking corpses.

The walking corpses in the mine were clearly dead, yet enslaved by the Lu family, working tirelessly like living people.

For a time, the daytime labor of the mine cultivators and the nighttime digging of the zombies, these two scenes, overlapped and mixed in Mo Hua's mind, seeming real and false.

He actually couldn't distinguish what was real.

Mo Hua was greatly shocked and stunned for a long time.

At that instant, he seemed to have a faint, unclear insight into the death and life of this world, and the way of the lowest level "people."

At the same time, another troublesome fact was placed in front of Mo Hua.

There were too many zombies in this Corpse Mine!

In this giant pit alone, a rough estimate put the number of walking corpses at over ten thousand.

And according to the arrays around, these mine shafts were larger than he had imagined, which meant that there were still many mine pits in this mine mountain.

In the middle of each mine pit, there were countless walking corpses...

Just thinking about it made Mo Hua's scalp numb.

If these walking corpses rushed out of the Corpse Mine and formed a corpse tide, and then spread corpse poison, it would probably not only destroy South Yue City, but even the entire Little Wasteland State Boundary would suffer.

The Little Wasteland State Boundary would also become the Little Wasteland "Corpse" Boundary.

Mo Hua no longer looked.

Time was short, and he secretly slipped back again.

Leading to the outside large door was a natural giant stone, guarded by two second-grade Iron Corpses, and surrounded by thick mountain walls.

For a short time, he couldn't get out, so he could only go back first and then plan for the long term.

When Mo Hua went back, the gatekeeping corpse cultivator was still not finished refining the corpses.

Mo Hua again controlled the little tiger, returned the key, and then went back to his room, frowning in thought.

This Corpse Mine was bigger than he had thought.

There were also more walking corpses in the mine than he had thought.

With so many walking corpses, what about Iron Corpses?

How many Iron Corpses were there?

In the Ten Thousand Corpses Array, Mo Hua counted that there were probably twenty-four Iron Coffins.

This meant there were twenty-four Iron Corpses.

In some secret rooms within the stone hall, there was also the aura of Iron Corpses. Mo Hua roughly estimated there were seven or eight more.

There were also some Iron Corpses outside the mine shafts.

Calculating this way, the entire Corpse Mine had at least forty Iron Corpses?

Among the Iron Corpses, first and second grades were mixed. First grade was slightly weaker, considered weak Foundation Establishment, while second grade was much stronger, considered Foundation Establishment middle stage.

Adding them up, there were nearly forty Foundation Establishment cultivators?

Mo Hua's heart turned cold.

More than forty Foundation Establishment cultivators were not only a first-class force in South Yue City, but also in the entire Little Wasteland State Boundary...

This strength was enough to look down on an entire second-grade state boundary...

Immediately, Mo Hua was slightly startled and had some doubts.

Where did Lu Chengyun get the corpses to refine so many Iron Corpses?

To refine Iron Corpses, at least the corpses of cultivators at the peak of Refining Qi nine layer and Foundation Establishment period were needed.

Considering the success rate of refining corpses, the number of corpses needed to refine Iron Corpses would only be greater.

The corpses of cultivators at the peak of Refining Qi nine layer were fine, but where did he get the corpses of Foundation Establishment cultivators?

Even if he killed them, he couldn't kill so many, right...

Where did he get so many Foundation Establishment corpses?

Mo Hua suddenly thought of the Lu family old ancestor.

In the Ling Shu sequence of the Ten Thousand Corpses Array, the Lu family old ancestor was the "Corpse King," with the highest sequence.

The Corpse King needed to command a group of corpses.

So the corpses refined for the Corpse King were very particular, either a sect master, or a family head, or a country lord...

Those under its command were either sect disciples, or family disciples, or the people of a country.

The Lu family old ancestor was the "Corpse King."

According to the principle of refining corpses, those who submitted to it should be... Lu family cultivators?

Mine cultivators were not possible...

Among the mine cultivators, there were almost no Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Moreover, although the mine cultivators were exploited by the Lu family old ancestor, most of them harbored resentment in their hearts. Their resentment did not dissipate after death, and if they were refined into zombies and made to submit to the Lu family old ancestor, it would be very easy to lose control.

It could only be the Lu family...

These Iron Corpses were mostly refined using the corpses of Lu family cultivators, or rather, Lu family elders?

But Lu Chengyun was the family head. It was fine for him to kill one or two elders, but killing so many elders would definitely cause problems and be suspected by the Lu family.

He wouldn't do this kind of self-destructive thing.

Then where exactly did these corpses come from?

Elders' corpses...

Mo Hua's little brows were tightly furrowed.

Suddenly, he thought of something and was greatly shocked in his heart:

"This Lu Chengyun, he didn't dig up the Lu family's ancestral grave, did he..."

(End of this chapter)