Chapter 442 Behind the Scenes

Mo Hua followed the roof, avoided the corpse cultivators, left the gate of the zombie village, walked under the big rock, and joined Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi.

Bai Zisheng asked, "Why did you take so long?"

Mo Hua smiled and said, "I found Instructor Yan!"

"Is Instructor Yan okay?"

"Yes," Mo Hua nodded, "Save Instructor Yan in a few days."

Bai Zisheng was puzzled, "Why wait a few days? Save him now. I'll rush in and kill all the corpse cultivators!"

Mo Hua didn't care, "Okay, then you go."

Bai Zisheng was stunned for a moment, scratched his head and said:

"Forget it, you have a lot of bad water in your belly, I'll listen to you."

Mo Hua was unhappy, "You have a lot of bad water in your belly."

Bai Zisheng sighed to himself:

"I also want to have more bad water, but it's a pity that you are upright and can't think of bad ideas."

Mo Hua whispered, "I think you are stupid..."

Bai Zisheng scratched Mo Hua's hair, "How dare you say your senior brother is stupid?"

...

The two of them whispered and quarreled.

Bai Zixi picked up a branch and knocked one of them on the head, "Let's talk business!"

"Oh."

The two agreed honestly.

So the three of them began to discuss what to do next.

Bai Zisheng thought for a while and said:

"We will set up an ambush on the road we must pass, and then capture Zhang Quan. By then, the zombies will be leaderless, and we can take the opportunity to wipe out the zombies..."

Mo Hua was about to nod, but suddenly remembered something and shook his head again:

"No."

"Why not?" Bai Zisheng asked in confusion.

Mo Hua thought: "There should be someone behind Zhang Quan."

"Who?"

"The one who drew the formation for him."

Mo Hua looked a little solemn, "The formations that Master Yan drew for the Walking Corpse Village are all regular five-element formations, and they are all used for mountain village buildings."

"The formations that can be used to refine corpses are completely different evil formations."

"Zhang Quan can't draw this kind of formation. I just looked around and it seems that no one in the Walking Corpse Village can draw it."

"At least among the corpse cultivators I saw, no one can draw this kind of formation."

"What's more, this is the Lingshu formation of the Xiaolingyin Sect, which is not something that an ordinary formation master can draw."

"If we don't find out who this person is, it will be useless to kill Zhang Quan and take down the Black Mountain Village."

"The formation is the key. As long as this person knows the formation, he will continue to kill people, buy corpses, and refine corpses..."

"Moreover," Mo Hua paused, sighed, and said:

"This is the ultimate formation inherited by the sect of Master Yan. I don't want any cultivator to use this ultimate formation to do bad things..."

Bai Zisheng nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Bai Zixi also nodded slightly and asked Mo Hua:

"Have you thought about what to do?"

"Yes." Mo Hua nodded, and then said:

"We will release Zhang Quan back to the zombie village, and then spy on him to see who he is contacting and who is helping him draw the formation..."

"After figuring out these things, tell Sister Situ and join forces with the Daoting Division to seize the zombie village."

"Then catch Zhang Quan, take away his corpse-controlling bell, and restore the Lingshu formation diagram."

"It would be best to catch the cultivator behind him together..."

"Cut the grass and eradicate the root to prevent future troubles..."

...

Mo Hua said it in a serious manner.

Bai Zisheng nodded in agreement, but still worried:

"It may not be so smooth..."

"Master said that we should plan ahead for everything, but plans can never keep up with changes, so we should just adapt to the situation when the time comes." Mo Hua said.

"Okay!"

After the three of them discussed, they began to act according to the plan.

First, they waited for Zhang Quan to return to the village.

But this first step had some accidents.

This Zhang Quan seemed to be too cautious...

He is still wandering around in the barren mountains, drilling caves, hiding in the woods, setting traps, fighting wits and courage with the air, and he refused to return to the mountain village.

Zhang Quan thought he was cautious and thorough, but he didn't know that all his operations were seen by Mo Hua.

Mo Hua was confused.

As for being so surviving...

And it seems that he can continue to "survive".

Mo Hua felt tired just watching.

Even with Mo Hua's patience, he couldn't wait any longer.

So the three of them discussed and acted separately.

Mo Hua went back to the village of zombies first, figured out the layout of the village, drew a diagram of the building array, and chatted with Instructor Yan to see if there were any omissions.

Bai Zixi met Mo Hua outside the village.

Bai Zisheng went to Situ Fang to discuss manpower mobilization in advance to prepare for the elimination of the zombie village.

Five more days passed before Zhang Quan returned to the village.

He was in a mess and looked haggard, but he felt relieved.

After a battle of wits with an invisible and non-existent stalker, Zhang Quan spent a lot of effort and means, and finally confirmed that he had gotten rid of Mo Hua's pursuit, and then he dared to return to the lair of the corpse refiner with peace of mind.

Although occasionally, there is still a subtle feeling.

It seems that something is sticking to me like a maggot on my tarsal bone.

But after spending so much time and using so many means, even if there is something following me, it is enough to get rid of it.

Zhang Quan sneered.

I have lived for so many years, and my experience in cultivation is much higher than that young ghost.

That young ghost who is proficient in hiding will never find my whereabouts again!

Zhang Quan was very calm and happy. He took big steps and returned to his secret, unknown and secret zombie village.

At this time, Mo Hua had been waiting for him for a long time in his hometown.

Seeing Zhang Quan come in, Mo Hua was even happier than Zhang Quan.

During the few days in the zombie village, Mo Hua hid himself and almost knew the village thoroughly. He felt a little bored and started to find things to do.

He even counted how many coffins there were in the village...

Zhang Quan swaggered into the gate of the corpse village.

Mo Hua's eyes lit up, and he performed the Water Step, leaping lightly between the roofs, and then entered a room in the deepest part, climbed up the beam, sat cross-legged, and waited patiently.

This room is spacious, hidden, with a complete array, and it is full of corpse-refining things.

He guessed that this is Zhang Quan's secret room.

Sure enough, after a while, Zhang Quan walked into the house and walked under Mo Hua's nose.

Mo Hua hid himself and even drew a hidden array nearby in advance.

Zhang Quan was unaware.

The room was quiet, and on the surface, Zhang Quan was the only one.

Zhang Quan breathed a sigh of relief, then burned incense and bathed, changed into a decent-looking outfit, and meditated for a while, and then corpse cultivators came one after another to report to him about the situation in the village.

The corpse cultivators reported respectfully, Zhang Quan sat high and listened, while Mo Hua sat on top of him, eavesdropping with his ears erect.

Most of the reports from these corpse cultivators were about trivial matters in the village.

This month, they robbed several merchants, killed several monks, and bought several corpses...

How many zombies were refined, how many were successful, and how many failed;

How many spirit stones were spent, how many materials were used;

Which materials for refining corpses were insufficient and needed to be purchased, which zombies were out of control and needed to be dealt with, etc.

These things were scattered.

Mo Hua listened on the beam and gradually understood the operating rules of the zombie village.

There were robbers and corpse cultivators in the zombie village.

Ordinary robbers, as long as they dared to kill, were willing to kill, and had killed people, could join the zombie village.

But entering the zombie village would not necessarily teach the method of refining corpses.

You need to go through assessments, gain some qualifications, and gain Zhang Quan's trust before you can become a serious corpse cultivator.

Corpse cultivators are corpse-cultivating and demonic cultivators who refine and control corpses.

To cultivate corpses, you need corpses of monks.

There are several sources of corpses.

One is robbery and killing.

Before entering the village, the monks in the village were either criminals or robbers, and they usually robbed and killed people for goods.

However, this "goods" not only includes spiritual stones and spiritual tools, but also the corpses of monks.

The robbers in the walking corpse village killed people and brought the corpses back to the village to use for corpse refining.

The second is to buy.

Hire Wang Lai and others to kill mining cultivators and buy corpses.

Or buy from other tomb robbers who robbed tombs.

Of course, the main source is mining cultivators.

After all, there are many mines and mining cultivators in Nanyue City, and in the eyes of these people, the lives of mining cultivators are cheap and not worth many spiritual stones.

After buying the corpse, it is to refine the corpse.

This ink painting has been briefly looked at before.

The means of refining corpses are indeed as the little sister said, requiring herbs, corpse coffins, corpse control bells, etc.

But the specific method is a bit complicated.

Which herbs and what proportions to use to make a rancid medicinal juice.

Then use the medicinal juice to soak the corpse.

After soaking for a long time, put it in the corpse coffin for refining.

When refining the corpse, the corpse cultivator will pace back and forth around the coffin every day, while pacing, shaking the corpse copper bell.

This process is cumbersome, but the division of labor is clear.

Just like the herbs for refining elixirs and the fine iron for refining tools, the corpse cultivators of the walking corpse village regard the corpse as a kind of "material" for refining corpses, not people.

Their expressions are also cold and numb, as if it is a matter of course.

Mo Hua frowned.

He even wanted to draw some anti-spirit formations directly to disintegrate the walking corpse village.

But after thinking about it, he still held back.

A little impatience will ruin a big plan, so you can't act on impulse.

The corpse cultivators of the walking corpse village have always reported some trivial affairs in the village, which do not involve the formation of refining corpses.

Mo Hua listened for a few days but didn't get any clues. It was not until three days later that he heard some clues.

A corpse cultivator lowered his voice and asked Zhang Quan:

"Boss, do you want to send a corpse?"

Mo Hua heard this and his heart moved.

Send a corpse?

What corpse to send? Where to send? Why send it?

Could it be... that he was sent to draw the formation?

Mo Hua remembered that some newly-cultivated zombies in the zombie village did not have formations on their heart meridians.

Since there was no formation, they must have been drawn.

Sending corpses... that means, he did not draw it himself, nor did he draw it in the zombie village, but sent it to others to let others draw it for him?

Mo Hua held his breath and concentrated, wanting to know where the corpses were sent to, to whom, and who would help Zhang Quan draw the formation?

But Zhang Quan shook his head, "No."

The corpse cultivator was slightly stunned, and then hesitated:

"If we don't send it, it may be too late. Those zombies... can't be controlled..."

Zhang Quan's eyes turned cold, "If you can't control it, just destroy it and feed it to other zombies. Do you still need me to teach you?"

The corpse cultivator hurriedly lowered his head and said, "Yes."

After the corpse cultivator retreated, Zhang Quan snorted again and began to practice with his eyes closed.

Mo Hua frowned.

This Zhang Quan is a bit unskilled.

Thank you to book friend PYHuang for the reward~