Chapter 182 Meeting at Yizhuang

Renjia Town, Uncle Jiu’s charity cemetery.

At this time, the Yizhuang was already filled with Taoists from all over the world, and even a few warlords. There were so many people that the Yizhuang hall was already overcrowded, and many yellow-robed Taoists could only stand in the courtyard. Most of the disciples did not even have the qualifications to enter the courtyard.

With so many Taoists gathered together, it did feel like a martial arts conference, except that those who came were not martial artists, but Taoists.

With so many Taoists gathered here, don't the officers and soldiers in the town care? It's not that they don't care, but now they wish there were as many Taoists as possible.

In the hall of the charity cemetery, Shi Jian sat on the left hand of the high seat in the hall, looking at the nearly one hundred yellow-robed Taoists in the hall, and said: "My fellow disciples, I believe you have heard some of the recent rumors about the foreigners!"

Hearing this, most of the Taoists in the room nodded, a few looked confused, but no one spoke.

Seeing this, Uncle Nine immediately said, "Big Brother, I think some of my fellow apprentices are far away or too busy to know the details. Please allow me to explain it to you in detail!"

Hearing this, Shi Jian nodded expressionlessly: "Okay, Junior Brother, you can explain it to the other junior brothers again and make sure to explain the situation clearly!"

"Yes!" Uncle Jiu said immediately, "I'm sure you fellow disciples have a lot of questions. First of all, why do we have to gather at the charity cemetery? This is the request of our ancestor. I don't know the specific reason! But one thing is clear, the first place those skeletons and ghosts called undead were discovered was Renjia Town!"

"Yeah!" Shi Jian nodded.

He was originally very dissatisfied with holding this Maoshan Conference at Uncle Jiu's charity cemetery. After all, not to mention that the Maoshan Sect had its own golden-roofed hall, and among his peers, he, Shi Jian, was also the eldest brother of all his fellow disciples. How could it be his turn to hold Uncle Jiu's charity cemetery?

Now Uncle Jiu's first sentence was more directed to him. It not only gave him face but also gave him a reasonable explanation to everyone and also put the blame on the ancestor. So he no longer cared about this issue.

Uncle Jiu, who followed him into the sect shortly after, of course knew everything about the eldest senior brother Shi Jian.

When Uncle Jiu heard Shi Jian's slight voice, he knew that this point had been revealed.

Hearing this, the Taoists remained silent, and did not fight for power. They just waited quietly for Uncle Jiu's next words.

Uncle Jiu continued, "As for the reason for coming here, most of you should know it. It is to deal with those skeleton ghosts called undead. I will use the term undead to describe them all here."

"We don't know exactly when and how the undead appeared. We only know that they were first spotted in Renjia Town, where they attacked a wealthy family, causing more than 30 people to go missing. They were silent, and we only discovered them afterwards. At the time, we thought they were just the work of demons."

"After that, Junior Brother Simu also encountered a situation!"

After saying that, Uncle Jiu turned his gaze towards Taoist Simu.

Taoist Simu immediately responded, "My fellow disciples, Junior Brother Qianhe was escorting a royal zombie through my dojo in the name of the court. That night, the zombie broke out of the coffin and unfortunately, Junior Brother Qianhe was killed by the zombie. Someone even erected a tombstone for Qianhe and his disciples. Although we regret Qianhe's death, Ikkyu and I thought it was just an ordinary accident at the time, and we saved the young prince of the court."

"When we went out to check the situation, our dojo was attacked by zombies. It was not the royal zombie escorted by Qianhe, but another bronze-armored zombie. Then we encountered the royal zombie again, also a bronze-armored zombie, and another foreign zombie, who was equally powerful and not afraid of ordinary Taoist magic. There were also some walking zombies."

Hearing this, everyone looked at the Taoist Simu in shock. There were two bronze-armored zombies, a special zombie, and some walking zombies. Although Simu had the help of Monk Yixiu, it was not easy to deal with so many zombies at the same time and still survive. If it were them, most people would probably die.

Even Shi Jian couldn't help but look sideways. Even if he encountered this situation, it would be very difficult to deal with it.

“It’s not that I’m that powerful!” Seeing everyone’s surprised looks, the Taoist Simu shook his head with a wry smile and said, “The zombies’ goal is very clear, that is, the little prince who has been infected with corpse poison. They even have a plan to leave after capturing the little prince.”

Hearing this, everyone frowned.

The three powerful zombies were organized and had clear goals. They were even able to control their desire to suck blood and acted decisively. It was obvious that they were under someone's control.

Seeing everyone frowning, Simu's expression became more serious and he said, "At first, Ikkiu and I thought these zombies were controlled, but then we carefully analyzed the zombies' behavior and felt that they were not controlled, but surrendered. That's all I have to say!"

After Simu finished speaking, Uncle Jiu continued, "After listening to Simu's story, I believe everyone can guess that Junior Brother Qianhe and Junior Brother Simu were attacked by someone behind the scenes, and this person is also a Taoist priest."

Hearing this, everyone nodded. If he was not a Taoist priest, how could he erect a monument for Qianhe and know about Qianhe and his disciples?

Uncle Jiu continued, "When I received the news from Qianhe, I immediately rushed to check the situation, but found nothing. Not long after I came back, the world changed!"

One of the Taoist priests quickly asked, "Brother, I have been practicing in the mountains before. I wonder what caused this sudden change in the weather?"

Upon hearing this, most of the Taoists in the hall became solemn.

Uncle Jiu said, "Not long after I came back, I heard that zombies and skeletons appeared in the Western territories! According to investigations, they arrived in the West via the comprador ships of Xiangcheng. And the West does not have effective means to deal with zombies and skeletons!"

Another Taoist priest said, "Doesn't that mean that there are already many zombies and skeletons causing trouble for the Westerners? Don't they deserve it?"

"Alas!" Uncle Jiu sighed and shook his head, and said solemnly: "It's not a lot, and it's not a problem!"

"What is that?" The Taoist priest was puzzled. There weren't many, and it wasn't a big problem, so why were everyone so serious? Moreover, Westerners had done so many bad things in recent years, and he was angry just looking at them. They deserved it! Anyway, it wasn't a riot in the East!

A Taoist priest sitting in the front row spoke solemnly, "Brother Decai, it's not a lot, it's a lot. Now in the Western foreigners' territory, the number of undead has exceeded one million, and the zombies are killing and sucking blood to create zombies, the number is also over one million. Now it's not just a problem in the foreigners' territory, it's almost wiping out the Western foreigners. I'm afraid that after they wipe out the foreigners over there, they will sweep over here."

"What?" Upon hearing this, Taoist Decai's eyes almost popped out.

Before, when he heard Uncle Jiu say that zombies went to the West via comprador ships, he didn’t think there would be so many of them. But now, after hearing this, he felt like he almost couldn’t stand.

The idea that they will not cause trouble in the East is even more self-evident. This is a huge number of over one million, and the number will increase. Sooner or later, they will come to the East. Those zombies have sucked so much blood, I am afraid that there are already a lot of iron-armored zombies, bronze-armored zombies, and there will definitely be a lot of silver-armored zombies, and even gold-armored zombies may appear.

At this time, the Taoist priests who knew the situation looked more solemn, and those who didn't know the situation were also frightened. In this situation, how could they handle it with just a few people? I'm afraid that even if all the people in the East who could deal with zombies and weird things were gathered together, they would not be able to resist.

(End of this chapter)