Great Xuanwu Sheng

Chapter 109: Refining Corpse

The Qiulin Mountains are not very far from Yujun, but they are not very close either. By the time Chen Mu followed Xu Hongyu across the mountain and arrived at the foot of the Qiulin Mountains, the sun had already passed noon and was gradually setting towards the west bank.

“It looks like I’ll have to rest in the mountains for a night today.”

Xu Hongyu looked at the sun and estimated the foot strength of several people.

Xiaohe hesitated slightly and said: "Isn't it a bit..." to spend the night in the mountains?

  “It doesn’t matter.”

Xu Hongyu shook her head and said: "There are no dangerous monsters in the Qiulin Mountains. It just so happens that you can hunt some meat easily when you enter the mountains. In fact, it's okay to travel all night. But then you have to go to the city to rest for one night when you reach Anyu County."

For warriors in Yijin Realm, as long as they have meat and water, it is okay to stay awake for two or three days. However, this trip is to deal with monsters, so naturally they must maintain a state of full energy and blood before arriving at the place.

 Chen Mu had no objections to Xu Hongyu’s proposal.

Although sleeping in the wilderness seemed a bit shabby, it was nothing if there were two beautiful women around him. His life in the city had already become a bit boring after so many years.

Xu Hongyu saw that neither Chen Mu nor Xiao He had any other objections, so she immediately set off and entered the Qiulin Mountains, while Chen Mu and Xiao He followed all the way.

 Just after the figures of several people disappeared into the mountains.

  In the bushes.

Some gray insects lying on the dry and rotten wood quietly fluttered their wings and disappeared into the forest.

 …

The sky is getting dark.

Several people have penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Qiulin Mountains.

I didn't encounter any monsters along the way, not even a few wild beasts. Only Mr. Chen Mu had a vague feeling of being spied on, but he jumped up the tree and looked around, but there was no trace of anyone or monsters, as if he was just a human being. The illusion of entering the dense mountain forest for the first time.

 “That’s it.”

Xu Hongyu looked at the sky, slowed down her pace, then unsheathed her sword and slashed it a few times at will. Several nearby trees as thick as a bowl were chopped down and slowly fell down with a loud noise.

 Chen Mu saw that Xu Hongyu had built a temporary residence and looked familiar, so he said: "I'm going to hunt some meat."

 Say it.

 He then stood up and made a few leaps, disappearing into the woods.

After Chen Mu’s figure disappeared, Xiao He looked at Xu Hongyu, pursed his lips and chuckled, and said, “He still obeys the young lady’s instructions as always. He has no other proposals today.”

Xu Hongyu looked calm and said: "This is his first time out of the city. He doesn't know much about the outside world and has no experience in dealing with monsters. Naturally, he won't interfere with unfamiliar things. He acts in a measured manner."

 The frivolous behavior of young people has never been seen in Chen Mu.

This is one of the reasons why she only brought Xiao He and Chen Mu with her to carry out this mission. Xiao He must be obedient to her orders, while Chen Mu knows the right things and will definitely not act recklessly, nor will he. It will drag down the team.

 …

 Far away from where Xu Hongyu was.

 Chen Mu looked up and found the tallest tree. He quickly jumped up to the top of the tree and looked at the forest below. Although the dense leaves blocked his sight, he could still see some movement.

Not long after, his eyes fell on a direction in the distance, and then he jumped up, quickly crossed over the tree, and soon arrived at the place. He raised his right hand, took out a stone, and threw it downwards.

Snapped!

In the forest below, a grizzly bear was looking for food, and his skull was directly crushed by the stone in his hand.

 “Not a monster…”

Chen Mu fell from the tree, inspected the grizzly bear's body, and shook his head slightly.

Monsters are great evils that cause harm to the world, but they are also full of treasures. Even if they are relatively low-level monsters, their skin and bones are valuable, and their flesh and blood contain far more energy and blood than ordinary beasts.

If you regularly eat fresh monster meat, your own Qi and blood will be much fuller than others, and you will often be able to practice body tempering methods faster, and it will be easier to achieve the realm of muscle-changing and even bone-forging.

Xu Hongyu was hunting monsters before. After returning, she reached Yijin Perfection after some meditation. It was precisely because monsters frequently appeared during that time that she gained experience and accumulated energy, which made her progress rapidly.

but.

 Monsters are not very common in normal times.

Although their intelligence is not as good as that of humans, they are still smarter than ordinary beasts. They are very good at hiding themselves. They often appear frequently only when certain changes occur in the world and make them become a little manic.

 Like the previous cold winter, the celestial phenomena changed, causing many monsters to be affected.

 This grizzly bear weighs seven to eight hundred kilograms.

Chen Mu reached out to lift it up, but he picked it up directly with one hand. After reaching the limit of Yijin, the strength that his body and limbs could exert was far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

 “Hmm…what is that?”

Just when Chen Mu was about to carry the grizzly bear back, his eyes suddenly narrowed slightly and he looked in a direction not far away.

He didn't see anything, but as his blood was surging, he vaguely felt a gray and decayed aura over there, which made him feel vaguely uncomfortable.

Chen Mu frowned slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he put down the grizzly bear in his hand and walked in that direction.

  After a while.

 A swamp appeared in front of him.

The swamp exuded a strong putrid smell, and some strange gray insects were fluttering and buzzing above it, which made Chen Mu feel more and more uncomfortable, frowned even more, and turned around to leave.

 But suddenly another idea came to his mind. After taking a few steps back, he took out the fine iron sword he carried with him and swung it out.   Wow!

Several gray insects were torn apart by the strong wind whipped by the knife, and at the same time, the putrid swamp suddenly exploded, splashing countless rotten mud and murky water.

The moment Chen Mu swung his sword, he jumped up and landed high on the treetops, without being touched by the sewage and rotting mud. At the same time, his eyes fell on the rotten swamp, and then his eyes Condensed slightly.

 “Sure enough…”

His face became a little unsightly.

I saw a corpse suddenly appearing in the putrid mud that exploded. It was not lying horizontally, but standing upright in the mud, covered with filth and mud.

No wonder he felt very uncomfortable. He had a vague feeling that the smell was not right, but it turned out to be corpse odor!

He suddenly took action because he recognized the strange gray insect, which seemed to be a kind of insect called corpse insect that he saw in an "Insect Record". near the body.

In addition, he had been a servant for many years and often moved corpses, so he was very sensitive to the smell of corpses. Now that he has reached a new level, his energy and blood are abundant, and all his senses are much sharper than before, even if they are mixed in the mud and filth. He could still keenly catch a trace of the corpse odor.

There is actually a corpse buried in the swamp in this deep mountain, and it doesn't seem to be rotten.

Chen Mu looked at the body carefully and finally shook his head.

Ordinary people would not enter a place like this deep in the Qiulin Mountains. He was not a fast hunter now. There was no need to grab a corpse and start investigating the case. The matter of hunting monsters was more important.

 Thinking of this.

 Chen Mu was ready to leave from the tree.

But he suddenly thought something was wrong. He turned around again, narrowed his eyes and looked at the corpse in the swamp, which was about to be submerged again. He took out a stone with his right hand and threw it suddenly.

when! !

The stone hit the corpse's head, but the scene of the corpse's head exploding did not happen. Instead, there was a strange sound of gold and iron, as if what was hit was not a corpse, but a human figure made of copper and iron!

 Looking at this strange scene, Chen Mu suddenly narrowed his eyes.

It can make a corpse as hard as copper and iron, which reminded him of a demonic method in the Daxuan Taboo. It is called the 'corpse refining method'. It is said that the corpse can be made invulnerable and infinitely powerful. However, this method The law is a taboo, and anyone involved in this law is a serious crime and will be cut in half!

 “Corpse refining method…”

Chen Mu murmured, and another piece of text appeared in his mind.

- In the 458th year of the Daxuan calendar, the Demon Sect's "Tianshi Sect" was born, and its disciples brought trouble to the world by refining corpses. After the Daxuan Dynasty, the court was shaken, and the Qinglong Army and the White Tiger Army were ordered to dispatch to conquer and destroy them. Later Zhao Let me tell the world that anyone who refines corpses is guilty of a serious crime. They will be inspected and killed on the spot. There is no need to report...

 This is a record he saw in the chronology of Daxuan.

Although it is just a fleeting stroke, everything recorded in the chronology of Daxuan events is a major event that once shocked the world. This so-called 'disaster in the world' is definitely not as simple as a fleeting word. It is most likely true. He disturbed the world and caused a big accident, which shocked the entire Daxuan. In the end, the imperial court sent a large army to encircle and suppress it, completely destroying it.

After all, it was specifically recorded that the Daxuan court directly destroyed the sect with heavy hands, and even ordered the whole world to destroy it afterwards. This is still a very small number in the history of more than a thousand years.

　　唰!

 Chen Mu's figure flashed, fell from the tree, came to the corpse, suddenly flashed his sword, and slashed at it.

There was only a clang, and another loud sound of gold and iron, but this time Chen Mu's sword was fierce and vicious, and he forcibly cut off the head of the corpse.

The whole corpse is indeed not a human figure made of copper and iron, but indeed a corpse, but its interior has a strange pitch-black luster, like pig iron.

 This is an iron corpse.

It is said that among the corpses made by the Heavenly Corpse Sect, the iron corpse is of the lowest quality, but its body is still as strong as iron, and after being made, it can be manipulated by secret techniques, like a puppet.

“Who is so bold as to refine corpses here?”

Chen Mu looked at the corpse and murmured.

In today's world, the Daxuan imperial court is in a weak position, and all kinds of monsters and monsters have emerged. He had encountered taboo objects like 'Corpse Poison Jade' several times in Yucheng before, and now he encountered the even more taboo corpse refining. .

It is said that the Corpse Poison Jade seems to be a remnant of the Heavenly Corpse Sect. For some reason, it was not completely erased by the imperial court. Later, a special edict was issued to strictly prohibit the refining of this object. Anyone who violates it will be punished. Now it seems that this object It seems that everything in Yucheng did not appear out of thin air.

 Thinking of this, Chen Mu shook his head again.

It has been hundreds of years since the Tianshi Sect was exterminated, but now some remnants have reappeared in the world, which further proves that the deterrence of the Daxuan court has long since ceased to exist. In the troubled times in the future, perhaps all kinds of forbidden objects in the past will reappear.

“I don’t know if Xu Hongyu knows about this.”

After Chen Mu pondered briefly, he stopped picking up the grizzly bear he had hunted. Instead, he determined the direction and quickly returned to the original path.

 …

 The sky is dark.

  A clearing that had been cut appeared between the dense woods. In the clearing, some thick tree trunks offset each other, and a somewhat rough but relatively wide shed was built.

 A fire was lit in front of the shed, and Xu Hongyu stood quietly in front of the fire.

 Xiao He in the back was busy covering the shed with some leaves to complete the final construction.

 Suddenly.

Xu Hongyu's eyes moved slightly, looking to one side and heard some movement.

 “Are you back? No.”

She first looked calmly with her hands behind her hands, but then she noticed something, her face changed slightly, and she immediately put one hand on the hilt of the sword at her waist, and shouted coldly into the woods: "Who? Come out!"

 Chen Mu is just a person.

 But the footsteps approaching in the woods at this moment are densely packed, and they are all very heavy.

　　Continuing with the fourth update~

 (End of this chapter)