My Silly, Sweet Wife

The current situation was indeed a bit tricky.

Trying to find the source that was releasing all that corpse poison was no different from searching for a needle in the ocean.

But if he couldn’t find it, all of Ye Guichen’s efforts during this period would probably go up in smoke.

If the other side kept sabotaging from the shadows, there’d be no way to guard against it. Before the Seven Kings even made a move, this whole area of the Dan God Sect and Three Harmonies Valley would probably turn into a paradise of living corpses.

Ye Guichen pinched the bridge of his nose, but couldn’t think of anything for the moment. He waved his hand and said, ”Bai Qi, let’s stop for today. I’ll think of another way.”

”Alright, I’ll stand guard outside!” Bai Qi nodded, dumped all the medicine he’d brought back from the Dan God Sect onto the table, turned and walked out, then stood outside like a sentry.

After Bai Qi left, Ye Guichen also told Xuanyuan Canghai to go rest. He himself sat cross-legged and released the black tower.

Soon, Ye Guichen sank his divine soul into the black tower and arrived outside the iron cage where those remnant souls were imprisoned.

The remnant souls inside let out low, eerie wails, crowding together, trying to rush out, but the iron cage was incomparably solid and they couldn’t break through at all.

Ye Guichen couldn’t help thinking of the Ghost Path scripture he’d acquired before.

That Ghost Path scripture seemed to contain a method for refining souls.

Although these remnant souls had no consciousness of their own, if he could control them properly, they could be used as his puppets.

”Soul refining!”

Ye Guichen made up his mind and stopped hesitating.

He started refining these remnant souls according to the methods in the Ghost Path scripture.

This place held several thousand remnant souls. If he could refine them successfully, it would be equivalent to gaining several thousand extra pairs of eyes. Once he released them, finding someone would be a matter of minutes.

And just as Ye Guichen was focused on refining remnant souls—

The previously clear sky suddenly clouded over.

In a canyon fifty li away from Three Harmonies Valley, a place untouched by human feet—

Inside an unnoticed cave.

The cave was very large. Judging by the marks on the walls, it had just been excavated.

Zuo Lengqiu sat cross-legged inside the cave, with no less than a thousand living corpses swaying in front of him.

Those living corpses were letting out muffled groans, but right now they seemed incredibly docile, standing before Zuo Lengqiu without lunging or showing any sign of biting.

Zuo Lengqiu slowly raised his head, looking at the living corpses in front of him, his face gloomy as he muttered to himself, ”Didn’t expect it, really didn’t expect it. That brat called Ye Guichen is truly heaven’s favored. He actually managed to draw the filth out of your bodies. Tsk tsk, that really did surprise me!”

”Hoho, hoho!”

One living corpse shuffled up to Zuo Lengqiu, letting out strange sounds, as if trying to say something.

Zuo Lengqiu let out a cold chuckle. ”Heh, I know, that guy is terrifying, isn’t he? Good, then I’d very much like to meet him.”

He thought for a moment, then glanced toward the mouth of the cave and waved his hand. ”Now, you’ll immediately take your subordinates and go to those villages outside. Grow your numbers as fast as you can. Remember, I don’t need trash.”

”Hoho, hoho!”

The leading living corpse nodded, turned, and left with the thousand-odd living corpses.

Near Three Harmonies Valley there were only some scattered villages, but a hundred li out from the valley, densely packed villages started to appear, with a few places resembling small towns.

That very night, those living corpses moved like a forced march, quickly spreading outward in all directions with Three Harmonies Valley as the center.

A portion of them also headed toward the Dan God Sect, but fortunately Ye Guichen had been prepared. As soon as something seemed off about those living corpses, the experts stepped out and chopped off all their heads.

However, the situation on the other two sides of Three Harmonies Valley was far from optimistic.

In a courtyard not far from Three Harmonies Valley—

A hunter couple had just finished their piston exercise and were about to lie down to sleep when the hunting dog outside suddenly started barking wildly.

The woman muttered, ”What’s going on, why’s Blackie barking so fiercely?”

The man kissed her on the forehead, didn’t even bother putting on his pants, grabbed the steel fork leaning behind the door, and said to the woman, ”I’ll go take a look. Maybe some damn beast broke in again.”

”Be careful,” the woman nodded, reminding him once.

The man was battle-hardened; he had killed more wild beasts with his own hands than he could count.

So he didn’t take it to heart.

Steel fork in hand, he opened the door and saw the big black dog in the yard barking madly toward the outside.

Just as he was about to yell at it, the big black dog suddenly whimpered twice, turned, and bolted toward the back of the yard as if trying to flee.

But right then, a figure leapt in from outside, grabbed the big black dog with both hands, lifted it to its mouth, and tore viciously.

The big black dog let out a whine and went limp.

The figure pressed its face to the dog and began to gnaw, as if greatly enjoying itself.

The man’s pupils tightened, his grip on the steel fork involuntarily tightening as well. He pointed a trembling finger at the figure and shouted, ”Y-you, who are you? How dare you cause trouble here! Put Blackie down right now, or I’ll skewer you where you stand!”

The figure lifted its head, letting out a guttural moan, then tossed the big black dog toward the man.

Bang!

The dog’s corpse crashed to the ground in front of him.

The man looked down and his pupils shrank abruptly.

In terror he realized that the dog had been reduced to skin wrapped around bone, as if every bit of flesh and blood had been sucked clean.

”What… what the hell are you?” the man stammered in horror as he hurled the steel fork in his hand.

But when the steel fork struck that figure, it actually rang with an impact sound, then bounced aside.

The man turned pale with fright and shouted toward the house, ”Run!”

”What’s wrong?” the woman asked in confusion, immediately wrapping herself in a piece of cloth and scrambling up from the bed.

The next second, she saw a figure pounce on the man right before her eyes.

The man only struggled twice before the figure bit clean through his neck.

”Aaah!” the woman screamed in terror, grabbed a pair of scissors from the bedside, and tried to defend herself.

Before long, the figure raised its head. Its eyes had no pupils, only whites.

Its mouth was smeared with fresh blood. Staring at the naked woman whose sheet had fallen off in her panic, it tilted its head, let out a hoarse hoho sound, and slowly walked up to her.

”Aaah! I’ll kill you!” the woman shrieked, stabbing the scissors down wildly at the living corpse.

However, she couldn’t hurt it in the slightest.

The same scene was happening almost everywhere within a hundred-li radius.

Even the closest small town to Three Harmonies Valley had its entire population bitten to death by living corpses.

Over ten thousand people.

Not a single survivor.