The Fake Body Talisman was what he used to simulate his own aura when infiltrating Black Water Stronghold. It was the lowest grade of Fake Body Talisman and couldn’t move.
After he escaped, those secretly following him in the hotel thought Shen Wang was resting inside and didn’t notice that Shen Wang had changed his appearance and quietly left.
Stepping out of the market, Shen Wang’s face darkened.
"Still too weak, buying two sets of middle-grade array and yet someone’s following."
He sighed inwardly; this time he spent thousands of spirit stones, which was already beyond what a Qi Cultivation Cultivator should have, many Foundation Establishment Cultivators wouldn’t even have such assets.
This unusual behavior had already made people suspect that he had an issue.
Without much thought, after leaving the market, Shen Wang used the same trick again, changing his appearance twice using the Fake Body Talisman. After confirming no one was following, he finally left at ease.
The deliberate attempts to shake off potential trackers wasted a lot of Shen Wang’s time. By the time he returned to Fengming Town, it was already dark.
In the past, he would be worried about danger returning at night, but this time he was not afraid.
Someone at the ancestral house was attracting evil spirits for him.
He affixed a Breath Concealment Talisman and returned home silently.
He really wanted to see if the thing at the back mountain would attack those two fellows.
If it doesn’t attack them, treating differently, he would be damned.
Compared to other areas, after nightfall, a strange evil aura rises from the ground at the graveyard.
A dense yin energy pervades, eerie winds howl, ghostly cries fill the air.
The Grave Mountain and the area near the ancestral ground appear particularly dark, exuding an eerie atmosphere.
In front of the ancestral house, Yun Conghui, who had just set up an array, frowned: "This Shen Family’s ancestral ground really has some problems, without Solar Power suppressing, the yin energy here is too dense."
"Isn’t it said that this place leads to an Ancient Demon Cave? Is the Shen Family an Ancient Demon Suppression Clan?"
Ge Changzhuang shook his head: "I don’t know where you heard that. I reckon it’s just that the Shen Family didn’t follow the cremation practice but instead went for burials, resulting in them all turning into zombies?"
"Not sure, even if it’s burials, normally it’s hard to turn into zombies."
Yun Conghui shook his head: "The conditions for zombie growth are quite harsh, but with yin energy so dense here, I assume there’s something dirty."
Just as he said this, figures began appearing, hopping around from the forest of the back mountain.
Originally these guys were to consume the array’s power, but upon sensing human presence here, they screeched and jumped over at once.
"There really are zombies, doesn’t the Shen Family handle this?"
Ge Changzhuang frowned: "A hundred years ago, that Corpse King in Xiang Province caused rivers of blood, corpses floating for miles."
"And Shen Family just sent one person to guard, how much could he handle?"
Yun Conghui spoke with some disdain: "This family is getting more and more in decline, hundreds of years ago they had Golden Core Zhenren, now they can’t even produce one Golden Core."
"This is the result of each generation being weaker than the last, so we must support Miss Ling Shu to form a Ninth Grade Golden Core as much as possible. Even if it doesn’t happen, at least it should be an Eighth Grade, to have any chance of surpassing predecessors in the future."
Ge Changzhuang said, revealing some of his, or perhaps their faction’s, philosophy.
That is to make outstanding people breakthrough by any means necessary, while the weak can be sacrificed at any time.
Shen Wang, who had secretly approached, could only sigh at the cruelty and coldness of such large families and major sects after hearing their conversation.
He cast a glance at Yun Conghui, who had an array set up around him, and focused for a moment.
"They even set up an array. If I had come back slowly, I’d still be attacked."
He lay on the ground, staying put, waiting for an opportunity.
As the night deepened, the zombies hopping from the back mountain reached Ge Changzhuang.
He sneered with disdain, snapping his fingers lightly, a true essence containing thunder power shot out, hitting the face of the zombie.
With a crack, the zombie seemed struck by lightning, its body suddenly flew back, its head blasted apart.
Shen Wang was startled, the true essence of this guy was indeed strong, luckily, during the chase and escape, he wasn’t hit.
"Could this guy be of the Yun Family’s bloodline, awakened with the so-called Thunder Spirit Blood, otherwise why does he have such dominating power?"
Shen Wang speculated, this person’s situation might be similar to that of him and Paper Kite’s child.
If Paper Kite had given him a child with Bloodline Power and after awakening, wouldn’t bear the Yun surname but rather his.
If there was no blood relation, it seemed unlikely they’d let this person handle such covert affairs.
A few more crackling sounds, the approaching zombies were immediately killed on the spot.
Ge Changzhuang sneered disdainfully: "Such filth dares to approach?"
"Do you expect these low-level zombies with no intelligence to know how to seek advantages and avoid dangers?"
Yun Conghui chuckled lightly, glancing into the distance: "I bet that kid won’t be back for a while, tonight we’ll keep watch separately and take turns resting."
"You rest first, just set up the array cost quite a bit of strength."
Ge Changzhuang nodded.
Just after the two distributed their tasks, a violent wind suddenly rose on the mountain, followed by an intense surge of ghostly wails from the back mountain.
Amidst the inhuman screeching, a mass of black qi rose from afar, flying towards them with incredible speed.
Ge Changzhuang, who just had a disdainful look, had his expression changed: "There’s such evil spirits?"
Sensing the danger, his body crackled all over, true essence, dense like flowing water, instantly covering his entire body, with white electric snakes crisscrossing.
Yun Conghui also summoned the Thunder Shocking Hammer Magical Artifact, the thunder flashing, aiming at the black qi flying from afar.
This mass of black qi was over three meters wide, with red and green brilliance inside, the red resembling eyes, the green like claws, looking somewhat menacing.
"Old Ge, this thing isn’t simple, come into the array."
Yun Conghui said gravely.
Ge Changzhuang didn’t underestimate the threat, stepping close to Yun Conghui, watching the rolling black qi in the void: "This is very much like an evil ghost, likely not yet at the Ghost King realm."
"Hmm, it should be a big ghost, let’s attack together to kill it, otherwise we’ll have no peace in the latter half of the night."
Yun Conghui nodded, the realm of demons and ghosts is similar to cultivators, rumored to be akin to martial artists, having distinctions like little ghost, little demon, big ghost, big demon, demon king, ghost king, and so on.
Ge Changzhuang’s eyes turned cold, directly striking out with a palm, the thunder true essence transformed into a big hand, striking at the black qi in the air.
The black qi, like smoke, swayed to the other side, dodging the attack, at the same moment extending a green ghost claw, nails longer than three inches, sharp and fiercely clawed at the back of Ge Changzhuang’s head.
Yun Conghui had been guarding against it, the Thunder Shocking Hammer transformed into a flash of light, smashing out, a thunderous boom echoed as it collided with the thunder hand.
The black qi on the claw was immediately dispersed by the thunder, and after being shocked, it quickly retreated, once again evading the palm force of Ge Changzhuang who had changed direction to chase.