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He walked with a confident stride, his entire body brimming with inexhaustible energy.
This is the transformation that comes after breaking through to the third level of Qi Refining!
"Ah."
Su Feng walked beside him and nodded.
He deliberately went out at this time to avoid the crowds.
If you go to a church in broad daylight and accidentally come into contact with a hidden threat inside, causing panic, it will only lead to big trouble in the end.
To accomplish great things, one must often do so discreetly and without anyone noticing...
"The sky is dry and everything is dry, be careful about the fire."
In the distance, the voice of a night watchman could be heard.
Su Feng involuntarily stopped and pricked up his ears to listen carefully to the subtle sounds ahead.
There are people ahead... and more than one.
Hearing Su Feng's words, Uncle Jiu also stopped and looked at the deep, dark street ahead.
Swish, swish, swish——
In the biting wind, figures whistled past.
With the sound of bells ringing, a man with thick eyebrows, big eyes, a full beard, and wearing a Taoist robe appeared first.
The chandelier in his hand jingled, and he chanted incantations, his expression extremely serious, as if he were constantly on guard against potential threats around him.
As the moonlight lifted the shroud of darkness, a dozen or so figures followed behind the man…
Those weren't people...
Instead, they were corpses dressed in strange clothes!
The corpse was walking, following the man's steps, hopping and skipping forward.
Rather, it was more like they were following the sound of the bell in the man's hand.
It swayed and moved.
"Catch the corpse?"
Uncle Nine glanced at the scene from afar and instantly understood the situation.
"Come over here quickly."
Before Uncle Nine could react, Su Feng grabbed him and slipped into the courtyard behind the wall.
This caution also puzzled Uncle Nine.
"Young Master Su, why should we hide?"
They weren't doing anything shady, so why should they avoid the corpse-driving team?
If ordinary people saw this scene, they would likely avoid it...
But they have experienced similar scenes dozens of times, so why make a fuss?
But when Uncle Nine glanced at Su Feng's appearance, he swallowed back the doubts he was about to express.
Su Feng leaned against the wall, half his face hidden in the shadows, and his expression appeared somewhat serious.
Uncle Nine was a little confused and didn't know what to say, so he could only peek out from the opening in the wall.
The corpse-driving procession was slowly approaching, and the leading Taoist priest did not notice their presence, leading the horde of corpses directly along the main road.
"Hmm? It's about slaying dragons?"
By the moonlight, Uncle Nine could see the appearance of the leading Taoist priest and blurted out his name.
"It seems Uncle Jiu knows this person," Su Feng said casually.
“Tu Long is my junior brother, but we haven’t seen each other for more than ten years. I never expected him to come to Jiuquan Town…”
They even took on a huge job transporting corpses.
For Uncle Nine, transporting corpses was nothing unusual; on the contrary, it was a good job.
It's a low-maintenance, high-paying job. All you have to do is use talismans and magic bells to guide the body of someone who died far from home, or a designated corpse, back to the employer, and you're done.
They usually appear at night, partly to avoid being seen by the living and causing a disturbance, and partly because the yin energy is stronger at night, allowing them to make the most of their corpse control techniques and command the corpses with minimal consumption of spiritual energy.
"Never mind, let them go first." Uncle Nine suddenly thought of something and sighed, "I don't want to meet the Dragon Slayer."
Although they were fellow disciples, he never had much affection for Tu Long.
He has a fiery temper, is stubborn and doesn't listen to advice. He was reprimanded by his master many times in his early years for this, but he still refused to repent.
After descending the mountain, he once collaborated with Tu Long to resolve a problem in another village, but ultimately, because Tu Long acted too recklessly, an innocent villager was accidentally injured, and the matter ended in a bitter falling out.
Now, more than ten years have passed...
Old friends meeting again should be filled with tears, but for Uncle Nine, there was only awkwardness.
But at that moment, Su Feng's words stunned Uncle Nine.
"Uncle Jiu, are you really sure this is corpse transport?"
Su Feng, who had been silent, finally spoke, leaving Uncle Jiu momentarily at a loss for words.
"Has Young Master Su noticed something?"
Su Feng suddenly chuckled softly, "Uncle Jiu, take another look?"
After hearing Su Feng's words, Uncle Jiu raised his head again with some doubt, staring at the passing corpse-driving team.
This time, he shifted his gaze from the dragon-slaying leader to the horde of corpses behind him.
The "corpses" seemed normal, with talismans to suppress them on their heads, their hands held straight in front of them, hopping and skipping with the sound of bells—just a perfectly normal corpse-driving ritual.
Can……
"how come?"
Uncle Nine's eyes widened suddenly, and a bead of cold sweat slid down his forehead.
"There's no corpse aura?"
He finally discovered it, or rather, sensed it.
The aura that should have been there was completely undetectable among this group of "corpses"!
After a person dies, they become a corpse, and a corpse will inevitably have a corpse aura! This aura cannot be eliminated by anything.
"Ha ha……"
Su Feng smiled contentedly, seemingly pleased with Uncle Jiu's sudden discovery.
"They are a group of living people in disguise."
Hearing Su Feng's words, Uncle Nine frowned deeply, "But why do you have to do this?"
What is the point of having living people pretend to be corpses and then brazenly carrying them around on the streets?
Isn't it the same as taking off your pants to fart?
However, Su Feng revealed a meaningful smile, "We'll have to ask that town mayor and his son about that."
Su Feng was all too familiar with this scene of transporting corpses.
In the original storyline, the Taoist priest who slays dragons uses a corpse-driving team to transport opium, also known as poison, and makes huge profits by selling it.
The culprits behind all this were the two beasts living in the mansion!
"Uncle Jiu, take a closer look at their clothes. Do you notice that their bellies are bulging? That's where they're actually hiding opium."
Following Su Feng's gaze, Uncle Nine indeed discovered something amiss.
"It's actually opium?..." Uncle Nine frowned, a hint of anger flashing in his eyes.
"Ha, what if I told you that this batch of opium is related to the mayor and his son?"
Su Feng's words once again left Uncle Nine speechless.
His expression turned from pale to purple, and his lips trembled slightly. "Young Master Su, how did you find out about this?"
This isn't the first time I've felt this way...
Su Feng seemed to have a premonition of all the events that had happened before, knowing the truth of the matter in advance. He was like a guide with a lantern in the fog, following Su Feng's guidance step by step.
This time, the feeling was especially strong.
This only made him more curious and astonished about Su Feng's strength.
But Su Feng did not respond directly. Instead, he smiled faintly and stepped out from under the wall. "Let's go. They're heading towards the church. Let's follow them and take a look."
……
Under the moonlight, Su Feng and Uncle Jiu walked slowly into the church, stepping through the shadows.
The corpse-driving team that had just slain the dragon disappeared after turning into a small alley.
Su Feng was perfectly clear-headed; the back of this alley led directly to the church's backyard...
Without making a sound, Su Feng and Uncle Jiu climbed over the back wall and quietly made their way to the roof.
Looking down from above, you can see the entire backyard of the church.
"It really is here." Uncle Nine spotted it immediately, the rows of "corpses" standing in the backyard of the church.
Strangely, however, the leader of the dragon-slaying group was not among them.
"Where did the dragon slayer go?"
Uncle Nine was puzzled when he noticed that Su Feng had jumped down from the ground without him noticing.
He tried to speak but it was too late; he could only frantically follow behind.
Rustling——
Su Feng leaped into the church's backyard and examined with great interest the horde of corpses pressed against the wall.
They stood motionless, as if they were no different from the corpses.
"Heh—" Su Feng chuckled coldly, finding it amusing.